Soon, Wen Zhong’s original family situation and past experiences were revealed by the police.
Wen Zhong was born in 1975 in a small mountain village on the border of Qinghe City, which is known far and wide as the "Lei Village".
As an important battlefield in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, the two warring parties laid more than 1 million landmines nearby. After the war, the local government organized mine clearance operations three times, but only half of the originally laid landmines were cleared. The decommissioning period of plastic mines is 120 years. It will take at least 80 years until all landmines are ineffective. This means that the village has No place where no one walks is safe.
More than half of the villagers in the "Landmine Village" were injured by landmines, and many were killed or maimed by the explosions. Villagers missing arms and legs can be seen everywhere in the village.
"It's hard to leave the homeland, and the fallen leaves return to their roots" is the biggest obstacle for local residents to stay away from this dangerous situation. Some of them rely on subsidies to survive, while others continue to work in the dangerous mountains, forests and fields with their broken bodies.
Faced with such a dangerous environment, many villagers actually learned how to clear mines, and even spontaneously formed "bomb disposal units".
In the early years, this was a village where outsiders did not dare to approach and villagers did not dare to walk around at will. With the continuous development of economy and society, the government has implemented assistance measures such as helping villagers collectively buy accident insurance and introducing enterprises to develop red tourism resources. Charitable organizations are also providing more and more help, and all walks of life are paying more and more attention to it. The place is slowly being reborn.
After the war, the local government sent people to set up minefield signs with skulls in many places, but this did not prevent villagers from stepping on landmines. Even if they did not enter the minefields, they might still encounter unexpected disasters. Wen Zhong's father Wen Da's experience of stepping on thunder three times is the best example.
One evening not long after the war, Wen Da took Wen Zhong, who was only a few years old, and led his family's cattle home from the mountains. He was lucky to return to the village all the way, but when passing by his own field, Wen Zhong ran into the field. Chasing pheasants, Wen Da tried to stop him but failed, so he also followed him to the ground, trying to catch Wen Zhong back on the road.
As a result, Wen Da stepped on a thunderbolt in his own field and was hit by dozens of shrapnel, but Wen Zhong was unscathed. The shrapnel in Wen Da's body was never removed.
Misfortunes never come singly. A year later, when Wen Da took Wen Zhong up the mountain to cut firewood, Wen Zhong climbed up a tree to dig out a bird's nest, but accidentally dropped a hornet's nest and fell at Wen Da's feet. Wen Da ran away, panicking and stepping on a landmine under a tree. This time he lost one of his right legs.
A year and a half later, Wen Da was leveling the ground at his home, and Wen Zhong helped his father carry bricks. Finally, the brick wall that was stacked more than one meter high suddenly collapsed. One of the bricks flew out and hit Wenda under him, but inadvertently hit a mine under the cement floor. Wenda was blown up and hemorrhaged all over his body. He saved his life, but lost his left eye forever. Not long after, Wen Da's spouse and Wen Zhong's biological mother abandoned the father and son and ran away with others.
After Wen Da recovered from his injury, he spent a cow and two pigs to marry a Vietnamese woman with children.
According to feedback from villagers, Wen Zhong’s first Vietnamese stepmother treated him well.
But Wenda, who had been hit by landmines three times in a row, was physically mutilated, and was abandoned by his original wife, became worse and worse in temper, punching and kicking his wife and children at every turn.
The stepmother soon couldn't stand Wen Da's fists, and within two years she left her children and ran back to Vietnam. As a result, Wen Da gained a stepson, and Wen Zhong also gained a "brother."
Many villagers said that when a Vietnamese woman went out to work, Wen Da would leave her children at home, and Wen Zhong would be responsible for "taking care of" her children. The purpose was to prevent the women from escaping. Who knew that Vietnamese women didn't even want children. Since you Wen Da likes to "take care of" children so much, I will leave them to you to "take care of" them for the rest of your life.
The child who was abandoned by the Vietnamese woman to Wen Zhong was named Shi Ji. When he grew up, he left the "Landmine Village" and disappeared without a trace. Even the police could not find any information about this person.
After that, Wenda started drinking heavily.
Neighbors said that Wenda, who was drunk, was even more terrifying when beating his children. He would hit his children on the head with a ladle, poke his eyes with a broom, and poke his temples with a knife.
While inflicting violence on the child with fists and feet after drinking, he also used words and
Violent language. When he was beating up Shiji, he would say that Shiji was a "drag guy" that no one wanted; when he was beating up Wen Zhong, he would say that Wen Zhong was a "cheat". The reason why he was blown up like this by a landmine was all It was Wen Zhong who killed him.
After he sobered up, Wen Da would touch the child's head and ask if it hurt.
The neighbors couldn't stand it. When Wen Da was drunk and domestic violence against his child, a neighbor came out to stop him, but he hit his shoulder with an axe. Subsequently, Wenda was detained by the police station for several days.
In addition to abusing his children and responding with violence to his neighbors' kind advice, the drunken Wen Da would also beat his old father, Wen Zhong's grandfather. Moreover, when it came to beating his own father, Wen Da managed to do a small beating every three days, a big beating every six days, and a violent beating every nine days.
It is said that the reason why Wenda beat his father was simply because when he was a child, his father often used "sticks and fists" against him. Therefore, he had to return it while his father still had his eyes closed.
The people in the village committee couldn't stand it. If you say that you are "educating" your children by spanking the younger ones, what does it mean if you spank the older ones? Although they couldn't explain why Wenda's move challenged the filial piety culture that had been passed down for thousands of years, they couldn't accept it from a psychological point of view, and they couldn't stand it.
After many times of communication and persuasion to no avail, and after Wen Da beat his father violently again and his father refused the village committee’s suggestion to call the police, people from the village committee “joined” with the local police station to discuss whether to “find a way” to send Wen Da to prison. Prison, but once they put it all together, they quickly canceled this "method". Because if Wenda goes to jail, what will happen to his family, an old man and two children? Who will support them?
Wen Da definitely didn't know that he had escaped an inexplicable "prison".
In this way, the villagers in the village committee, including the local police station, said that they "can't stand him, but they can't kill him." They could only turn a blind eye and watch him with gritted teeth.
Although Wenda drinks alcohol and commits serious domestic violence, he is very diligent in his work and has a good mind. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to afford a cow and two pigs to marry a Vietnamese woman, and he wouldn't be able to support an old man and two children.
There is not much causal connection between a person's hard work and the rewards he gets, and whether the person is physically disabled. Although Wenda relies on prosthetic limbs to move around and is blind in one eye, he is a member of the "Hurt Disposal Unit" in the village. He only quit the "Hurt Disposal Unit" after becoming one of the few wealthy households in the village.
Before he became disabled, Wenda contracted a hilltop in the village and hired people to plant it full of tea trees. After becoming physically disabled, he was able to receive special subsidies from the state on time, and the tea trees all over the mountain began to produce, which gradually enriched his pocket. At this time, it was only two years since he "kicked away" his first Vietnamese wife.
After Wen Da, who is disabled but strong-willed, has money, he will definitely not need to use cows and pigs to marry a Vietnamese woman. Instead, he will spend money directly, and his standards for finding women will also be raised accordingly. His second Vietnamese wife, Wen Zhong's second Vietnamese stepmother, was married to Wen Da for 2,000 yuan, and she was still an unmarried girl.
It is said that the girl's father helped kill pigs in the local area and brought back pig blood. After eating, the family's faces turned green. They also drank wine, and the whole family died. It was a pig that died of illness. The girl survived because she did not eat pig blood.
After her family members died, her house and land were split up by her uncles and cousins. After all her belongings were sold and she had nowhere to live, the girl crossed the border and married herself to a middle-aged man who was lame and blind.
Wen Da's village is close to Vietnam, and a few villagers further south can't even tell whether they are Chinese or Vietnamese. Whether they are Chinese or Vietnamese, residents on both sides of the border are separated by a strip of water, and they are married and have many kinship relationships with each other.
During the war, many relatives were cut off from contact. But as soon as the war ended, the two sides resumed movement, and it became common for Vietnamese women to marry across the border.
The local police station initially tried to ban it, but the majestic mountains and the countless unknown mountain roads and trails that connect the two countries really made it impossible for them to ban it. Moreover, they also took into account the fact that it is difficult for bachelors in local villages to marry domestic women. , these behaviors do not harm society, and for border villages this kind of abnormal
Formal cross-border marriages, as long as both parties are voluntary, the police will gradually adopt a tacit attitude.
However, there are no registration procedures for these marriages, and the women cannot obtain a Chinese household registration, and the children they bring cannot settle down. This is also the key reason why the police could not search for relevant information about Wen Da's stepson, Shi Ji.
This Vietnamese girl is called Ruan Xingzhu. Of course, this Ruan Xingzhu is not Duan Zhengchun's mistress in "The Eight Parts of the Dragon", nor is she the mother of A'Zhu A'Zi. Here, she is Wen Da's third wife and Wen Zhong's second Vietnamese stepmother.
Soon, Ruan Xingzhu, who married Wen Da, made everyone in the village look at her with admiration. When Wen Da was not drinking, she used only one sentence to make Wen Da change his bad habit of beating his father.
"You treat your father-in-law like this, and the children see it. If you follow your example, and they treat you the same way when you get older, what should you do?"
Hearing it is like waking up from a dream. When it comes to treating my father, I no longer resort to punching and kicking him at every turn, but rather deny him food at every turn. Because, in his opinion, he has money. Even if he gets old in the future, as long as he has money in his pocket, he will not have to worry about starving even if his children treat him like this.
