He Siyun did not go back Home for New Year’s Eve this year.
Counting down, she has left her hometown almost four years. Last year, her Parents also came to Nanning from their hometown of Pingnan County, Guigang City, Guangxi, and the Family moved away from their hometown.
The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public. This is a stable career, she had planned to be a teacher in her hometown, and live her Life in such a simple and smooth way.
But everything that happened in May 2017 completely changed the trajectory of her life.
According to China Women’s Daily, on the afternoon of May 25, 2017, He Siyun overheard a number of female students being molested by a male teacher surnamed Tan at an off-campus care facility at her school, and she strongly suggested that the school leaders immediately call the police, which did not get a response, and she responded to the then county Education secretary, but did not get a response until noon the next day. By that Time, she had already reported the incident to the police herself 20 minutes earlier.
The girl was molested subsequently dealt with, Tan was sentenced to four years in prison for child molestation in September of that year, the school principal was also removed from his post, the county education secretary was also admonished to talk.
The police “saved” the child’s He Si Yun, but because The “trans-grade” police, began to suffer the invisible pressure. The incident soon after, the county board of education in the verification of teachers’ qualifications, said He Si Yun’s documents are fake. And He is a special teacher, work is about to complete three years, according to the rules, should be in September 2017 to transfer. The sudden document problem prevented her from continuing to serve. In September of that year, He Siyun left her hometown and went to work in Nanning.
He Siyun’s encounter caused great concern at that time. Public opinion at the time generally believed that He Siyun had suffered retaliation for calling the police. The Daily Procuratorate has published an article saying: “Whether there is a causal link between He Siyun’s inability to transfer to a new job as scheduled and his reporting, the two sides apparently disagree on this …… but He Siyun’s encounter has won so much attention and sympathy And sympathy, once again highlights a heavy topic: the law on the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of whistleblowers is still not in place. “
Now, nearly four years after the incident, He Siyun reappeared in the public eye because of a microblog she sent in late December 2020. The content was that she had opened an online store to sell snail noodles. The tweet has been retweeted more than 8,200 times so far.
Aquarian Epoch reached out to He Siyun. The first time she called, her voice was hoarse and she said she had been squatting at a snail powder processing plant in Liuzhou for two days. Because the news of her selling snail noodles suddenly spread on Weibo, orders from enthusiastic netizens increased steeply by more than 3,000 copies, catching her off guard, and seeing that the Chinese New Year was approaching, she had to work overtime to urge and supervise production.
She said that she is 30 years old and has bowed her head to reality and is more busy with life. She also has her own age anxiety. Today, in addition to opening an online store, she is writing articles for her own public expression. This young person, who never thought her life trajectory would be changed by an act of calling the police, is looking up from her own small world to the wider society.
Here is a conversation between the reporter and her.
“Never wanted to leave my hometown, I just really can’t go back.”
Reporter: At first you called the police because you heard someone molesting girls at school, now look back, what do you think?
He Si Yun: molestation of girls, I used to see it only occasionally on TV, but my own life has been happy and stable, making me feel that although such things exist, but will not happen around me. When I experienced it myself, I couldn’t understand it very much. There are many such things in China, but they are all sentenced very lightly, and that teacher was sentenced to four years, and now he is almost out, he changed his identity and lives as usual.
The most unsatisfactory thing for me is that so many people know about this, but no one reacts. I thought the school leaders would come to help the students deal with it, but they didn’t. I called the police myself, but I became a lone soldier. No one who should have been in charge came to control me.
I always knew there was a dark side to life, but I never thought it had much to do with me, but only when it really happened to me did I realize how much it hurt.
Reporter: Do you know what you will face after you call the police?
He Siyun: When I first called the police, I didn’t expect what would happen to me in the end. As a result, not only did I lose my job, but I also brought a lot of trouble to my family. Throughout the process, I had leaders come to my home to talk to me, and my parents were forced to deal with these things. They only complained about it with their mouths, but the reality was that the whole family was under a lot of psychological pressure. After all, it’s good when a family has nothing going on on an even keel. The previous quiet life was completely shattered.
I also had a boyfriend at school at the time, and although he was supportive, there were conflicts and more arguments because of that incident. And very realistic is that I want to leave the local, he left his job to follow out is not possible, and finally we separated. Looking back now, he understood or did not understand me at that time, it seems to have no great impact on life, because I must leave, we will eventually be separated, the result is the same.
Reporter: You grew up in Pingnan, how did you make the decision to leave your hometown?
He Siyun: At that time to leave my hometown, not that I made this decision, but I had to go.
There were no jobs in that small place of ours, and young people either had to go into the system or go to Guangdong to work. At that time, I thought that it was a failure and dishonorable for me to end up in such a profession.
Although people said I protected the students, the objective reality was that I was kicked out. So why would I want to be a teacher? I was also advised to take the civil service exam, and I didn’t want to. Why did I have to go into the system? I still think it’s a dishonorable thing to do.
Before that, I thought life was good, I didn’t think I would encounter such a thing, and I didn’t think it would end up like this (I left school because I called the police for molestation). This refreshed my outlook and was the hardest part for me.
At that time I had long been used to small town life. In fact, the job as a teacher was so good for a girl that I felt I could follow the set track for the rest of my life, but suddenly, I needed to start over. I was encouraged by the words of my family. They said that I was only 27 years old, I was still young, and it was possible to be employed again. So, in September, I came to Nanning alone to work.
Job is gone, I have to live, can only change the place of work. I never wanted to leave my hometown, just really can not go back.
“I have to survive first.”
Reporter: After leaving Pingnan, everything has to start over, what have you tried?
He Siyun: I’ve been in Nanning since I stopped being a teacher, it’s been almost 4 years, and I only go back to Pingnan when something comes up.
I was born and raised in the town, grew up and worked smoothly and securely, and always felt more secure, and never expected what would happen to me, so I can say that I never entered the society before I left Pingnan.
When I first came to Nanning, I worked in a human resources company doing personnel work. The job was introduced by a friend, and the boss knew my experience and took care of me. Before that, I had been a teacher and had no foundation for other jobs, so I started over with the mentality of learning. After a period of time, my boss asked me which direction I preferred to work, and I thought the advertising department was good.
As time went on, problems gradually emerged. I slowly found that I do not know how to deal with interpersonal relationships in the workplace, before doing teachers, after the class and then leave, as long as the class with good, obedient children, pay attention to the results will be good, I have never paid attention to the work of personnel relations. This is a problem that I did not anticipate at all before I came out.
Some of my colleagues said behind my back, “He Siyun is really good, he can just change departments”, and I heard it in my heart. This made me feel that I can work here not because of my ability, nor because the company needs me, but because of the care of others, there is a strong sense of being charity. In less than a year, I resigned. In retrospect, I was still immature and capricious at that time, and I was not used to hearing others say they were, to put it mildly, a little noble.
Later, I went to Liuzhou to do training institutions teachers, but after a month or so, I gave up. After that, I had the idea of becoming a lawyer again, read a long time law professional books, also went to the judicial examination, but found that I have no foundation, the gap is very far, and gave up.
Reporter: Why did you start selling snail noodles?
He Siyun: I later did not consider the company’s workplace development again, also began to write articles, because of the previous things, many people pay attention to my articles, reward can also bring a little income. After writing most of the year, I began to help others agent, selling snail powder in the circle of friends, the reading of the article is good, read the article more people, my WeChat friends also more up, there will be people to buy powder.
Such work does not need to deal with complicated relationships, I just need to the computer and cell phone, customers are online, I sell snail powder with others, the other party said no, I have nothing. In the past, I will not do sales work, but now I must do ah, otherwise how to live? I want to survive first.
Reporter: How did you come up with the idea of using your own name as a brand?
He Si Yun: then help others agent snail powder, customer feedback are very good, I began to think how to get a lower purchase price, and finally found themselves to do a product to achieve, I thought, that to my character to guarantee the product, so with their own names to do the brand name.
Of course, the risk of doing so is also very high, in case it does not do well, it will smash their own sign. So I also pay extra attention to product quality and delivery speed.
Reporter: How is business now? Have you encountered any unexpected situations?
He Si Yun: I have been doing my own brand of snail noodles for three months, contacting manufacturers, customer service, shipping, all by myself, sold more than 5,000 pieces, counting sales of more than 500,000. However, more than half of these sales were brought about by the recent microblogging retransmission, which suddenly came close to 3,000 orders before the Spring Festival.
Orders suddenly a lot more, I do not have so many goods on hand, and customers are too late to explain one by one, so the same day directly to the factory to rush the order. To the factory drive less than two hours, I thought I could return to Nanning on the same day, only to find that just before the Chinese New Year, some raw materials are not together, workers are also lacking, coupled with the New Year orders, the factory is too busy to line up.
The orders that came to the store I promised to ship within two days, this can be panicked, I squatted in the factory during the day, watching them do my batch of products, and workers together with dinner. Staying in a hotel at night, four days without changing clothes, the first two days of anxiety to insomnia, only three hours of sleep a day. Four days later, I saw the goods finally shipped out, and I could finally give an account to the customer, so I came back with peace of mind.
It was hard, but now I only think about doing a good job and making money.
Reporter: What kind of life do you want to achieve in your goal of making money?
He Siyun: I do not know how much money I earn is enough, ideally, I hope to save up to a good life for the whole family.
Always insecure but hope to have a little positive impact on society
Reporter: What changes have been brought to you by the encounters and life changes in these years?
He Siyun: Looking back now, I have changed a bit in the past few years. To survive in the big city, we must be realistic, I did not want to work so hard, but was forced to become strong. I used to eat at home, live at home, and receive two to three thousand dollars a month at school, enough to cover my expenses, and I did not want to work hard to develop my career.
Come to Nanning these years, more is busy with life. The most important thing is that you have to be strong. 2018, 19 years is the most difficult period, when something happened at home, my parents need my help, but I can not get the money, but also need their support, feelings are not good, all the pressure over, late at night, thinking of the current life is not as good, and all the past, I will not be able to control the hard.
I think, I do all the efforts, is to live a good life, a bad life will think “or the old good oh”. That’s why I’ve been working hard to write articles and gradually started my own small business, all in order to live a better life than before, so that I can let go.
Reporter: Are you still in touch with those students and parents?
He Siyun: the students at that time is not my classmates, I just happened to pass by and heard about them, did not hold back, did that. After the incident, I did not contact with the students and parents, and school colleagues contact less and less, this incident in the past, did not leave too much connection.
Reporter: Will you regret helping them to call the police?
He Siyun: I regret it. When it’s hard, when I feel miserable, I’ll regret it.
Of course, if I meet again, I will still help. Teaching used to be the profession I wanted to do the most, because the work object is very good, with children in a simple environment, I am very happy, but also naturally willing to protect them. However, I would think that if I encountered the same thing again, I should adopt a smarter and smoother approach, tell the parents to go to the police, and make myself safe before helping them.
This incident affected me a lot, but I can’t do anything about it, there are still a lot of things to keep working on. If someone hadn’t talked to me about it, I wouldn’t have thought about it. If I live in the past, it’s not realistic.
Reporter: Four years after the incident, you are now also a year old, directly facing a lot of pressure?
He Siyun: At that time I was 27 years old, I thought I was still young, everything can start from scratch. Now I’m 30, I have a lot of age anxiety, I’m afraid that if I get older, my career won’t work and my Marriage won’t work, so I’m starting to panic. But after several relationships, I did not deliberately put too much energy into finding a boyfriend, which is easy to disappoint, I want to put more experience in the development of their careers.
Reporter: You have written a lot of articles focusing on social reality in the past few years, is it related to your previous encounters? Do you encounter resistance?
He Si Yun: Before that, I only lived in my own little world, and whenever I saw unjust news, I would only think that there were too many such things. Then I posted my story on the Internet and was noticed by many people, and many netizens came to add friends, which gave me great encouragement.
From then on, I also started to pay attention to social events. I began to write articles, focusing on child molestation, High School Entrance Examination replacement, rural teachers’ rights and other social events, to speak out for the weak. Firstly, I wanted to earn some living expenses, and secondly, I hoped to have a positive impact on society.
The articles I published on microblogs and public websites are often deleted in the background, and I have had people call me to delete posts.
Reporter: Do you get scared?
He Siyun: I do not know what the worst consequences are, but also will be afraid, worried about the year again, has been insecure.
Reporter: If you are worried, will you continue to write?
He Siyun: some topics can not be touched, so do not write, but I never thought I would stop writing, I will still write, just write more carefully and smart.
It would occur to me that the attention of others had given me great encouragement in the past, and I wanted to do something for others through my own expression. I knew that I was selling snail noodles, and that a significant number of people were doing it not because they wanted to eat it, but to support me, and like others who came to help me for free, I wanted to help others a little. On some level, you could even say that I was blessed by the fact that I encountered so many people who supported me because of what happened in that incident.
I can’t change anything about the past, it has at least made me mature and sober, but it also really hurts. Just as I never wanted to leave my hometown, I didn’t think about where I would be in the further future, just wanted to live my life in the present.
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