Why should I care about my mother

preface

Up to now, I have faced all kinds of people in the grassroots police work. Naturally, I strive to be calm and objective in my work, but there will inevitably be waves in my heart. Wang Guizhi district of the old man’s yard has been hanging a “five good family” sign, but now, whenever I go to the sign below, can not help but sneer. When my colleague asked me why I was smiling, I said, “It would be more appropriate to change this sign to ‘Five good babysitters’.” ‘Why? “Employers don’t have to provide for nannies!”
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One night at the end of 2014, the police station received an alarm that an old man living alone had fallen on the ground in his home and could not open the door. It was suspected that something had happened, so they asked the police for help.

The old man’s name is Wang Guizhi, 74 years old. He lives on the first floor of an old public house in the district. After my colleagues and I arrived at the scene, the 120 ambulance was already at the door.

“At night, I went to wang’s sister-in-law’s house to visit her. There was a light in her bedroom, but no one opened the door and no one answered. I felt bad in my heart, so I asked my grandson to climb over the wall to see what was wrong. “Said a neighbor eagerly.

The community is home to many elderly people who live alone, and there have been several cases in which elderly people have died of sudden illnesses at home, leaving the smell of their bodies unknown. To this end, the community in the left-behind elderly people set up a neighborhood mutual aid, meet each other every day to report peace. Today is the same group of old people to call the police.

My colleagues and I decided to break in by ourselves. The old man was still alive and fell to the ground, groaning in pain, his voice very faint. The doctor followed us into the room and carried Wang Guizhi into the ambulance after a brief rescue.

I asked my neighbors for the contact information of Wang Guizhi’s relatives, but none of the children’s phone numbers could get through.

I am a little surprised, call command center for help to find.

It took a while for the command center to reply that her daughter had been contacted, but that she was far from the hospital. The command center sent me and my colleagues to the hospital to wait for Wang’s family.

When she arrived at the hospital, Wang guizhi had been sent to the emergency operating room for rescue. Seeing us coming, the nurse kept urging us to get Wang Guizhi’s family to sign.

I had to give the phone number of Wang Guizhi’s daughter from the command center to the nurse. After a while, the nurse came out of the office angrily and shouted at me, “Where are such family members? May she be hit and killed by a car!”

My colleagues and I were even more surprised. The nurse told us that Wang’s daughter had gotten in touch, but she now refuses to come, saying, “I can’t go alone because my eldest brother and sister haven’t arrived yet.”

‘What does she mean? “The colleague asked the nurse.

“She asked us to inform her big brother and sister at the same time that she could not sign on her own, that she could not be the master!”

“What do you mean you can’t be the Lord?”

“To put it bluntly, it’s the cost. You sent the men, but you had better coordinate them.” Then the nurse hurried into the operating room, leaving me and my colleagues looking at each other.

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We weren’t able to find Wang’s children until that night, when she was wheeled out of the operating room by nurses.

“What about her family?” “The nurse asked us disapprovingly.

“The eldest and the second can’t get in touch, and the third can’t come.” “The colleague responded helplessly.

“She won’t come unless she says so? Why don’t you go and get her?”

“You say seize it? We’re still at the hospital, aren’t we? It’s all work. What are you mad at us for?” The colleague is a little angry, called off back.

The nurse pushed Wang to the ward angrily, and my colleague and I followed her.

After some rescue, Wang Guizhi temporarily out of life danger. The doctor told us that Wang Guizhi himself suffers from High blood pressure. Her right leg had been involved in an accident before and had not recovered yet. In addition, her heart was not very good. Today, I may accidentally fall down in the house, break my previous hurt leg, and I can’t get up again. Fortunately, the discovery in time, otherwise the winter on the cold floor on the night, not to the next day there will be no people.

“And her family? I thought I was connected. Where are we now?” That’s what the doctor asked us.

I had to explain it again, and at this the doctor shook his head and went away, cursing under his breath before going out: — Brute!

After Ms. Wang spent half a month in the hospital, we finally got in touch with her two other children, and thought the matter would be settled.

One day, the hospital reported to the police that someone had fled. My colleague and I rushed over and heard from a distance someone Shouting abuse in the inpatient office.

“This is illegal detention! I’m calling the police! I’m calling the police!”

“We’ve already called the police. Don’t shout. This is the hospital.”

Into the office, a middle-aged woman sitting on the office sofa, standing next to two hospital security. See us to come, the woman shout loudly for help: “police comrade help, they want to kidnap me!”

‘What’s the matter? “I asked the people on the scene.

“She is Wang Guizhi’s little daughter. She just had a fight with her big brother and big sister in the ward and dried our ecg monitors to the ground…”

“And those two?”

“Gone. She wanted to run too, but we stopped her.”

‘What’s the matter? I turned to Wang Guizhi’s little daughter.

‘I haven’t got any money! She’s irrelevant answer.

“Never mind the money, why the fight in the hospital?”

Wang Guizhi’s little daughter did not speak, but sat gnashing her teeth on the sofa.

Originally, today Wang Guizhi must be discharged from hospital, doctors and nurses ao but she, they notified her children to do the discharge procedures, the settlement of medical expenses. However, after 3 people appear on the scene, because of the conflict of medical expenses ownership problem, pull in still broke the ecg monitor in the old man ward, big brother big sister see a thing bad then pull away, the doctor nurse of inpatient department just had time to block the little daughter.

I asked a nurse to take me to the ward to look at the broken equipment. Into the ward, the nurse pointed to the ecg monitor still on the ground, “You see, we did not dare to ‘damage the scene’, the machine is still on the floor, broke, worth more than fifty thousand dollars…”

Instead of following her instructions to see the ecg monitor, I kept my eyes on Wang Guizhi. The old man sat on the edge of his bed, clutching an old handkerchief in his hand, quietly wiping his tears. Beside her was a red, bulging shopping bag containing what was supposed to be hospital supplies.

I wanted to speak to her, but I didn’t know how. When the nurse asked me what to do with my broken ecg monitor, I took the law-enforcement recorder off my shoulder and handed it to her, telling her to take a picture of the broken area.

Old Wang Guizhi looked up at me and moved her lips as if she wanted to say something.

I sat down next to her. “Don’t think of anything else, old lady. health matters.”

The old man did not respond. He was still weeping. After a while, she reached into her shopping bag. I thought she was looking for something, so I hurried to help. After fumbling for a while, he took out a small cloth bag and found a key from the small cloth bag.

“Please, comrade policeman,” he said.

“Well, you say.”

“I can’t walk. Please take me home. I’ll get some money…”

‘What do you do with it?

Wang Guizhi said nothing, but began to cry again.

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Wang Guizhi is to use his “endowment money” knot hospital medical expenses, and for the children to compensate for the damage of the ecg monitor. The hospital heard that the old man took the money by himself, but some embarrassed, only took her 3,000 yuan deposit, said to take to repair, maintenance cost exceeded even, if not to use the extra money back to her.

My colleagues and I took Wang Guizhi home and wanted to contact her three children to take care of her. The three promised, but no one came.

Fortunately, several old neighbors came forward to say that they could help take care of it first, And I confessed the community and neighborhood committee more attention to Wang Guizhi, “Cut, you should put her three animals are arrested!” The director of the neighborhood committee couldn’t breathe. I had to grin sadly.

“Strange to say, in the past, their family was still a ‘five-good family’ with a sign on the door. The children were especially filial. For a few years, they had been promoted as a typical model of respecting and loving the elderly in the community.

I asked the reason, the resident committee said the specific reason she did not know, let me have the opportunity to find Wang Guizhi ask.

“I am not a person’s mother, with what call I call!” “I am not a person’s mother, with what call I call!”

During a community home visit in 2015, I made a special trip to her home one afternoon with Wang Guizhi in mind.

Wang is still recovering and still can’t get out of bed. Old neighbors of the support group have also been taking turns to help care for them. I sigh with emotion a few words, an old neighbor hurriedly embarrassed to say, have lived for decades of neighbors, children are not around, everyone has a problem.

I tried to bring the conversation to the child’s question. Wang Guizhi did not want to talk more, just a vigorous explanation that the child usually busy work, his old useless. The old neighbor couldn’t listen any more and angrily interrupted Wang’s self-accusation.

“At what point are you defending those little bastards? Do you mean I’ll do it for you!”

Wang Guizhi wanted to stop it, but the old neighbor spoke directly.

“After all, it’s just because his mother’s old, doesn’t use it, doesn’t squeeze any more, it’s a drag, so it doesn’t even come…”

As a young woman, Ms. Wang was transferred to the city from Sichuan province with her husband, who died as an employee of a state-owned enterprise, where she also worked as a “family worker,” according to the policy at the time.

When the three children grew up, they married and had children. When her eldest son’s son was born in 1998, Wang guizhi retired from her job and took care of him at home.

In 2004, the big grandson went to primary school, Wang Guizhi thought he could “retire with success”, but this year the eldest daughter’s child was born, her husband’s family is far away, the heavy responsibility to see the child fell on Wang Guizhi.

“At that time, her family was full of people. Her grandsons and nieces were with her, and her three children hung around her every day. Especially when the festival, lively mess. Many of our neighbors’ children are out of town and can’t come back during the Spring Festival. Looking at the ‘popularity’ of her family, I don’t know how to envy her!”

“In the year of Sister-in-law Wang’s 70th birthday, her family chartered a car to travel to Hainan Island. We all know that.”

“Isn’t that nice? The children celebrate the old man’s birthday, but also spend money on chartered buses to travel, how now even the door is not on?” I was surprised.

“Yes, yes, but depending on whose money it is…” The neighbor laughed.

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After wang Guizhi retired, while helping her children with their children, she also rented a shop at the gate of a middle school and opened a small shop. She sold some stationery department stores at ordinary times and also ran a “small dining table” at noon. She earned a good income every month.

The three children are not very good work, income is limited, Wang Guizhi not only did not have with the children to “endowment money”, but who needs money, she will be without reservation sponsorship. The three children kept the “mammon of wealth” and naturally stuck close. On her 70th birthday, wang guizhi paid for her family’s trip to Hainan.

In 2009, the younger girl’s baby was born. Wang guizhi “naturally” took on the task of looking after the children. But in the summer of 2013, wang guizhi was on her way to take her child to kindergarten when she was involved in a car accident. Although she survived, her leg was disabled.

Wang Guizhi, a frail old woman, spent more than three months in the hospital, during which time she caught up with the urban management Bureau to demolish buildings in the city and the shop business stopped.

After being discharged from hospital, the old man could no longer take care of his children. Without the income of the canteen, there is less than a thousand pieces of pension left every month. At ordinary times, I also need to have injections and take medicine, so I am naturally not very well-off economically.

At first, the three children took turns at home to wait on their awkward mother, but less than a year later, the problem began.

The cause of a car accident at that time party compensated Wang Guizhi a sum of money, Wang Guizhi is intended to regard this money as oneself originally “coffin this”, but contradiction broke out accordingly however.

At that time, the younger daughter did not have a formal job and the child was young. Wang Guizhi think daughter life is not easy, then take out some money from the compensation, quietly slipped out to the youngest daughter, but this thing somehow by the other two children know, this has a contradiction.

“That little girl of hers wasn’t much of a thing. She told her big brother and big sister, ‘Mom brought up your two kids, you both saved a lot of money, now it’s time to take my son, I can’t take this, I have to pay a nanny, should this money be paid out of the compensation?’ Is that what you’re saying?” “Said the neighbor angrily.

Later, the big daughter-in-law was angry with Wang Guizhi and did not let her eldest son come. Later, the eldest daughter said that the work is not how to come, and finally even the most should take care of Wang Guizhi’s little daughter to see the sum of compensation spent almost, also excuse elder brother elder sister do not come their own also do not come, disappeared.

“Alas, to say a bad word, Wang’s sister-in-law began to have money to help take care of the children, we all compete to rob, now the money is gone, not only can not take care of the children, but also need someone else to take care of, the few animals all ran away…”

Wang Guizhi has not refuted the old neighbor’s words, leaning on the edge of the bed and began to cry.

“By no means… I’ll get you a lawyer if you like…” The police do not have the power to force children to support the elderly, I can not help her too much in my power, but to persuade her to take up legal arms to protect herself when she has to.

Wang Guizhi listen to me so say, hurriedly want to shake head to say: “need not need not, did not arrive that point…”

“What time do you say that? Why do you call it ‘not to that point’? What else could you think of?” The old neighbor immediately demanded.

“The children are really busy, busy, not on purpose…” Wang Guizhi murmured.

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Out of Wang Guizhi’s home, the old neighbor also complained to me: “you or contact her children as soon as possible, you see we are also old arms old legs, usually also help to see, pension this thing which can depend on us?”

Indeed, the people in the support group who came to take care of Wang Guizhi were all old people. As neighbors, they were very kind and considerate.

I reported wang Guizhi’s situation to the neighborhood committee and street office, I hope they can find Wang Guizhi’s children as soon as possible, to carry out the work. But after a while, the neighborhood committee feedback that the work can not be carried out.

The neighborhood committee first contacted Wang Guizhi’s little daughter, the other side a listen to this matter, immediately scold them in the phone “full to support busybody”. When I contacted my first and second daughters, I got similar results.

“The third brother said, why don’t big brother elder sister wait on partial call her to wait on, she have no money also have no time; Eldest brother two said, three children in the home, who took Wang Guizhi’s compensation who serve…”

I tried to meet Wang Guizhi’s three children for a talk, but all of them said they were too busy to come. I found the place where Wang Guizhi’s young daughter works, which is actually only three blocks away from her home. The younger daughter saw that she could not escape and had to promise to talk to me for a while.

As soon as she opened her mouth, she described to me the difficulties of her current life, saying that she had “no power” to support her mother, Wang Guizhi.

“Because you’re poor, you’re not going to care about your mother?”

“The eldest and the youngest don’t care. Why should I be in charge?”

“When your mother took her car accident compensation to subsidize you, why didn’t you say that you didn’t give the eldest brother and the second brother?”

“Why not? My mother brought up both of their children, and they didn’t give a damn. When it came time to take care of my baby, something happened, and now I have to hire a nanny every month. Who am I going to ask for the money?”

“Let me ask you one thing. Your mother is lying at home now. Do you care or not?”

“I am not a person’s mother, with what call I call!”

Three “why” in a row, I really did not suppress the anger in my heart. “You can say that, too. What a brute!” I couldn’t help swearing.

“Whom do you call a brute! Whom do you call a brute! You’re a great cop! If you scold me, I’ll Sue you! ‘

“Sue, and see if the judge scolds you!” I turned away in anger.

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In the early spring of 2015, Wang’s leg was almost healed.

Because of heart and blood pressure problems, she also needs to go to the hospital for injections from time to time. During the police station and the neighborhood committee to find her children several times, but still so.

Wang has a pension of less than 1,000 yuan a month, and to save money, she goes to a community clinic for injections. Sometimes when I met her on the road, I would always persuade her to go to court to pay some alimony for her three children, but Wang would always shake her head.

One day in July, the command center turned to the police, saying that an unnatural death of an old man had occurred in wangshude Clinic, family members took people around the clinic, let us call the police as soon as possible. After arriving at the scene, I recognized Wang’s three children at a glance in the crowd surrounding the clinic.

Getting out of the car, turning on the law enforcement, and entering the crowd, someone shouted, “The police are coming, the police are coming, take this contemptuous bastard out and shoot him!”

I looked up and saw that it was Wang Guizhi’s eldest son. When he saw me looking at him, he quickly stopped me to tell his “grievance.” I pushed his hand away and walked straight into the clinic. She saw Ms. Wang lying flat on a hospital bed, a half-made flask hanging from a shelf, with the red shopping bag she had last seen in the hospital next to her.

‘What’s the matter? I turned to Wang Shude, a retired doctor and clinic owner.

“The estimation is a heart attack, the instant person in the past, the clinic rescue a helpless, and so on 120, the person has not…”

“Did you know she had a heart attack?”

Wang Shude nodded.

‘I didn’t want her to come to me either, but I’m closest to her house. Seeing her alone, unable to limp and walk, and with no family to look after her, I pitied her for giving me the injection. I don’t even feel the need to ask for…”

“How do you know she has no family?”

“She said it herself. Before, I asked her why she always came alone for injections. She said her wife died young and she didn’t have any children… I don’t know why there are so many people at the door now…”

“Mother, what a terrible death you had…” Outside the door came the dry howls of Wang Guizhi’s sons and daughters.

The end of the

Later, through the joint work of the Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning, the public security Bureau forensic and a medical accident appraisal institution in Wuhan, wang Guizhi’s family members issued a death appraisal opinion, the result was cardiac sudden death, not a medical accident. Although the clinic has no responsibility, but Wang Shude can not stand the repeated harassment of Wang Guizhi’s children, take the initiative to put forward 40,000 pieces of “humanitarian compensation”, the police station after several exhortation invalid, had to be silent.

The money will be paid in the police station’s reporting hall, where video surveillance will also prevent Ms. Wang’s children from “going back on their word,” Mr. Wang said.

Unwilling to see the family again, I let my colleagues watch from the ground floor and went back to my office on the second floor.

Sat for a while, downstairs came the noise, followed by the waist of the walkie-talkie came from the colleague’s shout: “Come down a few people, fight up!”

I was so surprised that I thought Wang Guizhi’s family and Dr. Wang Shude had started fighting. I ran downstairs quickly. Ran downstairs, but found that Wang Shude has not been on the scene, the fight turned out to be Wang Guizhi’s children.

“Son of a bitch, you didn’t tell me about the money last time, and this time you want to take…”

“You just son of a bitch, you are a son of a bitch, eat a lot…”

For that 40 thousand yuan of “humane compensation”, Wang Guizhi’s eldest son, big daughter-in-law, big daughter, big son-in-law, younger daughter, small son-in-law 6 people actually in the police station report to the police the hall dozen make a ball.

“Let me arrest all these bastards! The opposite of heaven, can not bear to go home money? Don’t let any of them go…”

The class instructor’s roar came from the station on duty on the first floor, and it was estimated that some colleagues reported the situation to him. Instructor usually always gentle and polite, never heard him use “dog day” three words curse, it seems that this is really the fire.

Present colleagues have long been unable to suppress the anger in the heart, a swarm of……