Twenty-seven years ago, there was a poisoning and homicide case in Bai Town, Dongxian County, and the person in charge of this case was Luo Sizhong, Luo Youheng's father and Luo Minxin's uncle who had just transferred to the police station.
Luo Sizhong arrived at the scene of the crime at noon. The report was made by the village chief of Hejia Village, and it was a family surnamed Zhao in Hejia Village who had the accident.
The eight members of the Zhao family, including the elderly Mrs. Zhao, three members of the eldest family of the Zhao family, and the unmarried second son of the Zhao family, all died. Only the eldest daughter of the Zhao family, Zhao Xiaolan, and her pair of four-year-old twin daughters were safe and sound. .
Zhao Xiaolan naturally became the first suspect.
However, Zhao Xiaolan was dumb and illiterate, and the interrogation work was once deadlocked.
At the suggestion of his colleagues, Luo Sizhong began to visit the villagers of Hejia Village, and pieced together the past of the Zhao family bit by bit from their mouths.
Mrs. Zhao has been married to the Zhao family for more than 20 years, and gave birth to seven children one after another, and only three survived.
Zhao Xiaolan was the first child born in the second year of Mrs. Zhao's marriage to the Zhao family. Because she is not a leader, and she is also a mute, her parents-in-law dislike her, her husband hates her, and her sister-in-law jokes about her. Mrs. Zhao has no confidence, so she naturally suffers a lot of grievances.
Naturally, she took part of her grievances on Zhao Xiaolan.
Until a few years later, Mrs. Zhao hugged the two for three years. The eldest and second child of the Zhao family fell to the ground one after another. Mrs. Zhao straightened her back, and the situation improved a little.
It's just that when she turned her head to look at Zhao Xiaolan again, she was still in awe of what she saw.
In the traditional thinking of the Hua people, they pay attention to many children and many blessings. Here in the countryside, it is no exception, so the phenomenon that the poorer you are, the poorer you are, the more you want to be born.
In addition, after more than ten years of the Great Patriotic War, the Central Plains was in turmoil, and the people were in dire straits. More than half of the poor Zhao family starved to death, and those who barely survived gradually reached the age when they should start a family.
But the Zhao family has no money.
After suffering the death of her parents-in-law, Mrs. Zhao, who was finally able to be the master of the house, rolled her eyes and simply married Zhao Xiaolan, who was not liked by her, to a sick child in the next village in exchange for a generous gift money to her. The boss of the Zhao family happily married his wife.
In a few years, the sick young man could not afford to fall ill and passed away. A group of sick uncles were greedy for his family's property, and just after the first seven days, they brought people to the door and drove Zhao Xiaolan out.
Zhao Xiaolan had no choice but to return to her natal home with a pair of twin daughters.
And the second child of the Zhao family happened to be at the age of marrying a wife.
The two brothers of the Zhao family hinted again and again, and Mrs. Zhao was so excited that she came up with the idea of ??selling Zhao Xiaolan in exchange for a bride price.
The person I found this time was not even as good as the sick man last time. He was an old widower in his fifties, even older than Mrs. Zhao.
Mrs. Zhao is very satisfied, after all, Zhao Xiaolan's conditions are there. On the contrary, she can still ask for a little more money back because of the age of the old widower.
As for Zhao Xiaolan's two twin daughters, the old widower definitely wouldn't want them. In the past, she was a child bride. It can be exchanged for a few catties of grain, so why not do it.
After Zhao Xiaolan knew about this, she knelt down in front of Mrs. Zhao and begged in front of many people in the village, but in the end she couldn't muster up the courage to leave Zhao's house with her two daughters.
Thinking about it, she is a mute, and she left the Zhao family with two daughters under the age of four. The end may not be better than this.
And the poisoning case happened on the fourth day after this incident.
According to the villagers of Hejia Village, the old widower will come to pick up Zhao Xiaolan tomorrow.
Arriving here, Luo Sizhong felt that the ins and outs of the case were very clear.
Zhao Xiaolan held a grudge against what Mrs. Zhao and her two younger brothers did. The coming of the old widower became the last straw that crushed her reason, so she chose to kill Mrs. Zhao and the two brothers of the Zhao family by poisoning.
The fact that she and her two daughters are safe and sound is the best proof.
When the case came to light, Luo Sizhong breathed a sigh of relief.
He didn't sympathize with Zhao Xiaolan, no matter how pitiful Zhao Xiaolan was, she was also the murderer of the poisoning case that killed five people.
This is probably the saying that a poor person must have something to hate!
In the early days of the founding of Huaguo, the legal system was not perfect. Especially in rural areas, where there are no courts, it is normal for the Public Security Bureau to exercise judicial power on its behalf.
???The public security bureau has always used the law when there is a law to decide a case, and if there is no law, use the policy. When there is neither policy nor law, use the socialist legal consciousness.
Therefore, when Luo Sizhong, a public security officer, subjectively insisted that Zhao Xiaolan was the murderer, no matter how much Zhao Xiaolan made a fuss, it would be useless.
In the end, Zhao Xiaolan was sentenced to death and was shot within a few days.
This is Luo Sizhong's first case after changing his career, and it is of great significance.
Luo Youheng remembered that six or five years ago, Luo Sizhong couldn't help talking about this case every New Year's day. One is to remember the past, and the other is to educate the younger generation.
But six or five years later, Luo Sizhong never mentioned this matter again.
Regarding this, Luo Youheng also took the initiative to tease Luo Sizhong, but the other party's strong reaction made him feel embarrassed. Although he knew that something bad must have happened here, but out of respect for Luo Sizhong, he could only suppress the doubts in his heart and never bring up the case again.
Until around June this year, Luo Sizhong, who has always been in good health, suddenly became seriously ill.
It was only then that Luo Youheng learned the truth about the poisoning and murder case from Luo Sizhong.
At the end of 1963, the Yang City Public Security Bureau cracked a serial theft and murder case. During the interrogation, the two murderers truthfully confessed all the major crimes they committed in the past ten years, including the poisoning of Bai Township in Dongxian County. homicide.
Twenty-seven years ago, the two murderers used the excuse that they passed by Hejia Village on their way to find relatives, and it was too dark to travel, so they knocked on the door of the Zhao family courtyard, hoping that the Zhao family could take them in for a night, and promised some money.
Seeing that Qian's eyes were wide open, Mrs. Zhao immediately opened the courtyard door and let them enter the house.
During dinner, the two murderers enthusiastically contributed the "dry food" they carried with them, a piece of bacon mixed with rat poison.
Mrs. Zhao couldn't close her mouth from ear to ear, and immediately asked her eldest daughter-in-law to fry a plate of bacon.
When the bacon was on the table, Zhao's family still took care of their faces at first, and said a few polite words, but after seeing that the two murderers were really enthusiastic, they were not polite at the moment, and started to eat and chew.
Seeing the two murderers, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Until out of the corner of their eyes, they saw the two little girls who were huddled in the shadows, staring at the Zhao family's drooling.
Noticing their gazes, Mrs. Zhao looked disgusted, and shouted Zhao Xiaolan's name, asking her to take her two daughters back to the room, so as not to block the eyes of the guests.
The two murderers were terrified, never expecting that someone from the Zhao family was not at the table.
They don't know that Zhao Xiaolan is dumb, they only know that the effect of the medicine is about to take effect, but at this time such a big mistake happened, they can't guarantee that they can subdue Zhao Xiaolan's mother and daughter in the first time, if something happens If you make a mistake, the consequences will be unimaginable.
One of the murderers immediately stood up and wanted to pull Zhao Xiaolan's mother and daughter to the table, but was stopped by Mrs. Zhao involuntarily.
The two murderers looked at each other, seeing that the plan was about to fail, they decisively excused themselves to go to the bathroom, and quickly left Zhao's house.
Afterwards, under Luo Sizhong's wrong judgment, Zhao Xiaolan became a scapegoat and died miserably.
After the truth of the case came to light, Luo Sizhong was at a loss for a while, but it was his capable subordinate who made a decisive decision and helped him suppress this matter.
Luo Sizhong acquiesced to his approach.
Doesn't he feel guilty?
He is also guilty.
Especially after learning that Zhao Xiaolan died, her two twin daughters were sent back to her husband's house by the head of Hejia Village, and finally starved to death because they were left alone.
But that's all.
In Luo Sizhong's view, when the matter developed to this point, blame him for taking it for granted, blame the Zhao family for being cruel, blame Zhao Xiaolan for being dumb and illiterate
Luo Sizhong racked his brains to find excuses for himself.
What's more, Zhao Xiaolan's family is dead. Except for him and his capable subordinates, no one knows the truth of this case.
He couldn't let the guilt in his heart ruin his flourishing official career and the future of the Luo family.
Until more than ten years later, when Luo Sizhong was almost about to forget the past. Zhao Xiaolan came to the door, and put down the cruel words to ask the Luo family to retaliate with an eye for an eye, and blood for blood.
Luo Sizhong was the first to be recruited.
It was also when Luo Sizhong was dying, that Daoist Cai appeared in front of the Luo family like a savior, and repelled Zhao Xiaolan with a thunderous force.