In the hot summer, the Banshi Lane Vegetable Market located in Chengzheng Street, Xiangtan City, Hunan Province, is filled with mourning, which can't help but arouse people's curiosity, is there anyone mourning in the vegetable market?
Walking to the entrance of the vegetable market, the sound of mourning music is even louder, and a group of people gathered around the door, and there is a spiritual hall in front of the crowd. In the posthumous photo on the Eight Immortals table is a middle-aged man.
From the discussion of the onlookers, we learned that this man's name was Wang Peijun, and he was a fishmonger in this wet market before his death. One morning, an 83-year-old woman was picked up, and after spending thousands of yuan on the old lady's medical expenses, she was asked for 200,000 yuan by the old woman's son.
After being tortured by the 200,000 yuan in compensation, Wang Peijun accidentally bumped into a 72-year-old woman, and after paying 1,000 yuan in advance, he chose to take pesticides in his shop at noon on the same day to commit suicide.
Listening to the heart-rending cries of the deceased's wife and the sympathetic discussion of onlookers, you must have these questions as you read the article: Was Wang Peijun's death due to the 200,000 claims, or because he finally bumped into another old lady? Or is there some other unknown reason?
Kind heart to help the elderly
At 7 a.m. on July 25, 2012, most of the citizens of Xiangtan had just woken up from their slumber, and for the small traders and vendors of the Banshi Lane Vegetable Market, they had been busy for several hours.
At this time, the wet market has long been full of people, shouting, bargaining, and honking. Wang Peijun, a 48-year-old fishmonger, drives a three-wheeled motorcycle with boxes full of fresh fish he has just wholesaled.
The hard-working Wang Peijun had to go to pull live fish every day before dawn, and then returned to the store this hour. The narrow passage in the wet market was difficult for him, and he drove slowly through the crowds and vehicles, turning the bend in front of him was his own shop, and his wife must be waiting for her to return and then unload the goods together.
But who knew that at this moment, an accident occurred, and Li Fuying, a vegetable vendor riding a tricycle, saw Wang Peijun slowly approaching, and suddenly changed the front of the car, trying to avoid Wang Peijun's motorcycle tricycle. Fortunately, the two tricycles did not collide, and just as the two men breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly, "Ouch! A shout drew the attention of the two to the back of Li Fuying's car.
It turned out that just now, in order to avoid Wang Peijun, Li Fuying's tricycle actually brought down an old woman. Seeing the old man fall, Wang Peijun, who was kind-hearted, did not think much about it and hurried forward to help the old man.
"Big Lady, are you all right?" Wang Peijun asked with concern. Li Fuying, who was closer to the old woman, somehow slowed down Wang Peijun a step, and after General Wang Peijun lifted up the old man, he went to the front to ask if the old man was injured.
Looking at the old man was no big problem, the loyal and honest Wang Peijun felt that although he was not the old man he bumped into, Li Fuying only met her to avoid himself. Therefore, Wang Peijun took out 60 yuan, Li Fuying took out 40 yuan, and collected 100 yuan for the old woman.
In fact, this old woman is also an old customer of Wang Peijun's fish stall, and every three to five years she goes to Wang Peijun's stall to buy fish. After getting acquainted with each other, Wang Peijun learned that the 83-year-old lady Yuan Xizhe had a kitten, and whenever Yuan Xizhe came to buy fish, Wang Peijun would also send some dead fish for the old lady to feed the cat.
Watching the old lady walk normally to a stall to inquire about the price of peppers, Wang Peijun also relaxed his mind, rode a three-wheeled motorcycle back to the store, unloaded the fresh fish with his wife, and greeted the old patrons who came to buy fish.
Wang Peijun actually told his wife what had just happened, and after listening to his wife, he was a little worried, Wang Peijun patted his chest and said that he did not hit the old lady himself, and then said that the old lady did not look like a problem, just like usually buying vegetables, the 100 yuan he and Li Fuying put together should be a gift to the frightened old lady.
But what he never expected was that his support did not matter, but it laid the foundation for his future tragedies.
There was no bumping into people, helping people to help accidents
"Walk slowly!" After skillfully putting a processed fish into a black plastic bag and handing it to a customer, Wang Peijun said with a smile.
But what happened next made his smile freeze on the spot. Old Mrs. Yuan Xizhe walked slowly to his shop, Wang Peijun saw that the old lady was walking without any problems, thinking that what had just happened should have passed, and the old lady should have come to buy fish.
"Big lady, come and buy fish, I have a few grass carp that have just turned over." Selling is not selling at a price, you always take it back to feed the cat. Wang Peijun smiled and greeted him, but the old lady's next sentence made him feel like a blow to the head.
"Whoever, I just let you knock you down and now I come back to my senses, and now I feel waist pain, you take me to the hospital to check it out." Old Lady Yuan said such a sentence coldly.
After a moment of surprise, the honest and generous Wang Peijun realized that he was responsible for the old man's fall, and he and his wife gave an explanation, put down the business in his hand, and immediately accompanied Mrs. Yuan to xiangtan People's Hospital. Along the way, Wang Peijun didn't think too much, but he just felt that the old lady had better not be in trouble.
In the hospital, Mrs. Yuan took X-rays, and the diagnostic report showed that "there were no obvious signs of fractures in the ribs seen, and it was recommended: recheck if necessary." Wang Peijun was secretly relieved by this result, and then happily paid more than 600 yuan in medical expenses.
At this time, Li Fuying, who had heard the news, saw two people who had just come out of the hospital. After inquiring about the news that Mrs. Yuan did not have a broken bone, Li Fuying, who was also relieved, suggested that they go to the police station together to mediate the matter. Wang Peijun and Yuan Xizhe had no opinion on this.
According to the confirmation of the Chengzheng Street Police Station later, at about 9:00 a.m. on July 25, Wang Peijun, Li Fuying, and Yuan Xizhe went to the police station to coordinate the incident of Yuan Xizhe being knocked down, and after mediation by the police, the three finally reached an agreement: For Yuan Xizhe's fall, Wang Peijun was mainly responsible, Li Fuying was secondarily responsible, Yuan Xizhe went home to recuperate for a few days, and if there was a problem, he would find two more people.
All three of them had to sign their names on the mediation document in turn, and when it was Li Fuying's turn, she paused for a moment, as if she thought of something, and then wrote down her name.
Through media reports, we learned from the perspective of God that Li Fuying, who was quite clever at that time, signed not her own name at all, but casually wrote a pseudonym, and no one had ever seen her ID card anyway. After signing this name, Li Fuying disappeared without a trace.
Wang Peijun, who signed the agreement at that time, also felt worried and uneasy after returning to the store, when he informed his wife of the matter. The wife pointed to his nose and said that he did not use his brain, so easily took the main responsibility. If there is really something wrong with the old lady Yuan, lai give it to them, and with this agreement, her own family will have to obediently pay money.
Wang Peijun's wife
Wang Peijun was also secretly remorseful for his recklessness, and at this time he could only pray that Old Lady Yuan would not have any problems. After all, the 48-year-old Wang Peijun is at an awkward age, with 80-year-old mothers who often spend money on hospitalization, and sons who have just gone to college and need 20,000 or 30,000 yuan a year. Their own two sons get up early every day to earn this bit of hard money, the cost of supporting the family is already a bit stretched, what should Mrs. Yuan do if she blackmails herself?
At night, it began to rain in the city, and Wang Peijun's mood was like this. This night, he tossed and turned without falling asleep.
Afraid of anything, Wang Peijun, who was sitting in front of the stall the next day, was absent-minded, and was approached by Mrs. Yuan's neighbor. It turned out that when Mrs. Yuan went to bed in the morning, she found that the pain near her ribs was unbearable, and she could only ask her neighbors to go to the vegetable market to find Wang Peijun.
After following the neighbors to Mrs. Yuan's home, Wang Peijun saw that the expression of pain on the old lady's face was not like pretending, and did not think about why she was okay yesterday after being knocked down, and today it hurt like this. Honest and generous, he couldn't bear it and decided to fulfill the agreement.
Therefore, with regard to compensation, the two reached an agreement after consultation. Wang Peijun paid Yuan Xizhe a one-time compensation of 6500 yuan, and he will not pay any fees in the future. Wang Peijun did not have so much money with him, so he rushed back to the store to get it, and his wife Xu Qun heard that he was going to pay 6500 yuan to others, and the anger came up.
"Wang Peijun, tell you to use your brain more often, what kind of agreement you dare to sign, this time let people blackmail it." Xu Qun gritted his teeth and said.
Without waiting for Wang Peijun to reply, Xu Qun said: "This 6500 yuan, how many fish do we have to sell to earn it back, the old people and children in the family use money." As he spoke, he wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes.
When Wang Peijun heard his wife's words, his heart was not a taste. After his wife cried and said a few words, he said: "Old Lady Yuan is really in pain, and then we will pay the money this time, and after paying the money, there will be nothing to do. ”
At this point, Xu Qun could only wipe away tears while taking money out of her bag, and after counting out 65 large bills one by one, she reluctantly handed the money to her husband. Suddenly, Xu Qun thought that the mediation document only stated that her husband was the main responsibility, and the vegetable vendor Li Fuying was also responsible, and how could the 6500 yuan have to make her pay 2000 yuan.
However, when Xu Qun and her husband came to Li Fuying's stall, they were surprised. Li Fuying did not even open a business, asked the old Song Yi who sold spices next to him, and learned that after Li Fuying returned from the hospital in the morning, he packed up the stall and went home, saying that his brother from his hometown was going to get married. "Brother marriage is such an important thing, shouldn't all sisters know it a long time ago?" I saw her walk in a panic, as if she had just learned that her brother was getting married. Old Song, who took a puff of his cigarette, added.
For Li Fuying, who suddenly left, Wang Peijun was stunned, and Xu Qun, who took the lead in reacting, complained that her honest husband had made people play. But in any case, no matter whether Li Fuying ran or not, today this money still has to be handed over to Mrs. Yuan. It should be to spend money to buy a lesson, Wang Peijun thought.
Another six thousand will be lost
When Wang Peijun handed over the money to Yuan Xizhe, he received a promise that the latter would no longer have follow-up expenses. Xu Qun, who was afraid of the long night and dreams, urged her husband to hurry to the police station to ask the police to issue a written certificate.
In the early morning of July 27, Wang Peijun rushed to the police station. After receiving a reply from Yuan Xizhe, Wang Weimin, deputy director of the bureau, also handed over the responsible personnel of the vegetable market to the office, jointly issued a certificate, and also stamped the official seals of the police station and the vegetable market.
Later, Wang Peijun also learned from the person in charge of the vegetable market that in the agreement signed by the three people for the first time, the vegetable vendor Li Fuying used a pseudonym. This made Wang Peijun, who had always been thick and honest, deeply shocked by Li Fuying's cunning behavior, and it turned out that the fool was really himself.
The person in charge of the vegetable market looked at him with a playful look, and then he smiled, patted Wang Peijun's shoulder, and said: "Brother Wang, anyway, I will pay 6500 yuan this time, and there will be no trouble in the future." After Wang Peijun listened, he could only nod his head bitterly.
Wang Peijun believes that this incident occurred in the vegetable market, only his own side paid money, and this money is not a small amount for himself, so he asked the vegetable market to reduce his one-month booth fee. After all, I have to pay the rent of tens of thousands of yuan to the vegetable market every year, in addition to some miscellaneous expenses, as the management of the vegetable market office to reduce some of their own booth fees, is not reasonable?
Who knew that when Wang Peijun said this request, the person in charge of the vegetable market who had just smiled at Wang Peijun and called him a brother and a brother suddenly changed his face, which became faster than the weather in Xiangtan in summer. The person in charge squeezed into the brow of the word "Chuan", like a sudden rainstorm. He unceremoniously refused Wang Peijun's request, and when he was finished, he ignored Wang Peijun and walked out of the police station.
Wang Peijun then remembered the impatient attitude of the other party when he wanted to ask the staff of the market office to help mediate yesterday. "Although it happened in the wet market, but people are the two of you bumping into, you can't always rely on the road in the market, right?" This has nothing to do with the wet market. "Mediation? The wet market is not so powerful, we just take your money, we can't take care of anything. "The head of the wet market has pushed the responsibility to the end.
These people seem to be able to smile at themselves only when they receive money, which is really a bunch of things that take money and do nothing! Depressed, Wang Peijun returned to the store and told his wife Xu Qun these heartfelt words, and Xu Qun could only comfort her husband that people's hearts were like this. "If it's really time to do something, who is willing to help you?" Xu Qun comforted her husband.
It is reasonable to say that this money was also given to the agreement and signed, and this matter should have ended here, but Wang Peijun, who was honest and responsible, always felt that there would be some moths this time.
Sure enough, on the morning of August 6, Wang Peijun received a notice from the Chengzheng Street Police Station and asked him to go to the police station. After Wang Peijun learned, Yuan Xizhe's son Shen Zhengwei found the police and said that his mother was checked out to break 5 ribs, and the current treatment fee has cost more than 20,000 yuan, and the 6500 yuan that Wang Peijun gave before is far from enough.
"This is obviously an addiction to our family's wool!" I want money again! "Wife Xu Qun hates the tunnel. However, seeing Shen Zhengwei, who was making a lot of noise at the police station, the honest Wang Peijun actually chose to calm things down.
According to Wang Peijun's neighbors, Wang Peijun is indeed a very honest person in life, arguing with others, even if Wang Peijun is reasonable, he has to become an unreasonable person.
Since the two families had already reached an agreement before, the Yuan family was not allowed to ask Wang Peijun for any fees after that. Now, it is clear that the Yuan family wants to tear up the agreement. So after the coordination of the police, Wang Peijun once again compensated Yuan Xizhe with 6,000 yuan.
At this time, Wang Peijun secretly resolved in his heart that this was the last compensation! But is this really the case?
The devastating "200,000"
Not long after returning to the store, Wang Peijun received a phone call, and on the other end of the phone was Fan Zhengwei, who had just reached an agreement with him.
"Surnamed Wang, my mother's injury will definitely have to be hospitalized for surgery in the future, and you have to prepare money here!"
"Doesn't it mean that only this time for 6,000 pieces, we will end it?"
"It's not up to you to decide, and you can't look at the previous agreement, it depends on my mother's situation!"
"You... You're making a big deal out of it! ”
"Now give you a chance, you can think of the end, take 200,000 this matter has nothing to do with you at all." Beep..." Said to the convenience of hanging up the phone.
After Wang Peijun heard "200,000" on the other end of the phone, it was like a thunderclap sounded in his head, and the whole person stayed in place.
"200,000! You want my life!" The collapsed Wang Peijun shouted loudly.
In the afternoon, Wang Peijun, who was worried about his heart, was sitting in the shop, and suddenly several men of five years and three thick came in. Wang Peijun thought it was a customer, and just wanted to raise his spirit to greet him, but the leading one pressed Wang Peijun's shoulder and whispered to him: "Friend, you bumped into my brother's mother, give you 200,000 a week, otherwise you will make trouble every day in the future." You don't want your business to be unable to do it, do you? ”
A group of people did not wait for Wang Peijun to explain, and then walked out of the storefront. After being physically threatened, he hurriedly called Fan Zhengwei back, but the other party directly hung up. Therefore, Wang Peijun went to the office of the vegetable market and told the person in charge of the matter, hoping that the vegetable market side could mediate in the middle.
Who expected the other party to still have a posture of not caring about themselves and hanging high, saying that they could not manage this matter. An angry Wang Peijun had to return to the store in a depressed mood, at this time his heart was desperate, and had reached a critical point, only a straw was needed to crush this man.
The last straw: hitting people again
At about 7:00 a.m. on August 7, Wang Peijun, who was a few years older overnight, rode a motorcycle three-wheeler to deliver wholesale fresh fish to his stall. When he was about to arrive at the stall, The trance-like Wang Peijun bumped into an unmounted tricycle again, knocking the 72-year-old Yang Shuyun to the ground. Wang Peijun then lifted the old lady up and, accompanied by Yang Shuyun's family, immediately sent her to the hospital for examination. The diagnosis was a fracture of the lower tibial fibula of the left.
Wang Peijun first paid 1,000 yuan in advance for medical expenses, and promised Yang Shuyun's family that he would compensate for the medical expenses. He then returned to the market on the pretext of raising money, desperately telling the market staff that he hoped to help mediate the accident in the morning, and that he did not have any money in his hands now and wanted to borrow some money from the market.
Both of these requests were rejected by the market, and they also sneered at Wang Peijun: "I have to solve it myself!" ”
Wang Peijun returned to the store like a walking dead, he closed the roller shutter door halfway, wrote his last words, and called his wife who was away, asked her to come back, hung up the phone and drank a bottle of pesticide. When Xu Qun returned to the store, he found her husband, who was long dead.
"He was very calm on the other end of the phone and asked me to come back, who knew it was the last conversation!" Xu Qun cried bitterly in front of the camera.
After seeing her husband's suicide note, Xu Qun set up a spiritual hall for her husband in the vegetable market. Local people who heard about this also spontaneously rushed to the wet market to look at or bow to the ice coffin and the photograph of the deceased.
Yuan Xizhe and Yang Shuyun's family members also shirked that Wang's death had nothing to do with themselves, and very tacitly abandoned their claims against the Wang family.
The wet market, which is closely related to this matter, has remained silent, and the office is also locked...
Wang Peijun, an honest man, from helping the elderly to step by step towards suicide, from doing good deeds to a tragedy, the reasons behind this are worth each of us pondering deeply.