The young man in room 205
A young man died at 344 behind the fruit store. The news spread throughout Yingbin Avenue in Huili County, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan in just a few days. No. 344 Yingbin Avenue is a five-story old building hidden in a narrow hutong.
The most expensive housing rent here is not more than 500 yuan, generally more than 300, water and electricity all inclusive. The tenants don’t interact with each other on a regular basis, but they all know that “a boy died in room 205. They also remember that many police cars came that day, blocking the street entrance, the person was carried out on a stretcher.
The young man’s name is Chen Songyang, 23 years old. On the Internet, he has a more familiar name – “Mocha”, is the B station The “virtual anchor”.
Neighbors with the only remaining memories of piecing together the image of Mocha: looking like more than thirty years old; height straight to one meter eight, in the Sichuan people appear to stand out; very fat, about two hundred pounds, wearing a pair of rimmed glasses.
Welcome Avenue 344 is sandwiched between two fruit stores, the fruit store owners have seen this young man. A long Time ago, he came over to buy strawberries, 15 yuan a catty, “only bought a little, less than ten dollars.
The owner of the mutton shop downstairs, Granny Lin, told reporters that sometimes she is busy in the store, through the gray glass door, will see this young man slowly pacing from one end of the Welcome Avenue to the other. He had his head down, his stomach bulged out a large piece, and walked like he was holding a large watermelon. Granny Lin thought it was “abnormal, morbid fat”.
He always frowned, the corners of his mouth turned down, and looked preoccupied. Occasionally, he would patronize the lamb restaurant and order a large portion of lamb noodles for 15 yuan, the option of adding meat for 20 yuan on the menu, he did not choose. He seldom spoke, and every time he drank the Soup until there was not a drop left. Granny Lin always thinks he’s not full, “Want some more, no money”. He did not say anything and shook his head.
The county is surrounded by mountains, the temperature plunged after winter, the cold seeped into the bones. 2020 December 20, Mocha on the network lamented “winter is difficult, ah”. “Go out and throw the garbage, almost freeze to death. That day he live wish is: earn a meal money; then a little more extravagant wish is to buy a new kettle, because the kettle used at the time had a rusty smell. However, due to the dismal amount of live viewing, “it seems that we have to endure again”.
Granny Lin noticed that the young man was always wearing the same thin gray clothes. She guessed that he was living in poverty, and every time he came, he added more powder to the bowl, adding a few more pieces of mutton, a large bowl full, tamped with a spoon.
At noon on January 10, Granny Lin saw the police car next to the fruit store. After a while, the stretcher carried out a person, covered with a white cloth, it was not clear what he looked like. It was not until the father of the deceased came to offer his condolences the next day that she saw the similar face and realized that it was the young man who had died who lived in room 205.
The remains were found by the landlady Zhou, who was in her eighties.
She lived alone on the fifth floor, retaining the habit of walking every day. on January 8, she went downstairs and saw a crop of light showing below the doorway of room 205, she knocked on the door: “Xiao Chen, Xiao Chen, don’t forget to turn off the lights. No one answered, and she guessed that Xiao Chen might not be Home. When she returned from her walk, the light was still on. She returned home and dialed Xiao Chen’s phone number, but it was busy. The next morning, Mrs. Zhou went downstairs to do moxibustion and took a look at 205, the light was still on.
Xiao Chen “snore hard”, the building wall sound insulation is not good, every night, the neighbors on both floors can always hear the sound of snoring. They told Granny Zhou that the snoring had disappeared in the past two days. Zhou was a little annoyed, she guessed that Xiao Chen went out and forgot to turn off the lights, or moved to another residence. She called a locksmith with the intention of turning off the lights.
On the morning of January 10, the locksmith opened the door of 205. The room was cluttered, with bags of instant noodles, white Medicine bottles and drink bottles scattered on the floor. As for Xiao Chen, is on all fours “sleeping” on the floor next to the bed, the pink flowery quilt wrapped solidly around the head and body, a pair of bare feet from the other end to show A pair of bare feet were peeking out from the other end.
“Why are you sleeping on the floor?” thought Granny Zhou. She shouted “Xiao Chen” and went forward to pat. The locksmith on the side thought, “This person is not right, we need to call the police”. Zhou’s mother-in-law rushed to find her brother-in-law to help call the police. When taking a statement, the police told Mrs. Zhou that Xiao Chen passed away last night.
Chen was moved into room 205 last June. When the agent was brought in front of Mrs. Zhou, he asked shyly if he could pay the rent on a monthly basis if he couldn’t pay quarterly. Mrs. Zhou agreed, “but you have to be trustworthy”. Chen was very trustworthy and paid the rent of 370 yuan on time every month.
This is a room of less than 20 square meters, with a concrete floor, equipped with an iron-framed bed, a table and a bathroom. There is a large window in front of the bed, and the sunlight is half blocked by the building across the street.
In the local folk custom, if the deceased does not die in his own home, then a puja should be done at the residence, otherwise the soul cannot enter the netherworld. After Xiao Chen’s death, Granny Zhou waited for several days, but did not see his Family door to door puja, she was anxious and sad, their own money to hire a Taoist priest. After the puja, Granny Zhou hired someone to move the beds and tables and chairs out of the room, repaint the walls, put a new lock on the door, and politely refused all tenants who wanted to rent.
Rumors swirled. Someone told Granny Lin that the dead Chen was 23 years old. Granny Lin’s heart shocked, her own young son is also 23 years old this year, working outside, she will call her son every day, asking him whether he ate, whether the cold weather added clothes. The other people said that Xiao Chen “Parents divorced, looking for mom was thrown out, looking for dad also do not want”, Lin granny surprised and angry, eyes red, “how there are such parents. How can there be such parents? This kind of person does not deserve to be a parent.
And in a parallel space unknown to Granny Lin, the death of virtual anchor Mocha is stirring up a considerable storm of public opinion.
The mourning was first carried out in a small circle, and on January 19, netizen Ilyich posted an “obituary” in the B station dynamic: Mocha died of poverty and illness. The accompanying picture is the virtual image of Mocha processed into black and white.
Within two days, this obituary, together with the dynamic released in the B station before the death of Mocha, was carried one after another to the major social networking platforms, on the hot search list, get a huge amount of comments and forwarding, quickly “broken circle “.
Netizens based on the dynamics of the social media platform, pieced together a debt-ridden, poor and sick Mocha – living in a dangerous building; suffering from diabetes, stomach disease, liver disease and other diseases; can not afford to buy insulin, medicine to buy on tablets; using twenty dollars to buy a rice cooker, eat noodles to eat, hungry will go to pick up rotten pears to eat. the penultimate B station In the penultimate dynamic, he wrote, “I especially want to eat strawberries, but unfortunately strawberries are too expensive. “
Two days after the “obituary” issued, Ilyich open B site, almost every second there will be a new message popped up, there is to convey condolences of netizens, journalists who want to interview, and religious There are new messages popping up almost every second, from netizens conveying their condolences, journalists wanting to interview, and religious people wanting to perform pujas for Mocha.
Mocha’s experience is seen as a real-Life version of the movie “The Life of Disliked Matsuko”. Some netizens said, “The defense is broken, the front and back are so lonely and desperate”; others described that after seeing the obituary “The heart always feels like a rubber hammer slammed through the ice, a thud”.
People were shocked that a person who had a computer and live streaming equipment, had access to the B station and could make videos, could not afford to eat strawberries and finally died alone in poverty and illness. Some netizens commented: “high tech low life” is no longer Science Fiction, has become a reality.
Piecing together computers, life and friendship
In 2018, Ilyich met “Mocha” in a small group of virtual hosts.
Mocha had posted videos of herself in the group, and Ilyich thought that “her skills were quite good and her aesthetic was to my taste. In Ilyich’s impression, Mocha is modest, although highly skilled, but never bragging about how good he is.
Ilyich was a medical student. One day, Mocha private chat to ask him: what is the cause of the stomach pain? Ilyich asked in detail exactly where the pain, how long and so on, and finally deduced that it was a peptic ulcer. Mocha said he did not have money to buy drugs, Ilyich by hand to buy a two-month course of drugs sent to him, and made a list, write clearly which drugs to buy, and urged him to eat a year, or the cure is not the root cause.
Mocha body disease seems to be quite a lot, every now and then will come to consult, the two people also slowly get acquainted. Occasionally chatted one day, Ilyich realized that after eating those drugs, Mocha has not been able to afford to refill them.
Mocha gradually mentioned his living conditions, in Chengdu as a loader and unloader, the monthly salary of eight hundred, to pay five hundred yuan rent. The tone was sparse, but Ilyich felt shocked, he had never seen such people in his life before. 300 yuan of living expenses how to live a month? Ilyich dared not think. Mocha told himself that he often breaks the meal, sometimes breaking the noodles to eat several times, there are mountains nearby, he once went up to the mountains to pick wild grass and wild vegetables. In addition, he would pick up things to eat.
In Mocha’s narrative, in April and May 2018, due to the employer’s unpaid wages not issued, he went to collect his salary, but was black-hearted boss stepped off the ID card and kicked out. The loss of sources of livelihood of Mocha at this time and encountered fraud, by strangers with Alipay “chanting” five hundred yuan credit for two hundred yuan in cash. At that time, he didn’t know what a “flower” was.
The rent was about to expire and his health was in bad shape, so Mocha had to return home, but he couldn’t even afford to pay for his travel expenses at that time. This is the first time the group of friends to “borrow” the name of financial support Mocha. From this point on, the group of friends began to support Mocha one after another.
Mocha always retained his self-esteem, he was reluctant to say the word “to”, only to say “borrow a little”; do not say the specific amount, after receiving the money repeatedly said “thank you “, to ensure that they earn the money will be returned.
Ilyich never thought of “pay back” this file, he has a total of “Borrow” out a thousand.
After returning home, Mocha told everyone that he wanted to find a side business to do, everyone suggested that he do vtuber virtual anchor, you can earn some extra income. But Mocha said, he did not have the equipment.
The equipment was sent from all over the country a little bit. We all combined in the group and found that everyone had old computer parts that had been eliminated from their homes, just enough to make up a computer. Ilyich sent a set of audio equipment, a monitor headset, a sound card and a microphone. After two days, Mocha sent photos of the assembled computer to the group, and the words were very happy.
With it, there is another gift, is a group of friends for the virtual image designed by Mocha – black hair with bangs, pale teenager.
Mocha thus began his career as a virtual anchor. He is very diligent, if he is still comfortable, will broadcast every day. The fans are only a hundred or so, watching live is also basically a group of friends. 2020 November, Mocha to the empty message area broadcast, “tonight to resume live, but what should I broadcast? When he was physically ill, he would release a dynamic saying, “I’m sorry I can’t live all the time, I’m not well today, I have to rest. “At that time, there was only one comment below, which was three hugs of the B site emoji.
In Ilyich’s eyes, Mocha’s video editing is smooth, with a good sense of rhythm, not inferior to the professionals who graduated from the science class. The biggest drawback is that the preference for material is puzzling. Ilyich said, on the one hand, to do MAD itself there is no way out; on the other hand, Mocha is very reluctant to do some of their own subjects do not like, like the subject matter and are on the cold side.
Doing video basically no income. The company’s main goal is to provide a good solution to the problem of the problem. From the night before to noon the next day, he stood in front of the warehouse for more than ten hours in a row. After work, he complained in the group: “It’s hard to die,” “I don’t even know how I spent the night, disoriented. “
The online Mocha has been very optimistic, buy drinks twice in a row “another bottle” is also worth sending a dynamic. 2020 at the end of July, he released a dynamic: “I did not know that I had already a hundred. “I did not realize that there are already a hundred fans, this is a good start”.
In Ilyich’s eyes, Mocha is a very good friend, sincere and rarely complains. He mentioned that he wanted to eat the chili sauce made by Ilyich, and Ilyich mailed him a bottle. in November 2020, when Mocha was discharged from the hospital after surgery, Ilyich also wrote an impression song for Mocha, which was posted on the B website: “This is an original song written for @MochaOfficial congratulating him for overcoming disease and achieved a stage victory perhaps there are still a thousand difficulties ahead, but I believe that black tea will be able to persevere”.
The demon sheep is the most funded Mocha in the group. 2020 December 8, the demon sheep to Mocha opened the “life of the first Governor plus captain”. That day, Mocha specifically sent a dynamic expression of gratitude.
The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to its customers.
Mocha died after a month.
Is it “Qing Yu” or “Mocha “
Everything has been a sign, sickness has been tormented Mocha. According to the B-site dynamics, after taking the medicine sent by Ilyich, stomach pains often make it difficult for him to sleep, he also suffers from at least liver disease and diabetes. Since the beginning of winter, Mocha’s health has been deteriorating even more. He described himself in the group, often vomiting, thirsty, needing to drink water every five minutes; in the end, he had to rely on his hands together, to be able to hold a piece of paper.
The biggest problem was still poverty. He could not afford to buy insulin, and pills priced at $1.80 could only be bought on a tablet basis. around December 30, 2020, netizens raised a medical bill and persuaded Mocha to go to the hospital for treatment.
Before January 4, 2021, Mocha still had some scattered statements that he went to the hospital. After that, not a single one was left. Ilyich vaguely had a bad feeling, on January 10, he called Mocha, the other side is a male voice: “My son died”.
Ilyich guessed that Mocha’s death was due to ketoacidosis, a complication of diabetes that is mostly induced by starvation. “Even if I don’t say poor and sick, in fact, the final cause of his death can basically only be described by these four words. “Ilyich blamed himself, “If I could have another chance, I would force him to go to the hospital. “
And just when netizens were strangled by the death of Mocha, someone posted a screenshot in another group, a netizen nostalgically said, “Six years ago in csol met Mocha, when everyone called him Qing Yu “. So, the old group of silent divers, along with those buried past events, blew up together.
The winds of public opinion also quickly reversed. Some people posted, saying with conviction that Mocha is a fraud, and that death is a golden hoax. The post cited evidence, pointing out that since 2013, Mocha had the same words in many groups to sell misery, borrow money, and then disappear. There are also netizens picking out the IDs that Mocha had used including “Mochaofficial” “black tea” “black tea “and” clear feather “. A chat screenshot, the ID for the “mole” netizen said he worked in Jingdong before, there are ways to check personal information, but also in the 360 dry, can crawl browsing records. He used various means to conclude: Mocha “probable not dead”. The posting finally issued an appeal, “I hope you forward more, so that more people can see what kind of person Mocha really is. “
“About Kong Yiji did die.”
Until a few days ago, Zheqing only put the deceased up owner “Mocha” and the liar he knew The “clear feather” to the number.
In 2016, Zheqing met Qing Yu in a group of fellow video clips. The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you want to do. And Qing Yu is the big brother in the group, proficient in AU (short for Adobe Audition, a kind of audio recording and editing software), “a very powerful category “, in the group on technology can be ranked to the top three.
Qing Yu is very talkative, every time you open the group you can see him speaking. His favorite anime is “April is your lie”, and his avatar in the group is the male protagonist Arima Kosei, which later changed to the female protagonist Miyazono Kaoru. He has a bit of a temper, and a white guy asking for some introductory advice will be directly disliked by Kiyoharu, “Baidu go”.
In the MAD circle (referring to multimedia works in the video game Culture, anime culture, and homo sapiens culture sector), it is normal for the big man to have a temper. Tetsukei and other white guys respect him and are a bit afraid of him, but “no one ever thought that such a person would borrow money and not pay back “.
There were two months of padding before borrowing money. Everyone has long vaguely known that Qing Yu and the family relationship is not good. 2016 spring, he said in the group, he took a private order to do a video, but because of a quarrel with his mother, his mother smashed the computer. So he left home, couldn’t find a place to live, no computer, couldn’t deliver the work, and had to pay the breach of contract, and he couldn’t pay the money back. Qing Yu posted a few photos in the group, one is the video interface being edited, and one is the smashed computer. In the photo, the data cable was ripped off and the keyboard was cracked.
After that, Qingyu often said he had a miserable life. When he said this, he would also be accompanied by a few pictures, sometimes on a deserted mountain, sometimes in an Internet cafe, and sometimes even sleeping in the street.
The first person to receive a call for help was Ah Hang. Hang is the group’s “big brother”, not only the technology is deservedly the first, character is also mild. Qing Yu told him that he was temporarily living in a cyber cafe and was penniless, asking if he could borrow some money. Ah Hang, who had just joined the workforce at the time, immediately played over five hundred dollars, and within a month, played over one thousand dollars twice.
Within two months, Qing Yu borrowed money from the group under different excuses, but never paid it back. The bottom of the borrowing money gradually insufficient, from the beginning to say “after two weeks to guarantee to pay you back”, to the back began to sell pity.
Trust is a little bit collapsed. At first, a group of people saw a photo of Qing Yu sleeping on the street that looked familiar, and used Baidu to find the original picture in a posting bar. After being exposed, Qing Yu immediately stopped talking. But after that, he still sent as usual, was picked up is the net picture, it is silent for a while, every once in a while to change the topic then chat.
Back then, the Watchtower game was a big hit, and the account for this game needed to be paid for. Qing Yu borrowed a group of friends account to play, the group of friends again when logged in, found that the password was changed. This incident immediately exploded in the group, angry group of friends accused Qing Yu, the latter did not respond positively, and not much to defend. Since then, everyone’s suspicion of Qing Yu, and deepened a layer.
The day before the summer vacation in 2016, he suddenly told everyone in high spirits that his father had returned to take him to open a company, “I’m going to soar “. After two days, and said that his father was going to take himself to Tibet to play, “Do you guys think I should play a Tibetan antelope? “
When he appeared in the group again, Qing Yu became low. He said that his father had left him in the wilderness, and he walked for two days in a row before returning to his residence, imitating “Wilderness Survival” on the way, and drank water from the ditch.
The logic of this story seemed confusing and too magical to Zheqing, and the group became more and more suspicious of “this man is a liar”, along with his previous story of being kicked out of his mother’s house and wandering the streets. The group also became more and more suspicious of “this man is a liar”, and also of his previous experiences of being kicked out of his mother’s house and living on the street.
The most haunting thing is the money that has not been paid back. When Qingyu appeared in the group, someone would circle him and ask, “Why do you keep borrowing money, have you paid back what you borrowed before? “When will you pay back the money”. Qing Yu does not respond, Zhe Qing will taunt him two, some people will echo, most people silent.
Money is always a thorn in the side. After a while, as soon as Qing Yu appeared in the group, no matter what was said, it was immediately cold.
The last statement stopped on January 27, 2017, and the gray qq avatar never lit up again.
Just disappeared half a month, see owed money class news, the group will also circle him, “want to come out to pay back”. Gradually, he was gradually forgotten by everyone, “Qing Yu owes money and does not pay” into the group exclusive terrain. Because of the absurdity of the speech, the money borrowed and not paid back, we use “Kong Yiji” to refer to him. Occasionally, when we talked about it, we laughed for a while, and someone mimicked Lu Xun’s tone and ridiculed: “About Kong Yiji is indeed dead”.
Nowadays, Zheqing has long stopped making videos, he has become a programmer and lives a life of “social animal”.
For these old groupies, recovering the money is not so important anymore. But they want to “seek an understanding”, “Mocha “In the end is not “Qing Yu”? Is “Qing Yu” really dead? In addition to Ah Hang, Zheqing and most of the group do not believe that Qing Yu died, they think he must owe too much money, fabricated a non-existent “cousin”, and run away.
The company’s main goal is to provide a platform for the development of a new product. Zheqing is bent on uncovering this habitual fraud, he used his time off work and began to work with the group to search for evidence.
Evidence is not difficult to find, many clues are right – the address are Sichuan Liangshan; group of friends through Alipay transfer, once learned that the real name of Qing Yu, and Mocha in June 2020 to go to the hospital for examination on the admission certificate reveals the name edge consistent. Finally, you can basically be sure that “Qing Yu” and ” Mocha” is the same person. Many netizens have sent screenshots of transfers to Qing Yu, some eight hundred, some five hundred, adding up to much more than the amount of two thousand dollars filed. “To put it nicely called borrowing, in fact, it is cheating”, Zheqing said.
Zheqing and the group of friends set a plan to summarize the chat records, transfer records, and then contact other victims of fraud, the matter to the police.
However the chat content was turned out by a group of friends, which set off a furore.
On January 22, more than eight o’clock in the evening, Zheqing opened the group and more than six thousand messages popped up. Chat records can not turn over, he asked in the group, what happened? Immediately, someone forwarded him a response from the local government where Qingyu was from: the remains had been cremated. At that moment, Zheqing drifted off for a moment, his scalp swelling, “How come it’s just like what’s written in the novel? Kong Yiji did die. “
Zheqing page by page through Mocha’s B site dynamics, the long-lost familiarity came to life.
He still likes “April lies”, did the “April lies” AMV, Zheqing felt that the level of this drama is general, watched once did not second brush; he actually still do MAD, but also in the dynamic said, “do MAD dead end “. Zheqing saw a heartfelt smile, this sentence is recognized by the video circle, “this video audio MAD is certainly all dead end, no money to earn. “
The tone of the article said “want to eat strawberries” also makes him very familiar. He remembers, at that time in the group, occasionally chatting about the sparse life at home, Qing Yu will be surprised, “your family so ah, really good. Some of the group received something from their family and took a picture to show in the group, Qing Yu repeated: “It’s so nice, so envious of you, so nice. “
But “Mocha” and Zheqing familiar with the “Qingyu ” or different – Mocha more modest and gentle, he would say “thank you “, the tone is very polite. When Zheqing collected evidence that Qing Yu owed money, someone told him that she had poked Mocha privately on the B site and wanted to ask him to teach her editing skills, and immediately called over five hundred dollars as tuition. Mocha returned the money and said, “No need to la lack (“lack ” is the other party’s nickname), you help me enough, editing I will teach you do not worry”.
Zheqing repeatedly thought, maybe he really changed? The prodigal son returned? He guessed that Qingyu might have thought about paying back the money and was also thinking of ways to earn it. But until the moment of his death, still did not have enough financial means. Zheqing also saw some netizens speculate that: the screen name from Qing Yu to black tea, and finally to Mocha, the process, he was also slowly desperate for life.
On January 22, Ah Hang posted a tribute to Mocha in the B station column, recalling the points of 2018 together, also wrote into the borrowed money and disappeared fragments, but was scolded by netizens for throwing dirty water on the dead, rubbing the heat of the dead, a villain who eats human blood buns.
Now, Zheqing and the group of friends only two demands: on the one hand, although there are 99% sure, they still hope that the official out to confirm, “Qing Yu” or not “Mocha”; on the other hand, we also want to help Ah Hang to seek justice – he borrowed money, suffered cheated, did a good deed, why do you want to be scolded? “Good people shouldn’t be pointed at the gun,” Zheqing said.
“There are so many strawberries in the world.”
This online scolding war, while pointing at Mocha’s parents.
In the version circulated on the Internet, Mocha was abandoned by his parents, who ran away to hide from debts, and then robbed him of the only house he had for shelter and got someone to beat him up and sweep him out of the house. In this case, he had to go to the county to rent a small room, while working and live, so as to live.
Twenty minutes drive from Xichang City, the capital of Liangshan Prefecture, a small two-story building next to the provincial highway, is Mocha’s grandfather’s house. The family has a dog, a few chickens and a pig, there is less than an acre of land behind the house. Mocha had lived here for many years.
Mocha’s mother Chen Xia and people joint venture in Xichang city operating a footbath store, every other night will go back to her father’s house. Recently, in order to avoid reporters, she began to go home in the morning.
In grandpa’s house, Mocha was called “Yang Yang”. Before gaining weight, Yang Yang, one meter seven-eight, round face, well-proportioned, very handsome. When studying in vocational high school, there are two or three girls chasing, but he could not see one. The father, Yang Mingzhong, was very proud of himself, saying that his son did not have to worry about getting married.
Yang Yang’s grandfather told reporters that when Yang Yang was three years old, Chen Xia and Yang Mingzhong got divorced. Yang Mingzhong clearly said he did not want the child, Chen Xia said, “You do not want, I want”.
According to the grandfather’s recollection, when Yang Yang was six years old, Yang Mingzhong remembered this son again, squatting in front of the school waiting for him during school hours, coaxing him to say he was going to buy a toy car, bringing Yang Yang Yang back to his home in Huili County. Yang Mingzhong is a small contractor. Sometimes he was not at home, so he let Yang Yang go to a nearby restaurant to eat alone and wait for him to come back and settle the bill. When Yang Yang was in elementary school, Yang Mingzhong bought him a computer.
During the three or four years he was at his father’s house, Yang Yang never called his grandfather. Later, his father started a new family and had another son. At the age of 11 or 12, Yang Yang was sent back to Chen Xia, and the computer was passed on to his brother.
At this time, Chen Xia also formed a new family, and Yang Yang lived in his grandparents’ house. Chen Xia recalled to the reporter, after junior high school, Yang Yang began to rebel, poor grades, personality has become introverted, “what the words no longer speak to me. Chen Xia was busy earning money to support the family, to pay the medical bills of his sick mother, Yang Yang disobeyed, her way of discipline is to hit the hand scolding.
Yang Yang is more reticent and introverted. After graduating from junior high school, he went to vocational high school in Huili County, specializing in electronics and computer classes. Two semesters before graduation, he ran home and said he would not go on.
In this way, he squatted at home for more than a year, rarely go out, and spend all day bored in the house playing computer.
A few years ago in the spring, grandfather saw an advertisement, said a railroad training school in Chengdu enrollment, training for three months, package assigned to the railroad, do security, conductors and other work. Grandpa was so impressed that he took out 7,700 yuan of training fees from his savings. Yang Yang reluctantly went. Two months later, he called back and said, “The principal has disappeared,” and said “Everyone else was assigned a job and left, but not me”.
Grandpa called the principal’s phone number. The other party said that a job was assigned to Chen Songyang and he didn’t show up for work.
Yang Yang did not want to go home and said he wanted to work in Chengdu. A few months later, he called Chen Xia and said that the job did not sign an agreement, and now he had neither a job nor money. Chen Xia immediately called the money over. After that, every month or two, Yang Yang would call for money, and Chen Xia played three to five hundred dollars each time.
At the end of 2019, Yang Yang returned home, the whole person has gained a lot of weight, stomach shy up, taste has also changed, often buy haloumi, plate duck and other meat dishes, share with the family to eat together. Grandpa figured that Yang Yang was doing well in Chengdu. After that, Yang Yang is getting fatter and fatter, the round face in the past has become narrower and wider, swollen like a winter melon. Chen Xia also noticed that her son had grown a tumor the size of a soybean on each side of his nose.
Chen Xia did not know what her son was doing with the computer every day, her son did not say, she could not understand. One morning in March and April 2020, Chen Xia asked someone to introduce a job to her son, who refused to go, and the two argued and pushed. In a fit of anger, Chen Xia threw the computer to the ground. At noon that day, Chen Xia sat in the hall and saw her son hiring a tricycle to carry the computer’s mainframe downstairs, and took two or three pieces of clothes and got in the car and left.
Chen Xia never saw her son again. She heard from Yang Mingzhong that her son had gone to a hospital in Panzhihua, intending to cut off the tumor on his nose, but diabetes and hypertension were detected before the operation, and he had to stay in the hospital for a while, taking sugar medication, before he could operate. She called her son to tell him that he must say something when he does the surgery, and that his mother will accompany you. But Yang Yang did not say a word and finished the surgery. When Chen Xia heard about it again, he was already discharged from the hospital.
The version circulating on the Internet is different, Yang Mingzhong lives in the countryside, more than an hour’s drive from the county seat of Huili. The day he met with reporters, he wore worn jeans and a large piece of his black cotton jacket bloomed at his left elbow, turning out dirty cotton wool.
The “debt” part is true. 2014, Yang Mingzhong with a few familiar workers to take a water conservancy project, in 2016, the project is not done, the person in charge ran away. The person in charge ran away. Yang Mingzhong not only didn’t get his salary, but also owed his workers more than 300,000 yuan.
Without money, his wife, whom he later married, also ran away, leaving behind his little son, who was only 2 years old at the time. In these years, he could only hide from debts everywhere.
In June 2020, Yang Yang came to the door and said he wanted to have an operation. Yang Mingzhong had no money at the time, and could only pay the registration fee. As a result, his son went to the hospital and could no longer make a phone call.
Yang Yang came again is November. Yang Mingzhong was shocked to see his son, the tumor on both sides of his nose had grown into a large pile. The best hospital nearby was in Panzhihua. Yang Mingzhong scraped together 10,000 yuan and took Yang Yang to have the surgery. Before his son left, Yang Mingzhong went next door to the store and borrowed 300 yuan to give him.
Chen Xia later also received a phone call from her son asking for money, which she refused. She thought, he really “can’t afford” (can’t mix), must give adults to ask, so he will listen to the arrangement to work.
She got the news of her son again, a death notice from the police station.
In the afternoon of January 10, Yang Mingzhong received a call from Chen Xia that his son was dead. He couldn’t believe it, and after calling the police station to verify, he got a friend to borrow a hundred dollars and rushed to Huili County. The son is already lying in the freezer of the funeral home, the mouth and nose at the paste of a large pool of solidified blood, Yang Mingzhong took a look, the head don’t go over. The people around said that the scene also has two large puddles of blood vomited. Yang Mingzhong held back and bit the corner of his mouth, tears still fell out.
He wanted to clean his son, but it was too heavy to drag, so he could only ask the funeral home to help wipe off the blood, took a shower and changed his clothes. The next day outside the crematorium, Chen Xia took one last look, his son’s eyes were closed, as if he was asleep.
Chen Xia took the urn home and buried it in the hills behind her home. She found a Taoist priest at home to do the puja, each door with yellow talisman paper. The incense and three plates of sacrifice have been placed until now.
After the death of her son, Chen Xia did not dare to be alone. When there was no one to talk to, grief overwhelmed her and she would let out a loud cry. She dreamed of her son once: in a very strange place, the other person looked like her son, but not quite, never spoke, and looked at her with a sad look. When she woke up, it occurred to her that the dream was about her son as a child.
Chen Xia kept a thick photo album, and the photos before the age of ten were the most numerous. In the group photo, Chen Xia is holding Yang Yang’s shoulders, and Yang Yang is squinting his eyes and smiling shyly at the camera. After that, there are fewer and fewer group photos, and most of them are ID photos.
After the death of her son, someone sent a screenshot of his B-site dynamic to Chen Xia. She saw her son say he was not feeling well, several times said stomach pain, pain to sleep, but also feel the heartbreaking pain: “But where to tell us a little, he would not come to this point, there is any disease, I have to give him all the money to cure. Then disobedient to which point, I can not see the death of not save. “
See the last dynamics of the son said he wanted to eat strawberries, and also said he wanted to eat dumplings, Chen Xia guilt is dying, “the child how so stupid? Don’t say sick, just want to eat something, as long as you ask, how can not buy you it? “
Chen Xia said she would never eat strawberries again. Passing by the fruit stall selling strawberries, she was also heartbroken, “there are so many strawberries in the world, and my son did not eat a bite at the end. “
Previous media reports said, “Mocha once misguided, has been involved in illegal and criminal behavior, many times by the public security organs crackdown on treatment,” Chen Xia and Yang Mingzhong both to reporters said that had not heard of this file. “My child I know, he will not do illegal things”, said Yang Mingzhong, Yang Yang Yang in his eyes has always been an introverted, kind-hearted children. “He originally did not like to make friends outside, how he broke the law? He does not have the guts, no such thing. “
The Internet’s tombstone
In recent days, Chen Xia received several calls from the township, suggesting that she deleted her son’s account, or the impact is not good. The company’s staff contacted her and asked if she wanted to keep it as a memorial account, but she didn’t think about it and didn’t say stay or don’t stay. After a few days, Yang Mingzhong called and said that Yang Yang’s account was not available. Chen Xia and a little anxious, fiddling with the phone for a long time, but also do not know where to look.
Chen Xia can not see the place, the network funeral is still going on. As of the afternoon of January 30, “MochaOfficial” account has received 6,457,000 likes, the number of fans reached 1,693,000, compared to his life before the doubling of The number of followers reached 1.693 million, nearly 10,000 times more than before his death. The topic of “MochaOffical” has been read by 600 million people and discussed by 270,000 people on Weibo.
An Qin also followed Mocha, she knew Mocha lived in Huili County, is her hometown. When looking through Mocha’s dynamic, she found that not only the photo of the residence and her own residence is very similar, the bathroom door is also only slightly different in texture. It was not until she saw the address of Mocha in the news, at 344 Yingbin Avenue, that Anqin knew that the deceased up owner lived under her own house.
“It would have been nice to know earlier,” Anqin began to feel self-conscious for the young man she didn’t know. Although her financial situation is also average, she can still afford strawberries and dumplings.
Anqin joined a QQ group mourning for Mocha, the group has more than a thousand people, the group members pooled their money to ask Anqin to buy a bunch of sunflowers and a pork dumpling, she also paid for a box of strawberries herself.
The landlady Zhou did not know about the powerful online funeral. One day, she found many strawberries suddenly piled up in front of room 205, and the hallway was narrow, so she had to ask someone to help her clean them out. But the next day, new strawberries would “grow” again.
When she first moved to Yingbin Avenue, Mocha would go to the nearby Maundy Bridge in the evening, where the willows were low and the lights were twinkling, just a three- or five-minute walk from Mocha’s house. On January 26, Anqin brought the flowers, dumplings and strawberries under the Maundy Bridge so as not to cause trouble for Zhou’s mother-in-law. The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services.
It is the dry season, the riverbed and huge pebbles are exposed, the river is lined with yellow grass stalks, there are crows hovering overhead, making “yah-yah-yah-yah-yah-yah-yah-yah-yah-yah-yah-yah-yah-yah-yah-yah-yah-yah. -The river is still flowing silently.
(All names in the article are pseudonyms except Chen Songyang, Chen Xia and Yang Mingzhong.
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