The identity of a quality elementary school “backbone teacher” helped Yang Wen gain the trust of parents and neighbors, and also helped her get millions of dollars in loans to feed her online gambling dreams. The company’s “best” is the one that has been in the business for a long time.
“Suffering”
Yang Wen teacher committed suicide and died in her home on the second floor of the neighborhood. The first floor of the house, Li Dong is one of the first people to know the news. It was the fifth day of the new year, the year is not finished, 5:00 pm, Li Dong and four or five friends at home drinking, watching the ambulance, police cars, funeral home cars whistling successively parked in front of the house. Soon, Yang Wen was carried downstairs, and then sent to the funeral home car.
Although he did not know the exact cause, Li Dong was not particularly surprised by his neighbor’s death. He and Yang Wen’s husband, Guan Zhiming, were drinking buddies and often drank together. A month ago, he and Guan Zhiming drinking together, the other suddenly called home by phone, saying that his wife committed suicide by burning charcoal at home, “called her old man, did not die, but the roof of their bathroom were scorched. “
That was the last time Li Dong and Guan Zhiming drink. He only knew that the other family was in trouble with the money, and the number is not small, but I did not expect the person really just died, it is said that this time it is taking poison. Watching the funeral home car whistling away, Li Dong heart is not a good feeling, the house upstairs has become a murder house, how much they also followed the “suffering”.
Also feel “suffering” there is Zhang Zhengkuan. His son was a student of Yang Wen, and originally, like many parents, Zhang Zhengkuan was satisfied that his son could go to a good elementary school, with an excellent teacher as the class teacher. But Yang Wen’s death not only made him lose a “good class teacher” he expected, but also made him lose a sum of money. Last December, Yang Wen had asked him to borrow 30,000 yuan to “buy a house”, and has not recovered the money. When borrowing money, Zhang Zhengkuan a little apprehensive. His monthly salary is only 2,000 yuan, 30,000 yuan is equivalent to his salary for nearly a year, but for the sake of children, he still gritted his teeth and lent the money to Yang Wen.
He was not the only parent who suffered. The first day of the sixth morning more than 9:00, Liaoning Fushun a third grade class of parents suddenly popped up a message, breaking the silence of a holiday WeChat group: “Parents, who have lent money to Ms. Yang, now immediately come to the north gate of the school collection. “The atmosphere in the group instantly tense up, some parents asked after:” What is the situation? ” Someone replied: “Immediately. “
Zhang Zhengkuan’s heart also sank, rushed to the north gate of the school outside the communication room, there are already a dozen parents standing there. This is the first time parents gathered to talk about the money secret between themselves and Mr. Yang, is also the first time they know that, in addition to themselves, Mr. Yang also borrowed money from so many parents, and urged everyone “not to spread the word “.
The parents of 29 of the 41 students in the class had lent money to Ms. Yang, and she owed them a total of 1.07 million yuan before she committed suicide. The amount of money borrowed varies, most of the amount of 20,000, 30,000, 50,000 yuan, the most a parent lent a total of 830,000 yuan, and now there are 430,000 yuan has not been returned – he himself and his parents two generations of money saved to buy a house, all transferred to Yang Wen, a family of four so far crowded in an old house in the 1980s, only 50 The family of four is still crammed into an old house from the 1980s, only 50 square meters.
If the dispute is handled as a private loan, the parents have little chance of getting their money back. Yang Wen no longer has any property under her name, only new debts that keep emerging: 1.07 million yuan to the parents of her students, 520,000 yuan to the parents of her graduated students, 860,000 yuan to the neighbors of her old house, an unknown amount of online loans, two mortgaged houses ……
“Star teacher”
Yang Wen, 47, is a language teacher and classroom teacher in an elementary school in Fushun, Liaoning Province, a district education bureau staff told this reporter, Yang Wen has been teaching for more than 20 years, is the backbone of the school’s teachers, she also took a class in the school was named “model curriculum The school has also been named a “model curriculum” for her classes. Even the parents who were cheated out of their savings admitted to this reporter that Yang Wen was serious and responsible when it came to teaching her class. In the past, she would post daily homework reminders in the group, and parents liked to send WeChats asking for results after exams, and Yang Wen would not just report a string of numbers, but also add two or three lines of comments.
When she was a student, Yang Wen was one of the best in the education system. In the 1990s, when the way out for many local girls was to work in factories as handymen, Yang Wen enrolled in a teacher training school in Nanjing and became a university student. “That school, that year, only recruited one person in all of Fushun. “Yang Wen’s mother recalled to this journalist.
She was 80 years old and had a bad heart. After her daughter’s suicide, there was an endless stream of people coming to her door for debts, and the old woman had to move in with her grandson, but the house she now lives in is only a temporary shelter. Yang Wen had already sold the house for more than 100,000 yuan below the market price to cover her debts, and once the closing procedures were completed, she and her grandson would have to move out. The grandchildren are reluctant to remember Yang Wen, because of the sadness and the anger. “She cheated us and lied everywhere. “When she said this, the old woman always tensed her face and stared at the ground, but still gave her daughter a good word: “She also studied in the undergraduate last year, and has been smooth. “
Neighborhood impressions of Yang Wen, the same is excellent. Aunt Tong is an old neighbor, 70 years old, retired in the early 2000s in the wave of layoffs, now a monthly pension of less than 2,000 yuan, still living in the old neighborhood where Yang Wen lived with her parents when she was a child. The walls of the building are mottled, the hallways are covered with small advertisements, and the staircase handrails are worn and shiny.
In her eyes, Yang Wen has a successful career, went to university, is a well-known school teacher, opened an extracurricular class, has a “985” university son, will also She takes care of the elderly and often takes her mother and other neighbors out to the greenery and hot springs in her car. From any angle, he is a trustworthy person.
Therefore, when Yang Wen cried to Auntie Tong that her son wanted to study in Australia, but she could not afford the deposit and needed to borrow money, Auntie Tong agreed without much thought. She had met Yang Wen’s son, “a big tall child, but a good child, do not dare to delay the child’s life, can make up some”. She finally paid out the 180,000 yuan she had saved for half her life, ready to retire and give her son a daughter-in-law.
All the people who lent money to Yang Wen did not verify the reason for the loan from her mouth. In the eyes of the locals, “buying a house” and “studying abroad In the eyes of the locals, “buying a house” and “studying abroad” are legitimate reasons to spend money, which meet the local standard of a good life and Yang Wen’s past image. But Yang Wen’s life is not as glamorous and smooth as it appears.
She has had two marriages; her first husband was a college classmate of hers, and it took only a month from the time they fell in love to the time they bonded. After the marriage, the two were separated for a long time and divorced six or seven years ago, and Yang Wen was left alone to take care of her children. Until 2019, after being introduced, Yang Wen combined with her now husband, Guan Zhiming, and moved into a new house together.
But about the two marriages, even her mother is not sure why her daughter divorced and when she remarried. The son also did not know about the remarriage until after his mother and Guan lived together. In her new married life, Yang Wen is the absolute powerhouse. Li Dong, a neighbor, commented on the couple that they were “not of the same character, too different, their perceptions are not the same”.
Guan Zhiming worked as a worker in a local metallurgical plant, not very educated, not concerned about dressing up, “without all those superficial things, give him the whole work clothes, but also can wear every day” . But Guan Zhiming took good care of Yang Wen’s life, and he mentioned to Li Dong more than once that he was “quite lucky” to have found such an educated and stable teacher as Yang Wen. He told Li Dong more than once that he was “lucky” to have found such an educated and stable teacher like Yang Wen.
The Northeast likes to say that men have a manly temperament, but he doesn’t have that. Li Dong recalled to this reporter, “He most often said. ‘I’ll be good to my daughter-in-law, my daughter-in-law will have a hot meal when she arrives home, and I’ll give her a massage when she’s tired.’ “
Yang Wen is different. In the eyes of Li Dong, she “love decency, will come to things”, the tube Zhiming smoke a few dollars a pack of cigarettes replaced by 20 yuan a pack of Yuxi, and to the tube Zhiming bought a brand The company also bought branded clothes for Guan Zhiming, and did not let him go out in his work clothes on weekdays. Even if you just go to the neighbor’s house downstairs for dinner and drinks, Yang Wen always dresses neatly and tells Guan Zhiming to bring some dishes with him and not to go to someone’s house empty-handed for drinks.
Li Dong thinks Yang Wen “loves to pretend to be big”, “but is very But she is a strong woman with planning and ideas. She always talks at the dinner table about how profitable her medical device business is, how she manages her class in school, and how she brings the prestige of being a classroom teacher to her home. “A class of more than 40 people, with more than 80 parents, all listen to her. She is used to that feeling of being a class above others, not giving her old man face at all. “Once, at a drinking party at Li Dong’s house, Yang Wen reprimanded Guan Zhiming directly and sternly: “I say you just listen. Right you have to listen, wrong you also have to listen. “
Secret
Why did Yang Wen borrow money? This was a secret that she always kept tightly during her lifetime. At a later stage, she had to cry hoarsely on the phone when she asked her parents to borrow money, bowed and kowtowed at her mother’s house, begged her to help her old neighbors borrow money, and even asked people she had only met a few times to borrow money, but never told anyone what she really wanted to do.
Until a week before she died, she explained in a “document” why she killed herself and where the loans had gone. “Since the end of April 2020, a group selling Dalian dates pulled me into a large lottery website …… every time I entered the site, I wanted to earn back the money I lost, and then pay back the money, I did not expect to owe more and more. “”Time and again, without my family’s knowledge, I borrowed money to buy lottery tickets, borrowed money for various reasons, bought a house, children’s schooling, etc. These were all lies on my part. I not only cheated my 80-year-old mother, cheated my husband and son, but also cheated many students’ parents, and I have been unable to repay my debts. “
In the supporting documents, Yang Wen left the URL to buy lottery tickets and her account number. This reporter found that the platform’s page name is “lottery center”, under a variety of lottery forms, the rules are simple, nothing more than guessing the size, betting on single and double, choose The rules are simple, nothing more than guessing the size, betting on a single pair, choosing a number, etc. In as little as one minute or as long as five minutes, you can complete a cycle of placing bets and opening prizes.
Yang Wen’s account information shows that she is the highest level user on the platform, with more than 31 million points in her account. According to the rules of the platform, Yang Wen has recharged 31 million yuan on the platform, which includes the money she has won and the rewards she has received after placing large bets, but more is the gambling capital she has invested through loans and other means. The journalist tried to register an account and randomly bet twice on the size of the bet, 10 yuan each time, and were lucky to win the bet. In two minutes, the account balance went from 20 yuan to 40 yuan, making people feel for a moment that they can “earn a hand” by taking small bets and increasing their gambling capital.
Almost everyone who enters such sites has experienced such an illusion at the beginning. Wang Ming was also once addicted to online gambling and did not quit gambling completely until 2018, and now shares his gambling experience and quitting experience on various social media platforms. His story is the same as all those who fall into online gambling, the entrance is usual, but soon it is difficult to extricate oneself.
The first time he bet, Wang Ming tried to recharge 500 yuan, and won back more than 10,000 yuan in a week. “When you win money, there are subtle psychological changes. When a week can earn several months’ worth of money, it will feel like maybe you can get rich off this. When winning to a certain point, the casino will let you lose some, or lose it all completely. This is certainly the time to kill the red eyes, can not close the field, just want to increase the gambling money to win back. “Wang Ming recalled to this reporter, the most, he lost 200,000 yuan in one night. When he lost all his savings and the money he got through loans and mortgages, he had to start borrowing money from relatives and friends.
Wang Ming said the online lottery sites that Yang Wen entered are illegal in China, and most of them have their servers located abroad and change their domain names from time to time. These lotteries have no official data for reference, and the platforms are able to control the results themselves at any time based on the bets placed in the background, so gamblers have no chance of winning. But Yang Wen, who was new to the lottery platform, knew nothing about it and soon fell deep into it. She started gambling in April 2020 and lost her entire fortune after five months. At the end of September, she sent out a request for a loan using a forged picture of her wealth management amount as proof of her repayment ability, with the parents of the students being her earliest batch of borrowers.
Soft spot
Zhang Zhengkuan first received Yang Wen’s borrowing information on Oct. 5, 2020. “Sister has an urgent matter want to ask you to help, sister and buy a top account room …… money are in the wealth management, can not take out, now there is a shortfall of 50,000, you can help sister turnover not? “It was more than 6:00 in the morning, Zhang Zhengkuan confused sweep, the brain awake a lot, pushed the wife who was still asleep,” the teacher to borrow money “.
Previously, the couple had monetary dealings with the teacher. In the local, the child is the soft spot of every pair of parents, to the teacher to send a gift has become an unspoken unspoken rule, before the New Year holidays, parents who are familiar with each other always ask: “You send something this year? “Zhang Zhengkuan has been consciously following this rule since his son started kindergarten. “We parents also want to make friends with the teacher, all for the sake of the child. “He explained to this reporter a little sarcastically. Yang Wen took over Zhang Zhengkuan’s son’s class in the second grade. On the first Teachers’ Day after the school year began, Zhang Zhengkuan went downstairs to Yang Wen’s house and gave her a 1,000 yuan red envelope. Yang Wen was not polite and naturally took the red envelope.
Sometimes they even felt they received a hint from the teacher. at the end of 2019, Zhang Zhengkuan’s wife received a phone call from Yang Wen informing her of her move. His wife asked Zhang Zhengkuan, “What does this mean? To go with the gift? “Do not allow them to think too long, the next day, the third day, Yang teacher sent a succession of WeChat, reporting the child’s learning: poor word writing, pre-course test scores decline, essay writing less than 100 words …… husband and wife A panic, “the heart are up”.
Zhang Zhengkuan did not graduate from high school to join the army, after discharge in a local institution as a logistician, his wife’s educational experience also stops at high school. “Their own education is not high, do not delay the child. If the teacher is willing to drag the child a hand, the results up is very easy. “Zhang Zhengkuan recalled to this reporter.
That night, Zhang Zhengkuan and drove to Yang Wen’s new home downstairs, in the car stuffed the teacher a red envelope, said some “congratulations on the housewarming” “Teacher has worked hard” and other polite words. Yang Wen also did not resist, after two days again to Zhang Zhengkuan sent WeChat, this time all the good news: the child’s grades up, neat writing, positive classroom performance. Even though they suspect that the child’s performance fluctuates a lot of water, but the couple still breathed a long sigh of relief when they received the good news from the teacher.
After receiving the early morning loan information, Zhang Zhengkuan hesitated for more than an hour and decided to lend the teacher 30,000 yuan first. “Children stay in school for a long time, everything also depends on the teacher. “
This loan also got a short “return”. One day at noon, Zhang Zhengkuan asked Yang Wen, his son can not go out of school to eat? Yang Wen replied: “Others can not, you can. If the relationship is not, it is definitely not possible. ” followed by a smiley face emoji.
In Zhang Zhengkuan’s opinion, such small and subtle things were a sign that the teacher valued his child and made him feel at ease. But more than two months later, near the promised repayment date, she not only did not mention the money, but to “tight” as the reason, again borrowed from Zhang Zhengkuan. This time, Zhang Zhengkuan vigilantly politely refused. Yang Wen did not give up and asked Zhang Zhengkuan to use her salary card as collateral to help her get a loan from the bank. Zhang Zhengkuan also did not agree, but worried about the “torn face”, rushed to Yang Wen recommended two friends of the loan company, without mentioning the money back.
The high comprehensive is all borrowers, lending the most amount of a. In addition to buying a house, Yang Wen made up a reason to pay a deposit for her son to study abroad and borrowed 830,000 yuan from him in more than two months. The trophy for “outstanding teacher” on Yang Wen’s desk was a reassurance to him. “The teacher won’t take advantage of my money.
What’s more, he was worried that if he refused to borrow money and angered the teacher, his child would be “shod”. The teacher will not scold your child directly, cold violence is the most terrible. What if your child doesn’t ask questions in class? What if the teacher pretends not to see the child not listening to the lecture? The teacher is indifferent, other students will also see the alienation of the child, how much influence ah? Can your child still study well? “Most of these small worries originate from word-of-mouth experiences among parents, and eventually solidify into the unspoken rules identified in the minds of all.
I asked Gao about whether the children were being “shod” at school. The question was childish: “What school is not like that? Students in rural elementary schools have to send some rice to their teachers. He was always afraid that if he said the wrong thing and offended the teacher, it would be like a butterfly effect that would delay the child’s learning and ruin his life. He stressed to me many times: “You don’t have children and can’t understand our plight. In Fushun, children only have this one way to go. “
Gao’s cautiousness is something he learned after becoming a parent. He is 40 years old and has been a bad student since childhood, “not interested in learning. At the time he went to school, although he was the only child in the family, but also did not pay too much attention to education.
As an adult, by odd jobs, security guards, he saved up some money to open a small store, doing business in jade, in a remote part of town has an office of its own, a small area, but also no decoration. He wanted to save most of his income and save up with his parents’ retirement salary for a larger home, but Yang Wen’s suicide took away a large part of his savings and his hope for a new home.
For young people, leaving home is the best way out. Zhang Zhengkuan and Gao Comprehensive designed the same route for his son, to get into a good university and go to the big city. Between interviews, Zhang Zhengkuan asked me: “Which city do you think is good to go to in the south now? How about Hangzhou or Chengdu? “
After Yang Wen’s suicide, an invisible force linked these two dozen parents in the class together. A month or so ago, they were not even WeChat friends, and only had the opportunity to meet and nod to each other when picking up their children or at parent-teacher conferences. Today, they often sit together and talk without reservation about their family’s financial situation, the process of borrowing money, and discuss how to get the money back next. The online public opinion is overwhelming, many netizens interrogate: “Who asked you to lend money to teachers? Who told you to lend money to teachers? “Parents feel unable to explain, simply do not look. Only in this special small group, they can understand each other’s anxiety.
Abyss
Even with her status as an “excellent teacher” as a cover, Yang Wen did not have long to continue borrowing money, and there were not many people around to provide her with a steady stream of funds for her gambling game.
In January 2021, Zhang Jian, a parent of a graduate who had been cheated out of 520,000 yuan, did not receive the repayment as scheduled and noticed something strange. He inquired with Yang Wen’s colleagues and friends and learned that Yang Wen had borrowed from everyone around her. at the end of January, Zhang Jian told Yang Wen that he was ready to report the case, and Yang Wen was immediately discouraged, sending over a long string of voice, tearfully telling how hard she had worked to raise the money: “Don’t ah, please! “”I can’t live without this job. I can’t live without this job. ” “What face do I have to live here afterwards! “
There are no secrets in small towns. The debt collapsed like a mountain, not giving Yang Wen any chance to breathe. Half a month before the Spring Festival, Li Dong has seen three sets of people going upstairs to demand debts, smashing the door of Yang Wen’s house with a bang, and even going downstairs to knock on his own door to ask if anyone was upstairs. After a drink, he asked Li Dong in tears, “How can I live like this? I have to divorce her, right? “
Soon, the news of Yang Wen borrowing money from all over the world reached the ears of her family. Yang Wen’s son told this reporter, also at the end of January this year, mother, uncle, grandma sat together in the family’s living room to talk about the money owed, mother insisted on borrowing only 150,000 yuan, and never said what to do with it.
In the heat of the moment, the uncle hit her, and she stammered and admitted that she owed Zhang Jian 520,000 yuan. Her grandmother told her to turn herself in to the Public Security Bureau, but she refused and never contacted her family after that. She attempted suicide several times, but was saved each time. People around her couldn’t figure out if she was determined to die or if it was as some sort of emotional threat.
“She had a history. “Yang Wen’s son told the publication that he had received a call from the police station before the Chinese New Year saying that his mother had committed suicide but had been found by the delivery man and was fine. When requesting Zhang Jian not to call the police, Zhang Jian had received a photo from Yang Wen of a vein cut, in which the blood marks on her hand had scabbed over.
Zhang Jian felt that this was another lie from Yang Wen. In the evening of the third day of the Lunar New Year, Aunt Tong also received a call from Yang Wen: “Aunt, I can’t pay back the money, you don’t blame me, they all let me die. Aunt Tong was baffled and asked her: “What are you doing? Why do you want to die ah? Yang Wen reassured her: “Aunt, do not worry, I will not die, I will pay back the money to help your son get a wife. “On the sixth day of the first month, Yang Wen took poison, and then called her husband. This time, the person was not saved.
Yang Wen’s mother received a call from the police station, asking the family whether they admitted to the suicide and whether they needed an autopsy. The old lady gambled back: “We all admit, no need for an autopsy. “The body was quickly pulled to the funeral home, and no one went to say goodbye again. The next day, after the body was cremated, Guan Zhiming called the Yang family and said he did not want the ashes. Yang Wen’s brother transferred him $1,000 and asked him to buy an urn and “keep it for her first,” before Yang Wen’s ashes were reserved for a sea burial in July.
In our brief exchange, Yang Wen’s son was both resistant and polite to the reporter. The 6’8″ boy was red-faced, not wanting to talk too much about his mother, but also unable to resist complaining about her cheating on him. He also helped his mother borrow 20,000 yuan outside because she said she “lost money in business” and asked him for help. When talking about this, he never mentions “mom”, but only uses The first thing you need to do is to use the word “she” to refer to Yang Wen.
It was only when he heard his grandmother recall his mother that he stared at the floor and stopped talking. Like her grandson, Yang’s mother’s emotions toward her daughter include resentment, anger, disbelief, and sadness. As the dots from the life of the woman who brought pain and disaster to the family unfolded slowly between words, Yang’s mother gradually tensed up and grief took over her face. The corners of her mouth drooped slightly, her eyes filled with tears, and she choked up and said, “I would also like you to find out why she became like this? “
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