Reborn in 97, I solved a cold case at the Municipal Bureau

Chapter 520 Amputation (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

"Miscarriage???" Zhou Yi and Yang Chuan were shocked.

Because so far, there has been no information regarding this issue.

"Are you sure?" Yang Chuan asked.

"No... I'm not sure, I only heard it from my wife."

"Whose child?"

“I don’t know. I rarely have any contact with their family. My wife says that widows are always surrounded by gossip,” Miao Tiejun said. “Besides, ever since Miao Genhua married Boss Ma, their family has become very arrogant, especially her mother.”

"do not know……"

Zhou Yi couldn't help but wonder, whose child was this miscarried? And what did it have to do with the case itself?
The most likely possibility is Shi Jian's child. After all, the two were "friends with benefits," and it's normal that they accidentally had sex and then the child was aborted.

After all, Miao Genhua never intended to be with Shi Jian.

However, this is a bit strange. Miao Genhua had just aborted Shi Jian's child before she and Ma Weichang got their marriage certificate. Given Miao Genhua's scheming nature, why did she maintain close contact with Shi Jian afterwards?
It seems I'll have to ask Miao Genhua about this later when I examine him.

"Alright, continue. After Ma Weichang's quarry started operating normally, what other unusual things happened?" Because so far, Miao Tiejun has not explained why he is ashamed to face his wife and children.

Miao Tiejun hesitated for a moment, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

Zhou Yi immediately added fuel to the fire, saying, "Miao Tiejun, don't forget your wife and children. Don't let them down."

Upon hearing about his wife and children, his previously somewhat confused gaze immediately became resolute again.

"Uncle Dong... he made me harm someone."

"Who?"

"Zhao Tianfu's son, Zhao Guangping."

"Zhao Tianfu? Is that the guy who stood up against Miao Dongfang back then?"

"Yes."

"How did you harm Zhao Guangping?" Zhou Yi noticed something here.

Miao Tiejun said "harm" instead of "kill," which means it wasn't a direct killing, which made him think of something.

“Zhao Guangping worked at the quarry with us, but he was younger, I think he was the same age as Miao Zhuang. Uncle Dong came to me and asked me to think of a way to cause an accident at the quarry.”

"ACCIDENT?"

"Yes, he said it would be best if it were like the accident that happened to Xiao Sanzi back then."

"Is it the accident when Boss Huang was quarrying the stone?"

Miao Tiejun nodded in agreement.

He said he was very confused and scared at the time, so he asked Uncle Dong why he did this.

But Miao Dongfang didn't give him an answer. Instead, he asked him, "Is Uncle Dong good to you?"
He replied, "Okay, Uncle Dong, you're closer to me than my own father. Without you, I, Tiejun, would have died long ago."

With red eyes, Miao Dongfang said, "Then don't ask why. Just consider it helping Uncle Dong this once. Uncle Dong has his reasons for doing this."

He's a straightforward person, and since Miao Dongfang has put it that way, he'll naturally choose to repay the favor.

He asked Miao Dongfang what he should do and who he should target.
Miao Dongfang told him to find a time when no one was around and stage an accident, like Xiao Sanzi did, to have Zhao Guangping killed by a stone or fall from a height.

Upon hearing that the person he needed to harm was Zhao Guangping, he knew that Uncle Dong was holding a grudge against Zhao Tianfu for provoking him back then.

However, Zhao Tianfu had already passed away the previous year.

He advised Uncle Dong, saying that since Uncle Tianfu was already dead, the debt was settled and the matter should be let go.

Unexpectedly, Miao Dongfang said that this matter could not be forgotten. He asked if he remembered when Zhao Tianfu was making a fuss, he had accidentally fallen and hit his head on the road at night and had to get six or seven stitches.
Miao Tiejun said, "How could I forget? Wasn't it me who took you to the town's health center back then?"

Miao Dongfang said that he didn't actually fall that time; he was hit with a brick.

Judging from his height and build, the person who hit him was Zhao Tianfu's son, Zhao Guangping. At the time, the little brat had just come of age, and he was afraid of ruining the child, so he told you that he had fallen.

Originally, he didn't want to make a fuss, but Old Zhao drank himself to death and had a brain hemorrhage. When he went to pay his respects, Zhao Guangping ignored him, didn't even greet him, and didn't give him a kind look.

He grew angrier the more he thought about it and decided he had to get revenge.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Yi asked, "Don't you think this reason is absurd?"

“But…but this is Uncle Dong’s idea…I…I can’t let Uncle Dong down.”

Miao Tiejun's answer was absurd.

It's as absurd as when the people of Xipinggou tried to force Boss Huang to pay with his life after the accident.

It's as absurd as the motive behind the murder case in Huangniu Township ten years ago.

These things are so absurd that they don't seem like something that would happen in the real world.

What's frightening is that these things not only happened, but they have happened before, they happen now, and they will happen in the future!

Such absurd criminal motives have never ceased.

Zhou Yi has a lot of memories of them, and their motives are all outrageous.

In one case, a man stabbed and killed the entire family living upstairs because of dripping water from clothes drying on the floor.

In another case, the murderer imagined that the victim couple were "setting up a spell" near his home to curse him, causing him to suffer from insomnia and bad luck. In the end, he shot the two victims, both in their sixties, in the face with a nail gun, resulting in their deaths.

There is an even more outrageous case, namely the infamous electric shock massacre in a rented house in the mountain town.

The murderer was obsessed with inventing a "perpetual motion machine" and believed that killing could test his courage, break conventional thinking, and achieve a breakthrough in invention. He then lured and killed five porters who did hard labor.

Although the case has not yet occurred, it remained an unsolved case until it was finally cracked more than 20 years later.

Therefore, sometimes reality is more absurd and outrageous than TV dramas.

"Miao Tiejun, when did this happen?"

"In early March last year, not long after the Chinese New Year."

"Early March? Was Zhao Guangping not dead at that time, but instead had both legs broken and eventually amputated?"

Miao Tiejun asked in surprise, "How did you know?"

As he was speaking earlier, Zhou Yi thought of something.

Ma Weichang once mentioned an incident. He said that about a year and a half ago, there was an accident at the quarry where a worker violated operating procedures and ended up having both legs crushed and amputated.

As a result, the worker's family demanded exorbitant compensation from him and even gathered a large group of relatives to cause trouble.

Finally, Miao Genhua knelt outside the other party's house all night before the other party relented.

It was because Ma Weichang recognized the potential of Miao Genhua.

According to Ma Weichang's account, this incident was merely an interlude and had little to do with the main focus of Ge Fangfang's disappearance at the time.

But now that I think about it, it seems a bit strange, because Miao Genhua didn't mention this at all when she gave her account.

In retrospect, this so-called accident was actually part of Miao Dongfang's plan.

However, Zhou Yi did not believe that Miao Dongfang wanted to kill Zhao Guangping because he harbored resentment over what happened in the past.

This clumsy excuse might fool Miao Tiejun, but it won't fool the police.

Miao Tiejun said that Uncle Dong meant to take Zhao Guangping's life.

But he had no grudge against Zhao Guangping, and Zhao Guangping always addressed him as "Brother Tiejun" whenever they met, so he hesitated for several days and couldn't bring himself to do it.

Uncle Dong urged him, and he made an excuse that he hadn't found a suitable opportunity.

He finally made up his mind on March 19th.

There are some safety precautions that need to be taken into account when working in a quarry. One of them is the mining method, especially when dealing with steep slopes at a certain angle, as a slight mistake can cause a landslide.

He deliberately made up an excuse to trick Zhao Guangping into working on a dangerous slope.

Sure enough, after a few swings of the pickaxe, the rock beneath Zhao Guangping's feet collapsed, and he tumbled down the mountain with the rock.

His legs were crushed by rocks, and he was rushed to the hospital where he was treated for more than ten hours. He survived, but both legs had to be amputated.

"So, Zhao Guangping didn't die not because you spared him out of consideration for our shared village, but because you didn't expect him to survive?" Zhou Yi asked coldly.

Miao Tiejun lowered his head in shame and replied, "Yes."

"Didn't Zhao Guangping report you after he woke up?"

"Uncle Dong told me at the time that if Zhao Guangping woke up and said that I had sent him, I should deny it, since no one could prove it anyway. No...but..."

"But what?"

“But I heard that after Guangping woke up, he didn’t say a word, and he wouldn’t speak to anyone who asked him.” Miao Tiejun said nervously, “I was actually very scared at that time, and I couldn’t sleep soundly at night, afraid that he would say that I sent him to work there.”

"So Zhao Guangping never identified you?"

Miao Tiejun nodded: "No."

Zhou Yi estimated that Zhao Guangping was unable to bear the huge blow of the amputation and shut himself off, which is why he refused to speak.

After all, he and Miao Zhuang are the same age; he was just twenty when the accident happened last year.

A twenty-year-old young man, whose life had just begun, had both his legs amputated. Almost no one could bear such a blow.

Zhou Yi took a deep breath and asked, "How is Zhao Guangping now?"

Upon hearing this question, Miao Tiejun shuddered: "He... he's already dead..."

"Dead?" Yang Chuan's voice instantly rose eight octaves. "How did he die? Did you do it or did Miao Dongfang do it?" Miao Tiejun hurriedly waved his hands: "No, no, no, it wasn't us. He committed suicide."

"How did you commit suicide?" Zhou Yi asked coldly.

"Hang...hang."

When did he die?

"Just a few months ago, around April."

Zhou Yi felt a tightness in his chest, because a young man in his early twenties with both legs amputated chose to commit suicide by hanging. How much despair must he have felt?

Zhou Yi couldn't imagine this scene.

Yang Chuan couldn't believe it either. He asked suspiciously, "Are you kidding me? He lost both his legs, how could he have hanged himself? Did you and Miao Dongfang do it and then deliberately stage it to look like he committed suicide? Tell me!"

Miao Tiejun shouted anxiously, "No, I swear, it really didn't happen. We don't know how he committed suicide. When he died, his mother was working in the yard. She only found him gone when she brought him food. No one went to their house during that time. If you don't believe me, go ask his mother. It really wasn't us."

"What about Zhao Guangping's grandmother who is over ninety years old?" Zhou Yi remembered that Ma Weichang had said that when they demanded compensation, they carried an old lady in her nineties to the quarry.

“She…she also died…On the seventh day after Zhao Guangping’s death, his grandmother committed suicide by drinking pesticide…” Miao Tiejun said, trembling.

Zhou Yi's anger was off the charts. These two scumbags had committed countless evil deeds and killed one person after another.

Before he could even speak, Yang Chuan suddenly sprang to his feet, grabbed a cup from the table, and smashed it over his head.

However, his last bit of rationality led him to smash the cup against the wall behind Miao Tiejun. The cup shattered into pieces with a bang, and tea splashed all over Miao Tiejun.

"Brother Chuan, calm down," Zhou Yi advised.

Yang Chuan was about to start cursing at Miao Tiejun when he turned around and saw Zhou Yi's serious expression. He immediately realized that he had lost his temper and slowly sat down.

If Zhou Xiangdong were here, he would probably be the one stopping Captain Zhou from hitting people.

"What did you and Miao Dongfang do after Zhao Guangping's incident?" Zhou Yi asked. Although he was also furious, he knew that the current interrogation pace was fine. If he really provoked the other party and they refused to cooperate, then it would be troublesome.

"I haven't done anything."

"Are you sure? Miao Dongfang didn't use this incident to blackmail Ma Weichang?"

Miao Tiejun looked completely bewildered: "I...I don't know, Uncle Dong didn't tell me."

"Are you aware of the Zhao family's dispute over compensation?"

"I know, I know."

"Did you know that Miao Genhua knelt in front of the Zhao family's door all night?"

Miao Tiejun was even more puzzled and asked, "Is...is there such a thing? I haven't heard of it."

Good heavens, it seems he really is just Miao Dongfang's tool, or rather, a dog raised by Miao Dongfang, only responsible for biting people. As for why he is made to bite people, he doesn't even bother to think about the reasons.

"Miao Tiejun, you killed Zhao Guangping and his grandmother. Aren't you afraid they'll come after you for your life?" After all, superstition is very important in rural areas.

“I was scared… but afterwards, Uncle Dong gave me two thousand yuan.”

"So you're not afraid anymore?" Zhou Yi sneered. So money really does work. Money can make the devil turn the millstone.

"After all... I... I've never seen so much money in my life. I burned paper money for Zhao Guangping and his grandmother, I bought a lot of ghost money and gold ingots, and they... they took my money and that was the end of it..."

"Bang!" Zhou Yi slammed his hand on the table, pointing at him angrily, "This matter cannot be let go! What do you take the law for? What do you take human life for? You have two children of your own. When you killed someone, didn't you think about your children? Their father is a murderer. How can they ever hold their heads high in the world?"

"I...I..." Miao Tiejun was at a loss. Suddenly, his expression turned ferocious and terrifying. He gritted his teeth and shouted, "It wasn't me! It wasn't me! Miao Dongfang made me do it. He paid me to do it!"

Hearing this, Zhou Yi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Because Miao Tiejun no longer calls him "Uncle Dong," but instead calls him "Miao Dongfang."

The way a person is addressed reveals the speaker's inner stance.

When he kept calling him Uncle Dong, it meant that he was still on Miao Dongfang's side.

But when he called out the name Miao Dongfang, he had already stood on his side.

“The body buried in Miao Dongfang’s house was killed by him, it has nothing to do with me!” Miao Tiejun said impatiently. “I just went to deliver some food to him and happened to see him kill someone. He begged me to help him bury the dead person, and he even gave me a thousand yuan.”

"Be more specific: when, where, and what did you do?"

Miao Tiejun confessed that on the evening of July 26, after dinner, his wife asked him to deliver some homemade rice wine that she had brought back from her parents' home to Miao Dongfang, because she knew that Miao Dongfang liked to drink.

He took the plastic bottle containing the rice wine and went there. He didn't pay attention to the exact time, but it was already dark then, probably around 7:30 or 8:00.

When he arrived at Miao Dongfang's house, he found the door closed, so he called out twice, but no one answered.

He saw light coming through the window of the inner room, so he knocked on the window.

Unexpectedly, when I knocked on the window, the lights inside suddenly went out.

He sensed something was wrong and thought a thief had broken in.

So I went to push the door, but to my surprise, the door wasn't closed; it was ajar.

As soon as he pushed the door open, he smelled a strong stench of blood.

This immediately alerted him, because the door to the inner room was closed.

Unexpectedly, the door to the inner room opened the next second, and Miao Dongfang walked out, covered in sweat.

Miao Tiejun said he thought a thief had broken in.

Miao Dongfang kept wiping away his sweat, saying that he was feeling a little unwell, so he went to bed early.

Miao Tiejun was very concerned about his health, but Miao Dongfang kept trying to get rid of him.

He found it strange at the time because the room was dark and Miao Dongfang didn't turn on the lights.

He said he was there to deliver rice wine, and then, in the dark, he placed the rice wine on the table.

As a result, his foot slipped and he fell down.

He wondered what was so slippery, and tried to stand up by bracing himself on the ground, but found something sticky on the ground.

He then realized something was wrong, scrambled to his feet, rushed over, and snapped on the light. He then saw a lot of blood on the floor, extending into the inner room.

What he stepped on and touched was the bloodstains on the ground.

The bloodstains were left by Miao Dongfang when he dragged the body into the inner room, and had not yet been cleaned up.

He said Miao Dongfang was so frightened that he quickly closed the door and told him that this person had come to his house to rob him, but he accidentally killed him.

He had no choice but to bury the body, but just as he dragged it into the inner room, Miao Tiejun arrived.

I had turned off the lights, intending to get rid of him, but the door wasn't locked, and he just walked in.

When Miao Dongfang realized that his plan had been exposed, he begged Miao Tiejun for help to bury the body, because he was too old and didn't have the strength to dig a hole.

“He took out a thousand yuan and gave it to me. I… I helped him dig a hole in the house and bury the person because of the money,” Miao Tiejun said with his head down.

After he finished speaking, he noticed that Zhou Yi did not react.

After waiting for a while, there was still no movement, and I couldn't help but feel uneasy, so I looked up and peeked out.

But he happened to meet Zhou Yi's cold gaze.

"Heh, robbery." Zhou Yi suddenly clapped his hands with a cold laugh. "Miao Tiejun, you're pretty clever. I almost fell for your trick."

Miao Tiejun shuddered and asked, "What...what do you mean?"

"With your big, burly build, I thought you were really straightforward."

Miao Tiejun's eyelid muscles twitched slightly as he asked, "I...I don't know what you mean by that."

"Regarding Zhao Guangping's matter, you said you did it for two thousand yuan and to repay Miao Dongfang's kindness, so I'll believe you for now."

In fact, Zhou Yi believed that Miao Tiejun was not lying about Zhao Guangping's case, because the incident, rescue, amputation, and subsequent suicide by hanging were all public events that could be verified from multiple sources.

Lies about this kind of thing are easily exposed.

What's most cunning about this whole thing is that Miao Tiejun only provided guidance and didn't take any direct action.

He simply tricked Zhao Guangping into an environment he knew was dangerous, where things might go wrong, or they might not.

Determining whether someone is guilty or not is actually very difficult, especially since Zhao Guangping is dead and there is no way to verify the facts.

Therefore, he could have chosen not to say it, which would have been more advantageous for him.

But he just said it anyway.

A person has to say things that are illogical and detrimental to themselves.

Either they're stupid!
Or they have other motives!
"But about burying the body, you said Miao Dongfang's excuse was that he killed someone because he was robbed, and you believed him and even helped him bury the body for a thousand yuan. Do you think we would believe that?"

Miao Tiejun asked nervously, "I...I didn't lie, everything I said is true, why...why don't you believe me?"

"Fine! Since you're so persistent, let's have a serious talk." Zhou Yi tapped the table and asked, "First, explain to me how Ma Weichang died?"

Miao Tiejun's expression changed, but he still tried to remain calm and said, "Mr. Ma... Mr. Ma? I heard from the villagers that he committed suicide?"

"you sure?"

Miao Tiejun did not answer, but his eyes flickered and seemed uncertain.

Zhou Yi said with a mocking sneer, "But that's not what Miao Dongfang said."

Yang Chuan, who was standing next to him, was taken aback: "Huh? Miao Dongfang?"

(End of this chapter)