At the end of last year, when everyone was busy welcoming New Year's Day and looking forward to a new year, a piece of news that was colder than the wind pierced the hearts of many people.
Xiao Li, a delivery boy in Qingdao, clashed with a security guard while delivering food in the community, and was then brutally murdered by a sharp knife that the security guard took out of him.
Conflicts between riders and security guards are not uncommon, but what is surprising is how a small friction that should be quickly resolved can cost a person's life.
However, with the subsequent development of the incident, the experience of the rider Xiao Li was reported, which brought the discussion of the incident to another dimension...
32-year-old rider collapsed in the cold winter
It was one day in December, and Xiao Li, as a rider, came to "Yili City", a mid-to-high-end community in Qingdao, to deliver food.
The surveillance footage shows that he was walking back and forth in place at that time, and had a conversation with Lao Zhao, a security guard who was on duty.
Although we have no way of knowing what Xiao Li and Lao Zhao said, just relying on the surveillance footage is enough to make people creepy.
I saw that in the picture, Lao Zhao suddenly took out a knife and stabbed him one by one and without hesitation.
Xiao Li kept retreating, but he didn't seem to have the ability to resist, he was stabbed several times in the chest, waist, and back, and finally lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground, and was ridden on the back by the other party and continued to stab... Even in the blurry picture, you can feel the cruelty of the knife-wielding person at that moment.
In this way, Lao Zhao stabbed like crazy for a minute before being pulled away by the people on the side of the road.
And Xiao Li finally passed away because of ineffective rescue.
According to eyewitnesses at the scene, the conflict between the two stemmed from the community's regulations on takeaway delivery. Because the food delivery was about to run out, Xiao Li wanted to ride into the community, but Lao Zhao, who was a security guard, insisted on refusing to let him go.
The reason for the conflict between Xiao Li and Lao Zhao is not uncommon.
The platform has a penalty for overtime for riders, so every second counts when delivering food. And if you are in a hurry, if you encounter a "strict security" community, it is a rider's nightmare.
And the community where Lao Zhao works "Yili City" is a community known for its strict security.
Because the community is very large, the buildings are very high, and there are many buildings, it takes 5-10 minutes to deliver an order, which is comparable to cutting meat for riders who are racing against time.
As early as before, Xiao Li also had a conflict with Lao Zhao for the same reason, and some people speculated that perhaps it was the accumulation of this contradiction that caused this tragedy.
At the east gate of "One Mile City", Xiao Li fell forever in the last mile of this food delivery.
In the later police report, everyone learned that this thin and thin young man was only 32 years old.
At the end of 2023, a young life fell to work in the cold winter, triggering the compassion of ordinary people: there is still a month to go home for the New Year, and his mother can no longer hold her son's warm hands...
This was actually news from a month ago, and it didn't attract much attention at the time. But a month later, because of a report in Sanlian Life Weekly, the story behind Xiao Li's rider's life was revealed, and he was brought back to the public eye.
Unlike the suffering and diligence behind the protagonists of previous excavation incidents, this report has sparked a lot of speculation.
mentioned in the interview that Xiao Li is actually a young man who has returned from studying abroad, although his family background is average, but when he graduated from high school, his parents put together more than 1 million yuan to send him to Australia to study psychology, and during this period, he also took a year off because of insufficient tuition fees.
After graduating, Xiao Li worked in Australia for two years before returning to China to start his own business.
Because he is interested in carpentry, he spends his days at home researching and making furniture, and has also developed an app. Watching short videos is very popular, and Xiao Li also tried to shoot videos to make self-media, but they didn't make any big splashes.
In the eyes of his relatives, Xiao Li's thinking is very active, and the music box he selected for his relatives' store eventually became a hit.
Image source: Sanlian Life Weekly
Xiao Li is also a person who pursues the quality of life. He makes his own pineapple wine at home, and although his meals are simple, sometimes he also has salmon.
Image source: Sanlian Life Weekly
He has a strong sense of self-esteem, earns money from relatives, and always tries to "return" it by helping to buy goods and groceries.
Although he has had several failed entrepreneurial experiences, Xiao Li can still work down-to-earth. He works silently to save money, and he can run 100 orders a day when others run dozens of orders, hoping to relieve the financial pressure of his parents and shoulder the responsibility of the family as soon as possible.
However, on the sixth day of his tenure as a rider, tragedy struck.
Image source: Sanlian Life Weekly
After the article about Xiao Li was released, these information points deeply attracted everyone's attention: spending 1 million to study abroad, failing to start a business, and having an ordinary family background.
Just a few amounts of information are enough for many people's brains to make up for his 32 years of life. In other words, it was the brain that made up his "frustrated life".
On the delivery rider's table, salmon appeared
As Xiao Li's life story was revealed, there were boos for a while.
Sighs, sighs, mockery, yin and yang... The discussion among netizens also began to gradually "get out of control".
Some people lamented that this kind of ordinary family borrowed 1 million yuan to let their children go abroad to study a "water master", and it was better to take advantage of the housing prices at that time to buy a house in a big city.
Some people "bitterly talked", saying that psychology really has no employment opportunities in China, and it is better to stay abroad and not die.
Some people ridiculed, saying that they spent more than 1 million to study psychology, but they obviously mixed up a degree, and thought that they were really gilding.
There are also people who condescendingly say that they can be stabbed to death if they study psychology, and they must still not have studied well.
Some people even "discerned" and found the details in the article, pointing out that eating "salmon" regularly is not a simple meal at all.
Others think that Xiao Li is too axial, why can't he stuff cigarettes and hand bottles of water to the security guards like other riders.
Even if you still can't enter the community, you won't have a bad relationship with the other party, so that you will eventually die.
Image source: Sanlian Life Weekly
It seems that no one cares about the vicious incident itself, but instead puts Xiao Li's body into the trajectory of a loser, trying to find the "rationality" of his death.
The psychology of borrowing money to study abroad - parents are intellectual;
Returnee college students deliver food - studying abroad is useless;
The income is meager, but the quality of life is also emphasized - pretentious;
The security guard repeatedly refused and forced himself to break in - stubborn character.
Everyone knows that there should be no "victim guilt", but it is clear that in this case, the victim was really charged with a lot of crimes.
The attribution of the number of seats, in addition to releasing some cheap malice, also reveals a kind of "I am not like this, so I will not be like this" self-deception.
In the off-topic discussion, no one cared about the most important question, why would the security guard pull out a knife and stab the delivery man to death?
Rather than studying why a rider becomes a rider, perhaps it is worth paying more attention to why the security guard carries a knife with him. It's a pity that digging sauce doesn't seem to have seen relevant reports.
The overlooked elephant in the room is that the one-size-fits-all rules and regulations surrounding riders and security guards will inevitably lead to the contradiction between the two.
And this inevitability will not only harm themselves, but also make the society hide dangerous factors.
Some time ago, there was a "delivery man map marker" that became popular.
Some netizens found that on an industry app where delivery workers are active, some delivery workers mark the characteristics of each community on the map.
Some of the information is to help peers quickly locate the location of the building.
Some of the information is to share the entertainment project of the community - petting cats.
And more information is to reprimand the unreasonable security guards, many unreasonable settings in the community, and the rules that deliberately make things difficult for riders.
The overwhelming complaints of the riders also made us find that the contradiction between them and the security guards is already extremely common and difficult to resolve.
Riders who have lost their power, security guards who "kill crazy".
There is a joke on the Internet: "When you are a security guard during the day, you scold a rider at night, and you are a rider who scolds a security guard at night."
This sentence is very interesting, which not only reflects the two positions of rider and security guard as the choice of many low-level people, but also reflects the tension between the two in real life.
The conflict between security guards and riders has been going on for a long time. In other words, they were originally placed in a setting of inevitable conflict.
According to the news report, the delivery is overtimed, and if the customer cancels the order, the rider will be deducted from the whole day's earnings.
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The property company also stipulates that if the security guard is found to be letting the rider go without permission, he will be fined 50 yuan at a time.
According to the monthly income of 3,700 yuan in the middle and high-end communities, more than two riders are allowed to enter the community every day, and the security guards are equivalent to working in vain this month.
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The rider's overtime is equal to white work, and the security guard releasing the rider is also equal to white work. They are all grassroots workers with meager incomes, and no one wants to lose their wallets.
And so, friction began to happen.
Some security guards deliberately sprinkled water to wet the steps in order to prevent riders from resting in front of the steps of their buildings.
Losing a seat is a trivial matter compared to deducting money, and the riders just laugh and leave.
Some security guards are not so "polite".
In order to "punish" the rider rushed to deliver a single bicycle into the community, forcibly stripped off the rider's car key, and forced the rider to choose to kneel down and beg for mercy, the scene is poignant.
And such "lynchings" are not unique.
Locking the car, confiscating the keys, or even directly dismantling the electric car are all common methods used by security guards.
It is not uncommon for riders to injure security guards.
Because there were still two minutes to go over, I wanted to ride into the door but was stopped by the security guard, and the rider knocked the security guard and the police to the ground in a hurry.
A few years ago, a security guard at Zhejiang University was stabbed with a fruit knife by the other party for stopping a rider's electric car without a license plate, but fortunately he sought medical treatment in time and was out of danger.
Friction and quarrels can turn into more violent conflicts and even kill people.
The platform requires on-time delivery, otherwise points and money will be deducted;
Customers are required to be delivered on time, in quantity and at temperature, otherwise there will be bad reviews;
The property regulations prohibit all outside vehicles from entering, and for fear of offending the owners, there are no takeaway shelves at the door, forcing riders to walk into the community to deliver food;
The security guard, who was given a death order by the property, would lose his income if he was negligent, and could only point the finger at the rider.
When it comes to the calculations, the rider is indeed the most disempowered part of this.
So, how can we prevent the tragedy from happening again?
Instead of discussing the rider's background, personality, and whether he is tactful, it is better to urge the property and platform to come up with more reasonable rules, rather than allowing the conflict between the rider and the security guard to accumulate and eventually become a knife blade stabbing at each other.
After the story behind Xiao Li was on the hot search, Dig Sauce saw many people's evaluations and even accusations against him. In order to attract attention, some YXH even exaggerated and magnified Xiao Li's family background and study abroad experience, blurring the main contradictions.
But what's the point of ordinary people's endless accusations against ordinary people? It doesn't change the rules, it doesn't shake the essence, or it effectively averts the next tragedy.
Rules are very good at deflecting contradictions, pitting ordinary people who should be united against each other. But we have to learn to recognize these traps that have been set for a long time, because we don't know when we too will be the weaker ones who are abandoned by the rules.
What kind of person the 32-year-old Xiao Li is and what kind of life he chooses to live are not "corroboration" of his murder.
If I had to define his life.
He was an ordinary man who had suffered misfortune.