Chen Guangyuan's sister-in-law was still conscious after being injured. The 8th China Wudang International Tourism Festival opened grandly. She dragged her husband's body from the toilet where he was killed to the middle of the room, called the police, and informed her family. In the end, Chen Guangtu died from excessive blood loss due to severe injuries. "I still can't believe this is true!" Yesterday, the deceased's younger brother, Chen Guangyuan, told reporters that around 7:30 PM the previous evening, he had a ten-minute casual chat with his brother over the phone. However, at around 8:00 PM, he received a call from his sister-in-law saying that his brother had been murdered. Around 1:00 AM yesterday, he rushed from Huizhou to Sanshui. According to his sister-in-law, at around 7:30 PM the previous evening, she went out to discuss matters at a neighboring stall. When she returned about ten minutes later, she found the door unusually closed. Upon opening it, a sharp knife was immediately pointed at her throat. Instinctively, she blocked it with her hand, but the knife still pierced her neck. The assailant then stabbed her on the head before fleeing.
Reporters at the scene discovered that there were three large words written in chalk above the kitchen of the deceased's home - "Kill You". Each character was as big as a watermelon.
At around 8:00 AM yesterday, reporters arrived at the Sanshui Building Materials Market by National Highway 321, and located Chen Guangtu's timber shop at the northwest corner of the market. Outside the timber shop, police tape had already been set up, with police officers on duty both inside and outside the perimeter.
A Mr. Wu, who operates an oil business behind Chen Guangtu's store, reported that during the incident, he saw two shadows over 1.7 meters tall running around Chen Guangtu's house, but did not clearly see their faces.
It was learned that at the time of the incident, the deceased's wife was stabbed once each on her head and neck, and was currently receiving treatment at the Sanshui District People's Hospital. Yesterday, reporters arrived at the hospital, but since she was still not out of danger and extremely saddened, she could not be interviewed.
It was understood that Chen Guangtu's timber shop was the largest one in the Sanshui Building Materials Market, and he employed four workers to help him.
At the time of the incident, Xiang Chun, one of the workers, was resting in a nearby room when he suddenly heard the sound of something falling and rolling on the floor coming from the boss's room. "When I approached the boss's room, I noticed the door was already closed, but the light was still on, so I went back to wash clothes," said Xiang Chun. There was no one in the boss's room, and the noise stopped shortly thereafter. He thought it was an argument between the boss and his wife and did not suspect anything unusual. Soon after, he heard the boss's wife calling for help, realizing something had happened, but never saw the attacker.
In the martial arts novel "The Return of the Condor Heroes", before killing someone, the female villain Li Muchou would always leave a bloody handprint at the victim's residence, indicating how many people she intended to kill. At around 8:00 PM the previous evening, in a building materials market in Sanshui, 45-year-old boss Chen Guangtu was stabbed to death in his own timber shop where he had operated for more than ten years. Curiously, just a few hours before his death, someone had written the three large words "Kill You" on the kitchen door of the timber shop using chalk. Could it be that he encountered a killer like Li Muchou? After the incident, local police in Sanshui immediately arrived at the scene for investigation, and only left late in the afternoon yesterday.
"These three words should have been written between noon 12:00 PM and 2:00 PM on the day of the incident," said Xiang Chun, a worker at the timber shop. At around noon 12:00 PM, they had finished eating and hadn't seen these three words yet, but by 2:00 PM when they started work, the words were already on the door. At the time, everyone thought it was some naughty child playing around and didn't take it seriously, never expecting that the boss would be involved in an incident that night.
It was learned that the Sanshui Building Materials Market was actually a timber market, and the deceased, Chen Guangtu, was from Jieyang, Guangdong Province. He had been operating a timber business in this market for seventeen or eighteen years.
In the afternoon yesterday, the police withdrew from the scene of the incident. It was known that the body of the deceased, Chen Guangtu, would be autopsied, but the results of the autopsy would take a long time to come out.
Based on Chen Guangyuan's speculation, his brother might have been the victim of a revenge killing. So, did Chen Guangtu have any enemies before his death? A middle-aged man who wished to remain anonymous told reporters that a few days before the incident, Chen Guangtu had a conflict with a wood buyer from Guizhou Province. During the conflict, Chen Guangtu injured the other party's finger, and quite a number of the other party's fellow townspeople came to deal with the matter. Whether the matter was resolved afterward was unclear, but a few days after this incident, Chen Guangtu was killed, and there might be a connection between the two events. The younger brother of the deceased cannot accept what has happened. Some netizens have initiated a boycott against the sale of Yellow River water.