Chapter 929 - 275: [New Mission] (6700)_4
It's just gambling.
Once you're involved, can you end up well?
In less than two or three years, all the earnings from running freight were lost.
Finally, even the car was sold, and he returned to the countryside in disgrace.
However, when he came back, he didn't return alone; he brought his wife and kids.
Li Guohua's wife was sick, with some unknown ailment, constantly weak and frail. After returning to Yang Er Village with Li Guohua, life wasn't good for him.
Having traveled and seen the world from a young age, he had become restless.
Returning to the countryside, he disliked the honest farming life, believing there was no money in it.
So, he occasionally did odd jobs, always thinking of leaving again, while leasing his land to villagers for rent.
A few years later, his wife passed away, and the funeral was hastily arranged.
He had no money, his wife had died, and he'd picked up bad habits outside.
After his wife's death, with no one to restrain him at home, Li Guohua completely let himself go.
Within a year, he was detained twice because of gambling.
Afterwards, he stopped gambling—not because he had changed, but because he had no money.
However, he became increasingly extreme, and gradually, conflicts with neighbors intensified.
Initially, it was due to disputes over land, with arguments every other day.
Then, surprisingly, the neighbors leased Li Guohua's land, and relations eased for a while.
Then, it flared up again.
After leasing Li Guohua's land and combining it with theirs, the neighbor didn't plant crops. Instead, they somehow managed to secure orders and permits from a cigarette factory and began planting tobacco!
The income from this was significantly higher than planting crops, with stable orders and guaranteed collection by the factory.
Watching the neighbors prosper, Li Guohua felt disgruntled.
Renting my land!
Li Guohua wanted to increase the rent, but the contract signed earlier hadn't expired, and the neighbor refused.
In the countryside, such contracts usually don't hold much weight.
But Li Guohua is a local, and so is the neighbor! Moreover, they were doing better and had more influence in the village.
Li Guohua wanted to cause trouble but couldn't.
Li Guohua was wild by nature, insisting irrationally, often pointing at the neighbor's house and swearing, and several times he grabbed a shovel intending to charge into their home, but was stopped by fellow villagers multiple times.
The neighbors weren't easily intimidated either, with a father and two sons, both in their early twenties.
If it really came to a fight, Li Guohua wouldn't benefit—and indeed, Li Guohua had suffered a couple of losses, both overt and covert.
Half a year ago, the feud finally escalated.
After earning enough, the neighbor built a new house.
When construction broke ground, Li Guohua went looking for trouble, claiming the neighbor's new house ruined his home's feng shui.
It was essentially jealousy over their prosperity, trying to extort money.
Such rascals aren't uncommon in rural areas.
But the two families already had bad relations, with prior conflicts, and the neighbors had two strong, young sons.
On that day, they dragged Li Guohua down a field embankment and beat him up.
After being assaulted, Li Guohua grew increasingly resentful and, one night, quietly got up and went into the tobacco field shared by both families...
He poured a bucket of diluted paraquat over it!
Soon, the thriving tobacco plants withered and died.
This effectively ruined the neighbor's livelihood!
The loss of the harvest was a significant blow. When the order was due, they had no produce to deliver, resulting in additional penalties!
After careful investigation and some guessing, the neighbors eventually realized it was Li Guohua's doing.
This time, Li Guohua received a severe beating.
The neighbor's wolf-like sons, along with the father, stormed into Li Guohua's home with shovels, smashing everything to pieces, leaving Li Guohua bloodied and battered, breaking one of his legs with a shovel!
Afterwards, the neighbor's eldest son took the fall alone and was imprisoned.
He even threatened that upon release, he'd make Li Guohua's life hell!
After spending some time in the hospital, Li Guohua returned to the village, limping and staying home, no longer causing trouble.
Everyone said Li Guohua was truly humbled this time, too scared to act up again.
After a period of quiet...
Suddenly one day, the neighbor's household, the father and the second son, died violently overnight!
Their deaths were extremely gruesome!
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"That day, it was quite a scene! Four or five police cars from the county arrived! Many policemen wearing hats, and forensic experts in white coats, in and out of the house, set up a cordon! Not letting anyone near!
I stood outside watching at the time...
Oh my!! The blood from inside the house flowed out onto the ground!!
Later, I heard people say, the scene was terrifying! Footprints stained with blood all over the house!!"
Chen Yan listened to the shopkeeper explaining with exaggerated expressions, playing along with a look of shock: "In the end... who was the killer?!"
"Later, the official statement was very eerie!
They said the forensic results showed the father got up at night, went to his second son's room, and slit his throat with a knife! Then stabbed him eighteen times!
After killing his son, he wandered back and forth between several rooms in the house. Later, the bloody footprints all over the house were all the father's!
After killing his son, he walked around the house for quite some time, finally returning to his own room, sitting back on his bed..."
The shopkeeper said this with a gloomy expression, took a deep breath, and made a throat-cutting gesture.
"And then! He slit his own throat!"