On May 17, 2024, it was reported that a dispute over the return of the bride price due to repentance led to the killing of two people. The murder occurred in a mahjong parlor in Ningnan County, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan.
It was 13:38 on November 11, 2023, and there were a lot of people in the mahjong parlor. At that time, there was a young man of the Yi nationality named Agen Rirail, who was holding a pig-killing knife in his hand.
He was followed by his father, Agenkomi, who was also carrying a knife.
The two men had come to commit the murder, and no one noticed the two dangerous men, and when they entered the house, they stabbed a middle-aged man.
When a middle-aged woman realizes that something is wrong, she tries to come and block the knife, but she is also killed. The whole thing was filmed on video from the mahjong parlor.
It turned out that the two people who were stabbed were husband and wife, and the people who killed them were their in-laws. What's going on in the details?
The couple who were killed, they had two daughters, the youngest daughter, Ran Yingying, who was 17 years old at the time, and it was because of her divorce that the murder occurred.
After learning that her parents were killed, Ran Yingying couldn't believe the result.
She believes that she indirectly killed her parents, who are in their 50s, which is not very old. If she hadn't insisted on getting out of the marriage, she wouldn't have caused such a tragedy.
She can only look at the photos of her parents in a daze every day.
Southern Weekly reporters went to Ningnan County, Liangshan, Sichuan Province to conduct interviews and learn about the entire process of the murder. Ran Yingying, 17, said that she was arranged by her parents when she was 15 years old.
It was 2021, and because she didn't study well, she dropped out of junior high school before she finished it. In their area, most girls choose to marry after dropping out of school at the age of fifteen or sixteen.
There are also births.
Because she is 15 years old, she is still ignorant of love, and she can only listen to her parents' arrangements. However, after she met her future husband Agen Rirail, she fell in love with him at first sight.
Because Argen is very handsome, despite being 6 years older than her.
The two of them got along for more than 20 days, and the family got engaged to them. The bride price was 368,000 yuan, which is not high in their local area, but it is considered a medium level.
If the woman is in good condition and has received higher education, the bride price can reach 700,000 or 800,000 yuan. And the locals are all acquiesced to this bride price, as long as the woman speaks, they will never bargain.
In the eyes of the locals, it is a matter of course for parents to marry their sons as daughters-in-law, and this is what parents owe to their sons. Just like a son who wants to provide for his parents in old age, this is a task that parents must complete.
Therefore, when Ran Yingying's parents proposed a bride price of 368,000 yuan, they did not return a penny of the bride price. Directly made up enough, this bride price, Agen's parents paid more than 100,000 yuan, his younger brother who worked outside paid 100,000 yuan, and the rest was collected by the villagers for him.
It is also a local custom for villagers to make a bride price, and when the villagers marry a daughter-in-law, they will also take money, and everyone helps each other.
Originally, the family affairs were decided, and Ran Yingying and Agen Rijing could be together. As for when two people will get married? It depends on how the two families discuss.
Ran Yingying said that in 2022, marriage will not be good for her, and she will also listen to others. So she wanted to get married in 2023, and the Agen Rirail family agreed. Their local young people are all working outside.
In 2022, 16-year-old Ran Yingying and her fiancé Agen Riliang went to Dongguan to work together, and the two lived together, that is, a week later, Ran Yingying returned to her hometown.
She told her parents that Agen had beaten her and kicked her in the stomach, leaving her with a lot of bruises. She felt that she didn't like Agen Riliang and wanted to get out of the marriage, which made Ran Yingying's parents very embarrassed.
After all, they received a bride price of 368,000 yuan, and their local family's annual income is more than 3-50,000 yuan, which is not a small amount.
They persuaded Ran Yingying to go back and return to Agen's side of the day.
There is also a custom in their local area, that is, if the woman regrets the marriage, she must return several times the bride price, and they cannot afford to return the bride price, so her parents persuade her to go back.
Even her sister told her to hurry back to her fiancé. My sister was also arranged by her parents, and her husband often beat her. Ran Yingying didn't understand why her sister had to persuade herself, she was the same as herself.
Because Ran Yingying has been stubborn since she was a child, and no one can change the decisions she makes. Instead of following her parents' advice, she left her hometown and went to work not far from her home.
She was reluctant to contact her parents, and as long as she did, they asked her to return to Agen's daily track. In this way, she chose to escape, out of sight and out of mind.
There are four siblings in Agenri, he is the eldest in the family, and there is a younger brother and 2 younger sisters in the back.
The eldest sister Ayi is 17 years old, and she was originally admitted to high school, but her father told her. will not pay her tuition, saying that it is useless for girls to study, and sooner or later they will get married.
She had no choice but to drop out of school and take on the responsibility of the family. Many of her classmates dropped out of school when they were in junior high school and got married, and their husbands were many years older than them, and some had babies.
After dropping out of school, she became the breadwinner of the family, farming at home, and had an annual income of 50,000 yuan in good times. Both of his older brothers have to earn money and have to go out to work.
Originally, Agen Riliang said that he would let his younger brother marry his daughter-in-law first, and the family didn't have so much money, so he wouldn't marry. However, his parents still married him first.
Ayi said that when the second brother marries a daughter-in-law, he must let her marry out first. Only after she gets married, her parents have a bride price for her second brother to marry.
What I didn't expect was that because of the engagement of the eldest brother Agen, the rhythm of their family was disrupted. Now her father and brother Agen Rirail have been arrested.
In fact, after Ran Yingying did not agree to the marriage, they had negotiated.
First, Agen Riliang's parents went to Ran Yingying's house and said that they would let Ran Yingying go back and promise that there would never be another beating of Ran Yingying. However, Ran Yingying has always disagreed.
After discussing several times to no avail, I had no choice but to discuss the withdrawal of the marriage and the bride price.
How much do you want to get back?
How to return?
After all, Ran Yingying and Agen have lived together for a while.
Later, after negotiation with the middleman, they said that they would refund 330,000 yuan, and they originally spent more than 380,000 yuan, including a bride price of 368,000 yuan, money to buy clothes for the woman, and a gift of 10,000 yuan for the death of the woman's grandmother.
In total, it adds up to more than 380,000.
As a result, only 330,000 yuan was returned, and both Agen and his parents disagreed, but Agen's younger brother nodded and said that they would earn 50,000 or 60,000 yuan, and we would work for nothing for a year.
So, the matter of returning the bride price was negotiated.
When will this money be paid?
They also have a local custom, that is, when Ran Yingying marries again, she will give it all at once after receiving the man's bride price. This is why the bride price becomes more expensive for local girls.
The second man whose daughter is engaged must cover the bride price of the first person.
In 2023, Ran Yingying met a boy when she was working, and took the initiative to confess to the boy and asked her if she had a girlfriend?
The other party said no.
Ran Yingying got along with the boy, and the other party gave their family a bride price of more than 380,000 yuan.
received the bride price, it stands to reason that Ran Yingying's father can directly give the bride price to Agen Riliang's family, and the tragedy will not happen. However, when the 330,000 bride price was returned, Ran Yingying's father said that her daughter still had a few pieces of clothing left at Agen's house.
Let them return the clothes together, a total of five clothes. If you can't find clothes, 100,000 yuan will be seized, and 20,000 yuan will be seized.
The reason why Ran Yingying's father asked him to return the clothes was that he was afraid that Agen's family would use Ran Yingying's clothes to make Gu, which would be bad for their family.
This is a feudal superstition, I don't know if he really believes it, or if he doesn't want to pay back the bride price.
Argen's parents rummaged through every corner of the house, finding only one and nothing else. However, Ran Yingying's father just didn't agree and wanted to deduct 100,000 yuan.
Agen's parents had no choice but to find a mediator again, and to their disappointment, no matter who said it, it was not easy to do it. The intermediary told them to find a lawyer and ask for the bride price through legal channels.
They also asked their lawyers, who told them that the bride price would not necessarily come back. However, they are required to pay legal fees and write a complaint.
They are all illiterate and don't know what to do. It was in this situation that they abandoned the legal route.
Soon, tragedy struck.
On the day of the crime, Agen Riliang and his father, each of them had a knife, and they went to a mahjong parlor with them, because Ran Yingying's parents were playing mahjong in the mahjong parlor.
That is, in a minute or two, both husband and wife were killed.
Ran Yingying's uncle had already thought of this result, and they had persuaded Ran Yingying's father many times to return the bride price, because they had seen many murders caused by the bride price.
Unexpectedly, the last thing they wanted to see happened. Although they worked as lobbyists many times in the middle to mediate the return of the bride price, the tragedy was still inevitable.
After the incident, Agen's family hoped that Ran Yingying's family would issue a letter of understanding and not pass on the hatred to the next generation. However, they did not succeed.
Ran Yingying's father had also heard about the bride price causing a murder, but he never thought that this kind of thing would fall on him. It was because of a few pieces of clothing that the other party was annoyed and angry.
As a result, he even took his own life and implicated his wife. I believe that if he learns that this will be the final result, he should choose to return 330,000.
After all, life is priceless.
There are also perpetrators who are too impulsive, and the consequences of doing so are very serious, although they kill others, they are angry. However, I also put my whole life on board.
It's really not worth it!