On September 11, 1996, the day after Teachers' Day, on the road outside a construction site in Shanghai's Yangpu District, there was a sudden burst of heart-rending cries, and passers-by saw a 8-year-old blood-blurred primary school student screaming and rushing her to the hospital.
Half an hour later, the elementary school student's mother was also admitted to the hospital. Both mother and daughter were splashed with a high concentration of sulfuric acid, and the situation was unbearable.
The culprit who caused this tragedy was Yang Yuxia, a female teacher at a local primary school.
Mother and daughter of the victims
What kind of deep hatred made Yang Yuxia extend her poisonous hand to the mother and daughter, especially if she had a hard heart to deal with a naïve and brilliant elementary school girl?
All this must start from Yang Yuxia's extramarital affair.
A paranoid female teacher and her unhappy marriage
Yang Yuxia was born in Shanghai to a family of ordinary workers. After graduating from secondary school, she was assigned to Kailulu First Primary School in Yangpu District.
At that time, Yang Yuxia was quite satisfied with the calm and steady teaching life, so she worked seriously and worked hard to do a good job as a people's teacher. Soon after, she had a relationship. It can be described as a double harvest of career love.
But I didn't expect that her boyfriend, who was full of love, could not control the nature of men and was merciful everywhere.
After Yang Yuxia discovered her boyfriend's infidelity, she did not make a big fuss in person to save her feelings, but came to her boyfriend's house with a hammer and smashed the electrical appliances in his home. The sofa and other furniture were set on fire by her.
The boyfriend knew that he was wrong, and he did not make a big deal out of it, but just proposed to break up in a gray way.
Yang Yuxia's extremism was first seen from here.
She is not like an ordinary woman who is deceived by her lover and hurt by her love, choosing to use a cry and a two-way way to make the other party change her mind, and she cannot calmly cut it in two.
Her way of revenge is to destroy everything that her lover cares about, so that he can also taste the heartache and helplessness.
Yang Yuxia's mother's family
In 1991, Yang Yuxia, who was urged to marry by her family, was annoyed, so she chose Li Chunsheng, who had good conditions. Although the two had known each other for only half a year, she still stepped into the palace of marriage without hesitation.
Yang Yuxia was full of expectations and expectations for marriage, but she did not expect that the two people, whose emotional foundation was not solid, began to quarrel with each other every day after experiencing a short honeymoon period.
Li Chunsheng, who graduated from college, was not polite at all, and Yang Yuxia, whose education was already much lower than her husband's, felt that her self-esteem was frustrated, so she often hid back at her mother's house.
Soon after, the daughter of Yang Yuxia and his wife came to the two. I thought that the new life would be the glue of the two people's feelings, but I didn't think that life after having children was even more of a chicken feather.
Yang Yuxia, who has been resentful for a long time, is full of resentment towards her husband, and the two cannot even raise the strength of the basic conjugal life to maintain.
In 1995, Yang Yuxia, who quarreled with her husband again, was so angry that she ran back to her mother's house. Here, she met her neighbor's brother, a dozen years her senior, the man who gave her hope for life and transformed her from a noble female teacher of the people into a cruel demon.
Fresh and exciting extramarital affairs and obstructive husbands
The 40-year-old Xu Guochu had just been laid off as a driver, and after learning from Yang Yuxia's mother that Yang Yuxia often quarreled with her husband for small things, he found Yang Yuxia and comforted this neighbor sister who was more than ten years younger than himself.
Who knew that Xu Guochu's comforting words changed their taste, and he complained to Yang Yuxia that if he had not given his daughter a complete home, he would have divorced a long time ago, instead of insisting on it in a difficult marriage.
The two people who tell each other about their unhappy marriages come and go, and they feel that the other party is each other's confidant. The two men with the same disease soon broke through the window paper and happily began to develop this deformed extramarital affair.
Yang Yuxia and Xu Guochu went to play together in other places, and in order to facilitate the two of them to steal, Yang Yuxia also rented a house from the parents of the students.
But paper can't contain the fire after all.
Yang Yuxia did not return home until midnight after a fight. And the husband Li Chunsheng saw Xu Guochu who sent his wife back, and connected his wife's different behavior and smile from the past, no matter how stupid he was, he also understood that his wife's body and mind were given to other men.
He ran to his wife's mother's house and cried, and Yang Yuxia's parents scolded their daughter fiercely, hoping that the son-in-law would ignore the previous suspicions.
But Li Chunsheng's move annoyed Yang Yuxia, and she did not want to continue the marriage, so she filed for divorce.
Yang Yuxia's neighbor's brother Xu Guochu
Unexpectedly, Li Chunsheng refused, saying that as long as he was for his daughter, he only hoped that his wife could leave her extramarital lover and return to the family.
Yang Yuxia scoffed, and in order to stimulate her husband to sign the divorce agreement, she threatened to live with Xu Guochu and lived in a rented house for several months.
Yang Yuxia also repeatedly reflected to school leaders that she had the intention of divorce. It happened that a lawyer came to the school to do business, and the principal deliberately asked the lawyer to do ideological work for Yang Yuxia.
In the face of the lawyer's inquiry, Yang Yuxia only said whether the marital discord and the discordant life of the husband and wife can be used as a condition for divorce, without mentioning that she has cheated.
At this time, Yang Yuxia decided that as long as she divorced, Xu Guochu would also divorce for her, so she regarded her husband as a thorn in her eye and wanted to move this stumbling block that hindered her from running towards a happy life.
A remorseful extramarital lover and an angry female teacher
Yang Yuxia naively thought that Xu Guochu was the love of her life, and the other party must have thought so.
Her husband, Li Chunsheng, always refused to agree to the divorce, and Yang Yuxia gritted her teeth in front of Xu Guochu many times: "If you have the opportunity, you must break his foot." After a month, Yang Yuxia said, "We must find a way to get others gone." ”
Looking at Yang Yuxia, who had a fierce face, Xu Guochu only felt a chill in his back. Originally pursuing an extramarital affair for a while, he was originally greedy for the pleasure of stealing love and Yang Yuxia's young flesh, and now seeing such an extreme side of this woman, he decided to let go.
But how could Yang Yuxia agree to break up, she threatened to tell Xu Guochu's wife Gu Xiaping about their private affair.
Xu Guochu confessed his extramarital affair to his wife one step earlier, and promised to break off his old love with Yang Yuxia and return to the family from then on.
Yang Yuxia once told Guo Yue, the class teacher of Xu Guochu's daughter Xu Lijun, about herself and Xu Guochu. Since then, Guo Yue has become an intermediary between the two.
On August 8, 1996, Xu Guochu formally proposed to Yang Yuxia at Guo Yue's home to break up, and also took out 5,000 yuan as compensation.
Yang Yuxia thought that Xu Guochu compared herself to a street woman who sold flesh, and she was so angry that she put down her harsh words: "In half a year, I still have to look for you, and there will always be something to solve." ”
Xu Guochu's family of three
On September 5, Yang Yuxia broke into Xu's house, smashed the Xu family's glass with bricks, and told Gu Xiaping about their private affair.
Unexpectedly, Xu Guochu and his wife worked together, and after a scolding, they drove her out of the house.
On September 6, Yang Yuxia repeated her old tricks and staged a farce at Xu's house, and finally to the police station.
On the morning of September 8, Xu Guochu, who had a premonition that he was not good, was afraid that Yang Yuxia would retaliate again, so he took a pocket tape recorder to Guo Yue's home to meet Yang Yuxia.
Xu Guochu said, "You have the ability to rush me, don't look for Li Jun." ”
The clever Yang Yuxia said: "I will not bring the murder weapon to your house, things have not happened yet, what are you afraid of?" ”
Fierce lover and female teacher determined to take revenge
Xu Guochu, who was worried, told Guo Yue: "No one is allowed to pick up my daughter in the future, only I will pick up and drop off in the morning and evening." ”
In order to stop Yang Yuxia's crazy behavior, the uneasy Xu Guochu ran to the school where Yang Yuxia taught.
He found the secretary of the party branch and confessed the extramarital affair between the two, hoping that the leader could come forward to dissuade Yang Yuxia from giving up the relationship.
Xu Guochu expressed his fear that Yang Yuxia would retaliate against his family, and the secretary comforted: "Yang Yuxia is a people's teacher, she has reason, and she will not do anything special. ”
But on the morning of September 9, the secretary still found Yang Yuxia and gave her a critical education.
The lover's desperate love made Yang Yuxia's thoughts gray at the same time ignite the flame of revenge, she told Xu Guochu: "You better look after your wife and daughter 24 hours a day, I want to make your life unpeaceful!" ”
On the same day, Yang Yuxia asked the parents of the students for a bottle of 95% sulfuric acid of 500 ml under the pretext of going to the toilet.
At first, the parents of the students were hesitant, saying that she could change her ways, but at The insistence of Yang Yuxia, the parents still gave.
The next day, September 10 is not only Teacher's Day, but also Yang Yuxia's birthday.
Yang Yuxia took home the Teacher's Day greeting card given by the students and the concentrated sulfuric acid divided into two bottles on the same day.
In the afternoon, she took her daughter and colleagues to play in Pudong, and in the evening, she had dinner with Yaohan.
And the husband Li Chunsheng saw his wife calm and quiet, thinking that his wife was determined to be a good wife and mother, and said to his wife with guilt: "You go home early tomorrow, I will cook and cook, and give you a bowl of birthday longevity noodles." ”
Yang Yuxia responded and went to school as usual the next day.
But at noon, she carried the written suicide note and two bottles of concentrated sulfuric acid to the entrance of Xu Guochu's daughter Xu Lijun's primary school.
An innocent mother and daughter spilled with sulfuric acid
Yang Yuxia told Xu Lijun's class teacher Guo Yue that Xu Lijun's mother called Li Chunsheng and asked her to pick up the child.
Guo Yue thus Tang Yang Yuxia took Xu Lijun away.
Yang Yuxia took the ignorant Xu Lijun to the construction site she had explored in advance and said to the child: "Auntie wash your hair." Then he poured all the concentrated sulfuric acid on Xu Lijun, who was only 8 years old.
Xiao Lijun, who was burned by sulfuric acid here, tore her heart and lungs and shouted, and Yang Yuxia calmly rode her bicycle to the door of Xu's house and threw another bottle of sulfuric acid at Gu Xiaping.
In the process of pouring sulfuric acid, Yang Yuxia's own hands were also burned. After she went to the hospital to bandage her hands, at 3 p.m., she was accompanied by her family to turn herself in.
Gu Xiaping's face, upper arms, and back, who were killed by her, were all burned with concentrated sulfuric acid, of which the deep second burn was four percent, and the third degree burn was three percent.
Xiao Lijun suffered severe burns and underwent three eye surgeries in four years, but was completely blind in her right eye. After more than a dozen skin grafting surgeries, she still could not recover her original innocence.
Sentencing controversy over whether to impose the death penalty
When the reporter asked why Yang Yuxia chose Xu Lijun's mother and daughter, the female teacher said: "Because I know that Xu Guochu does not care about anything, he only cares about his daughter." He loved his daughter very much. ”
But the reporter asked: "What would you think if others hurt your daughter in this way?" ”
After a moment of silence, Yang Yuxia replied, "I don't think I will hurt others in the first place." ”
On October 24, 1996, the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People's Court heard Yang Yuxia's case of disfigurement of sulfuric acid.
The trial lasted nearly six hours, and was broadcast to the whole city at 7 p.m. that night through Shanghai Television.
On the day of the trial, Xu Guochu accompanied his daughter in the hospital. Only Gu Xiaping, who was wrapped in thick gauze, cried bitterly and asked, "Are you still a person, why are you so vicious!" ”
When watching the video of Gu Xiaping and Xu Lijun in the hospital, Yang Yuxia cried out on the spot, saying that she was willing to sell organs to atone for this crime.
The sentencing of this case was also controversial at the time.
According to the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China promulgated in 1979, Yang Yuxia was sentenced to 7 years in prison for intentional injury by pouring concentrated sulfuric acid but not causing death.
However, according to the Strike Hard Decision adopted by the National People's Congress in 1983, the sentence for such intentional injury crimes is the death penalty.
And Yang Yuxia herself claimed that she was pregnant (later confirmed that she did not), was willing to use money to compensate, she was willing to donate organs to compensate, and her daughter was only 3 years old at the time... It is hoped that this will be a lighter punishment.
But the prosecutor said: "It must be severely punished, and the death penalty must be imposed." ”
Two months later, Yang Yuxia, dressed in red, was executed by firing squad.
Two ruined girls
After Yang Yuxia died, the lives of the living people were not a little better.
At the trial, Yang Yuxia insisted that Xu Guochu should also bear the consequences, but Xu Guochu's behavior did not violate the law.
But public opinion did not spare him, because his cheating brought such tragic harm to his wife and daughter.
During this period, he changed many jobs, and for the sake of children and family stability, his wife Gu Xiaping still decided to be with him.
Xiao Lijun attended a school for blind children after being discharged from the hospital, but due to physical reasons, she dropped out of school after a semester.
For her beloved father, Xu Lijun said that she had forgiven him long ago.
"After all, I am his child, I am his daughter, if your world has hate, love is better than hate, I hope my world is full of love." 」
Xu Lijun, who has been in a small home for more than a decade, hopes for the future is that she can teach English online and support herself.
Yang Yuxia's daughter was isolated by her classmates at school because "her mother was a death row prisoner", and gradually her temperament changed dramatically.
She often screamed at home for no reason, and for the classmates who isolated her in the first place, she always found the opportunity to scold back.
According to netizens who are connected with Yang Yuxia's daughter, Yang Yuxia's daughter has said: "You wait and see, one day, I will retaliate against her (mentioning isolated female classmates), pour sulfuric acid on her, I not only want to retaliate against her, I also want to retaliate against the whole society." ”
As Yang Yuxia's neighbor said: "Both daughters have been destroyed, one daughter has been disfigured, and Yang Yuxia's own daughter's heart has been destroyed." ”
In Yang Yuxia's suicide note to her husband, she said: "... I owe you too much and too much, this life can not be compensated, if there is an afterlife, custom cows and horses to repay... Live bravely and strongly, face the reality, no matter where I am, I will bless you and your children... When I go to trial, don't let the child come, the child is young and can't stand it..."
In this suicide note full of remorse, Yang Yuxia expressed her guilt for her husband and her worries about her children, but she never thought that after the success of her revenge, she would die, but the two families were broken because of her, and the two innocent and lovely daughters would face countless ill wills in life in the future, and these were not originally borne by children.