Zhang Bing’s bungalow, where Fang Yangyang lived for the last two years.
Fang Yangyang died in the winter of age 22. Her death was medically determined to have been the result of multiple blunt force traumas based on malnutrition, resulting in extensive soft tissue contusions all over her body. Her in-laws “blamed” her for not being able to conceive and for not being able to carry on the family’s legacy, thus causing her to experience beatings, starvation, and cold before she died. From the daughter of the Fang family, to the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family, to the “wife” of a stranger in the underworld, she was never able to escape her fate.
The Fang’s Daughter
“Uncle, you can take me out too. “Fifteen- and sixteen-year-old Fang Yanyang, for the first time, wanted to take the initiative to fight for something for himself. His father’s younger brother, Fang Tianbao, often went to Beijing and Qingdao to work, and every year when he came home from the Spring Festival, Fang Yangyang would pester him with stories about the outside world. Every year when he came home from the Spring Festival, he would pester him with stories about the outside world. After the New Year, when his uncle was packing his bags to go out, Fang said noisily that he wanted to go out to work with him.
At that time, Fang Yangyang was nearly 1.7 meters tall and strong. When the family harvested wheat, she carried the grains in 40 to 50 kilograms bags, but her father couldn’t carry them, so she carried them home on her shoulders. She also learned to ride a tricycle, which was steady and fast, and people in the village said she could ride better than those young men.
People in Fangzhuang Village watched her grow up day by day and called her “Yang Yang,” shouting, “She’s a good girl. “Hey” and sweetly answered, this is “Uncle Li! She never misplaced the order of her elders’ names. She had a pleasant round apple face, loved to smile, and her hair was dark and shiny, braided and hanging long around her waist.
In a winter village in the plains of North Shandong province, the fields are still a desolate scene now that the wheat has just been planted. Fangzhuang Village is located in the southeast corner of Plain County, Shandong Dezhou, with more than 400 residents in gray bungalows scattered around the village road. The old people have no other pastime but to sit on wooden benches in front of the kiosk and chatter about their daily lives. The most recent topic of conversation was her, the Fang family’s daughter.
When she was a teenager, Yang Yang was an enthusiastic child, giggling and running over to anyone who needed a hand to collect corn, and when a family needed a message, she ran out to help find someone. On the dusty village roads, many people have seen her running happily, sometimes following the village lady to the village open space for square dancing, the lady in the front, she took the initiative to carry a heavy speaker to follow behind. And grow tall and white, more than one meter seven, more than one hundred and sixty pounds, “handsome, in this area are considered handsome. “
But villagers will feel sorry for her, born in a family “like that” – her father Fang Tianmu is an old bachelor in the village, economic conditions are not good, 45 years old before he found a daughter-in-law, this daughter-in-law is also her younger brother Fang Tianbao when he went out to work, passing by Shijiazhuang railway station picked up.
The house is empty, with a few bags of grain randomly placed in the living room, a refrigerator and an air conditioner, which are the most valuable pieces of furniture. The family only has a few acres of land, wheat in early fall and corn the following summer, and Fang Tianmu can only earn three to four thousand yuan a year from his hard work. Yang Lan, the mistress of the house, is as silent as a rock most of the time, and several of Yang Yang’s cousins have called her “slow” and “dull” to her face. She didn’t have any expression.
In the last few days, there have been more visitors in the house. Whenever she saw someone new, Yang Lan took the initiative to pass over Yang Yang’s picture, “Do you want to see this? “She would ask you if you were hungry or cold. Ask her the same question, and she shakes her head seriously and says no, not hungry, not cold. Ask her a more complicated question and she gets a confused look on her face and starts asking the customer again, “Are you cold? “
No one in Fangzhuang Village bothered to find out what the reason for Yang Lan’s silence was, and no one in the village could explain her background or make any effort to find her relatives. People in the village said, “She looks like she is obviously brain-dead,” and the medical certificate gave her a term. “Mild mental retardation”. Fang Tianbao brought her back for the simple purpose of finding a wife for his brother who could not get a wife, and to carry on the family name of Fang.
A girl was born in the second year after Yang Lan arrived at the Fang family. It was 1997, and her cousin Xie Shushan, who was about twenty years older than her, took her in his arms and named her “Yang Yang,” after her mother’s surname. “The name Yang doesn’t sound good, so I used the ocean of the ocean. ”
“Get me out of here.”
Fang Yangyang had a relatively happy childhood. When her father had a little money to spare, he would buy her melon seeds, peanuts, and apples to quench her thirst. Fang Tianmu seldom bought new clothes for her, and Fang Tianbao said, “We didn’t care about that at home either. “. Not many children her age want to play with her, and she doesn’t get annoyed, so she runs after her uncle and aunt, or plays after other younger children.
She has a skill that allows her to memorize more than fifty phone numbers, and she can remember exactly how many people live in each household in the village by generation. Neighbor Fang Ting knows that she uses a smartphone and occasionally plays small games like snake on her phone, “but I can still tell that she is different from normal people, not too smart, a little dull. “
Rarely did she hear anyone actively strive for anything. She dropped out of school when she reached the third grade of elementary school. There was no school in the village, so the children had to go to the next village for the first and second grades of elementary school, and then to the third grade, they had to go to a village farther away, to middle school or high school, and then to the town or county. Her intelligence was low, and she really struggled with her studies and was always last in her exams. Fang Tianbao knew what her elder brother thought, that further study would be a waste of money, so he let her drop out of school and went home.
The post-90s girls in the village who were six or seven years older than her were roughly divided into two groups. Some of them made good grades and went on to college or undergraduate school, from which they moved away from the village to marry and settle down in Dezhou or Jinan. Most of those who dropped out of school followed their relatives to work and then married in the county town or in the town, rarely returning to the village.
At the age of 15, she went to Qingdao to work, but when she was 20, her family called her back to the factory for a blind date, and she quit. Today, Fang Ting is 30 years old and works with her husband in a chemical factory in town. She wears a clean uniform to and from work every day and has a good standard of living in the village.
What did the decision to drop out of school in the third grade mean? Yang Yang is incapable of thinking,” said Fang Tian Bao, “and can only accept it. She is still cheerful, and calls everyone uncle and aunt. But year after year, every year when Fang Tianbao left home, Yang Yang would beg him, “Take me out to work too. “
The company has been in the process of developing the new product for the past two years. If the family is a boy, without waiting for his own mention, Fang Tian Bao will take him out early to see the world, “Even if he may be stupid, I will teach him well and teach him all the skills. “
One by one, children of the same age left the village. Some went to high school in the county, while others followed their relatives to work in Qingdao, Jinan, or Beijing. The village is so small that every child is looking for a better way out. Yang Yang was the only child who ran alone along the village road, dug into the ground to pick corn, and went to the nearby river to watch the fishing.
Every Spring Festival, she would mention the idea of going out to work, but not once did her uncle agree. Until when did she stop talking about it? In the past few years, there have been a number of cases where people have been forced to leave their homes to work for a few years,” he said.
The Fang family always wanted a boy. Shortly after Fang Yanyang was born, Yanglan became pregnant again, but during a period of strict control over family planning, Yanglan was induced to deliver her baby. At that time, it was already clear that the child was shaped, and Fang Tianbao heard from his older brother that it was a boy. The company’s products have been sold to a wide range of clients, including the U.S. and Europe. “
The Fang family did not have high expectations for their daughter, Yang Yang, and earning big money and bringing glory to the family was not something a girl should do in their minds. “A girl should definitely get married and have children,” said Fang Tianbao. “Fang Tianbao said. They only hope that when Yang Yang is old enough to get married, she will find a stable marriage, become someone else’s wife, and have two children. Perhaps like her mother, Yang Lan, she will spend her life quietly in another village.
A Deal
At the age of 19, a man who often came to Fangzhuang Village to collect grain arranged a marriage for Yang Yang, who was from Zhangzhuang Village in the neighboring city of Yu.
The village of Zhangzhuang looks more affluent than Fangzhuang, and the roads are wider, so many villagers have set up stores selling children’s clothes, shoes and groceries on the streets. Zhang C’s family also had a children’s clothing store, with three bungalows, one as a store and the other two as residences. Neighbors said the store was already liquidating inventory when they got married.
Zhang C, who got married at the age of twenty-six, is an older man in the village. It’s a good idea to have a good idea of what you’re looking for. It’s normal to get married at 25 or 26 when you’re in college, but it’s hard to find a date when you’re 27 or 28 if you’re not in college.
In the nearby villages, the economic condition of the man is the most important factor in marriage. It’s not just a matter of time, but also a matter of time before you have to pay the bride price. It’s a good idea to have the ability to get the best out of the situation. A while ago, there was a family, in order to earn enough face for their son, the bride price first gave 60,000, after the wedding and gave 24 million. If you add to buy a building, buy a car, the bride price is even higher, “building can not be the village, worthless, get the town or county to buy. “Another family spent more than 400,000 to marry a daughter-in-law, the reason is that the girl is young, a dozen years younger than the man.
The husband’s family, however, is precisely the worst economic condition of the village. Zhang C has a junior high school education and works part-time for a living. The first time I saw him, I remembered his impressions, “He was dark, very thin, 1.7 meters, wearing glasses, not very good-looking. “
Zhang C’s neighbors remembered that the matchmaker had introduced him to several women, but they all wanted to buy a house and a car in the city of Yu. The Zhang family was unable to meet the demands, and it wasn’t until 2016 when Fang Yang Yang appeared that they borrowed from relatives and acquaintances to raise 130,000 bride price money – the amount the Zhang family confessed in court, but villager Chen Qiu Li didn’t feel like giving that much. “When we first got married, everyone on the street said the other person only wanted 80,000, so when did you give someone 130,000? “
The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the newest models of the newest models of the newest generation. The company’s sister even complained to her that the old man was short-tempered and often scolded the old man, who was not well taken care of. Chen Qiu Li left her mouth, “That kind of person, who will go out with him? “
However, not everyone in Zhangzhuang village thought that the logic of Zhang C’s family paying for a daughter-in-law and asking for a child was unreasonable. Some people can understand the anger of the Zhang family, but it’s just too much to beat someone to death, “You mention divorce, get back the bride price, you find another one. The same street with a store Zhang C’s uncle silent for a long time, still can not help but defend his nephew’s family, “We spent so much money, the results of the daughter-in-law can not have a child, who Can you not be angry? “
The family’s father has passed away, and no one knows exactly how much the bride price was. The first thing I noticed was that there was a lot of people who were not aware of this, but they were not aware of the fact that I was not aware of this. And now these objects, “all in the hands of the Zhang family! ”
Does Yang Yang like her future husband? No one knows. Today, the villagers of Fangzhuang are chatting around, and still commenting on the 130,000 bride price with one another, “This price is not high. As for the economic conditions of the woman’s family, “Who looks at the woman’s family? “The villagers laughed, and a man spat out a smoke ring, his ravaged face hidden in the smoke, and raised his voice to add, “The man paid for it, and the woman paid Individuals on the line. “
In the eyes of the people of Fangzhuang village, although the Zhang family is hateful and angry, their request for Fang Yang Yang to have a child is not too much to ask, “Who doesn’t have a daughter-in-law who doesn’t have children? The wedding was a deal from the beginning, but Fang Yang Yang, who couldn’t understand it all, became the protagonist.
On the day of her wedding, the village of Fangzhuang was bustling with activity, with firecrackers going off non-stop, and Zhang C’s family rented six or seven BMWs for the wedding, which were lined up on the village road. The cousin, who was not very familiar with Yang Yang’s family, called out two of his classmates to be her escort, and only then was there enough manpower to send Yang Yang to the village. The cousin, who was more familiar with the family, did not attend, but Xie Shushan said that only “people from the hospital” could attend, that is, the team of uncles and brothers. “We belong to a foreign family. His mother is Yang Yang’s aunt, so she can’t attend.
This marriage custom still exists to this day, the village children who go out to study come back to have a wedding, schoolmates can attend the wedding, but among relatives, not “people in the courtyard”! “I can’t attend the wedding. Xie Shushan is more than twenty years older than Yang Yang, and while Yang Yang was growing up, he was also working around to save for a bride’s wedding gift, and the only chance to see Yang Yang every year was gradually left for New Year’s Eve. In the past few days, we sat around on the hot bed, polished the table, ate from lunch to dinner, played cards with melon seeds and peanuts, played mahjong, and sent red envelopes to each other, and then got together again the next year.
It was November 2016, the temperature has been below zero, Yang Yang in a white wedding dress, outside and a red down jacket, a thick black long hair coiled, wearing light makeup, round face full of laughter. “It’s beautiful. ” said the neighbor, “she is usually beautiful, ouch to dress up that day, even more beautiful. “
The Daughter-in-Law in the Iron Gate
During the first year of her marriage in the village of Zhangzhuang, the people of the village could still see her new daughter-in-law. The Zhang family took Yang Yang to meet people, telling her who her uncle was and who her aunt was, and Yang Yang never missed a shout. She was seen walking with her mother-in-law in the street in the summer of 2017. Others saw her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law square dancing in the village, “quite pretty and tall. The Fang’s neighbors also remember that Yang Yang often went back to her mother’s house that year, and her clothes were quite new, not like before she got married, and a bit dirty.
However, villagers in Zhangzhuang who had some dealings with her could also see that her daughter-in-law was of low intelligence. This weakness was repeatedly brought out and emphasized in Zhang C’s family. The Beijing News reported that after the marriage, Fang Yanyang told a friend in Fangzhuang Village that her mother-in-law would not let her take care of the child, nor would she breastfeed her child, for fear that she would have brain problems and feed the child badly. The court records also show that the Zhang family’s mother and son did not show any respect for the daughter-in-law, who “ate a lot” and “ate a lot”. “Won’t work”, “Sick and disobedient”. “These are words that come up often.
By 2018, Zhang C’s neighbors gradually noticed that Yang Yang didn’t go out much. A neighbor saw her twice at night, both times quietly opening the metal door and carrying a garbage can out to empty the trash. The neighbor behind the wall said he had not heard any cries or calls for help. More happened behind the door.
The real conflict was over the child. After the wedding, the Zhang family found that Yang Yang was not normal, “but in order for her to have a child, his family other Yang Yang are quite good. “According to the Zhang C family confession, Yang Yang delayed pregnancy, winter 2017, the Zhang family through medical checkups and inquiring in the village of Fangzhuang learned that Yang Yang Yang had previously had a miscarriage, so can not get pregnant, very angry.
On the 26th day of the 26th lunar month, cousin Xie Shulei saw Zhang C carrying two bags of beer and approached Fang Tianmu about Yang Yang’s failure to conceive a child. Xie Shulei did not believe Zhang C. “They are throwing dirty water on Yangyang! “It can also be testified that everyone in Fangzhuang Village said they had never seen Yang Yang in close contact with any man, and the Zhang family never produced a medical report.
That was the last time Yang Yang went back to her parents’ home in her cousin’s memory, and that Chinese New Year was also the last time the people of Fangzhuang Village saw her.
Neighbor Sun Linhua saw Yang Yang for the last time on the fourth day of the Chinese New Year in 2018. “She was not dressed well then, and she didn’t wear any new clothes for the New Year, and her shoes were torn. It’s not just a matter of time, it’s a matter of time.
Some of the neighbors came forward to reprimand Zhang C. Fang Tianmu and Fang Tianbao, however, were not allowed to go out. Fang Tianmu and Fang Tianbao did not react, but Fang Tianbao explained that the family was related and would get along in the future, so they should not be too stiff. Yang Yang never returned to Fang Village.
For the next six months, Zhang C went out to work and Fang Yang Yang stayed home, rarely leaving the house. Chen Qiuli, a neighbor of Zhangzhuang Village, said that she had met Yang Yang’s father, and took her mother Yang Lan to Zhangzhuang Village, asking the neighbors along the way which house was her son-in-law’s. But Fang Tianmu never met her.
But Fang Tianmu was never able to see his daughter. The news he brought back was that the Zhang family had offered to meet Yang Yang, and had to pay back the 50,000 yuan bride price to cure Yang Yang’s childlessness. The police later extracted WeChat records of the Zhang family’s mother and son, which also confirmed this, and they discussed not allowing the father and daughter to see each other without paying the money on the grounds that Fangyang Yang Yang was working outside the home.
The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services, including a full range of products and services, including a full range of products and services. “But whether or not to pay back, Fang Tianbao is not sure. Xie Shulei said that every time Fang Tianmu returned from the Zhang family, he began to drink mulled wine, and in the summer of 2018 he fell ill and was admitted to the Plain County Hospital. According to Zhang C’s testimony in court, he visited Fang Tianmu in the hospital and was beaten. Fang Tianbao denied it, saying that he and Zhang C had a fight in the hospital, but only over the fact that Yangyang could not return to her mother’s house for a long time and did not fight. Fang Yanyang’s bad luck began.
It was a long, cruel ordeal. Zhang C got angry at the hospital and slapped Fangyang several times when she came home, and her in-laws began to restrict her food, only letting her eat two or even one meal a day. Her mother-in-law had beaten Fang Yang Yang so many times that she couldn’t remember the exact number. There were scratches on her face, which she pinched, and wounds, which she folded in the middle. There were also wounds, which she stabbed with a wooden stick that was broken in the middle and had thorns on its tip. When the weather got colder, Yang Yang was often punished by standing in the courtyard, sometimes in single shoes, sometimes in half-cotton shoes, for more than half an hour every now and then. YangYang’s feet were black from the cold.
She used humiliation to distance herself from the violence. “At first she would resist, then she got scared, and when she saw us, she would deliberately hide,” “He never hit or yelled at anyone, broke anything,” the Zhang family said in their confession, but “was sick. “When he was talking to himself, he was nagging.
The Fang family had not seen Yang Yang for a long time, and had called the police once. The police took a picture and sent it to the Fang family. Xie Shulei remembered that Yang Yang was not much different from her usual self, but she had lost some weight. The police told him that Fang and Zhang were legally married, and that they could only coordinate if there was a problem.
The police told him that Yang Yang and Zhang C were legally married and that they could only reconcile their problems. I’m not sure how much I’ll be able to do, but I’m sure I’ll be able to do it. WeChat she and her son said, “The death of Fang Yang Yang’s father sent a letter to the other side, saying that Fang Yang Yang was not at home”. YangYang did not show up at the funeral.
After the death of Fang Tianmu, the Fang family never went to the Zhang family for help again. Fang Tianbao said, “Yangyang is only my niece, she married someone else. “My cousins also said, “I’m a gaijin, what reason do I have to go to the door and get involved in this? “
Sun Linhua, a neighbor, suggested to Fang Tianbao that he should be tough and take some cousins with him and carry Fang Tianmu directly to the Zhang family to ask for help, “Are you still afraid that the Zhang family won’t release him? They are responsible for Yang Yang’s death! “After saying that, Sun Linhua lowered the volume again, “You can’t say that in front of her uncle, you’ll get angry if you do. “
Last Chance
In the evening of January 31, 2019, news of Yang Yang’s death reached Fangzhuang Village. The village clerk of Zhangzhuang Village was entrusted by Zhang C’s family with a message saying that she had died of an illness.
The Fang family didn’t believe the news and rushed to the Zhang family’s home at night, but they were stopped at the door by the villagers of Zhangzhuang Village. He was so angry that he picked up a stick from the ground and smashed the glass of the Zhang family’s window. This was the first time he had ever acted aggressively for his niece. Someone called the police. Yang Yang was carried out of the Zhang family’s home covered with a white cloth. At the time of her death, Yang Yang, who was 1.7 meters tall, had only 60 or 70 pounds left and it was winter, so she should have been wearing thicker clothes, but the neighbors, looking at the shape of the white cloth, thought she hadn’t worn much.
On her last day of life, her in-laws asked her to brush pots, slaughter fish, wash clothes, and repair electrical sockets to hand her things. No one knows whether this was a protest against the life she had lived so far, or whether she was incapacitated by the shock of her ordeal. The result was that Zhang C’s father, Zhang Jilin, banged Fang Yang Yang’s head against the wall, and police later found a 40x16cm patch of blood on the north wall.
Zhang Jilin’s hair, once black and shiny, was also cut with scissors. According to his wife’s confession, he drank a lot of wine that day as usual, and since the fall of that year, Zhang Jilin hit Fang Yang Yang the most times at home, after drinking wine like to vent, then hit Fang Yang Yang.
The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the newest version of the book. This is a clear discrepancy between mother and son, Zhang C claimed that after he did not go out to work in October 2018, he often beat Fang Yang Yang at home, sometimes once a week, sometimes twice. Zhang C was the only son in the family.
Compared to the death, these things seem a little insignificant. On January 22nd of this year, the Yucheng City People’s Court issued a first instance verdict, finding Zhang Jilin, Liu Lanying, and Zhang C guilty of the crime of cruelty. In view of the fact that they confessed the crime, constituted a confession and showed remorse, the court decided to impose a lighter penalty and sentenced them to three years, two years, two months, and two years of fixed-term imprisonment respectively. The defendants all compensated the plaintiff with 37,562 RMB for funeral expenses, 3,000 RMB for lost wages, and 2,000 RMB for transportation expenses, totaling 42,562 RMB.
Fang Yangyang’s cousins could not accept the result and hired another lawyer to appeal to the Dezhou Intermediate People’s Court to get justice. On November 27th of this year, the case was retried in the People’s Court of Yucheng City.
It was another winter day. It gets dark fast in the village, and the old people in Fang Village rush home to cook before the sun completely sets, rickety figures hidden in the twilight. All of this had nothing to do with Fang Yang Yang. After her death, she was not buried in the ancestral tomb of the Fang family, but was matched in a shady marriage. Cousin Xie Shulei said he was worried that Yang Yang would be too lonely on her own.
It’s a popular custom in Ping An County, where local residents say that a single boy who dies can’t be buried alone, and it affects the family’s feng shui, so every family will give their child a marriage of the opposite sex, “If you can afford it, look for someone who has really died. “
His spouse was far away from Fangzhuang village, and Yang Yang’s ashes were buried in another strange village. Fang Tianbao never visited Yang Yang’s grave, and his nephews didn’t tell him where it was for fear that he would be too sad. From the Fang family’s daughter, to the Zhang family’s daughter-in-law, to the “wife” of a stranger in the underworld, Fang Yangyang was never able to escape her fate.
The last chance to live was in early January 2019.
Old Du, who delivered gas in Fangzhuang Village, received a strange phone call that winter from a girl who asked him to send a message to her uncle, asking him to buy a cell phone and send it to her. He recognized the voice from the receiver, which was Yang Yang from Fangzhuang Village. He recognized the girl, and every time he drove to the village to deliver gas, Yang Yang would always follow him in the back of the car and happily shout “uncle”, her face flushed. He was a little puzzled when he asked, “Don’t you have a cell phone now? Yang Yang said, “This is my subject’s cell phone.
Three or four days later, Yang Yang called him a second time and said he was in the hospital, asking if he had conveyed the message. The phone was quickly disconnected after a couple of quick sentences. Some people in Zhangzhuang Village knew that Zhang C had broken his arm and was recovering at home, and they speculated that Yang Yang might have been in the hospital with her to change her medicine and made the second call when her husband wasn’t looking.
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A half month before his death, Yang Yang Fang made a third phone call to old Du, which was dialed at midnight, and Du didn’t answer. The first two calls he received, he recalled, were not strange, and his tone was normal, so he didn’t think it mattered.
The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services, including gas, water, gasoline, gasoline, gasoline, and gasoline. Only the “dull” and “not so smart” one. “Yang Yang remembered the number, sent out three distress signals, and then slowly annihilated it in the cold winter night.
(At the request of the interviewee, Chen Qiuli, Fang Ting, Fang Huaqiang, and Sun Linhua are pseudonyms in the article.)
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