"Ding Tou! He's gone, not in the gambling house!"
"Are you sure? Have you searched all the places inside?"
"I've searched them all. Lao Liu and I have looked in every room in the courtyard. No one is there!"
The two detectives who were in charge of keeping tabs today couldn't believe their ears. How could Wang Tiecheng disappear into thin air under their noses?
"Boss, we really never left for a moment. We were always staring at the gambling house yard. Wang Tiecheng really never came out!"
The other detective also nodded repeatedly. An important clue figure was lost by them. This is a big deal that will cost him his job!
Ding An stared at Zhu Laoshan's gambling house: "Everyone go in and search for me! Everyone inside is concentrated in the yard, no one is allowed to leave!"
"yes!"
Since they were performing a secret surveillance mission, all the officials were wearing casual clothes. The gamblers who were still intoxicated with gambling were suddenly interrupted by a group of people. Naturally, they cursed and refused to give in. I knew a few of the gamblers. The gamblers who tried to take action at the front were knocked down one by one. Only then did everyone calm down and were escorted to the yard outside to squat.
Zhu Laoban, who was sleeping in the side room, was awakened by the movement outside. He thought it was another gambler who had lost all his money and was causing trouble, so he rushed out of the house cursing.
"His grandma, what bastard is making trouble here again... Who are you! Who the hell gave you the courage to find trouble on my head, Zhu Lao Scar, I think you are tired of fucking life!" "
As he spoke, Zhu Laobao picked up the sickle by the door and was about to step forward to gesture with the leader, Ding An, when he was kicked by the policeman who was in charge of tracking Wang Tiecheng. Zhu Laobao fell to the ground. , it hurt so much that I kept saying "Ouch, Ouch" in my mouth.
The detective glanced at his companion. He had just made a mistake, and now was the time to quickly find a chance to make amends! The two people quickly stepped forward, holding the county government badge in front of Zhu Laoshan: "Open your eyes and take a good look! That is the chief arrester of our county government!"
Zhu Laoban took a closer look, and in an instant he fell back to the ground like a deflated rubber ball. He thought to himself, it's over, it's over, the government is here to arrest him, and the crime of setting up a private casino is not a small one!
"Master Chief Catcher, gentlemen, please spare your life! Please spare your life! I am just running a small business, just for the folks in the countryside to get together to have fun during their spare time. I really haven't done anything harmful to God, please sir." Give me another chance and I will never do it again, I promise!"
Ding An waved his hand, walked up to Zhu Laoshan and asked, "Do you recognize Wang Tiecheng?"
Zhu Laoshan nodded repeatedly: "I recognize it, I recognize it! He has been coming to my place every day these past two days!"
"What about others?"
"This..." Zhu Laoban looked around. The gamblers who often came to his gambling shop were all there, but Wang Tiecheng was not seen. "Here, the villain doesn't know where he went. He was still here this morning!"
"Besides the front door, do you have any other exits?"
"Other exits...yes, yes, there is a small back door in the backyard!"
Upon hearing this, Ding An turned his head and glanced at the subordinate who was responsible for surveying the terrain near the gambling house. This was the first time he had heard about the back door in the backyard of the gambling house.
The subordinate trembled when Ding An glanced at him, and he hurriedly stepped forward to explain: "Boss, I really checked before and didn't find any back door!"
Ding An ignored his subordinate's explanation and just said to Zhu Laosu: "Lead the way."
Zhu Lao Scar led everyone around in the backyard of the gambling house, and actually found a gap in the wall behind a pile of firewood that could only accommodate one person. This was what Zhu Lao Scar called " back door".
Although the "back door" was found, Wang Tiecheng was still not found. Not only Ding An and others, but also the Jiang family began to search in the village as soon as they heard that Wang Tiecheng was missing, including Chu Ping, Zhao Cheng and Shen Cui. People from both families participated!
The entire Zhutun Village is not big. Whether it is Wang Tiecheng's home, several places he often goes to, or the homes of relatives with whom he has connections, Ding An and his people are almost turned upside down, but Wang Tiecheng is like Suddenly the world disappeared, and there was no trace left.
The case seemed to have reached a dead end again. Ding An could only arrange for personnel to continue tracking the Wang family and the Hu family, while continuing to search for clues about Wang Tiecheng.
Chu Ping found Wang Tiecheng in the middle of the night on the first day before returning home to catch up on his sleep. Early the next morning, Chu Ping was still in the house catching up on his sleep when he was rushed into the house by Qian, shouting: "A Ping! Wake up quickly, the three boys are here. I’m looking for you, saying that there seems to be news about the Hu family’s evil things!”
Chu Ping, who had just been sleeping, suddenly sat up and said, "Auntie, what are you talking about? Another news about that bastard Hu Shun? What did the third boy say?"
"Get up quickly. I just heard what he said and rushed in to call you! Didn't you ask those idle guys to keep an eye on you and give money to anyone who provides clues! The three boys haven't seen you yet. Yinzi, how can you tell me so much!"
When Chu Ping got the news, he immediately went to find Ding An, who was still searching for clues in the backyard of the gambling house: "Captain Ding, someone saw Huang Liang and Hu Shun last night, in Zhutun Village! The three boys in our village usually Li is also a frequent visitor to this gambling house. The gambling house was closed yesterday. He couldn't help himself, so three or five people gathered at one of them's house to gamble. He said that when he was returning to the village in the middle of the night, Tu Jin walked to the foot of the mountain. On that small road, I saw two people carrying something up the back mountain. The three boys were accustomed to joining in the fun. When they followed them, they discovered that they were Huang Liang and Hu Shun, hiding in the back mountain digging holes in the middle of the night. !”
"The path at the foot of the mountain? But the one behind this courtyard wall?"
Chu Ping went out to take a look through the gap in the courtyard wall, and when he came back he said to Ding An with certainty: "This is it!"
"Wang Tiecheng also disappeared after taking this road!"
All the clues seemed to converge on the path behind the gambling house that went around the foot of the mountain and connected several nearby villages. The officers started from the gap behind the wall, searched carefully inch by inch, and finally found a line of footprints extending from the backyard of the gambling house to an abandoned yard.
This place was also very close to the place where Hu and Huang dug a hole in the middle of the night as mentioned by the three boys. In order to avoid disturbing the situation, Ding An decided to divide his troops into two groups. One group went to the place where the hole was dug in the back mountain, and the other group went straight there. An abandoned house.
The officials gradually approached the seemingly haunted yard from all sides, and soon Ding An found several fresh kick marks on the broken walls of the backyard, and there were many weeds nearby. Eternal traces of little being trampled upon.
The process of discovering Hu Shun and Huang Liang went very smoothly. It seemed that he just didn't want people to notice that there was someone here. There was dust everywhere in the courtyard and house. But because of this, following the footprints falling on the dust, the officials quickly discovered He found the two people hiding in the cellar of the kitchen!
Facing the two people who refused to come out of the cellar no matter what, Ding An repeated his old trick and ordered someone to light a large bundle of straw at the entrance of the cellar, then closed the cellar baffle, and then dipped his clothes in water. Seal all the gaps and wait quietly outside.
Huang Liang and Hu Shun were hiding in the innermost part of the cellar. Their sight was blocked and they couldn't see what the officials outside were doing. Until there was a "pop" sound, the cellar's baffle was closed heavily, and the cellar was flooded with flames. Shrouded in smoke!
There wasn't much water for them to drink in the cellar, so pouring it all over didn't help. In the end, Hu and Huang had no choice but to choose the latter between choking to death and being arrested.
In addition to Huang Liang and Hu Shun, the officials also found in the cellar all the tools they had used to make banknotes and paper money. At the same time, the official sent to the back mountain also sent back a shocking news. The body of Wang Tiecheng was buried in the backfilled pit on the back mountain!
Wang Tiecheng never dreamed that Huang Liang agreed happily with the five hundred taels and even made up a reason to sign and pledge it, but he just wanted to trick him into a cellar and kill him. After all, no one could guarantee that he was addicted to gambling. , if you use this as a threat for the first time, you will not ask for it again, and the dead will truly have no threat.
Huang Liang did not expect that originally they would have the possibility of being exempted from the death penalty. After all, they originally made and sold paper money in the name of paper money. It was the Jia brothers who printed red seals and sold fake banknotes. Now, no matter what they did before Whether it is paper money or fake banknotes, death is inevitable!
On the day Huang Liang and Hu Shun were arrested, Ding An went to Wufang Village again, asking the village chief to spread a message in the village: all those who had made banknotes and paper money in Hu's workshop before, as long as they If you go to the village chief's house before the official time today and ask the official to register and give a confession, you will no longer be held accountable for the crime in this case. If anyone is found to have concealed something in the future, they will be punished with the same crime as Huang Liang and Hu Shun!
On the way to escort Huang Liang and Hu Shun back to the county government office, a newly arrived officer held a thick stack of confessions in his hand and asked the senior next to him: "Brother Liu, does our Ding boss have so much power? So many What about people, who say they won’t be held accountable? This is a big case involving forgery of counterfeit banknotes! What will the county magistrate do if he is blamed this time? "
The older police officer who was replaced by Brother Liu looked at the new colleagues next to him with a look that looked like a fool, curled his lips and said, "Who said these people committed a crime?"
"Isn't that what Mr. Ding said? Anyone who comes to Shenshi today to record a statement will not be held accountable!"
"Otherwise, you are still young. Those villagers are just doing odd jobs in the Hu family's workshop and making paper money. How can they be held responsible?"
"That boss still said that!"
"If you don't just scare and coax like this, where are you going to find such witness statements? You still have a lot to learn!"
The new catcher looked at Ding An's back in front of him with admiration on his face: "Touer Ding is Touer Ding, he is worthy of being the chief catcher of our county government!"
The arrests of Huang Liang and Hu Shun not only revealed the truth about the entire case, but also finally cleared the couple's innocence. The moment Shen Luzhu walked out of the county jail, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath, feeling the coldness of the northern winter. The air filled the entire lungs, and the clammy and stinging feeling at that moment seemed more real and vivid than any previous breath!
