Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 679 Vision
Thinking about the execution scene he had witnessed, Zhang Shun felt a sudden urge to urinate. At this moment, he couldn't think about loyalty or anything else; his own life was the most important thing.

In those days, seeing executions by firing squad was not uncommon. Riverbanks, fields, and other places could all become execution sites. Some organizations and schools would even organize special trips to watch, with the aim of effectively deterring criminals.

The combination of public execution, public trial and sentencing, public parade with placards, and finally execution is a very effective approach.

"Who is this 'Little Mao' you just mentioned? And how many of them are there? Also, who stole the gun?"

Jin Zhihai was still in no hurry to ask who he had killed. He was worried that Zhang Shun would realize what he was doing if he asked him that question, and then start to resist again.

We can only start by asking questions about guns.

"Xiao Mao's real name is Mao Hongwei. He and his three brothers are quite famous in our area. They are known as the Four Vajras in the underworld. One of these four is named Dong Gang. I heard that he used to study at the West City Sports School, but it seems that he was expelled for fighting after only a short time."

Those guns seem to be the ones he stole. I also heard that they originally wanted to make some kind of 'small caliber' gun. I don't understand it, but I heard them say that it's more powerful than this air pistol.

But for some reason, it ended up like this.

Upon hearing this, Jin Zhihai knew he was right. The fact that someone could mention "small caliber" meant that most people wouldn't know that the warehouse had once stored such items.

Why would they give you a gun?

“Uh…” Zhang Shun’s expression suddenly became a little strange, and he answered the question hesitantly, as if he had something difficult to say.

Seeing his expression, Jin Zhihai didn't give him a chance to catch his breath and pressed him for an answer: "Zhang Shun, you've already confessed so much. Since you want to cooperate and strive for leniency, then stop hiding anything. Otherwise, all the things you confessed before will be in vain and meaningless."

After much hesitation, Zhang Shun finally confessed the truth about why the gun was in his possession.

It's actually quite simple. He knew Zheng Tian, ​​the younger brother of one of the four men named Zheng Yang, who was the guy who had already been arrested by the Yangchao branch.

Zhang Shun particularly envied Zheng Yang and his gang's "carefree" lifestyle, thinking it was awesome because everyone was afraid of them, and they could still make money while controlling a ghost market.

These so-called "Four Great Kings" only emerged after the joint operation in 1981. It was because their "predecessors" were all dealt with in that operation that they had the opportunity to rise to prominence.

They are the type who don't commit major mistakes but constantly make minor ones. They've been arrested by the police station a few times, but since there weren't any serious issues, they were released after a few days.

When Zhang Shun was still in school, he would often follow Zheng Tian and participate in the so-called "Four Great Vajras" fighting and other illegal activities.

However, he was always a marginal figure, occasionally joining fights as a substitute, and the money he earned was only a few cents. He felt it was not enough and wanted to join the core team, but they thought he was a student and didn't want him at all.

He finally graduated last year, but he still wants to join their core team, earn more money, and be as awesome as they are.

But they still wouldn't hire him, only letting him do odd jobs. He barely made enough to eat each month until the beginning of this month.

That day, Zheng Tian's older brother, Zheng Yang, suddenly called him over and asked if he was still willing to join the core team and enjoy the good life with them.

Zhang Shun was naturally willing and nodded eagerly.

Seeing that he was still willing, Zheng Yang immediately told him that if he wanted to join them, he had to pass their test, and Zhang Shun naturally agreed to accept the test.

However, Zheng Yang did not tell him what the test was on the spot, but only told him to wait and that he would tell him what the test was when the time came.

Ten days later, Zheng Yang suddenly came to Zhang Shun's door again, gave him a gun and some bullets, taught him how to use it, and told him to take some time to practice his marksmanship in the next couple of days so that he could use it when he was tested later.

Upon seeing the gun and hearing the explanation, Zhang Shun immediately guessed where it came from. However, he didn't plan to call the police. In his view, catching thieves was the police's job, and it had nothing to do with him since he wasn't stealing or robbing.

But where should I practice my marksmanship?
Even if he's a complete idiot, he knows he can't just take out this gun anywhere. Even if he wants to practice, he has to find a secluded place where no one can find out.

There are definitely places available. Beijing now is not like it will be in a few decades, full of people and skyscrapers. Finding an open space is relatively easy.

The day after he got the gun, Zhang Shun went to an abandoned factory to practice his marksmanship. He didn't know how Zheng Yang and the others were going to test him, nor did he consider what kind of test would require a gun. He just dreamed of making a lot of money and being powerful in the future.

The men weren't entirely at ease after handing him the gun, so they sent someone to secretly follow him for a few days. Only when they saw that he really had no intention of calling the police did they feel relieved. They even thought they had found a "good seed" and that as long as he could prove his loyalty this time, they could develop him into a core member.

It should be said that up until this point, the test that the four men were thinking about had nothing to do with killing. When they got guns, all they wanted was to expand their territory and make more money.

However, things often turn out unpredictably, and with guns in hand, the so-called "Four Great Kings" became increasingly arrogant.

Previously, because the police investigation into the gun theft case was so thorough, they didn't dare to take out the guns casually even after obtaining them. They could only secretly play with them in deserted places. For these people, doing so was no different from wearing fine clothes in the dark, which made them quite resentful.

They dared to hand the gun to Zhang Shun for two reasons: first, they found that the kid was indeed very eager to join them and kept his mouth shut; second, they believed that more than two months had passed, and the police investigation would definitely be less intense than before, so they had this wishful thinking.

As the saying goes, a gun emboldens the cowardly. Ultimately, this thing is also a "weapon of mass destruction," and it can play different roles in the hands of different people.

In the hands of criminals, it becomes a weapon that threatens the lives and property of others.

The "Four Great Kings" shooting and killing stemmed from an accident that was not entirely unexpected.

It wasn't entirely unexpected because this was a test, or rather a "pledge of allegiance," that they had arranged for Zhang Shun, which required him to rob a worker who had just finished his night shift.

It was somewhat of an accident. Before it happened, they had no intention of killing anyone; they were after the money, not people. At first, everything went smoothly. The group targeted a man who was off his night shift and was alone. When the man passed through a section of road without lights, Zhang Shun rushed forward first, followed closely by the "Four King Kongs".

In their view, the five of them, armed with sticks, would surely make the man who was stopped obedient and do as they were told. However, to their surprise, the man who was stopped not only did not comply but also resisted. What's more, this man was carrying a knife.

The man's ferocity surprised the "Four Great Vajras" and Zhang Shun. Despite being beaten with sticks, he used a knife to stab and injure Xiao Mao Mao Hongwei.

Because of his frequent fighting, Xiao Mao tried his best to dodge when he was poked. Although he didn't completely avoid it and was still poked, he managed to avoid a vital area and was stabbed in the abdomen.

The sight of blood completely ignited the ferocity of the "Four Great Kings," who recklessly pulled out the guns tucked into their waistbands and fired several shots at the man.

The noise produced by an air pistol is much less than that of a normal handgun, so although the four men fired several shots, they did not wake up the residents who were already sleeping nearby.

After killing someone, the five young men finally came to their senses. The injured Mao Hongwei realized that among the five people present, only Zhang Shun had not made a move. Despite the excruciating pain in his abdomen, he raised his gun to kill Zhang Shun, but was stopped by Zheng Yang.

His meaning was that although the guy surnamed Zhang didn't participate in the murder, he planned to ask Zhang Shun to join them in hiding and disposing of the body, intending to make him one of them.

Zhang Shun was terrified. He never expected that a robbery would turn into murder. Especially when Mao Hongwei pointed a gun at him, he almost wet his pants on the spot when he saw the dark muzzle of the gun.

In this situation, you have to do whatever people say.

So the five men carried the dead man's body on bicycles to the abandoned factory where Zhang Shun usually practiced shooting. They dumped the body into a ditch in the factory that was originally used for repairing cars, and covered it with some rubbish. Only after they were sure that they couldn't see the body at all after removing the rubbish did they leave.

They then returned to the scene, and under the illumination of flashlights, they hurriedly covered the bloodstains on the ground with soil, then swept the soil away. After repeating this several times, the bloodstains on the ground were no longer visible.

Finally, they went to Mao Hongwei's house and found his neighbor, a disabled man who had become a doctor through long illness. Whenever they were injured, they would ask this man for help with applying medicine and bandaging.

Mao Hongwei's wound was quickly treated, and after the disabled man was taken back to his home, the group began to discuss what to do next.

What could they do? They had no experience in this kind of thing. The fact that they were able to hide the body immediately after the murder and return to the scene to clean up the bloodstains, and that they could think of these things in such a short time, is enough to show that the four of them had not been dealt with by the police station so many times for nothing.

That was all. They had no idea what to do next, especially Zhang Shun, who was still trembling with fear.

This is also why he was unwilling to confess after being arrested, because he was involved in disposing of the body.

However, this guy isn't very bright and is a bit stubborn. He blurted it out easily when tricked. If Zheng Yang had known that what he thought was a tight-lipped person was actually like this, he probably wouldn't have stopped Mao Hongwei when he wanted to take action that day.

This also led to the downfall of these "Four Great Kings".

However, at this point, they didn't know whether to call it good luck or not, the reason why the person they killed hadn't been discovered for several days was entirely because the victim had already taken a week off from work on the day of the murder, preparing to go to his wife's parents' home in Qingyan to pick up his wife and children.

His workplace knew he had taken leave, and although his wife knew he was going to pick him up, they hadn't agreed on a specific date, so she wasn't in a hurry to come back and had no idea that her husband had been murdered.

It was this twist of fate that led to the man being murdered for four whole days without anyone knowing.

After learning the exact addresses of Mao Hongwei, Zheng Yang, and the other two from Zhang Shun, Jin Zhihai arranged for someone to send Liu Xiaotian and Zhang Shun back to the headquarters. He then made a phone call to Li Yancheng to report and explain his next plans.

For the next arrest operation, he didn't plan to call people from the headquarters. Instead, he directly dispatched the criminal police team of the Yangchao branch. He couldn't let the headquarters take all the good stuff, since this was, after all, Yangchao's jurisdiction.

If their brigade takes all the benefits this time, leaving the Yangchao branch with nothing, then if they need their cooperation in any future work, it's no wonder the branch will outwardly comply but inwardly defy them.

After hearing his friend's plans, Li Yancheng breathed a sigh of relief and smiled with satisfaction. He agreed to his friend's action plan and instructed him to report it to Deputy Director Cai as well.

After hanging up the phone, Director Li, who had been feeling anxious for some time, finally felt half relieved. As for the other half, he would have to wait until everything settled down before he could truly relax.

However, a murder still occurred. Thinking of this, Li Yancheng sighed deeply. He had just turned around to say something to his wife sitting on the sofa when the phone rang again.

This time it was Director Jiang Haitao of the Yangchao Branch who called, and he brought good news as well: Zheng Tian, ​​whom they had captured, had confessed.

He not only revealed who committed the gun theft at the West City Sports School, but also confessed that those guns might have been used to commit murder.

Zheng Tian didn't go that night because of other things, and his brother didn't tell him what happened afterwards. Zheng Yang, as the older brother, still wanted to protect his younger brother.

Zheng Tian suspected that someone might have been killed that night because he discovered that his brother's gun had fired several bullets, and he also observed some changes in his brother and his friends.

After listening to Director Jiang's report, Li Yancheng immediately informed him of the achievements the brigade had made under Jin Zhihai's leadership.

When Jiang Haitao heard that the brigade had actually gotten there faster than them, he was so frustrated that he slapped his thigh repeatedly, almost slapping it until it swelled up. When he heard that the brigade's brigade leader, Jin, was going to come to their branch office to ask them to send people to carry out the next arrest operation, he was stunned.

In his view, wasn't this like giving away a duck that was already in his mouth to someone else?

It's still a matter of perspective. Of course, this doesn't mean that Director Jiang lacks vision or has no sense of scale. He is the leader of the Yangchao branch, so it's perfectly normal for him to consider his own branch's interests.

If he manages to join the municipal bureau in the future, but his horizons haven't broadened yet, that's a different story.

(End of this chapter)