She was lying on the bed, with a cat lying at her feet.
She looked beautiful to me, with her features, and her figure, which had a delicate and natural movement. Although she was wearing the simplest of summer pajamas, I could see that her waist was extremely thin. It may be that she has not been in the sun for a long time, her bare skin is very white, as translucent as jade. The hands and feet are not thin, round.
I was peeking at her, and she was playing with her cell phone like she was aware of it, her head tilted, looking straight back at me and smiling.
Her grandmother was also on the bed, and when she saw her laughing again, she was a little annoyed, “After such an incident, the reporter came and you just laughed, laughed, laughed. Why don’t you cry!”
She had a very beautiful name – Lin Yingying.
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This 22-year-old girl spends more than 22 hours a day on her bed, unable to move herself. The cat, a stranger, lies by her face and touches her with its paws, and leaps to her feet and naps with its eyes closed. The cat was bought by Lin’s grandmother this year to relieve her boredom.
At 12 noon, Lin’s mother called out to her to get out of bed and eat. The cat immediately went to the table and raised its paws to move the bowl of shredded radish. The cat immediately went to the table and lifted its paw to move the bowl of cold shredded radish. Lin Yingying’s 1.5-year-old sister was held in her mother’s arms, and her little hand went down, hitting the cat several times. On the bed over there, Lin’s grandmother dragged her out of bed with difficulty.
It’s a big deal to get out of bed and eat.
When she was first brought home in March 2015, she couldn’t speak, couldn’t move on her own, and was so thin that she was skin and bones; in April, she spoke her first words; in May, her breathing tube was removed, though her wounds were still visible. When she could be pulled to sit up for the first time, the whole family was overjoyed, “I praised her at that time, she’s really good! The doctor said you’d be a vegetable for the rest of your life.” Lin Yingying’s grandmother said.
Thanks to her youth, she was admitted to the hospital with a “cerebral contusion and subdural hematoma.” “If she had been an old person, she would have died from post-operative complications.” Wang Zhijun, head of the Department of Neurosurgery at Dalian Wafangdian Central Hospital, where Lin Yingying was operated on, said.
After nearly half a year in the hospital, the family ran through several rehabilitation hospitals, but were scared back by the high cost, “I heard that a course of treatment in Beijing would cost tens of thousands of dollars, and I don’t know how many more.
Now, the so-called rehabilitation is at home by the simple guardrail of the bed. Every afternoon, if she has time, Lin’s grandmother helps her walk around the parapet for about half an hour. The rest of the time, Lin lies on her bed.
Her grandmother brought up her granddaughter “on this bed.” The family had some expectations of Lin Yingying, but they didn’t include the girl coming back to this bed.
Lin Yingying lies on her bed playing with her phone and looks back at me. Lin Yingying lies on her bed playing with her cell phone and looks back at me.
“I said, if you were my age, you would have died in a few years lying on the bed, but you are only 22 years old, when is the end of lying?” When Grandma finished, Lin Yingying laughed again.
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“This laugh is not acceptable to the general public, but to me it is crying.” Lin Yingying’s mother said.
A sudden and serious injury two years ago not only caused Lin Yingying’s current inability to care for herself, but also severe damage to her facial nerves. She often wears a strange smile, whether she says, “I almost died,” or “I regret it,” the corners of her mouth rise strangely after the end of the sentence.
At noon on September 29, 2014, Lin Yingying was sent to Wafangdian Central Hospital by her boyfriend Liu Fenghe, and the hospital chart reads – “fell and injured her head at home at 12:00 noon, details unknown, fell to the ground after the injury, bleeding from her right ear, and gradually lost consciousness. ” Wang Zhijun, head of the hospital’s Department of Neurosurgery, was extremely impressed with her, “so young, so badly injured, two surgeries were performed.” Wang Zhijun said that when the CT was reviewed after the first surgery, Lin Yingying developed another secondary hematoma, so a second surgery was immediately scheduled. Lin Yingying’s hair was shaved, and the left and right sides of the skull were opened in turn.
Before the second surgery, Liu Fenghe called Lin’s parents, who were preparing dinner at the time. “What’s wrong with the fall?” Lin Yingying’s mother didn’t realize how serious it could be at the time. When she arrived at the hospital, she was close to collapse. “They all went over to comfort me, saying don’t cry, at that time I was pregnant with our family’s oldest five.”
Lin Yingying’s family had many children, and she was the oldest. Her parents wanted a boy, but they had three daughters in a row. When Lin Yingying’s accident happened, her mother was pregnant again. At that time, Lin Yingying was 19 and Liu Fenghe was 23, and they were already living together, running a small cake store together, eating and living in the store.
Lin Yingying’s mother wanted to know how her daughter was injured, but looked at Liu Fenghe squatting outside the operating room door, holding his head, dumbfounded, did not ask more. The mother of Liu Fenghe said that she received a phone call from her son to the hospital that afternoon, “I heard my son say that Ying Ying slipped and fell in the store, so bring money to the hospital”.
Lin Yingying’s grandmother listened to this word and became anxious, “slipped? The ground poured oil? How not to slip your children, slip our children?” The Liu family stopped squealing.
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The operation went smoothly, and five or six hours later, Lin Yingying was carried out of the operating room and sent to the intensive care unit. “All naked, covered with a quilt, and all shaved hair.” The doctors told the Lin family that it was possible that this would be Lin Yingying’s life.
She had been the pride of her parents. “Who doesn’t say my daughter is handsome? She’s also honest.”
Born in 1995, Lin Yingying was clean and pretty. After graduating from junior high school, she was sent by her parents to Dalian to study Japanese language, which “cost tens of thousands of dollars. Three years later, Lin Yingying got her diploma, but she failed the Japanese translation exam. Her parents enrolled her in an accounting class, “relatives said there was a shortage of accounting, so they were waiting for her to graduate from accounting.”
In the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 2013, Lin Ying Ying added Liu Fenghe through WeChat’s “People Nearby”, and the two families did not live far apart. The two began chatting and later met at a bus stop. “Not much impression, just feel very comfortable.” Liu Fenghe said he was satisfied after seeing Lin Yingying and wanted to chase her. He has never been in a “serious” relationship, “she is my first girlfriend”.
A photo of the two of them together
The two young men fell in love, which made the Lin family uncomfortable.
Lin Yingying’s parents remember the first time they saw Liu Fenghe, the young man was not tall, a little dark. “I didn’t see that look anyway,” Lin’s mother said. Lin Yingying took Liu Fenghe home and said she didn’t want to study accounting anymore, and had a few arguments with her grandmother about it.
“I wasn’t very happy, and I slapped her.” Lin Yingying’s father said. A slap down, Lin Yingying pulled Liu Fenghe away, did not take anything. By the evening she folded back near home and begged her mother to take out her bag, which contained her ID card. She just left home.
“Since then, the judgment is like two people, the family is like her enemy.” Lin Yingying’s father was a bit helpless. The year after that, Lin rarely came home. “She came back for four days during the Spring Festival, just four days.” Her father could count them.
Perhaps because the family’s finances were really not generous, or perhaps because they didn’t see eye to eye on the relationship, Lin Yingying’s parents talked openly and honestly with Liu Fenghe. “I said, I have already spent tens of thousands of dollars for Ying Ying’s study, we don’t care after our girl, if you want to deal with friends, you are fully responsible financially.” Lin Yingying’s mother remembers that Liu Fenghe’s reaction to this “showdown” was noncommittal, “he didn’t nod or shake his head, he just laughed”.
After that, Lin Yingying’s parents really didn’t care about her anymore. They only heard that the couple had opened a small cake store in Wafangdian City.
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“‘Love cake’, L-O-V-E, with a little boy and a little girl at the bottom. It represents us both.” Liu Fenghe said.
The two learned to make pastries together for a while, and Liu Fenghe’s family financed the opening of “Love Cake”.
Store did not open in downtown, business in general, barely keep the money, they also did not recruit waiters, is two people. “The two are in the back kitchen most of the time, I entered the store and shouted, the beginning is the little girl came out to give me the check, and then the little boy came out more often.” Nearby residents recalled.
Lin Yingying hospitalized in urgent need of money, Liu Fenghe originally rented a full year of the store back rent, the store’s machinery are also cheap disposal. The cake store had just opened for three months at that time. “The hospital is calling for payment every day, where you can pour out money in a hurry,” Liu Fenghe said, looking at the medical bills that are refreshed every day during that time, he was worried. But the family in the night of Lin Yingying surgery, they have taken a position, “do not care how much money to spend, hire the best doctors with the best drugs, smashing pots and pans, but also to save Yingying.”
This statement also made Lin Yingying’s parents feel relieved, “At least we don’t have to worry about my girl’s life-saving money.” Lin Yingying’s mother said that she was pregnant at the time, and the family could not spare the manpower, the money was paid by the Liu family, care was also done by Liu Fenghe, they also felt rightfully so.
After the surgery, Lin Yingying lived in the intensive care unit for about ten days, and after her vital signs stabilized, she was transferred to a general ward. Because her trachea was cut during surgery, she had a breathing tube in her throat, a tube in her nose for injecting food, and a urinary tube for defecating. Three tubes, unconscious, she is a “vegetable” state.
“He lies next to the patient’s bed, sleepy on a nap; eating is also the first to give the patient to eat, he then deal with eating.” Zou Yunhui, head nurse of the hospital, said the ward is full of patients with similar cranio-cerebral injuries, other wards are three or four people to take care of the patient, Lin Yingying special, only to see Liu Fenghe a person busy. “It takes 6-8 times a day just to prepare food, cooperate with the nurse to beat the bought food into liquid with a blender, and then inject it through the nasal tube; also turn, knock on the back, and relieve urine and stool regularly. The amount of care is very high.”
Liu Fenghe injects liquid food to Lin Yingying Liu Fenghe injects liquid food to Lin Yingying
“From morning until 9:00 or 10:00 at night, after doing this, there is that.” Liu Fenghe’s daytime schedule was full, and at night, he couldn’t relax. When Lin Yingying had a fever at night, he just had to wipe her body with warm water over and over again. “As long as you don’t rub, the temperature comes up immediately.”
At first Liu Fenghe also hired a hospital nurse, but dismissed her after seeing the nurse’s movements. “The hands are busy, I’m a little intolerant. I just said I don’t need it, I’ll do it myself.” Liu Fenghe’s mother also came to the hospital after work to share the work and let Liu Fenghe rest.
Liu’s family’s attentive, and Lin’s parents a little “abnormal”, the ward has also been discussed, “parents to see on the go, we do have a little idea of the little girl’s family. After all, the two are not married.” Dr. Wang Zhijun said.
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However, the whole thing was just beginning to “go wrong”.
In November 2014, Lin Yingying was hospitalized for nearly two months and began to feel conscious. Liu Fenghe remembers the first time his girlfriend woke up, and when he remembers it again, he has a complicated look on his face that he will “never forget”. “I turned her over and knocked on her back, she was facing that way, I suddenly felt something was happening, I looked at her, I saw her eyes open, smiling at me, woke up.” That time, Lin Yingying called Liu Fenghe a “brother” with the mouth type, no sound, but Liu Fenghe understood, “she kept calling me that.
Lin Yingying is getting better day by day, but the Liu family is almost at the limit of medical expenses, “even toilet paper can not afford to buy”. The most difficult time, Liu Fenghe some friends to help, send him meals, bring him some necessities, and later in WeChat to send friends for help.
Soon, the message went to the phone of a local businesswoman, Ms. Wang. Ms. Wang was impressed by Lin Yingying’s hospital bed photo and sought to go to the hospital that night. “Did see a little girl, can be thin, skin and bones, no hair. The little boy was taking care of her on the side.”
The next day, Ms. Wang came again, brought and a few friends together more than 6,000 yuan, went to the hospital to pay the medical bills. After that, Ms. Wang went to see Lin Yingying every now and then, bringing food and money, and also sending some pictures. “Every time we went to see her, Ying Ying made progress, and that made us feel motivated.”
Love people come to visit Lin YingyingLove people come to visit Lin Yingying
After going to the hospital more times, Ms. Wang began to doubt how Lin Yingying’s injury was caused, after all, it is a little unbelievable to fall into this. She had also heard rumors that one of Lin’s girlfriends had come to visit her and said that Liu Fenghe had previously beaten Lin Yingying.
There were also nurses in the hospital who said that on the night of Lin Yingying’s surgery, one of Liu Fenghe’s friends had accused him, “I told you not to keep doing it, but look, it’s like this, and now there’s no one in your cake store?”
At that time, Lin Yingying was still unable to speak, but could move and blink. Ms. Wang took advantage of Liu Fenghe’s absence and quietly asked Lin Yingying, “Did Liu Fenghe hit you? If so, blink once, if not, blink twice. I’ll do it for you.” Ms. Wang saw clearly that Lin Yingying blinked twice.
Then later, in front of Liu Fenghe, she asked again, and Liu Fenghe immediately cried, looking very aggrieved. Lin Yingying watched Liu Fenghe cry and desperately pressed Ms. Wang’s hand, “That means let me stop asking.”
Ms. Wang did not ask again.
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Flower girl suddenly seriously injured, model boyfriend will not leave – not long, reporters also scrambled over to interview.
At that time, Lin Yingying can not speak, Liu Fenghe wrote a piece of paper, marked – “1, stool; 2, urine; 3, dinner ……”, what needs, Lin Yingying move their fingers The two can communicate, “This trick is learned from her previous favorite Korean drama, did not expect to use it.”
The little note also says “1, small persimmon; 2, orange; 3, orange; 4, kiwi ……”. At that time, Lin Yingying was still injecting food and could not taste it at all. “This is to respect her and let her know in her heart that it is something she wants to eat.” Liu Fenghe explained. This detail touched everyone, bed with a long time inevitably bored, rare he can still do “respect”.
The two people communicate with the small note used when the two people communicate with the small note
The news was also published, the circle of friends was also launched, and kind-hearted people donated more than 20,000 yuan to Lin Yingying one after another.
In early February 2015, Ms. Wang suddenly received a phone call from Liu Fenghe. “He told me that he was discharged from the hospital, and he took Ying Ying outside to live”, said Ms. Wang, “He also said, Sister Wang you have many channels, recognize the recruitment of handicrafts, I want to take care of Ying Ying while earning some money.” The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public.
At that time, Liu Fenghe rented a house in the local Longcheng Pilot District and took care of Lin Yingying alone. In January 2015, Lin Yingying’s medical expenses totaled more than 180,000 yuan, which the Liu family felt they could not afford. In addition to some donations from well-wishers, most of which were taken by the Liu family, Lin Yingying’s parents did not contribute a single penny.
Liu Fenghe called Lin Yingying’s parents for help, Lin Yingying’s father received the call and simply said, “You did the admission, you have to manage the discharge.
When Lin Yingying was discharged from the hospital, Liu Fenghe wrote an IOU, which has not been returned. When Lin Yingying was discharged from the hospital, Liu Fenghe wrote an IOU, which has not been repaid.
The last Liu Fenghe wrote a note stating that the 5,000 yuan owed to the hospital would be returned later and took Lin Yingying out of the hospital. “Think about it, what mood I’m in, I’m desperate.”
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In early 2015, Lin Yingying’s pregnant mother gave birth to the Lin family’s fifth child, a daughter. The couple was a bit lost. When she was in her monthly cycle, Lin Yingying’s mother wanted to see Lin Yingying and contacted Liu Fenghe, but the other party refused to tell them where they lived. “I called Liu Fenghe, and he said, “Didn’t you leave your daughter alone at that time? Let your daughter cut off relations with you.”
The Lin family felt some justification, but the daughter still want to see, good talk, tossed to an address.
On February 24, 2015, Lin’s mother went to see Lin with eggs laid by her own chickens and some delicious food. Outside the door of the house knocked for half a day, Liu Fenghe did not give open. In the door, Lin Yingying let out a babbling sound, the mother heard it clearly, “Yingying let me open the door, Liu Fenghe did not let, scolding Yingying.” Lin Yingying’s mother called the police.
Two police officers from Lingdong police station soon came to the door of the rental house, Liu Fenghe let them in, but still did not let Lin Yingying’s mother in. “What happens first we do not know, go to the time the two sides are more emotional, we mediated the scene.” Civilian police Li Hongtao said.
Finally, Lin Yingying’s mother also did not see her daughter, put the food at the door and left. Later she heard Lin Yingying said that things were all thrown by Liu Fenghe.
After this time, Liu Fenghe’s mood eased up a bit, and Lin Yingying’s family no longer blocked her when she came to see them again. But after seeing Lin Yingying, the family’s mood was heavier than ever.
Lin Yingying was very thin, and they suspected that Liu Fenghe was not taking good care of her. Lin Yingying’s grandmother was attentive and asked Liu Fenghe how many diapers he changed a day, and Lin Yingying put up a finger.
“1 piece! 1 day with 1 diaper! Eat or not, what do you think?”
The Lin family was finally alerted.
Lin Yingying’s mother thought of her daughter, who had been out of touch for a long time, calling herself in August 2014, saying she had fallen and had gone to the hospital and was okay. A few days later Lin Yingying’s father happened to be going to the city on business and asked his daughter to meet him in front of the train station. “Looked okay, nothing wrong, Liu Fenghe also accompanied”, Lin Yingying’s father said.
“How is it possible to fall a month ago and then fall again a month later?” Lin Yingying’s mother snapped back to that phone call from her daughter. on March 10, 2015, she went to see Lin Yingying again and asked the question, “Does Liu Fenghe beat you?” Being a mother, I heard my daughter spurt out a tone with difficulty, “fight.”
At that time Liu Fenghe was in front of her, Lin Yingying’s mother was very annoyed, but Liu Fenghe then reached over and pushed Lin Yingying’s mother.
After returning home, Lin Yingying’s mother said all about the situation and her suspicions, she said, “The child’s father, take the child home.”
Lin Yingying was finally taken home by her parents.
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On the day she was taken home, Lin’s father walked into the police station and told the police, “I suspect my daughter was beaten by her date.
But things have passed more than six months, the police subsequently investigated with little success: the two worked “Love cake” store has long been changed to a piano shop, neighbors say the two feelings are quite good; police want to find Liu Fenghe to verify the situation, but Liu Fenghe disappeared, his mother said he went out to work, no one knows exactly where to go ……
On that day, April 20, 2015, Lin Yingying suddenly remembered a lot of things and was eager to say them. She called her grandmother and said with difficulty, “Grandma, do you have time? I want to say a few words to you.”
“The patient was in a deep coma when she arrived, there must be damage to her memory, and she needs to recover little by little.” Wang Zhijun, Lin Yingying’s primary care doctor, said. Memory is not stored in genes, nor is it firmly written somewhere in the brain; there are too many unknown processes for it to remain and fade, to be forgotten and remembered. But for Lin Yingying, perhaps it was a dream awakened.
Lin Yingying told her grandmother that she didn’t fall down at all. “At noon that day, I was baking bread, four trays in total, and I baked them all. He came over and hit me, on this side, with a rolling pin, and then hit me on this side.”
“He” is his boyfriend, Liu Fenghe.
In April 2016, Lin Yingying took a photo with her grandmother and four sisters after she was injured.
Lin Yingying spent most of an hour with difficulty on such a few words, and cried a lot after she finished. The Lin family called the police again, and the police came to the Lin family and made a statement at the kang.
Lin Yingying said that after she was injured that day, she bled out of her ear, then fell to the ground, and then she didn’t remember. When she woke up from the hospital, she did not know how long had passed, only remember opening her eyes and seeing Liu Fenghe. At that time, Liu Fenghe whispered to her, “Ying Ying, you fell on your own, I didn’t hit you.”
Lin Yingying remembers good people coming to see her, and she subconsciously expressed her fear then; she was afraid to be alone with Liu Fenghe, and could often feel his mood swings. “He was always angry, and when he got angry, he would run outside, and after a while, when he was better, he would come back.”
But at the time, her memories of the day she was injured were still chaotic.
Lin Yingying said that after being discharged from the hospital, Liu Fenghe rented a house to take care of her. At that time, she could not take care of herself, but Liu Fenghe actually used a belt to beat her legs, and did not let her cry out. When it comes to this part, Lin Yingying’s grandmother couldn’t listen to it anymore, “chopping him up doesn’t quench his thirst!”
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At the beginning, for Liu Fenghe, Lin Yingying had a falling out with her family. The two were sweet at first, but after three months together, Lin Yingying regretted it.
Liu Fenghe first hit her because she was playing with her phone. She was playing and forgot the time, Liu Fenghe said a few words to her and then rushed over and bent her phone. Lin Yingying was surprised, but felt that she was also at fault. “I thought he was such a nice guy, forget it, forgive him.”
The phone that was broken by Liu FengheThe phone that was broken by Liu Fenghe
When not fighting, Liu Fenghe does love her, doing what she loves to eat and buying what she wants. “She likes to eat big crabs, my son went to buy a few, all for her to eat”, Liu Fenghe’s mother said, she also quite like Lin Yingying, but also perceived that her son is genuinely good to her. The son of a few thousand pocket money to her son during the New Year, the son all to Lin Yingying to buy clothes.
But when it comes to hitting people, everything has changed again. At that time, the two live together without work, Liu Fenghe upset, because some trivial things hit Lin Yingying a few times, she proposed to break up, also ran away from home, were Liu Fenghe back. Apologize, plus intimidation, “I mentioned the breakup he got angry and hit me. After opening the cake store, Lin Yingying thought that the two had something to do, the quarrel will be reduced. But things did not go as planned, because the baking bread this one thing, the two are not sure how many times the conflict. “I said how many degrees to turn on the oven, he said how many degrees, we have to listen to him”, all such trivial matters.
The more serious one was the one where Lin Yingying called her mother to tell her.
Of course, it was not a fall, but Liu Fenghe slapped Lin Yingying several times, and her ears bled at that time. After several days of tinnitus and dizziness, Liu Fenghe accompanied her to the hospital. Xu Liguo, director of the ear, nose and throat department, remembered her because “the little girl looked scared and panicked, and asked her how she was hurt and was scared. Xu Liguo took a look at Lin Yingying’s ear, “it was full of blood scabs. The kind of trauma that the hands and feet hit, certainly not one or two hits into this.” Lin Yingying was diagnosed with a perforated eardrum and hearing loss. Xu Liguo suggested she go for a CT, which showed “fluid in the butterfly sinus; soft tissue swelling around the left eye” – the former meaning “slight fracture of the head” and the latter meaning The former means “slight fracture of the head” and the latter means “the kind of panda eye caused by trauma”. But Lin Yingying was not hospitalized. After prescribing medicine, Liu Fenghe sent the bruised and swollen Lin Yingying to a hotel to rest for three days.
After the good almost, Lin Yingying call with his parents to say.
Then there was this time on September 29. If it hadn’t hurt like this, it’s almost certain that there would have been a next time. “There, not to be beaten to death by him, it was almost the same.”
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Liu Fenghe was caught in April 2016 in Zhongning County, Zhongwei City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, when he had been on the run for a full year. When police found him, he looked relaxed.
The police asked, “Do you know why you are here? He said, “Yes,” paused, then immediately said, “Actually, I don’t know,” and asked rhetorically, “Why?” Always smiling.
Liu Fenghe was smiling when he was captured Liu Fenghe was smiling when he was captured
In this whole year, Liu Fenghe has been to Beijing, Hainan and other places, never stay long, never contact with family. Later, Liu Fenghe worked as a coal digger at a construction site in Zhongning, and lived with a group of old folks. The police asked others about Liu Fenghe’s impressions, an aunt who burned rice on the site said, “The young man looks good, introverted, very little to say.”
When he was first arrested, Liu Fenghe also admitted in his confession that he had injured Lin Yingying with a rolling pin, and the details of his confession matched those of Lin Yingying. But later, when questioned again, Liu Fenghe began to talk less and less.
I met Liu Fenghe in Wafangdian City Detention Center, he was no different from his photo, not tall and thin. He said that on September 29, because of the baking bread and Lin Yingying started a dispute, he pushed Lin Yingying, Lin Yingying fell to the ground and then got up, he kicked Lin Yingying, resulting in Lin Yingying’s head touched the ground, the injury is so come. “Did not use the rolling pin?” I asked, Liu Fenghe said, “No. No use is no use.”
I was curious to know what Liu Fenghe was feeling when he was taking care of Lin Yingying. When faced with my question, Liu Fenghe paused for a long, long time before saying, “Sour.”
Meeting Liu Fenghe at the Wafangdian Detention Center Meeting Liu Fenghe at the Wafangdian Detention Center
According to Lin Yingying, after she was injured, Liu Fenghe threatened her several times, and beat her with a belt during the period when she was renting a room alone. I asked Liu Fenghe, “Did you do that?”
Liu Fenghe, who was wearing handcuffs and shackles, almost instantly leaned forward to the limit, raised his voice several degrees, stared at me fiercely, his hair seemed to stand on end, and roared, “Say, where do you know this from, do you have proof? You ask this question, don’t you think you have a problem with yourself?”
I pressed, “What if it was Lin Yingying who told me that she told me that you still beat her?”
Liu Fenghe yelled, “Think with your head, what she is like, how can I? I served her, she pooped and peed every day, I was doing it when she had her period, why could I do it? I have a mistake, I admit it, I know wrong I have paid all my efforts, I went to borrow money to take care of her, I can do I have done, I figure what is it, is it back for these? Did not take something to fight said to take something to fight, I take care of when not to say, you go ask all the people ……”
He yelled continuously for more than a minute.
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Lin Yingying’s injuries were identified as “serious injury grade 2”, and the police also filed a case for investigation for “intentional injury”. But because the incident took so long, and only the two sides of the story, the police also some headache. Their investigation focused on September 29, as for the subsequent Liu Feng and care during the abuse of Lin Yingying, the police have no way to find out.
Lin Yingying said that after she was discharged from the hospital, every time her family came to visit, Liu Fenghe would beat her. “On Feb. 24, 2015, Lin’s mother also called the police once because Liu Fenghe wouldn’t open the door. Lin Yingying said that after the police came, Liu Fenghe became very angry and “didn’t say a word that night.”
The next day, when Liu Fenghe was taking care of her, he deliberately removed the breathing tube she had inserted in her throat. When the tube fell out, she had great difficulty breathing and screamed hoarsely. Liu Fenghe suddenly became anxious and called 120 and 110 in a hurry. Liu Zhiqiang, a civilian police officer from Lingdong police station who was out at the time, remembers.
“A man wearing flowery pants, topless ran out, while running, said, my daughter-in-law a what what tube fell, we asked him, where. He didn’t tell us, he pointed inside and said, in inside in inside. He ran to the side of the road to wait for 120, and soon the car came.”
Liu Fenghe wrote on the face of the anxiety to impress the police.
When all the interviews ended, I chatted with the officers handling the case about Lin Yingying’s cowardice and about Liu Fenghe’s contradictions. One of the officers said, “He’s not bad by nature. After all, he and Lin Yingying had so much time alone together as two people.”
Postscript
The sky in Wafangdian is blue and the wind is light.
The city is built on a hill, and often you find yourself walking up a big slope. This is actually a very suitable city for love, emitting a fragrance of acacia flowers. Lin Yingying’s circle of friends has also posted pictures of acacia flowers all over the ground. I don’t know if she and Liu Fenghe had also walked through that field of flowers and had expectations of the future like flowers.
Before meeting her, I first saw her photos in the local public security registry system. One was in 2010 when she was 15 years old, and one was the latest entry in 2016. Time had played a cruel joke on her. Her eyebrows and eyes had not changed much, but she clearly looked like a different person, like she should have looked 20 years later. The truth arrived earlier than time.
Before and after photos of Lin Yingying’s injury
She always laughs during the interview and then tries desperately to hold it together. She explained to me, “I just laugh when I see a stranger, my nerves don’t work. Actually, I want to cry so much.” She was still smiling, but that smile made me suddenly drop tears.
On the last day I left Dalian, I went through a lot of trouble to contact Ms. Wang and Ms. Yao, the kind people who had helped Lin Yingying at that time. They are local business people, not too willing to show their faces, especially after the news “reversal” some apprehension. After all, they said, there were many donations at the time by Liu Fenghe impressed components. Now that they have seen the news and learned the so-called truth, they are a little hard to bear, “How could he do this?” “He didn’t do it on purpose, right?” “Really can’t understand ah.” But in the end the two were relieved, “I do my good deeds, he creates his karma. After all, we really helped Ying Ying, didn’t we?” Before we parted, Ms. Wang asked me for the address of Lin Yingying’s home. The next day, she went to see her again.
(Teaser: CCTV 1’s Today’s Sayings will air this case from July 25 – July 26)
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