Song Xiaonu's three choices
"To hug, I think I should hug, this hug (Zhang Yuhuan) owes me too long, too long..."
Above the ridge, the 50-year-old girl Song returned to Zhangjia Village, Pillow Ridge, Jinxian County, Nanchang City, where she once entrusted her girl's dreams, and spoke her heart to the camera. She specially put on the new clothes bought by her son, and combed the fluffy hair carefully.
After leaving home and living on an island for decades, her once fair skin was blackened by the sea breeze, and her figure was not as thin as she was when she was young. However, Zhang Yuhuan recognized her at a glance. Before the reunion time came, she swallowed several antihypertensive drugs twice the usual dose in advance, but still couldn't suppress the inner excitement, and fainted in front of the house where she got together.
Her wish finally came to nothing, because this time she fainted and met again "hastily ended."
On the first day Zhang Yuhuan returned home, Song Xiaonv passed out due to excessive excitement. The pictures in this article are all pictures of The Paper Journalist Wei Jiaming
On the evening of August 4, lying on a bed in the County People’s Hospital, Song Xiaonv told The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) that the moment she saw Zhang Yuhuan, her heart was mixed with joy and sorrow, and the joy was that he finally Freedom, sadly, "Although others come out, they still have nothing."
In the twenty-seven years of being attacked by an unjust case, Song Xiaonv, who had only been in the first grade of elementary school and was held in the palm of her hand by Zhang Yuhuan "like a daughter", was forced to grow up - she had never been out of the county seat and wandered around. Working as a part-timer, she was helpless to remarry under the dual pressure of suffering from tumor and raising her son.
Now that Zhang Yuhuan is back innocent, Song Xiaonv will face her third choice in life.
These days, Song Xiaonv has been hailed by netizens as a "good ex-wife of China" and "a proud ex-wife", but doubts also follow. Some people say that she came for Zhang Yuhuan's national compensation.
On August 5th, Song Xiaonv said in front of Zhang Yuhuan’s lawyer Cheng Guangxin, “I won’t ask for a penny when Zhang Yuhuan gets compensation.” This is the third choice in her life. All right.
Hug
"Low pressure 60, high pressure 187, hurry, lie down!"
Song Xiaonu was held by her relatives and carried into the 120 ambulance. The eldest son Zhang Baogang kept rubbing his mother's numb limbs, and the female neighbor who heard the wind pinched Song Xiaonv's neck with her index finger and middle finger joint. In a few seconds, her neck was pinched red, revealing two small purple-red "Sha marks". Lying in the ambulance, Miss Song was too tired to speak, she puffed her cheeks out from time to time, and then let out a big breath.
On August 4, the retrial of Zhang Yuhuan's case was held in the Jiangxi Provincial Higher People's Court and the verdict was announced. Zhang Yuhuan was finally discharged for more than 20 years of intentional homicide. But Song Xiaonv did not expect that she had been expecting the reunion of 27 years to end so unexpectedly.
Early the next morning, after a little recovery, she took the car to Zhang's house again. Zhang Yuhuan greeted her and held Song Xiaonv's hand tightly, but he did not hug her for a long time. Zhang Yuhuan said that he was so worried that Miss Song would faint like the first day, so he resisted holding her.
On August 5, Zhang Yuhuan officially met with Song Xiaonv after he was acquitted and the two held hands.
For this explanation, Song Xiaonv said "it's okay." In front of many reporters, she said to Zhang Yuhuan: "Then you must remember, you will always owe me a hug, from 1993 to 1999. Oh" and forced a smile.
Outside of the camera, she silently left from the lively reunion dinner table, holding the bowl, walked into the back room alone, bowed her head and scratched the meal with chopsticks. She told The Paper that this unfulfilled embrace seemed to completely pull her back to reality from her past memories, "Life should go on, even if I feel uncomfortable, I should accept reality."
If Song Xiaonv can choose, she hopes that time can go back to 1993, or even earlier.
In the Song family, there are eight brothers and sisters in Song Xiaonv's generation. Born in 1970, she is the oldest and youngest among the sisters. She is also cute and loved by her parents since she was a child. At the age of 18, she was a matchmaker and married Zhang Yuhuan, who was three years older than her.
Young Girl Song
Zhang Yuhuan is the second son in the family, with an older brother and a pair of younger siblings. Before his father was alive, he served as a village cadre in the village. He was very popular in the village because of his honesty. The eldest brother Zhang Minqiang went to the county town to engage in food business very early and was able to live a self-sufficient life. In Zhang Minqiang's memory, although his younger brother Zhang Yuhuan only had a primary school education, he worked meticulously and patiently, "starting farm work, he is the best of his siblings."
Before getting married, Song Xiaonv knew almost nothing about farming and housework. In the countryside, women who can't do farm work are inevitably criticized by her in-laws, but Zhang Yuhuan is very protective of her and takes the initiative to take all the work. To this day, Miss Song can still remember how she was sitting in the field with Zhang Yuhuan ploughing and weeding.
Song Xiaonv said that Zhang Yuhuan treated her more like a father to his daughter. The clothes she wore at the time were all Zhang Yuhuan went to the county town to select and buy. "I seldom go out. I haven't even been to the county town before the accident. , But every time the clothes he bought back for me, I wear them beautifully and the size is all right."
Had it not been for the sudden imprisonment, Zhang Yuhuan and Song Xiaonv would have had a stable and happy life. On October 24, 1993, two brothers Zhang Zhenrong and Zhang Zhenwei, who were only 6 and 4 years old in the same village, suddenly disappeared. A day later, their bodies were found in the Xiamatang Reservoir, 200 meters away from the "Sixiu" Forest Farm in Huangling Township. After investigation, the police initially determined that the deaths of Zhang Zhenrong and Zhang Zhenwei were homicide. The forensic medical appraisal document issued by the Nanchang Public Security Bureau on November 10, 1993 confirmed that the two brothers of the Zhang family were thrown into the water after their deaths. Zhang Zhenrong died of suffocation before the neck was compressed by the chin and Zhang Zhenwei was choked by the neck. Ministry of suffocation died.
Three days later, on October 27, Zhang Yuhuan was ambushed in plain clothes in the village and taken to the police car under the name of "questioning", and never returned. Song Xiaonv watched the police car drive away. She ran after the car for a long time, but finally did not catch up.
Zhang Yuhuan never went home. Song Xiaonu cried anxiously. Seeing her sadness, her mother-in-law Zhang Binglian pulled her to believe in Christianity. Two weeks after Zhang Yuhuan was arrested, Xiaonv Song learned that Zhang Yuhuan’s case was “set” on the way home from the service with her mother-in-law.
Soon after, the police officially announced the investigation of the case and Zhang Yuhuan was identified as the murderer of Zhang Zhenrong and Zhang Zhenwei. Song Xiaonv didn't believe it. She went to the criminal police squad many times to ask to see Zhang Yuhuan, but the reply she got was "I can't see it." Only a first-grade elementary school culture, Song Xiaonv didn't know how to argue with the police. She could only lie on the floor of the police station and roll, crying to see Zhang Yuhuan, but no one ignored her.
On the way home, a well-meaning villager ran over to inform her that relatives of the victim's family had surrounded her door and gathered to beat her. Zhang Minqiang's wife, Song Xiaonv's sister-in-law, Adi, worried that Song Xiaonv and nephew would suffer, so she took them to "refuge" at their home in Jinxian County.
Wandering away from home
After Zhang Yuhuan’s accident, Song Xiaonv washed her face in tears all day long. Seeing her getting depressed, her sister-in-law suggested that she help sell vegetables on the market. But within a few days, my sister-in-law realized that something was wrong, and the money Song Xiaonv earned from selling vegetables every day could not cover the cost of her purchase. A Di was with Song Xiaonv together, and she found out that Song Xiaonv seemed to have been hooked away. For 2 yuan of vegetables, the customer would give 10 yuan, and she would give others 12 yuan. She said to Song Xiaonv: "Little girl, you can't go on like this. You still have two sons to raise. Or go out to work and stay away from this sad place."
Song Xiaonv has never even gone out of the county seat. It is too difficult for her to work in other provinces. But no way, she needs money. In the spring of 1994, she took the train to Shenzhen with fellow villagers in the same village. In the hard-seat compartment, she cried all the way to the window in a low voice.
Before leaving, the eldest son Zhang Baoren was already 5 years old. He saw the little girl Song carrying luggage and seemed to be going out. He hugged his mother's legs and prevented her from leaving. Miss Song also cried, she was cruel and pushed her son away. Zhang Baoren was pushed to the pile of burlap bags beside the vegetable stall. When he raised his head to look for his mother, he only saw Song Xiaonv walking away.
For many years thereafter, Song Xiaonv never returned home, but she would split the salary earned into three parts every month, one to the mother-in-law who helped her take care of Baoren, and one to the one who helped her take care of Baoren. Father, send both copies home, and she keeps the other copy as travel expenses for Zhang Yuhuan's appeal.
These years away from home, Song Xiaonv sent her mother-in-law a group photo of her, her two sons and Wu Guosheng’s son
In the meantime, she ran through the petition rooms of various government departments in Nanchang City and Jiangxi Province, often sitting all day. The receptionist couldn't help asking her, "What on earth do you want to report? Anyway, I have to write a petition letter?"
write a letter? Song Xiaonv even wrote her name crookedly, she could only copy it one by one according to the pinyin in the dictionary. It took several days to complete a petition letter. She took this handwritten letter and copied it. After several copies, she carefully hid the original manuscript under the closet so that she could copy it again next day.
With the letter, where should it be sent? At the post office, the person who sent the letter laughed at her, "I don't even know how to post a stamp." Thanks to the help of the staff, he barely sent the first petition to Beijing.
Why not go home? Song Xiaonv explained to The Paper that she was washing dishes at the back of the restaurant and had very few rest days throughout the year, and she wanted to earn more money to send home. At that time, no one cleaned the toilet on the second floor of the restaurant. She took the initiative to ask the manager to earn 100 yuan more per month.
"Why do mothers miss their sons?" Song Xiaonv said, she goes to work at 6 o'clock every day and gets off work at 10 o'clock in the evening. She can lie on the bunk of the dormitory at 11 o'clock every day. When she closes her eyes, two sons appear in her mind. And Zhang Yuhuan's face.
Missing so much, she could only bite her upper lip with her lower teeth and sob softly for fear of complaints from colleagues in the same dormitory. In this way, Miss Song often cried until she fell asleep with her tears vaguely, and woke up again in dizziness to start the next day's work.
In Shenzhen, she buried her family affairs in her heart and never told anyone. It wasn't until 1997 that she suddenly received a call from her hometown relatives at the restaurant. The person on the other end of the receiver told her that Zhang Yuhuan was coming back and asked her to go home quickly.
She jumped up in excitement, "My Zhang Yuhuan is coming back! Manager, I want to go home!" The unidentified colleagues looked at each other, and she told her story. She asked, what is the fastest way to get home? The colleague said, let's fly. She asked the restaurant manager to help buy a ticket for 600 yuan, and returned to Nanchang on the plane the next day.
She rushed into the village with a smile on her face, but it was not Zhang Yuhuan who was waiting, but the news of her father's death. Zhang Baogang remembered that his mother passed out as soon as she walked into her grandfather's mourning hall. Among the people who went up to pinch her uncle and others, all of them were bleeding, and Miss Song still did not wake up. They tricked her into going home with "Zhang Yuhuan going home", but they couldn't let her see her father for the last time.
After the funeral, Miss Song returned to Shenzhen to continue working. Before leaving, Zhang Baoren followed her silently. This time, he didn't shout for his mother to stay as before. He knew that no matter what he said, his mother would still leave. The humiliation he received in Zhangjiacun also cast a shadow in his young heart: "It seems that others are repelling me, including my mother, I feel as if I don't want me anymore."
Tearful remarry
Miss Song has been wandering outside all the year round. There are a lot of rumors in the village. Occasionally, her mother-in-law will call her and ask her if someone is outside. In fact, there are indeed many people who have expressed their affection for Song Xiaonv in secret.
Since returning home in 1997, after she frankly told her colleagues about Zhang Yuhuan's imprisonment, when she returned to Shenzhen, she found that the eyes of her colleagues looked at her differently. The young guy would put his hand on her shoulder deliberately and say, "Your husband is in jail, and he won't come back again." Song Xiaonv slammed her away, grabbing the cup on the table and smashing it on his head. "My Zhang Yuhuan is in jail, but he has been wronged, he is innocent!" she shouted hoarsely.
Because of this conflict, the restaurant manager punished her with money deductions, and she also froze with her colleagues. But she is not afraid, Song Xiaonv said, she has a belief in her heart: Zhang Yuhuan will be wronged one day, she must wait until he comes home.
The Song family’s relatives often persuade Song Xiaonv not to wait for Zhang Yuhuan for the future of the two children. They told Song Xiaonv about Zhang Baoren and Zhang Baogang being bullied in their hometown, and her heart was broken.
At that time, Song Xiaonv's younger brother was working in Fujian, and Wu Guosheng, a fellow who worked with him, had just been widowed. He thought this man and his sister were very suitable and wanted to match the two.
Wu Guosheng’s wife died of cancer. In order to raise money for her illness, Wu Guosheng sold the only cow in the family, but ultimately failed to rescue the person. He also owed several thousand yuan in foreign debt, leaving only one for care. Son. Based on this, Song Xiao’s younger brother concluded that Wu Guosheng was reliable. She said, see you then.
When it was time to meet up, Miss Song regretted it, "I still like Zhang Yuhuan, and I will wait for him to come back." Wu Guosheng was not angry because of this, but said to Miss Song's younger brother: "Your sister is a good woman who values love and justice. ."
In 1999, because she often felt abdominal distension and pain, Song Xiaonv went to the hospital for an examination. The doctor told her that she had a tumor in her uterus and that she had to undergo surgery immediately. Miss Song suddenly felt that the sky was about to collapse. She only thought that the surgery was going to be an incurable disease. She was even more afraid that she would die on the operating table. "What about my two sons?"
She thought of Wu Guosheng. Fortunately, although she missed her appointment two years ago, he is still waiting for her. Song Xiaonv offered Wu Guosheng three conditions, and he agreed, before she agreed to remarry: first, to take good care of Zhang Yuhuan’s two sons; second, to allow her to go back to visit her mother-in-law; third, to support her unconditionally Redress Zhang Yuhuan's grievances, and meet at any time. Wu Guosheng all responded.
Before remarrying, Song Xiaonv told Zhang Baoren about the matter and showed her son Wu Guosheng's photo. "This uncle will take care of our three mothers and children in the future. Are you optimistic?" But she didn't mention her illness. Zhang Baoren didn't say a word, after taking the photo, he threw it into the stove where the fire was lit and burned.
It wasn't until more than ten years later that Zhang Baoren got married and had children by himself. He didn't realize Song Xiaonv's original difficulties. "She really has no choice. I also have a family of three to raise. If I don't work a day, they will be hungry. Too young to understand my mother’s suffering."
Life and death choice
Zhang Baogang said that after returning to his mother, their relationship gradually eased, but because he and his brother did not study much, they left home to work early. This is also one of Song Xiaonv’s most regretful things: Baoren only went to junior high school, while Baogang dropped out before graduating from elementary school. "I knew this, so I should get them around sooner."
After Zhang Baogang left home, he has been to many cities, moving bricks on construction sites and pounding raw materials in a mold factory. He has been deceived a few times, but he is quite proud when he talks about it, "It's not like in Zhangjiacun that we can make friends outside, where everyone hides from us like a plague."
As the sons grew up and reached the age of marriage and marriage, Song Xiaonv's worries increased. Especially before the little daughter-in-law passed the door, the other's parents offered to ask for a gift of 130,000 yuan. Song Xiaonv and Baogang cried, "It's a big happy event for others to get married, but our three mothers and children cry together."
At that time, the youngest daughter-in-law was pregnant with Liujia, and "eloped" with Zhang Baogang overnight before escaping from her parents' home. Fortunately, after the birth of the child, her in-laws gradually accepted the marriage. What makes Song Xiaonv most proud of is that her two daughter-in-laws know Zhang Yuhuan’s jail conditions, but they still don’t dislike it, even because of it. Pity and love their husbands even more.
Seeing a slight improvement, in 2011, Song Xiaonv fell ill again. This time, the disease was worse than before, and the doctor made her diagnosis: cervical cancer.
Holding the laboratory report, she thought of death. She knew that the family really couldn't afford to pay for her medical treatment. Song Xiaonv took the bus to the nearest sea area, trying to end her life. On the same day, just as Wu Guosheng returned from "catch the sea", he happened to hit Xiaonu Song in the car. Seeing his wife looked wrong, he dragged her back home and found a test report with the diagnosis results on the table.
Wu Guosheng scolded her loudly: "You are going to die now, and I will spend 30,000 yuan to bury you. Why don't you take 30,000 yuan to treat the disease, let's take a gamble, can you?" Song Xiaonu nodded and agreed.
But who knows, the operation was unsuccessful, and the bladder was ruptured, so he could only get another knife. Until now, there are still three deep and shallow scars on Song Xiaonv's lower abdomen. The bladder broke. Before the repair operation, Miss Song had to wear diapers every day, which was miserable. She didn't want to live again. She started skipping meals and drinking water. Wu Guosheng had nothing to do with her. He could only say: "You can die. Then you thought Zhang Yuhuan did not. Or you can go and see him. If he agrees with you to die, then you can go. Die."
Song Xiaonv really went. In the interview room of Nanchang Prison, the two shed tears through the glass. Zhang Yuhuan saw Xiaonv Song who had lost a lot of weight, and felt so distressed that he persuaded Xiaonv Song to live well.
Song Xiaonv asked: "Zhang Yuhuan, did you kill anyone? If so, you can tell me that after I die, you don't have to lie to a dead person?" Zhang Yuhuan cried and said, he really didn't. At that moment, Miss Song suddenly didn't want to die again. She felt that the suffering she suffered and what Zhang Yuhuan suffered were simply not worth mentioning, "Since Zhang Yuhuan said he is innocent, I will live to see him come out."
Two "husbands"
Now, Zhang Yuhuan has discharged the murder charges that he had pressed on him for 27 years, and he really came back innocently. Song Xiaonv is stuck in a difficult situation: on one side is her husband Wu Guosheng, on the other side is Zhang Yuhuan, whom she has been thinking about for 27 years.
Husband, it was Wu Guosheng who made Miss Song call this. For many years when they were together, Xiaonu Song always called Wu Guosheng as Zhang Yuhuan, or as Zhang Yuhuan's nickname "Little De". Wu Guosheng was finally annoyed. He said to Song Xiaonv, "Why don't you call my husband." A title distinguished Wu Guosheng from Zhang Yuhuan.
Before the retrial, Wu Guosheng stuffed Song Xiaonu 5,000 yuan, not only for the living expenses of returning home, but also for her to buy something to see Zhang Yuhuan. After Zhang Yuhuan was found not guilty, Song Xiaonv shared the good news with her husband immediately, "He said he was also happy for us."
But Song Xiaonu's happiness did not last long, and she fell into grief again. Before the trial, she had a plan in her heart. After Zhang Yuhuan was acquitted and released, she still had to return to Wu Guosheng to repay his kindness in taking care of their three mothers and sons for many years.
Zhang Baoren and Zhang Baogang prepared a new smart phone for Zhang Yuhuan. Song Xiaonu silently opened her own QQ space, and re-photographed the photos of her daughter-in-law and grandchildren and the wedding photos of her two sons into Zhang Yuhuan’s new phone. Only did not take a picture of herself.
Song Xiaonv's photo retaken with Zhang Yuhuan's new phone
She said that deep down in her heart, she still likes Zhang Yuhuan, but she knows that she must put down this past and can't let Zhang Yuhuan think about it any more. Secondly, she is also afraid that Wu Guosheng will be unhappy. . The yardstick is really embarrassing for her.
But one thing she is very clear, she wants to "return" both her two sons and her daughter-in-law and grandchildren to Zhang Yuhuan, so that they can accompany him to integrate into society, and spend the rest of her life peacefully, "You left me with my two sons back then, and I will return it now. You are eight complete people."
These days, the story of Song Xiaonu's justice for her husband has been widely circulated in the cyberspace after numerous media reports. She was dubbed "Good Ex-wife of China" and "Proud Ex-wife" and other labels. Questions also followed. Some people said that she came to "get a piece of the pie" after Zhang Yuhuan's national compensation was in place.
On August 5, Song Xiaonv said in front of Zhang Yuhuan’s appeal attorney Cheng Guangxin: “I will not ask for a penny when Zhang Yuhuan receives compensation in the future.”
This is the third decision of Song Xiaowu's life, she has already thought about it.
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