In He Hong's cognition, the parenting concept of the current society has never been considered by him, and he still holds the idea of having many children and many blessings hundreds of thousands of years ago, and has given birth to 11 children in 16 years, hoping to live a happy life in this way.
"It's better to save than to save!"
This is the most famous sentence spoken by He Hong in his life, and it was once widely discussed by the public, and people debated whether it was important to save money or have children, and they analyzed the philosophy contained in this sentence.
In fact, in He Hong's eyes, these words are just a summary of his inner thoughts, and there is no profound meaning.
As for whether this statement is right or wrong, if you look at his life, people will know what kind of result it is to save only people without saving money.
Having 11 children in 16 years, he said it was better to save than to save
In 1995, He Hong of Santai Village, Pengnan Township, Suining City, Sichuan Province, was a 27-year-old bachelor.
Unable to find a suitable job in his hometown, he came to Shanghai to work alone and met Zhang Xingzi, 26 years old.
It didn't take long for He Hong to marry Zhang Xingzi back to his hometown.
At that time, He Hong's reputation in the village was not good.
The villagers in the same village as He Hong believe that although he also works to earn money on weekdays, he has no rules for doing things and the family's economic situation is not good, so he has not been able to get a daughter-in-law in the village.
This time, He Hong accidentally brought back a wife from Shanghai, and everyone in the village said that Zhang Xingzi may have a mental disorder and was abducted by He Hong.
The guess of the villagers was half right and half wrong.
Zhang Xingzi does have intermittent mental disorders, but she acts and thinks as usual on weekdays, and there is no big problem.
According to He Hong, he and Zhang Xingzi were freely in love in Shanghai, and Zhang Xingzi voluntarily returned to the village with him to live.
We don't know the truth, but at that time, Zhang Xingzi was really willing to live a life with He Hong who was not rich.
The two people did not hold a wedding, nor did they invite the villagers to eat a banquet, but the two people ate two bowls of noodles at home, and they set a lifelong plan, and they did not even get a marriage license.
At that time, Zhang Xingzi did not know that He Hong married himself, and his greatest wish was not to find a lover who could stay together for life, but to find an object that could help him have children.
In 1995, the two people met and married, and in 1996, Zhang Xingzi began a long and painful journey to have children.
In 1996, the eldest daughter He Chuanhui was born, and in 1997, the second eldest, He Junhui, was born...
At a rate of almost one per year, Zhang Xingzi gave birth to 7 girls, 4 boys, and 11 children in a total of 16 years from 1996 to 2012, shocking local villagers and cadres.
At that time, when Zhang Xingzi gave birth to her third child, the village cadres were already worried, and from time to time they would take people to the door to talk to Zhang Xingzi and He Hong.
After several times and three times, He Hong also found a way to resist, and every time the village cadre came to the door, He Hong would flee with his wife with a big belly.
Because they were afraid of the accident of the pregnant Zhang Xingzi, the comrades in the village did not dare to chase and had to fight back home.
In this way, He Hong fulfilled his dream as he wished: more and more births.
Zhang Xingzi once asked He Hong why he had so many children, and He Hong's answer left him speechless:
"You know what! The more people work, the more they work, there are not so many children, to work to find others to come, to find others to come to give money, more children, what work can be called children to do! ”
Zhang Xingzi's education is not high, and she only knows how to do farm work.
For her, working is the meaning of life, He Hong said that the more children born to work, the easier it is, and Zhang Xingzi can only choose to listen to him.
What's more, He Hong also said: "Saving money is not as good as saving people, now have more children, as long as there is one child out of the work, the family's life will be better." ”
However, after giving birth to 11 children, Zhang Xingzi realized that He Hong's words were not entirely correct.
After giving birth at 3 o'clock and cooking at 6 o'clock, she said she did not want to give birth
When she gave birth to her first child, Zhang Xingzi felt that her life had entered a new stage, and in the future, she could make money with He Hong to raise children and have a happy future.
When He Hong insisted on having a second child, Zhang Xingzi also felt that having two more children was nothing, and the family was a little more popular, and others in the village would be more envious.
However, after giving birth to a child, Zhang Xingzi began to feel that this was a burden and pain for herself and her child.
He Hong's village itself is not particularly wealthy, and He Hong himself has no skills, and he has not been able to save any savings after working around for many years.
In this family economic situation, Zhang Xingzi did not choose to go to the hospital to give birth, most of the time it was born at home, and her husband He Hong was personally responsible for delivering the baby.
Neither of them had any relevant expertise, and the delivery relied on the teaching and experience of the villagers, which brought a lot of danger to the children.
Several children were born with an umbilical cord around their necks and almost died of suffocation; after Lao Jiu was born, he did not cry like other children, which made Zhang Xingzi afraid.
Fortunately, Zhang Xingzi himself has a good physique and good luck, giving birth to children at home 11 times, and none of them face life-threatening dangers.
But on the other hand, Zhang Xingzi's body is so strong, so that she has no excuse to enjoy the rest time before and after childbirth like other pregnant women.
Even if pregnant with a big belly, Zhang Xingzi still has to work every day.
The work of the farmland can not be left behind for a day, the pigs raised by the family still have to be fed, and every few days, she has to personally pick dozens of pounds of pig grass to take home.
With more and more children, the daily work has become more and more, which makes Zhang Xingzi feel pain when she gives birth to several children.
Zhang Xingzi gave an example: when giving birth to a child, she needs to take the belly of the fetus in October to do physical work, sleep until 3 o'clock in the middle of the night and feel that she is going to give birth, so she asks He Hong to deliver her.
After the child was born, Zhang Xingzi was confused for a while, and by 6 o'clock in the morning, she had to get up to cook for the children, cook pig grass for the pigs, and then work in the field.
In Zhang Xingzi's life, having children has become part of daily work.
It's just that farm work is done every day, feed work is done every few days, and giving birth to children is once a year, which is the only difference.
In this family, no one will take on the work for her who is pregnant, no one will consider whether she is weak after giving birth, and everything will have to be carried by herself.
Recalling the process of giving birth to a child for more than ten years, Zhang Xingzi has only one feeling:
"I'm willing to work, I don't want to have children."
Heavy farm work is a burden of life in the eyes of others, but in Zhang Xingzi's view, if her life can be completely filled by farm work, it will be a kind of happiness.
So Zhang Xingzi is so tired, is life getting better and better?
The answer is no.
The housekeeper doesn't care, and the family is a mess
Sometimes Zhang Xingzi looks at the dirty environment at home and recalls the way she first married into the He Hong family.
At that time, He Hong did not have much money as he does now, but there were only two people living in the life, and Zhang Xingzi could keep the family in order.
Now, with 11 children in the family, the living environment has become like a garbage dump.
He Hong and Zhang Xingzi live in a simple green brick house, the doors and windows of the house are dilapidated, the outside of the house is full of all kinds of garbage, plus the pig pen next to the house, the whole house stinks.
As soon as you enter the room, the first thing that catches your eye is a large number of clothes scattered throughout the room, most of which are donated by well-wishers.
When it was cold, Zhang Xingzi was afraid that the children would catch a cold, so she would take out her clothes and let the children cover them.
Day by day, clothes were scattered everywhere, and Zhang Xingzi did not take care of it, nor could he take care of it.
Because within a few days of cleaning up, the 11 children will throw the clothes everywhere again.
In such an environment, there is no distinction between washing clothes and not washing, and children can wear whatever they want when they wake up in the morning.
In the long run, the house became a foul smell.
Because the family was poor and could not give the children all a separate bed, He Hong and Zhang Xingzi piled up several benches on top of a few sturdy wooden boards.
Then the clothes donated by the well-wishers are laid on the top, and it becomes a large kang that accommodates most of the children's sleep.
Winter is not bad, and in summer, all kinds of bugs and ants and even cockroaches and rats are regular customers in the house.
Rats even pass by the bed while the children are sleeping, and occasionally children are not surprised to see this scene, because it is already too common in their lives.
He Hong and Zhang Xingzi both knew that the family was poor, but they couldn't do anything about it.
He Hong earns money by doing odd jobs for others, and can get about 3,000 yuan per month.
Zhang Xingzi is responsible for the family's farm work and pig raising, and He Hong's family rents 5 acres of land, which has made Zhang Xingzi busy all year round.
Even so, they couldn't save any money because the cost of raising 11 children was too great.
11 children, to eat 13 kilograms of rice every day, He Hong went out to work without energy management, Zhang Apricot farm work is too busy, no time and no money to stir-fry vegetables for children.
So most of the time the children eat porridge, porridge with three or four vegetable leaves floating in it, plus one steamed bun per person, even if it is a meal.
Even if it is such a meal, the children must rush to eat it.
If you grab it slowly, you will drink less porridge, you won't have enough to eat, and your stomach will be hungry at night, which is the most important lesson learned by the 11 children of the He family after they came to this world.
Once, during the New Year, volunteers who learned that the He family's living conditions were not good came to help them with a large number of supplies.
So in the Chinese New Year's Eve of the year, the He family's table was filled with pork head meat, roast goose and a variety of fresh stir-fried vegetables and fruits.
As soon as the pork head meat was brought to the table, a few children couldn't wait to reach out and grab it, they had never eaten such a delicious thing.
On the one hand, it is because He Hong and Zhang Xingzi do not pay attention to etiquette education.
On the other hand, because the chopsticks at home have always been insufficient, the older children broke a few branches from the tree and straightened the chopsticks, and the young children could only grasp them with their hands.
Because of this, most people in the village will not invite The He family to dinner.
Because the He family's children are too many to afford, and because inviting guests to dinner is a matter of paying attention to the scene, the Children of the He family have always had a bad reputation in the village.
Not only was it dirty but also rude, and almost all the villagers tried to avoid them.
Eating is still like this, dressing, education and learning are not to be talked about, these are luxuries in this family, children can not hope.
The eldest daughter is crazy, and the eldest son is better off alive than dead
"In the future, I will make all the people who look down on me look up to me!"
After shouting these words, the eldest daughter He Chuanhui left the home.
This is the catharsis of her heart and lungs before leaving, an indictment of the helplessness of the family environment, and an unavoidable consequence caused by He Hong and Zhang Xingzi who have only given birth to and not raised for many years.
He Chuanhui is the first result of He Hong's birth plan, and as the eldest elder sister among the 11 children, she did not enjoy preferential treatment because she was born first.
Because of his family's poverty, He Chuanhui dropped out of school after a few years of study, and has been helping Zhang Xingzi work at home ever since.
But because he was too young to work much, his youth was wasted in the hot sun and farmland.
Later, looking back, He Chuanhui felt that the years of school were probably the happiest days of her life.
But in fact, He Chuanhui has always been ostracized by her classmates in school, because she has a great smell on her body.
When He Chuanhui went to school, there were already more children in the family.
Zhang Xingzi did not have the energy to clean, and the children's clothes were often worn for months without washing.
After getting up, pick a random piece of clothing donated by an unknown person in the room, wear it and go out, and the smell on the body is naturally not light.
Even so, He Chuanhui also felt that being bullied at school was better than doing nothing at home.
Later, at the age of 17, He Chuanhui was "crazy".
"Crazy" is the description of He Hong and Zhang Xingzi.
In their eyes, He Chuanhui was living a good life, and suddenly he made a big fuss, like eating gunpowder, insisting on leaving this home.
At that time, He Chuanhui simply packed up a few clothes and left without looking back.
Since then, she has worked in Suining, Chongqing, Nanchong and other cities to make a living and has done a lot of work.
Just because I don't have a degree and can't find a high-paying job that I can do, my salary has been hovering around 2,000 for many years.
Even so, He Chuanhui already felt that his life had been saved.
On He Chuanhui's 19th birthday, she had not returned home for more than a year, and she had no contact with her family.
He Hong took the only mobile phone in the family to call He Chuanhui, and called several times without getting through.
Zhang Xingzi said next to her: "The family is poor, she is not willing to come back when she goes out, don't fight." ”
In the afternoon, He Chuanhui called He Hong back, saying that he was working in Wenzhou and would not return this year for the New Year.
After hanging up the phone, He Hong felt that the eldest daughter did not come back because she did not make money, because he remembered that when He Chuanhui made more money before, he could send back more than 1,000 yuan a month.
Perhaps He Hong and Zhang Xingzi did not understand throughout their lives why the eldest daughter, who was the most sensible in her daily life, suddenly went crazy and wanted to go out to work.
What they think of as "poor" is only one reason.
On the other hand, in this large family of 13 people, no child can get the love and normal education from their parents, and staying in this home makes He Chuanhui feel that there is no tomorrow.
Finally, when He Chuanhui was 21 years old, she was sent to a mental hospital.
Whether it is the oppression of life, the shadow of childhood, or the inheritance of Zhang Xingzi's intermittent mental disorder that causes this result, no one knows.
In addition to the eldest daughter He Chuanhui, other children in this family also have various problems.
The second eldest had the best academic performance except for the eldest daughter, but because of poverty, he still dropped out of school.
Since then, he has been running between the township governments, fighting for all the treatment that the family should enjoy and should not enjoy.
The fourth did not follow the rules in school and liked to fight.
In a fight, knives were used on both sides, and the fourth elder was stabbed in the stomach, and the situation was very critical, and he was taken to the hospital for rescue.
At that time, He Hong suggested that the doctor should give more anesthetics to help his son relieve his pain.
Who knows that after being cured, the fourth elder is like a changed person, who is less silent on weekdays and often has a violent tendency towards people.
On the worst occasion, he lifted the youngest old eleven from the ground and threw him hard to the ground.
When the sixth elder accidentally fell down when he was a child, his head was injured, and He Hong had no money to send him to the hospital, so he used sewing needles and threads to briefly treat the old sixth.
After the injury is healed, the old sixth will always smirk and make people's hearts hairy.
In the later murder case that led to He Hong's life imprisonment, Lao Liu raised his chair with a vicious face and desperately smashed into the victim who was lying on the ground in his eighties.
The luckiest old eleven, after being thrown to the ground by the fourth elder, was sent to the hospital for rescue, and was then taken away by the rest of the He family.
Perhaps such an accident saved her fate.
All of this can be summed up in a sentence when He Junhui faced the media:
"I was born into this world to be tortured, and I am now better off alive than dead, living in this world like a dead shell."
Murder after drinking alcohol is punishable by life imprisonment
He Hong was not completely unaware of the current situation of the whole family.
But he still felt that his decision was not wrong, that the poverty now was only because the children were too young, and when the children grew up, life would be better.
Perhaps it was the trick of fate, He Hong could not wait for the children to grow up, he was arrested and imprisoned for an accident, and this already poor, depressed, and dawnless family fell into chaos.
On February 16, 2016, the ninth day of the first lunar month, the local Tianfoshan Temple Fair was held.
The temple on the Tianfo Mountain will provide meals, and He Hong and his family's 6 children will go up the mountain to visit the temple fair and eat rice at the same time.
For He Hong, this behavior has become a part of life.
Because his family was poor, he could only eat rice porridge and steamed buns, so as long as there was any feast in the village, he would take the children to eat and drink.
He Hong and the children went to the temple, and the temple administrators were already familiar with them, and there were many people watching them come, and they also set up a special table for the He family to eat.
Under normal circumstances, He Hong would sit at the same table with the children and Zhang Xingzi, but this time He Hong sat at another table because he wanted to drink, and ate and chatted with his distant uncle, He Luhai, who was in his eighties.
Unexpectedly, a murder occurred.
According to the description of Zhang Xingzi and the second eldest He Junhui afterwards, after the opening of the banquet, He Hong and He Luhai both drank a lot of wine, and when He Luhai got up and went to another room in the temple to get incense, one of the children of the He family closed the door.
He Luhai, who had returned with incense, saw that the door was closed by the child, so he took advantage of the wine to scold a few times, and the scolding was very difficult to hear.
He Hong felt very dissatisfied after hearing this, stood up and walked towards He Luhai and pushed him a few times.
After He Luhai was pushed and shoved, the wine surged up, and he picked up a kitchen knife and slashed at He Hong.
After He Hong was injured, he wrestled with He Luhai, and the children brought by He Hong saw the situation and rushed up to beat He Luhai.
This farce eventually ended with He Hong and He Luhai being sent to the hospital for rescue, He Hong saved his life, but He Luhai was seriously injured and died.
Soon, the local police rushed to arrest He Hong and indicted him for intentional injury.
For such a result, Zhang Xingzi was extremely dissatisfied.
In Zhang Xingzi's view, it was He Luhai's first hand that should bear 90% of the responsibility, why did He Luhai die and her husband be sent to court?
However, according to the investigation of the local police, the truth of the matter may not be like zhang xingzi and the second elder He Junhui said.
In the file material related to the case, the incident of the police investigation is recorded:
He Hong and He Luhai sat at the same table to drink and eat, the wine was quickly finished, He Hong asked He Luhai to go and get some wine, because He Luhai was the temple keeper and was in charge of the wine in the temple.
But He Luhai refused to bring more wine over, which angered He Hong.
He Hong stood up and pushed He Luhai to the offering table on the Buddhist hall, and He Luhai's head hit the corner of the offering table, and the blood flowed down at that time.
However, there is one point that the police investigation record is the same as zhang Xingzi said, that is, the person who raised the kitchen knife first was He Luhai.
After He Hong pushed He Luhai down, he turned around and prepared to leave, when he suddenly felt a heavy blow on his head, and when he turned back, he found that it was He Luhai who had cut himself with a kitchen knife.
Stimulated by pain and alcohol, He Hong rushed forward to fight with He Luhai and successfully snatched the knife from He Luhai's hand.
At this time, the children brought by He Hong also rushed up to trap He Luhai.
Among them, the sixth elder even raised the stool and smashed it the eighty-year-old man.
Seeing this scene, He Hong was first stunned, and then perhaps relieved that his children could really help at a critical moment as they thought.
Instead of persuading the children to stop, he rushed forward with a knife and slashed at He Luhai, who had fallen to the ground.
In the end, He Luhai died of a head injury.
After investigating the truth of the matter, the prosecutor changed He Hong's crime of intentional injury to intentional homicide and filed a lawsuit.
After trial by the court, He Hong was convicted of intentional homicide and sentenced to life imprisonment.
The township government took turns to help, but the eldest son was still not satisfied
After He Hong was imprisoned, the entire family lost its main source of income and fell into the abyss of despair for a while.
Fortunately, the local government has been paying attention to this strange family and has given them a lot of help in accordance with the corresponding support policies.
After losing He Hong's source of income, the local government handled a minimum guarantee of 1140 yuan per month for them, and the money was handed over to Zhang Xingzi by the full-time staff every month.
Through the contact of the town government, the third elder He Yun entered a junior college in Chengdu, and the fourth entered a vocational school of construction engineering in Suining City.
The remaining children in junior high school and kindergarten in primary school have a total monthly tuition fee and living expenses of 1900 yuan, which are also subsidized by the township government.
At the same time, the village also spent 110,000 yuan to help Zhang Xingzi's family build a 160-square-meter house and purchase furniture and electrical appliances.
However, because there is no pig pen in the new house, Zhang Xingzi still takes several children to live in the dilapidated and foul-smelling old house in order to raise pigs, and only the two boys, the second and fourth boys, moved to the new house to live on their own.
Since then, during the busy agricultural season every year, whether it is fertilization or harvesting, village and town cadres will help Zhang Xingzi, and even buy two pigs for her to raise.
But even so, He Junhui, the eldest male member in the family, still felt dissatisfied.
He often came to the township government to ask for more help.
Even in 2020, a black cat died in the family, and the township was asked to buy an identical cat for them.
For the imprisonment of his father He Hong, He Junhui still feels aggrieved.
In 2021, he said in an interview that people in the temple have always had opinions about their fathers and siblings, and that people in the village look down on them and that relatives don't interact with them because they are poor.
But in fact, although the villagers clearly expressed their dislike for this family, they never expressed it to them in person.
The people in the temple all collect money for banquets, and for the sake of the poverty of the He family, they have been providing them with food and drink for free for several years.
As to whether what He Junhui said was true or not, and the reasonableness of his request, the township cadres actually knew very well in their hearts.
All they can guarantee is the fairness and dignity of the law, and the punishment of those who break the law.
In 2022, the third elder He Yun has graduated from a junior college and found a job in Chengdu.
He Yun is currently the most read in the family, she is an introverted girl, usually like to read psychological books.
While staying at home, she took care of almost all the housework.
She hopes that the family will become better and cleaner, and that her younger siblings will study more and can change the whole family.
But He Yun said that his younger siblings would not listen to her.
"Once, when she came home, she almost cried." Her teacher said.