Near the end of the year, there is a reunion and a lively atmosphere everywhere. In a private house in Qingxi Village, Chun'an County, Zhejiang Province, the lively atmosphere seems to be blocked out by a solid structure. In the house, the old man who was nearly old said to his wife and son: "Let's spend three people this year." ”
Before 2019, the New Year is the most awaited day for the elderly and their partners. They were a family of four, the son returned home from outside, the granddaughter jumped to meet the father, and the second elder was busy preparing new year goods. In their mobile phone photo album, the family is neatly organized. The granddaughter's face is round and her smile is warm.
At the end of 2019, the old man's family no longer looks forward to the Spring Festival. He could only endure with his wife and son in this festival of reunion. You may ask, what happened? Where did their granddaughter go? It all started in that hot June of 2019.
mom from the sky
In early June 2019, a man and woman of about forty years old appeared to be husband and wife in a 7-day hotel chain in Qiandao Lake Town, Chun'an County, Zhejiang Province. They look ordinary, cantonese accents, and claim to be tourists who come to the area. After the men and women had finished their stay, they strolled out to play and saw a fruit stall in front of the hotel, and the stall owner was an elderly couple.
They approached the fruit stall and asked the stall owner to weigh a few peaches. The couple of stall owners are sharply selecting peaches, weighing and bagging. A little girl of about 8 or 9 years old next to the old couple also followed suit. The girl has a round face, wears framed glasses, and her eyes narrow into a slit when she laughs.
The woman who bought the fruit seemed to like children very much, and she kindly talked to the little girl, asking her how old she was, what her name was, and where her parents had gone.
"My name is Zhang Zixin, and I am 9 years old." The little girl did not recognize the birth, and answered crisply.
Picture note: Qiandao Lake Town in Chun'an County is a tourist attraction
"My granddaughter." The bride selling the fruit replied with a smile while wiping the sweat from her granddaughter's face. Grandpa looked at his granddaughter's eyes, which were also full of love. Grandpa and Grandma have long been accustomed to strangers paying attention to their children, because the granddaughter has always been extroverted and pleasing.
The little girl Zhang Zixin is lively and clever, and is very popular with this middle-aged couple. The two finished weighing peaches and playing with Zhang Zixin for a while before leaving.
In the blink of an eye, the middle-aged couple stayed in the hotel for more than half a month. They often go to the stall to buy fruit, and the old couple of the stall owner is also mixed, especially like Zhang Zixin, and every time they have to play with the little girl for a while. The husband claimed to be surnamed Liang, and the wife's surname was Xie. Zhang Zixin called them Uncle Liang and Aunt Xie.
"Big Lady, what about Zi Xin?" Xie's wife greeted her familiarly.
Picture note: Liang (male) and Xie (female) who claim to be husband and wife
Grandma Zixin saw the two couples coming and handed them two clean peaches. After a few days, we have become acquainted with each other. Zi Xin's grandparents think that the couple is good, and they are friends when they are acquainted. Friends eat peaches without money. "I didn't come over today, but I'm at home." You're leaving, right? ”
"The ticket that was supposed to be july 6th has now been cancelled." Wife Xie replied.
"Why don't you leave?" Grandma Zixin asked.
"We really like Zi Xin and want to play with her more." Husband Liang said.
Grandma Zixin felt that the couple in front of her seemed to really like their family Zixin, so she smiled and said a few words. At this time, his wife Xie proposed that they wanted to stay in the local area for a while, but the hotel was expensive and not cost-effective. Can you give them 500 yuan a month and borrow it in the Zhang family.
Although Zi Xin's grandparents think that it may not be convenient for outsiders to live in the family, they are all acquaintances, and they can't let their friends live in this expensive hotel. When they were still hesitating, the other party had already sent 500 yuan directly to their mobile phones.
"Zi Xin is at home?" Wait for me to play with her. After the couple finished paying the rent, they asked about Zi Xin again, and then told their grandparents to move over on the 29th.
After the couple moved into the Zhang family, everyone lived under the same roof, and they became more familiar with each other. The couple learned that Zhang Zixin's parents have been working outside for many years and have different feelings for each other. Zi Xin's mother sent her to her grandparents' house when Zi Xin was 5 years old and has not seen her since.
Photo note: Zhang Zixin (left) taking a photo with tourists
I don't know if it is out of concern for the child's life, Liang and Xie are always very caring for Zixin. They bought her toys and took her to the supermarket in town and played everywhere. His wife Xie mou also said many times that she wanted to be a mother to Zixin. This sudden concern and companionship is so warm for Zi Xin, whose parents have not been around for many years. Slowly, she became closer and closer to the couple.
Dad, I'm not coming back
On July 2, 2019, Liang and Xie told Zixin's grandparents that there was a friend in Shanghai who wanted to get married and wanted to take Zixin to be a flower child. This way can not only let the children play, but also get 5,000 yuan in compensation.
The grandparents refused, the reward was indeed tempting, but it was not at ease to let such a large number of children run so far away with non-relatives. Liang and Xie continued to lobby the old couple, and secretly told Zixin how good Shanghai was and how interesting the road was. You know, the couple is a "senior tourist" who has traveled through 48 cities, and they are too good at describing the fun of travel.
The 9-year-old girl is too curious about the outside world. Before, there were often tourists in the village, and Zi xin warmly received them every time. Tourists also like this little girl. Zi Xin may feel that the outside is beautiful, and the people outside are also friendly.
The grandparents could not stand the couple's persuasion and the child's yearning, and called Zixin's father, Zhang Jun, their son who worked in Tianjin, to inquire. Zhang Jun received a call from his parents, listened to the reason, and vetoed it. Children go out with strangers, how to do that!
But grandparents hurt their granddaughters, their granddaughters want to go out, the outside world is too wonderful, Liang Xie and his wife are too tempting... Whatever the reason, on the morning of July 4, the little girl Zhang Zixin followed Uncle Liang and Aunt Xie out of the house. Before leaving, Liang and Xie slapped their ID cards to Grandpa Zixin. Grandpa thought, technology is so developed, there is monitoring everywhere, how can children have accidents?
Photo note: Zhang Zixin and his father's group photo
At noon on July 4, after the father learned that the child was still going out, he immediately added the WeChat of her husband surnamed Liang and got in touch with him. Grandma is also half a day a phone call, a moment a WeChat. Fortunately, Zi Xin had a normal call with her grandmother and said that she had a good time.
The Zhang family was slightly relieved, what to do and what to do. Zhang Jun was originally very anxious, and wanted to immediately ask Liang and Xie about the crime, why did they take the child away without consent. Later, I saw that the circle of friends of Her husband surnamed Liang posted a ticket and a photo of the child, with the text "Recognized a dry daughter". He wondered if the child seemed to be well taken care of, so he didn't ask much for a while.
According to the agreement between Liang, Xie and the Zhang family, the No. 6 child can go home. But on July 6, the Zhang family did not see Zhang Zixin. Liang and Xie said that they could not buy tickets and changed to go back tomorrow. By the 7th of July, Zhang Zixin still did not return home.
Zi Xin definitely misses her grandparents too, but with the strength of a 9-year-old child, she can't return home from afar alone. Therefore, when Zi Xin called her father, she was very disappointed and said, "(Today) I can't go back." ”
After that, the Zhang family never heard from Zi Xin again.
The truth is confused, "all the evil people"
At 10:00 a.m. on July 8, the Qingxi Police Station of the Chun'an County Public Security Bureau received a report from the public that her 9-year-old granddaughter, whose name was Zhang Zixin, was taken away by two tenants in the family and her whereabouts were unknown. Since this day, the whereabouts of the little girl have touched the hearts of hundreds of millions of netizens.
Everyone prayed, hoping that it was a false alarm. However, as the whereabouts of Liang and Xie were constantly discovered, the situation became more and more confusing.
The public security organs launched an investigation into Liang and Xie based on the clues provided by the Zhang family. The investigation found that both were from Huazhou City, Guangdong Province, and were not husband and wife. The man surnamed Liang has a son and a daughter in his family. The woman surnamed Xie was unmarried. The two met in 2005 and have fun with money stolen from their relatives and friends. At the time of the incident, the two did not have any property, and the bank card was only more than thirty yuan.
After the little girl Zhang Zixin was taken away, the itinerary was also pieced together by the public security organs.
On July 5, Liang and Xie took Zhang Zixin to Dongshan Island to play.
A day later, the three suspected of taking a taxi to Shantou, Guangdong Province. At about 23:00 in the evening, the three people appeared at the Orange Hotel at the south gate of Ningbo Railway Station.
Another day later, surveillance records showed that Liang and Xie took Zhang Zixin to play in many places in Ningbo. Zhang Zixin's last whereabouts were on a coastal road somewhere around 19:00 p.m. After that, the surveillance never photographed Zhang Zixin again.
On the third day, in the early morning, surveillance filmed Liang and Xie committing suicide by jumping into the lake in Dongqian Lake, Ningbo. The next morning, the Zhang family issued a notice to find their children.
On July 13, Zhang Jun finally met his long-worried daughter. The father and daughter met in the funeral home, Zhang Jun's lively and smiling daughter Zixin, whose body was somewhat deformed by the seawater.
The child found it, but in this way. But what is the truth of the case? According to the police report, Liang and Xie had long been willing to take their lives, and this time they were running to commit suicide. As for why you want to take the child, you can't determine their true intentions. At this time, hundreds of millions of netizens who are concerned about this incident are relying on "clues" to try to find out the so-called truth.
The vast number of netizens combed the whereabouts of the child, carefully watched the surveillance video released by the police, compared some statements of the Zhang family before and after, and found several suspicious points.
First, is it reasonable for grandpa and grandma to allow half-baked tenants to take away their own granddaughters?
Second, the child's life and death are uncertain, and the parents are at ease to go to the divorce on the 8th? After the incident, Grandpa was still in the mood to push the peach down the mountain to set up a stall?
Third, if they really love and care for Zixin as their family said, why did they think of calling the police after the child left home for 5 days?
Picture note: Master Zhou Enlong, the captain of the ship who found Zi Xin's body
After the "meticulous" analysis of netizens, the Zhang family has a major suspicion of preferring sons to daughters and deliberately killing children! Moreover, the child's mother and father have a disagreement with each other, are they very indifferent to the child, do they unite with outsiders, deliberately take away the child, and retaliate against the husband? Is it a coincidence that the child's father is suspected of taking advantage of the child's funeral problems to make a lot of money?
Judging from the later interview, Zhang Zixin's grandparents did not seem to have even left a tear. Grandpa also carried a basket to the peach orchard to pick peaches from time to time. Mom didn't seem to even show her face. This family is really abnormal.
In the face of overwhelming doubts, Zhang Zixin's father Zhang Jun and the child's uncle began to reply to messages one by one on the Internet, carefully explaining the doubts of netizens. But their voices were drowned out in the "torrent of justice." Zhang Jun went from the initial sincere please, please let the media and netizens let go of his family, and finally chose to be silent.
Cheap sympathy, boundless malice
There are too many big things happening on the Internet, and the regrets caused by 9-year-old girls are gradually forgotten. The highly suspicious parents of the family have also returned to a peaceful life. More than a year after the incident, Zhang Jun was still forced to recall the past when he was interviewed.
"We're not at all as cold as we say online. After the child's body was found, the government arranged for a crematoria to be cremated a month later. I informed her mom. On that day, she rushed to the Xiangshan Funeral Home, and we took the child's ashes home one by one. She wanted to hold the child's urn, and I didn't let it. Zhang Jun said darkly.
Zi Xin's parents have been at odds for a long time and have been separated. When I went to check in on the 8th after the accident, the mother did not know that the child had an accident. It wasn't until the 10th that she learned that she couldn't sleep afterwards and kept an eye on the progress. After the child was buried, she never contacted her ex-husband again.
After Zi Xin's ashes were taken home, Zhang Jun originally made a tree burial for the child and placed it in the cemetery. The child's ashes are placed under a tree. The tree grows up year after year, as if a child had grown up, and it was a thought.
"It is nonsense to say on the Internet that I collected money from the cemetery to do this." Later, under pressure, we paid money, moved the ashes out, and made a separate tomb. The reason why it was not placed in the cemetery in the village was that on the one hand, the distance between the two places was similar, and on the other hand, I was afraid that my parents would often see it and feel that I couldn't stand it. ”
Sherlock Holmes-possessed netizens once accused grandparents of not even shedding tears. They don't know that when people experience great compassion, they don't cry for the earth, but they hurt their hair. After the accident, the grandparents blamed themselves a million times, and the pain was dripping blood. In an interview, my grandmother once said: "I cried and cried, and I shed tears for three hours in a row, and I felt that I could no longer shed a tear." ”
Grandpa was even more silent, only occasionally saying, "The child is gone, nothing is useful." ”
After the incident, there were rumors in the bad media that the family would bury Zhang Zixinhai, which triggered the verbal criticism of netizens. Everyone became Zi Xin's spokesperson, and criticized "What a stupid and bad family this is!" "How helpless and frightened Shinsin must be in the sea..." "Why don't you let the child go home?"
But Zhang Jun said: "Zi Xin, this child has been very good at talking since he was a child, very generous, and especially likes to share things with people." If others are good to her, she is particularly good to others, and she has no defensive mentality. She loves swimming and loves the sea. I took her to Beidaihe to play, and she didn't want to come up when she got into the water. "Those netizens who say that they miss Zixin, do you really know more about children than her family?"
A reporter once went to interview the Zhang family a week after the incident. After the reporter entered the door, even though he had not eaten a good meal for several days, the Zhang family still forced the spirit to list a few dishes and beckoned the reporter to eat well. Seeing the reporter taking pictures, the aunt carefully asked: "Can you not photograph these dishes?" She was afraid that netizens would see these dishes and scold them for still having the heart to cook a big meal.
Netizens who think they represent justice have ever thought that at this moment, Zhang Zixin's family is a victim and a person who is experiencing great pain.
The 9-year-old girl is buried in the lake and mountains, and there are always flowers, toys and food sent by well-wishers at her grave. This outgoing and pleasing round-faced little girl should like it. Those who have passed away can keep time, and those who are alive have to be pushed by time.
Zhang Jun was silent at home for a whole year. He doesn't speak, he's in a daze, he's sitting or lying in a daze. Both he and Zi Xin's grandparents avoided talking about Zi Xin. After more than half a year, he thought that he could not continue like this, so he began to help the family manage the fruit trees, selling his own fruits, tea leaves and local specialties on WeChat.
After the incident, judging from Zhang Jun's social media statements, he was mostly depressed. "I wish Dad could come down and accompany you" "Dad really misses you"... Every time he went to his daughter's grave, he could always see flowers and toys, he took pictures and sent a circle of friends to express his gratitude to everyone.
At the beginning of 2021, Zhang Jun seemed to finally understand that things were irretrievable. He wanted to do some Business in Internet flower and food business, so he applied for a license of "Chun'an Qiandao Lake Xinmei Food Commercial Company" and began to operate on Douyin and WeChat. His last appearance was through media interviews to express his gratitude to netizens who paid attention to and cared about this matter and to those who helped him.
Picture note: Zhang Jun's circle of friends
The Zhang family recalled that they not only had to face the pain of losing their children afterwards, but also faced various accusations from netizens, which was almost overwhelming.
After Zhang Zixin's accident, it seems that every netizen has transformed into a guardian messenger. They commented under each related news, "I miss you so much, Zi Xin." Or "Poor child, her parents don't deserve to be parents." "But we need to know that compassion is the cheapest emotion, and real suffering is sunk in every minute of the Zhang family's life, and no one can empathize with it."
And the netizens' groundless speculation and self-righteous accusations are boundless malice for this family.
epilogue
When Zhang Zixin was born, he didn't bring anything. When she left at the age of 9, she left a lot behind.
She left a lot of good and regrets for her father, mother and grandparents; some worries for parents in Chun'an County - parents are more attentive to their children and more wary of outsiders; leaving a safety guarantee for local left-behind children - the local government has established a children's information database to pay more attention to their children's situation.
Thanks to this kind and lively child, she came for a short time and was attacked by demons, but more children can be protected from demons.