I don't know when "honest man" became a derogatory term. Be an honest man and do things steadfastly, but he has been repeatedly treated unfairly, mourning his misfortune and being angry with him.
Lao Zhou, who lives in Hetou Village, Linhai City, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, is such an honest person. How honest is he? His wife is addicted to gambling and has lost all her millions, so he goes out to borrow money; his wife asks her lover to steal the water pump, and he helps carry it; his wife is imprisoned for stealing the bell, and he takes the initiative to forgive him, and says with tears in his eyes: "I am also at fault, wait for her to come home." ”
It is said that those who live well in the end are often diligent and honest people, but can Lao Zhou's life be good in the future?
A woman who loses a million family assets
Lao Zhou, who lives in Hetou Village, originally had a happy family.
Lao Zhou is diligent and honest, and when he was young, he learned a craft of making paint, barely making a living. When he was in his 20s, Lao Zhou and the local girl Chen Haixia met, Chen Haixia was tall and thin, with white and tender skin, Lao Zhou saw the right eye, fell in love and got married, everything was logical.
When the two got married, Lao Zhou was still so poor that he could barely eat a full meal. But Chen Haixia did not dislike Lao Zhou, but worked with Lao Zhou to make money by making paint day and night, and after a few years, she finally got rid of the hat of poverty.
Chen Haixia is not only capable, but also very competitive, and has given birth to a son and a daughter to Lao Zhou. When her daughter grew up, she married into a good family and had no worries about food and clothing. Although his son was not admitted to university, he also inherited his father's business, and he was a well-known painter in the village in his early 20s.
In a blink of an eye, Lao Zhou and his wife Chen Haixia are over fifty years old, have saved millions of family properties, and their children have grown up, and it is time to retire. The neighbors in the village also envy such a family, and often talk to Lao Zhou: "You marry such a good daughter-in-law of a prosperous husband, and the ancestral grave is smoking." ”
The neighbor's words of praise made Lao Zhou feel a little harsh, because in the past ten years, he found that his wife had a bad habit and was destroying a happy family far away.
It turns out that Chen Haixia is not very shrewd and capable, but she is also a person who can't stand loneliness. Lao Zhou was busy with her livelihood every day, and when she was away from home for a long time, she only felt mentally empty and became addicted to gambling. Small gambling pleasure, big gambling hurts, Chen Haixia relies on her own spare money, and she drills into the card table when she is free. In the past ten years, she has not only lost millions of family properties, but also owed a lot of foreign debts. Now not only the neighbors, but also the card friends are happy to welcome her: isn't this just giving money for free!
Regarding his wife's addiction to gambling, it is impossible for Lao Zhou, who is a husband, not to know about it. But he is honest and dotes on his wife without a bottom line, so even if the family is torn apart, he doesn't say a word about his wife. Moreover, when he learned that his wife was in debt, he also went out many times to borrow money from relatives and friends.
But there is no impermeable wall, and gradually, relatives and friends know that Lao Zhou borrowed money to pay off his wife's gambling debts, and they are reluctant to borrow him. In desperation, Lao Zhou had no choice but to tell his wife the truth and persuade her to stop.
Traveled far away and partnered with his lover to steal
In 2019, 52-year-old Chen Haixia came to Duqiao Town to work.
Although Chen Haixia came alone, someone had already planned a way out for her, and this person was none other than her lover Li Hua.
Li Hua, like Chen Haixia, was addicted to gambling, lost a lot of money, had conflicts with his wife, and lived apart for a long time. Don't look at Li Hua's age is 5 years older than Chen Haixia, half a head shorter, his appearance is not good, but his brain is flexible, he has been mixed with female card friends all the year round, and at the same time met Chen Haixia at the card table, and the two developed a lover relationship.
Li Hua rented an old house in Duqiao Town, and heard that Chen Haixia and her husband Lao Zhou had a conflict, so he took the opportunity to invite her to Duqiao to develop, and the two lived together soon after.
At first, Chen Haixia also found a job to earn money to pay off gambling debts. But after a long time, she couldn't stand it, and she worked hard for a month, which was not as good as her playing a round of mahjong to earn more. So, she "returned to her old business", working during the day and playing cards at night, earning some money that either lost at the poker table or ate it in her stomach.
After the pair of wild mandarin ducks lived together, their lives did not improve, due to poor card skills, they lost nine out of ten bets, and all the money they earned was lost. As a last resort, the two thought of being a "gentleman on the beam".
In the eyes of the two, stealing is a business without capital, as long as they are not caught, it is much better than a part-time job. However, the two still stole supermarket items and resold them at first. With more and more successes, the two of them are getting more and more bold, and they think that being a "gentleman on the beam" is slow to make money, so they become "water rats".
In May 2021, the two discussed and discussed, and set their sights on the pumps in the ponds around Duqiao. Duqiao is the land of fish and rice, and there are many pumps in the river pond, and a small pump is more than 1,000 yuan. Zhou Haixia and Li Hua thought this was a godsend, so they aimed at these pumps.
From May to August, for three consecutive months, the two went out to pedal during the day, rode an electric tricycle at night, held professional tools, cut wires and water pipes, lifted the water pump to the car and drove away.
According to statistics, the two committed more than a dozen crimes in three months, stealing 42 small water pumps and motors. Although those big pumps were more valuable, the two of them couldn't move them, so they had to put them in place.
Because the pond is far away from the town, it is difficult for the owner to find out that the pump is stolen in time, and when it is found that the pump is missing, the difficulty of solving the case increases sharply, causing Chen Haixia and Li Hua to be at large for a while, and live a drunken life.
asked her husband to help carry it, and finally caught
On the evening of August 26, 2021, Lao Zhou received a call from his wife Zhou Haixia, who told him on the other end of the phone: "You come to Duqiao and help me move something." Lao Zhou didn't know what to do, so he immediately rushed over.
It turned out that Zhou Haixia called her husband over for nothing else, according to the plan, she and Li Jie were going to pull the 10 pumps and motors they had just stolen to the morning market the next day and sell them. However, because there were too many things, it took too much time for the two of them to carry them, so they called Lao Zhou over. In order to keep it secret, Zhou Haixia did not tell her husband that these were all things she stole from her.
Lao Zhou really didn't know what Zhou Haixia was doing, but he already knew about the improper relationship between his wife and Li Hua. It's just that he is a real person, and he takes into account the feelings of his children, so he doesn't want to pierce this layer of window paper. Therefore, on the night he came to Duqiao, he slept in one room alone, and Zhou Haixia and Li Hua slept in another room on the same floor.
At three o'clock in the morning, Lao Zhou got up at the appointed time, helped the two of them lift the pump and motor onto the tricycle, watched the two leave, and then went back to the room to sleep by himself.
However, early the next morning, Lao Zhou was woken up by a phone ringing. The caller was a police officer from the Duqiao Criminal Investigation Squadron, and the police told Lao Zhou: "Your wife Zhou Haixia was arrested for stealing and selling stolen goods, you should come to the squadron." ”
The lover turned her face and complained, but her husband forgiven: I will wait for her to come out
It turned out that the police of the Duqiao Criminal Investigation Squadron mastered the facts of Chen Haixia and Li Hua's crimes after investigation and big data comparison, and arrested them when they sold the stolen goods.
In the early morning of August 27, when the two went to the morning market to sell stolen goods, they were arrested by plainclothes police who had been waiting for a long time. However, when the two were interrogated at the police station, they blamed each other, and neither admitted that they were the ones who took the lead in the theft.
According to statistics, the 42 pumps and motors stolen by the two people, with a cumulative value of tens of thousands of yuan, constituted the crime of theft, met the standard of filing a criminal case, and have been detained by the public security organs and transferred for prosecution.
According to common sense, Lao Zhou was called to carry the water pump, and he should know that his gambling wife had embarked on the wrong path, and everything was stolen by her. If the assumption is true, Lao Zhou also constitutes the crime of covering up and concealing criminal proceeds.
However, when Chen Haixia was interrogated, she said with a handful of snot and tears that it was gambling that led her astray and regretted not doing it at the beginning, but her husband did not know.
After the police investigated, they confirmed that Lao Zhou was not involved in the case and released him back.
The moment he walked out of the police station, Lao Zhou's eyes were moist, and he told the police: "I am also very remorseful and self-blaming, I didn't stop her gambling at the beginning, so that she didn't know that she had done illegal and criminal things." ”
When the police asked him about his future plans, Lao Zhou said: "I hope she can actively reform, become a new person after being released from prison, no longer gamble, and I will wait for her to go home, regardless of past suspicions." ”
It can be seen that Lao Zhou is really honest, he was deceived by his wife and lover, and he interceded for his wife. However, it is precisely because he is honest and does not ask his wife more things that he will not be reduced to prison together, and he can be regarded as escaping.