1983Fishing and Farming between Mountains and Seas

Chapter 428 The Liang family suffered three rounds of murder
Following the address, Liang Ziqiang arrived in the city and asked people waiting for the bus on the roadside. He found out which bus to take and quickly found the Municipal Public Security Bureau in the morning.

After explaining his purpose and registering, he went directly to the location of the Criminal Investigation Detachment.

While walking in the corridor, I accidentally saw a familiar face.

It was not the deputy captain Gao who went to his home the day before yesterday, but the one with the surname Wang. In April last year, he and Li Liang shot and killed several gangsters. Later, during the handling process, it was this captain Wang who was present in the city.

At that time, he roughly heard the introduction that Wang Chen was the captain of the city's criminal investigation detachment, which means that he was the superior of Deputy Captain Gao.

Because the case of the gangster was extremely serious at that time, Wang Chen went to the "Puffer Island" in person.

"Captain Wang?"

Liang Ziqiang didn't know that a year and a half had passed and whether Wang Chen still recognized him, so he greeted the other party first.

Unexpectedly, Wang Chen obviously still remembered him and waved twice:

"Liang Ziqiang, right? Come with me. I'm the one who notified you to come here!"

"what?"

This time Liang Ziqiang was even more surprised.

He had always thought that Deputy Captain Gao was in charge of his father and brother's affairs, and Wang Chen had never been involved in the matter.

Confused, he followed Wang Chen and walked into a house on the north side.

After opening the door, Liang Ziqiang found that his father and elder brother were sitting in front of a rectangular table. They looked healthy and energetic, as if they were waiting for someone.

"Aqiang, you're here?" Father's eyes lit up and he told me, "We were notified this morning that we could go back, but they also said they wanted us to see something. I don't know what it is."

"Don't worry, I'll know soon." Wang Chen replied casually and asked a policeman to call Deputy Captain Gao Jianzhang.

Soon, Deputy Captain Gao came in with a brown paper file bag.

After the door was closed, Wang Chen said:

"First of all, you have ruled out the suspicion of blackmail. The handwriting expert has identified that someone deliberately imitated Liang Zifeng's handwriting, wrote blackmail letters and committed blackmail crimes for a long time. After comparison, the writer of the letter is not anyone in your family. As for who it is, there is no clue for the time being, but we will continue to investigate in the future."

After a pause, Wang Chen looked a little serious:

"In addition, after discussion and agreement, we think it is necessary to extract a part of Dai Qingfu's confession and show it to you. Because this part is highly related to your life safety. You probably don't know that you have been murdered three times. You survived all three times. I have to say, you are lucky!"

"Three times?" Liang Ziqiang said subconsciously.

"Murder us?" Liang's father and Liang Tiancheng were even more confused.

Gao Jianzhang pulled out a stack of papers from the file bag. On it were densely written words in pen and red handprints.

It was a transcript compiled based on the confession obtained from the interrogation of Dai Qingfu. Liang Ziqiang and his two sons moved closer.

Liang's father could not recognize all the words in the book, but Liang Ziqiang had no problem reading through it quickly.

What was placed in front of them were the parts that were relevant to them, and other irrelevant content was not taken away.

Liang Ziqiang read line by line:

Public Security: In addition to organizing a major smuggling crime, you are not going to confess to killing your accomplices? Some of the fish pickers who participated in the smuggling took the initiative to expose that there were four leaders in total. Last year, the fourth disappeared first, and then the second and third also disappeared. How the second and third disappeared, you explained clearly yesterday. As for the fourth Tian Shizhong, you should tell us how you killed him, right? !

Dai Qingfu: I want to confirm one more thing. Given the scale and amount of smuggling that I organized, is it impossible for me to survive?

Public Security: We are not responsible for the trial. But I can tell you that the case involving less than one-tenth of yours was sentenced to death last year.

Dai Qingfu: I understand. Before I die, I'll tell you all I need to say. I've been holding it in for more than two years. There's no point in holding it in until I'm buried in the ground.

I killed the fourth brother with my own hands. I cried for two nights. You may not believe it, but it is true.

I didn't want to kill the fourth brother, and the second and third brothers didn't want to kill him either.

Since March of the year before last, the fourth child has been jumping up and down and making a fuss, saying that he has made greater contributions and suffered more, and that he wants to get a larger share than the second child, equal to me.

It's not that I don't want someone to be on par with me, but what will the second and third brothers think? How can I continue to run the business?
I kept persuading him and was willing to give him a larger share, but he was not satisfied and said things he shouldn't have said. He threatened to tell everyone about it and have it taken away by the police, so that he would lose all his money.

At this point, there was no other way. I discussed it with the second and third sons, and found a room on the island that was quiet, remote, and not too damp. We locked him up there, and sent him good food and drink every day.

Even so, I never had the slightest intention to kill him. Smuggling is one thing, but killing is not my thing, really. Not to mention, he is my brother who has gone through hardships together.

Every one or two weeks, my second and third sons and I would go to see him and give him some advice.

It was July of the year before last, I think it was July 7nd. I still remember that it rained in some places on the sea at noon that day, but not a single drop of rain fell on our island. This is how it rains on the sea sometimes, in patches.

At noon, the three of us went to persuade him again. When we opened the door, the room was empty and no one was seen. We were just wondering when we heard a noise behind us. It turned out that the fourth brother was hiding behind the door and ran away when we entered.

We didn't want to alert the gang members under us about our personal affairs. But the three of us knew that if the fourth brother ran away, he would definitely expose the truth and make us both lose our lives.

At this point, it's no longer a matter of whether or not to kill. Lao Si can't survive. If he lives, we'll all die.

The room where he was imprisoned was not in the same place as the cold storage and handling area. There was a wall between them. The four of us were chasing and running outside the wall.

After all, he couldn't run faster than the three of us, but he still ran to the edge of the island, only about ten meters away from the sea.

The second brother kicked him down, and the third brother picked up a big rock, ready to hit him on the head and kill him.

I was the one who held back the second and third brothers. We were brothers, and I didn't want the fourth brother to be smashed to pieces and die in such an ugly way.

There happened to be a piece of broken rope on the ground. It must have fallen there when the scrapped basket was being disposed of.

I picked up the rope and put it around Lao Si's neck...

Although the fourth child was strangled and couldn't make any sound, I was still afraid of being seen.

I looked up at the wall a few meters away. The cargo handling area was inside the wall, and it was still several dozen meters inside the wall. To be honest, it was quite far, and the workers inside would definitely not notice the movements outside the wall.

I took a special look and saw that the wall was bare, not even a bird was on it.

Only then did I feel relieved and I watched the fourth brother die.

The person is gone, so we must deal with it. It happened so suddenly, and we didn't know what to do. I was panicking, and together with the second and third children, we lifted the fourth child and took advantage of the fact that the people inside the wall were not paying attention to what was happening outside, and quickly moved the fourth child back to the remote room.

I sat down on the floor of the room and realized that my hands were shaking. I said before that I am not good at killing people and I don't like killing people. The second and third brothers and I discussed for a long time in the room. From the perspective of friendship, I wanted to bury the fourth brother on the island. We are brothers, so at least he can rest in peace.

But the second and third brothers disagreed and advised me to stay calm. If we bury it on the island, if something happens one day and there is a search or something, the evidence will be irrefutable once it is dug out.

I thought about it and it made sense. After much discussion, we decided that throwing it into the sea would be the safest option.

Of course we couldn’t throw it next to Banjiu Island. We discussed for a long time how far away we should throw it and where we should throw it.

Finally, the place was decided, and it was agreed that the fourth child would be tied up with stones and thrown to the bottom of the sea, so that he would not float up easily and be seen.

After discussing everything, it probably took about half an hour, right?

Speaking of tying ropes, it suddenly occurred to me that the rope used to strangle the fourth brother was thrown there by me. Why didn’t I pick it up?
Although it wouldn't be a big deal to just leave it there, it was something that had been used to kill someone after all, and the three of us always felt uneasy leaving it there.

We locked the airtight room again and planned to come back to dispose of the body at midnight. The three of us followed the original route to the beach, ready to find the rope, pick it up, and throw it into the sea together.

I walked to the place where the fourth brother was strangled, and saw the rope on the ground, so I bent down to pick it up.

When I picked up the rope, I glanced at the sea. I almost jumped up, and my chest was beating violently as if it was hit by a rock.

Near a big tree on the edge of the island, three people were standing on a boat at some point.

I took a special look at it and saw a rather shabby boat with the words "De Fu" written on it in large letters.

The second and third brothers saw it almost at the same time and were all stunned.

To be honest, there are usually few outsiders coming to Banjiu Island. Occasionally, a few people come to take shelter from the wind and rain once a month, and they all stay in a tent we set up. It is very rare for someone to suddenly appear in this place.

My head was buzzing, and the first thought that came to my mind was whether they had seen us committing murder.

But it was only a second or two, and I thought to myself, the murder happened half an hour ago, could this broken "Defu" ship have been parked here for half an hour?
Besides, when we killed the fourth brother earlier, didn’t we notice that there were three people standing on the shore?

Thinking of this, I quickly calmed down, as if nothing had happened, smiled at the three people on the boat, and gestured with the hand that was not holding the rope, indicating that they could go to the tent to shelter from the wind.

The oldest middle-aged man on the boat waved his hand, and it was clear that he was not going.

I didn't care about him anymore, and took the second and third brothers and hurried back to the island.

On the way, I asked the second and third brothers if they remembered whether there was such a shabby boat parked on the shore when we started half an hour ago.

They all shook their heads and said they didn't notice. They were too nervous at the time and their attention was all on the fourth child. They did look to the side, mainly at the wall, and they were relieved when they were sure there was no one on the wall.

But they also thought that even if they didn't look towards the shore, if there were three living people standing by the island, they would still notice it. Since they had no impression at all, it meant that these three people had not come to Banjiu Island at that time, and they didn't see us killing people at all.

They both have the same idea as me on this point.

In this case, we didn't think much about it. At midnight, we put Lao Si in a sack, tied a big rock to it, and secretly sailed out to the sea.

We went quite far, and we wanted to get as far away from Banjiu Island as possible. After throwing the fourth child into the seabed with the stone, we also threw the rope that was strangling him.

To be honest, I couldn't stop crying while throwing the coins. You know I have a kind heart and I usually like to do good deeds, not this kind of thing.

The second and third children were also sentimental, so they started crying too. The three of us simply sat on the boat, staring at the dark sea, and cried our hearts out.

After that, I didn't sleep well for two consecutive nights. Then the incident gradually faded away and I stopped thinking about it.

Nine days had passed, and I remember clearly that it was the first day of August. Sometimes I was on the island, sometimes in the factory or the company. On August 8, I stayed in the company to handle things.

I suddenly found a letter sent to Qingwei Group, which was just like other letters, folder together.

It was written "To Dai Qingfu", but the sender's address was unfamiliar to me: "Xiaoxing Village, Daxing Town".

Feeling somewhat puzzled, I opened the letter and found inside was a single-line paper torn from a homework book.

As soon as I saw what was written in ballpoint pen, I fell down on my chair and thought to myself, "It's over."

The general meaning of the letter was that they had seen everything, including us kicking a man to the ground and strangling him to death with a rope. Moreover, they had seen me on TV and knew who I was.

The letter said, no need to guess how they were able to see us kill people, and we didn't notice them when we were strangling them. Anyway, the fact is that the three of them saw everything.

They suspected me of murder because there must be some shameful secrets hidden on the island. So they kept walking around the island for more than half an hour, trying to figure out what was going on, until they ran into us picking up ropes again half an hour later.

If they tell others, they will definitely tell others about my murder and the shameful things that happened on the island. If I want to survive, it depends on how generous I am.

This is, after all, a blackmail letter. It is the first, but not the last.

I have kept all the blackmail letters in one place, and I will tell you later what is written in the letter. You will understand it when you get it.

The first time I asked for money, the letter said I wanted 8 yuan, and asked someone to put it under the bridgehead pier under the Langgang County Bridge before August 4. They told us to put the money down and leave, and if anyone dared to wait there, they would immediately report me for murder.

Yes, each time they asked to put the money in a different place, sometimes it was this bridge, sometimes it was that bridge, and they were not even in the same county.

Did you go? How could you not go? Not only did I go, but the second and third sons also went.

They said that no one was allowed to guard there, but we still wanted to see what was going on. Although the tone of the blackmail letter suggested that it was the three people on the "Defu" boat, we still wanted to be sure.

When we got there, we found that it was not convenient to hide people around there, so we had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​waiting there. If we didn't do it well, we were afraid that something bad would happen. If we angered them, they would definitely expose the matter directly.

We went to check later and found that the three thousand yuan had been taken away.

The three of us came back and discussed for a long time, and finally concluded that there couldn't be anyone else who blackmailed us, it must be the three people on the "Blessed Ship".

Even though I gave the money, it didn't mean I would give up. I knew this kind of thing too well. Once it started, it would be a bottomless pit. If I really wanted to feel at ease, I had to find them and make sure they couldn't open their mouths again.

Since there is no way to wait at the bridge pier, let's look everywhere for the "Defu" boat.

But it is too difficult to find an ordinary fishing boat. There are so many counties in Yanghai City, and fishermen from all of them go out to sea to fish. How can we know which county the boat belongs to?

You mean the address on the blackmail letter? The "Xiaoxing Village, Daxing Town" is totally fake. There is no such place. And the post office was different every time the letter was sent. It was obvious that the letter was sent from another place.

Back to the search for a boat. I didn't have that much time to spare, so I had to rely on my second and third sons to drive the boat around to look for it. In order to cover more areas, they searched separately.

We searched all of Langgang County, Huifeng County, and Pengao County.

We searched for 8 days. We were lucky. After 8 days, I remember it was August 8, the "Defu" ship was actually found by the third brother...

(End of this chapter)