On October 18, 2016, 29-year-old Zhu Xiaodong strangled his wife Yang Liping by the neck and killed her. Yang Liping's father, Yang Ganlian, told Red Star News that Zhu Xiaodong pinched his daughter for 5 minutes, and then wrapped the body in a red sheet and put it into the bottom of the freezer in his home.
In the eyes of junior high school classmates, Zhu Xiaodong was once their "inspirational idol" - when he graduated, he suddenly announced to everyone that he would lose weight, and then he insisted on running every day and only ate green vegetables. A few months later, he changed into a different person.
▲ Yang Liping and Zhu Xiaodong Yang Liping's family members provided pictures
On September 5, 2017, The Chinese New Year's Day, Yang Ganlian made a large table of his daughter's favorite meal. Looking at his daughter's last photos, the tears he had endured for a long time fell.
After the incident, he tried not to imagine the cruel details, and whenever someone asked, he brought it with him the phrase "strangled to death". In fact, he did not dare to think that his daughter struggled in bed for 5 minutes and stayed in the freezer for 3 months, "too miserable", "heartache".
▲ The Zhongyuan Festival is approaching, and the relatives of the Yang family pay tribute to the deceased Yang Liping Pan Junwen
Yang Darelian told Red Star News that when she found her daughter, the temperature in the freezer was more than -30 degrees Celsius, which had seriously damaged the skin tissue, and her body was black and purple, curled up, and difficult to see.
Yang dared to pay even the highest price, and no mortician was willing to restore her appearance. Even the funeral home was reluctant to hold a memorial service for her, believing that the appearance would leave a psychological shadow on the visitors. Eventually, after consultation, they covered their faces with white towels, covered their bodies with white roses, and erected a huge photograph in front of the coffin to receive condolences.
For the progress of the case, the Red Star News reporter contacted the local police station and substation, and the other party said that this is a special case and it is not convenient to disclose it for the time being.
/ Neighbors Say /
He doesn't like to talk
Good looking, always change girlfriends
On February 1, 2017, 105 days after the killing of his wife, Zhu Xiaodong turned himself in accompanied by his parents.
When a police car and a funeral car drove into the Hongkou Commercial Village Community in Shanghai, the neighbors who lived with Zhu Xiaodong in the Commercial Village were amazed that this kind of plot that only appears in movies and novels actually happened to them.
Commercial villages were built in the 1950s and 1960s, and most of them have only 5 floors. An external drying rack protrudes from each window sill and is occasionally intertwined with wires, on which women's underwear, jeans and sheets hang from it all year round. In the building, the wooden staircase painted with red paint has begun to mottle, revealing the true color of the wood.
This community, like many old communities, is half inhabited by the elderly, half rented by outsiders, and even the old residents who have been here for more than 20 years are not familiar with each other.
▲ Zhu Xiaodong lives in a commercial village community photo by Pan Junwen
For Zhu Xiaodong, the neighbors only have a simple impression: they don't like to talk, they look pretty good, and they always change girlfriends. Your hair is shiny and shiny, and you can smell the strong smell of perfume from a distance. Every day at noon or in the afternoon, he would lead a sheepdog, squeaking up and down, "Ringing the boss, as soon as you hear it, you know it's him."
After the incident, many neighbors recalled that they had seen a woman dressed fashionably and driving a luxury car to find Zhu Xiaodong in the community, and they had also heard a fierce quarrel from his home.
Zhu Xiaodong grew up living with his mother in a house of more than 30 square meters on the 4th floor. When he was 29 years old, his mother moved out, the house was newly painted and turned into a marriage house, and his wife moved in. The neighbors also learned about the Zhu family's silent happy event when his mother knocked on the door to distribute happy candy.
However, the marriage did not last long, and after 5 months, the bad news came out.
Yang Darelian, a former policeman, blamed himself for the murder of his daughter, "If it were not for my 60th birthday, things would not have developed."
On February 1, 2017, the fifth day of the Chinese New Year, the festive atmosphere of the New Year has not yet dissipated, and the relatives of the Yang family have gathered early to celebrate Yang Ganlian's 60th birthday, but the daughter Yang Liping and son-in-law Zhu Xiaodong have never appeared on this day.
▲ Zhu Xiaodong and Yang Liping's residence after marriage Pan Junwen photographed
Until about 6 p.m. that day, Yang Liping's cousin finally called Zhu Xiaodong's mother,, and the other party said a word: Something happened to Yang Liping, and you should come to the Guangzhong Road police station.
"This meal can't be eaten, Yang Liping has an accident." At first, if the cousin threw it at the dinner table, everyone did not think about the worst, only that there was a car accident that hit people, or the two little ones quarreled...
Rushing to the police station, the Yang family learned that their daughter had been dead for 3 months.
/ What classmates and colleagues say /
The principal had introduced her to a rich boy
After spending less than two months together, she refused on the grounds that she didn't like it
Well-behaved, independent, kind and simple, is the impression that Yang Liping left to her parents, relatives and friends.
From elementary school to high school, Yang Liping only studied in the primary school in front of her home in the third to sixth grades. For the rest of the day, because the school was far from home, she stayed at her grandmother's house and only returned home on Saturdays and Sundays. Her grades were always in the middle and upper grades of the class, and she never got into trouble.
When she was a child, she liked villain books, and her father bought her a box. Later, watching others enter the Internet café to play games, she followed for a while, and her parents were afraid of learning badly, so they spent more than 8,000 yuan to buy a computer and let her play at home. She hardly argues with others, and rarely even speaks loudly.
The university filled in the volunteer, everyone thought that her personality was more suitable for being a teacher, she also accepted everyone's opinions, and finally chose Shanghai Normal University.
In college, there was only one boy in the normal class, and like most girls, she did not take the initiative to provoke boys. In the eyes of her classmates, small animals and Japanese anime are her favorites. In the summer, flying insects fly into the dormitory, and every time the roommate slaps with a book, she always reaches out to stop it, and then takes the flying insect to the window sill to let go.
In 2014, the family cat fell ill, and she stayed on guard all night, and the next day, without waiting for the veterinarian to come, the cat died. She also drove half the city from Puxi to a pet cremation site in Pudong for a funeral. The small white jar containing the kitten's ashes is still on her bookcase.
After graduating from university, Yang Liping applied to be a teacher in a key primary school. Here, she is very popular with colleagues and students, and she has a lesson that has become a teaching case in the school, circulating on the Internet.
▲ Yang Liping's room still has various certificates preserved pan Junwen photo
The principal was also very kind to her, and once introduced her to a boy from a good family. The boy often drove her home in a Mercedes Benz, and Yang Mu was secretly happy every time she looked at her from upstairs. But within two months, my daughter stopped dating. Yang Mu asked, and she responded lightly, "I don't like him."
His parents divorced when he was 10 years old
Vocational school graduates as a salesman, very clear about the bar
Compared with Yang Liping, Zhu Xiaodong's growth is more mysterious. When his parents divorced when he was 10 years old, he has been dependent on his mother for a long time. In his mother's heart, he is a "good baby" who does not grow up, timid, and hides everything in his heart.
In the eyes of junior high school classmate Wei Tao, Zhu Xiaodong was once their "inspirational idol". In junior high school, Zhu Xiaodong was a fat man who weighed nearly 170 pounds at one point. She blushes when she talks to a girl, so she has basically no female friends. When he graduated from junior high school, he suddenly announced that he wanted to lose weight, and after that, he insisted on running every day and ate only green vegetables. After a few months, he was like a changed person, and since then "handsome" has replaced "fat" as his new label.
Due to his poor grades, after graduating from junior high school, he attended Nanhu Vocational School, which is not far from home. After graduating in 2006, he went to Wujiaochang Oriental Commercial Building as a salesman, working neither late nor leaving early, treating customers with enthusiasm and indifference. Colleague Xu Lin thinks he looks more mature, and they are not a "circle". He remembered that Zhu Xiaodong had never played with them, and even if they smoked together, he did not speak, "just stood handsomely."
At that time, their monthly salary was only 1500 yuan, and they were still more luxurious in bars and nightclubs. A few times to talk about going out to play, Zhu Xiaodong suddenly came enthusiastic, recommended a lot of bars to everyone, "which bar has more young girls, which bar can drink freely", he is so clear.
There are very few such people in her life
"Little pimp, with personality, just attracted her"
When Yang Liping graduated from university, Zhu Xiaodong had already moved to many commercial buildings. In the view of classmate Wei Tao, at that time, Zhu Xiaodong was already a little inflated, his girlfriend often changed, and his job was resigned.
Ms. Yang's cousin said that in 2012, Mr. Zhu added a tattoo to his arm, the names of him and his new girlfriend. But just before and after the tattoo was carved, he met Yang Liping. At that time, Yang Liping was shopping in the mall, and Zhu Xiaodong suddenly came forward to talk. As for how they developed after the conversation, no one can say clearly.
She once told her good friend Wang Feng that she met a cool boy. But just then, he suddenly disappeared. "At the time (they) didn't have a definite relationship, but it felt ambiguous."
After work, she returned to the two-point life of school and home, until Zhu Xiaodong reappeared and pursued her.
Zhu Xiaodong explained to Yang Liping that the reason why he disappeared was because he had a tumor, so he quit his job, cut off all ties, and went to Tibet alone. Later, it was found that her head did not hurt, and the re-examination found that she had recovered from her illness, so she plucked up the courage to come back and pursue her.
If others looked very ridiculous, Yang Liping was half-convinced and did not investigate deeply. Wang Feng later recalled that Zhu Xiaodong's strange behavior was exactly what attracted Yang Liping: a little bit of a pimple, super personality, "too novel for her, there are very few such people in her life." ”
However, after Yang Liping's death, some netizens dug up Zhu Xiaodong's whereabouts on his way to Tibet, and it was alleged that he eloped to Tibet with his girlfriend, and for some unknown reason, he also planned to commit suicide. Later, because the woman's family strongly opposed the relationship, they were forced to break up.
Yang Liping once confided to Wang Feng that this love that made Zhu Xiaodong unforgettable was something she was jealous of.
Afterwards, he posted two circles of friends in a Wuxi bar
A small candle was lit
A caption: If life is only the first sight
In the Spring Festival of 2015, Yang Liping brought Zhu Xiaodong home for the first time.
At that time, Yang Daren was not satisfied with his heart, but he chose to believe his daughter's vision. Yang family chatted with him, asked about his profession, parents, he also asked a sentence to answer, rarely took the initiative to speak, Yang Liping in order to resolve the embarrassment, always rushed to answer for him.
After that, Zhu Xiaodong went to the Yang family several times. As soon as he entered the door, he entered Yang Liping's room and basically did not communicate with the Yang family's parents. Looking at them, you and me, holding hands in and out, the Yang family's parents did not say anything more.
After falling in love, there was also a "war" between them——
"A few days ago WeChat deleted, looking for me text messages or phone calls, I don't know how many people are alive on Weibo, women are OK at any time, men are in danger of being deleted, in the next 48 hours, Weibo will also be defeated, began to delete people one after another, this is not acting, this is a war without gun smoke." In February 2015, Yang Liping suddenly posted this Weibo.
It is understood that the cause of this war is that Yang Liping found that some girls frequently sent ambiguous messages to Zhu Xiaodong.
Yang Liping called Wang Feng after a quarrel with Zhu Xiaodong and said that Zhu Xiaodong made her feel uneasy. But the day after the fight, she saw the online watch discount, and without hesitation, she spent more than 5,000 yuan to buy a piece for Zhu Xiaodong. She said, "Buying him something nice is happier than buying it for yourself."
"Guarantee that there is only one of you, guarantee that you will never send messages to others again, will not contact others, mobile phones can be shown to you every day, rest mobile phones at your disposal, mobile phone records can be pulled at any time, the first of the month; if there is, burn charcoal, at home, die together." The note left in Yang Liping's relics seems to be able to find some clues for their quarrel.
In order to tie each other up, they received their marriage licenses on December 31, 2015. In the eyes of mao mao, a college roommate, this is simply incredible. Because not long ago, they and Yang Liping had just discussed the issue of marriage. At that time, Yang Liping's statement was that Zhu Xiaodong had no money and could not get married.
On May 28, 2016, the two held a wedding banquet, and Yang Liping took the initiative to cancel almost all the wedding ceremonies, without taking wedding photos, without wedding dresses, and without sending relatives and wedding ceremonies. The wedding banquet was set up at 6 tables, and only close relatives of both sides were invited. Her colleagues and friends were all invited alone later.
Later, every time Mao Mao saw a photo of Yang Liping wearing only white short sleeves and ripped jeans to toast everyone at the wedding banquet, he would feel sorry for her.
One day in September 2016, Zhu Xiaodong took Yang Liping to a tattoo shop, Zhu Xiaodong covered the traces of the previous relationship with "Medusa", and Yang Liping tattooed a pair of wings on her left arm. The tattooist speculated that they were a bit conflicted at the time, "Usually couples talk to each other to relieve boredom, but that day, the man tattooed on the second floor for 3 hours, and the girl has been playing with the kitten and puppy downstairs." ”
Later, Zhu Xiaodong told his wife that he was reused by the company, with a monthly salary of 20,000 yuan, and would go to Hong Kong for development. Yang Liping submitted her resignation to the school, "two people together is more important than anything else", she said to a friend when she decided to resign.
The day of planning to go to Hong Kong is getting closer and closer, and who knows what happened.
Today, Zhu Xiaodong's circle of friends only has a few dynamics left, and it is no longer possible to piece together the trajectory of his life. However, on December 29, 2016, he left coordinates at the Saga Bar in Wuxi and sent two dynamics in a row: one lit a small candle, and the other caption: If life is only the first sight.
▲ Zhu Xiaodong's circle of friends
(At the request of the interviewees, Wei Tao, Wang Feng, and Mao Mao are pseudonyms)
Red Star News intern reporter 丨 Pan Junwen
Editor 丨 Wang Rui