Lu Ming

Chapter 355 Opening the Port (21)

The advantage of being a magistrate in Fu County is that you don't have to worry about growing up, and it is easy to make friends and accumulate contacts.The downside is that everything is complicated, and the rich and powerful are arrogant and domineering, making it difficult to do things.

After the incident happened that day, the county magistrate Lai, who had received the preliminary case report, realized that the case was serious, so he personally came to the scene in a sedan chair.

After watching the scene from beginning to end, and listening to the report of the case by Butou and Wu Zuo, the county magistrate returned home.As the first county magistrate in Fuzhou City, he knew that this matter was endless.He doesn't need to draw conclusions now, it's better to figure out the entanglements in this case.

Back at the county government office, the county magistrate, accompanied by the master Xing Mingshi, first summoned the well-informed Cao Butou alone.After the two sides talked in detail, Mr. Lai finally understood the cause and effect of Xie Yuanwai's murder.

After dismissing Butou Cao, he often had to handle various robbery cases. The county magistrate, who had long hated thugs, slapped the table severely: "It's these bastards again! This time, Deng Hu must be dealt with severely!"

"Dong Weng." The famous criminal master beside him twirled his beard: "Then Deng Hu is a cunning person, whether to deal with it strictly or not, let's wait for the news. If the gang of suffering lords are not relentless, Dong Weng will take advantage of the situation to make a move."

Master's meaning is simple: don't act rashly.

Because Deng Hu is not so easy to handle.This generation has been doing evil for many years. In the words of later generations, it is very capable of evading the government's attack.Deng Hu was not only connected with various yamen servants, bandits, evil gentry and litigants, but also had many gangsters with tanks under his command, so although the county government often arrested Deng Hu's younger brother, he never arrested Deng Hu himself.

For a big thief of this level, let alone the county magistrate has no death certificate. The cases supervised by the provincial department can only be handled by the county bureau under the weak control of the feudal society, which is very difficult.

"Oh, I can't use it well." The county magistrate was deeply touched by this kind of social situation where hands and feet were tied, so he also sighed.It is really difficult for a great thief to have to consider so many things.

"According to the students, then Deng Hu is in trouble this time." At this time, Master Xing was more confident than his master.

"Oh, how do you say that?"

"Dong Weng, don't forget about the gang of thieves who were organized a few days ago."

"Oh" Lai Fang Wei was stunned for a moment before he realized the meaning of the master: "Lack of morality and help? Hehe, let's see."

So the county government entered the normal case-handling procedure of tepid: go through the process.

Then the pressure from all sides was quickly transmitted.

Regarding the murder of Xie Yuanwai, the other proprietors of the restaurant alliance were more excited than the family members.

It was an ordinary business competition before, but to put it bluntly, it was a tacit game between the rich: throw some dirty water on each other, use some tricks, kill a few ants, and win the bargaining chip for the final negotiation.

And when Xie Yuanwai died, the nature of this matter changed. Competition without a bottom line?Labor negotiations Ewing pushed Stern down the stairs?This is too fantasy!

Yet it is so.

This kind of bad behavior has already touched the bottom line of the proprietors. Under the sorrow of the rabbit and the fox, these people also formally reported the matter to the government.

Reporting to the official is a gesture, which shows that the incident is exposed and an uncompromising attitude: the proprietors no longer plan to play any tricks with the butcher Zhang and Deng Hu, this time they want to meet the official, and would rather spend huge The price is to kill those who dare to threaten their lives.

So following the Xie family's bitter master, the county magistrate cordially received the representative of the restaurant alliance in the flower hall, and expressed that he must punish the murderer severely, and return the proprietors to a bright future.

The next door-to-door is interesting: Zhang Tuhu.

If he had known that things would turn out like this, then Tuhu Zhang would not have gone to Deng Hu for work even if he was killed.

Although Zhang Tuhu and his gang are suspected of bullying the market, fundamentally speaking, their main business is to kill pigs and sell meat.All the members of the butcher's shop are butcher shop owners, and they are good people who live a life. They are completely different concepts from Deng Hu's underworld.

So when Zhang Tuhu, who was tall and fat, with a mighty image and went straight to the town of Guanxi, learned that Yuanwai Xie had been fucked by Deng Hu, he scared him to pee on the spot.

After that, he immediately realized the huge business crisis: the restaurant alliance would never buy his pigs again.

Leader Zhang, who had reacted, immediately began to yell and curse. While fucking Deng Hu's wife, he summoned his men and drove all Deng Hu's men out of their hiding places.

After finishing the cutting preparations, Butcher Zhang hurriedly prepared generous gifts, and invited the most famous middle-aged man in the city to explain to the proprietors and Xie's family one by one.

While stating that he was also a victim and was completely cheated by Deng Hu; butcher Zhang also made a promise on behalf of the slaughterhouse: he accepts this shop, and the price of live pigs this time will follow the meaning of the restaurant alliance. Nothing else.

Various means of crisis public relations were adopted. Although Xie's family still shouted at Butcher Zhang, the other owners of the restaurant alliance were temporarily stabilized by Butcher Zhang in the face of interests.

After this was settled, Butcher Zhang ran to the county government overnight carrying the money, knelt down in front of the county magistrate, and shouted for grievances. This beast is different!
So far, the county government has grasped the attitudes of all interested parties in this case.Seeing that the public opinion was favorable, the county official also officially released the word: Three days later, the case of Mr. Xie's murder will be heard on the public notice day.

At the same time as the commotion in the county town, the instigator of the case, the murderer, Comrade Deng Hu, had already set up camp in his house outside the city.

Shopkeeper Deng hadn't done such a thing as retreating outside the city for many years.However, this time was different, and it was impossible not to retreat.

After hearing the news that Yuan Wai Xie was killed, Deng Hu didn't pay much attention at first: What's the matter with me?However, when the second wave of news came, Shopkeeper Deng was also dumbfounded on the spot: What, there are blood words on the ground?
Not long after, the third wave of details came out, and Deng Hu immediately figured out who was behind the tricks—those who died in Xie's house were sent by him to make trouble in Xiong's house a month ago of the men.

The furious Deng Hu immediately thought of clarification, but when he calmed down, he found that what he had to do now was to retreat.

As for the clarification, Deng Hu, who has taken over many framing businesses and has rich experience in this area, quickly realized the viciousness of this poisonous plan: no one would believe his explanation, bloody words and his cronies The dead body has nailed him firmly.

Realizing that the situation was not good, Deng Hu, who had a fairly intuitive sense of danger, immediately led his people out of the city and stationed in a relatively secluded courtyard, and then he began to frantically search for news.

The bad news came one after another: Xie's family was furious, the restaurant alliance was furious, Zhang Butcher turned his face, and drove out all the brothers who were sent to help.
What gave Deng Hu the most headache was the county government.According to the informant, the county official was also furious about this incident and was going to deal with it severely.

At this time, Deng Hu was not in a hurry.

Now that the city has turned upside down, and a large number of rich and powerful people and even the county venerables want to punish him, it means finding a litigator, finding a tank top, and finding some evil gentry to help say that these soft methods are useless up.

Since the usual methods of getting rid of crimes are not effective, then the only way to do it is to carry it by force.The so-called hard work, to put it bluntly, is to procrastinate for time, to lie dormant first, and then slowly restore the reputation and settle the incident after the situation calms down.

Deng Hu is very familiar with this method. When he was not a big man, he usually went out to hide after committing a crime.It's just that what he didn't expect was that many years later, he would be framed by someone and had to go out of the city again to avoid it for a while. This made him hate Xiong Dao to the bone.

Of course, with Deng Hu's position, even if he hid in a secret house outside the city now, it is impossible for him to be as silent as a thief in the future.He had to make noises from time to time in order to tell his opponents and some colleagues that his old man was no longer in the Jianghu, but there were still legends about him in the Jianghu.

It is necessary to do this: he still has a house in the city, a family, property and a younger brother, if there is no disturbance, people's hearts will be scattered, and the house will be uneasy.

So Deng Hu sent people to Taihu Lake while paying close attention to the case in the past two days.As the number one gathering place for criminals in the south of the Yangtze River, there are too many bandits in the eight hundred miles of Taihu Lake.

And a black boss like Deng Hu is naturally inextricably linked with the people in Taihu Lake.So this time he plans to attract a group of people to come over, and make a few big tickets inside and outside the county at the right time, so that he can use it to say hello to the county magistrate.

Three days later, the county government announced the day.Come to Xianzun with a full set of official uniforms, stand up and rise to the hall, and start to deal with the backlog of cases these days one by one.And the first thing to deal with is Xie Yuanwai's departure.

The process of handling cases in the county is very standard.First, he called the head arrester to go to court, and after publicly hearing the details of the case, he called Wu Zuo to go to court.After these procedures are completed, the eldest son of the Xie family, the second son and the litigator will be present next.

After hearing the petition of the Xie family's litigator, the county official accepted the case against Deng Hu from the Xie family.Next, the master called the representative of the restaurant alliance, Lu Dongjia, the lawyer, and the pig transport guy who had his leg broken on the night of the incident to the court.After the procedures for these people were completed, the county magistrate also accepted their pleadings against Deng Hu.

At this point, the evidence collection work of the case is not yet over.Next, the county magistrate will summon a tainted witness: Zhang Butcher.

Butcher Zhang had been waiting in the hall early today.After going to court, he naturally pushed the matter back and forth.In fact, he didn't need to exaggerate. Anyway, Mr. Xie was killed by Deng Hu. Everyone knows this, so he only needs to testify that Deng Hu killed him.

When Butcher Zhang came down from court, the county magistrate's evidence collection process was considered complete.The next step is naturally to summon Deng Hu to the court to inquire about the case, so the county magistrate issued a "ticket" to summon the grassroots Deng Hu on the spot, and ordered Cao Butou to set off immediately to bring Deng Hu back to the county government for investigation. .

(End of this chapter)