The author | Ning Jingcheng
At 9 a.m. on March 21, 2007, billionaire Wang Xiandong rarely got up early.
After the nanny prepared breakfast, she did not see Wang Xiandong's figure, so she called out to his bedroom a few times, but the latter did not respond. Because Wang Xiandong's wife, Liu Zufen, sent the child to school, the nanny pushed open the door and told him to get up.
The nanny entered the house and saw him lying on his side facing the window, motionless, as if he had slept deeply. The nanny saw the situation and gently shook it a few times in the past, but Wang Xiandong still did not have any reaction.
"Maybe I'm too tired to sleep a little longer." Because Wang Xiandong played cards late with his friends last night, the nanny did not think much about it and turned and walked out of the bedroom.
After a while, Wang Xiandong's driver came downstairs, and when he heard the nanny say that Wang Xiandong did not get up, he waited downstairs. After more than an hour, Liu Zufen returned home to see that the driver was still waiting below, so the two went to the bedroom together to ask Wang Xiandong to get up.
After the driver lifted the quilt, everyone found that Wang Xiandong was dead!
"How can a good person suddenly die?" After everyone hurriedly called the police, his wife Liu Zufen looked grief-stricken.
Wang Xiandong and Liu Zufen
Many readers may not be familiar with Wang Xiandong, who is only 1.34 meters tall and suffers from congenital polio, but even if he holds a "bad card", he has become a "king bomb". Wang Xiandong started from selling white cakes, and finally worked hard to have hundreds of millions of assets, and his history of struggle can be described as legendary.
After receiving the report, the police rushed to the scene as soon as possible, and according to their years of experience, the police found that it was a deliberate murder. Later, after many autopsies, the police analyzed: Wang Xiandong was incapacitated, covered his mouth and nose, and suffocated.
After investigation, the murderer finally surfaced. It turned out that it was no one else who killed Wang Xiandong, but his wife Liu Zufen.
So, Wang Xiandong and his wife have been married for 16 years, not only have both children and daughters, but also sit on a net worth of 200 million, what exactly makes Liu Zufen kill the people next to his pillow?
If we want to understand the truth of the matter, we must start with Wang Xiandong's history of his family full of blood and tears.
Wang Xiandong was born in December 1969 to a rural family in Chongqing. Unfortunately, he suffered from congenital polio from an early age. Poor families coupled with lifelong illness, Wang Xiandong almost lost at birth on the starting line.
In 1982, at the age of 13, Wang Xiandong graduated from elementary school. Because of his family's circumstances, he had to choose to drop out of school to work, but even if he went out to work, he was only 1.34 meters tall and was discriminated against.
Two years later, Wang Xiandong went into the city with a few yuan, but the cold reality was once again in front of him - not to mention the company, and not even a single odd worker was willing to find him.
At this time, Wang Xiandong was not discouraged, he found that there were not many shoes polishing in Chongqing at that time, so he nailed them into boxes with the waste materials he had collected, and began to polish and repair shoes.
Don't underestimate this humble small business, a year later, Wang Xiandong relied on hard work and frugality, and saved thousands of yuan.
After gaining a foothold in the city, the quick-witted Wang Xiandong set his sights on other businesses — selling white cakes.
According to Wang Xiandong's partner Bao Jing later, the two met since 1984, when Bao Jing was still working at the former Jiangbei Wujiaohua Company, with his office facing the street.
Every morning, Wang Xiandong would carry white cakes from his home two or three kilometers away to the city to sell them, no matter whether it was raining or winding. He was short and hunched over, and it was even more laborious to carry the burden. In order to make the white cake sell well, he has been carrying a burden back and forth in the streets. He walked very slowly, and when he met someone who wanted to buy white cakes, he had a hard time unloading the burden from his shoulders and laboriously clipping the white cakes to customers. There are many people who sympathize with him and often buy his white cakes. ”
Wang Xiandong is short, many people ridicule him for looking like Wu Dalang, he is not angry after listening, but dressed as Wu Dalang to sell white cakes, the business is extremely hot.
Bao Jing said with emotion: "After the working hours, the white cake is not easy to sell, Wang Xiandong put the leftover white cake aside, spread a rag on the ground, put nails, knives, cowhide and began to repair shoes." When he was hungry, he would sit on the ladder and eat the leftover white cakes, never spending money on other food. I asked him, if the white cake is sold out in the morning, what will he eat at noon? He looked at me happily and said that it was best to sell out, you can make a little more money, and it doesn't matter if you don't eat. ”
In the words of an old friend, Wang Xiandong "basically never rested all day long." ”
In 1986, Wang Xiandong, who had been working outside for two years, became the first 10,000 yuan household in the village, because he made his fortune by white cakes, so everyone called him "Big White Cake".
In the early 1990s, billiard halls were all the rage. Wang Xiandong resolutely gave up the business of white cake and bought a pool table with all his savings. Two years later, "his billiard room became the most famous of the two roads." ”
Because he is good at taking advantage of the situation, Wang Xiandong has tossed the clothing and game console business, and it is by doing the game console business that he earned his first bucket of gold.
Career is like a fish, in marriage, Wang Xiandong also thinks that he has found true love.
In 1991, liu Zufen, the village flower, married Wang Xiandong in a burst of blessings. The love object of the two is a pair of leather shoes with different numbers that Liu Zufen bought for Wang Xiandong (the author's note: because of congenital polio, Wang Xiandong's two feet are not the same size). When Wang Xiandong saw these shoes, he was instantly moved, and the two later held a very decent wedding.
Three years later, their eldest daughter was born. But what makes the family very sad is that her daughter inherited Wang Xiandong's disease, which made Liu Zufen always difficult to let go.
In 1999, as Wang Xiandong's business became more prosperous, the family moved into a million-dollar villa in Yubei Jinxiu Villa.
In 2004, Wang Xiandong invested in the establishment of Chongqing Tonghui City Construction Co., Ltd. Later, with the rapid development of the company, Wang Xiandong gradually grew from a small boss to a businessman with assets of over 100 million.
After his success, he actively participated in charity, not only serving as a director of the Yubei District Disabled Persons' Joint Council, the vice chairman of the Yubei District Physical Disability Association, and a representative of the Second Congress of the Disabled in Chongqing, but also invested millions in the construction of the highway.
As his partner Bao Jing commented: "He has no backstage, no backing, this way, until now such achievements, he is relying on his own courage and perseverance." ”
But just when Wang Xiandong's business was getting bigger and bigger, his relationship with his wife Liu Zufen was cracked.
In June 2004, because the company needed cash flow, Wang Xiandong decided to use the villa for mortgage loans. Because the property is the joint property of the husband and wife, Liu Zufen's signature is required before mortgage.
When the company's people came to their homes and asked Liu Zufen to sign, she said, "Is my word so good?" Sign a letter for 300,000 yuan. ”
Hearing his wife's unreasonable request, Wang Xiandong's face was a little hanging, and he scolded: "Mother, I want money every day." ”
The two did not speculate and quarreled. Probably feeling that Wang Xiandong did not respect himself, Liu Zufen slapped Wang Xiandong in front of the staff present and knocked his eyes to the ground.
In the end, it was not until Wang Xiandong took 200,000 yuan to Liu Zufen that the latter chose to sign.
Afterwards, Liu Zufen defended: "I was angry because he did not consult with me beforehand, not the problem of money." ”
It is not difficult to see from this small matter that Liu Zufen's arrogance and Wang Xiandong's tolerance without a bottom line eventually led to an irreparable tragedy.
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In 2005, Wang Xiandong discovered that his wife was behaving abnormally and often returned home late, which made him suspicious. He sent private investigators to investigate twice and found that Liu Zufen had a close relationship with a man.
Previously, Wang Xiandong would give Liu Zufen 50,000 yuan of pocket money every month, and after this incident, he reduced his wife's pocket money to 20,000 yuan.
That year, in front of all the relatives of the Liu family, Liu Zufen wrote the so-called "Letter of Guarantee", which clearly stated that "Liu Fen (the author's usual name: Liu Zufen) does not interact with people who are not inconsistent", "Liu Fen should pay more attention to and understand her husband's life, support and help at work, and communicate with each other" and so on.
Chen Hao, the legal counsel of Wang Xiandong's company, later recalled that after Wang Xiandong learned that his wife might have an affair, he was worried that she would collude with outsiders to seek wealth and death, so he made a will in advance.
Chen Hao said: "The content of the will about Liu Zufen is: If Wang Xiandong dies, Liu Zufen will only have 1 million yuan. ”
Later facts proved that Wang Xiandong's fears were not unreasonable.
In November 2006, Liu Zufen asked a doctor to prescribe more than a dozen boxes of sleeping pills on the grounds of frequent insomnia.
On March 4, 2007, after Liu Zufen and Wang Xiandong had a big fight, his dissatisfaction with her husband grew day by day, so he became murderous.
On March 20, after a meeting between Wang Xiandong and Bao Jing, deputy general manager of the company, and others, a group of people came to Wang Xiandong's home to play cards.
At about 21:00, Liu Zufen took out the sleeping pills prepared in advance.
Two hours later, the hungry Wang Xiandong wanted to eat a supper, and Liu Zufen took the opportunity to pour the medicine into the porridge and give it to Wang Xiandong casually.
After a while, Wang Xiandong fell into a deep sleep.
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At about 1 a.m. on March 21, Liu Zufen saw Wang Xiandong sleeping, so he tied him with tape and covered Wang Xiandong's mouth and nose with a pillow. Unexpectedly, At this time, Wang Xiandong instinctively resisted, and the panicked Liu Zufen bit her husband's left hand on the outer edge of the back with his mouth.
In a trance, Wang Xiandong was completely unaware that his wife was going to attack him, and he felt a little thirsty, so he said to Liu Zufen: "What are you doing?" Don't mess with me, I'm so thirsty, pour me some water. ”
Liu Zufen saw that her husband was still conscious, so she added a large number of sleeping pills to the water, and while Wang Xiandong was asleep, Liu Zufen covered her husband's mouth and nose with a quilt, causing him to suffocate and die.
In order to cover up the facts of the crime, Liu Zufen changed Wang Xiandong's pajamas, and also threw the remaining sleeping pills and Wang Xiandong's old pajamas to the highway in the courtyard of the Tong family in Yubei District. Thinking that everything was in order, she went to the beauty shop she frequented to wash her hair.
Later, the owner of the beauty shop recalled: "That day, Liu Zufen looked tired and fell asleep during the shampoo. ”
Then there was the scene that appeared at the beginning of the article, and Liu Zufen's self-made cleverness was recognized by the police. After listening to Liu Zufen's confession, the police found the package that was discarded by him on the side of the highway, and the fingerprints on it were completely consistent with Liu Zufen.
On May 18, Liu Zufen was approved for arrest.
= On December 13, 2007, the case was heard in the Fifth Intermediate Court of Chongqing Municipality. Before the trial, Liu Zufen, who was in the court's detention room, was in pain: "I am sorry for the two small ones, I regret it." ”
When the bailiff escorted her into the courtroom, she saw Liu Zufen's legs weak, collapsed to the ground, and kept saying: "I am afraid."
After the mood stabilized, when Liu Zufen was asked "why did you kill her husband", Liu Zufen argued: "When I first married Wang Xiandong, he was not very rich. I don't think he's ugly, nor do I covet his money, but Wang Xiandong doesn't treat me as a person, beats me when he doesn't go well, and insults me in front of my parents. ”
Liu Zufen's statement is full of loopholes and does not conform to logic at all.
Liu Zufen
After the investigation, the public prosecution organ said: Liu Zufen is nearly 1.60 meters tall, Wang Xiandong is only 1.34 meters, if there is a fight, Liu Zufen obviously has the upper hand. Ten thousand steps back, if Liu Zufen just wanted to simply exhale, he would not have drugged in the water twice and covered Wang Xiandong's mouth and nose.
Her intention was obvious, that is, to kill Wang Xiandong.
After investigation, the procuratorate also proved that Wang Xiandong and his wife had only fought 4 times in the 16 years since they were married. The nanny said they often quarreled, especially when Liu Zufen went out to play cards and came home late.
Even Liu Zufen's father testified: "Liu Zufen's temper is willful and domineering, and Wang Xiandong can be regarded as more tolerant of her." ”
Combining all the above, we can judge from this that the "scolding" in Liu Zufen's mouth is most likely just a pretext and a cover for his own heart.
Liu Zufen saw that her views were untenable, so her lawyer showed the testimony of 7 witnesses to the crowd, all of whom could prove that Wang Xiandong was having an affair and let a woman have an abortion.
However, the public prosecution organ found that two of the 7 witnesses were people who had been expelled by Wang Xiandong for violating the law, and these 7 pieces of evidence did not reflect the procedure of asking witnesses whether they were willing to testify when the lawyer collected evidence.
According to the relevant laws, Liu Zufen's procedure for collecting evidence was illegal.
Seeing that her struggles were of little use, Liu Zufen's lawyer took out a letter from her two children to the judge, which read: "We have no father anymore, we can't lose our mother anymore." ”
Finally, the Fifth Intermediate People's Court of Chongqing Municipality pronounced a verdict in the first instance: Liu Zufen committed intentional homicide and was sentenced to death with a two-year suspension of execution.
As for why the court did not sentence Liu Zufen to death with immediate execution, it is mainly because:
1. After investigation, the court found that Wang Xiandong had maintained improper sexual relations with a number of women many times during the marriage, and the evidence was sufficient to determine. Although this did not cause major mistakes, it undoubtedly stimulated Liu Zufen;
2. Liu Zufen's confession attitude is good, the case is mainly due to family conflicts, and the most important thing is that the children of the two people have requested leniency to the mother in writing, which is the key to Liu Zufen's suspension of execution.
As for who will inherit the hundreds of millions of assets left by Wang Xiandong, his lawyer Chen Hao said: "According to the relevant provisions of the Inheritance Law: the heirs deliberately kill the heirs; kill other heirs in order to compete for the inheritance; abandon the heirs, or abuse the heirs if the circumstances are serious; forge, tamper with or destroy the will, if the circumstances are serious, they all lose the right to inherit." As a result, Liu Zufen apparently lost the right to inherit Wang Xiandong's estate. Because Wang Xiandong's parents have died, according to the legal inheritance, his property will be inherited by two children. ”
At this point, the author remembers that a poet named Qian Decang in the Qing Dynasty wrote this "Jie Ren Yi - Unsatisfied Poem", in which he wrote:
"Running all day long is only for hunger, only to be full of clothes." He has enough food and clothing, and he wants to be beautiful and beautiful. Marry a beautiful wife and give birth to a child, hate no field and less roots. Buy to the countryside more expansive, in and out of the boat-free less horse riding. The head of the slot buckled mule and horse, and sighed that no official position was deceived. The county lord Bo was still too small, and he wanted to hang purple clothes in the middle. After doing the emperor's immortality, he wanted to ascend to the sky and fly across the crane. If the world wants to be satisfied, except for Nanke Yimengxi. ”
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