Chapter 3829

Hu Yutang held the thick stack of printed paper and began to question: "Li Erda, on January 20, 2005, you signed a forest land contracting contract with Li Yida on behalf of the village committee. Five hundred mu of forest land, the annual contracting fee is 4,000 yuan, and the contracting period is forty years, is that right?"

Li Erdan nodded and said, "There seems to be such a thing."

Hu Yutang said, "Li Yida is your brother, right?"

Li Erdan said, "So what if he is my brother? Just because he is my brother, can't the forest land be contracted to him? I am also doing this to increase the income of the village collective."

Hu Yutang said, "But this price is obviously too low, and the contracting period is too long. Since Li Yida is your brother, this contracting agreement is obviously unfair and should be voided."

Li Erdan muttered, "Whatever you say, it is."

Hu Yutang asked again, "On January 13, 2007, you signed a timber compensation agreement with Li Sanda on behalf of the village committee. More than five hundred trees were compensated to Li Sanda for more than 70,000 yuan. Li Sanda is your younger brother. Is there such a thing?"

Li Erdan nodded and said, "There is such a thing, but is there any problem with this? Road construction requires the requisition of his family's forest land. There are trees on the land, can't they be compensated?"

Hu Yutang said, "But the forest land of his family involved in road construction is less than half a mu. Can five hundred trees be planted in it? According to reports from insiders, those five hundred trees were all temporarily planted saplings that couldn't survive at all. Some were simply tree branches stuck in the ground and treated as trees, and these saplings and branches were compensated according to the compensation standard for mature trees. Is there such a thing?"

Li Erdan said, "I'm not very clear about this, I didn't go to that land to see."

Hu Yutang nodded and said, "Alright, let me ask you again..."

Hu Yutang asked about the evil deeds Li Erdan had committed, one by one, asking until Li Erdan was sweating like rain, asking until the anger in the eyes of the onlookers almost burned Li Erdan to death, and asking until those who had been harmed by Li Erdan burst into tears.

After asking for more than an hour, Hu Yutang asked again, "On October 28, 2005, Li Jianguo, a villager of Jiaoshi Village, was beaten by you and more than ten people you gathered because he reported you and other village cadres by name, and your wife and daughter were gang-raped, resulting in Li Jianguo's daughter, Li Xiaoman, becoming mentally ill. At that time, Li Xiaoman was not yet fourteen years old. Is there such a thing?"

Looking at this paragraph in the report letter, Hu Yutang felt his hands trembling. This thin piece of paper was as heavy as a thousand jun, and he could barely hold it. He knew that if all these things about Li Erdan were true, his life would probably not be saved.

But he couldn't care about so much now. Under such circumstances, it would be quite good for him to save himself. Thinking of this, he looked at Li Erdan with righteous indignation.

Li Erdan's sweat had made his whole body look like it had just been washed in water. In front of so many onlookers, accepting such a direct interrogation was really a torment for him.

He begged, "Uncle, can you stop asking? I haven't sobered up yet, and my head really hurts a lot. You keep asking these things, I can't take it!"

Hu Yutang shouted sternly, "You can't take it? Then when you did these things, did you ever think about whether those victims could take it?"

Li Erdan looked at Hu Yutang in astonishment. He didn't understand why his biggest backer, his own uncle, had suddenly changed into a different person.

Under Hu Yutang's pressing questions, Li Erdan admitted all his crimes. These were all things he had done, and the parties involved and witnesses were among these onlookers, so he had no way to deny it.

An old woman with gray hair among the onlookers burst into tears. She was Li Jianguo's old mother, who was already over seventy years old this year. Her son and his family had all left their hometown and didn't know where they had gone. She hadn't had any news of her son for the past few years.

She had originally lost the courage to live, but hatred had supported her to survive. She hoped to see the day when Li Erdan and the others were destroyed, but she didn't know if she could live to see that day.

She told her two daughters that if she died, when Li Erdan met his retribution, they should tell her this news in front of her spirit. But now, she had finally seen the day Li Erdan met his retribution, how could she not cry?