In 1998, in Shanlingxia Village, a newly built town in Jinyun County, Zhejiang Province, Dong Xiuhai, a child of a poor family, was admitted to Tsinghua University, the highest institution in the hearts of ordinary people.
Every household in the small mountain village was boiling with joy, and they shouted Dong Xiuhai "Zhuangyuan" and called his mother Ma Caixing "Zhuangyuan Niang".
Dong Xiuhai's tuition and living expenses have not been settled, every household in the village has come to send money and gifts, some families are relatively poor, and they have also taken out eggs and bamboo shoots from their homes, hoping that "Zhuangyuanlang" will not be hungry when he arrives in Beijing, but to supplement nutrition.
The village party secretary was very pleased: "There is a child in the village who has a good life, and when he comes back in the future, he will do something for the people of his hometown." ”
The fathers and fellow villagers also held a celebratory banquet for Dong Xiuhai, and Dong Xiuhai promised at the banquet: If there is a day of development in the future, he will repay the love of his fathers and fellow villagers in his hometown.
Tu | Dong Xiuhai grew up in this small village
The villagers are very happy, in their eyes, this is a cute child who understands human feelings, ambitions, and knows how to reciprocate.
Unexpectedly, 7 years later, Dong Xiuhai, who was already a doctoral student at Tsinghua University, had not yet had time to "develop", and had already been identified by several villagers as a "murderer".
More than 100 villagers in the village under the mountain ridge pressed their handprints and demanded that the murderer be severely punished and that his life be returned!
First, the anger and questioning of the villagers
Dong Xiuhai was born in 1980, he is the youngest in the family, there are 3 older brothers and 3 older sisters, 3 older brothers are born to his mother Ma Caixing and her ex-husband, Dong Xiuhai is Ma Caixing's younger son after remarrying.
Dong Xiuhai grew up thin, his father died of illness when he was 12 years old, after which he was often bullied by his peers, he became more and more introverted, and his mother said to him: "Our family is poor, don't fight with others for that idleness, than compare results with them." ”
Therefore, Dong Xiuhai has realized since he was a child that only if his grades are better than others, he will be looked up to.
Dong Xiuhai is very smart, the results are surprisingly good, the fifth grade of primary school won the third prize in the Zhejiang Division of the National Mathematics Olympiad for Primary School Students without a day of pre-competition training.
All the teachers of Shuanggangqiao Primary School, where he worked, jointly recommended him to Jinyun Middle School, the best middle school in Jinyun County, and in this way, Dong Xiuhai did not take the primary school to junior high school exam and jumped directly to the key middle school.
Under the careful cultivation of middle school teachers, Dong Xiuhai has won the grand prize in the National Olympiad for Middle School Students several times in a row.
Dong Xiuhai's excellence made his mother Ma Caixing grow a face in the village, especially after he was admitted to Tsinghua, Ma Caixing felt that life had hope, and waited for Dong Xiuhai to let her live a good life in the future.
Some magazines reported dong Xiuhai's "inspirational story" in 1999, saying that his three half-brothers were not good for him, and people in the village looked down on their family.
A migrant villager accidentally saw the magazine, opened it happily, and closed it in disappointment and anger. He brought the magazine back to the village, and the villagers were a little uneven at that time, and the money for Dong Xiuhai's high school and the money for the university were all made up by the villagers and relevant departments for the Dong family.
In addition, Zhou Jianhua, general manager of Jinyun Xinjian Town Wild Eagle Electric Vehicle Factory, who once donated money to Dong Xiuhai, was also very dissatisfied with his "unkindness". The news of Dong Xiuhai's admission to Tsinghua university just came out, and Zhou Jianhua personally took out 4,000 yuan and personally sent it to Dong Xiuhai's home.
Zhou Jianhua simply felt at that time that this child had a bright future in the future, and everywhere he went would be the glory of Jinyun people. But Dong Xiuhai did not make a thank-you call to Zhou Jianhua for five months after he arrived at Tsinghua.
After the village cadres knew, they immediately contacted Dong Xiuhai and asked him to remember to call and thank these kind people. Dong Xiuhai contacted Jianhua last week, saying that it was because there were too many letters exchanged by classmates and there was no time to call him.
The picture | the school bag that Dong Xiuhai used that year
Dong Xiuhai would hardly return home after college, and during the winter and summer vacations, the villagers rarely met him in the village, and even if they met him, he would hardly greet the villagers.
The villagers felt that when he walked to the sky, he had looked down on the countrymen who had helped him. Dong Xiuhai explained that because of his introverted personality, he did not like to go out, many neighbors did not know each other anymore, and he was embarrassed to say hello when walking on the road.
A reporter from a certain newspaper published a report and wrote several paragraphs reflecting the contradictions between Dong Xiuhai's family and his neighbors:
In 2002, the village planned to build a cement road, which was to pass through the self-reserved land of Ma Caixing's family, but Ma Caixing resolutely disagreed, and the village committee went to the door many times to do work to no avail. The village party secretary told reporters: "Although Ma Caixing's personality is a bit spicy, if this matter had been left in the past, she would not have dared to blatantly confront the village committee." ”
Ma Caixing also once told his relatives that Dong Xiuhai was serving as the secretary general of the municipal party committee in a city in Hainan, and his salary was more than 10,000 yuan a month; later, there were rumors in the village that Dong Xiuhai would soon become a county magistrate in Xiaoshan County, and that he would return to Jinyun County as a county magistrate after graduation.
That is, in this year, Dong Xiuhai graduated with a bachelor's degree and was directly guaranteed to study for a doctoral student majoring in administrative management at the School of Public Administration.
Ma Caixing was very happy, and she released the good news to the villagers, but the reaction of some people in the village was not as cheerful as when Dong Xiuhai was admitted to Tsinghua, and even a little perfunctory and cold. They also began to call Ma Caixing "official lady", and Ma Caixing did not feel that there was anything wrong with it.
Second, the chaotic crime scene
In early 2004, Ma Caixing and his children discussed rebuilding a house. She had been living in an earthen house on the hill, and when her children became a family, she planned to move down the hill and rebuild the old house.
Ma Caixing's flipped house was not declared to the Land and Resources Institute of Xinjian Town in advance, and neighbor Ma Kailiang believed that Ma Caixing's construction of a three-story house next door would block the lighting of the home and try his best to prevent it.
Ma Kailiang's relatives came to the second floor of the new house, smashed a hole in the wall, and called a wave of people (relatives of the same family) to force the Dong family to stop work immediately.
The Dong family still wanted to build, and Ma Kailiang went up to sue. In March, the land and resources of the Xinjian town government confirmed that the dong family's new house was an illegal building and issued a notice to Ma Caixing to stop construction.
Ma Caixing and Ma Kailiang have never complained, and Ma Caixing has also said that Ma Kailiang is a very rare good person. In the year when the Ma family and the Dong family were fighting each other, Ma Kailiang once had a soft heart and wanted to just forget it and let Ma Caixing continue to build it like this.
In the end, whether to build or not, in the future, it is not Ma Kailiang who has the final say. In this small mountain village with more than 400 villagers, the dong family and the Ma family's house construction have developed into a collective confrontation between the two families, and there are also relatives who provoke it.
Seeing that the house was about to be repaired, the beams were about to be completed, but they were repeatedly blocked, and Ma Caixing's heart was on fire.
On February 4, 2005, the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, Dong Xiuhai returned to his hometown, and his sister said that her mother wanted to build a house, and she had been in a dispute with Ma Kailiang's family for a year, and she wanted to start construction tomorrow. Dong Xiuhai wanted to come forward to help, but her sister felt that he was too tired after a long journey and refused.
On the morning of February 5, the Dong family began to build a house.
The picture | the house that Dong Xiuhai's family was building at that time
Ma Kailiang's daughter Ma Lidan (a student at Hangzhou Dianzi University) recalled that she was reading a book in the house when she suddenly heard a quarrel next door, and it was getting bigger and bigger.
Ma Lidan rushed out to stop them from construction, and soon the two families clashed physically. Many people came from both sides, not only with their fists, but also with iron rods and axes, and twenty or thirty people wrestling together, and the scene was very chaotic.
Dong Xiuhai was not at the scene of the conflict at first, he rushed over after hearing the noise, at this time there were dozens of villagers watching, he squeezed in, found The Ma Lidan's theory, and then there was a tear.
Ma Caixing was cut off by an axe, injured and fell, and someone in the crowd shouted: "Knock my mother away, refuse, knock back!" ”
Immediately Ma Kailiang was hit on the head, and the two families realized that something was wrong and sent the injured to the hospital separately.
Ma Caixing suffered a wound in the head, was identified as a minor injury (partial), and stayed in the hospital for many days. Ma Kailiang's situation was not good, he had been in a deep coma, and died in Chinese New Year's Eve night.
On the day of the fight, Dong Xiuhai and his three half-brothers were detained by the police. After Dong Xiuhai entered the detention center, he repeatedly asked for release on bail, he was very worried about his mother's injury, he did not know that Ma Kailiang was dead, until a month later, the police announced his arrest, he did not know that he was involved in a life lawsuit.
After forensic identification, the "blunt object" that hit the back of Ma Kailiang's head was the rafter wood used to build the house at the scene. However, the public security organs searched the scene and could not extract physical evidence.
At the time of the fight, there were 43 witnesses. Six of the witnesses said that Dong Xiuhai hit Ma Kailiang in the head, while the others said that Dong Xiuhai's brother Zheng Xiuhu hit him.
In Dong Xiuhai's impression, when Ma Kailiang was knocked down, he was in a stalemate with Ma Lidan, and his whole body was facing Ma Kailiang with his back.
But the other party insisted that Dong Xiuhai personally beat someone to death, and they knew that Dong Xiuhai was the most prominent child in the family and the only hope.
Ma Lidan provided the police with a joint letter demanding severe punishment of the killer, with more than a hundred handprints on it. The police said they also received a written certificate from Dong Xiuhai's home, as well as many handprints.
Third, the comfort and sympathy of Tsinghua colleagues
The case has become confusing, although the police have not yet made a final decision, but public opinion has been clamoring, pointing out that Dong Xiuhai is the murderer. Unlike the mainstream reports at the time, Dong Xiuhai was a completely different image in the eyes of teachers and students at Tsinghua University.
Dong Xiuhai is a "direct doctoral student" of the 02nd grade of the School of Public Administration of Tsinghua University, who served as the secretary of the league branch in the class and was once rated as an excellent league cadre. The students' evaluation of him is: frank, enthusiastic, top-notch, is a well-known "smart ghost" in the school. He was also very popular in school, and everyone affectionately called him "Ah Hai".
After the reporter interviewed on campus, he once entered the Tsinghua University BBS Mizuki Tsinghua website, which has many posts about Dong Xiuhai, and most people think that Dong Xiuhai cannot kill people, and there are hidden circumstances in this case. Another classmate familiar with Dong Xiuhai posted: "I feel that he is a bit melancholy, very enthusiastic and very helpful. As a Tsinghua student, in addition to enjoying the aura of the word 'Tsinghua', you also need to bear an extra bit of caution and caution."
Dong Xiuhai has always maintained a hard and simple living habit, especially after learning that his little sister has cancer, he saves money and uses his spare time to work to earn money for his sister to see a doctor. Even if he has a hard time and sees more difficult classmates, he will help.
In addition to crying out for Dong Xiuhai and sympathizing with him, someone else said on the website that Dong Xiuhai had participated in public welfare activities: he had helped two prisoners serving sentences in prison.
The reporter went from Dong Xiuhai's brother-in-law to find Guang Yuqin, who was doing this public welfare activity with Dong Xiuhai, and as soon as Guang Yuqin heard the reporter's intentions, she said with tears: "I already know the news of Dong Xiuhai's criminal detention, and I don't believe that Dong Xiuhai will kill people." ”
Guang Yuqin also knew Dong Xiuhai through a TV program, when Dong Xiuhai had just been admitted to college, and after Guang Yuqin learned of his predicament, she would send him some money and clothes from time to time. Dong Xiuhai is very polite to Guang Yuqin and will call every time to thank you.
The prisoner Dong Xiuhai helped was sentenced to 13 years in prison for treating his lover and embezzling unit funds. Dong Xiuhai, in the name of a Tsinghua student, wrote to this person every week to encourage him to build confidence in life, which was written for 5 years.
With dong xiuhai's encouragement, the prisoner invented 5 patents in just 3 years and was released 7 years ahead of schedule.
Guang Yuqin could not equate Dong Xiuhai with the murderer, nor did she believe that Dong Xiuhai was an ungrateful person. She told reporters: "Dong Xiuhai once said to me: "Auntie, I went to college, studied for a doctorate, got help from many people, and when I finished my studies, I must help others like others helped me." ”
4. Spring Festival in detention centers
Dong Xiuhai's classmates and friends wrote to him one after another to encourage him to cheer up.
Dong Xiuhai stayed in the detention center for more than 8 months, he was originally back to his hometown to be happy for the New Year, but he did not expect to live here. He said: "It's like falling from under the sun to the bottom of the water." ”
During this time, he heard about the magazine that made the villagers angry, and he explained that in 1999, a distant relative of the family, without his consent, submitted an article to a social story magazine with a huge circulation, adding fuel to his story. The magazine never conducted a formal interview with Dong Xiuhai, and in order to create a "touching effect", they wrote about the people around Dong Xiuhai who were not good for him, and the magazine even wrote Dong Xiuhai's father as an idiot.
What made Dong Xiuhai even more devastated was that he saw a news reporting on him, and he was completely blinded, and for so many years, he actually did not know the feelings of the villagers who were becoming more and more strange to him. He took the newspaper and asked his mother: "The newspaper said that our family did not allow the village to build roads. ”
After Dong Xiuhai's sister got the news, she began to frantically buy newspapers in the county town that published this article, and the newspapers in the family were thick. The illiterate Ma Caixing listened to her daughter and the newspaper published the words of an expert: "Dong Xiuhai's moral level has not improved with the improvement of knowledge level, and he does not have the minimum moral cultivation norms of a social citizen." ”
Ma Caixing was very desperate and sad, crying every day in the hospital, and made up his mind never to return to the village.
On September 15, 2005, the Lishui Municipal People's Procuratorate decided to prosecute Zheng Xiuhu and changed Dong Xiuhai to release on guarantee pending further investigation. Based on the available evidence, the prosecution believes that the evidence of Zheng Xiuhu's injuries to death is more sufficient.
The court finally ruled: Zheng Xiuhu was sentenced to death, suspended for two years, and deprived of political rights for life. The defendants in the attached civil lawsuit, Ma Caixing and Dong Xiuhai, bore joint and several liability for compensation, and compensated the Ma family for economic losses totaling 290,000 yuan.
Zheng Xiuhu said to the lawyer many times: "I am sorry for my brother, I hurt him like this." But I don't regret it. Someone beat my mother to the head full of blood, if I don't shoot, can I still be a son? ”
Ma Caixing's wish to build a house was not realized in the end, and she did not even dare to return to the village under the mountain ridge, and could only live in the town a few kilometers away. Her daughter rented him an old house at $30 a month.
The reason why the villagers were so resistant to Ma Caixing's family after the outbreak of this case was that in addition to the misunderstandings and grudges over the years, it was also because Ma Kailiang was a good person in the hearts of the villagers, and even Dong Xiuhai's family was very guilty when they mentioned Ma Kailiang's death, and they also said that Ma Kailiang was a good person.
However, tragedy has already happened, Ma Kailiang's wife and daughter have not agreed to cremate the body of their father, and his wife does not want to leave the old house and has been waiting for it bitterly. Ma Kailiang's eldest daughter also suffered from mental illness, and the family lost its top pillar, and all the burden fell on Ma Lidan, who was admitted to graduate school.
After graduating from college, Ma Lidan had no time to look for a job and spent a whole year busy with litigation. She said: "It's humiliating to live like this. ”
And even if Dong Xiuhai got rid of the suspicion of "murderer" and returned to school on guarantee pending further investigation, he still changed into a person, and when he participated in the project and went out to investigate, he was always afraid that others would read the report when he introduced himself.
A legal worker in Yeosu City said: "This is a lawsuit with no winners. Under the procedures of criminal proceedings, the shadow of blood relatives revenge and clan struggle can always be seen. ”
In 2008, Dong Xiuhai sued a newspaper that published articles such as "Who Stopped Me from Building a House, Who Called Me To Die" and "The Doctor Lost in the Field of Rural Power" after the murder, and the court finally ruled that Dong Xiuhai won the lawsuit and received 30,000 yuan in consolation money for mental damage and related expenses of 7360 yuan.
Dong Xiuhai finally broke free from the negative reports of this case, but this incident became an eternal scar in the hearts of the Dong and Ma families and their neighbors.
Dong Xiuhai's tragedy began with a donation and funding full of warmth and care, when the Dong family was the envy of everyone in the village, Ma Cai apricot scenery and scenery became a "Champion Lady", thinking about it like yesterday.
And even if he is admitted to Tsinghua University, even if he obtains a doctorate, Dong Xiuhai still can't escape the sophistication of his people who are not good at handling.
And for so many years, the contradiction is growing one link at a time:
The excessive expectations of his relatives, neighbors, and donors, and the high demands of Zhi'en Tu; the identity of Dr. Tsinghua magnifies his every move; the absurd articles that relatives have made in order to sell eyeballs; the jokes that illiterate mothers have inadvertently told to their relatives to praise their sons; the villagers' speculation and panic about the rumor of "being an official"; rural women have provoked each other because of mutual hatred; and family battles have caused by the intensification of rural housing construction disputes...
Dong Xiuhai may not be as inferior, sensitive and violent as psychological experts say, he is just a helpless high-level intellectual caught in various contradictions in the countryside, even if he thinks he has entered a new stage of life, even if he feels that he already has the qualities and conditions that should be possessed in living in a big city.
Before the bloody incident, he once said to a fellow countryman: "I came out of this place, I can understand this environment, but it is really difficult to accept, I hope to change." 」 However, his hometown has become a land that he cannot look back on, and as a doctoral student in Tsinghua Administration, Dong Xiuhai's future is unknown.