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On September 30, 2007, a male high school student who had just turned 18 gave one last look at his mobile phone before being taken away by police. A text message was stored on the phone that read "I miss you so much." It was sent to him by his teacher a few days ago. Until this point, he had not realized what kind of punishment he would face. The case that I came to share with you today occurred more than a decade ago, and it once attracted widespread attention because of the intricate relationships between the people involved in the case and the deformed love affair. How did a teacher-student relationship that should not have happened lead to a tragedy?
The story takes place in Guiyang No. 6 Middle School in Guizhou Province, which is a key local middle school.
The protagonist, Meng Chao, was a student in the 15th class of the 2005 senior high school at the time of the crime. Class 15 is something special in this key high school. It is called the "Noble Class", and the official introduction is that it is the "China-Canada International Cooperation Class". It relies on Guiyang No. 6 Middle School to run a school, and will provide some Canadian school courses to lay the foundation for future students to study abroad. The tuition fee of this aristocratic class reached more than 10,000 yuan per year at that time. Therefore, the economic strength of the students' families is still very strong, and there are many high-ranking cadres and children, or their parents are the owners of well-known local enterprises.
Meng Chao's father, Meng Riguang, was a middle-level cadre of the Guizhou Provincial Construction Department at the time of the crime. He and Meng Chao's mother divorced when Meng Chao was 3 years old. Since then, Meng Chao has been living with his father. The father, Meng Riguang, did not remarry in order to take care of his son. However, because of work, he often has to work overtime, and he does not have too much energy to pay attention to the psychological changes of his son in adolescence.
Class 15 is a liberal arts class. Class teacher Wang Li graduated from the department of Chinese of Guiyang Normal University. He was 45 years old at the time of the 2007 incident. In school, Wang Li is the kind of teacher who mingles with her classmates. She was also very popular with her classmates, and everyone affectionately called her "Lao Wang", saying that she was particularly young and helpful. Any contradictions between students like to go to Wang Li to solve. As a class teacher, Wang Li never complained to her parents. In the Tieba in Guiyang No. 6. The students even included Wang Li as the "most open" teacher. Wang Li has been rated as an advanced individual at the school level and an excellent class teacher at the municipal level for many times. But behind these honorary awards, Wang Li has a secret that cannot be told to others.
● First taste of forbidden fruit
In the middle of 2006, Meng Chao transferred from the 14th class of the second year of high school to the 15th class of the third year of high school. Because of his precocious personality, Meng Chao quickly made a girlfriend in the class. However, their relationship did not last long. In October 2006, Meng Chao once organized his classmates to play cards in the class, but was arrested by the class teacher Wang Li and criticized. Afterwards, Meng Chao called Wang Li to admit his mistake. Since then, the number of chats between the two people has increased, and the scope has become more and more extensive. Meng Chao said that since then, both of them have developed a good feeling for each other. Perhaps because of the lack of maternal love since childhood, Meng Chao regarded Wang Li as the most trusted confidant. Mentally, the dependence on her grew stronger. During the winter vacation of 2006, Meng Chao recognized Wang Li as a dry mother. But this dry mother soon became Meng Chao's "heart".
At the end of March 2007, Guiyang No. 6 Middle School organized teachers and students to go to foreign workers for training. I don't know if it's because of the beauty of the suburbs, or the stars in the sky, Meng Chao felt that he could no longer hide his feelings for his teacher Wang Li, so he plucked up enough courage to send her a message saying "I miss you." After a while, I received a reply from Wang Li, "130". It's a string of internet phrases that mean "miss you too." Meng Chao, who saw this text message, his emotions suddenly exploded to the extreme, and he felt that his brain was blank in an instant. The next night, Meng Chao and Wang Li took a walk on the trail of the training base. Meng Chao said, "The moon is so big and beautiful," and then he couldn't help but kiss Wang Li's face.
After the end of the work training, Meng Chao just arrived home, and he received a call from Wang Li, asking him if he was safe to get home, afraid that his big bag of things would not be easy to take. On the phone, Wang Li's voice was very strange, and she cried when she heard it. Meng Chao took a taxi to Wang Li's house. Wang Li cried and said, "Meng Chao, I like you." I know I can't, I can't, I can't, but I just can't control it. Meng Chao hugged Wang Li.
According to Meng Chao, about a week after that, they had their first time in the clouds, at the home of teacher Wang Li. At that time, Meng Chao was not yet 18 years old. Soon Meng Chao proposed to his girlfriend to break up. The girlfriend in the same class actually knew that Meng Chao may have someone else in her heart, because she once saw that Meng Chao wrote an article expressing love in his notebook, and the payment was "dedicated to the heart". Three or four months later, when she peeked at Meng Chao's notebook again, she discovered the secret, and the "heart" was Wang Li.
In the months that followed, Meng Chao and Wang Li were like a sweet couple, talking together, drinking coffee together, and sending each other small gifts. Meng Chao told his father Meng Riguang that every Wednesday and Friday, he would go to Wang Li's house to learn Chinese. My father had concerns at first. Because Meng Chao's Chinese scores are already very good, he is still studying mathematics and English every week, and his father is worried that Meng Chao will not be able to eat. Meng Chao insisted on going, and the reason he gave to his father was that it was free to go to his mother's house to make up for class. And every Wednesday and Friday, in fact, are spent in the affection of Meng Chao and Wang Li.
In fact, Wang Li has her own family. She married at 27, divorced at 32, and conceived a son with her ex-husband. Later, at the age of 40, she remarried to the father of a female student in her class, named Zhao Meng.
But because Zhao Meng worked in a construction company, he had been out on business for a long time, and he would come back four or five days a month and spend the night at Wang Li's place. Wang Li also often meets with her ex-husband, who has also proposed to remarry Wang Li, after all, they still have a son. Wang Li's son, 2 years younger than Meng Chao, was 16 years old at the time of the crime and was boarding at the Liuxiaohe Branch School in Guiyang. According to Meng Chao, every Saturday morning after class, Wang Li would drive him to pick up her son and take him home. On Sunday afternoon, we sent our sons to school together. Yan Ran looks like a family.
Meng Chao said that Wang Li once said to him affectionately: Chao'er, thank you, I love you so much, why did the heavens want to give birth to me decades earlier. I love you, but you will change your mind one day and will leave me alone.
Meng Chao also wrote in his diary on April 10, 2007: Society, ethics, and morality are forcing me to wave... But I desperately didn't want to.
If you think that the story is complicated enough at this point, then I will tell you that more dog blood is still to come. In addition to her ex-husband, her current husband, Meng Chao, Wang Li also has a minor boyfriend, who is also her own student, and Meng Chao is a classmate and a victim of this case, He Xiaoli.
● Entangled deformed love
In the middle of 2006, when Meng Chao had just transferred to the 15th class, he heard that the class teacher, Wang Li, was very close to a male classmate named He Xiaoli in the class, often eating out together, and was repeatedly seen by classmates leaving through the back door after class.
He Xiaoli was the same year as Meng Chao, and his father was the boss of a local state-owned enterprise. In 2005, when he enrolled in Guiyang No. 6 Middle School, his family rented him a room near No. 6 Middle School to facilitate his commuting to and from school. In the eyes of his family, although He Xiaoli's performance ranking is not very high, he is introverted and never causes trouble outside. Although He Xiaoli's parents did not divorce, they had a very bad relationship over the years and almost did not care much about He Xiaoli. He Xiaoli's relationship with his mother was particularly distant.
In March 2006, in the first half of the first semester of high school, He Xiaoli began to fall in love with his teacher Wang Li. Wang Li once confessed the relationship to the police after the incident, saying that He Xiaoli was too good to her, much better than her two husbands, and they accepted each other's feelings and decided not to publicize it to the public.
Wang Li also said that she had told Meng Chao about her love affair with He Xiaoli, hoping to dispel Meng Chao's desire to pursue herself, but at that time, Meng Chao did not show much concern.
Every morning at 6 o'clock, He Xiaoli would leave home for school, but in fact, he would stay at Wang Li's teacher's house for a while before going to school. Wang Li even gave he Xiaoli the keys to her home. This hot relationship between the two lasted until the crime. In the course of the investigation, the police also found that the two had sworn to "one day more than ever".
Wang Li sent a message to He Xiaoli and said: "Pig Ah Li, I have your breath all over the bed here, I miss you so much... I want to hold you, love you, watch you fall asleep, think you think you think of you. ”
He Xiaoli replied: "Good night Ari, get a good night's sleep." I love you for a lifetime, one more day than ever! Dear wait for tomorrow to come, because tomorrow I will love you more than today. ”
Wang Li's current husband, Zhao Meng, once doubted her relationship with He Xiaoli. Because whenever He Xiaoli saw Wang Li with other men, he would always be jealous. Several times when Zhao Meng was at home, he called Wang Li at night. Wang Li told Zhao Meng that He Xiaoli was still a child, and his feelings were misplaced and he fell in love with her. She didn't want to hurt He Xiaoli, so she left it to time.
But what hurt He Xiaoli the most was the relationship between teacher Wang Li and Meng Chao. One day in June 2007, Wang Li and Meng Chao were walking on the street and were seen by He Xiaoli from a distance. He Xiaoli called to ask where Wang Li was, and Wang Li lied to him that he was at home. Since then, He Xiaoli has realized that the teacher may have other lovers besides him.
Wang Li established a teacher-student relationship with He Xiaoli in March 2006, when He Xiaoli was not yet 17 years old. In March 2007, during work training, Meng Chao kissed Wang Li in the moonlight, when Meng Chao was just 17 years old. Two underage boyfriends, as well as the current husband, ex-husband, it can be said that Wang Li's energy is really too exuberant.
As the saying goes, often walk by the river, where there are shoes that are not wet. The first head-on clash between He Xiaoli and Meng Chao took place on September 10, 2007.
● Occurrence of the case
On September 10, 2007, at 6:00 a.m., He Xiaoli opened Wang Li's door with a key, but saw Wang Li in pajamas and Meng Chao lying on the bed. He Xiaoli was stunned for a moment, and then said: I'm sorry, I came by mistake and disturbed you! Then he turned around and left, ignoring Wang Li who went up to pull him.
Two days later, He Xiaoli returned the key to Wang Li, saying that he would not go to her house in the future, lest he see something he did not want to see.
Later, he also sent Such a message to Wang Li, saying, "I now know why you didn't want to make out with me when I was staying at your house that day, and let me leave early." And why meng chao always arrives late for a class in the morning. Because you think Meng Chao can satisfy your endless desires better than me! You always lie to me like this! ”
About half a month later, September 26 was Meng Chao's 18th birthday. At noon, he feasted and invited most of the students in the class, but he was not named He Xiaoli. At the birthday party, Meng Chao drank some wine and said to a classmate who had a better relationship: "Recently, I have been very annoyed, He Xiaoli has been rumoring that I have a relationship with the class teacher, Teacher Wang, and I have been putting up with him. He doesn't push me too hard! Otherwise I'm going to him. ”
That night, Meng Chao came to Wang Li's house. Wang Li gave him a sleeveless T-shirt and a silver pendant chain as a birthday gift. According to Meng Chao, Wang Li told him that day that He Xiaoli was pestering her in every way, but her heart had always belonged to Meng Chao.
The next day, September 27, Meng Chao, who had eaten lunch near the school, bumped into Wang Li and He Xiaoli, who were walking together across the road. Last night's love words and lingering are still vividly remembered, which makes Meng Chao angry. According to Meng Chao, in the afternoon, Wang Li called him to explain. He Xiaoli asked her to meet because he wanted to get the key back to her house again, and threatened to take photos of her and Meng Chao stealing an affair together, post them on the Internet, and report them to the school, so as to make their reputations stink. The fire of jealousy and resentment that had accumulated over the past few months was completely ignited by this phone call.
That afternoon, Meng Chao wrote down the "murder plan" in his notebook. But the handwriting is sloppy, the content is difficult to discern, and can only be vaguely seen, "lead the dog away, wear gloves, a knife into the abdomen and other words." ”
The last class of the afternoon was a physical education exam, and the students who finished the exam all went home early. At about 5:30, Meng Chao came to He Xiaoli's house with a murder weapon and a 30-centimeter knife. At that time, only He Xiaoli was at home. Afterwards, according to Meng Chao, he originally wanted to talk to He Xiaoli first, but he did not expect that He Xiaoli was emotional as soon as he saw him, calling him an adulterer, and saying that you want a woman like Wang Li too! He was even threatened to get things through to the TV station. Meng Chao said that when He Xiaoli turned around to help him pour water, he stabbed He Xiaoli twice in the back and made up three more knives in the chest. Then put on gloves, turn the room into a mess, try to fake the scene of the burglary, and then flee in a panic. It is worth noting that at the time of the crime, there were only two people, He Xiaoli and Meng Chao. He Xiaoli was stabbed to death, and the description of the scene was all Meng Chao's one-sided words. He said that He Xiaoli had insulted him first, and that he had killed the killer when He Xiaoli turned around and poured water for him. But why should someone who is arguing with angry pour water for each other?
About an hour later, at 6:30 p.m., He Xiaoli's mother, who had returned home, found He Xiaoli lying in a pool of blood. The first time I called the school's class teacher Wang Li, Wang Li realized that something was wrong. By the time the police and ambulance arrived, He had lost all his vital signs.
That night, all the boys in the 15th class of Guiyang Sixth Middle School were called to the police station for routine questioning. For the next two days, Wang Li was in a trance, and Meng Chao spent the night with her at her house. At night, the wind blew the window a little, and Wang Li would sit up in fright, thinking that He Xiaoli's ghost had returned. On the night of September 29, Meng Chao confessed to Wang Li that he had killed the person and said that he wanted to turn himself in tomorrow morning. Wang Li seemed to have expected the same long ago, not surprised at all, just hugged Meng Chao and said, don't be so stupid, this case can't be solved. You are now my only spiritual pillar, are you really willing to leave me alone?
After the last class on the morning of September 30, Meng Chao was taken away by the police. Regarding the details of Meng Chao's arrest, the relevant reports are vague and unclear, and they are all different. Some places say that it was Wang Li who reported the police, and some places say that Meng Chao went to turn himself in. But no matter what, Meng Chao confessed to the fact that he Xiaoli was killed.
When he was just arrested, Meng Chao also comforted his father and said, It doesn't matter, you will go and be a soldier for three or five years. But he soon realized that the punishment he would face was more than three or five years.
After spending nearly 5 months in the detention center, Meng Chao began to point the finger at Wang Li. He said that all this was instigated by Wang Li, and that he had become a knife, a knife that borrowed a knife to kill people.
● Which is not "Rashomon"
According to Meng Chao, Wang Li never told herself that she and He Xiaoli were lovers. He also cried many times about how He Xiaoli pestered her and annoyed her. He even threatened suicide, and once choked Wang Li's neck. Meng Chao said that Wang Li had made it clear that she really liked him. But because of He Xiaoli, you can't get too close, at least when you're together, you can't be discovered by He Xiaoli. It was also hinted that Meng Chao said that if He Xiaoli was gone, they could be together in any relationship, whether it was a friend, a confidant, a mother, or a lover.
If what Meng Chao said is true, then Wang Li may have provided Meng Chao with a motive for killing.
According to a report by the Southern Metropolis Daily in 2008, Meng Chao's temperament has changed drastically since he fell into this emotional entanglement. The sunny smile on his face before was gone. He would secretly hide in his room smoking and drinking, and was also discovered by his father Meng Riguang. Meng Riguang once thought of talking to his son's class teacher, Wang Li, to understand the reasons for his son's recent changes in mood. Meng Chao was furious when he learned about it, and told his father that the crazy person pestering Teacher Wang was enough to annoy her, and you should stop bothering him. At that time, the father Meng Riguang did not expect that his son would develop such a deformed love affair with the teacher.
Of course, there are reports from other places that Meng Chao's crime was not instigated and instigated by Wang Li. From beginning to end, Meng Chao was wishful thinking about Wang Li. Wang Li also admitted to the police afterwards that she and He Xiaoli had a relationship. But when it comes to Meng Chao, she says that it is Meng Chao who has been pursuing herself, and she has never really agreed. When I was collecting information, I also saw a very interesting article. The article even whitewashed Wang Li as an innocent victim. She said that she was usually kind to people at school and was close to her classmates. Her teaching style made Meng Chao and He Xiaoli misinterpret. It is these two big boys with a mother-in-law plot who have been pestering Wang Li, and Wang Li has a refusal attitude from beginning to end. After the incident, In order to obtain the greatest reduction in his sentence, Meng Chao's lawyer let Meng Chao point the finger at Wang Li and used public opinion to fabricate such a story.
A few days after the incident, in October 2007, Wang Li was expelled from Guiyang No. 6 Middle School and has disappeared ever since. There are rumors that she once tried to commit suicide, and others say she later went abroad. As for the details of the emotional entanglement between her and Meng Chao and He Xiaoli, we outsiders may never know. But I still believe that there is no wind or waves, and a slap does not make a sound. Perhaps Wang Li did not instigate Meng Chao to commit the crime, but there is no doubt that she is the most direct fuse in this case. As a teacher, if there really wasn't any inappropriate behavior, how could she explain the obsession of two boys under the age of 18 with her? Where did that "I miss you" text message come from?
On February 22, 2008, the Guizhou Intermediate People's Court opened a trial of the case. On April 22, meng Chao was sentenced to death for intentional homicide in the first instance. In the first instance, Meng Chao's defense lawyer proposed that Wang Li should also bear certain responsibility for Meng Chao's behavior. But the judge did not adopt it. From a moral level, Wang Li really deserves to be condemned. However, there is no provision in the law that can convict Wang Li. China has regulations to protect girls under the age of 14, but they do not protect men. In the first instance, the judge sentenced Meng Chao to death on two main grounds, one was a planned crime, and the other was cruel. But one of the more controversial points in this case is that Meng Chao had just turned 18 for more than a dozen hours when he committed the crime. Is he a juvenile delinquency? Is he rational and mature enough to take responsibility for his actions?
Before the trial, there was another small episode in the case. Meng Chao's first-instance lawyer was originally a friend of He Xiaoli's parents, and he had also discussed with the He family how to fight the lawsuit before, but what the He family did not expect was that the lawyer had already received the entrustment from Meng Chao's father. The lawyer obtained hundreds of heartfelt text messages from the He family, and these information were later given to the Meng family by the lawyer, which also made the extremely private emotional details between He Xiaoli and Wang Li public. Such an approach undoubtedly brought the He family's hatred for the Meng family to the peak. It is said that the collegial panel of the first instance once gave a suspended death sentence, but the He family's emotions were very excited, and the lawyer who chased Meng Chao was a violent beating. In the end, both the second instance and the final trial in November 2008 sentenced Meng Chao to death. Since then, the case has entered the death penalty review process. Meng Chao's father refused to give up and still ran around for him, hoping to win a glimmer of life for his son when the death penalty was reviewed. To this day, Whether Meng Chao was executed or not, I have not found exact information.
Some psychological experts have analyzed that Meng Chao and He Xiaoli's original families are not very happy, especially the relationship with their mothers is relatively distant, which also makes them have a certain Oedipal complex. According to some sources that cannot be verified on the Internet, Wang Li expressed her liking for a male classmate in her class in the early 90s when she first came to teach at the school, but was rejected by the other party. Later, there were two other teachers who fought at school because Wang Li was jealous. If these are facts, then Wang Li has always held an excessively hasty attitude towards her emotional life.
It is said that the teacher's duty is to "teach and educate people". We habitually put "teaching" before "educating people", but in fact "educating people" is more important than teaching. Teachers convey not only knowledge, but also their worldview and values. Obviously, people like Wang Li are not worthy of being a teacher.