An operation to crack down on illegal pyramid scheme dens led to a story about pyramid schemes more than a decade ago: a promising college student fell into the clutches of a pyramid scheme. After many years, the case was finally solved, and his family went to the place where the child was deeply involved in pyramid schemes and brought back a handful of dirt......
midnight
Cheng Tianhua called the people who participated in the beating of Liu Zhiping together.
After some deliberation,
He proposed to divide Liu Zhiping's body,
Several "managers" were frightened, and no one dared to come.
Cheng Tianhua scolded "a group of cowards", and his heart was horizontal,
Draw the machete from under the bed to threaten the newcomer,
dragged Liu Zhiping to the field behind the rental house,
Chopped the corpse into seven pieces with his eyes closed,
He was covered in blood.
Wedge Tzu
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The cold wind of midnight hits, and a heavy snoring can be heard coming from the room through the wall. Brother Wang and I stayed outside the rental house, quietly waiting for the city bureau's "Sharp Blade No. 1" operation to crack down on illegal pyramid schemes.
The hands of the watch were about to point to zero, and Brother Wang began to gesture to his colleague who was in charge of breaking the door.
Three, two, one.
"Bang!" we broke down the door with a loud bang.
Brother Wang, wearing a stab-proof suit and armed with a Type 92 pistol, was the first to rush into the house and stood on the sofa in the house.
"Get out of bed and squat! Hold your head in your hands!" Brother Wang shouted and shocked the scene.
The people on the bed were awakened, and they suddenly made a mess, and under the focus of the strong flashlight, they squatted on the ground wrapped in quilts.
The switch on the overhead light was turned on, and the room suddenly lit up. I squinted my eyes and quickly looked at the scene, and found that there were eight people living in this "rat's nest" of only 40 square meters! They were all between 20 and 30 years old, and they were all college students. Men and women sleep separately, with only a symbolic curtain between the beds.
A few minutes later, we searched the house for a large number of computers, mobile phones, hard drives, and MLM materials, and found a shiny half-meter-long machete hidden under the bed.
Soon, after letting them put on their clothes, several police masters began to torture, search, and take away the squatting people one by one.
"Who is the leader here?" said Brother Wang, looking down at the crowd squatting in the corner, and asked in a low voice.
No one responded.
"Who's the head of here?"
Brother Wang raised his voice and asked again, and a bald man squatting at the back raised his hand tremblingly.
"Yours?" asked Brother Wang, pointing to the machete on the ground.
"Hmm...... It's mine. The bald man looked up at Brother Wang, his expression wincing and uneasy.
After getting the bald man's reply, Brother Wang took out the handcuffs from his waist, stepped forward, picked up the bald man, pressed him to the wall, and handcuffed him. The whole set of actions is clean and neat, revealing the ability of the old criminal policeman.
Immediately afterwards, Brother Wang grabbed the handcuff handle on the bald man's wrist with one hand, and grabbed the bald man's left hand with the other, slowly exerting force like beer. This is a simple lever principle that only experienced police officers use secretly when dealing with dishonest criminals.
The steel handcuffs pressed against the slender ulna, and the bald man almost cried out in pain.
"Lose your conscience. Brother Wang spat out four words viciously and let go of his slowly straining hand.
The bald man squatted down obediently again, slowly twisting his wrist behind him, looking at his painful expression, he still couldn't recover from the pain.
The operation ended quickly, and the joint clearance of several other dens was also carried out smoothly.
But until I escorted the MLM personnel into the police car, I was puzzled by Brother Wang's abnormal behavior towards the bald man.
After returning to the station, I saw Brother Wang, who had just unloaded his equipment, sitting in the duty room and smoking, so I couldn't help but walk over and ask, "Brother Wang, that bald ....."
"You wonder why I deliberately made him uncomfortable, right?" Brother Wang seemed to see my doubts.
"Is it because he doesn't like it?" I asked.
Brother Wang glanced at me, but did not answer. The room was silent, the cigarette in Brother Wang's hand was burning, and a conversation suddenly ran out of ideas.
Time was infinitely lengthened by the embarrassment that filled the air, and my heartbeat was as breathless as if it were counting seconds automatically.
"Xiao Zhao, let me tell you a story. Brother Wang finally spoke.
As if relieved, I pulled over a stool and sat down close to Brother Wang.
Brother Wang took a deep breath of cigarette and slowly exhaled it, and the thick white smoke suddenly spread in the duty room. With the cigarette butt in Brother Wang's hand flickering on and off, I learned about this story that happened more than ten years ago, about a college student and a pyramid marketing organization......
1
In order to facilitate the narration, the following is the first-person narration of Brother Wang
When I graduated from the Criminal Police Academy and went down to the Criminal Police Team as an intern, Beijing's bid for the Olympic Games had just been successful. The whole country was immersed in a happy and peaceful atmosphere, and for a while, even the crime rate in the jurisdiction seemed to have dropped a lot.
On that day, there was no police all morning, and my master Zhang Liguo and I sat at the duty desk and chatted about the World Cup qualifiers just past, the Chinese men's football team defeated the Oman team 1-0 at home.
As Master and I were chatting, a homeless man walked into the house trembling. It was winter, and he was wrapped in a tattered military coat, and I thought he wanted to come in and ask for food, so I handed him a few steamed buns left over from lunch on the table.
"It's all for you. I said casually to the old man, my mind still completely immersed in the world of football.
"I'm here to report the crime. The old man sneered.
I looked at the old man in front of me again, and he really didn't look like a police officer. In addition, several mentally ill people in the community often come to the clinic to report crimes, and we have long been accustomed to it.
This old man must be mentally ill too, I think.
"Tell me, what kind of case to report?" The master stared at the old man's expression, and didn't seem to see anything unusual.
"I ...... I was in a chicken farm and found human arms and legs. ”
The old man's words instantly froze my master and me. Even though the heating in the house was hot, the news still made me shiver.
Judging from his words and deeds, the old man really doesn't look like he has a mental problem. What's more, he reported a homicide, even if it was a lie, he had to register it first.
With a solemn face, Master took out the key and took out the register book in the drawer of the duty desk. I immediately picked up a pen and wrote down the details of the old man's report on the registration book. After registering the police situation, Master quickly reported to the substation.
The bureau sent technicians and forensic doctors to inspect the scene, and we followed.
The body was found in an abandoned chicken farm in Huanggu District, which was overgrown with weeds and the brick walls had grown white alkali due to the sun and rain. After opening the passage, the investigators pushed aside the half-human-tall wild artemisia and found the black plastic bag containing the body in a pile of household garbage.
There are two upper limbs and one lower limb in the plastic bag. Although it has decayed, it still retains its original shape due to the cold weather. The three stumps were exposed to the air, and their pale skin was covered in mud.
I thought that when I was in school at the police station, I saw too many photos of the scene of the corpse mutilation case, and I shouldn't have much reaction when I saw it again after joining the work. Unexpectedly, the first time I saw the corpse, I was slapped in the face by reality. With a tumbling stomach in the sea, I puffed out my cheeks, covered my mouth and ran out of the chicken farm, bending down to vomit all the stewed pork ribs I ate at noon. Master and the other seniors just glanced at me and turned around to continue inspecting the scene.
At the same time, the substation mobilized police forces to search for garbage dumps throughout the city, trying to find the torso of the body, but unfortunately, nothing was found.
After forensic judgment, the deceased should be a man about 25 years old, about 1.7 to 1.5 meters tall, and the time of death was about a month.
Only this limited information. A few days later, Master searched through the surrounding counties and cities for missing persons, but still none of them were eligible.
The source of the body could not be found, and because the place where the body was dumped was on the outskirts of the city, there was no monitoring and no witnesses. The detection of the case is like being poured a large bucket of concrete head-on, and then it dries, solidifies, and stagnates. For a time, this corpse dumping case became an unsolved case.
The old cases were not solved, and new ones followed. The masters in the institute gradually began to get busy with the case at hand, and the files about the nameless corpse were backlogged in the document room of the institute, which became an indelible haze in the master's heart.
Who knew that this unsolved case would be five years after it was pressed.
2
In 2006, the DNA database of the Ministry of Public Security was put online. After hearing the news, Master was very excited and immediately went on the Internet to push the DNA information of the corpse mutilation case five years ago to some provinces and cities that had established DNA banks, so that the source of the corpse could be compared.
After months of waiting, Master came with good news. The news that came back showed that the DNA of the nameless corpse was compared to Liu Zhiping, a missing person in C City, Hebei Province.
Find the source of the corpse, and there will be a breakthrough in the case. Through Liu Zhiping's mobile phone number, Master found the last person Liu Zhiping contacted before his death five years ago, which was his college classmate Li Hui.
When Master found Li Hui, she was working as a cashier at a bank in Jilin. We took Li Hui back to the office, and sure enough, we got important information about Liu Zhiping from her confession:
Five years ago, after graduating from university, Li Hui searched for jobs all over the world like all fresh graduates.
After some searching, there are several positions in companies that are very suitable for Li Hui, but due to the relatively low salary, Li Hui has no interest. Later, she learned from the Internet that there was a company called "Hongtian" in Shenyang that was recruiting, and the treatment was very good, and it seemed that she could become a department manager in more than half a year. A few days later, she arrived in Shenyang, ready to come to "Hongtian" for an interview.
Unexpectedly, the interview was a success, and the supervisor seemed to appreciate her.
With the encouragement of her supervisor, Li Hui felt more confident, and she felt that with her youth and high education, she would definitely be able to make a career here.
A few months later, Li Hui received a call from Liu Zhiping, which surprised her: she hadn't spoken to this introverted boy for four years, why did he suddenly remember himself?
Liu Zhiping on the phone was hesitant, but he still made it clear: he didn't like his current job very much, and he heard other classmates say that Li Hui's company was very well treated, so he asked her about the situation here.
After learning that Liu Zhiping had resigned and was interested in his current company, Li Hui had the idea of developing him into his own downline - as his first performance in "Hongtian". So she tried her best to tout the treatment and salary of "Hongtian", and the conditions were particularly attractive. Not surprisingly, under Li Hui's persuasion, Liu Zhiping was moved.
After picking up Liu Zhiping at the Shenyang Railway Station, Li Hui took him back to the pyramid scheme den. Since men and women do not attend classes together, it was also the last time she met Liu Zhiping.
This concludes Li Hui's narrative. Although I really hope that she can explain more, as long as it is about Liu Zhiping.
The master did not hesitate to guide Li Hui to recall the people she knew in the pyramid scheme at that time, hoping to get more clues from other aspects.
Li Hui frowned and fell into memory, and Master motioned for me not to disturb her by making a noise.
After a while, Li Hui suddenly raised her head and said: "I remember, the director who gave me a "class" at that time was called Cheng Tianhua, with an Anhui accent, and he was about thirty years old. ”
3
In a mountain of information accumulated by the "Pyramid Office" at a police station, Master found the name of Cheng Tianhua, who had been detained once for participating in illegal pyramid schemes. In the photos in the information, Cheng Tianhua is slightly chubby, bald, and has a very fierce face.
We followed his case record to find him. When questioned, Cheng Tianhua kept shaking his legs and flatly denied that Liu Zhiping's disappearance had anything to do with him, but the master judged that he was lying with years of criminal investigation experience.
Cheng Tianhua said that after Li Hui brought Liu Zhiping to the company, he introduced the company's model and treatment to Liu Zhiping, but Liu Zhiping suddenly changed his mind and insisted on returning to his hometown. So Cheng Tianhua didn't keep him, and after Liu Zhiping said goodbye to him, he left the company at night.
"But Liu Zhiping didn't leave Shenyang in the end, what do you say?" the master stared at Cheng Tianhua.
"He may be walking back to his hometown, how do I know?" Cheng Tianhua pouted.
"Do you know where his hometown is?" the master digressed.
"I don't know. Cheng Tianhua responded quickly.
"By the way, how many buses did he take after he said goodbye to you?" asked the master casually, yawning, rubbing his eyes.
"I forgot, after so many years, who still remembers this. Cheng Tianhua smiled and spread his hands innocently.
"Didn't you just say that he walked all night, where did the bus come from at night?" the master slapped the table and suddenly asked.
Cheng Tianhua opened his mouth wide and was on the interrogation chair. He realized that because of his sloppiness, he couldn't justify himself.
Under the master's next few offensives, Cheng Tianhua's confession revealed more horses. His forehead began to reflect fine beads of sweat in the light, and his micro-expressions and small movements were chaotic and numerous. In the pre-trial study, Cheng Tianhua has lost to his own "non-verbal behavior".
I said. Finally, Cheng Tianhua raised his head and said flatly.
4
When Li Hui told herself that one of her college classmates was going to come to "Hongtian" to have a look, Cheng Tianhua was a little excited.
In his opinion, although a "high-achieving student" like Li Hui has IQ and ambition, he lacks social experience, so he is easily brainwashed. Fooling them is even less effort and more valuable than fooling an illiterate person. So, after careful planning, he prepared several sets of brainwashing plans and wanted to use them on the upcoming Liu Zhiping.
When Li Hui brought Liu Zhiping into the "rat's nest", Cheng Tianhua was extremely enthusiastic, helping with the luggage and asking for warmth. After settling in the house, Cheng Tianhua and Liu Zhiping chatted about the job they had just quit, deliberately revealing a strong love for talent. In Cheng Tianhua's words, "The two of them can talk quite well."
In the evening, Liu Zhiping proposed to call home to report his safety, but Cheng Tianhua did not allow it, and changed his serious face to tell him that it was forbidden to use private mobile phones in the company. Under Cheng Tianhua's repeated pressure, Liu Zhiping took out his Nokia 3100 from his bag, which was a second-hand item he bought on his own work-study basis and had been used for nearly four years.
The mobile phone was taken into the office by Cheng Tianhua and locked up, Liu Zhiping faintly felt that something was wrong, but he still obeyed Cheng Tianhua's behavior.
In the subsequent brainwashing, Liu Zhiping showed a strong interest in the "pyramid" entrepreneurial model described by Cheng Tianhua, and Cheng Tianhua was even happier and decided to leave Liu Zhiping behind no matter what to help him develop "Hongtian".
But after not being allowed to call home for several days, Liu Zhiping gradually became suspicious. At this time, Cheng Tianhua proposed that he wanted to join "Hongtian" and needed a membership fee of 2,000 yuan, and if he didn't have it, he could borrow it from his family. Liu Zhiping realized that Cheng Tianhua's organization might be a pyramid scheme, and told Cheng Tianhua that he wanted to leave here.
His request was rejected by Cheng Tianhua, and the two gradually quarreled. Liu Zhiping's emotions gradually intensified, and he scolded Cheng Tianhua for "harming people and pyramid schemes", which angered Cheng Tianhua. Cheng Tianhua felt that his tricks were seen through and he was very faceless, so he angrily teamed up with several "managers" to tie up Liu Zhiping and lock him up, and only brought him a bowl of boiled cabbage when it came to dinner.
In the afternoon of the next day, Liu Zhiping desperately banged on the door with his head to escape, attracting many onlookers. Cheng Tianhua opened the door with a few people and beat Liu Zhiping severely.
Liu Zhiping curled up on the ground holding his stomach, Cheng Tianhua thought he was pretending, and went up and kicked him on the head fiercely. This time, Liu Zhiping completely stopped moving.
After dinner, Cheng Tianhua saw that Liu Zhiping was still lying in the house, and then stepped forward to test it, and found that Liu Zhiping was no longer breathing.
Waiting for the members of the pyramid scheme to fall asleep, late at night, Cheng Tianhua secretly called several people who participated in the beating of Liu Zhiping together. After some discussion, he proposed to divide Liu Zhiping's body, and several "managers" were frightened, and no one dared to come. Cheng Tianhua scolded "a group of cowards", and with a heart, he took out a machete used to threaten the newcomer from under the bed, dragged Liu Zhiping to the field behind the rental house, and chopped the body into seven pieces with his eyes closed, splashing him with blood.
In order to make the remaining three people unable to get out of the relationship, Cheng Tianhua handed over the task of throwing the corpse to them. As a result, the seven pieces of corpses were packed into three black plastic bags and thrown overnight by the three men to a garbage dump and a stinking ditch far from their residence.
The next day, Cheng Tianhua gathered all the MLM personnel together and announced the dissolution of "Hongtian".
A group of brainwashed college students didn't know what was going on, and they ran to ask Cheng Tianhua why he was disbanded, and Cheng Tianhua excused himself by saying that the company's funds were frozen, and he would find everyone back when it was unfrozen. Li Hui asked Cheng Tianhua where Liu Zhiping went, and Cheng Tianhua told her that Liu Zhiping didn't like the environment, and took the train back to his hometown the next day.
Seeing that after learning that Liu Zhiping "returned to his hometown", Li Hui did not become suspicious, and the boulder hanging in Cheng Tianhua's heart was completely put down.
He thought he had done it seamlessly, until a month later, a plastic bag containing rotting corpse pieces was found by an old man scavenging for waste.
5
With Cheng Tianhua arrested, he quickly confessed to the other three people who beat Liu Zhiping and threw the body. After careful investigation, the police in several other provinces worked together at the same time to arrest all three suspects. The investigation of this nameless corpse case, which has been pending for five years, has finally been announced.
When Liu Zhiping's parents, Liu Fengnian and Wu Yuxia, arrived at the office, the master was already waiting at the door early.
"Thank you, comrade policeman. As soon as the two gray-haired old men saw the Master, they fell to their knees.
Regarding Liu Zhiping's family situation, Master had a basic understanding in the early stage. His family is in rural Hebei, and his parents are farmers, and they rely on farming to support his education. Liu Zhiping has been introverted since he was a child, but he studies very hard, and he is the first child in the village to be admitted to a key university. At university, he took a scholarship every year and sent it home in an envelope.
After graduating from university, Liu Zhiping was not very happy with his job, so he called home and said that he wanted to resign and go out. Liu Fengnian felt that his son was careless, and had a big quarrel with him on the phone. didn't think about it, and Liu Zhiping broke off the news with his family from then on.
Liu Fengnian and his wife began to go crazy and posted missing notices everywhere, as long as they saw the back similar to their son, they hurriedly ran up and called Zhiping's name, but when the back turned around, it was never Zhiping's face.
After looking for five years, I found the bad news that my son was no longer alive.
"You say, why am I such a bastard! What am I arguing with Zhiping, if I coax him, maybe he won't go to the pyramid scheme?" Liu Fengnian covered his face with calloused hands and cried bitterly.
"Five years, we've been looking for five whole years. Different from Liu Fengnian's excited emotions, Wu Yuxia sat on the side and cried silently, and strings of tears dripped silently, which made people look even more uncomfortable.
After a short exchange, Liu Fengnian proposed the purpose of the trip: to go to the place where Zhiping lived for the last time.
"Okay, as long as you're mentally prepared. Master readily agreed to the request of the two.
A few minutes later, the group drove away from the police station and headed to the pyramid scheme den five years ago.
Out of the city, the police car turned into the outskirts of the city and drove onto the small road leading to Dongxiang, which was also the only way for Liu Zhiping to go to the pyramid scheme den five years ago.
The significance of this road to Liu Zhiping's parents was too heavy, and the two old men sat in the back seat, looking out the car window and crying.
Six years later, the MLM den looks no different from other houses. This once overcrowded place is now closed and dilapidated inside and out.
"Da Ping ......," Liu Fengnian leaned his head against the brick wall of the rental house, calling Zhiping's nickname. Wu Yuxia stretched out her hand to the rental house with my support, as if on the other side of the fence, her son was still alive, waving to his mother.
After more than ten minutes, the mood of the two calmed down a little. I exchanged glances with the master, and was about to help the two of them into the car, when Liu Fengnian took out an iron box from his pocket and put it on the ground, bent down and picked up a handful of floating soil in front of the door of the rental house with both hands, and carefully put it into the iron box.
"This is the box that my children used to hold candy when they were younger, and I have always kept it. The child finally lived here, and I grabbed the soil and put it in the box to keep a memory. Liu Fengnian raised his head and explained to us.
I couldn't stand this kind of scene, so I twisted my head to the side and wiped the corners of my eyes. I knew that even though Master wasn't crying, he must have felt very uncomfortable. After all, people's hearts are hot, and police officers are often only more sensitive than ordinary people.
When getting into the car, Liu Fengnian carefully put the tin box in the bag and put it in the schoolbag.
"Zhiping, Mom and Dad took you home. Liu Fengnian said slowly.
Epilogue
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After telling the whole story, Brother Wang had already smoked three cigarettes in a row.
My eyes were a little red, and I don't know if it was because of the smoke or because of the touch I had after listening to the story. In my opinion, Brother Wang at this time has become the master Zhang Liguo in the story, and I have become Brother Wang when I just graduated. The master-apprentice relationship in the police industry is always reciprocated, but it is full of different touches.
Brother Wang pressed the cigarette butt into the ashtray, gently twisted it, and said: "So you know why I handcuffed that bald head and deliberately hurt him, right? The moment I saw the knife, I remembered Liu Zhiping, who died in the pyramid scheme, what a good college student, he was going to earn money to be filial to his parents, and let his mother kill this gang of pyramid schemers!"
"They have become more and more rampant over the years, and from 2010 to 2017, 33 people died in pyramid schemes, of which 5 fell from buildings, 3 drowned, and 16 were beaten to death!
The more Brother Wang spoke, the more excited he became, and during this time, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva and held his face red. I could see that Liu Zhiping's case had left a deep impression on him, so much so that he gradually began to become angry with all illegal pyramid schemes.
This psychological shadow is reflected in my life, just like the after-effects that existed for a long time after I first carried the corpse - whenever I saw my body in the mirror while taking a shower, I always thought of the young deceased who was the same size and color as me, and then shuddered. (Attached link: Stranger, please let me send you on your way home with dignity)
"Yes, young people are ambitious, but they are less vigilant, how can there be so many good things in the world, even if they make money, they are getting deeper and deeper, and the desires of the human heart will never be satisfied. ”
"You summed it up quite well!" Brother Wang's mood eased a little, and he returned to his usual easy-goingness. He patted me on the shoulder and smiled.
"Alas, I hope all these pyramid schemers are unemployed. I remembered a few college students who had just been rescued today and sighed.
"I wish all the police were unemployed, and there would never be so much in the world. Brother Wang got up and walked to the duty desk.
"Tonight's night shift, I'm afraid I'm going to have to stay up again. ”
I froze in place, wondering why Brother Wang's speech suddenly became full of humanistic care. He has always been very arrogant, especially advocating speaking in the vernacular, and never dragging words.
Unexpectedly, Brother Wang guessed my mind again.
"What my master said just now, and I will relay it to you now. ”
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