In 1999, in a small peaceful mountain village in Shaanxi, a shocking incident occurred, a flower-like girl was cruelly destroyed by her fiancé, and the scene was heart-wrenching.
If you think the story ends like this, you're dead wrong.
Fate seemed to have played a joke on the girl, and as she straightened her mind and planned to start over, the claws of misfortune reached out to her again.
By her father's arrangement, the girl married a man 16 years older than him, which was the girl's second marriage.
I thought that life would go on like this, but I didn't expect that her husband would continue to be violent to her after marriage, and even force her to commit suicide, she couldn't bear it, and finally adopted an extreme way to deal with it.
In 2006, her husband punched and kicked her again, and she picked up an axe and slashed at her husband angrily, ending a dark life of living in domestic violence all day.
As soon as this matter came out, it immediately caused a sensation, and everyone remembered her name - Yang Xi.
After the incident, Yang Xi ended his hellish life and sent himself to prison.
Maybe for her, compared to her unhappy married life, this may be another kind of relief.
The court sentenced Yang Xi to 12 years in prison, and now she has begun a new life.
While sympathizing with her unfortunate married life and tragic experience, everyone also expressed concern about her current situation.
So, how did Yang Xi go to prison step by step, and how is her life now?
Born into poverty
Like most ordinary girls, Yang Xi was born in 1980 in a small mountain village in Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, and is a typical post-80s generation.
At this time, the mainland's economic development is rapid, the people's living standards are gradually improving, and the economic development is driving cultural progress, however, there are some remote areas that are an exception, yang Xi's hometown is like this.
Yang Xi's hometown is called Huajialing Village, the surrounding traffic is relatively closed, the economic development is backward, most of the villagers rely on the sky to eat, life is not rich, and some families even have food and clothing.
In such an environment, the villagers are more ignorant in their thinking, believing that there are many ways to have more children, and most families have many children, and Yang Xi's family is no exception.
Yang Xi has an older brother and sister above, and is the youngest child in the family.
As the saying goes, "the children of the poor have long been in charge", from an early age she was very capable, taking the initiative to help her parents to bear the family's farm work.
Since the village is adjacent to the mountain village, the specialty is tea, so Yang Xi went to pick tea with his brother and sister at a young age.
As the youngest child in the family, Yang Xi did not receive special care, and at her young age, she not only had to help her parents pick tea, cook, feed pigs, but even the basic right to go to school became a wish.
However, the sensible Yang Xi understood that the family's economic conditions were difficult, and when she could not go to school, she borrowed the textbooks of her neighbors' playmates to see them, and gradually learned some words.
Yang Xi is not only industrious and capable, but also beautiful, is a famous local "village flower", often by the same village and neighboring village boys, so that people continue to come to the door to propose.
Yang Xi had good conditions and many suitors, and she thought that life would bloom like a flower, but she did not expect that fate was twisting and turning, and the subsequent encounter was something she could not have imagined.
About marriage
Rural children generally marry early, especially in the 1990s, when children are usually engaged as teenagers.
Due to the large number of suitors, Yang Xi's parents began to be moved, and after thinking about it, he chose the son of a village branch secretary with relatively favorable conditions.
At the age of 17, Yang Xi and Cao Hongping, the son of the village chief, became engaged and agreed to marry when the two children reached adulthood.
Although Yang Xi does not know much about his fiancé, he has not refused this family affair, after all, the marriage is decided by his parents.
In the blink of an eye, the marriage between the two was approaching, and Yang Xi began to hesitate in his heart.
Because she heard that Cao Hongping was a moody person and often lost her temper at every turn, she gradually repulsed this marriage and usually ignored Cao Hongping, which made Cao Hongping very angry.
In April 1999, it was a bright and sunny spring, but an incident occurred, causing the first tragedy of Yang Xi's life.
One day, Yang Xi came to the countryside to pick tea, smelling the aroma of camellia flowers and fresh air in the mountains, Yang Xi suddenly forgot the troubles around him, indulged in the charming scenery, and showed a smile.
This scene was just met by Cao Hongping, who looked at this fiancée who usually avoided himself, and was actually happy here in private, and Cao Hongping, whose mind was twisted, scolded Yang Xi.
Yang Xi was scolded for no reason, and his heart was not angry, so he reasoned with it. Under the entanglement and pushing, Cao Hongping tripped Yang Xi to the ground and cruelly poked Yang Xi's eyes with his fingers.
After a bout of pain, Yang Xi fainted, and when she woke up again, she found herself lying on a hospital bed, with a darkness in front of her and endless pain. The doctor told her that her eyes could not be saved, and she became blind.
Cao Hongping was overwhelmed after destroying Yang Xi's eyes, and later, after surrendering himself, he was sentenced to death.
Although the bad guys have been punished, the eyes of a flower girl can't come back after all.
Forced to remarry
Different from the current concept, some remote areas in rural areas, as long as they have been betrothed before, they are considered to have become relatives once, and Yang Xi is an example.
Although he and Cao Hongping were not married, they had a marriage contract before, and if they remarried, it would be equivalent to the second marriage.
Yang Xi, who had lost his eyes, slowly recovered for a long time.
However, there is always a time for physical illness to recover, but psychological trauma often takes a long time to heal.
After Yang Xi became blind, she lost her ability to work, and could not reduce the burden for the family as before, and after a long time, her parents felt that she was a "burden" and looked for another marriage for her.
Today's Yang Xi, the beauty is no longer there, and the suitors have naturally started to retreat.
After a thousand choices, her father chose a man who was a full 16 years older than Yang Xi, and Yang Xi had to accept her parents' arrangement and decided to remarry.
The man Yang Xi remarried was named Zhao Ziqiang, an old bachelor in the village, lazy by nature, did not earn money well when he was young, and his life was very poor, so no one in the village was willing to marry the girl to him.
Obviously, the reason why Yang Xi agreed to marry him was because his condition was already a blind man and he had no choice.
Before marriage, Zhao Ziqiang still respected Yang Xi, and did not let her do the usual dirty work, and the days were relatively calm.
Later, Yang Xi became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter, and her husband Zhao Ziqiang revealed his original form, and he began to blame his wife for not having a boy, not working all day, and useless.
Obviously, Zhao Ziqiang's purpose in marrying Yang Xi was to pass on the lineage, not because of his pity for her.
Later, Yang Xi finally gave birth to a boy, but her husband Zhao Ziqiang was not satisfied, he often abused Yang Xi, and neighbors could often hear the wailing of the family in the middle of the night.
Yang Xi has been beaten violently by her husband for many years, and her body is often covered with scales, and she once lived in the darkness of fear.
Rise up and resist
As the saying goes: "Where there is oppression, there is resistance".
Living in the beating of her husband for many years, Yang Xi also began to brew a self-redemption of fate in his heart.
If she only committed violence to herself, Yang Xi could still endure it, but her husband's later actions touched her bottom line.
Zhao Ziqiang began to extend his claws to the children and threaten his family, but Yang Xi would never allow it.
In 2006, Zhao Ziqiang lost his job and returned home to punch and kick Yang Xi.
The child next to him saw the situation and was busy persuading his father not to beat his mother, who knew that Zhao Ziqiang was like crazy, and even moved his hands on the child.
Angry, Zhao Ziqiang threw Yang Xi an axe and let her "end" her life herself.
Perhaps it was the grievances and grief that had been squeezed in his heart for a long time, or out of protection for the child, Yang Xi picked up the axe and swung it at Zhao Ziqiang.
Immediately, Zhao Ziqiang fell in a pool of blood and died.
Zhao Ziqiang's howling voice attracted neighbors to watch, and Yang Xi was taken away by the police and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
In 2014, Yang Xiyin performed well in prison and was released early, and she was about to start a new life.
Because her children were taken away by the welfare home during her imprisonment, the first thing she did after she got out of prison was to find her children and accompany them to grow up.
After Yang Xi was released from prison, she received attention from all walks of life, and everyone sympathized with her tragic situation while providing help to her.
Now that her life is secure, her life is very peaceful, and the balance of fate has finally tilted to her.
In film and television works and novels, there are some inspirational blind women, such as Helen Keller.
When she was 2 years old, she lost her vision due to illness and became a blind person, but she did not give up on herself, but with a tenacious will, she learned sign language, broke through many challenges, and became a writer.
Helen Keller's inspirational story is worth learning from each and every one of us.
Unlike Helen Keller, Yang Xi is not blind because of illness, but because of human destruction that leads to tragedy.
However, the two have one thing in common, and that is the twists and turns of fate.
Yang Xi grew up in good condition, and should have been like other rural girls, looking for an object with comparable conditions, getting married and having children.
Helplessly, fate made her unladylike, her fiancé made her lose her eyes; her second husband brought her prison disaster.
Now she has finally straightened her mood, regained her freedom, and lived a peaceful life, which is perhaps the most rare thing for her!
"The corners where the sun can't shine, let the rain wash away how much of my past."
Perhaps somewhere in the world, there are women as strong as Yang Xi, who have a bad fate, catch up, and greet the arrival of the light without complaint. Are there any such people around you?