The Book of Death by Heart Poison

Hua Chong pondered for a moment, "It may not be as simple as meeting. Both Liu Shan and Dao Cheng are deliberately concealing their connection with the survivors of Jiangxin Village. They got together to do something."

Liu Zhiqin looked up, "Zhao Ying is also a survivor of Jiangxin Village."

Hua Chong said, "You doubt Team Zhao?"

"I suspect everyone related to Jiangxin Village." Liu Zhiqin said, "And she is the person in charge of this series of cases."

Hua Chong subconsciously patted the back of the chair, "I originally planned to ask her about the specific situation of the disaster in Jiangxin Village. The information that can be found now is incomplete, and the person who knows what happened in Jiangxin Village the most must be It's them who came out of the disaster."

"You can ask." Liu Zhiqin said, "I'm also curious about what happened back then. Zhao Ying may have nothing to do with the case, or may have been involved in it, but no matter which aspect it is, talk to her about the disaster. It doesn't do us any harm."

Zhao Ying was very surprised when she was invited to the cafe near the Municipal Bureau, "Flower team, what do you have to say here?"

Rarely, she didn't wear a police uniform, black short down jacket, jeans, short boots, the most common winter attire.

There are few people in the cafe in the morning, and the volume of music is just right.Hua Chong chose a corner seat, and there were no other guests around.The light is warm orange.This kind of environment is easy to relax and less tense mentally.

Hua Chong ordered two single-person set meals, "I think this is a better place to talk about the past than in the bureau."

The waiter put the longan tea in front of Zhao Ying. She seemed to seldom drink this beautifully decorated drink, and looked at it for a while, "You want to ask me what happened in Jiangxin Village that year?"

Hua Chong nodded seriously, "In two of the three murder cases, the victims were surrounded by people from Jiangxin Village. As for Wang Jie, he had publicly ridiculed Jiangxin Village, and the investigation against him has not yet ended. Maybe we can also find a Jiangxin Village survivor beside him. Although you may feel offended by saying this, judging from the existing clues, this series of cases may be inseparable from Jiangxin Village."

Zhao Ying subconsciously pursed the corners of her lips, looked down at the pink tea, and took a breath for a while, "I don't feel offended."

Hua Chong folded his fingers and rested half of his forearm on the table.

"I am indeed a survivor of Jiangxin Village, but I am also a policeman." The light in Zhao Ying's eyes flickered, she was determined and focused, "Since Jiangxin Village is an important clue, then I, as the serious case team, The person in charge will definitely investigate to the end and cooperate to the end."

Hua Chong looked at her, and breathed a sigh of relief, "I want to know, apart from losing your home and relatives in that disaster, what did you feel the most about?"

Zhao Ying frowned and loosened her brows, repeating this action several times, as if trying to recall the scenes of that year.

Hua Chong waited for a while, and then said: "It doesn't matter if you can't remember it for a while, it doesn't matter if the things you remember are incoherent, you can talk while thinking. I know that it is cruel for a person to recall the suffering he has experienced. But from the perspective of the criminal police, I need to know as much information as possible about the disaster."

Zhao Ying shook her head, "Flower Team, I understand, I'm also a criminal police officer."

Two freshly made desserts were delivered, and after the waiter left, Zhao Ying began to tell, "In fact, our village encounters natural disasters every year, and my family and friends are used to it. The habit is terrible, and it will Make you lose your awe and vigilance..."

The main city of Anjiang City is rich and prosperous, and its economy radiates a large area around it.But no matter how developed a city is, it is difficult to take care of every corner of its jurisdiction, especially those villages and towns located in the mountains at the junction with neighboring cities.

Jiangxin Village is the most backward and poorest place in Anjiang City.Many Anjiang people don't even know that there is such a village in Anjiang City, while many people who have heard of Jiangxin Village think that Jiangxin Village belongs to a neighboring city.

"How can we be so poor in Anjiang? Impossible, it must be the next door village. If Jiangxin Village was our village, wouldn't it have become rich a long time ago?"

The poverty of Jiangxin Village is caused by many factors.It is too remote, deep in the mountains, difficult to build roads, coupled with poor geological conditions, there is a risk of being washed away when the repaired road encounters heavy rain.

Other villages have at least one pillar industry. Jiangxin Village has nothing, and it is difficult to develop planting and breeding here.

Traffic restricts industry, and the stagnation of industry restricts traffic in turn.A vicious circle has been formed for a long time.

The young people in the village, especially the young men, have basically left, and the rest are almost all the elderly and girls. As vulnerable groups, they are gradually forgotten.

Zhao Ying is the girl who was left behind in her hometown.She has never met her father, her mother died when she was very young, and there is a grandmother and a younger sister in the family.

In order to survive, she followed the example of older girls and went to the mountains and forests to pick mushrooms and wild fruits.

Some people come to the village regularly to collect mountain goods. As long as they put the collected mountain goods in a basket and guard them at the entrance of the village, they can exchange for a few banknotes.

But the money is too little, and the villagers have no bargaining power.Zhao Yingcai fell and was injured all over for a week, and even risked losing her life. In the end, she only got a few dollars in exchange.

But even a few dollars is precious to her and her family.

What Zhao Ying is most afraid of is winter and summer. In winter, snow falls in the mountains and there are snow disasters. Summer is even more terrifying. The heavy rain can last for more than half a month.

But as long as she can remember, she has experienced snowstorms and floods every year.

In some years, people with video cameras came to the village to shoot videos, investigate, and brought a lot of food.They promised to change this place. Like other villagers, Zhao Ying is full of hope, but they always go away forever, giving hope, but killing hope.

When Zhao Ying was 12 years old, it started snowing soon after winter.At first she didn't take it seriously, after all she had experienced many snow disasters.

But that heavy snow lasted for a long time. All the roads into the mountain and out of the village were destroyed by the snow, and most of the houses were also crushed.The villagers who lost their houses lived in other people's homes, and soon they didn't even have enough food.

While waiting for rescue, everyone killed the domestic cats and dogs in the village to eat.If there is no food, no one would want to do this.

However, Jiangxin Village became widely known to the outside world for the first time, not because of the snowstorm, nor because of poverty, but because they ate the domestic cats and dogs.

That winter, as far as Zhao Ying knew, many people died in the village, some were starved to death, and more were frozen to death.It is too cold in the mountains, and there is no heating condition. Even in previous years when the snow disaster was not as severe, some people were frozen to death.

Starving to death and freezing to death is nothing new to the villagers of Jiangxin Village, but to people outside the village, will anyone starve to death or freeze to death these days?Impossible, no one believes it.

It is impossible for the media to report this kind of thing.

After the temperature went up, the snow melted, and the villagers finally survived the terrible snowstorm.During the most difficult period, the government actually organized a disaster relief team, but the geographical conditions of Jiangxin Village were too harsh, the food sent in was really limited, and the media couldn't penetrate it.

It was not until the road was opened up again that several TV stations and newspapers arrived.

The original purpose of the media is to report on the resilience of the villagers in the face of the disaster, as well as the government's rescue operations.The villagers were simple, and when the reporter asked them to tell how they got there, they told the story of the entire winter, including eating cats and dogs to survive.

In order to highlight the difficulties faced by the villagers, TV stations and newspapers focused on eating cats and dogs, which caused an uproar.

In most areas of Anjiang City, only a small amount of snow falls in winter, and it melts when it falls on the ground. Only in the deep mountains like Jiangxin Village, there are blizzards every year.

The citizens don't understand why the villagers can kill cats and dogs after a mere snowfall.All of a sudden, the villagers were full of scolding.

"How can I eat pets? Aren't dogs the best companions of human beings? My cats and dogs are perfect, no matter how difficult it is, I can't starve them! Are these villagers still human? They haven't evolved well at all!"

"Yes, yes, people in the mountains are not worthy of being human! Didn't the government send people to help the disaster? The money was also donated, and the food was also donated. What do you think? Can you eat the dog?"

"Is it really that poor? Is it really that hungry? I don't believe it. Although I haven't been to Jiangxin Village, I have been to other remote villages, and they are also in the mountains. There are small villas in every family, and life is better than ours. .”

"I also don't think there is such a poor place. The unscrupulous media made it up. They also said that picking fruit for a week can only sell for a few dollars. How is it possible? You can only eat a bowl of noodles for a few dollars!"

"Listen, if this village is really poor, it deserves it. God, they can even eat dogs?"

The scolding from the outside could not reach Jiangxin Village. There are only two TVs in the whole village, and the channels that can be watched are pitifully few.

However, the post-disaster reconstruction work has just begun, and the media has poured in on a large scale, rushing to report on the follow-up of eating cats and dogs.They put the video of netizens swearing at people in front of the honest villagers, let them listen to it, let them watch it, and then asked them what they thought.

Just as the citizens do not believe that there is such a poor place, and do not understand that the villagers eat cats and dogs, the villagers cannot understand the doubts of the citizens.

Their bewildered, angry, and aggrieved faces were photographed, and as soon as they were reported, a new round of fierce condemnation was immediately set off.

"You really know how to act, your acting skills are so good, why don't you become an actor?"

"Did you see that we have to pay taxes and build houses for you. I don't accept it! Why use my money to support these people who have not yet evolved?"

"They're not poor at all, the clothes are brand new!"

"Last time I said, in what era is this, how could anyone starve to death? And look at the news reports, no one died of starvation or freezing to death, okay?"

Jiangxin Village became the focus of the entire Anjiang City in the late winter and early spring. People saw them wearing new clothes and receiving bags of rice, and they didn't seem to be in any poverty.

But these things are actually supplies that could not be sent to Jiangxin Village during the snow disaster.

Zhao Ying remembers that her young sister cried all night after watching a video of swearing that a reporter forced her to watch, and asked, "Sister, why did those people say that about us? Did we do something wrong? We didn't lie, It’s poor, and a basket of fruit can only be sold for 8 yuan and 6, why don’t they believe it?”

Zhao Ying was more sad than her sister.The reporter also interviewed her, and more than once.She told the camera about her life over and over again, begging for help, eager to understand, but the response to her was always--the acting skills are really good, don't you just want money?Don't come here to lie, there are not such poor places, it is impossible to starve to death, how can you starve to death if you have hands and feet, blame you for being lazy and stupid.

The farce continued into the summer.

Jiangxin Village survived the snow disaster, and the destroyed roads and houses were repaired, but the heavy rain came again.

Zhao Ying's house was leaking. At first, she and her younger sister moved her grandmother to the only house that was not so leaky.Later, the whole house collapsed.Grandma was buried inside, and when the rescue team rescued grandma, the old man was already out of breath.

The torrential rain did not stop, and it became heavier and heavier. The river in the village swelled and flooded the low-lying houses.The villagers helped each other as in previous years, eager to tide over difficulties together.

And because of eating cats and dogs, the media paid a lot of attention to Jiangxin Village, but when the news about the rainstorm was released, many people thought it was retribution.

Some media have called attention to Jiangxin Village, where the flood that may have occurred in years may be unprecedented.But there are very few people who really pay attention to the disaster, and even fewer people give a helping hand.

Zhao Ying watched helplessly as the villagers who had talked in the morning were washed away by the water, and were swallowed up in an instant.

More people died in the village than during the snowstorm, and everyone was transferred to a higher place, where the rescue team built temporary houses.

The rain still didn't stop.

Looking at the hillsides not far away, Zhao Ying was a little scared, because she was familiar with those hillsides, and the soil on the hillsides would have loosened after being washed by the rain for too long.

But they have to stay here again, because this is already the safest place.The village head said that there is no condition to transfer everyone to another place now.

Three nights later, the torrential rain intensified, the hillside was suddenly washed away, mud and sand fell, and mountain torrents rolled between the sky and the earth.

The temporary houses on the high ground and the mud houses below have been flooded so that only the roof remained, all of which were involved in the mudslide.The entire Jiangxin Village has almost completely disappeared.

After Zhao Ying was rescued, she remained silent for a long time.She still couldn't recall the situation when the mudslide broke out. Her sister was gone, her neighbors were gone, and the team members who rescued her to the high ground were gone.

In this disaster, not only the villagers died, but also a large number of rescue team members.

According to official statistics, only nine villagers survived.

"We were transferred to nearby towns and counties, and Jiangxin Village was closed the next year." Zhao Ying didn't touch the dessert, and only drank some tea when her mouth was dry. She looked at Hua Chong, but her eyes didn't seem to The focus, as if passing through Huachong, looked further away, "I... I haven't thought about what happened before for many years. I can't think about it. I feel uncomfortable and cold when I think about it. .”

What was cold was not the snow disaster that winter, nor was it the flash flood that summer.

It was jumping in the chest, the heart that should have been fiery.

"Flower Team, you asked me what impressed me the most. I couldn't remember it just now because I kept avoiding thinking about it." Zhao Ying sighed, "Now I remember, it was the incomprehension and cursing outside. Disaster What, in fact, we are all used to it, including every winter and summer, people will die due to cold and floods. When I first came out of Jiangxin Village, I often had nightmares, dreaming that they pointed at my nose and said over and over again—— —You are lying, you are liars, where is there such a poor place, what kind of stories do you make up, don’t you just want money? You even eat dogs, you are not worthy of being human! Anyway, I will never donate money to you, you just Damn it! You killed our team members!"

Hua Chong said, "A team member?"

Zhao Ying nodded, "When we were first transferred out, the nine survivors were arranged together, and our personal information was not concealed from the outside world. But soon, someone wrote to scold us for killing the rescue team, scolding us for not Should live."

Hua Chong felt strange before, why all the survivors were scattered to different places, and now he finally found an explanation.

"During the snowstorm, we had nothing to eat and our house collapsed. In order to survive, we ate cats and dogs. They didn't believe that we were so poor. I found out later that after the snowstorm and before the heavy rain, there were some organizations Seeing our difficulties, they want to help us, they feel that our poverty and backwardness are related to geographical conditions, and they want to transfer the villagers out in batches.”

Zhao Ying said with regret: "But this incident was stopped by those who didn't believe that we were poor, and hated us for eating cats and dogs. They always said that we were not really poor, and it was impossible for us to be so poor. Those who appealed for help After all, there were only a few voices, and they were soon suppressed by the sound of cursing, and no one left the village before the heavy rain."

Hua Chong said: "If the help is not hindered between winter and summer, even if only a group of villagers leave..."

Zhao Ying nodded, "The survivors are not just the nine of us."

After a moment of silence, Zhao Ying said again: "You can't keep thinking about these things. When I think about it, I feel uncomfortable, and I have to go to a dead end. They live well, can't see us, and even call us liars. We all understand, but why stop others from helping us? Why suppress the voice of asking for help? They can not see, they can not help, but there is no need to be sarcastic."

Saying this, the policewoman known for her toughness trembled, her voice choked with sobs, "It's not our fault that we were born in that kind of place, but in their eyes, we deserve it. It's stuck here, it hurts."

Zhao Ying thumped her chest hard, "Some kind-hearted people who are willing to help us have seen us. If they are not blocked, then my sister and some children who are about the same age as my sister may be able to If you are rescued, grow up safely, and have a bright future, the fate of our generation can be changed."

Zhao Ying took a long breath, looked at the ceiling, and kept her tears from falling, "But only the nine of us were rescued, and the others might not even have the time to struggle. Once the mudslides came, they would all be gone. Their way of life was all destroyed. Those who don’t understand and don’t believe are cut off.”