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At noon on May 16, 2011, Huang Yuansheng, a police officer in Shiqi Town, Panyu District, received a phone call.
A man on the phone reported that the mother of his colleague Deng Mingjian had died at home and needed the assistance of the public security organs to issue a death certificate.
The police who received the notice rushed to a two-bedroom rental house in Nanpu Village, and the matter of human life could not be delayed.
Just after entering the room, a strong smell of pesticides rushed straight to the nasal cavity, Huang Yuansheng immediately found that something was wrong, he vaguely felt that Deng Mingjian's mother's death was not so simple.
The police arrived at the scene
The vigilant police immediately took Deng Mingjian back to the police station to investigate, and Deng Mingjian did not hesitate to admit that his mother was indeed poisoned by taking the pesticide he bought.
Soon, the news of Deng Mingjian's arrest for poisoning his mother reached his hometown.
Unexpectedly, many close relatives not only did not blame this mother-killer's contrarian son, but instead cried out for him. Even the villagers wrote written materials for what they saw as the "great filial piety" and signed them, just to ask the official website of the law to open a side.
The perverse son of the mother-killer has become the filial piety of the people! What's the secret?
The family was in difficult condition and the mother was plagued by illness
In 1969, Deng Mingjian was born in a small mountain village in Langzhong City, Sichuan Province, with a total of four brothers and sisters in the Deng family, Deng Mingjian ranked third, with two older sisters on the top and a younger brother on the bottom.
The family lived in great poverty, not to mention education, and it was even difficult to eat a full meal, and the four sisters and brothers had never read a book.
Deng Mingjian's father was cowardly by nature, and he also had a physical disability, so all the big and small affairs in the family were handled by his mother Li Shulan, and everything was decided by his mother.
A long time of being the master of the house has made Li Shulan's personality become domineering and strong, and the four sisters and brothers are both loving and afraid of their mother.
I am afraid that my mother is grumpy, and if she is not happy, she will take the sister and brother to be angry, and she will be beaten up at every turn.
The love is that the mother is still in good health, and the heavy work and hard work in the family is basically borne by the mother alone, and if you want to maintain your livelihood, you can't do without your mother.
In 1991, 22-year-old Deng Mingjian married Hua Shuying, a girl from a neighboring village.
On the wedding day, the family was happy and busy with this happy event.
However, the weather was unpredictable, and the mother Li Shulan suddenly got a cerebral thrombosis the day after her son finished his marriage.
Wedding salute
The mother's stroke and hemiplegia means that the top beams and pillars of the family have fallen, and the Deng family, which is only one acre and three points of land, is really poor. Not only is the family's economic conditions getting worse and worse, but the mother's grumpy temper is also getting worse and worse.
At this time, the question arises, the mother who is now bedridden all day needs to be taken care of at all times, so who should carry the burden of the mother's three meals a day and wash and go to the toilet?
At that time, Deng Mingjian's two sisters were already married, the daughter who married out, spilled out the water, and the mother Li Shulan did not expect the two daughters to come back to take care of her.
The situation of the younger brother is not optimistic, and the first two marriages have suffered misfortunes. The two daughters-in-law ran away with people, and the younger brother, whose feelings were devastated, was like ashes, and simply became a door-to-door son-in-law. This is no different from a daughter who marries off.
In this way, the heavy responsibility of taking care of his mother undoubtedly fell to Deng Mingjian.
Deng Mingjian
Since Li Shulan's stroke, her body has not been as good as a day.
Whenever I have a cold, my body hurts like a knife.
When the pain is unbearable, the idea of wanting to die will arise.
Not only that, Li Shulan will often reveal his thoughts of suicide to his neighbors and doctors who see a doctor.
She thought that if she lived one more day, she would suffer one more day of sin, so she might as well buy a bottle of pesticide and drink a hundred.
Passing on ten, passing on a hundred, almost the entire village knew that Li Shulan wanted to take his life.
Therefore, whenever it was time for local villagers to fertilize and medicate crops, they would bypass the Deng family and hide from Li Shulan, afraid that one of her thoughts would cause a big disaster for herself.
Including the four brothers and sisters, they always hid pesticide bottles in a place where their mother could not see. Even if the mother's temper is great, they can't hate it enough to help their own mother to die.
Mother Li Shulan wanted to live lightly
After having suicidal tendencies, the old lady felt that she had become a wasted person, and she was grumpy and could not avoid hitting and scolding Deng Mingjian. And Deng Mingjian, who obeyed his mother's words, never complained, urinated, never hated his mother's disability, and never accused his sister and brother of ignoring it.
But staying in the ravine all day, how can it feed a family.
Deng Mingjian and his wife Hua Shuying discussed whether one of the two would go out to work, and the income in the big city would certainly be considerable compared to that of the hometown.
But if you leave your wife and mother behind, coupled with your mother's unbearable temper, then the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law will not be messed up into a pot of porridge.
In 1994, after much thought, Hua Shuying, who had recently given birth to a son, decided to go to Panyu, Guangzhou, to work, while Deng Mingjian and his disabled father stayed at home to take care of their mother and young son.
Time passed day by day, the son gradually grew up, Hua Shuying's salary of a few hundred yuan a month is really unable to afford his son's tuition and his mother's medical expenses.
Out of helplessness, Deng Mingjian could only go to Panyu to work. From then on, the care of the mother's living could only be handed over to the father. Even if no one is around, Deng Mingjian will send money home every month.
Deng Mingjian went to Guangzhou to work
Sometimes hundreds, sometimes thousands. Sometimes the income is not good or does not pay wages, Deng Mingjian has not forgotten the monthly sending of money, even if it is to find friends and colleagues to borrow money, the couple has no complaints.
His father died suddenly, and the responsibility of taking care of his mother fell on Deng Mingjian
"The hemp rope is specially picked and broken, and the bad luck is looking for the bitter person"
In 2010, his father died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. This undoubtedly gave the family a blow, especially Deng Mingjian, who did not know where his paralyzed mother should go.
At that time, the Deng family held a family meeting to discuss Li Shulan's resettlement.
First of all, the two daughters disagreed, and then the younger son was no exception. Not only do I not want to take care of it, but I don't even want to pay for the living expenses of 500 yuan per month.
Li Shulan looked at herself being rejected by her children and couldn't help but cry.
Deng Mingjian, who has always been kind and honest, stood up at this time, and he couldn't bear to watch his mother unattended. Even if you go to Guangzhou to work, you still have to take your paralyzed mother.
In this way, Deng Mingjian carried his mother and luggage on his back all the way, wading through mountains and rivers for more than thirty hours and finally arrived at Panyu. In order to make his mother's life better, Deng Mingjian turned to Liu Jianming, the director of the shoe factory who was also a fellow countryman, and specially rented a two-bedroom house.
Newly rented two bedroom house
When he first arrived in Panyu, due to the language barrier, Deng Mingjian rarely chatted with his neighbors. But his kindness to his mother was seen by everyone.
"He is usually quite filial, he is generally not very good at words"
"His mother has been sick for twenty years, and three meals a day, washing and rubbing her back are all his."
Deng Mingjian's life has no rest days, working 12-hour shifts a day in the factory, getting up at 6 a.m. to make breakfast for his mother, going home at noon to make lunch, and returning to the shoe factory for a few hours after work to make dinner in the evening.
After work, he was never idle, and due to the hot weather in Panyu, Deng Mingjian had to shower his mother every day and wash his clothes. Even on the rest day, colleagues are recuperating and relaxing, and Deng Mingjian has to be like a top that keeps spinning for his mother.
As the days passed, looking at his eldest son, who was obedient to his own words and took good care of himself, Li Shulan did not lose his temper again.
Her mother's illness worsened and she was bent on death
Until May 15, 2011, Li Shulan, who had been lying on the bed for a long time, suddenly wanted to go out to breathe, and she stood up without relying on any support at home alone, and this action made her fall directly from the bed. It was an old bone, and the ribs and legs in the chest were directly fractured, and the pain was unbearable, and I couldn't move.
Deng Mingjian, who returned home from work, saw that his mother had suffered this serious crime, and he decided to take his mother to the town's hospital for treatment the next day.
Hospital in the town
Early in the morning, after Deng Mingjian went to the factory to say hello, he planned to pick up his mother.
Perhaps the sharp pain this time once again stimulated Li Shulan's idea of committing suicide. Having suffered enough from illness, he simply ended his life forever in search of relief.
The grumpy Li Shulan not only refused to go to the hospital, but asked Deng Mingjian to buy her pesticides.
After understanding his mother's idea of wanting to drink medicine again, Deng Mingjian turned around and left, and he would not agree.
Unexpectedly, at the moment of turning around, Li Shulan grabbed Deng Mingjian's lower body, and the sharp nails directly cut into the thigh, and the blood flowed directly out.
At this time, Deng Mingjian was caught very painfully, but his mother refused to let go of his death, threatening Deng Mingjian:
"I won't let go unless I agree to my conditions, and if I don't let me die, I'll catch you!"
After a few minutes of stalemate, Deng Mingjian had to agree to his mother's request to buy medicine.
Get out on an electric car and head straight to a fertilizer and pesticide franchise store three kilometers from home.
The surveillance showed that at 9:06 a.m. on the day of the crime, Deng Mingjian, wearing a blue factory uniform, entered the pesticide store.
Monitor the clip
As soon as I entered the door, I told the lady boss to buy the insecticide in the vegetable field, and it was more toxic. Then the lady boss took out two bottles of insecticide, "high-efficiency cypermethrin" and "hypertonic imidacloprid", and also informed him of the blending method.
The process of buying the medicine took only three minutes.
After returning home, Deng Mingjian mixed the two bottles of medicine according to the method told by the boss lady and put them on the ground, the purpose was also not to let his mother get it, but Li Shulan, who had a strong heart of death, forced herself to lean down sideways with all her strength and grabbed the pesticide bottle that had been mixed with her only movable left hand. Refusing to let go, he also loudly reprimanded Deng Mingjian for unscrewing the medicine bottle.
Deng Mingjian, who did not dare to disobey the order again, obediently unscrewed it.
Saying that it was late and fast, Li Shulan picked up the unscrewed pesticide bottle and was about to drink it, Deng Mingjian took his hand and kept dissuading his mother, but what he got was his mother's unbearable insults.
"This time I must die, no one will work!" Get me out of the way! ”
In this way, one, two, three mouthfuls, Li Shulan drank three mouthfuls of pesticides in spite of obstacles, and after a few seconds, he was unconscious and passed away.
Deng Mingjian was devastated, and did not expect that his mother would end his life so easily. He went to dry the pesticide that had fallen from the corner of his mother's mouth, turned around and threw the medicine bottle into the trash can outside the door.
Throw pesticide bottles in the trash
Not to be sad, he called his wife Hua Shuying, told him the news of his mother's death, and quickly took leave to come back to take care of the aftermath.
An impatient Hua Shuying looked at her motionless mother on the bed, somewhat in disbelief. How did he suddenly die when he was alive in the morning?
She was across the door, not daring to look forward, too shocked that she did not know whether her mother had died of poison, let alone whether the poison was bought by her husband himself.
At this time, the couple who were in a different place and had no experience did not know how to bury their mother, and they were overwhelmed for a while. I can only ride a bicycle to find Liu Jianming, the elder of the shoe factory. This was the only person they could turn to for help in a foreign land.
Ride to find fellow countrymen
Liu Jianming inquired: There must be a death certificate issued by the police to cremate the body. So, without much thought, he called the local police station.
It was also this one phone call that revealed the cause of Li Shulan's death.
The autopsy proved that Li Shulan was poisoned by "furandan", and this toxin came from the two bottles of pesticides.
After that, Deng Mingjian was charged with "killing his mother" and "intentional homicide".
Until this time, Deng Mingjian did not know that he had committed a crime. At the beginning, he was forced by his mother, and he also did it to meet his mother's requirements, and he never thought that there would be such serious consequences.
After the news of Deng Mingjian's arrest for "killing his mother" reached his hometown, he thought that he would be greeted with accusations from relatives at home and discussions from neighbors and friends.
Unexpectedly, a person who killed his mother would actually get the forgiveness of all the people.
The whole village did not believe that he had a motive for intentional homicide, and because of his filial piety, they launched a joint letter and signed and pressed their fingerprints, hoping to seek legal forgiveness for Deng Mingjian.
Written materials
The sister and brother did not complain that Deng Mingjian had "poisoned" his mother, nor did they surprise that his mother had committed suicide. From childhood to adulthood, my mother was unreasonable, and she could not face east and others could not face west. And the younger brother, the great filial piety, is also obedient and has never gone against his mother's wishes.
Even my uncle thought that my nephew was too confused. Before working for my mother, I was working outside the home, and since then, because my mother has been imprisoned, it is indeed too unworthy.
On May 30, 2011, the Panyu District People's Court in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, convicted Deng Mingjian of intentional homicide and sentenced him to three years in prison, suspended for four years.
Intentional homicide was sentenced to probation, and the judge gave such an explanation.
First of all, the defendant Deng Mingjian has been taking good care of his mother for many years, and the victim Li Shulan also repeatedly put forward the idea of seeking death during his illness, including the same situation on the day of the crime. Finally, the unanimous intercession of many relatives and friends.
The above three points made the judge feel that Deng Mingjian's "mother-killing" case was different from other vicious and illegal acts of intentional homicide that deprived others of their lives, and belonged to the situation with less serious circumstances.
Vice-President of the Tribunal
Throughout the case, a son who has lived filial piety for many years is still a criminal who kills his mother.
The final verdict shows that the bottom line of the law cannot be touched.
What ultimately caused Deng Mingjian's family tragedy was the pain of illness and economic hardship, and the interweaving of the two extended to a criminal. This can't help but make people think deeply, what is the essence of this matter?
He Xuefeng, director of the China Rural Governance Research Center at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, said this about such things:
The old man who committed suicide worked hard when he was young, gave the children the basic conditions for life, then married his wife to build a house, and then helped to watch the children, until he became old and no longer useful, and he could only wait for death.
When old age and weakness cannot contribute more to the family, they will think about how to reduce the burden on the family.
And the search for death is one of the ways.
Perhaps after Li Shulan fractured his bones, it was because he did not want to increase the burden on his son again, and he would be bent on death.
Although Deng Mingjian's move hurts ethics and morality, and also violates criminal punishment at the legal level, it is more because the mainland's current medical construction system for the elderly is not perfect.
Only when the problem of supporting the left-behind elderly in rural areas is solved and the medical and old-age care system between urban and rural areas is gradually improved, will things gradually decrease.
After all, we also have parents, and we also have the day when we get old.
Pay attention to the elderly, pay attention to the pension system, from now on.