In the early morning of July 10, 2005, Xu Hangping, a villager in Chenguang Village, Shegang Town, Liuyang County, Changsha City, sounded a rapid knock at the door.
He opened the door and saw that it was a strange middle-aged woman who introduced herself as Zhou Lizhen and belonged to the neighboring village of Beiyuan.
Xu Hangping thought to himself, what is this early morning, people who do not know him, rushing to knock on their own doors?
Just when he was surprised, the middle-aged woman spoke: "Is your name Xu Hangping?" Your sister Xu Suping is still alive, living in Sichuan, and has a family and children. ”
Hearing this news, Xu Hangping was shocked beyond measure.
Why use the word "shock"? Because his sister has been dead for 30 years, how can he come back from the dead? Isn't that a big joke?
One night after the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1976, when the autumn breeze was blowing outside the window, 11-year-old Xu Hangping and his sister, who was three years older than himself, and his younger siblings were eating while listening to their mother tell stories.
Just when she was listening to it with relish, her sister Xu Suping suddenly tilted her head and fell to the ground, and the bowl in her hand also fell to the ground with a "bang" and shattered.
Mom hurriedly picked up her sister, only to see her convulsing non-stop, spitting white foam out of her mouth, her eyes rolling white, and her facial expression frozen.
The mother was so anxious that she called out her daughter's name while pinching her among the people. At this time, his father Xu Chunsheng walked in from outside, and he was also stunned by the scene in front of him, standing there helpless.
The mother cried and yelled at her husband: "What are you doing standing, don't you hurry up and call the doctor?" ”
Just as Dad was about to go out, Xu Hangping's uncle and aunt came in.
The aunt put her hand on Xu Suping's nostrils and cried loudly. When she cried like this, Xu Hangping's mother woke up crying, and it turned out that Xu Suping's limbs in her arms were weak, and her limbs stopped twitching, and she had no breath.
The mother touched her daughter's chest with her hand and found that her heart had stopped beating at some point.
How did a 14-year-old girl, who was the age of a flower bone, suddenly die?
It turned out that Xu Suping was a premature baby, and when he was born, he only had more than 5 pounds, and his congenital physique was not good. She was born in the early sixties, natural disasters have not yet ended, many people are still hungry, there is no nutrition to speak of, it is good to survive, so Xu Suping's body has been very weak.
When the daughter was 10 years old, she was diagnosed with severe "small labor disease" (lung disease). In the rural areas of the early 1970s, when there was a lack of medical treatment and medicine, children who were sick did not have the money to go to the big hospital to see, most of them went to the barefoot doctor to ask for a little pill, and then they were hard to carry.
It is not surprising that the disease, which can now be easily treated, was taken away at that time. At that time, in the fields, in the wilderness, abandoned dead babies could often be seen.
In any case, the farmers at that time also had little culture and lacked medical knowledge, and Xu Chunsheng and his wife were convinced that their daughter had died.
Watching the child who was still alive and jumping just now return to the west, the mother held her daughter's body in grief and cried loudly: "God, what evil have I done, and you want to do this to me?" ”
Xu Hangping didn't understand it at that time, but he just thought that his sister was asleep, and his younger brother and sister dragged their sister's clothes, shook vigorously, and kept shouting: "Sister, sister, I want you to play with me, you wake up soon." ”
Father Xu Chunsheng also called the barefoot doctor over, he probed his nose, also touched his pulse, sighed and walked away.
In this way, Xu Chunsheng and his wife and Xu Hangping's uncle and aunt were convinced and determined that Xiao Suping had died.
At that time, there was still such a custom in rural China, that is, after the girl who did not become an adult and did not have a family died, she could not enjoy the treatment of adults after death, and could not perform funeral ceremonies or anything.
Due to the limitations of economic conditions, the child can not afford to buy a coffin after death, wrapped in a straw mat or plastic sheet, a small mattress, buried in the soil, called "soft burial".
Xu Suping was only 14 years old at the time, and he did not have a family, so the funeral could not be handled extensively, and he had to be buried overnight. With tears in their eyes, the mother and aunt hurriedly bathed their daughter and found slightly cleaner clothes to put on. The father went out to inform his own family, temporarily found a few wooden boards, found a few nails to nail together, and several people lifted Xu Hangping, gently placed them in the "coffin", and nailed the lid.
In the countryside, there is a habit that parents cannot give their children a funeral. So Xu Hangping's uncle invited several neighbors to carry Xu Suping's coffin on the road.
The person carrying the coffin is a few middle-aged men, all have the strength to handle the child, Xu Suping herself is still a long-term illness of the girl, the weight is very light, plus the coffin is also simple, there is no weight, it is effortless to lift.
In rural China, girls, especially underage girls, cannot be buried in ancestral graves, so Xu Suping can only be buried in a random wasteland.
Although there is no regulation, it is customary to bury places that are generally far from the road.
Because it was an older child who was buried, several big men had a somewhat heavy heart and a little fear. In this way, the coffin seems a little heavy, and everyone's footsteps seem a little messy.
The parents of the deceased did not follow, and neither of them wanted to make too much effort to go far, and they all wanted to find a place nearby to bury the child.
So everyone stopped at the same time, dug a very shallow pit not far from the road, put the "coffin" into the pit, shoveled a few shovels of soil, and buried Xu Suping hastily.
After the exchange, several men quickly turned around and walked back as fast as an enclave.
In any case, the younger brother Xu Hangping was 11 years old at the time, and he remembered his sister's death deeply, and he watched his sister stop breathing in his mother's arms, and then watched his sister put into the coffin, and also witnessed the elders in the village carrying her sister out of the house.
Time back to the beginning of 2005, Xu Hangping began to dare not believe that his sister would "come back from the dead".
After getting the news of his sister's resurrection, he found the person who helped carry the coffin at that time, inquired one by one, and got a positive answer: Your sister was buried by our own hands, and this is certain.
Confused, Xu Hangping asked this woman named Zhou Lizhen, where did you get such news? Say my sister is not dead, and she is still starting a family in Sichuan?
It turned out that Zhou Lizhen's mother's family was from Sichuan, and in the Spring Festival of 2005, she returned to her hometown of Sichuan to visit relatives after several years of not returning home.
After visiting relatives during the Spring Festival, Zhou Lizhen took a boat and embarked on the return journey. She was a straight-talking person, no stranger anywhere, and the passengers on the ship quickly fought fiercely, set up a dragon gate array, and quickly attracted everyone's attention.
At this time, an old man in his seventies who was not far from her slowly approached her and sat down next to her and chatted with her.
The old man's family is also from Sichuan, and hearing that she has a Sichuan accent, she has narrowed the distance between them and opened the conversation box.
In the next conversation, the old man learned that Zhou Lizhen's mother-in-law's house belonged to Liuyang, Hunan Province, so he asked her: "Do you know that you know this place in Shegang?" ”
Zhou Lizhen replied, "I am a Hong Kong native. ”
At this time, the old man looked a little excited, and he then asked: "Do you know that 30 years ago, there was a girl in your harbor who was buried alive before she lost her breath?" ”
Listening to the old man's words, Zhou Lizhen was confused, because no matter whose family died and the child died, it would not be silent, it would be quietly buried, as long as it did not happen to anyone, few people knew.
Since this was the case, how could he "know" about this person from out of town, obviously hearsay and nonsense, Zhou Lizhen cast a suspicious look at him and was not willing to listen to him.
The old man ignored it, and Wu Zi continued to speak.
The old man's family is a native of Sichuan, and in 1976, when he was middle-aged, he worked temporarily in a firecracker factory in Shegang, Liuyang, and that night he had dinner and was idle and bored, and went to a village in Shegang to watch a movie.
At that time, there was no television at home, and the villagers' lives were very monotonous, so the government arranged for screening teams to go to the countryside and take turns to broadcast movies in the open air in each village.
After the movie screening, he was passing by a school when he suddenly heard a groan from the side of the road. He stopped, listened carefully, and followed the sound to a small mound, making sure it was coming from here.
Ghosts! He was a little creepy and turned around and wanted to go back. But after taking a few steps, he couldn't help but stop, where in the world is the ghost, how to listen to this is also a girl's voice, if he leaves like this, it may delay a person's life.
Because the burial was shallow, he gently pulled a few times, and a small "coffin" appeared in front of him. The "coffin" itself was very sloppy, the nails were perfunctory, and the top cover even had a few centimeters of gaps, and he put his hand in it, and with a strong squeeze, the coffin lid was uncovered.
He lit a match, followed the light, and there was a little girl inside. The girl was obviously still conscious, and when she saw the light, her eyes opened slightly, and her head moved.
He quickly carried the girl out and carried her to town, feeding her water and giving her medicine. Under his meticulous care, the girl's body slowly recovered. Soon after, he returned to his hometown of Sichuan with the little girl.
The little girl who was taken away by the man was Xu Suping, who was buried.
Under the care of the elderly, Xiao Suping grew up to be an adult. At the age of 18, she worked as a teacher in a kindergarten in Bishan for three years until she got married.
At present, Xu Suping has married a miner and given birth to children, the eldest of whom was born in the first nine days of September 1986 and named "Chongyang".
Why didn't the middle-aged man let the little girl return to her parents at that time?
In that chaotic era, if he did that, he might cause some unnecessary trouble, the relevant departments would censor him, and if the girl's family bit him again and molested him, it would be as indefensible as helping the elderly today, and it would be difficult to prove his innocence.
Even so, Xu Suping is already 14 years old, why didn't he take the initiative to ask to return to his biological parents?
The times are different, the children's IQ is also different, now the children know everything at the age of seven or eight, and the children of that era, especially the children in the countryside, are really "stupid" and have very little knowledge.
At the same time, it is not excluded that this adoptive father is an old bachelor, did not marry a daughter-in-law, and wants a child, so he "abducted" the girl and brought her back to her hometown.
According to the old man's explanation, Xu Suping thought that his parents hated him and deliberately buried himself alive after he was rescued, so he did not want to see his parents again after being rescued.
The old man did not let Xu Suping return to his hometown to recognize his parents for so many years, so why did he take the initiative to tell the past at this time?
There is no reasonable explanation for this, because after all, he is already an old man who is more than an old man, and when he is old, his thinking will be confused, and he will not play cards according to common sense, and we cannot confirm what the old man thinks in his heart.
Although the old man said that he had a nose and an eye, Zhou Lizhen did not believe it, because she had never heard of the matter of burying the girl alive, so she did not take the old man's words too seriously.
The old man was very serious, and when he was leaving, he took out a piece of paper, wrote Xu Suping's address on it, and handed it to Zhou Lizhen, hoping that she would inquire after she returned and hand the note to Xu Suping's relatives.
Zhou Lizhen thought to herself at that time, if this is true, you hope that your daughter will be reunited with her relatives, and you can directly inquire about it, why should you let the middleman bring a message? Obviously there is not much sincerity.
So Zhou Lizhen felt that the old man was delirious, and he made up stories there, so he didn't pay too much attention to it.
Later, by chance, when she was chatting with the neighbors, she casually said this, and an old man exclaimed: There was this thing back then! Thirty years ago, a girl died in the neighboring village of Chenguang, and shortly after being buried, the coffin was opened and the body disappeared.
Only at this moment did Zhou Lizhen react, and the old man's account was not a fiction, but a fact.
But when she went to her bag to look for that note, she found that she didn't know when she had lost it. She tried to recall, but she couldn't remember, only that there seemed to be a "mountain" word on it.
Despite this, she still came to Chenguang Village and told Xu Hangping the news.
Xu Hangping's first reaction after hearing this was, of course: "Impossible! "At that time, he personally watched everyone put his sister into a coffin, and people cannot be resurrected from the dead, which is scientific common sense."
But after calming down, he chose to believe Zhou Lizhen's words. Because of her sister's "first seven", the mother could not bear the thought, went to the grave to burn paper for her sister, and when she returned home, she called her father aside and told him that her daughter's grave had been opened and the body was missing.
The father was shocked to hear this, and let Xu Hangping's uncle quietly lead him to the scene. When I arrived at the cemetery, it was true, the pile was cut open, the lid of the coffin was removed, and the inside was empty.
In the eyes of rural people, the death of a child is an unfortunate thing, and they will not make a public statement. Moreover, the children's bodies are gone, and it is more humiliating to pass them on, and they are even more reluctant to let people know.
Everyone's first reaction was: "The child's body was taken away by the beast." ”
At that time, the town of Shegang was densely forested, the beasts were infested, the coffins were buried very shallowly, and the beast's sense of smell was very sensitive, and I have to say that this possibility is very large.
But with careful scrutiny, this statement is very problematic. If the body is dragged away by a beast, how can there be no torn clothes? Even if the clothes were not torn, how could there be no traces of wild beasts and no traces of dragging on the scene?
Besides, the coffin lid was set aside at the time.
The coffin, though very rudimentary, was nailed with a five-inch-long nail that would not be opened unless the hands worked together.
Beasts act on one claw, they don't coordinate their hands like humans, how can they open so sharply and put the lid aside?
According to the habits of the beasts, they found corpses in the wilderness, which could be eaten on the spot and would not be dragged away.
There was no blood at the scene, no clothing fragments, and three did not have any traces. Xu Hangping couldn't help but believe Zhou Lizhen's words. Because of her sister's death and the fact that the grave was dug up, her parents did not make a public statement, the people in the village did not know much, Zhou Lizhen had no relatives with her own family, even if she heard about it, it was impossible to entertain herself with such a sad thing as decades ago.
If it is a fabrication, she will not get a penny in return, only incur her own retaliation, what is the purpose of this?
Despite this, a hundred people and a hundred sexes, will Zhou Lizhen lie for the sake of sensationalism?
For the sake of prudence, Xu Hangping contacted reporters and invited lie detector experts and psychological counselors with their assistance to hypnotize and test Zhou Lizhen.
In the hypnotic state, Zhou Lizhen recalled the events on the ship, and the expert witnessed her from the side, and found that she even explained the details very clearly, and the performance of memory was much better than when she was awake.
After careful consideration, experts believe that Zhou Lizhen did not lie. Xu Hangping also believed that Zhou Lizhen's statement was true, so he went to the public security organ to report the case, hoping that they would help find his sister.
After receiving the report, the Liuyang Municipal Public Security Bureau attached great importance to it, and they visited Zhou Lizhen to help her recall, and finally confirmed that the address was Bishan County, and the old man's surname was Hong.
On the morning of December 31, 2005, cadres and policemen from the Liuyang Municipal Public Security Bureau followed Xu Hangping's nephew Xu Tianyong to the Household Registration Section of the Bishan County Public Security Bureau.
After the section chief Mou Zhangyu heard about the intentions, he warmly received them. According to the clues provided by Xu Tianyong, Chief Mou successively entered the names of "Chongyang" and "Xu Suping" into the population inquiry system.
Unfortunately, the system shows that there are no related records.
Chief Mou said that since the current household registration search system can only be queried by name, if the name of the person being found cannot be accurately provided, the system will not be able to provide help.
According to the analysis of Chief Mou, Xu Suping may no longer use her original name after being rescued, and the name of her son "Chongyang" does not rule out that it is a small name.
There were many people surnamed Hong in Tuanba Township, the former Bishan County, and the public security suggested that Xu Tianyong go there to look for it. On the afternoon of the same day, the reporter accompanied Xu Tianyong to find Tuanba Village in Dalu Town, Bishan County.
Hu Zhengxing, the village party secretary, said that there are not many residents surnamed Hong in the village, and there are no residents who meet the conditions they said.
At this point, the clue to find my sister was completely interrupted.
In this regard, Xu Hangping believes that Zhou Lizhen did not find the note, but only wrote the address from memory, or it may be that the place name is wrong.
According to the analysis, it should not be wrong to have a "mountain" after the name, but the previous part is misremembered.
Moreover, this place name may be in Chongqing or Sichuan, after all, Zhou Lizhen is also more than 50 years old, and her memory is not so accurate.
Because the place name cannot be determined and the information provided is limited, Xu Hangping has not yet realized his long-cherished wish.
Xu Hangping's nephew Xu Tianyong said that her aunt was 14 years old when she was "buried" and had already understood things, that her father had the idea of letting her go home to recognize her relatives, and that her aunt had the right to know that her family was looking for her.
Xu Hangping also said that his parents did not "abandon" or "give up" his sister at that time, the family has done its best to cure her sister's illness, and now the life in his hometown is good, he built a three-story building in the village, and will patiently wait for his sister's return.
Although life has become richer, Xu Hangping's heart of missing his sister has not changed in these years. He firmly believes that Xu Suping must still be alive, and he also hopes that she can be reunited with her relatives in her lifetime.