9. Poisoning

After breakfast, Li Minqiang was about to go out. Song Xiuqin ran home nervously and said: "Minqiang is not good! Something happened! You go and have a look!"

Li Baiwang and Min Qiang hurriedly followed Song Xiuqin to the pig pen in the east courtyard.

"Ah!" He couldn't help being surprised. One of the two pigs was lying motionless in the pig pen with foam in his mouth. The other was standing trembling and vomiting. Li Minqiang asked Xiu Qin: "Mom, feed them."

What’s up?”

"I didn't feed you anything!"

"How can you do this without feeding any pigs? This is poisoning!"

"Ah! Can we still be saved?"

Li Baiwang shouted angrily: "Why save us? It's already like this!" At this time, the pig that was still alive was foaming at the mouth, shaking and falling.

Song Xiuqin wiped away her tears and said: "I was about to go out to sell for money, but this happened. What's going on!"

Li Minqiang tried his best to control his emotions, thinking that his mother usually feeds the pigs very carefully. He stirred the pig trough with a wooden stick and took a closer look. There were only some vegetables and omnivores in it, but nothing else. How could pigs be poisoned?

Miles?

"Minqiang, look at this." Li Baiwang found a "dimethoate" pesticide bottle under the wall.

Li Minqiang asked: "Did our family throw this away?"

"It's not from our family." Li Baiwang said.

Song Xiuqin said: "We never throw these things away. We are afraid that something might happen if chickens and pigs get on them. We always put them in a special box in the West House."

At this time, Xiao Yulin came to see Minqiang. Seeing this situation, he was surprised and asked: "Auntie, what is going on?"

Song Xiuqin said with tears in her eyes: "I didn't find out until I came to feed the pigs after breakfast."

Xiao Yulin jumped into the pig pen, took a look at the dead pig, walked to Min Qiang and said, "I think someone poisoned it intentionally. Please call the police."

"Yes, call the police!" Li Baiwang said angrily.

Li Baiwang called the police. Li Minqiang kept wondering, who has such hatred for us and would do such a shameful thing? He whispered to Xiao Yulin: "How could such a thing happen?"

Xiao Yulin said: "It's not surprising that something like this happened. I think only people who have hatred for you would do such despicable things. Think about who you offended?"

Li Minqiang thought for a moment and said, "Could it be him?"

"Everything happens for a reason. Disasters don't happen without a cause. It's very possible."

"But we have no evidence!"

"Let the police check the evidence!"

Director Chen from the town police station arrived quickly with a police officer. The arrival of the police car attracted many onlookers. The police carefully surveyed the scene and the situation around the pig pen, inspected the dead pigs, and took photos

.Put the pesticide bottle in a plastic bag and take it away.

"Who the hell is so wicked and does such a shameful thing! I'll fuck his eight generations of ancestors! Let him die a hard death! I'll make him pay for it with his life!..." Li Baiwang stood at the entrance of the alley, stamping his feet and cursing.

Good things don't go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles. The news that Li Baiwang's pig was poisoned spread quickly in the village like the wind.

In the afternoon of that day, Li Minqiang and Xiao Yulin were studying the terms of the fiberglass factory contract, and Director Chen of the police station came to the village committee with the police.

Director Chen told Li Minqiang: "After on-site investigation, we determined that someone deliberately committed the crime. Judging from the footprints left by the perpetrator and the traces of crossing the wall left on the fence, the perpetrator climbed in from the east fence.

There are many fingerprints left on the pesticide bottles, but the latest fingerprints belong to two people. Based on the time when the dead pig was found and the analysis of the symptoms of the dead pig, the crime was committed around four or five o'clock in the morning. Our purpose here is to find you

The village is looking for the person who committed the crime. Can you provide some more clues?"

Li Minqiang said: "One of the two new seals on the medicine bottle may belong to my father. He showed it to me after he found the medicine bottle."

Xiao Yulin interjected: "Based on Director Chen's introduction, I have already guessed the suspect."

Li Minqiang said: "Brother Yulin, you must have evidence and you can't make random guesses."

"What are you talking about? If I have evidence, I will arrest him right away."

"Have you noticed who often wears the army's Liberation sneakers? The footprints left behind are those of the People's Liberation Army's rubber shoes."

Xiao Yulin was stunned, could it be him? No way. He shook his head and quickly denied it. But he was the only one who often wore PLA sneakers! He was confused. But he did not say who he was.

At this time Li Jianxin came. As soon as he entered the door, he said: "Minqiang, your pig was poisoned?" Xiao Yulin quickly pulled him out and asked: "What are the green sneakers you always wear?"

"I'm at home! What's wrong?"

"Bring it quickly."

"What are you doing?"

"Don't ask, just bring it quickly."

"What are you doing?" Li Jianxin went home to get his shoes for no apparent reason.

Li Minqiang said: "Brother Yulin, you can't make blind guesses!"

"What enemies do your family have?" Director Chen asked Li Minqiang.

"You don't have any enemies?" Li Minqiang replied.

Xiao Yulin said: "Minqiang offended many people after becoming secretary."

"Who did you offend?"

"Wang Xueyong."

"Wang Xueyong? What is your basis?"

Xiao Yulin told Wang Xueyong about stealing electricity, refusing to pay the electricity bill, and dismissing his electrician.

Director Chen thought for a moment and said, "Call him here."

When Xiao Yulin came to Wang Xueyong's house, his wife Meng Xiuzhu said that she had gone to help his uncle with work and had not returned. When asked when he left, she said that she left yesterday morning. Xiao Yulin thought, couldn't it be him?

When Xiao Yulin came back and explained the situation, Director Chen thought that it did not match the time of the crime.

At this time Li Jianxin came back and said when he entered the door: "Yulin, what do you want my shoes for?"

"Why didn't you bring it?" Xiao Yulin asked.

"Well, my wife washed it for me a few days ago and left it to dry on the windowsill, but somehow it disappeared. It's really weird."

"When did it disappear?"

"I knew it! It's on the windowsill."

"Are they the army's liberation shoes?" Director Chen asked.

"Yeah. My brother in the army gave it to me. It's pretty good. What's going on?"

Director Chen did not answer. Li Jianxin and Monk Zhanger were even more confused.

Xiao Yulin asked: "Have you met Wang Xueyong?"

"I saw you yesterday afternoon, what happened?"

When Director Chen heard this, he slammed the table and said decisively: "That's him! He didn't leave. He was at home. Go to his house!"

Wang Xueyong did not leave. He had been hiding at home in fear. Xiao Yulin came to see him. He hurriedly hid under the table and let his wife Meng Xiuzhu come out to socialize. As soon as the police entered the courtyard of his house, he panicked and got into the closet.

Director Chen entered the room for observation and shouted sternly: "Wang Xueyong! Come out!" He suddenly opened the closet door that was not closed due to panic, and Wang Xueyong came out tremblingly, like a beaten turtle, with his neck shrunk and his face expressionless.

There was a big change, and his lips turned grayish white. Meng Xiuzhu was also so frightened that he trembled all over and stood aside without daring to speak.

Director Chen asked: "Where did you hide your shoes? Take them out quickly!"

Wang Xueyong trembled and took out the shoes from the toilet.

Li Jianxin went up and kicked Wang Xueyong and cursed: "So you stole the shoes to frame me!"

"Take him away!" Director Chen said sternly.
Chapter completed!