There was a well-known "Shi Wei Di" monk in Zhejiang Buddhist circles, who repeatedly refused to be invited to serve as a local CPPCC member, he donated money many times to fund disasters in various places, participated in various charity activities, his calligraphy and painting works also won municipal awards, and the copied Buddhist scriptures were sold for 500,000!
However, at 22:00 on November 28, 2011, the night rained down, and the quiet Jingci Monastery was full of plainclothes policemen from Gansu and Zhejiang, who, after laying an ambush outside the door of a bedroom, knocked on the door of the senior monk "Shi Weidi" on the pretext of fire inspection, and then rushed in.
The able-bodied monk did not resist. Just silently asked, "What do you do?" "He's very cooperative, he knows, and he's been waiting for the result he deserves."
Xu Xinlian
The monk walked out of the monastery under the escort of the police, and on one side of the courtyard wall was written the poster he had edited: "Away from bodhichitta, everything you do is a magic karma." Everyone can't imagine that the high monk who was deeply loved by the temple's superintendent", "Shi Weidi", turned out to be the murderer of the murder case that the police wanted for 17 years - Xu Xinlian.
What happened 17 years ago that would have made him pick up the "butcher knife" and cause the massacre? How did Xu Xinlian flee for 17 years evade the sight of the police again and again, and even prove his innocence and "escape into the Buddha's Gate"? The police tracked for 17 years, and how did they find Xu Xinlian's traces and arrest him?
Sleepless nights, screaming
On the night of July 27, 1994, the dormitory of the South Railway Station in Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province.
On hot and humid nights, the dormitory residents are hot and humid. Suddenly, a miserable cry came from a household surnamed Xu, and the neighbors rushed to check it out, but they were shocked by the bloody picture of the scene in the home, and immediately called the police.
The scene of the crime
Police soon arrived and conducted a blockade investigation into the murder scene.
According to the police investigation, the two victims of the family of three suffered knife wounds of varying degrees, and their two-year-old child was also slashed by the murderer, dying, and survived after rescue.
According to forensic medical appraisal, the male victim Xu Min, with 56 knife wounds all over his body, the cause of death was a brain injury caused by being severely injured in the head with a sharp object, accompanied by the death of hemorrhagic shock, the female victim Hu Ying, Xu Min's wife, 17 knife wounds on the whole body, xu Siyuan, two years old, Xu Min's son, 10 knife wounds throughout the body, identified as serious injury B.
Forensic
Such a vicious murder incident caused great concern in the local area for a while. The Jiujiang County Public Security Bureau attached great importance to this case and immediately set up a special team to investigate and investigate the "7.27" mega-murder case. Soon, one of the suspects, Guo Yabing, was arrested by the police the next day. So what is the connection between this Guo Yabing and Xu Xinlian? According to the interrogation of Guo Yabing, the details of the crime gradually became clear...
Born ordinary, young and crazy
Xu Xinlian was born on June 27, 1973 in Shahejie Town, Jiujiang County, Jiangxi Province, to an ordinary farming family in Yanghua Village. Xu Xinlian has an eldest sister, although he is the second in the family, but in that era of son preference, he can also be regarded as the eldest son in the family. Later, two younger brothers were added to the family, which made the family, which was not rich, more difficult, the parents were not born high, and the only few acres of land became the main source of livelihood for the family.
Xu Xinlian, who was supposed to be the next pillar of the family, has been studying honestly like a little transparent in school, but in the second grade of junior high school, he is no longer willing to continue to study, despite his father's opposition, and insists on dropping out of school.
Street thugs
The reason why Xu Xinlian dropped out of school is not that he wants to work early to subsidize the family like other children of the same age in the village, but that he is in a rebellious period who does not learn any skills, makes some fox friends, fights, and becomes an "ancient puzzle boy".
Unwilling to see his son's old father willing to degenerate, he used his only connections and already small savings to send Xu Xinlian to an auto repair factory in Jiujiang City, hoping that he would learn a craft of eating himself.
After leaving home, Xu Xinlian, because he was free from his father's control, indulged himself even more, and soon after, he made friends with a group of peers (Guo Yabing and others) who were "good and lazy" in the factory, completely disregarding his father's good intentions, he only remembered that as long as he made mistakes at home, his father would add sticks to himself.
When he didn't know how to hit himself, his father's heart also hurt. When xu xinlian was beaten, the expression of gritting his teeth and not being convinced often hung on his face, "like a stubborn donkey." Years later, my father talked about Xu Xinlian's childhood.
Youth gangs, premeditated murders
On July 27, 1994, Xu Xinlian, who had studied auto repair for several years, was not willing to let his fate be so ordinary, wanted to break out of the world, remembered that he had heard someone say that Hainan had set off a "gold rush" fever, and his heart became restless.
Xu Xinlian called Liao Qingli, Liu Xuanjin, and Guo Jin, who had made good friends, and several of them came to the staff dormitory of the Jiujiang County Cement Factory and entered the dormitory of another friend, Wang Junmin, at this time Guo Yabing and Daniel Zhang were also there, and the seven people gradually met after Xu Xinlian came to Jiujiang City.
Wine table
Several people talked about the world in the dormitory, and after three rounds of drinking, Xu Xinlian talked about his hearing about the "gold panning" in Hainan, which quickly made everyone excited, and everyone hit it off, and they all wanted to go for a walk together, and they were blessed to share it. After everyone drank a cup together, Wang Junmin's face suddenly flashed strangely and failed to avoid Xu Xinlian's "magic eyes", so he asked Wang Junmin what concerns he had.
It turned out that Wang Junmin often felt waist discomfort, back pain unbearable, after doing an examination in Jiujiang People's Hospital, the doctor diagnosed lumbar tuberculosis, this result made Wang Junmin difficult to accept, he thought that his sick part was related to a fight with a classmate, he thought that it was this classmate who made him suffer this crime.
Wang Junmin was very upset about this, held a grudge against him, and had been waiting for an opportunity to take revenge for many years. Wang Junmin felt that this "gold panning trip" in Hainan was a good opportunity for him to go far away after taking revenge, and he broke the idea that a group of seven people would return to their hometown. The brothers also hit it off and did it.
Fights and brawls
Yes, the old classmate mentioned by Wang Junmin is Xu Min.
In order to break the back road, it led to a tragic crime
The Seven soon began to carry out Operation Revenge. On the same day, Xu Xinlian and Wang Junmin went to the market near the dormitory to buy a total of seven kitchen knives, fruit knives, and three-edged knives, and then went to xu Min's dormitory at the Jiujiang Railway South Railway Station.
In order to quickly abscond, Wang Junmin gave Xu Xinlian 100 yuan, asked him and Liu Xuanjin to go to the city to pay for a van that could fit seven people, and chose a car hiding place near the dormitory.
White van
Subsequently, Wang Junmin said his plan and let everyone clarify the division of labor. In the end, it was decided to let Liao Qingli wait in the car, let Xu Xinlian knock on the door, and after opening the door, everyone rushed into the room with knives to commit murder.
At about 22:00 that night, a group of seven people drove to the dormitory of Jiujiang South Railway Station, which is Xu Min's residence. Xu Xinlian went to knock on the door, at this time Xu Min certainly did not expect what he would experience, only to hear his name outside the door, he naturally opened the door, Xu Min did not expect that the door he opened was his own "extinguished door". He couldn't even think of the reason why he was killed until he was a student.
After Xu Min opened the door, he was greeted by Xu Xinlian's oncoming knife, and Guo Jin behind Xu Xinlian quickly rushed into the room and pushed Xu Min's wife down on the sofa, and then Wang Junmin, Guo Yabing, Liu Xuanjin, and Daniel Zhang also rushed into the room after him, forcing Xu Min to the balcony with a knife. Helpless, Xu Min had to grab everything he could in the house to try to block, and shouted with all his might, "Help! ”
Modus operandi
Afraid that Xu Min's cry would attract the attention of other neighbors and residents, Guo Yabing swung his knife and slashed at Xu Min's arm in a hurry, and then quickly fled the scene, Guo Jin and Liu Xuanjin were stunned, quickly reacted, and also followed Guo Yabing to escape. Before Guo Jin escaped, he did not forget to rip off the gold necklace around Hu Ying's neck and take it away. Xu Min, on the other hand, died tragically in the chaotic knife of Wang Junmin, Xu Xinlian, and Daniel Zhang.
Seeing that Xu Min, who had fallen in a pool of blood, did not react, several people who were mad and mad had obviously killed the red eye, and went out of the balcony and hacked Hu Ying on the sofa to death, and even did not spare Xu Min's two-year-old son, after cutting Xu Siyuan ten knives, this gang of evil people fled the scene.
After the prisoners fled, the neighbors came to hear the noise and found the bloody scene mentioned earlier.
Murder
One person was caught, and the whole thing was put out
After Guo Yabing was arrested, he confessed to his involvement in the crime, and according to Guo Yabing's confession, the police quickly arrested Liu Xuanjin, Guo Jin, and Liao Qingli, while Wang Junmin, Xu Xinlian, and Daniel Zhang could not find out where they fled.
On August 5, 1994, based on clues, the Jiujiang police deduced that Wang Junmin would join Xu Xinlian at the old bus station near Xinqiaotou in Jiujiang City, and the two planned to flee abroad by bus. The special case team quickly surveyed the old bus station and its surroundings, ambushed them, set up cards, and arrested the two people.
The arrest process was not smooth, the station personnel gathered, there were many stalls and vendors, and Wang Junmin was very cunning, frantically escaping after finding the police, running while smashing the fruits, newspapers, plastic bottles, etc. of the roadside vendors to the police. Fortunately, he was eventually subdued by the ambushed police and arrested, and Xu Xinlian once again took advantage of the chaos to escape.
The scene of the murder
The police quickly interrogated Wang Junmin and others, a group of seven criminal gangs, all young people in their twenties, except for Wang Junmin, who worked in the cement factory, and several others were unemployed vagrants. According to the public security organs' past case files, Guo Yabing and Liao Qingli have also been arrested for committing theft, this time "two into the palace".
On September 8, 1995, the Jiujiang Intermediate People's Court held a hearing on the case. The court held that the acts of Wang Junmin, Guo Yabing, Guo Jin, Liu Xuanjin, Guo Jin, and Liao Qingli, who committed an organized and premeditated gang crime with the purpose of illegally depriving others of their lives, causing the deaths of the victims Xu Min and Hu Ying and causing Xu Siyuan serious injuries, all constituted the crime of intentional homicide. The means are extremely cruel, the nature of the plot is heinous, the social harm is extremely great, and it is an organized crime with the nature of a triad.
court
Among them, Guo Jin, in the process of committing the crime, illegally plundered other people's property, constituting the crime of robbery. The Jiujiang City Intermediate People's Court sentenced Wang Junmin, Guo Yabing, and Liu Xuanjin to death in accordance with law; Guo Jin to death with a two-year suspension of execution; and Liao Qingli to 15 years' imprisonment. Five obeyed the verdict and none appealed.
Soon, after a review by the High Court, Wang Junmin, Guo Yabing, and Liu Xuanjin were executed according to law.
Hide in a monastery and escape into the Buddhist Gate
Xu Xinlian has been hiding from the police' wanted, evaporating in the eyes of the police.
It turned out that after escaping from the old bus station in Jiujiang City, Xu Xinlian quickly fled to Huangmei County, which is only one river away from Jiujiang City, and Huangmei County is already the boundary of Hubei Province, which is an important transportation hub at the junction of the three provinces of Hubei and Gansu, and is convenient for the next step of escape.
temple
During a period of anonymity in Huangmei County, Xu Xinlian accidentally inquired that there was a Wuzu Temple in Dongshan, so he went to ask the monastery to take it in, but the abbot of the monastery refused. Although rejected, Xu Xinlian found that the monastery far away from the world was a perfect place to hide, and directly decided to continue to find a monastery willing to take him in.
With the experience of hitting a wall, Xu Xinlian understood that a suitable life and story were more likely to be taken in by the monastery. When he found the Sanzu Temple in Tianzhu Mountain, Qianshan County, Anhui Province, he lied that his surname was Yang, and originally opened a car repair shop in his hometown in Jiangxi, but later he was deceived by a woman because of his love, and he was deeply shocked, and he collapsed, and after seeing through the red dust, he had the idea of staying away from the world and decided to leave home. This time, as Xu Xinlian expected, the abbot of the monastery was deceived by Xu Xinlian's fabricated "tragic life" and took in this wanted murderer.
After Xu Xinlian was admitted to the hospital, he also knew how to restrain himself, and the monastery arranged for him to sell tickets, clean up, work hard and complain, be cautious, even if he encountered some bad things, he could not bear to swallow.
In order to get the affirmation of the elders of the monastery, Xu Xinlian would also take time every day to recite and copy buddhist scriptures, and he copied a "Diamond Sutra" exactly 100 times!
Since he only had the first Chinese, he studied the Sutras more diligently than others. He slept only three hours a day, insisted on it for more than half a year, and relied on reading it over and over again, at this time Xu Xinlian had been able to master the classics such as the "Leng Yan Mantra" and the "Zen Gate Daily Recitation", and the abbot saw this in his eyes and allowed him to shave his ordination, and the legal name was "Shi Wei Di".
On October 21, 1993, the National Representative Conference of the Buddhist Association of China revised the Measures for the Administration of Chinese Buddhist Monasteries in China. According to the requirements of the regulations, if the person who is a monk himself or herself voluntarily and the family members agree, the monastery must determine whether the origin of his identity meets the conditions for monasticism, and only after meeting the conditions can the monastery accept it. Because of its age, the Sanzu Temple where Xu Xinlian is located did not retain any personal information of Xu Xinlian, and Xu Xinlian also escaped the investigation of the police.
Xu Xinlian, who only had a junior high school education, quickly showed his talent in Buddhism. In less than a year, Xu Xinlian had mastered a large number of Buddhist classics, and the abbot of Sanzu Temple particularly appreciated it, and Xu Xinlian was also promoted by him and became the position of receiving guests at Sanzu Temple- Zhike.
Because Xu Xinlian had worked in the Jiujiang Repair Factory, his more skilled work skills made him slowly become the driver of the temple, because Xu Xinlian was still young and difficult to change, he often drove the temple car down the mountain at night to play, and because he often did not sleep, he delayed the daytime work of the monastery. The abbot of Sanzu Temple, who originally admired Xu Xinlian, was very disappointed in him and tried to teach Xu Xinlian many times, but Xu Xinlian still did not repent.
Although Xu Xinlian did not retreat, he never forgot the desire to get ahead buried in Xu Xinlian's heart, and after a long period of stable life in the Sanzu Temple, Xu Xinlian gradually understood the truth of "born in trouble, died in comfort".
In 1995, Xu Xinlian left Sanzu Temple and went to The Nanputuo Buddhist College of Yuanmen Temple in Fujian Province to seek teaching, and studied for three years. For three years, he rode his bicycle every day, rain or shine, and went to school, just to make a name for himself.
Three years later, Xu Xinlian, who graduated from school, traveled all over the country to study, and Xu Xinlian had been in Fuzhou Xichan Temple, Zhejiang Puyang Jinji Temple, Henan Songshan Shaolin Temple and other places.
Until the arrival of the new century, Xu Xinlian walked all the way from Kunming City, Yunnan Province, to ask for directions, and finally began his eleven-year-long stable career at the Mingcha Jingci Temple on the shore of Hangzhou's West Lake.
Immerse yourself in practice and wait for redemption
In the following years, Xu Xinlian successively obtained an adult undergraduate degree and a civil and architectural engineer second-level certificate from Zhejiang University, and did not have anything to practice calligraphy in his own.
Once, his followers took Xu Xinlian's calligraphy works to participate in a municipal competition and won an award, and Xu Xinlian also donated the prize money to the drought-stricken areas in Yunnan. This kind of kindness has accumulated a good reputation for him, and his reputation has gradually spread.
After learning of his good name, the abbot of Seongbuk-ji Temple also learned that the "Shi Wei Di" master of Jingci Temple had a second-class certificate as a civil construction engineer. So in 2008, Xiangji Temple invited him to participate in the reconstruction of Xiangji Temple, and from the design blueprint to the reconstruction construction, it completely followed Xu Xinlian's concept.
Two years later, the reconstruction of Xiangji Temple was completed, and Xu Xinlian, one of the heroes of the temple, was appointed as the superintendent of Xiangji Temple, and he set many rules for the temple, which was praised by everyone! In 2011, Xu Xinlian took the position of superintendent of Jingci Temple with his seniority, and since then he has been running between the two temples.
Since then, Xu Xinlian has transformed into a red man in the Buddhist circle! He was busy giving lectures and auctioning paintings and calligraphy to make a profit for himself. A pilgrim admired Xu Xinlian very much and directly spent 30,000 yuan to buy his calligraphy and paintings.
He also copied a Buddhist sutra that was taken to an auction in the name of charitable donations. When the buyer heard that it was written by Master Shi Weidi himself, everyone knew that the master's Taoism was very high, and in order to seek his authentic handwriting, he was eager to buy this calligraphy and painting, and they bought it at a high price, and finally sold it for 500,000 yuan!
Xu Xinlian's life was smooth, he accumulated a large amount of wealth through calligraphy and painting, he drove an Audi car, used a new mobile phone, and lived a nearly successful life.
At this time, Xu Xinlian's heart had undergone great changes, he was not without the idea of surrendering himself, but the evil side of his heart had overcome himself again and again. Suffering in his heart, he has donated to various areas and charities in need of help many times, deceiving himself and wanting to atone for his sins.
After Xu Xinlian became famous in the Buddhist circles, he was also invited to serve as a member of the Hangzhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference many times, but Xu Xinlian was not "blinded" by the honors in front of him, and he did not forget that he was a guilty person, so he refused the invitation.
As Xu Xinlian's status in the monastery gradually improved, his work in the monastery also increased, because there were more and more occasions for foreign exchanges, and Xu Xinlian realized that without a legal "false identity" to cover up, his true identity would inevitably be exposed.
Xu Xinlian mobilized his own connections, on the pretext of supporting an old man who lost his son, took the opportunity of "second-generation ID card portrait collection" to successfully use his own portrait photo and fraudulently used the identity of the old man's son. And it is this one used to cover up his false identity and let Xu Xinlian, who is smart and clever, expose himself.
With the introduction of the national policy on the registration of the lost population, coupled with the Ministry of Public Security's listing of Xu Xinlian as a key target for prosecution in May 2011, the records left by Xu Xinlian's use of false identities to move around have gradually returned to the police's sight, and master "Shi Weidi" has also surfaced.
Police information
According to the portrait photos left by Xu Xinlian, the police compared the photos left by Xu Xinlian when he absconded from the case data of that year, because after many years, the police found many people who were familiar with Xu Xinlian to help identify, and they all felt that the appearance was Xu Xinlian.
The legal net was restored, and the omission was not leaked
The police knocked on the bedroom of Master Shi Weidi on the pretext of fire inspection, and Xu Xinlian, who had been on the run for seventeen years, was finally arrested.
In February 2012, Xu Xinlian was asked in an interview with a local reporter at the Jiujiang County Detention Center that Xu Xinlian had been abroad for seventeen years, especially in Hangzhou, why didn't he send money to his home to subsidize his family when he had a decent income.
Xu Xinlian replied, "The money was given to the Buddha by the devotees, not by me." "Xu Xinlian has relayed to his family to apologize to the victim's family instead of himself, and Xu Xinlian himself will use all of his own to compensate the victim's family, although the consequences have been irreparable."
Xu Xinlian, who is already in the detention center, still eats vegetarian food every day, recites sutras and meditations, and often uses Buddhism to teach and influence fellow inmates in the same cell, and this performance of Xu Xinlian is precisely because of the accumulation of his efforts to do good deeds day and night during his seventeen years of exile, and his redemption is also coming.
On June 13, 2012, Xu Xinlian was sentenced to death in the first instance on suspicion of intentional homicide, suspended for two years, and deprived of political rights for life.
Young and insane should not be the reason for crime, people always have to pay for their actions, justice may be late, but it will never be absent, Buddhism is not a place outside the law, Skynet is restored without leakage, and people can never challenge the authority of the law.