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At about 11:00 a.m. on July 3, 2004, an elderly woman in Hunan received a call from a local hospital, and a man on the other end of the phone shouted in a more urgent voice: "Is it Ms. Pan?" Your daughter passed away this morning, and now Changde Funeral Home, please come as soon as possible! ”
The old woman who heard the news suddenly felt a dizziness and almost collapsed to the ground.
Pan Gaoxiu held a picture of her daughter and cried
After rushing to the funeral home, the old woman learned that her daughter had died suddenly in her sleep without any warning. The old man initially suspected that the son-in-law had abused his daughter and caused the death, but the forensic doctor denied this statement:
"Your daughter's body does not have any wounds, and judging from other symptoms, it is safe to rule out the possibility of his killing, but the specific cause of death is not known for the time being."
Just when the old man had not yet recovered from the news of the death of his third daughter, it was not long before the old man's eldest daughter also died, and the strange thing was that the symptoms after death were the same as those of the third daughter - death had no symptoms, as if dying in sleep.
What is chilling is that from 2004 onwards, in the following ten years, every two years, the elderly have a child who dies, and the symptoms are like dying in sleep, and they are very young and have no disease.
Pan Gaoxiu and her husband Zhao Tianfang
The old man's four children died one after another, coupled with the bizarre death method, and for a while, the village was also full of rumors. Some people say that the old man's ancestral house has bad feng shui and is too heavy, while others say that the old man's life is too hard and kills his children.
In short, for the two old people, finding out the strange cause of death of four children is their only belief in surviving, and in the process of investigation, the old man also showed us the whole process of this bizarre incident one after another.
The third daughter died mysteriously
The old woman's name is Pan Gaoxiu, the husband's name is Zhao Tianfang, the two have been married for more than thirty years, the four children have grown up, the old man should have been holding his grandson to enjoy the joy of the world, but now he has been tragically "sent by the white-haired person to the black-haired person".
And it all started in 2004.
This year, the 21-year-old third daughter Zhao Guolin and a man named Zhang Aiguo in a neighboring village got engaged, but not long after the marriage, the two went to Work together in Changde, at first the parents did not agree, after all, they did not know each other for a long time, but finally at the insistence of Zhao Guolin, the two still went to Changde to work together.
Zhang Aiguo
But on the 12th day of her daughter's work, an accident occurred.
According to Pan Gaoxiu's recollection, the third is the best physical fitness of the four sisters and brothers, from childhood to adulthood almost no illness, Pan Gaoxiu really can not accept this sudden death, suddenly, she thought of her daughter had called back before to say that she had suffered unfair treatment in her husband's sister's home, so Pan Gaoxiu firmly believed that her daughter must have suffered "poison".
It wasn't until the final forensic doctor came forward and decided that he had not killed him that Pan Gaoxiu gave up the idea. However, due to the limited medical conditions at that time, there has been no accurate result on the specific cause of Death of Zhao Guolin.
Forensic
But Pan Gaoxiu did not give up the search for the truth about her daughter's death, and in the following two years, she ran all over the major hospitals in Hunan Province and consulted a number of relevant experts, but still did not find out the truth of her daughter's death.
Until 2006, because it cost the family a lot of savings to find the cause of her daughter's death, and also owed a lot of foreign debts, Pan Gaoxiu, who was forced to be helpless, had to give up looking for the truth.
But in this year, a bad news once again fell on the Zhao family.
The nightmare befell the second daughter again
This year, the 25-year-old second daughter Zhao Pulan suddenly stopped her heartbeat at home, and then fell straight down the one-meter-high staircase of the home, and after being sent to the hospital, the doctor had not yet come to the rescue, and had already found that Zhao Pulan had no vital signs.
Coincidentally, like the third daughter, the time of death was also in the morning, and according to the husband's description, the state after death was the same: "There was no expression of pain on the face, as if asleep." ”
Zhao Pulan
The two daughters died one after another in two years at a flower-like age, which made Pan Gaoxiu and his boss Zhao Tianfang worry about the safety of the remaining three children, and they were afraid all the time, and they couldn't help but start to wonder: Is this a coincidence or is there really a curse of the "God of Death"?
After spending a week in such a frightening day, Pan Gaoxiu and his wife buried their daughter Zhao Pulan at the same time, took out all the family's savings, and took the eldest daughter and the younger son to Changsha Xiangya Second Hospital for a full body examination.
The results of the examination a week later showed that Pan Gaoxiu's body was not abnormal with his wife and children, which made Pan Gaoxiu's heart that had been hanging temporarily relax.
But Pan Gaoxiu's family began to gradually become ominous signs in the village, many gossip spread in the village, some people said that the feng shui was not good, the yin qi was too strong, some said that Pan Gaoxiu and his children's lives were in conflict, in short, what cattle ghosts and snake gods said.
Villagers
Faced with such a situation, Pan Gaoxiu said:
"On several occasions, I deliberately hired Taoist priests to exorcise demons, and I also invited feng shui masters Bu Gua, but I still couldn't stop their mouths."
In this way, Pan Gaoxiu endured for another five years in gossip.
In 2012, perhaps to escape the gossip in the village, or perhaps they felt that the house was strange. After consulting with his wife, Pan Gaoxiu decided to take his 23-year-old young son Zhao Yingduan to leave his hometown and go to Changsha to work.
During that time, Pan Gaoxiu was worried all day, which made Zhao Yingduan very distressed, he said: "Maybe I was afraid that something had happened to me, and my mother often woke me up when I fell asleep at night." ”
Zhao Yingduan
In October 2012, Zhao Yingduan, who was originally working at the Second People's Hospital of Shaoyang County, suddenly decided to quit the iron rice bowl and went to Laos with several college classmates to do clothing business, and had secretly completed the procedures for going abroad.
However, under the repeated persuasion of his parents, Zhao Yingduan finally gave up going abroad and chose to accompany the two elders, after all, they had lost two children.
But even if he "tied" his son to his side in this way, Pan Gaoxiu still failed to protect his son's life.
The younger son could not escape the "curse"
On October 26, 2012, Pan Gaoxiu, as usual, prepared breakfast and prepared to ask his son to get up and eat, but no matter how he called and how he shook, Zhao Yingduan still did not move, Pan Gaoxiu saw this and rushed his son to the hospital.
But as with the results of the two sisters, the 23-year-old Zhao Yingduan died quietly in his sleep, and such a bizarre death happened again in the Zhao family.
Hearing this news, Zhao Yingduan's friends and classmates could not believe that they were still drinking together the night before, why the kung fu people in the blink of an eye were gone, and what made Pan Gaoxiu wonder more was that his son was studying medicine, and he usually paid more attention to his body in life, and occasionally went to the physical examination, which was really impossible to find a reason for sudden death.
Zhao Yingduan left a message
What Pan Gaoxiu could not understand was that, according to the description of his classmates, just one day before his death, Zhao Yingduan also changed the screen name from the previous "(り趙, 筅玍" to "Goodbye, Time", such a move may not be anything on weekdays, but such a screen name plus the next day's death made everything confusing.
Zhao Yingduan screen name
Could it be that Zhao Yingduan was already in the darkness and had already sensed the "coming of the God of Death", so he used this screen name to make a final farewell to the world?
All three children died in the morning, and two died quietly in their sleep, and the symptoms of death were the same—there was no expression of pain on their faces, as if they were asleep.
Pan Gaoxiu was already a bit unable to hold on to it by this time, and several times he even wanted to die, but fortunately Zhao Tianfang stopped it in time, which avoided the tragedy, and then, in order for his wife to seek short-sightedness again, Zhao Tianfang also hid the knives in the family.
Zhao Yingduan's cemetery
This incident also alarmed the local relevant departments, with the assistance of the relevant departments, Pan Gaoxiu and his eldest daughter Zhao Pulin came to the hospital again for a more detailed full body examination, which was bound to rule out all possibilities that could cause sudden death.
After the hospital received the notice, it also specially arranged for the relevant professors to conduct special research on the situation of Pan Gaoxiu's children, set up a team to conduct special research, and waived tens of thousands of yuan of test fees, but the final investigation results were the same as the previous examination - the health was no different. Such a result also made Pan Gaoxiu breathe a sigh of relief.
In the following ten months, Zhao Pulin's body did not appear abnormal, and just when Pan Gaoxiu thought that all this was "over", the "God of Death" came again.
On August 20, 2013, ten months after the death of his younger brother Zhao Yingduan, the eldest daughter, Zhao Pulin, was unable to get rid of the family's "curse", and the time and symptoms of his death were the same as before.
According to Zhao Pulin's husband Yin Juhong, at about nine o'clock that morning, he was resting in the living room, when he suddenly heard a loud noise from the room, ran over and saw his wife fall to the ground, and after being sent to the hospital, there were no vital signs.
Zhao Pulin
Finally, after the family's discussion, they decided to send Zhao Pulin's body to the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University for autopsy and cause of death testing.
This time, the experts present paid more attention than ever, deliberately adding 12 organ specimens for comparison, but the final result still showed: "The cause of the deceased's death is unknown, and the organ development is in good health."
Experts say:
"Judging from Zhao Pulin's test results, no obvious organic diseases were found, no obvious trauma was seen, and no typical signs of poisoning were seen, so the current cause of her death is still difficult to determine."
Then Pan Gaoxiu and his wife Zhao Tianfang also told the doctor that there was nothing unusual about their current body, and their parents died at the age of 70, and the two did not have any genetic disease history, and they really did not know why their children would leave them one by one.
Just when everyone was helpless, Zhao Tianfang said that in fact, she still had a daughter and did not know whether her existence was the key to solving the problem.
Pan Gaoxiu's fifth child
It turned out that Pan Gaoxiu and his wife Zhao Tianfang had five children that year, but because the family conditions were not allowed, Pan Gaoxiu passed one of the children to his sister, who named the child Xiao Yang, and the two families agreed that this secret would not be revealed again in this life.
Pan Gaoxiu's sister
But in the face of the successive deaths of the four children, Pan Gaoxiu and his wife still tell this secret now, and the emotional Zhao Tianfang kneels in front of his sister, hoping that the sister can return the child, perhaps Xiao Yang is the only "key" to crack the mysterious death of the four sisters.
Of course, the sister is also very sad to face what happened to Pan Gaoxiu, but the sister is also very embarrassed, after all, she has been raised for more than 20 years, not to mention how much effort she has paid, at least she is now treating this child as her own.
After thinking bitterly, the sister decided to give this choice to Xiao Yang, she believes that Xiao Yang has grown up and has her own family, and should let her decide her own future life.
Pan Gaoxiu and Xiao Yang
In the face of his adoptive mother who has raised him for more than twenty years, as well as his poor biological parents, Xiao Yang finally chose the latter, but the recognition means that Xiao Yang's original peaceful life will be broken, and he lives in fear all day.
Xiao Yang told her mother that she is now like a time bomb tied to her body, it is possible to explode at any time, it is difficult to sleep every night, and she is worried that she will be like her sisters, and her eyes will never be opened again.
Xiao Yang's husband is also very sad about this, every day after comforting Xiao Yang to sleep, he will look up relevant information on the Internet and in books, trying to find out the reason behind this bizarre event, but in the end it is only in vain, without any gain.
Xiao Yang's husband
The doctor suggested that Pan Gaoxiu take the family to genetic testing, perhaps from the source of life to crack the bizarre cause of death of the children, although Pan Gaoxiu does not understand these, but can only "dead horse as a live horse doctor".
Subsequently, with the help of relevant departments, Pan Gaoxiu's family found an authoritative expert in domestic genetic research, and after the experts knew the ins and outs of the matter, they also expressed great regret about what Pan Gaoxiu's family experienced, and then compared the disease gene samples of Pan Gaoxiu's two sons, Xiao Yang, and his grandson and granddaughter.
Genetic testing hospital
Check the results
Now that four children have passed away, even blind grief cannot change any status quo, and now Pan Gaoxiu only wants to take good care of the only daughter left in the short life.
Pan Gaoxiu
In addition to this daughter, there is another thing that has always been a knot in Pan Gaoxiu's heart, that is, those grandchildren who are still young.
The three daughters were all married before their deaths, and had their own children, the oldest was only 8 years old, and this age was undoubtedly the time when maternal love was most needed, and the sudden death of the mother was a huge blow to them and the impact on them in the future.
In addition, there is another thing that also makes Pan Gaoxiu and his son-in-law feel uneasy - they do not know whether these "strange things" that happened in the Zhao family will happen to this group of cute children.
Eldest granddaughter
A few days later, the genetic test results also came out, only showing that Pan Gaoxiu and Zhao Tianfang's genes were incompatible, but whether they had an impact on the next generation and whether it would be the reason for the bizarre death, these are still unknown.
Pan Gaoxiu told reporters with tears in his eyes: "At present, the main reason is that the cause of the disease cannot be found, as long as the cause can be found and no matter how much money is spent, we are also willing." ”
Looking at the whole thing, my heart was uncomfortable, I should have been enjoying the joy of the age, but I had to encounter the pain of the loss of the son of the white-haired person sending the black-haired person, watching my children die one after another, and the most uncomfortable thing was that I couldn't even find the cause of death.
Obviously, Pan Gaoxiu is a great mother, and in the face of misfortune, she has been stubbornly resisting with her own weak strength.
Nowadays, Pan Gaoxiu and Xiao Yang have recognized each other, and the mother and daughter duo do not know what will happen in the future, but we still believe that with the love of their parents, Xiao Yang will definitely be able to recover his health!