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Please take a bold guess about the relationship between these three people.
Is she his lover? No, no, no. Is she his lover?
No, no, no. In fact, he is her husband, and he is also her husband. The difference lies in the fact that he is the publicly recognized husband, while he is the legally acknowledged husband.
As the saying goes, with three people in a household, there’s never a dull moment.
Now, please take another bold guess: who killed whom for whose sake?
Time: November 8, 2005.
Location: Qiumushan Village, Cili County, Hunan Province.
That night around 8 PM, heavy rain fell from the sky, the weather was cold and gloomy, and the village was sparsely lit and eerily quiet.
However, no one expected that on such a quiet night, a tragedy was quietly approaching.
With the sound of a gunshot, startled villagers rushed to the source of the noise and discovered that the incident had occurred in the home of villager Yang Guiyu. Her 57-year-old husband, Zhu Yuyuan, lay unconscious in a pool of blood.
When the police arrived, Zhu Yuyuan was already dead. However, his 49-year-old wife, Yang Guiyu, witnessed the entire incident and clearly identified the assailant to the police. The person Yang Guiyu named as the murderer was Li Yuehong.
What is puzzling is that just before the incident occurred, the assailant Li Yuehong had been living in the same house as Yang Guiyu and her husband.
What could have driven Li Yuehong to suddenly harbor murderous intent against Zhu Yuyuan?
Regarding this matter, Yang Guiyu could not explain it clearly, but in order to seize the best opportunity to solve the case, the Cili County Public Security Bureau and the Gaoqiao Town Police Station immediately organized forces to apprehend the murderer, Li Yuehong.
The police first found the firearm used by Li Yuehong not far from the crime scene. They then centered their investigation around Qiumushan Village, conducting a large-scale and detailed search in surrounding towns and villages, and issued a Reward Notice. It was not until the eighth day after the incident that the murderer, Li Yuehong, turned himself in.
Li Yuehong, a 54-year-old man from Yanggongqiao Village in Taoyuan County, Hunan Province, was known by the nickname "Strong Rod Xi." Yang Guiyu was once a renowned beauty in her youth.
Yang Guiyu claimed that her fate had experienced many twists and turns. At the age of 40, her first husband abandoned her and their two children before hanging himself.
This was also because Yang Guiyu's first husband lost his source of income due to illness, leading to a situation where they could barely afford food. Feeling guilty towards his wife and children, he took his own life.
After her husband's death, Yang Guiyu struggled alone to raise her two children. The pressure of life had long since suffocated this woman. In 1998, through an introduction by fellow villager Peng, Yang Guiyu met Li Yuehong, who lived far away in Taoyuan County. It was love at first sight for them.
At that time, Li Yuehong was 46 years old and had remained unmarried due to his family's poverty. His goal was to find a stable home. As a middle-aged man without children, he cared deeply for Yang Guiyu's two children and treated them as his own. Thus, he quickly gained the approval of Yang Guiyu's family.
Not long after, Li Yuehong moved all his rice and furniture from Taoyuan County to Yang Guiyu's home, and they officially began living together. Initially, their life was very sweet; they even invited the Party branch secretary of Qiumushan Village and several village officials to their home to witness their union as a couple.
Although they did not register their marriage with the civil affairs department, everyone regarded them as a legitimate couple destined to be together for life.
However, no one expected that their happy days would last only six years. Li Yuehong shot Zhu Yuyuan with a firearm he carried for hunting wild boars while aiming at Zhu Yuyuan's figure inside the house. Zhu Yuyuan died from the gunshot wound. Li Yuehong then fled the scene and turned himself in eight days later.
Li Yuehong stated that he never intended to kill Zhu Yuyuan; he only wanted to scare them into letting him enter the house. But the facts could not be changed; what awaited Li Yuehong would ultimately be legal punishment.
"Mom, I'm sorry. I really didn't know. I'm sorry... I really..."
A villager provided extremely important information. The villager recalled that around 7:30 PM that evening, two unfamiliar men drove a white van into the village selling ice pops. They sold for about ten minutes before leaving as it was getting dark.
Additionally, this villager vaguely remembered that the last three digits of the van's license plate were 818. Could it be that Xiaoxue was taken away and killed by these two unfamiliar men? The police quickly located the van and identified the two men who sold ice pops that day.
Facing the police's inquiries, the two calmly admitted that they had indeed gone to the village to sell ice pops on the day of the incident, but they did not take any little girl with them on their way back. However, to verify their claims, the police conducted a thorough investigation of the van, but ultimately found nothing unusual.
Meanwhile, rumors about the cause of Xiao Xue's death began to grow increasingly bizarre in the village. Some villagers started to whisper that Xiao Xue had been taken away by a ghost from the mountains, while others speculated that her family might have offended a deity and suffered divine retribution.
Despite the villagers' chatter, Xiao Xue's family remained unconvinced. They firmly believed that their daughter had been murdered. The brutal reality of Xiao Xue's death plunged her family into deep sorrow and cast a shadow of grief over the entire village.
Just as the case seemed to be at a standstill, a villager reported to the police that he had seen Xiao Xue go to the restroom on the East Side of the Village on the night of the incident. The police initially deduced that Xiao Xue was likely attacked on her way to the restroom and that her assailant was probably someone she knew.
Since only family members were aware of Xiao Xue's parents leaving for medical treatment, and given that her parents had left on May 28, it seemed that the killer had acted swiftly after they departed.
With this deduction in mind, the police quickly identified a suspicious individual who seemed overly interested in probing about the progress of Xiao Xue's case. This person turned out to be none other than Xiao Xue's sister-in-law, Lu Haifang.
The police then questioned Lu Haifang. When asked where she was on the evening of May 28, her seemingly ordinary response raised some eyebrows. Lu Haifang claimed she was out doing farm work. However, upon investigation, it was revealed that she was still in confinement after giving birth and was not required to do any farm work. Why would she choose to work on the very night something happened to Xiao Xue?
To avoid alarming her, the police refrained from pressing Lu Haifang further and instead spoke with her husband, A Rong, who is Xiao Xue's brother.
A Rong reported that on the night his sister was murdered, Lu Haifang was not home. It wasn't until around 8 PM, when everyone was preparing to search for Xiao Xue, that she hurriedly returned home looking particularly dirty and with her pants soaked.
On the evening of May 30, the police summoned Lu Haifang for questioning. During the interrogation, she kept her head down and avoided making eye contact with the officers. When faced with their questions, Lu Haifang remained silent. After several hours of questioning, she finally confessed to being Xiao Xue's murderer.
It was revealed that Xiao Xue's father and mother were both remarried and that A Rong was born from his father's previous marriage.
In 2010, after A Rong married Lu Haifang, their father suggested they move out due to space constraints at home and offered financial support for them to build a house. However, A Rong and Lu Haifang were dissatisfied with this suggestion and insisted on staying in their old house.
Due to the fact that this was a blended family, A Rong and Lu Haifang believed that if they moved out of the old house, it would mean that their stepmother, Xiaoxue's Mother, would rightfully become the mistress of the old house, and their status within the family might plummet.
It was clear that A Rong and Lu Haifang had long been wary of Xiaoxue's Mother. Additionally, they were reluctant to move out of the old house for another reason: they feared that Xiaoxue would fight for inheritance. The old house belonged to Xiaoxue's father.
Legally, Xiaoxue's mother, Xiaoxue, Xiao Xue's brother, A Rong, and Xiaoxue's Grandmother all had inheritance rights. However, according to rural customs, it was generally the children who inherited. Thus, the ultimate heirs would still be Xiaoxue and her brother A Rong. This raised further complications.
In A Rong's view, although Xiaoxue was also his father's biological child, she was not his biological sister. What should have been a property he could claim entirely now had to be shared. Every time A Rong and Lu Haifang thought about this, they felt extremely distressed.
In the following months, due to disputes over property distribution, the couple had numerous arguments with their family. Since the family could never reach a consensus, the division of the house remained unresolved, leading to countless quarrels over the issue of the old house.
As time went on, the relationship between A Rong, Lu Haifang, and their stepmother grew increasingly strained. Ultimately, in a bid to monopolize the family assets, Lu Haifang decided to take drastic measures. She believed that if Xiaoxue were no longer alive, then only A Rong and she would be the heirs to the old house.
On May 28, 2011, this long-standing family conflict finally erupted upon the unfortunate child, Xiaoxue. Normally, Xiaoxue's parents were very strict with her; Lu Haifang had never had an opportunity to act.
Until May 28th arrived when Lu Haifang learned that her in-laws were going to town for medical treatment. She realized this was her best chance to eliminate Xiaoxue. Around 7:30 PM that evening, while Xiaoxue was on her way to the bathroom, Lu Haifang feigned a chance encounter and then suggested that Xiaoxue accompany her to pick mangoes in the Mango Grove on the mountain.
As they walked through the mountains, Xiaoxue accidentally lost her shoe. While she bent down to pick it up, Lu Haifang struck decisively.
Afterward, Lu Haifang used stones to weigh down Xiaoxue's body underwater.
Thus, this case was successfully solved by the police, and Lu Haifang awaited severe legal consequences for her actions.
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