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Preface
In 2014, Shen Teng and Ma Li collaborated on the sketch "Help or Not to Help", which was a success on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, which ruthlessly exposed a social reality that it is difficult to be a good person.
Nowadays, walking on the street and seeing an elderly person falling down next to them, most people choose to leave quickly, for fear of bringing trouble to themselves.
Even if there are a few well-wishers to help, you should check in advance to see if there are cameras around.
Such a social phenomenon makes people ask, isn't helpfulness a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation, and why has it become so indifferent now?
If you want to talk about the reason, perhaps most people will invariably think of the "Peng Yu case" that happened in 2006.
A retrospective
It happened on the morning of November 20, 2006, when Peng Yu took bus No. 83 to Nanjing Shuiximen Square as usual.
There were not many passengers in the car at that time, which also made Peng Yu's mood extremely relaxed, but he never expected that a big trouble was waiting for him not far away.
The bus that Peng Yu was riding was very fast, and under the skillful driving skills of the driver, he soon caught up with the previous bus, and the two cars entered the Shuixi Gate together.
After the car stopped, Peng Yu got up and got out of the car to go to his destination, but when he got out of the car, he saw an old lady fall to the ground because of a collision with someone.
Seeing the old man's painful expression, Peng Yu realized that this blow might not be light, so he did not leave, but accompanied the old man until his family arrived.
Adhering to the mentality of being a good person to the end and sending Buddha to the West, Peng Yu also sent the old lady to the hospital with his family and paid 200 yuan in advance for medical expenses.
Peng Yu thought that he had done good deeds, and even if he couldn't receive a pennant, he would be thanked by his family.
However, soon Peng Yu was completely dumbfounded, and the hospital found after diagnosis that the injured Xu Shoulan, that is, the old lady, fell very seriously, resulting in a fracture of the left femoral neck, and needed to be hospitalized for surgery, and the cost of the operation required tens of thousands.
With such a huge amount of money, of course, the family hopes to find the perpetrator for compensation, but Xu Shoulan said that there is no need to look for it, and the person who hit the person is Peng Yu.
In an instant, from righteousness and courage to the perpetrator, and facing tens of thousands of yuan in compensation, Peng Yu of course refused to agree, because the two sides could not reach a unified opinion, during the period of two police to deal with it, but it was not resolved.
Soon after, in January 2007, Xu Shoulan and her family sued Peng Yu in court, demanding that Peng Yu compensate for medical expenses and mental damages totaling 136,000 yuan.
You must know that this is 2007, hundreds of thousands of yuan is definitely a huge amount of money for ordinary people, Peng Yu, who received the summons, was angry and regretful, obviously doing a good deed but he had to lose his family, but at this point, he could only take over this lawsuit.
Xu Shoulan
Then, until September 2007, Peng Yu's life revolved almost entirely around the lawsuit, during which a total of four court hearings were held before the verdict was finally reached.
However, the court believed that the two collided, but neither the original defendant was at fault, so they needed to share the loss, and the court's final judgment was that Peng Yu compensated Xu Shoulan for 40% of the loss, that is, more than 40,000 yuan.
After the verdict was issued, Peng Yu appealed unexpectedly, but unexpectedly, Xu Shoulan was also dissatisfied with the verdict and appealed.
According to people familiar with the matter, the two parties reached a settlement in the second instance, provided that Peng Yu compensated Xu Shoulan 10,000 yuan in cash at one time.
So far, the parties have not appeared in the public eye, and the Peng Yu case has been hastily concluded, but the public opinion and impact it has caused are like a surging river bursting thousands of miles away, and it is out of control.
The impact of Peng Yu's case
Since the announcement of the first-instance verdict, public opinion has exploded, many media and individuals have supported Peng Yu, and some news have even directly criticized the court verdict and felt unfair for Peng Yu.
At the same time, some lawyers said that the mainland has the principle of "whoever asserts, who presents evidence" in civil litigation, that is, since Xu Shoulan said that Peng Yu hit her, she must come up with relevant evidence, and if there is no evidence to prove it, she should not make a rash judgment.
Because of the sensitivity of this matter, coupled with the media hype, it has become everyone's heart disease for a while, and no one is willing to risk being accused to do good deeds.
Since then, many similar cases have occurred in various provinces across the country, but passers-by no longer dare to lend a hand, so that some people eventually died after falling to the ground after being injured and not treated in time.
In addition, Judge Wang Hao's question during the trial has also become the focus of public opinion.
"You didn't hit it, why did you help it?"
This question is irrefutable, and it seems to announce that only those who hit will be helped, such a strange logical closed loop is actually from the mouth of a judge, which makes people even doubt the credibility of the court.
So, now that 18 years have passed since this incident, what about Peng Yu and Xu Shoulan and Judge Wang Hao?
Subsequent changes
The first to be most directly affected is Xu Shoulan's family, because the public almost always thinks that Xu Shoulan is framing good people, so reporters often come to visit, hoping to interview Xu Shoulan, and even Xu Shoulan's neighbors feel very bored.
In the end, Xu Shoulan's family, who were really unbearable, chose to move in 2010, but not long after moving, Xu Shoulan passed away.
The presiding judge Wang Hao, who was also greatly affected by this case, was a top student of the law department of Nanjing University, and his grades were very good when he was in school, and he became a judge of the Nanjing Intermediate Court after graduation.
During the trial of Peng Yu's case in 07, there was a lack of evidence, because no one directly witnessed the collision process, and cameras were not as common as they are now, and even the transcripts made by the police at that time were accidentally lost.
Perhaps due to the accumulation of various factors, Judge Wang Hao finally chose to infer according to common sense, but this is obviously unfair, and he has been constantly criticized by public opinion.
In the face of the public's incomprehension, Judge Wang Hao also publicly edited why he came to such a judgment and what basis he had, but in the case of an uproar in public opinion, no one could listen to his voice at all, and even people often called him to abuse him.
Because of the bad impact on the credibility of the court, Wang Hao was finally transferred out of Yuanfa Yuan and arranged in the street judicial office 10 kilometers away.
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Douyin Encyclopedia - Peng Yu case
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