On April 18, 2003, on this night, li Meiying, Li Fengying, and Li Xiuying hanged themselves at their home in Yangshupu Xi jili, a tragic case that caused a shock to society. The reason the three sisters committed suicide was that they had been bullied by their uncle's family, who had swallowed up their three thousand yuan savings, making it impossible for them to attend to their mother's funeral.
The three sisters died unjustly, but the scene left a letter of complaint in their own handwriting, which read:
Our surname is Li and we are from Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province. My father was a former Qing dynasty official, who died in Guangxu twenty-five years ago, and was an official before his death. When he was mourning his father, thanks to the help of his father's former friend Mr. Sheng Xingshan, he raised three thousand yuan for his father, but our uncle Han Zhongwan saw the wealth and did not tell our mother about this matter, and he swallowed the money alone. Later, our mother heard about this matter from Mrs. Sheng Xingshan, and she begged Mrs. Sheng to supervise the withdrawal of money from Sheng Xingshan, but she did not expect that the money could not be withdrawn, and the interest was even more meager. Nine years after my father's death, we have been living a life of hunger and cold, and my mother was poor and sick, and she could not afford to be sick, so she died. After Han Zhongwan's death, our money was handed over to Han Songfan, and in order to fight for this money, our mother and daughter were bullied.
After my mother's death, Han Songfan asked his second son to come to Shanghai, and a person he didn't know pretended to be a member of the Han family, and he hastily buried my mother, saying that my mother had no money left behind, and forced us to go back to Zhenjiang with my mother's coffin. We have to wait for our cousin and my mother's grandson to come and inherit the family property before we can go back to our hometown. We deeply understand who should inherit the family property, how can we not avoid suspicion?
Out of desperation, we went to the Tao General Office and asked him to help us first deposit our mother's coffin in the Jingjiang Office, and when our cousin took his nephew to Shanghai, we went back to Zhenjiang together, but the Tao General Office did not agree to our request, but said that it was just right to go back first, and colluded with our uncle to bully us. The Sheng Xingshan family also had no one to help us, we called out every day should not be, the earth is not spirit, so we had to rush to Huangquan together this evening, fight to the death, and save the honor.
We don't have to do an autopsy after we die, and we don't have to take off our filial piety. Afraid that the world would not know, I wrote this letter and told the world. If we could withdraw our money, fifteen hundred dollars of that would be donated to the Red Cross.
Sisters Li Meiying, Li Fengying and Li Xiuying stopped writing under the lamp on the eighteenth day.
At the bottom of the letter is a small note: "We may be buried next to the graves of our parents." ”
Another note read: "Borrow Grandma Wang's twelve yuan, now repay with something, there is a square table, a cold bed, a pair of benches, and a bathtub." "These letters were found from the side of Li Meiying and others.
The reason for the letter to ask for tao's office was because their father had done things in the integrated spinning mill before his death, and the three women had written a letter to the wife of the tao general office of the factory a few days before their deaths, and the letter read:
Mrs. General, just around four o'clock, we went to the house to ask to see my wife, and the servant said that you were sick and could not see the guests. We have one thing to ask my wife for help: our mother's coffin must be sent to the Jingjiang Office tomorrow, because there is no one in the house, I really can't go, please tell the general office, please tell the general office, trouble him to send a suitable person to take care of it along the way, if so, we are really grateful.
In addition, our whole family can only get six hundred and fifty yuan of daily money from the Han family every day, when my mother was alive, she lived in poverty, was bullied, poor and sick, and died early, we wanted to die with our mother, but because my mother's coffin had not yet been buried, we were uneasy. Ask General Tao to go to the Sheng Supervisor's Office and say that if he asks the Sheng Supervisor to help return the money that the Han family has embezzled from us, if it can be done, it is really a matter of immeasurable merit! Now the Han family does not even provide us with six hundred and fifty yuan a day, we have nothing, tomorrow there is no cost to send our mother's coffin, begging my wife to temporarily lend us dozens of yuan to save the urgent need, wait for our money to be recovered, and return it immediately. Li Meiying and the other three sisters wept and prayed.
The eldest of the three sisters was fifty years old, the old was twenty or forty years old, and the old was thirty-seven years old. The three sisters are knowledgeable and old-fashioned, very filial to their mother, and vow never to marry. The clothes they wore were all coarse cloth, and the style was extremely old, and they didn't know what foreign goods were. When they went to the funeral for their mother before they died, they didn't have a penny, not a grain of rice, and the sisters hugged and cried, and the situation was extremely tragic, but their cousin Han Mou turned a blind eye, listened but did not hear, and his heart was like an iron stone, and he could not save him when he saw death.
After the three sisters committed suicide and died, because there was no one in their relatives, there was no one to do justice for them. At that time, although the Red Cross Society of China practiced humanitarianism, it was limited to regulations and could not interfere in local litigation matters. It was only the Tao General Office who asked someone to take a photo of the three sisters' suicide notes to commend their martyrdom. The Zhenjiang Hometown Association also informed the fellow villagers, saying that the father and son of the Han family were incorruptible and unrighteous, and they were inferior to animals.
What is even more puzzling is that The Inspector of Shengxing Shansheng, since he attaches great importance to his friendship with his dead friend and collects money for orphans and widows, this cannot but be said to be a generous person, but later since he knows that this money was swallowed up by the Han family, he does not help recover it and completes his original action for good deeds, but he seems to be afraid of what the Han family will do to himself, which is really puzzling.
Poor and respectable three sisters of the Li family, abominable and hateful father and son of the Han family.