1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 427 You Can Release Me Now

The jeep started, raised a few wisps of dust, and drove away.

The villagers stayed for a long time. Those who were close to Liang's mother came to comfort her crying mother, while those who were not so close had complicated expressions. No one knew whether they were gloating or something else in their hearts.

Liang Ziqiang persuaded his mother and sister-in-law, then stood in front of the gate, raised his voice and said to the villagers:

"We have received everyone's concern and comfort! This matter is actually very clear, there is no ambiguity at all, it is just that someone else has committed blackmail and put the blame on our family. Not to mention anything else, even the handwriting doesn't match. I believe that it won't be long before the truth is revealed!
It’s getting late, everyone go back, nothing will happen to our family!”

The crowd then gradually dispersed while discussing.

After a while, my father-in-law and two uncles also came back from the east of the village. They were feeding shrimps in the shrimp pond and saw someone calling Liang Tiancheng away from the shrimp pond. At that time, they thought it was no big deal.

It was not until just now that he heard from someone passing by the shrimp pond that Liang's father and Liang Tiancheng had been taken away that he hurriedly packed up his things and rushed back to Juzipo.

The father-in-law understood the cause of the incident and tried to comfort his mother-in-law.

The two uncles also analyzed the situation with Liang Ziqiang for a while, but after a long time, they still couldn't figure out what the problem was in such a strange thing.

"Could it be that when your father was drunk, he told someone he knew that he was taking shelter on Banjiu Island, and then someone took advantage of this and impersonated him to blackmail that Dai?"

My second uncle even came up with such an idea.

However, this idea was immediately rejected.

The reason is very simple. Liang Fu, Liang Tiancheng and Liang Zifeng themselves did not actually see Dai Qingfu committing murder, so how could they tell anyone else?

In fact, the incident of taking shelter in Banjiu Island did not leave any impression on Liang's father's mind at all. To him, that day was a completely ordinary day with nothing special. Otherwise, when Liang Ziqiang asked him to recall whether there was anything special in June and July 1983, he would not have been unable to think of anything at all.

Therefore, Liang Ziqiang would rather believe that there was another boat at the scene at the time, and he did not think that it was caused by his father's drunkenness.

But my father and eldest brother clearly denied it, saying that there was absolutely no other shelter boat at the scene. This made the matter almost inexplicable.

When it was almost dark, my father-in-law and my uncle went back to Huagu Village, but someone else came here.

After receiving the news, Lin Baixian, Li Liang, Lu Song and Zhong Ming all came to Juzipo one after another to inquire what had happened. Then they sat down and helped analyze the mystery together until very late, but they could not figure out a solution.

The next day, Liang Ziqiang went to the shrimp pond. He just wanted to see how the prawns were growing, but mainly because he felt his brain was getting confused, so he wanted to take a breath and sort out the whole thing.

His own shrimp pond and his father's shrimp pond are usually fed and taken care of by his father-in-law and two other people, but Liang Tiancheng is different.

Liang Tiancheng used to be responsible for the ten acres of shrimp ponds, but now he was suddenly taken away by Captain Gao, and Kuang Haixia didn't know much about shrimp ponds. Liang Ziqiang had no choice but to temporarily get peanut bran and dragon fish powder, and then fished out artemia from the abandoned salt fields he contracted, intending to feed his brother first.

After being busy for a while, I sat on the shrimp pond, enjoying the breeze, and my mind turned to the things that happened on Banjiu Island.

A while ago, he took a pair of fishing binoculars and went to the vicinity of Banjiu Island.

Although it was not convenient to get too close at that time and we could only observe from a distance, fortunately the fishing telescope could see quite far, so we could still roughly see the terrain of the area where the incident occurred on Banjiu Island.

The area where his father used to tie the ropes and moor the boats to avoid the wind is now blocked by a high boulder, which partially blocks Liang Ziqiang's view. But he noticed the terrain beside it: the left side is relatively flat and connected to the sea, and a few meters to the right is a brick wall.

Liang Ziqiang could not see what was happening inside the brick wall because there was a whole circle of high brick walls built on the island, which were originally used to block the view from the outside world.

But it is obvious that the people inside the fence are busy fish pickers who are also smugglers. All the employees on the island actually have dual roles, sorting fish and shrimp during the day and participating in smuggling at night. This has been revealed in the news a few days ago.

Liang Ziqiang replayed the scene that appeared in the telescope a while ago in his mind, looking for new possibilities bit by bit. Three new possibilities gradually emerged in his mind.

One possibility is that on the day when my father took shelter, could it be that an internal employee of the Qingwei Group, a fish handler involved in smuggling, happened to climb up the courtyard wall and quietly ran into Dai Qingfu and two of his cronies strangling people with ropes outside the wall?

He felt that it could not be ruled out.

The second possibility is that Dai Qingfu's close associates, the two who strangled people with him with ropes, could have secretly blackmailed Dai Qingfu behind his back?
There is a third possibility that Liang Ziqiang thought of it from his own telescope.

Since I went to explore Banjiu Island some time ago and could use a telescope to observe from a relatively far distance on the sea, then similarly, more than two years ago, could it be that there was some ship in the distance that happened to see the scene of people being strangled by ropes on the island through a telescope?
He has thought about it for a long time and feels that these three situations are still possible.

Sitting under a tree beside the shrimp pond, he silently considered various possibilities, trying to think as carefully as possible before reporting to Captain Gao and the others.

Although the police have their own set of rules for investigation and detection, Liang Ziqiang can't just sit and wait without making any efforts.

After he had almost finished feeding the shrimp pond for his elder brother, he walked back to the village from the east of the village.

On the way, a man waved and called him. It was Zhong Ming.

"Aqiang, I just received a phone call to inform you that we have arrived in the village. Your father and brother are fine and will be back tomorrow."

"real?!"

A wave of unbelievable surprise instantly passed through my heart.

Although Liang Ziqiang swore in front of the villagers yesterday that his father and brother would be fine and would be released soon, he was actually very nervous when he said this!

What he didn't expect was that in just over a day, the police had already successfully eliminated their family as a suspect, which was somewhat beyond his expectations.

"By the way, they said that the family members need to sign and pick them up. I don't know why, but they specifically asked you to go pick them up!" Zhong Ming continued.

"You want me to go?"

Now Liang Ziqiang was a little confused.

Since my father and my eldest brother have been cleared of the suspicion of blackmail, do the family members still need to sign to pick up the person? Can't my father and my eldest brother sign to go home on their own?
Moreover, he was specifically told to pick the person up himself, which made it even more difficult for him to understand.

However, he had originally planned to go to the Municipal Public Security Bureau to report the situation tomorrow, so he had to go anyway.

"Where is the location? Tell me, right?" he asked Zhong Ming.

"I told you, the Criminal Investigation Division of the Municipal Public Security Bureau. I wrote down the location for you based on what he told me on the phone!"

Zhong Ming took out a piece of red cigarette box paper from his trouser pocket. The white side of the cigarette paper had the detailed address of the Municipal Bureau's Criminal Investigation Brigade written on it.

Liang Ziqiang put away the cigarette box papers, and as soon as it got light the next day, he quickly boarded the lotus-patterned wooden boat and headed for the city.

On the way, he still didn't quite figure it out.

Nothing was said on the phone. Why did I go there to pick him up? I would only know when I got there...

(End of this chapter)