1
In February 2018, a phone call came in starting with 170.
Usually I don’t answer calls from such virtual numbers, and after hanging up three times, the text message came: “Lawyer X, are you busy? This is Luo Guijiao, do you remember me? I want to invite you to dinner. If you don’t mind, let me know when you’re free.”
I remembered her immediately and hurriedly sent a message back, saying that I was free anytime in the next few days. Luo Guijiao soon called again, saying that she would soon be “down to the point” and asked me to have dinner with her. I asked her where she was working. She was stumped and said she would meet up.
I clearly heard the sound of breathing over there.
We arranged to meet at a western restaurant. The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public. The first time we met, I was shocked.
I still remember clearly the first meeting with Luo Guijiao in April 2015. That day, I went to meet her at the detention center, she sat straight in the chair, her hair was disheveled, her skin was waxy and saggy, and there were several age spots of various sizes on the back of her hands.
Now she is fatter than before, her face rounded, short straight black hair, a V-neck black dress, the legs of the stockings together and sitting diagonally, looks much younger than before.
Seeing me coming, she hurriedly put out her cigarette and got up to pour me tea.
“Sister Luo recently look good.”
“Not as good as you young people, still a few months short of 50 years old, I’m afraid it will not last a few years.”
After chatting for a few minutes, Luo Guijiao took the initiative to say she was still doing her old job: “I got out of prison last January and have been trying to contact you to meet for dinner, but I couldn’t get away.”
She said she was in the hospital some time ago to take care of an old man, a retired cadre of the Bureau of Old Cadres. The old man was not very sick, but some hospitals invite them to live in the past in order to make revenue, and monthly medical expenses are fully reimbursed, and also return a few thousand dollars. The old man lived in the hospital for some years, really bored, unintentionally strolled to Luo Guijiao their massage store.
Since then, the old man basically go every day, every time point Luo Guijiao. Luo Guijiao said he is 83 years old, can not do anything, but also from time to time touch her, most of the time in the chatter – talk about his feat of 14 years old to join the work, repeatedly told a lot, others listened impatiently, dozing, he lost his temper – – Luo Guijiao spent time in prison. -Luo Guijiao had spent time in prison and had enough patience to listen to him, so he was able to please him.
After a while, he simply let Luo Guijiao be his full-time nanny, 5,000 yuan a month, including food and accommodation. Luo Guijiao washed and cooked for him, and took care of everything. When happy, the old man will also give her extra money, take her shopping to buy clothes. Speaking of this, Luo Guijiao smiled embarrassedly, but soon her eyes were red again and she murmured, “The old man is a good man.”
After six months of this, the old man’s children came to visit him in the hospital one day, only to find that they behaved intimately. The children immediately lost their temper with the old man and scolded him for being old and immodest. But the old man’s temper is more stubborn, said you do not take care of me, but also not allow me to find someone to take care of?
The children were angry and could only scold Luo Guijiao: “If you want to have a face, get out of here.” But the old man pulled her: “Xiao Luo you do not fear, I protect you, who dares to come over I shot him.”
The next day, the old man’s children came again, should be Luo Guijiao’s background check a bottom, in the hospital cursed her a prison bitch, when the tricky words changed to become a liar. The old man is still full of concern: “So what if I’ve been in jail! I’m no different from jail now.”
Looking at the family’s stance, Luo Guijiao did not want to get involved, and turned around and left, despite the old man’s wishes.
When her anger subsided and she remembered the goodness of the old man, she went to the hospital to see him again, only to find that he had been admitted to the intensive care unit. The doctor recognized her and took her over to see the old man lying naked inside, hanging on by various instruments and tubes, looking miserable and desolate.
The old man has been suffering for more than five months, the doctor said that if the family agrees to remove the tube, it is a matter of minutes, but remove the tube, more than 10,000 yuan a month salary will be lost. Some families are able to delay, even for three or four years.
Luo Guijiao said, “This time, I want to ask you, is there any way to help the old man to relieve his pain?”
I spread my hands and said, “There is really no way. I asked her why she was back in this business: “Wasn’t she scared last time?”
Luo Guijiao said she couldn’t help: “Those two years in prison were indeed much easier than life outside.”
2
Before the prison, Luo Guijiao worked in an old three-story house near the overpass, connected to the vegetable market on the right, with a large flow of people under the bridge, walking, playing chess, stalls, peddling goods, from early morning to midnight. A row of small stores in the market, the only massage store sign is the most eye-catching, six large bold red letters: “fifteen yuan massage store”.
Most of the customers of the massage store are also elderly, the boss’s wife verbally to the technicians said “can not make things with the guests”, in fact, has been a blind eye. The store has been open for nearly ten years, the income is how to come, she knows very well.
“Fifteen yuan massage” is just a gimmick, Luo Guijiao they will tell customers: few people choose fifteen yuan massage, too low-grade; forty dollars to have a private space, although it is only with some plywood partitioned out, but it is good to belong to the independent “room”.
Technicians on the clock rotation, Luo Guijiao’s clock is the most, often technicians behind the scenes that she is slutty, willing to do anything, naturally retain people, others said, “so old, can still play so many tricks”.
In fact, the massage store technicians are more than forty years old women, they never say their true age, generally only say that more than thirty a little, there is not much people “can not”, the real massage will be almost no, just a few pinches will ask the guests, want to “have a wank “, and then some people are anxious to start unbuckling the belt. This matter some technicians to charge an additional fifty, Luo Guijiao but do not charge, only “do something” to charge sixty to one hundred ranging.
Sometimes the room on both sides of the plywood are creaking, but they have to whisper, “This is a regular place.
Some young people in their early twenties also come over, but they don’t come often. Luo Guijiao told me that the desires of the elderly are no weaker than those of young people, and when they are young they can sometimes control and pick people; when they get older, they have to work for a while no matter what, and some of them have to run to the pharmacy downstairs to buy a medicine, and some of them also bring their grandchildren who are one or two years old, and the children are left at the bedside.
March 13, 2015, two days before the end of the year. “Fifteen yuan massage store” only Luo Guijiao and two other technicians stay, the weather is very cold, the lounge window is broken shut tight, the wind hit the above a burst of “whimpering” sound.
At about 3:00 pm, Xiao Zorong came, and it was Luo Guijiao’s turn to be on the clock. At first Xiao Zorong was very honest and asked Luo Guijiao how old she was. Luo Guijiao replied that she was thirty-six years old.
Soon, Xiao Zorong’s dry hands began to stray on Luo Guijiao’s thighs, and Luo Guijiao whispered in his ear, “You have to pay more!”
Xiao Zorong loudly replied, “I know! How can I not pay!”
Luo Guijiao made a “shhh” gesture and told him to lie down.
Xiao Zorong was seventy-three years old, his children were working outside the province, and he was bored at home alone in the suburbs, watching TV for five minutes and falling asleep. I want to find a companion, but the family does not support, so I have to take the city and township bus every day to wander around the city.
“They only allow young people to play in the world of flowers, we old guys are waiting to do firewood to be burned?” He pulled Luo Guijiao’s hand to his pants.
After adding two bells in a row, Xiao Zorong’s body did not respond, but the promised money came out in no small amount.
Luo Guijiao put on Xiao Zhaolong’s shoes and helped him open the glass door, looking at him walking down the steps, Luo Guijiao felt a bit sorry for him, wanting to run down and refund 50 yuan for him to take a taxi, but could not take the step, only said loudly: “Take care, remember I am number 18, come back next time.”
Xiao Zorong raised his hand: “The next time I come to you is, the number can not remember it!”
3
On the 15th day of the first month, the local streets were full of people, and when it was dark, fireworks were set off everywhere.
This day, the massage parlor is Luo Guijiao and two other technicians stay, the electricity has been out for a long time, there is not much customer, under the candle, they are discussing, later is to buy fried can eat now the Lantern, or buy dumplings to make their own sweet wine punch eggs to eat.
Suddenly, someone coughed outside the door and yelled, “Why is it so dark? It’s a holiday today, I’m afraid there’s no one here!”
Luo Guijiao hurriedly came out to meet him, and by the light of the cell phone, she saw that it was Xiao Zorong, carrying several pounds of apples in his hand.
“Why did the old man come over today, the children and grandchildren are willing to let you out?”
Xiao Zorong put the apples on the counter: “You take them and eat them! They don’t have time for me, they went out on the sixth day.”
Luo Guijiao took out an apple, smiled and said, “I haven’t eaten yet.”
“You haven’t eaten either? It’s six o’clock, I haven’t eaten either, let’s go and have a meal together!”
“Then you go eat something before you come? This will not turn on the air conditioning anyway, should be about eight o’clock will call, I will wait for you here.”
“Go together! For you to count the clock is, how little thing!” Xiao Zorong said.
Luo Guijiao hesitated for a short while, still a little afraid: “How about a late night snack together? We are usually not allowed to go out ……”
Xiao Zorong took out a hundred dollars to Luo Guijiao’s hand: “Go, go, don’t nag me!”
Luo Guijiao intended to find a restaurant downstairs for a meal. Xiao Zorong called a cab and said the food outside is not good, he is the chef, no one is in the house, the dishes are ready-made, go back to do for her to eat.
In other words, Luo Guijiao will not go anyway. The wind on the road that day was very strong, the fireworks around the ringing, the store was dark, and the old man’s eyes were full of expectation, she pulled open the door.
The cab drove for about twenty minutes before arriving, Xiao Zorong’s home is not far but a bit remote, surrounded by two or three story brick houses, as well as abandoned farmland.
“Aren’t you afraid of the neighbors gossiping around?” Luo Guijiao asked.
Xiao Zorong took out a set of keys and searched for a long time, opening the door while reading: “What do they care? You don’t know, we have a few old men here, give a pound of eggs to be coaxed to participate in what the technology company day trip, swim back ten thousand dollars lost, buy a large pile of garbage back. That’s it and still say I don’t grow a brain.”
After entering the house, Xiao Zorong poured Luo Guijiao a glass of water, turned on the TV, brought the fruit plate over, and let her eat melon seeds: “The food is ready, it will be ready in a while.”
Luo Guijiao watched TV for a while, and the warm air of the air conditioner made her drowsy, so she leaned on the sofa and squinted for a while.
Xiao Zorong filled her with rice, poured himself wine, and kept on giving Luo Guijiao dishes, saying that they were all from his own family. Since the death of her husband, Luo Guijiao has not had a drink, but at that moment, this scene, there is an illusion of home.
Old age porn store killings
After eating, Xiao Zorong gave Luo Guijiao a red envelope, said today should be line, before too nervous, can not be released. Still just touched Luo Guijiao’s private parts, Xiao Zorong ended. Luo Guijiao wanted to get up, but Xiao Zorong refused, saying he would try again and wouldn’t let her go.
The company has been pushing back, saying that at such an old age, do not force it, so that both people are uncomfortable.
Xiao Zorong also ignored, suddenly biting Luo Guijiao’s nipples, his right hand grabbed and pinched her body. The pain of Luo Guijiao dizzy, hands desperately beat Xiao Zorong’s head, Xiao Zorong still will not let go, in an emergency, Luo Guijiao a side flip will Xiao Zorong kicked off the sofa, this is a long breath, the lower body hot pain, nipples were bitten out of blood.
Luo Guijiao just put on her clothes, at first Xiao Zorong, who was still moaning on the floor, lost his voice. Luo Guijiao panicked and hurriedly opened the door to call for help.
Some neighbors heard and rushed over, saw Xiao Zorong lying naked on the ground, understood what was going on, one of them pressed Luo Guijiao, another one tied her up with a rope.
The number of onlookers is growing, some people are indignant, said another bitch, beat her to death; others scooped up the toilet water to pour her face. The humiliation did not end until an ambulance and a police car arrived one after another.
After taking a series of resuscitation measures, the doctor finally declared Xiao Zorong had died. When people heard that Xiao Zorong had died, they ran over and beat Luo Guijiao, saying that they could tear up this shameless person on the spot.
The police quickly surrounded Luo Guijiao, warning the villagers not to act rashly, her matter has not yet been investigated, no matter who, harming her are suspected of illegal crimes.
Forensic identification, Xiao Zorong’s direct cause of death is cranio-cerebral injury. Public security authorities to “intentional injury” to Luo Guijiao criminal detention. The injury report of Luo Guijiao showed vaginal lacerations, partial loss of one breast and two minor injuries.
4
When I first met Luo Guijiao, I couldn’t relate her to a “woman who has lost her life”.
During the meeting, her body kept shaking, and I asked her if she was sick or scared. She shook her head, and only after a while said, “Not once or twice in the police station, before it was a few days in jail, a fine even if, now that I said I deliberately killed, I do not admit.”
I told her that after reading the case file, if convicted, the sentence could be more than seven years.
She was obviously not happy and asked who hired the lawyer? How much did it cost?
I replied truthfully, saying that the institute charged 20,000 yuan, which is already a very good deal. The money was paid by a colleague named Wu and the owner of the “15 yuan massage store”, and her son signed the power of attorney.
“What’s the point of hiring a lawyer? “
I didn’t want to argue with her about it, I changed the subject and said that I had arranged to meet with her today because I knew from her identity information that it was her birthday: “Happy Birthday”.
She froze for a moment and her tone calmed down: “We have lunar birthdays over there, but thank you, my son has never said this to me, except for asking for money, never got close to me, but who can blame me? Life is full of debts that can’t be paid off.”
I had met her son and knew that he hated her to this day, but it was not a good time to say that.
When Luo Guijiao saw that I didn’t answer, she raised her voice, as if she suddenly remembered something and would forget it if she didn’t say it in time: “Oh, there’s more, Sister Wu’s family built a house, she sent back all the money every month and borrowed 2,000 from me. And what about the boss’s wife?”
Talking about this I was a bit overwhelmed, when Sister Wu came to the law firm for advice, we told her that a criminal case is almost thirty thousand dollars or so. She bargained and said it was only five thousand. I said five thousand dollars would be better than free representation, and her eyes lit up: “Then it’s free!”
At that moment, the phone rang, so I walked away.
When I came back, she was still there, saying that she really could not get the money, and Luo Guijiao is only one of her “sisters”: “We such ‘sisters’ you should know, with most of the year may not know the real name, out of the door, no one knows. Out of the door, no one knows who. I see her as a good person, usually talk with her. I have also looked for his son, he was sticking his neck out and said there is no money.”
Talking about Luo Guijiao, she said a lot, but also shed a lot of tears.
After understanding the general situation, I asked her, “Is the boss’s wife rich? How do you usually treat you?”
She was a little disappointed: “The boss lady how to say certainly richer than us, not bad for us, but how can she pay!”
I said I’ll go over and take a look, and then we’ll talk about the rest.
Massage store boss lady thin, pitch black, greasy hair. I did not have too many pleasantries, and asked her if she could help advance the legal fees, after all, she is Luo Guijiao’s boss.
The boss said, “How can I pay for what happened to her outside? There are so many people, how can I manage?”
“If it happened here, you are now inside, organizing, tolerating, enticing, forcing prostitution, the statutory sentence from five years. In other words, even if you have a relationship, activities, it’s not a matter of ten thousand dollars, consider it a financial disaster.”
The boss said, “Are you threatening me?”
“Absolutely not, this thing is really so tricky, and really not my business, I just think you will help her.” I said and got up to leave.
The mechanics next to me also said, “How about we get some together!”
I didn’t stay and went out the door and regretted it a little. I blame my own hot-headedness, obviously a lawyer, but make like a gangster to negotiate, a burst of shame, I want to go under the cover of the well.
The next day, Wu came again, with money, said the boss’s wife knife mouth bean curd heart, do not want other colleagues to come up with their own 10,000 yuan to hire a lawyer.
But I changed my mind and did not want to take the case. I said to Sister Wu, yesterday’s matter feel that they did wrong, let her change a lawyer. Sister Wu shoved the money into my drawer and said, “That’s right, that’s right, on you, no change.” Then kept looking at me and smiling.
Luo Guijiao heard here, eyes red, said she never talk about the store is not good, not unspeakable, who wants to be so old still out to sell. As for the money, if you have the opportunity to go out, she saved 100,000 in the bank for a fixed term, must be returned.
5
The case soon became a little more complicated – the prosecution seemed intent on making it a “typical” case. They defined “intentional injury” in terms of Luo Guijiao’s ability to foresee the outcome of the injury, meaning that Luo Guijiao should have known that she could punch a 73-year-old man to death and kick him to death, while ignoring the fact that Luo Guijiao herself had suffered violence.
After further consideration, I decided to go to the “extreme” and plead not guilty on the basis of “self-defense”. I consulted with Luo Guijiao and told her that it was not easy to plead not guilty at the moment, and that as a defendant, her sentence might be increased, and as a lawyer, I would definitely offend people.
Luo Guijiao only said, “Listen to you.”
I can’t help but say one more thing: “There was a similar case before, the victim was overexcited during sex, switching positions in the middle, fell from the bed, intracranial hemorrhage caused by the death, there is no evidence to prove that the woman moved, and finally in accordance with the “Public Security Management Regulations” for prostitution and prostitutes sentenced the woman to fifteen days detention.”
Luo Guijiao said, “No, I kicked him and whacked him in the brain as well.”
“Yes, you this has become a fact, I just emotionally, the victim for the second time to have sex with you you are willing or ……” In fact, after finishing that case I regretted, I was afraid that she retracted the confession to my own detriment.
But I did not expect Luo Guijiao has been so straightforward and honest: “In fact, it is not unwilling, just that he is too savage and incapable.”
“Tomorrow on your behalf to condole with the families of the victims, if the other side proposed compensation, you can accept, right?” I asked tentatively.
“Too much no, my son is in his twenties, not yet married, without a large sum of money, there is no one to marry him, I would rather spend a few more years in jail myself, to leave him some money.”
Luo Guijiao’s son is Wei Yuanyong, born in 1992. When I met him, I tried desperately to restrain my inner discomfort – his face and arms were littered with scars, and there was a large piece of his head without hair.
When Wei’s father was just two years old, he went to a relative’s house to eat wine and when he returned, he fell off a cliff and died. During that time, Luo Guijiao was so distracted that she once fell into a pot of boiling water while holding Wei with one hand and cleaning the stove with the other. Luo Guijiao grabbed him up and saw that the child’s skin was falling off in large chunks, like rotten cloth, and would crumble when he was touched. Wei Yuanyong howled a few times and then lost his voice, ninety percent of his body was scalded.
The treatment cost spent all the family’s savings, and also owed a lot of debt. Luo Guijiao had one of her hands broken by her in-laws and was kicked out of the house.
From the time Wei Yuanyong understood, he hated his mother immensely. Although Luo Guijiao sent money back every month for his schooling, every time he came back to him, he cried and hugged and kissed.
Initially, Luo Guijiao worked in a factory for five years, working day and night, sending home money as soon as she had some on hand. At the age of thirty-one, introduced by a former colleague, Luo Guijiao into the nightclub as a waiter, the salary is half higher than in the factory, the third day of work, was a “big brother” dragged to the bathroom raped.
The nightclub foreman bragged about how powerful the other side was, making a person disappear just like a game, persuading her to settle the matter and have a lookout later. Luo Guijiao got 300 yuan “nutrition fee”, immediately ran to the post office and sent back.
The nightclubs are mixed, and she is always taken advantage of by men to mooch off, and then when she thought of her son’s scars, her heart was crossed and she simply let go, earning more money all of a sudden.
The gossip about Luo Guijiao in her hometown has long spread throughout the eight villages, almost everyone knows that she is “sold”. Luo Guijiao said she was indeed a “seller” outside – she had “sold” for more than ten years, built a house at home, sent her in-laws away, raised her son, and was continuing to “sold”, want to save a sum of money for his son to do cosmetic surgery, want to give him a wife.
Although Luo Guijiao fell into the dust a large reason is for the sake of his son, but Wei Yuanyong the more he grew up, but the hatred of Luo Guijiao deeper and deeper, fighting and brawling, eating, drinking and gambling.
The day I met Wei Yuanyong, I did not say that he should try to forgive, try to reconcile and so on, but only said that he should go to the detention center to his mother to save some money to live in, and then buy a few pieces of clothing without zippers.
Wei Yuanyong on two words: “no money.” I said half of your mother’s monthly salary hit you, you always have a balance.
“There is no money! Her death has nothing to do with me!” Wei Yuanyong stretched his neck and looked at me.
“Since you say her death has nothing to do with you, you should not take her money ah.” My tone was light.
“That’s what she owes me! If she hadn’t thrown me in the pot and cooked me, I wouldn’t want a penny of her money right now! I can’t even find a girlfriend now, everyone sees me like a ghost, she doesn’t support me, how can I live?”
Probably, this reason is like a tight band that can subdue Luo Guijiao.
Wei Yuanyong told me that his vent now is to go gambling to go whoring: “This is a retribution for a retribution, she gets money from men, and I spend it from women, fair.”
I did not return, I just thought, if Luo Guijiao heard these words how sad – perhaps she has heard many times.
6
Later, I made another trip to Xiao Zorong’s house.
The thing about him is that if you stand under the big acacia tree in their village, you can hear all about it.
Before Luo Guijiao, Xiao Zolong met a widow, in her early forties, and said she wanted to marry him. Xiao Zolong, despite the opposition of the people, shipped her all the more than 1,000 pounds of rice from the family, and shelled out more than 20,000 yuan as bride price. According to his words, “such a young woman to accompany me to eat and sleep, short ten years of life are okay.”
Even later, the woman sold the food, took the money and quietly left the rental house, he was determined not to call the police, saying, “If the money spent in a relationship still go to the police to get back, the old face of this life is counted on the ground.”
Because of this incident, Xiao Zorong’s children and he had a big fight, said after the death of life and death regardless of him. Xiao Zorong said, he can eat and do, when they want to control.
Since then, Xiao Zorong’s children have not returned home for several years, not even a single phone call.
I was told that Xiao Zorong, he is hot-tempered, but he is a man of honor, as to why he wants to violate that lost girl, he could not figure out: “Before a school teacher with elementary school students to care for the empty nesters, there is an old man, the little girl told him a story, but he put his arms around people in the past, the whole body touch. Just by Xiao Zorong bumped into, a punch knocked out the man two teeth.”
“Xiao Zorong’s wife was a bit of a brain problem, in his thirties he went crazy, ran away and never came back. Xiao Zolong looked for her for quite a few years, never remarried, and when he was seventy years old he suddenly did so ……”
That day when I met Xiao Zorong’s son, I said I was Luo Guijiao’s lawyer and came to offer my condolences to them, hoping they would feel sorry for themselves.
Xiao Zorong’s son said, the family had such a scandal, mourning or not, put aside, the main thing is to come up with a sincere talk about compensation: “She came out to ‘sell’, the money will not be lacking. We are going to demolish this place soon, according to the head count, how the old man is worth a million. You come up with one million two hundred thousand, I will notify the public security to withdraw the case, she does not have to sit in jail for a day.”
I said this is a public prosecution case, the Procuratorate took over.
He said, “As long as you pay, I promise to drop the case for you.”
Eventually I gave up the idea of gaining their understanding and couldn’t talk anymore.
The day before the verdict, I hid in the “fifteen yuan massage store”, let Sister Wu help me press two bells.
Their techniques are really bad, in addition to pinching my flesh is knocking my bones. During the period also happened an interesting incident, a technician and the customer had a conflict, the technician is very aggressive, said to call her boyfriend to kill the customer.
After half an hour, I watched as an old man in his sixties came panting. The two old men looked at each other and bragged together for a long time about how tough they were when they were young.
Epilogue
In the end, the court sentenced Luo Guijiao to three years in prison for the crime of causing death by negligence. I am very satisfied with this result.
For more than two years, Wei Yuanyong did not visit his mother once, even though he was the first on Luo Guijiao’s list of visiting family members. The second is me, I have not been there either.
“Fifteen yuan massage store” is still there, changed to “twenty yuan massage store”. Luo Guijiao returned the money advanced by Wu and the girls, and changed the place to do it herself, but refused to tell me where it was.
We talked in the restaurant for more than two hours, Luo Guijiao finally asked me, the old man’s body tube, I do not know when to pull out.
I wondered when the tube inserted in Luo Guijiao’s body would be removed. She is also fifty years old, these twenty years, every day is not easy to live.
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