Spring Breeze Twenty Years

Chapter 562 Case

Back then, when no one was home, her brother-in-law would always go there alone and rummage through her things. After that, she started changing clothes at the factory and stopped bringing her underwear and such home. Then her brother-in-law deliberately ransacked the washing machine and her wardrobe, leaving things scattered everywhere, right? That must be it.

It turns out Xiaoli had been cleaning up all along, but she'd been busy at the factory and working overtime lately, so she probably didn't have time to have her dad watch over it. This had been going on for a while; her brother-in-law had a key to her house. I found this disgusting and unacceptable, so we broke up. Actually, Xiaoli was a really nice person.

Xiao Wei was dumbfounded. Xiao Liu stood up and said, "Okay, thanks. Well, how should I put it? If Sun Li's dad doesn't pursue this, nothing will happen. But if he insists on getting a result from the police station, he might end up coming to you anyway. Why don't you talk to Sun Li yourself and handle it internally? Okay? We're quite busy too."

Huang Bo also stood up and said, "Alright, I'll talk to Sun Li. Sorry for troubling you."

After leaving the towel factory, Xiao Liu glanced at Xiao Wei with a smile as he drove and asked, "What do you think, Detective Zhang?"

Xiao Wei said, "I really didn't expect this. This outcome is too unexpected."

Xiao Liu laughed and said, "There are many more amazing things than this, and you've only been involved for a few days. To be honest, if you hadn't gotten involved, the institute wouldn't have cared at all. They would have just made a record and gone through the motions, and it would have been a clear case that wouldn't have yielded any results."

Xiao Liu said, "In this world, there are all kinds of people and all kinds of things. We police officers are always looking into the dark side. There are many cases that are really unbelievable when they are finally closed. You can't even imagine them unless you've been there. Seriously, they're more like novels than fiction."

Xiao Wei asked, "What case? Can you tell me?"

Xiao Liu said, "Sure, most cases don't involve confidentiality. Let me tell you something from when I first joined the police force. Back then, we had just built a highway here, the Shenyang-Dalian Expressway, you know? It was the first highway in our country."

I graduated from police academy a few days ago and was assigned to this highway construction site, kind of on temporary assignment, handling some things. Like managing explosives for the migrant workers, it was a temporary unit back then. Not much to do there, at most some villagers might steal some materials or something. But guess what? In my second week there, there was a murder."

Wang Yuanfeng is from the countryside. To be precise, she is a rural person living in the city.

Because of the land acquisition, she and her husband went from being farmers to city dwellers, and were allocated a tiled house. Although it was small, it was much better than their original thatched house. Her husband was also given a job in a collective factory, a large collective enterprise, which, in rural terms, meant he was now receiving a government job.

Although Wang Yuanfeng herself is still a rural resident, she is already very content. She takes care of her husband and children, and her daily life is quite enjoyable.

However, the good times didn't last long. In 88, her husband's factory inexplicably went bankrupt and stopped paying wages. The factory completely shut down. Apart from the factory director and a few other leaders who still worked in the factory every day in their cars, only a few gatekeepers were still working.

Her husband's salary was the family's only income. Living in the city, food, drink, daily necessities, children's schooling, and clothing all cost money, and soon the family was struggling to make ends meet.

In the spring of 89, her husband heard from his coworkers that the head office was providing subsidies to those of them who were laid off from their jobs in large collective enterprises. So they banded together and went to the factory to ask the factory manager for the money. As a result, they clashed with the factory leaders who had just bought new cars. The two Toyotas that the factory had just bought were smashed by the angry workers, and the factory manager and a deputy factory manager were also injured on the head. This was a serious matter.

In June 89, the factory was completely shut down, and the factory director and cadres were transferred to other units to take on leadership positions. Wang Yuanfeng's husband and several coworkers were sentenced to prison for smashing cars and injuring people; her husband was sentenced to three years.

The nine-year-old child is in school, the family has no income, and they can't even grow some land.

Wang Yuanfeng gritted her teeth and supported this home that no longer existed, doing odd jobs, collecting scraps, and even clearing land on the outskirts of the city to grow some vegetables.

She wanted to go back to her hometown, but she couldn't get her household registration sorted out. She went to the local street office and the civil affairs bureau, but to no avail. Instead, she was ridiculed everywhere because she was a family member of a criminal. Her child was also ostracized by classmates at school and became withdrawn. He used to be a good student, but now he either skips school or gets into fights.

By September 1989, she didn't even have enough money for a train ticket to visit her husband in prison, and she was also in debt for 180 yuan.

The person who lent her the money was a former coworker of her husband named Wang Shigui. The two families were neighbors, their houses about 200 meters apart. At first, things were fine. Wang Shigui would often help out with small things at home, always calling her "sister-in-law." He didn't say anything when he borrowed the money. He lent it three times, paid it back once, and still had 180 yuan left.

Later, Wang Yuanfeng discovered that Wang Shigui was always staring at her buttocks and coming to her house more and more frequently. He would always find excuses to touch her inappropriately. At first, she tolerated it, thinking it was just a joke, since he had helped her before.

That day, Wang Yuanfeng was mending her son's pants on the kang (a heated brick bed) at home when Wang Shigui came over again.

As soon as she entered the room, Wang Yuanfeng smelled the smell of alcohol. Although she disliked it, she still smiled and said, "Shigui is here. You've been drinking, haven't you? Let me pour you some water." She put down what she was doing and went to pour water for Wang Shigui.

Just as she picked up the cups and set them aside, Wang Shigui grabbed her from behind and hugged her tightly.

Wang Yuanfeng twisted and struggled, but it was no use; she couldn't break free at all. "Wang Shigui, are you drunk? Let me go."

Wang Shigui chuckled a few times: "Yuanfeng, you're so fair-skinned. Let me touch you for a bit. You forgot about the money I lent you?"

Wang Yuanfeng desperately grabbed his outstretched hand and said, "I borrowed money, I'll pay it back. What are you doing?"

"Either pay me back right now, or do you have the money? If you can't, let me take care of it. If I need money after that, come to me and I'll lend you some. Anyway, you're free now, so I won't do it for free."

In that instant, Wang Yuanfeng completely collapsed; all the pressure on her body and mind exploded at once.

She checked the time and said to Wang Shigui, "Okay, I agree. Take your hand out first, I'll prepare the child's food, and then we'll go outside. It's not good for either of us to stay at home with others watching."

Wang Yuanfeng went to the outer room to heat the food in the steamer, and wrote a few words on the edge of the stove with coal: "Mom is gone. Mom can't support you anymore. Take good care of yourself."

(End of this chapter)