On the evening of March 23, 2019, when Lu Wanzhen drove his girlfriend to the underground garage in a luxury car, a scene that he will never forget appeared.
He had just parked his newly bought Ferrari in the underground parking lot of the apartment, opened the car door, and before he could pull his girlfriend out of the car, his face was suddenly covered by a pair of big hands, and before he could react, he felt that his body was being pushed backwards, he cried and struggled, but obviously the other party was taller than him, and the disparity in strength made him unable to break free.
Soon, he was transferred to a Dodge car. And the girlfriend sitting in the co-pilot was completely shocked by the blatant hijacking in front of her, and by the time she reacted, her boyfriend Lu Wanzhen had been taken away by 3 masked men.
She hurriedly called the police and told them what she had just experienced. It turned out that Lu Wanzhen was an ordinary Chinese student. So, why is Lu Wanzhen the only one who is targeted among so many international students studying abroad? What kind of relationship does he have with these kidnappers?
The high-profile "rich second generation" in the study abroad circle
It turns out that Lu Wanzhen has always been a very flamboyant child. His living conditions are relatively good, and his parents have loved him since he was a child and responded to his needs, but whenever he puts forward what he wants, his parents will try their best to meet him.
The abundance of material conditions made Lu Wanzhen gradually become arrogant and unpopular. In his daily life, although his parents are busy with their careers, they have never lost him money in terms of money.
He has almost developed a Xi of spending money lavishly. Because his parents are busy with work and lack his growth for a long time, Lu Wanzhen always hopes to attract the attention of his parents through his exaggerated language and expression, so that everyone can perceive his existence.
After going to school, his heart became more and more empty, and he especially liked to promote himself in a high-profile way in dealing with people and things, so that everyone could notice his existence.
He wears brand-name clothes and shoes at school every day, and his interpersonal relationship is not good, Lu Wanzhen and his classmates around him generally can't get along and become friends. Because he always has no one in his eyes, arrogant and indifferent, but he enjoys the envious eyes of his parents and classmates around him.
The more others envy him, the more he has a sense of superiority. So he often said at school that his home was in the center of Shanghai, with high-end villas, and his family had a lot of money.
In such an environment, not only did he have no friends, but he also did not work hard Xi his grades. Seeing that he was about to reach the age of college, his parents had no choice but to send Lu Wanzhen abroad to study. Lu Wanzhen, who went to Canada to study, still hasn't changed his arrogant and flamboyant nature.
As soon as he came to school, he posted his wealthy daily life on social platforms. He wears designer clothes, carries brand bags, and drives luxury cars. He once told his classmates that his family is a big businessman, and there are several houses in Shanghai and Beijing.
As soon as he arrived in Canada, he bought a high-end apartment for 580,000 Canadian dollars.
In order to facilitate his own travel, he bought four luxury cars in Canada, not only Lamborghini, but also Rolls-Royce, Ferrari and so on.
The freer life abroad made him more and more high-profile, he would show off his wealth unscrupulously, drive a luxury car to pick up female classmates to and from school, and the girls around him would never exceed a few months. Probably because of his rich atmosphere, he attracted the attention of the kidnappers at that time.
What happened to Lu Wanzhen after his kidnapping
However, after the kidnappers knew that his family was entangled, they did not torture him in any way, but let him run away without paying attention.
It was about nine o'clock in the evening on March 26, and the average resident of a small Canadian town was watching TV at home and preparing for a while.
Suddenly, a noise in the courtyard alerted him. Through the window, he tried to see the movement outside the door, but found that he couldn't see anything clearly, until he heard the voice of someone in the yard asking for help, he hurriedly went out to check around, only to find a boy with Asian looks lying on the ground and shouting for help.
When he stepped forward to check carefully, he found that he still had a wire tied to his hand, obviously where he escaped, and this person was Lu Wanzhen, who was kidnapped 3 days ago.
Soon, the residents notified the police, and under the questioning of the police, Lu Wanzhen made it clear what happened to him in the past three days.
When he was taken away that day, Lu Wanzhen was knocked down by the kidnappers with an electric stun gun. After he was thrown into a car. The bandits tied his hands backwards in handcuffs, and his mouth was covered with duct tape and stuffed into the trunk of the car.
In order to prevent their whereabouts from being discovered, the kidnappers have been fleeing with him for so many days, and they have not stopped.
Although Lu Wanzhen only ate one meal in the past few days, fortunately, the kidnappers did not torture him or hurt him.
Police have searched for Ms. Lu across the city and have posted messages on television and the internet. In the past three days, the police dispatched more than 200 police officers to search for the city, and several police cars and several helicopters carried out a carpet search in the area where Lu Wanzhen disappeared.
At the same time, various social media and the Internet also scrolled through the bounty information, and if anyone can accurately provide clues about the kidnapped Chinese student Lu Wanzhen, they can receive a bounty of up to 1 million Canadian dollars.
Seeing that the whole city was paying attention to this matter, these kidnappers were very scared, and actually fled after throwing Lu Wanzhen 200km away.
Lu Wanzhen's encounter can be said to be the lucky one in the Chinese kidnapping case, but until today, only one kidnapper surrendered to the police, and the other three kidnappers have still not been caught.
The kidnapper from Somalia, Abdullahi Adan, explained the whole thing, they looked for Lu Wanzhen as a target, and it was also when they found that the Chinese students were very rich when they were squatting nearby, so they wanted to get some money from him.
It's just that after the kidnapping was carried out, the police knew too quickly, and because the tracking was very tight, they didn't have time to think of a way to deal with it and contact his family, so they had to talk about Lu Wanzhen's release.
At that time, although Lu Wanzhen fell into the hands of the kidnappers, he took the initiative to tell them more than once that his family was very rich, and as long as he could release him, he was willing to pay a ransom of 1 million Canadian dollars.
However, even if the kidnapping did not have serious consequences, it still caused a great sensation in the country at that time.
Everyone is looking for Lu Wanzhen's family, wanting to know what kind of family Lu Wanzhen lives in and what kind of family can make him live such a high-profile life. Unexpectedly, when netizens checked, they found that Lu Wanzhen is a rich second generation, and he does have the capital to show off his wealth.
Lu Wanzhen's Taoist father
Lu Wanzhen's father Lu Wenrong is not only a Taoist, but also an entrepreneur with a mountain of more than 300 million, and Lu Wanzhen's mother is also an entrepreneur, with 15 companies under her name.
Lu Wanzhen's father was the vice president of the China Taoist Association and the president of the Hainan Taoist Association at that time. His family is so rich because his father, who is from Zhejiang, went out to work during the reform and opening up, relying on the savings accumulated by doing business.
It was 1993, and Lu Wenrong followed his brother to Hainan to seek new business opportunities and make money to support his family. According to some Internet sources, Lu Wenrong and his brothers bought hundreds of acres of land in Hainan at that time, intending to make money through tourism. In order to introduce some special animals for tourism, they also went to Africa for field trips.
In the process, Lu Wenrong was influenced by an African student and became very interested in Taoist culture, so he returned to China and gave up tourism to become a real Taoist priest.
The more he learned about Taoist culture, the more interested Lu Wenrong became. Lu Wenrong hopes to truly promote Taoism. He found that there was a representative of the Taoist Southern Sect in Ding'an, Hainan, Bai Yuchan.
In the southern region, most families like to worship their ancestors, and they are also Xi to follow the Taoist way. Therefore, Lu Wenrong hopes to restore the dilapidated Taoist temples in the area and promote Taoist culture.
So he developed the land he bought in 1993 into a project that would help boost the economy and promote Chinese Taoist culture. Lu Wenrong sought help from relevant departments and the government, and in 2002, the project, called Wenbifeng "Jade Toad Palace", officially started.
In order to complete the construction of it, Lu Wenrong took out all his net worth, and with the help of the government, Lu Wenrong also borrowed from the bank, investing a total of more than 375 million yuan in the construction.
It took three years for the temple to be completed. Because of the huge investment, coupled with the active operation and the support of the government, once the "Jade Toad Palace" of Wenbi Peak was completed, it became a national 4A-level scenic spot.
In addition to the development of tourism, Lu Wenrong will also invite many celebrities and Taoist believers on the annual event day, and after a long time, it has also become a very classic tourist attraction. It is this project that has brought Lu Wenrong a lot of income.
The Taoism that Lu Wenrong entered is different from Buddhism in our traditional sense, he can get married, have children, and have his own family. So although Lu Wanzhen is a Taoist, he also has a wife and children. However, due to his busy career, Lu Wenrong did not have time to accompany the child at a young age and help him grow into a sound-minded adult.
The lack of attention from his parents since he was a child has gradually turned Lu Wanzhen's inferiority complex into a flamboyant character, and he is eager to attract his parents' attention to him through his exaggerated language and expression. He mistook his high-profile behavior of flaunting his wealth for a way to attract the attention of others, so he caused the kidnapping.
It is hard to imagine that although Lu Wenrong, the father of Taoism, is an advocate of promoting the trend of Taoist culture in the new era, there are still many deficiencies in his son's education.
After the kidnapping case, when the media interviewed Lu Wenrong, he also said that his children have been pampered since childhood, and it is the first time he goes out to live alone, and it is inevitable that he does not know how high the sky is, let alone how important it is for a person to be low-key. This is also a lack of him as a father, so in the future life, Lu Wenrong will definitely discipline his son strictly.
Now Lu Wanzhen has graduated, and after this kidnapping incident, his psychology has been greatly shocked, and since then, he has been much more low-key in dealing with the world.
And Lu Wanzhen's father Lu Wenrong and mother Zhang Yuan also reflected on their own educational behavior from this incident, while accompanying their son and being strict with their son, they are also more enthusiastic about public welfare. Public welfare is a very important part of Taoist beliefs, and Lu Wenrong also hopes that the couple's behavior can subtly affect their children.
They are willing to do the Tao and benefit the Tao, and continue to develop Taoist charity and public welfare actions. We believe that with the company and teaching of his parents, Lu Wanzhen's lack of character can be made up by time, so that Lu Wenrong, a key figure in Taoism, will also win the respect of more people.