Returning to reality, Zhang Yuhuan also understands that for the 27 years he has lost, he still needs a lot of energy to make up, whether it is the skills to return to society or the missing family affection. Zhang Yuhuan wanted to wait until the day when there was no lumps in his heart.
Text, picture/Guangzhou Daily all-media reporter Cheng Yilun sent from Nanchang, Jiangxi
"The longest detainee in custody" Zhang Yuhuan was finally released from prison when he was 53 years old.
Wearing a dazzling red flower and stepping on the sound of firecrackers, Zhang Yuhuan returned to Zhangjiacun where he had been away for 27 years.
Zhang Yuhuan
Everything is different
Regarding the scene of "going home", Zhang Yuhuan had imagined several times in prison in the past few months, but when he really returned to his hometown, he found that everything was different from what he had imagined: the past dirt road in the village After turning into Zhangjia Village, there are rows of old-fashioned red brick houses along the sides of Provincial Highway 523. Most of the houses in the village are no longer inhabited. Today, there are only a dozen households left in the village. They are all elderly or middle-aged women with children. The old house where Zhang Yuhuan and his elder brother Zhang Minqiang lived has long been dilapidated. There are no tiles on the roof, only some rotten wood and bricks are piled up in the house, and the corners are covered with moss. On the side next to the old house is the old house where Zhang Yuhuan’s mother Zhang Binglian lived.
And on the opposite side of the house-the home of the two boys who were victimized back then, one of them has been razed to the ground, leaving only a tree planted there, and the surrounding weeds are more than one meter high; and the other house looks like it is too Wasted for a long time.
But the changes in the environment cannot match the changes in the world: his father has passed away, his mother has hunched back and white hair, his wife has remarried, his ID card is gone, and his field is gone... Zhang Yuhuan was swarmed before he could adapt to all this. The media and help-seekers who came after hearing the news "contained".
Also "contained" by information were a group of people who helped Zhang Yuhuan return home-Zhang Yuhuan's attorney Wang Fei, reporter Cao Yinglan who was the first to intervene in Zhang Yuhuan's case, Zhang Yuhuan's brother Zhang Minqiang, and his ex-wife Song Xiaonu. In the words of Lawyer Wang Fei, from Zhang Yuhuan himself to his family, and from reporters to lawyers, every aspect of this case is indispensable. In the words of Cao Yinglan, instead of summing up experience from Zhang Yuhuan's case It is better to check for omissions from the system design.
"I want to have a home most"
At 10 a.m. on August 9, all media reporters from Guangzhou Daily came to Zhang Yuhuan's "home" temporarily.
Since Zhang Yuhuan's release from prison on August 4, Zhangjia Village, which used to be quiet and withered, has suddenly become a lot of lively. Due to the constant flow of people visiting, Zhang Yuhuan's mother and Zhang Yuhuan himself obviously began to be a little bit "unbearable." In order to restore peace to the family’s life, and to allow Zhang Yuhuan to enjoy the joys of his grandchildren, Zhang Baogang, the youngest son, spent about 1,000 yuan in the old district of the county town to rent an old staircase house with a building age of more than 30 years. , Four bedrooms and one living room, two pairs of sons and daughters-in-law of Zhang Yuhuan, and grandchildren lived. Zhang Yuhuan was finally able to clean up.
Zhang Yuhuan told reporters that because the family's house has long been dilapidated, after returning to his hometown in recent days, he had to move to live with his brother and brother-in-law. Faced with today's fast-changing life, Zhang Yuhuan feels quite unfamiliar, so his family has to spend a lot of time with him, teaching him to use remote control, air conditioner, kettle, electric fan, etc. During the interview, the air-conditioning temperature in the room was inadvertently adjusted to the "heating" mode. Zhang Yuhuan had to wipe his sweat while accepting the interview. More than ten minutes later, it was not until his son Zhang Baogang entered the door that the room temperature was not right.
The mobile phone that his ex-wife Song Xiaonv spent 1,800 yuan to give him, Zhang Yuhuan also used it very awkwardly. "(Son) taught me for a few days, but he still hasn't fully learned to answer and call. Sometimes I need my granddaughter to teach me. I don't know anything now, and I'm not as good as a five or six-year-old child." Zhang Yuhuan said .
Currently, Zhang Yuhuan is extremely struggling to adapt to society. He almost cannot do without his family in his food, clothing, housing and transportation. "My brother and brother-in-law have their own work and life. Every time I move around in different homes, I can't sleep. It feels like I don't have a fixed home, so my son rented a house temporarily outside. When the village is quiet, we will go back."
Zhang Yuhuan especially wanted to go back to the village. He didn't have many plans for the future. He only wanted a house and the land he took home. In his later years, he just wanted to cultivate the land in a dull manner and spend his time with his mother. He would feel strange to life in the county. On August 8, Zhang Yuhuan, accompanied by his son, went to the county town for a good stroll. “Twenty years ago, there were bicycles on the road, but now they are all cars. It looks like Shanghai a few decades ago.” Zhang Yuhuan said with a smile.
Zhang Yuhuan told Guangzhou Daily all-media reporters that at that time, his dream was to "have a happy family."
"Dad" who has been absent for many years
This dream used to be very close to Zhang Yuhuan.
He still remembers that more than 20 years ago, he was still a carpenter. In the 1990s, he would often work in Shanghai and Fujian. What he looked forward to most of the year was to return to the village during spring ploughing and autumn harvest. Farm work at home. Zhang Yuhuan said that in the past in prison, he often dreamed of the past. In his dreams, he was still a high-spirited young man. Miss Song accompanied him to work in the fields and occasionally helped him.
However, after Zhang Yuhuan left home, Song Xiaonv's family was excluded from the village. Song Xiaonv had to leave the village with her two sons, 4 and 3 years old, and defected to her brothers' home. The little girl went to work in Shenzhen, the eldest son was raised by Zhang Binglian, and the younger son was raised by her father. In 2000, Song Xiaonv was diagnosed with cancer. Reluctantly, she chose to remarry. Two years later, Song Xiaonv was able to pick up her sons to live with.
For father, Zhang Baoren and Zhang Baogang are very strange. They rarely call out the name "dad". For stepfather, they call it "old man", and for Zhang Yuhuan, they only come into contact with him when they were young. In fact, Miss Song has told the children countless times about "Dad’s Story": "Your father is very family-friendly. If we usually have anything we want to eat, he will go to the county to buy it; family mother, and your clothes, He bought all the shoes, and the size he bought is always the right size." But the relayed "dad" made Zhang Baoren and Zhang Baogang still feel strange. Zhang Baogang’s first impression of his father was when he was seven or eight years old-when Zhang Yuhuan was in court, and the brothers watched from a distance, "I saw him wearing an anklet and anklet, very pitiful." .
The word "dad" did not seem to bring warmth to the brothers, especially to Zhang Baoren, who had lived in the village since he was a child. "My brother has experienced more pain than me, so I understand him very well." Zhang Baogang said. He has seen children from the same village put his brother on the ground and bullied countless times. Every time Zhang Baogang ran forward to help his brother fight back. .
Zhang Yuhuan and his little granddaughter.
"Family emotions are complicated"
"You only saw the scene at that time, but the emotions behind the whole scene are very complicated." Zhang Baoren replied when referring to the reaction of seeing his father for the first time: "If we meet again, I will also I don’t regret doing that. Because my mother really paid a lot for my father.” Zhang Baoren said: “Including now, after his father’s return, all our children and grandchildren have been around the father’s side, and the children are me. My mother grew up slowly, but on her side, she was the only one. I can think that her emotions would still be somewhat lost." Zhang Baoren told Guangzhou Daily all-media reporters, hoping to help him convey it to everyone. For the individuals in their families, please don't interfere too much, because the lack of communication between their families needs to be made up slowly.
Zhang Yuhuan's understanding of his son and ex-wife is also deepening step by step. He realized that there were many things he didn't know in the past two decades. During the interview, a reporter told him, "Did you know? Song Xiaonv said that you owe her a hug" "Song Xiaonv said, she doesn't want any of your compensation"... Zhang Yuhuan, who knows nothing about the Internet world When even a little dazed.
He told reporters that now Song Xiaonv is like her own relatives, "I feel owed to her, she has paid a lot for my things, and I believe we will continue to be in contact in the future. I feel sympathy for her experience, I didn't expect her to be so affectionate and righteous to me, and everything she did exceeded my expectations."
However, now Zhang Yuhuan has his own fun. The grandchildren especially love Zhang Yuhuan, especially the little granddaughter Yi Nuo. Often when the reporter was interviewing, the little girl would jump around Zhang Yuhuan and kiss her grandfather from time to time; the other grandson read the fairy tale book in hand while resting her feet on Zhang Yuhuan’s back. on.
Zhang Yuhuan especially enjoys the intimacy from his grandchildren, the children are noisy, he always watched with a smile. One of his favorite sayings is: "We have all come from hard times, and we will be content if we have enough food and clothing." As for many things in the follow-up, he still doesn't want to think about it. He just hopes to take a step, count it.
"I came back dignifiedly"
Zhang Yuhuan told reporters that these days, when he walked into the village, he would greet his familiar relatives, friends and neighbors in the village, "I think I came back upright."
Zhang Yuhuan "goed back", but some people "escaped".
After returning to the village, Zhang Yuhuan heard the people in the village mentioned the family situation of the two boys who were victimized in the past: the mother of the victim boy Zhang Zhenwei, Liu Hehua, shortly after Zhang Yuhuan’s imprisonment, her second son was in the second year. She accidentally fell into the water, and the successive blows made her health deteriorating. Although she later gave birth to two sons, the news of the retrial of Zhang Yuhuan's case kept her awake at night. Liu Hehua said in an earlier interview with the media: "I feel so uncomfortable and can't sleep every day." Not long after Zhang Yuhuan came back, she left the village.
The family of another victim boy also suffered misfortune. In the second year of his son's murder, the whole family had already moved out of the village. In an interview with the media, Shu Ailan, the victim's mother, asked: "If he is not the murderer, who is the murderer?"
This kind of suspicion enveloped the entire village. When the reporter visited the villagers, they found that some villagers still did not understand the redress of Zhang Yuhuan's case. Some suspected that he had something to do with him, and some suspected that he was "taking advantage of the law."
"We read on the Internet and said that he was'suspected guilty never', not completely innocent, just insufficient evidence." A middle-aged peasant woman with a foreign surname told reporters: "In the village, there are still people who don't believe him. "
After hearing these doubts, Zhang Yuhuan showed a helpless and surprised look, "Why are there still doubts?" he said. He firmly believes that only by finding the real culprit can he be completely innocent. Although he knew that the follow-up accountability process would be extremely long, he still wanted to persist. Everyone who helped Zhang Yuhuan return home, from the "Cao Yinglan" to the "Wang Fei", also looked forward to the moment when the clouds could see the sun.