Apart from Zhang Kou's case.
"Auntie" also knew about quite a few other illegal acts Zhang Chuancheng had committed.
As the head of the intelligence network for several nearby villages, there was no gossip or news from outside that she did not know.
"Auntie" kept talking about Zhang Chuancheng, spittle flying.
For example, some years earlier, Zhang Chuancheng had brazenly seized many families' residential plots.
Then he had built houses in the village and sold them to the villagers.
He had pocketed several hundred thousand yuan in ill-gotten gains.
He also frequently occupied collectively owned land in the village, growing his own crops there and selling them.
Other people who needed the collectively owned land could not benefit from it at all.
But none of them dared offend Zhang Chuancheng over something like that.
As a result, the collectively owned land now essentially belonged to Zhang Chuancheng.
And those were only the things Zhang Chuancheng had done to bully nearby villagers.
Beyond that.
Zhang Chuancheng also frequently harassed some of the young married women who remained in the village.
Their husbands had all gone elsewhere to work.
Zhang Chuancheng took advantage of those opportunities. Whenever he saw a young wife he thought was pretty, he would go over and grope her or harass her verbally.
But...
Given Zhang Chuancheng's reputation as the local bully in the surrounding villages, along with his disreputable friends.
As long as these incidents did not cross their bottom line, the young wives who remained in the village endured whatever they could.
Although Zhang Chuancheng had done plenty of evil, he also knew whom he could provoke and whom he should leave alone.
He generally avoided going too far with families that had adult men at home.
Or families with some connections.
After all...
If he