A condemned prisoner in Jiangsu province was imprisoned to "read" and was laughed at by his fellow inmates, so why did he eventually get a commutation?

In 1993, a strange thing happened in a prison in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, that is, a death row prisoner named Zhong Kailong, after entering prison, did not wait for death, but kept flipping through the dictionary.

Such a strange act immediately triggered the ridicule of a group of inmates, some people thought he was scared crazy, and some people thought that he wanted to find the "golden house" in the book to temporarily hold his feet in order to change his fate.

But in this regard, Zhong Kailong did not pay attention, he studied the dictionary with all his heart, without the slightest regard for the contempt of others. However, shortly after this, what everyone did not expect was that the court actually changed the verdict, and Zhong Kailong immediately changed from a death sentence to a suspended death sentence, and his sentence was also reduced again and again.

So what's going on here? What did a condemned prisoner do to be exempt from the death penalty, and if he was not a bad person, what crimes had he committed before to be sentenced to death?

Zhong Kailong was born in 1966 to a poor family in Rugao City, Jiangsu Province. Although the surname of the Zhongjia family is very special, its ancestors have been peasants facing the loess and facing the sky, and the situation is even worse in the generation of Zhongkailong's father. Why? Because of feudal ideas, the Zhongjia family was bent on having a boy, so that by the time Zhong Kailong was born, there were already three sisters in the family.

A family of six, plus Zhong Kailong's grandparents, this is a full eight people, eight mouths, all need to rely on Zhong Kailong's father to work alone in agriculture, this family is naturally not much better.

Born in such a family, even if everyone in this family is very fond of him, Zhong Kailong's life since he was a child is still very difficult. It can be said that fortunately, Zhong Kailong's parents discovered their son's talent in writing by chance, otherwise he might not even be able to attend primary school.

Of course, going to school is so difficult, Zhong Kailong also cherishes his study life, in the study he studied hard, day and night to study homework, especially in the language, he has reached the point of sleeping and forgetting to eat. Under such efforts, the results are naturally remarkable, from the primary school, Zhong Kailong's results have been among the best, and the compositions he wrote have been posted by the school many times on the school's big list for the reference of students.

This made Zhong Kailong and his parents and family feel very proud, but they were even more proud to be behind. When Zhong Kailong graduated from High School, he was admitted to Jiangsu Foreign Trade School with the top ten results in the county, which is no longer brilliant now, but at that time, this was a national distribution of work, and outsiders could step up to the heavens. Therefore, when he learned that Zhong Kailong was admitted, the whole family boiled over, Zhong Kailong's father bought wine and vegetables overnight, and his mother also changed his previous miserliness and bought several new clothes for Zhong Kailong, in order to let his son go to school with beautiful scenery.

But at this time, where do they know that the college career is not only not the starting point of his son's take-off, but also the beginning of his depravity....

In this way, under the farewell of his parents and relatives, Zhong Kailong began his college career. At first, Zhong Kailong, who had just entered the school, was still very hardworking, and he always maintained the grades of the first in his age in his studies, but gradually, the world of flowers and flowers dazzled his eyes. The city was intoxicated by the lights and greenery, and all kinds of novelties made him have no intention of learning, especially when he was exposed to various science fiction novels, and his studies completely stopped.

Skipping class gradually became Zhong Kailong's daily routine, and even in class, he only hid in the last row while reading extracurricular books and writing by himself. And this kind of delay in school, but also let Zhong Kailong suffer from it, the teacher no longer cares for him on weekdays, he also has to hang up every exam during the exam, and even more on the occasion of his graduation, because of the hanging subject, he was also assigned to a very general job, that is, the warehouse ticket inspector.

In the past, his classmates either became the backbone of technology or gained a firm foothold in the management, which made Zhong Kailong feel a deep sense of humiliation, but all this was done by himself, who can blame him? Therefore, Zhong Kailong also had to take a salary of more than 100 yuan per month and spend his days in the unit every day.

Zhong Kailong spent three or five years in such a bland and boring life, but suddenly one day, the appearance of an old classmate changed all this. This old classmate heard that Zhong Kailong worked in a state-owned enterprise, and when he thought of Zhong Kailong's excellent academic performance, he naturally thought that he must be in an important position, so he thought of inviting him to dinner and stuttering with his old classmates to get a little convenience.

But what he did not expect was that Zhong Kailong was actually just a small warehouse ticket inspector, hearing the news, he turned his head and wanted to leave, but he thought that he was now in urgent need of a batch of plastic particles, and the warehouse that Zhong Kailong was responsible for was kept by plastic particles, so when he thought of this, a criminal thought ignited in his heart, that is, let Zhong Kailong guard himself and steal the country's property.

Hearing this, Zhong Kailong wanted to refuse, after all, once such acts were discovered, he would inevitably be imprisoned, but when he thought that his classmates were either in important positions or made a lot of money, Zhong Kailong's inner desire was suddenly pulled out. Therefore, after asking for detailed modus operandi, he agreed sharply.

Since then, Zhong Kailong has begun his criminal career, and because the management of the factory is relatively loose, he has earned more and more illegal wealth. From the first few thousand yuan, to the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and by the eve of 1990, he even earned a total of more than one million stolen funds.

What was the concept of a million in the early nineties? It is almost comparable to the current 100 million yuan, which is enough for an ordinary person to spend several lifetimes in glory and wealth! Therefore, after having money, Zhong Kailong's life also changed, and he began to spend revenge, first buying a mansion in Shanghai, and then unscrupulously buying a large number of stocks and treasury bonds, like some luxury goods in his home.

Not only that, but then he found a very beautiful girlfriend, the two of them all day long, soon to the point of talking about marriage, and with a girlfriend as a shield, Zhong Kailong's high consumption also dispelled the doubts of many colleagues. So if this is the case, why was Zhong Kailong exposed after that and thus sentenced to death?

It turned out that this was all the "credit" of Zhong Kailong's girlfriend. At that time, Zhong Kailong and his girlfriend were already about to get married, but thinking that he had not played enough, he suddenly repented, thinking of dumping his girlfriend and going to live in other cities by himself. Hearing that Zhong Kailong wanted to dump himself, his girlfriend naturally refused to let go easily, after all, such a gold lord was not easy to find, so she threatened Zhong Kailong, saying that she knew that his money came from an unknown source, it was dirty money, if he insisted on breaking up, then he would call the police to die and break the net.

Hearing this, although Zhong Kailong was indeed a little flustered at first, he could think about it, his girlfriend had not spent less of his own money over the years, if she called the police, then she herself could not shirk the guilt, so Zhong Kailong did not care too much, insisting on leaving Shanghai alone. However, Zhong Kailong obviously underestimated his girlfriend's determination, and because of her love and hatred, she chose to call the police shortly after Zhong Kailong left, and informed the police of all his crimes.

After the police learned of this situation, they attached great importance to it, and after confirming that the state-run warehouse was indeed stolen, they also immediately arrested Zhong Kailong, who was buying tickets at the station. It is not a trivial matter to know that more than one million yuan were embezzled in the 1990s, of course, this is the reason why Zhong Kailong was sentenced to death by the court.

After that, Zhong Kailong went to prison, and he began a boring "waiting for death" life, in addition to the normal wind release every day, it was to read some magazines distributed by the prison to relieve boredom. But suddenly, he was attracted by an article in a magazine that introduced a Chinese input method commonly used in computers, that is, a four-character input method that can type Chinese characters by tapping the keyboard four times.

Looking at the introduction in the text, Zhong Kailong was instantly fascinated, and an idea also appeared in his mind, that is, can this four spelling be reduced to three spelling?

Thinking of this, Zhong Kailong asked the prison guards for a Copy of the Xinhua Dictionary, and he pondered it alone in the prison. And watching him read the dictionary without eating, the prisoners in the prison were also full of question marks, they competed to ridicule Zhong Kailong as a fool, and even watched Zhong Kailong not reply, and a group of vicious prisoners repeatedly beat him.

Seeing that the prisoners were in conflict, the guards naturally could not stand idly by, but they were also surprised by Zhong Kailong's behavior, so a kind prison guard asked Zhong Kailong what he was doing. Hearing the prison guard's inquiry, Zhong Kailong finally opened his mouth, and he said solemnly:

"Report to the prison guards, I think there is room for upgrading this four-spell input method now, I am looking up the dictionary, and marking, hoping to make some contributions to society before dying"

Hearing Zhong Kailong's words, the inmates around him laughed even more happily, and one of the death row inmates who was going to be tortured the next day even said:

"If you can make an input method, why would you still go to jail?" Don't dream, in a few days you will be shot, or wash and go to bed early, you this...."

Before the man could finish speaking, the prison guard interrupted him and turned to Zhong Kailong and said:

"Don't listen to them, your thinking is very right, keep trying, if you really study it, maybe you really don't have to die." 」

Would a triplet input method be exempt from the death penalty? Hearing this, Zhong Kailong instantly came to the spirit, and the arrangement in his hands also accelerated a lot, and just under his efforts to sleep and forget to eat, after the end of the second trial, he really made a bit of a name for himself and made a simple three-spell template.

After learning of this situation, everyone was stunned, and the mood of the prisoners changed from the original disdain to heartfelt admiration, and the prison guards also hurried to submit the paper input method template to the superiors for review.

Sure enough, after the evaluation of a number of IT and Chinese experts, it was found that although this input method is somewhat rudimentary, after a little polishing, it is absolutely possible to subvert the existing input method, and relying on this achievement, Zhong Kailong finally got the opportunity to change the sentence to a suspended sentence and slowly make a meritorious reduction.

The story of a death row inmate who, relying on his obsession to contribute to society before his death, finally gained the opportunity to survive is really touching.

However, everyone should know that the prison guard who encouraged him also has a great merit, if he did not support Zhong Kailong, repeatedly pulled him back who was ready to give up waiting for death, Zhong Kailong would not have persisted, let alone been released from prison in his lifetime, and finally married and had children to live an ordinary life.

I don't know what opinions everyone has on this matter. Let's talk about it.

Finally, I also hope that all readers here can be strict with themselves, behave well, and be a good citizen of China with morality and conscience!