Chapter 186 Late Ashes [Please vote for me]
Zhang Fan, the resident doctor, has never been so excited.
At least, that was the case when Gu Chen came to Xinghua Village.
He has a gentle personality, treats people sincerely, and saves lives and injuries. This is my first impression of the village doctor.
It was precisely because of his good impression of the resident doctor that Gu Chen did not list him as a suspect, which also caused him to miss the direction of investigation again and again.
But now the resident doctor is like an awakened beast. The secrets hidden deep in his heart suddenly burst out, and his emotions are completely out of control.
If Officer Wang hadn’t kept him under control, Zhang Fan, the village doctor, might have rushed out and knocked down the old village chief in the most primitive way.
“Calm down, I hope you can maintain restraint.” Officer Wang had clearly felt that the resident doctor in front of him had completely changed.
Fortunately, the situation is currently under control.
“From the successive injuries of these people, I actually had a hunch.” The old village chief looked at Zhang Fan with a haggard look, and his eyes gradually became moist: “I really thought for a time that this was retribution, and I knew that I was going to be chopped down next. The one who got hurt must be me.”
“I worry every day about what is coming to my door. I can’t sleep every day because I’m afraid that if I close my eyes, I’ll never wake up again.”
“Actually, I am content with living at my age, but I still don’t understand why this kind of thing suddenly happened in our village.”
“Now I understand everything. It turns out that it was you who did all this. You want us to live a life worse than death and live in fear every day. Do you want to torture us people?”
Zhang Fan, the resident doctor in the village, suddenly laughed twice: “I didn’t expect that I would be found by the police after hiding so deeply. It seems that I am still too confident.”
“It’s not that you are confident, but that you are arrogant.” Gu Chen was also shocked by the result of his reasoning. In fact, he had never thought of it before.
If it hadn’t been for Ouyang Kai, a college student village official, who came to buy medicine early this morning, and Zhang Fan, the village doctor, gave him a bottle of medicine that can treat bruises and injuries immediately, I might have missed the truth perfectly.
A small detail allowed Gu Chen to find a point of doubt, which was also the benefit of his professional level of observation.
“Actually, the four of us originally planned to go to your home with the compensation money from your father, Lao Zhang.” The old village chief suddenly sighed, walked slowly to a wooden chair, and sat down slowly.
“But you were too greedy, so you divided the money, right? Aren’t you people greedy for money at your core? Is there anything else to explain?”
Zhang Fan, the resident doctor in the village, tried to get up from his seat again and again, but was tightly controlled by Officer Wang, for fear of causing another trouble.
“It’s understandable that you say this. After all, your family… did not receive the compensation.”
The old village chief didn’t want to quibble, it seemed that this was the fact.
“Old village chief.” Gu Chen walked up to him and continued to ask: “Then did you secretly share the compensation money from Zhang Fan’s father?”
The old village chief didn’t speak, he just shook his head.
“He’s talking nonsense, he’s a liar.” Seeing that the old village chief refused to admit it, Zhang Fan wanted to spit at him from a few meters away.
“Then where will this money go? Can it still disappear?” Lu Weiwei also adjusted the camera angle of the law enforcement recorder and continued to ask.
“Unforeseen circumstances happen. On our way back, the second son of the Liu family got into a serious car accident. The driver escaped.” The old village chief looked up at Gu Chen and said, “Did you know? The surveillance cameras on the road at that time were not As dense as it is now.”
“What happened next?” Gu Chen asked.
“Then? Later we met a kind driver on the roadside. He drove us to the nearest major hospital. The second son of the Liu family needed emergency surgery, otherwise his life would be at risk.”
Looking at Zhang Fan, the village doctor who was controlled by Officer Wang, the old village chief withdrew his gaze: “As soon as we totaled it, we gave the Zhang Fan family’s compensation to the hospital first, and asked the hospital to perform an operation on the Liu family’s second son. “
“A lot of money was spent. The Zhang Fan family’s compensation money ran out, and the rest of us chipped in some more. In the end, because we really couldn’t afford the hospitalization fee, the Liu family’s second child was sent home together with us before he fully recovered.”
After hearing this answer, Zhang Fan, the resident doctor, was obviously less emotional.
“I have no objection to you saving people.” Lu Weiwei also sighed and said, “But Zhang Fan’s mother also needs money for surgery. You should return the money to him afterwards.”
“I…” the old village chief hesitated and said, “We had no money and no face at that time. At that time, the annual salary was only a small amount, and the second son of the Liu family was extremely poor. No matter how hard we worked together, we couldn’t get it together.”
“Later, the whole village couldn’t bear to be sorry for the dead old Zhang family, so they sold a few pigs in the village, and then each family scraped together some things and got some money. Although it was still not enough, they still let me and Liu Xiaobao took the money and Lao Zhang’s ashes to find his family.”
Looking at Zhang Fan now, the old village chief wiped away his tears: “But eleven months have passed. When we found his home again based on the address he left behind, it was already The building was empty.”
“Neighbors said that Zhang Fan’s mother had passed away and his father’s whereabouts were unknown. Later, Zhang Fan, who had no one to take care of him, was picked up by relatives from afar. We also inquired in many ways, but there was no news.”
“What about my father’s ashes?” Zhang Fan, the resident doctor in the village, asked with a cold face: “If I hadn’t found the foreman who went to the mine with the help of the photo my father left, I might not have known about my father in this life. The whereabouts of the ashes.”
“I’m sorry Zhang Fan, it’s our fault, we shouldn’t have delayed it for so long.” The old village chief cried, tears covering the deep wrinkles on his old face.
“We were too poor at the time. We were afraid of spending so much money all at once for the Liu family’s second son’s surgery. We were afraid that we wouldn’t be able to repay the money. But we felt guilty and didn’t dare to go to your house. We only thought about it. I should collect the money as soon as possible and give an explanation to your family, but after almost a year, I still can’t get it together.”
Lu Weiwei patted the old village chief on the shoulder and handed him a tissue.
With tears in his eyes, the old village chief continued: “Your father’s ashes are placed in my house and have been kept well.”
Zhang Fan, the village doctor’s eyes lit up: “Are you telling the truth? All of you in the village did collect money back then, and you want to return it to my family?”
“That’s right.” The old village chief wiped his tears with a tissue: “Ask the elders in the village about this. They all know that in order to collect compensation, several pigs in the village were sold, so that we only had You can only eat a little meat on holidays, and save it when you can.”
Gu Chen leaned against the wall with his arms folded and said, “So from then on, you began to lead the people in the village to actively explore and strive to change the village’s poverty and backwardness, and that’s why Xinghua Village became what it is now.”
“Yes.” The old village chief looked at Gu Chen and said with shame: “Although Xinghua Village is not as poor now as it was back then, it still has a large population and there are still some poor households in need of help. I just heard that Jiangnan TV has a project to co-produce An online variety show called “The Transformation of the Boss”, I thought it was suitable to be filmed in our Xinghua Village, so I took the initiative to call and contact…”
“The matter has been clarified.” Gu Chen raised his chin to Officer Wang.
Officer Wang nodded and understood. He no longer held the village doctor Zhang Fan firmly on the seat and shook his numb arm.
Gu Chen said: “Actually, this is a late compensation, but a penny is too much for a hero. This money can only save one person first. If it were me at that time, I might also save the dying person first.” The second son of the Liu family.”
After looking at Zhang Fan, Gu Chen walked over and patted him on the shoulder: “Do you still hate them now?”
Zhang Fan, the resident doctor in the village, shed tears and lowered his head without saying a word. He was silent…
After so many years of searching, the result was this. Zhang Fan felt like a boat in the ocean, unable to find the target to land.
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Village Committee Square.
When everyone saw Zhang Fan, the resident doctor in the village, being brought out by the police with his hands and wrists wrapped in a piece of clothing, they all understood in an instant.
“It turns out it’s him, he’s the murderer, but isn’t he a doctor?”
“It’s simply too scary. The village doctor who saved lives and injured people turned out to be the murderer who injured others.”
“Is he the bad guy who makes our Xinghua Village uneasy?”
“Bah! This kind of person should go to the eighteenth level of hell.”
“From now on, our Xinghua Village will be peaceful. Ouch, I haven’t had a good night’s sleep in the past few days. Every time I close my eyes, I dream of the man in black, floating around like a ghost. It’s scary.”
“These police officers are so awesome. I didn’t expect that this kid was found by the police even though he hid so deep. I really should give these police officers a big thumbs up.”
What was being discussed was a group of middle-aged women…
They may have long forgotten the bad things they said about the police at the entrance of the village this morning.
Xu Lang had already arrived at the scene in a police car. After learning that Zhang Fan, the resident doctor in the village, was the murderer, he almost jumped with excitement.
“Gu Chen, you have done a great job and made our Furong Police Station look good.”
Gu Chen just smiled and said “thank you”.
Yes, in this case, it is indeed unbearable to arrest Zhang Fan himself, but a crime is a crime, so what if there are more high-sounding reasons? Those who break the law will eventually be held accountable.
Many of the film crews filming in the village had suspended filming and began to gather in the square.
The middle-aged rich man wearing glasses took off his straw hat and leaned against the wall, holding a piece of dogtail grass in his mouth. His skin had darkened a few shades, and he stared at Gu Chen with piercing eyes.
Field manager Hu Mengyao also put down the radio microphone, jumped down the stone steps, and walked to the village square with several colleagues.
After Director Guo shouted “Ka”, he threw away the headset, turned around, took off his sunglasses, and started walking towards the village square.
Everyone pointed at Zhang Fan from time to time…
Jiangnan TV reporter Bai Xiaolan and photographer Wu Jun immediately turned on the camera and took a quick shot with the police car as the background.
“Hello everyone, what you are seeing now is the arrest scene of the Furong Police Station. The man in black who has been plaguing Xinghua Village for many days was finally successfully arrested under the continuous detection of the police. He is the police officer who has been hiding in Xinghua Village. Village doctor, Zhang Fan.”
Bai Xiaolan turned around and quickly came to Gu Chen: “Officer Gu, can you tell me how you caught the murderer of the man in black?”
Gu Chen was silent for a moment and said: “This case is a bit complicated. I won’t go into details. Let’s wait for the police investigation report.”
Bai Xiaolan was suddenly rejected. He didn’t know why Gu Chen didn’t want to answer.
So the clever Bai Xiaolan found Lu Weiwei again: “Officer Lu, can you tell us how you caught the murderer?”
“This.” Lu Weiwei was silent for a few seconds before she said, “The murderer injured his calf during the fight with the police yesterday. We found the murderer based on this clue.”
Lu Weiwei was quite willing to explain to Bai Xiaolan how Gu Chen deduced the murderer’s views based on the details.
Lu Weiwei spared no effort in promoting Gu Chen.
While everyone was discussing, some sharp-eyed people noticed that the old village chief was slowly walking out of his home carrying a jar of mysterious things.
The police were waiting quietly next to the police car, as if they were waiting for the old village chief…
“What is the old village chief holding in his hand?”
“I don’t know. What is this jar?”
“Is it because you want to thank the police for solving the case and give them the old wine that you have collected for many years?”
“Uh, it seems like the village chief doesn’t drink much wine?”
While a group of villagers and crew members were having a heated discussion, an elderly man in the village suddenly exclaimed: “This… this is not some treasured old wine, this is ashes!”
“Bone…Ashes?!”
When the old man said this, many people around him were stunned.
“What…what is this village chief doing out here holding ashes?”
“Uh! Okay, okay, this operation is okay.”
“It’s incredible. What is the old village chief doing holding the ashes? It seems that his family’s ashes have already been buried.”
“Ah? Then…whose ashes are these?”
“Uh, I don’t know. I don’t know.”
The scene suddenly fell silent for a brief moment, and the ashes in the village chief’s hand became the focus of the audience.
Arriving in front of Gu Chen, the old village chief nodded, and then Gu Chen made room for him. The old village chief came directly to the village doctor Zhang Fan.
“Zhang Fan, these are your father’s ashes. I have kept them carefully for so many years, just waiting for you to come and take them back one day.”
After saying this, the old village chief choked up with complicated emotions and said with red eyes: “I didn’t expect you to show up in Xinghua Village in such a way. It’s really a crime.”
As soon as the old village chief finished speaking, everyone was shocked.
It seems like this plot is wrong? When did the old village chief hide his father’s ashes in his home?
The village doctor, Zhang Fan, doesn’t seem to be from Xinghua Village? “What the hell is this?”
“What is this?”
“What are you doing? Hiding other people’s ashes? What is the old village chief doing?”
“I can’t understand. Why can’t I understand suddenly?”
“This seems a bit complicated. The old village chief secretly hid the ashes of the father who was the resident doctor in the village. Um…can anyone explain it?”
Many young people couldn’t understand it, but only the older villagers suddenly felt a numb scalp.
Yes, the elderly had participated in collecting compensation funds back then and knew what happened back then.
But now after seeing the old village chief’s actions, some older villagers seemed to have guessed that Zhang Fan, the village doctor, was the family member of the ashes.
But thinking about it again, he actually used the identity of the man in black to appear in Xinghua Village like a ghost, which is a bit frightening.
“He is Lao Zhang’s son back then. So it’s him?” An old man from Xinghua Village couldn’t help shouting.
At this time, many villagers who had participated in the donation but had not yet reacted were suddenly shocked. It seemed that the scene of selling pigs was still vivid in their minds.
“How could it be him? Isn’t he already missing?”
“Lao Zhang’s son? This…how is this possible?”
“It turns out they came to our door, but why is it the man in black?”
Many people don’t understand why Zhang Fan, the resident doctor, did this.
Some people can understand it, but many young people cannot.
After receiving the ashes, Zhang Fan looked at the black and white photo of his father cut out with scissors. He suddenly cried and knelt on the ground and cried loudly.
Reporter Bai Xiaolan was also startled and almost lost her composure.
“Big… What you are seeing now is a special situation. The old village chief actually brought out a jar of ashes, and this ashes turned out to be the father of the murderer Zhang Fan. This… there are too many things that we need to do here. look deep into.”
“Okay.” Wu Jun put down the camera and gave a thumbs up: “This is enough. Now I’m going to take some close-ups of Zhang Fan. Xiaolan, hurry up and follow.”
“Okay.” Bai Xiaolan obviously knew Wu Jun’s routine.
When shooting such soulful scenes, it is helpful to add BGM.
Bai Xiaolan forcibly handed over the microphone, but Xu Lang stopped her with his body.
But Bai Xiaolan didn’t give up and continued to hold out the microphone through Xu Lang’s arm: “Mr. Zhang Fan, are these your father’s ashes? If so, why do they appear in the village chief’s house?”
“And what is your motive for hurting people? Is it related to this ashes? Can you please answer it?”
Some of Bai Xiaolan’s efforts were successful, and many shots were captured.
But when conducting interviews at this time, very little information can actually be obtained.
But Bai Xiaolan and photographer Wu Jun can use the realism captured by the lens to obtain first-hand information on the scene.
In the peer industry, this is already considered a master.
“Then, please give way to Reporter Bai, and we will give you time later.” Officer Wang also persuaded him kindly.
His goal was to conduct an exclusive interview, an exclusive interview with himself. As for the situation on site, it was not suitable for an interview.
Officer Wang was also afraid that the reporter would be too enthusiastic and easily arouse the emotions of the murderer Zhang Fan.
He has just harvested his father’s ashes and now has an understanding of what happened back then. He now clearly feels repentant.
In fact, right now, Officer Wang, Reporter Bai and others all feel that their work was not in vain.
Officer Wang was able to solve the case.
And Bai Xiaolan gained first-hand information about another case.
It’s a win-win situation for both parties, but the only one who completely loses the future is the village doctor Zhang Fan.
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(End of chapter)