On September 24, 2014, Lin Yingying, 20, fell in a bakery with her boyfriend and became a vegetative state. Her boyfriend, Liu Fenghe, never gave up on her. He even spent 200,000 yuan in debt and claimed to “find the best medical resources for her girlfriend”. In November 2014, She was hospitalized for nearly two months and began to feel conscious. In April 2015, Lin Yingying finally spoke. On April 20, she told her grandmother with difficulty, “At noon that day, I was baking four plates of bread, and I was burnt. He came and hit me on this side, on the head, with a rolling-pin, and then on the other side…” “He” is boyfriend Liu Fenghe. In April 2016, after Liu Fenghe, who had been on the run for a year, was caught, I visited Lin Yingying at her house in Wafangdian, and wrote “The Lover Possessed by the Devil”, which was published in the human studio. Now, three years later. Earlier this year, I visited her again.
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Lin Yingying peed her pants again.
I’m to blame. I sat on the kang and chatted with her grandma. The old man was very talkative. Lin Yingying had been lying beside her for an hour.
As our conversation dwindled, she faintly called out “Grandma.” Grandma asked, are you going to the bathroom? She said, “HMMM,” and laughed to hide her embarrassment.
She is 25 years old. When I interviewed her 3 years ago, she was still that “spoony sunshine boy take care of vegetative patient girlfriend, girlfriend woke up and said was wounded by the man” in the “girlfriend”, speaking a little slowly, asked about some things, always said “can not remember”. This time I saw her, she was in much better shape.
At the time, she used five or six diapers a day, and now she can go to the bathroom on her own. The dry toilet a few meters outside her house is too far away. She uses a toilet outside her house. A normal person has to walk 20 steps to get there from the kang in ten seconds. It took her three minutes to walk slowly, more than 80 steps, on a brace.
She went for a long time, I did not know it would take so long, a little worried, so I went out to see. There was no cover around the toilet, and her pants were halfway up. Under the sun, thigh up in a glance. I turned around a little embarrassed.
By the sound, she must be slowly pulling on her pants with her left hand. Looking back a few minutes later, she was poking the cat at her feet with the end of her stick. “Why are you so listless today?” she shouted gently.
After the toilet, she moved into the room, and called mother. He said he peed in his pants.
1
It has been five years since Lin Yingying was wounded by her ex-boyfriend, Liu Fenghe.
When she was taken to the hospital, she was unconscious. After two operations, reluctantly pick up a life, became a vegetable. After months in the hospital with feeding tubes and throat, she slowly opened her eyes, to the astonishment of doctors and nurses. “She’s still young.” They praised the girl’s vitality and her boyfriend, Liu Fenghe, who was by her bedside day and night.
During her stay, Her parents rarely went to the hospital. The mother is pregnant with the fifth child in the family — she has four daughters, and Lin is the oldest — or wants a son, and they don’t deny it. Liu fenghe said he ran out of money during his three months in the hospital and went to borrow it. Well-wishers also donated money. When he “didn’t even have the money to buy toilet paper,” he discharged Her in January 2015. He owed the hospital 5,000 yuan and issued an IOU.
When no one was around, Ms. Lin later said, Mr. Liu would tell her over and over again, “Remember that your injury was caused by your own fall.”
In March 2015, Liu fenghe said he was going to work a long distance to earn money for her medical treatment, so he left. With a shaved head and circular scars on both sides, She is completely unable to take care of herself.
Her grandmother said that she had taken good care of her granddaughter since she was a child. “There is no scar all over my body,” she said. Now I can’t even get out of bed. When she first got home, She lay all day, and had to be helped out of bed by two people — her grandmother holding her wrist, her father holding her ankle, and pulling her to the kang. She could not exert herself at the waist; someone had to pull her to her feet.
She has lost a lot of weight since three years ago. “When I was in hospital, my face and body were swollen,” she explained. She had short, bushy hair, a pair of mesh shoes and a new coat. Grandma said the clothes were donated by others. Earlier on the hit TV show Ru Yi Chuan, I saw a group of selfies of Lin Yingying in her qipao and the decoration of the flag’s head in her friends circle. She’s still beautiful, just not like some twentysomething girl. Grandma said that cheongsam was also given by others.
Now Lin Yingying can get out of bed by herself. She is quite vigorous. However, my back was still weak, and I had no feeling in my right hand and right foot, so I could not sit up directly. I had to push on my left foot, turn around, turn over one by one, and climb onto the stool beside the kang. I could not sit down firmly, hold the stick, and then stand up slowly.
This is a great step forward.
Lin Yingying at her home in December 2018. Lin Yingying at her home in December 2018. (Courtesy of the author)
She still laughs a lot. Three years ago, she said her boyfriend beat her and laughed. Talk about their own situation, smile; The grown-ups complained, satirized, shook their heads, and she laughed. She said she had no control over it and that her facial nerves were out of whack after the brain damage. Now she is still like this, helpless time, awkward time, sad time, smile; However, there is always a happy time, smile.
Nothing had changed. The family was still poor.
The first thing Lin Yingying’s grandmother asked me was, “What has changed in my family in the past 3 years?” I could see no change except that the railing beside the bed had turned into a walking stick. “That’s right. When you think about all these years we’ve had nothing.”
The stools and washbasin were stained, the TV set was older, Zhen Huan had been played in the past, but now it was put away. The grapes in the fruit bowl were spotted with mildew.
“I heard he’s got a girlfriend again.” “Said grandma suddenly.
“Who? Liu Fenghe?” I can’t believe it.
After Liu Fenghe was arrested in 2016, I interviewed him at the detention center, and later I heard that his family had paid the Lins 250,000 yuan in compensation and that he had been given a suspended sentence. Liu Fenghe was born in 1991. Of course, he had the right to start his life over again, but I didn’t expect that the tide would come so fast.
I asked Lin Yingying’s grandmother where she got the news, the old man’s eyes rolled quickly, “He is in wafangdian now, how big a thing, can spread.” Then he added, “As we are, he is doing well. I just don’t think it’s fair. I’ll beat him like that, and I’ll feel better.”
2
Lin yingying said she remembered a lot of things, and this is the first time she has given details of her relationship with Liu Feng. I asked her if it would be a good idea to write it down, and she said, “No, no.”
Born in 1994, Lin studied Japanese after graduating from junior high school. In July 2013, her parents enrolled her in an accounting class for half a year. “After getting the certificate, it’s good to be an accountant in my relatives’ company,” she said. My father thought so. So she went to Dalian to study, and her grandmother rented a house near the school to take care of her, cooking and washing for her.
In August 2013, Lin yingying clicked “shake” on WeChat and found a new friend in her address book. She does not take the initiative to add people, but if someone added her, she also passed, Liu Fenghe is the second person she passed.
“What’s your name, where’s your home, what do you do?”
“My name is Lin Yingying”, “I’m at school”, “I’m from Wafangdian”.
Liu Fenghe is also wafangdian, the topic opened. On August 13, the Lunar Double Seventh Festival, they met about once. At a bus stop near the station, Lin yingying met liu fenghe for the first time and was not impressed. “he looks good and looks good,” he said.
They went and sat in the park for a while. “I don’t remember how long.” It’s not easy to get someone with a serious head injury to remember what happened six years ago. Lin Yingying paused, thought about it, and finally said, “For an hour.” After coming out of the park, Liu Fenghe invited her to watch a movie again. After watching the movie, he said that they would have dinner together. He took Her to a barbecue joint where he had just quit his job. “He ordered some of the same for me and let me taste their cooking. He also introduced me to his friend and said, this is my friend, Lin Yingying.”
Before Liu fenghe, Lin Yingying had a boyfriend. It’s not really a boyfriend. Before she went to school this summer, she was temping at a gas station and someone was chasing her. After less than 10 days together, it turned into hand-holding. The boy went to Play in The house of Lin Yingying, Lin Yingying called another room parents out to see one another, but the parents did not come out. When the boy left, his parents told Her, “You are too young.”
The parents’ attitude is clear. Lin Yingying is not rebellious. She listens to what her parents say.
The first side with Liu Fenghe made the girl feel very happy, “Treat me well, treat me to a movie, buy delicious food, and open the car door”. Before that, no one had ever been careful enough to open the car door for her, Ms. Lin said. The day after they met, Mr. Liu called Ms. Lin and said, “Let’s be friends.
“All right.” Ms. Lin said she didn’t think twice. She thought it was a friend.
The two often chat on WeChat. She couldn’t remember talking about anything, except that she often talked late into the night. “The second time we met, we had sex.” At that time, She was just 18 years old.
One week after the first meeting, At 8 am, Lin Yingying was preparing for class as usual, when she received a phone call from Liu Fenghe, saying that she had taken a taxi and was now at the bottom of Her dormitory building. He asked her if she wanted to hang out with her friends, adding, “My friend is already dating.”
So Yingying Lin skipped school and went out. She thought she would go straight to a party with liu Feng and her friends, but the taxi ended up in front of a Lailai Hotel.
“I knew what was going to happen,” she said without reluctance. “I thought, I’m destined for this person anyway. I want to spend my life with him.”
Two sides, seven days, Lin Yingying said she had a feeling, is “too familiar with him.” The feeling, she believed, was mutual, “because there was always a hint of that in his words,” and seeing the future, it was all natural.
In September 2013, the two took this unique photo (courtesy of the author).
At that time, the two would see each other every two or three days, and their most frequent visits were Lai Lai Hotel and KTV. Liu Fenghe works odd jobs here and there, and is not very stable. Ms Lin remembers a time when he got a job in a hotel, working during the day and visiting her at night.
Mr. Liu, who is four years older than Ms. Lin, also showed signs of controlling tendencies. He often educated her and required her to stay at home outside of class. I didn’t ask. Maybe he was afraid I was small and had been cheated.” Although, “I don’t want to study at home, I don’t want to watch, I would like to study in the classroom,” she thought he said this out of concern, and she listened.
Resistance comes first from parents.
The first person to know that Lin Yingying is in love is grandma. Once Liu Feng and accompany Lin Yingying to go back to get something, met grandma, “he and an milk did not talk”. Lin yingying’s grandmother was not happy. She thought Liu Fenghe was impolite and “didn’t shout at me”. Grandma advised her granddaughter to break up, and zhang Luo to introduce Lin Yingying.
“I and an grandma quarrelled, I ran.” Ten days later, Lin Yingying simply moved out and lived in the house liu Feng and rented. The normally submissive girl showed her rebellious side to her family by not going home or even answering the phone.
Lin Yingying’s father finally found out liu Fenghe’s phone number and called in the past, “My father can’t find me, my father will contact him, let me to send back”.
When She came home, her father said to her, “You are so young and your studies are not over yet. You can get a stable job before you go to work.” But she was in love and would take no advice. The two sides refused to back down and quarreled.
“I ran to the kitchen, grabbed the kitchen knife my mother was cooking with, put it on my neck, and shouted ‘If you don’t let me go, I’ll kill myself’.” Lin yingying’s mother was frightened and grabbed her daughter’s knife. The father was so angry that he slapped his daughter. Her father locked the front door of their home, so she texted Mr. Liu.
“He followed me on that side.” That night, She climbed over her one-meter-high fence and left.
3
The honeymoon period is short.
After the two cohabiting, Lin yingying basically did not go to class, only review at home, preparing for the accounting qualification examination. ‘He was looking for a job all at once,’ she says.
One day two people are idle at home, Lin Yingying bowed her head to play mobile phone, Liu Fenghe said a few words beside her, Lin Yingying perfunctorily answered two, continue to play.
“He grabbed my phone and threw it out.” “I was so scared that I didn’t dare to move,” said Ms. Lin, who said she was completely shocked. Soon, she grabbed her knees, squatted down and began to cry. Such as calm down, then looked at the bending of the mobile phone, Lin Yingying reflection, is her fault first, can not blame Liu Fenghe.
“Ever since I dropped my phone, I’ve been hitting me a lot. Twice a month.”
Once before going out, Liu Fenghe told Lin Yingying to study at home. When he came home from work and found the girl wasn’t reading, he slapped her in the face. This is the first time that Liu Fenghe has hit her. “I did it because I didn’t study hard.” Lin Thought it was her own fault. She also remembered a detail, she said, compared with the action, Liu Fenghe after the sentence makes her difficult to understand, and uncomfortable —
“He said, you study hard and earn money to support me.”
The reason that moves in the future again, some Lin Yingying is not clear up to now.
Once, Lin Yingying and Liu Feng took a ride home with a friend. Liu fenghe sat in the co-pilot’s seat and “didn’t think much about it at the time”. Lin yingying sat behind his friend instead of him. This is the way you go, and this is the way you come back.
She said, such as two people returned home, Liu Fenghe turned around, a slap came over. “Hitting me on the cheek hurts. It was red and swollen. When he had finished his face, he hit him on the head. She stammered explanations and apologies, not knowing what she had done wrong — it was all her fault anyway. “I played for 10 minutes, and I just kept playing.”
Without any explanation, Ms. Lin said, Mr. Liu later called the friend, who later drove to their house. Liu Feng and downstairs, two people sitting in the car said what, “Liu Fenghe looked very angry.” After that, Liu Fenghe still said nothing, as if nothing had happened. He went into the room and went to sleep.
The next day. He looks like a different man. “He apologized and said he was wrong.” These routines Lin Yingying has gradually found out, liu Fenghe and each time she is very gentle, very good for her. She was so upset that “Almost every time he apologizes, I cry. He never cries.”
Not long after “sitting in the wrong seat,” she was hit again, “for reasons I can’t remember,” she said, not just in the face but in the shoulder. Lin Yingying wants to leave. But she didn’t want to talk to her family. Because after beating her, He sometimes said, “If you leave, I will kill your whole family.”
While Liu Fenghe was away, she called his brother. “His brother said that Liu Feng and he were bad-tempered, but not bad, so he advised us not to break up.”
“I’m wrong” is a surrender, “Kill your whole family” is a threat, and those two words bind her like a spell.
Six years later, she lay on the kang and told me about it. All the endings had been written, and there was no possibility of a do-over, but I asked, “What would mom and Dad say if you’d told them?”
“They’ll say come back.”
“Can you come back then?”
“It ought to be. One, I was frightened by him, and the other, I had a crush on him.” Then She bit her lower lip for dear life. I understood her expression. She could not restrain herself from laughing again, but resisted it with all her might.
4
Lin Yingying did not pass the accounting certificate, she knew she had not studied well.
Not long after the end of the exam, the 2014 Spring Festival arrived. Yingying hasn’t been home since over the wall left. But after a few months, her relationship with her family has soured.
On New Year’s Eve, she went back home. She and Liu Fenghe took a car together and went back to each other’s home. The family was the same, except that the younger sisters had grown taller. If there is embarrassment, it also quickly evaporated in the old little lively. Lin yingying said that her mother did not criticize her for falling in love. Her father was not at home every day. Because she still didn’t agree and of course ignored me.
Liu fenghe didn’t give her send WeChat messages during the Spring Festival. “He doesn’t give me send WeChat messages, and I don’t have anything to send him.” Neither of them agreed when to return before they left. On the seventh day, Lin Yingying received a phone call from Liu Fenghe, “He said I want to go back. When will you return? I said the fifteenth day of the first month. He said no, you must come back tomorrow.”
She wanted to stay at home for two more days, but she left quietly. “I can’t unless I go back. He’s ordered me. He’ll come to my house and beat me if I don’t.”
Two people began to get along with each other day and night, Liu Fenghe suggested that two people go to find a job together, “we go together, if you want to go together”. So looking for three or four days, you can imagine the wall. “He cooks and I work as a waitress, but he doesn’t want me to work as a waitress.”
The two eventually split up to look for work. Lin Yingying looks good, and soon found a clothing shopping assistant job, a monthly salary of 1,500, plus commission. In March 2014, she said, she started working as a shopping assistant on a hard day shift, arriving at the store at 6:30 a.m., cleaning and training, opening at 8 a.m. and leaving at 5 p.m.
Lin Yingying has to catch the earliest bus at 6 o ‘clock. During that time, she could not afford to eat out, so she cooked the next day’s lunch the night before and brought it to the store — mostly egg-fried rice, with no dishes. Ms. Lin said Mr. Liu sent her meals twice and complained when she returned that the customers she received were men. Then he stopped delivering food.
Before long, Lin Yingying caught up with the shop to do the anniversary. Shopping assistants are going to dance an active atmosphere, Lin Yingying looked at also want to dance, but Liu Fenghe let her not to learn. Wait until the anniversary day, Lin Yingying is still dragged to perform with others, she is not very good at movement, just stand in the back of the gesture. She didn’t eat lunch that day. “When I got back to my seat after the show, I took a banana and ate it. I was so hungry.”
When the event was over, a friend of Ms. Lin’s saw them home. “Halfway, he would get off the bus,” she said. Lin Yingying can only follow Liu Fenghe get off the bus. “He is getting old and leaving me behind.” Finally walked home, and Lin Yingying received a beating, “that is also quite fierce. He hit me on the head.” Liu Fenghe hit her on the head with his hand.
Explanations and apologies always follow. “He told me That I ate the bananas without asking him if he wanted to eat them. He said, don’t you know I love bananas? I really didn’t know.”
“These are my last two days at the clothing store.” Mr. Liu told Ms. Lin to resign, saying they could learn to make cakes and open a shop together.
“I hate to quit, but I can’t. He threatened me. ‘If you don’t go,’ he said, ‘you’ve got somebody there.’ I’ll kill them all.”
Lin Yingying to the manager to resign, she said the manager is not willing to. She does well and has a higher turnover than others. Later, Liu Fenghe went to the store manager. “He talked to the manager alone and said, I don’t know what to say. Maybe I’m too young.”
Ms. Lin eventually left her job.
5
After quitting her job, Lin yingying followed Liu Feng and went to a chef to learn how to make cakes. The two began to be together from morning till night. “One day, he asked me to memorize the usage and ingredients, but I didn’t remember them. Hit me when you get home. That was a bad one, too.”
During that time, Liu fenghe’s mother was planning to open a cake shop for the children, so she came often. This time, when the fight was serious, “His mother came, he went to learn to make cakes, and I stayed at home alone. And then his mother says, what’s wrong with you. At the time, you could see the injuries — they were very serious, and the neck, face and eyes were black. I told her that Liu Fenghe had beaten me. She said, My son can’t do a thing like that, you keep him.”
“Every time he hits me, his mother knows. She says she’ll talk about him, but she doesn’t.” After being beaten several times, Ms. Lin heard Mr. Liu call his mother, saying, “I accidentally hit Yingying. Please help me to persuade her.”
If anything, it was only once that Liu Fenghe’s mother went and gave Lin Yingying an amulet, saying that “a belt of amulet can change his temper”. Hopeful, Ms. Lin put the amulet in Mr. Liu’s trouser pocket. “It’s changed,” she said. “It’s more grumpy.”
In June 2014, Liu fenghe’s mother invested 80,000 yuan to rent a shop and buy machines, and their cake shop opened. The name of the shop is liu Fenghe’s — “LOVE cake”, with two small figures inside the letters, representing him and her. Lin Yingying still depends on Liu Fenghe, also believe in this love. The Lin family that does not value two people amour originally also slowly acquiesce. “Today’s children are basically like this, just stay together,” said Lin yingying’s mother. She really doesn’t have time to care about Lin Yingying. She’s just pregnant with her fifth child.
After the bakery opened, Ms. Lin said, “burnt bread” began to be the reason for her beatings. Once did not do well, Liu Feng and hit her, she ran away. She said she ran from where she rented to under an overpass. The side of the overpass has several long stairs, up which Lin Yingying follows quickly. Halfway down the stairs, Liu Fenghe suddenly appeared in front of her, blocking her way.
“He will throw me down again,” Said Lin yingying, looking at Liu fenghe’s face and eyes. She was afraid that he would do what he said.
Later, she remembered, Liu Fenghe almost dragged her down the stairs and cursed her. “I fell over, and he didn’t care.” The two men walked off the bridge to a train track. Liu Fenghe pulled Lin Yingying and threatened to push her into orbit. When the train really sped by, She was too scared to say a word.
And then, one terrible thing led to another.
Once she set the oven temperature on command, and the bread burned. From the oven to take out the bread, Liu Fenghe looked at it, then dropped the bread, turned his head to fan Lin Yingying several times, hit the face, head. Lin Yingying’s ear is bleeding. Blood ran down my ears and down my shoulders. Liu Fenghe was also afraid and took her to the hospital.
The doctor was impressed by the blackened eyes, bruises on her face, blood clots in her ears and the occasional expression of “panic and anxiety”. The doctor recommended a CT scan, and She was diagnosed with ear periosteum congestion and soft tissue swelling around the left orbital rim. The doctor suspected that her injuries were caused by man. More than once, he asked Yingying, but she dared not say anything.
After coming out of the hospital, Liu Took the prescribed medicine and took Lin Yingying to the “Lai Lai Hotel” and let her stay there for three days.
Lin said That Liu Fenghe did not want to let others see her injury, saw, will certainly ask. Those days Lin Yingying’s father happened to come to the city to do some work, said to see one, she also find an excuse to shirk. But Later, When I interviewed Him at the detention center, Liu fenghe told me that he was only doing it for Lin Yingying’s good. “The cake shop smelled like smoke and smoke, and it was not good to stay there.
This is a most dangerous signal. If Mr. Liu could be restrained, if Mr. Lin could be supported, the story might be rewritten. But Liu fenghe still lost control.
At around 1 PM on September 29, 2014, Lin Burned four plates of bread in a cake shop. Liu Fenghe shouted to her that it was only a month since the last time he went to the hospital with eardrum injury. And a year has passed since Liu Fenghe first attacked a girl.
“He first slapped her a few times, and the corners of her mouth bled,” Ms. Lin said. “The last thing she remembers is that He grabbed a rolling pin and hit her on the head several times.” “Bang!” she probably fell to the ground and soon lost consciousness.
Liu Fenghe called 120 and went to the hospital. The doctor said That Lin Yingying was in critical condition with severe intracranial damage and needed immediate surgery. In an interview later, Mr. Liu said he was “stunned.” “When the doctor said surgery, I had only one idea. I’m waiting for you.” Liu Fenghe signed the consent form and called his mother to send the money. He did not tell Yingying’s parents during the operation.
The lights went out in the operating room. Lin Yingying’s first operation ended, unsuccessful, the girl hovering on the death line, the doctor said that secondary hematoma appeared when the operation, had to immediately carry out the second operation.
Before the second operation, Liu fenghe finally called Lin’s family and said, “Lin Yingying has fallen down,” which is very serious. The family for dinner put down their dishes and took a taxi to the hospital.
“Yingying, you give mom hold on, you can’t go.” Lin Yingying’s mother prayed all the time. Ms. Liu said Ms. Lin “accidentally fell while working in a cake shop.” Ms. Lin’s grandmother told the family, “Slippery? Did you pour oil on the floor? Why don’t you throw your child, just my child?”
The second operation took five or six hours. At the end of the day, when my grandmother finally saw Yingying Lin coming out of the operating room, she could only remember bursting into tears — “it was the face of the dead, but I don’t know if it was hers.”
The doctor said the second operation was successful and At least She survived, although “she may be in a vegetative state in the future” and “we still don’t know when she will live”. The operating room rolled out and she was wheeled into intensive care.
As a result of the surgery, Lin’s hair was shaved off, two skulls were removed and the top of her head looked pointed. The ventilator rings and stops. She was in a coma, unable to expectorate, and her windpipe was cut and inserted. She was “sucked” to sit up, eyes still closed. There are also tubes, nasal tubes for food injection, and urine tubes for excretion.
Ms. Lin spent seven days in intensive care.
6
A month later, Lin Yingying woke up.
Open your eyes slowly. I couldn’t move my body, my eyes were empty, my consciousness was vague, and my memory seemed to have been lost, “like a dream.”
She vaguely remembered that Liu Fenghe came to her side and leaned close to her ear, saying, “I didn’t hit him, but you did”. He repeated several times. She had no idea what the sentence meant.
She woke up and remained in intensive care for several days. Her vital signs were finally stable and she was transferred to the general ward. She was not fully awake, could not speak, ate, drank, breathed, excreted, and needed equipment and human care.
It was All Liu Fenghe doing. “So we did have some thoughts about the girl’s family,” he told me. At that time, Lin Yingying’s mother was about to give birth and her father was busy selling apples. Grandma came and complained and went away. The Lins never had any money.
According to the Lin family, Liu fenghe’s mother assured them, “Don’t worry, If I break the pot and sell iron, I will also cure Yingying.” They had another thought in their hearts, that their daughter had fallen in a cake shop when they were together, and should also be taken care of by Liu Fenghe. Then Liu Fenghe became the “model” boyfriend whom everyone praised.
Mr. Liu said he had a full day, “almost 24 hours here.” She eats six to eight times a day. After being smashed with a blender, the food is filled with a very thick syringe and pushed into her nasal tube at a constant speed. “For a while, she had a fever every night.” Liu fenghe rubbed Lin yingying’s body with warm water and physically cooled her down until her fever was gone.
Lin Yingying could not speak, and Liu Fenghe invented a special way of communication. “Blinking means yes, not blinking means no.” He also used numbers to represent the fruit That Lin Yingying wanted to eat, 1 is a small persimmon, 2 is an orange, note to the girl to see, she can draw.
I once asked Liu Fenghe if taking care of Lin Yingying was out of guilt. He was attentive, he said, because “she’s the one I like.” Ms. Lin said she could already sense that Mr. Liu was often in a bad mood. “When he was in the hospital, he would run out of anger and come back when it was over,” she said.
There’s another thing that came to mind recently.
At one point, she said, He tried to push her out of the hospital, saying they would die together. She roughly remembered that the reason was that Liu Fenghe’s mother came, “He asked his mother for money, but his mother didn’t give him any, so he said he would push me out to die”. She was afraid, she said That Liu Feng and evil spirit, her wheelchair are pushed over, give her put on clothes, but finally did not help her up.
At that time, Liu Fenghe did feel great economic pressure. He said the three-month hospital stay cost 180,000 yuan, and he and his mother “sold everything they could”, including the cake shop, the house, and the machine. Some friends came to see them, gave them some, posted their moments, and asked for donations.
Season girl, accident, boyfriend, this is a good news story. Then the reporter came, the newspaper wrote, the TV program shot, there are good people to donate money to Lin Yingying, also bought things to see her in the hospital. I interviewed two good people, they rough statistics, at least to Lin Yingying sent one or two thousand yuan.
But it’s still not enough. Desperate, Liu contacted Lin’s parents and said they wanted to leave the hospital. Lin mother did not agree, “the child did not recover well, how to discharge”. “When [Lin Yingying] was hospitalized, our family had a foreign debt of 300,000 yuan, so we couldn’t afford her operation.” Her father told me that he had a car accident before and saved his life, so the family was financially strapped.
But in Liu fenghe’s opinion, it means “when I was in hospital, I didn’t manage it, but when I left the hospital, I still didn’t care.” On January 7, 2015, Liu Fenghe discharged Lin Yingying. He still owed the hospital 5,000 yuan and wrote an IOU.
7
After leaving the hospital, Liu rented another apartment and lived with Lin yingying.
“In the little room, he beat my leg with a strap.” “As long as my family went, he would beat me,” She said calmly.
Although Mr. Liu, in my previous interviews at the detention center, had denied all this — he asked me where I’d heard about it and if I had any evidence. Of course I don’t have proof. The police don’t have proof. The only cases they focused on were the two in which Ms. Lin was hospitalized. All the other beatings Ms. Lin said were undetermined by the police.
“Just think what she looks like, how can I…” At that time, Facing my question, Liu Fenghe raised his voice and became emotional. He said as he knocked the table with his handcuffs.
Of course, Ms Lin’s memory is not without its flaws. “He’s still pulling my plug,” she told me in an interview in 2016. Just out of the hospital, she can’t breathe on her own. She has to use her throat. She said she was out of breath after Liu Fenghe pulled out her pipe. Liu Fenghe also panicked and ran to the police without any clothes on. The police later recalled to me that Liu Fenghe was “wearing flowered underpants and was shirtless.”
After three years, Ms. Lin said, she now remembered that the pipe had fallen off because Mr. Liu had to clean his throat. “He didn’t pull it out on purpose,” she said. “He had to clean it. Ms. Lin also made it clear to me that Mr. Liu had asked her for advice before pulling the pipe, and she agreed. “I said it was ok. He pulled it out, but he couldn’t.”
She smiled. “I’ve forgotten what I said myself,” she said.
Before taking Her home, her father took her medical certificate and planned to have a cooperative medical treatment, hoping to reduce some of the medical expenses. “It’s not like a fall. If you can prove how the child fell, I can reimburse you,” the staff member said after seeing Her medical certificate. The word “not like” struck my father’s heart.
Before that, Her mother went to see her daughter again. Liu Fenghe was not at home. She asked her daughter, “Did Liu Fenghe beat you?”
“Play.” “She said, her daughter still stuck in her throat, speaking vaguely.” She is emitting a sound, hit.” The mother cried, after going back to zhang Luo to pick up her daughter home. Liu Fenghe told me that he also wanted to go out to earn money, so Lin Yingying went home.
Grandma said that at that time, Lin Yingying’s movements were slow and delayed, and she often grinned from ear to ear. Eating with a spoon in your left hand, chewing and swallowing in slow motion. She moaned like a baby, uttering words out of her throat.
A month later, Lin Yingying spoke up.
One day she finished rehabilitation training, patted grandma, “asked if my grandma had time, want to tell her something.”
“I didn’t drop it on September 29th, he hit it…” Not many words. She talked for about half an hour. She tried to describe the shape and size of the rolling pin with her hands. The left hand grabs the numb right hand and it bounces out of control. After saying that, she burst into tears, and her grandmother also said, “You are only 20 years old. What can you do after that?
The Lin family came back, all knew, “I cry, my family cry.” Father went to the police station reported the case, the police went to the Lins, to Lin Yingying for evidence, and later she made a forensic expert, seriously injured two.
In criminal case file a standard, divided into serious injury, light injury, slight injury. Some people fight until the head broken blood, may even be slightly injured standards are not up to, Yingying is seriously injured level two: make people physically disabled, destroy people’s face, loss of hearing, loss of vision, loss of other organ function or other serious injury to human health damage, including serious injury level one and serious injury level two.
But Liu Fenghe was gone.
Ms. Lin’s family said Mr. Liu had visited her several times since she returned home. “Yingying I go out to work to earn money to see a doctor for you,” said Liu Fenghe, who was last seen on February 2, 2015. That was the last thing he said to Her, and he walked away.
In April 2016, Police arrested Liu Fenghe, who had been “working outside” for a year, at a construction site in Zhongning County, Zhongwei City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
“Know why to arrest you.”
“Yes.” There was no resistance or rejection. He even had a smile on his lips. “Yes, and no,” he said afterwards.
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In 2016, When I interviewed Liu Fenghe, he argued that he had not hit Lin Yingying with a rolling pin. “During the quarrel, I accidentally dropped her. She fell down and stood up again. “It’s like a lie getting bigger and bigger,” he added. “I lied to everyone through my mother, and I can’t clear it up later.” He scratched his head with his handcuffed hands.
Later, I have heard sporadically from the clerks — the case came to the court after the investigation; The court organized a mediation, liu Fenghe compensated the Lin family; Liu fenghe was given a suspended sentence.
Mr. Liu never came back, the Lin family said. At the stage of mediation, one of Liu fenghe’s uncles came forward to talk about compensation with his family. They wanted 300,000 yuan at first, but then the court mediated, 250,000 yuan, and they accepted.
This time I came, the Lins told me that the compensation was not enough, too little, and that they were not familiar with the legal process. I had my doubts, too, and offered to see the verdict. They searched for a long time and couldn’t find it. The family asked each other in confusion, “Did we get the verdict then?”
At this time, Lin Yingying is because of wet pants, lying on the bed to change. It took her a long time to take off her overalls with one hand. The room in which she lay smelt distinctly of mould, and was covered with a great deal of clothes, red and green, and thick and thin, all covered with a thin layer.
She called to her mother, “Give me a hand.” Lin yingying’s mother is looking for a verdict to let the girl do it herself. “I’ll have to switch to next year,” she quipped quietly.
Half an hour passed, she finally changed, a lot of places need to clean up. I asked her a question that bothered me for a long time. There was nothing around the toilet, facing her front door. What if someone, especially a man, suddenly comes to her house? I’m not just worried. During the interview, two people from the village came to see her mother.
She pointed to her ear with a smirking smile and said, “I’m so smart here that I can hear you.”
When the verdict was nowhere to be found, Ms Lin’s mother called the judge again and was told that the client had definitely received the verdict and could apply to the court if she wanted another one.
Later, I searched on the Internet and found the verdict in the case, which read: “The victim, Lin Yingying, has forgiven the defendant, Liu Fenghe, for his harmful behavior.” The lawyer of Liu Fenghe put forward, “The defendant Liu Fenghe and the victim were originally in a romantic relationship, but he committed a crime due to daily trivial matters. The defendant Liu Fenghe was a first offender. After the crime, he actively took care of the victim and compensated for the victim’s losses.
The court accepted the counsel’s opinion. On September 27, 2016, Liu Fenghe was sentenced to three years in prison with five years’ probation for the crime of intentional injury.
“Eat yingying.” Mother’s voice came from the kitchen.
They had no dining room, but a folded table was set up to let the sun in. On the table, garlic fried shredded pork, celery fried shredded pork, cabbage fried shredded pork, cucumber salad, two dishes of pickles. Three dishes of “half meat” may technically be only “one fifth meat”. Her mother cut off a piece of bacon and divided it into three plates.
“Mom, there’s a lot of food today,” Lin joked. Compared again “1” form, small voice say with me: “at ordinary times only 1 dish”.
She began to eat, spooning the rice, but she could not use the chopsticks. She had been eating fried garlic in front of her, and this was the only dish she had. She said she liked it. I said she should get more protein and more meat. She said she didn’t like bacon very much.
When she smiles, she shows a row of corroded teeth, small and charred. May be too long in bed after serious illness, may be the left hand to brush teeth do not work.
After eating, she walked along the 1-meter-long Kang to do rehabilitation. Her grandmother crossed her arms and teased her, “She can only walk backwards, not around.” As soon as the words fell, Lin Yingying fell back, leaning on the Kang, laughing, saying that she did not dare to turn around. She had not mastered this simple action and was afraid that she would fall.
The $250,000 that Lin’s family received was not used to attach the skull to her. Not since her injury, Ying Ying Lin’s thick hair made her look normal and covered up the missing part.
I asked directly why I didn’t install the skull when I got the compensation. “Not enough,” she intoned. “She’s just been out of the hospital and she can’t walk without a skull that won’t make a big difference,” and now she’s short of money and worried about suffering again.
Afterword.
Back in Beijing, I and Lin yingying WeChat voice, heard her grandmother and father seem to be arguing. The girl smiled on the other end of the phone. I could already tell she was trying to hide her embarrassment.
She told me, After I left, their family carefully comb, want to put the sentence in the end where, “finally think of, the sentence just came down, the an grandma not happy, tore up the sentence.”
I learned the lins later and discuss several lawyers, although dissatisfied with compensation, but also have no relief way, after all — on the judgment, the two families have reached an understanding “compensation agreement”, “in addition to the already pay the medical expenses, by the defendant Liu Fenghe relatives separately on behalf of one-time compensation to the victim warbler warbler of various economic losses total RMB 250000.” As for how this amount was reached in the first place, the lawyer told me that was a matter between the two sides.
On November 26, 2019, Grandma Yingying Lin sent me her latest photo (courtesy photo)
When I contacted her again on November 26, 2019, she said that she was still the same, “unable to walk backwards, afraid”, “the longest road I’ve walked this year is half a mile from home”, “Now I go to the toilet alone, very steady”.
When I put myself in her shoes and thought about her life and what she had to face every day, I always felt afraid. I’m afraid I can’t be as optimistic as she is, answering empty consolations with a brisk “uh-huh” and explaining her physical condition in a leisurely manner.
If in the original love she was wrong, can only say that she was too naive, kind, weak, but she was punished, it is so unequal; If her family did not provide her with the education and support she deserved, these years have taught them a lesson that they will regret for life.
What about the abuser? Did he realize his mistake? And to what extent were they punished?
(Siger contributed to this article.)
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