"This is a secret we have kept together for more than 6 years. It may be exposed now."
On December 16, Zhengzhou, Henan, 72-year-old Wang Weizhi (pseudonym) received an interview call from a reporter who knew his real name and wanted to interview his 9-year-old granddaughter who was subject to judicial restrictions on high consumption.
He was puzzled and spoke louder and louder, "How do you know my name?" The other party replied, seeing it on the Internet.
Only then did Wang Weizhi know that the second-instance civil judgment of the 9-year-old granddaughter Chen Man (a pseudonym) had been published by the court on the Judgment Documents website, and the child's life experience, current name and previous name were published.
And Chen Man's life experience hides her secret of being the orphan of a criminal.
When she was less than one year old, her biological father Zhang Qiang wanted to sell the house because of gambling debts, but his wife and mother-in-law objected.
Zhang Qiang killed the two, sold the house privately to Wang Lin, and fled with the sale price of RMB 550,000.
Zhang Qiang was arrested and sentenced to death according to law.
Chen Man was left behind in his grandparents' homes in Hunan, his aunts and grandparents in Jiaozuo, Henan, and his grandfather's in Zhengzhou.
When he was 3 years old, he met several kind-hearted people to help, and has been living with the "adoptive mother" Chen Ruolan (pseudonym).
After the Zhang Qiang case, Wang Lin, the buyer, has also been pursuing the property or asking for 550,000 yuan for the sale of the house.
The lawsuit lasted for several years. Until October 26 this year, the Zhengzhou Intermediate People's Court made a second-instance judgment that Wang Lin had to return the house to Chen Man. Chen Man should return Wang Lin's 550,000 yuan for the purchase of the house within the scope of his inheritance.
On November 25, the Jinshui District Court of Zhengzhou City issued an order to restrict high consumption to Chen Man due to the failure to implement it on schedule.
As a result, the 9-year-old girl was placed under the spotlight.
Chen Man's "adoptive mother" worried that, in this way, Chen Man or people around her might know the secret of her life experience and whether her young mind could bear it.
They decided that they would still try their best to keep this secret.
She and the kind people who helped Chen Man also unanimously called for more care for minors, criminals and orphans by relevant institutions and society, and put their love in every detail.
On December 15th, the Jinshui District Court of Zhengzhou City revoked the order to restrict high consumption.
The court also withdrew the relevant judicial documents on December 17.
The court officials admitted to the Beijing News reporter that this did not conform to the spirit of relevant legislation and the concept of good faith and civilized implementation. They sincerely apologized for this.
Guardianship
9-year-old Chen Man is an orphan.
On February 24, 2012, Chen Man, who was still in his infancy, suffered life misfortune. His biological father Zhang Qiang had conflicts with his wife and mother-in-law due to gambling debts, and brutally killed the two, and sold the house privately to Wang Lin the next day.
On February 28 of that year, after Zhang Qiang received the payment of 550,000 for the house, he took the 9-month-old Chen Man and fled to the old Changsha.
Zhang Qiang entrusted Chen Man to his brother, saying that he was divorced with his wife, and asked his brother to take care of him first, and he kept 200,000 yuan, and then fled.
After Zhang Qiang was arrested, Chen Man came to his grandparents' house.
Grandma is a retired teacher, and grandpa is also a local civil servant.
When the two old people encountered their son, they even wanted to take good care of their granddaughter.
Grandma Liu Fang said that after raising Chen Man, she was afraid that she had a bad memory, so she kept a diary every day to record the time her granddaughter slept and food preferences... This was 324 days.
But grandfather Wang Weizhi in Zhengzhou also wanted to return to Chen Man.
His wife and only daughter were killed. Wang Weizhi hopes to keep this blood, and wants to fight back the child from his grandparents.
Grandma naturally disagrees.
She was worried that Wang Weizhi alone would not be able to take care of her granddaughter, and that she and her husband had a stable pension and had a better economic foundation than her grandfather.
In order to fight for Chen Man's guardianship, Wang Weizhi studied a large number of legal documents and learned that similar to Chen Man's situation, his father or mother's unit has the right to appoint a guardian.
Wang Weizhi found his daughter's work unit before his death and asked for a written statement that agreed to him as a guardian.
After several fights, he even sat quietly holding his daughter's portrait.
Finally, in September of that year, Wang Weizhi got this certificate and went to Changsha again to ask for his granddaughter.
This time, Wang Weizhi asked the local police and TV reporters to knock on Liu Fang's door and take Chen Man away.
As soon as Wang Weizhi returned to the hotel with his forefoot, a dozen people from the Chen family chased him and blocked the hotel door. Liu Fang took advantage of the chaos and hugged Chen Man back.
After the discussion failed, Wang Weizhi decided to go through legal procedures.
On January 18, 2013, after mediation by the People's Court of Yuelu District, Changsha City, the two parties reached an agreement: Chen Man will be handed over to Wang Weizhi's custody and handed over in court. In the future, if Wang Weizhi has no guardianship capacity or is not suitable for custody of Chen Man, his grandparents can take care of him.
"Finding a Home" for Orphans
After the granddaughter came back, she and Wang Weizhi depended on each other.
He is nearly 70 years old, and he sends Chen Man to the nursery every day, and takes her back at night when there are few people to avoid neighbors' gossip.
Occasionally holding Chen Man to play downstairs, the old lady in the yard stuffed money into him, "Buy something delicious for the child."
In May 2013, the court opened a trial on Zhang Qiang's suspected intentional homicide. Because of the civil compensation involved, Wang Weizhi's wife's family also came to Zhengzhou. Seeing that he was struggling with his granddaughter alone, they proposed to bring Chen Man back to Jiaozuo to raise.
At that time, Chen Man, who was more than two years old, had gradually become sensible, but could not see his parents.
Wang Weizhi remembered that whenever she heard the voice of "mother" on TV, she would stare at the screen and cry in a low voice.
But a year later, Wang Weizhi took Chen Man back to Zhengzhou.
"My wife's family has no suitable children to adopt. They all have their own children, and they are afraid that they will say that the children are not biological and reveal the children's life experience." He wants to find a family for his granddaughter that is well-educated, kind to the children and will not fight for support. Right’s "New Home".
Wang Weizhi inspected 5 houses before and after, but they were not satisfied.
Among them, the husband is a teacher and the wife is a nurse. They have good financial conditions.
However, Wang Weizhi found that their son had been punished for fighting, and worried that the family education was not good; an agency official also intended to adopt, but his wife was not enthusiastic about the child. Wang Weizhi worried that the child would be left out.
There is also a business couple who have no children and are in good conditions in all aspects, but they hope to go through formal adoption procedures.
Wang Weizhi refused to give up his guardianship, "I can't sever ties with this child," he shook his head and muttered, "This is impossible."
In the end, a kind and caring person Wu Feng helped him find someone who could meet his requirements.
Around March 2014, Wu Feng visited Wang Weizhi's home and met Chen Man for the first time.
Chen Man, who was nearly 3 years old at the time, was thin and small, with weak eyes.
The drinks and snacks he brought with him were protected by Chen Man with his hands, as if he rarely touched these snacks.
Suddenly made him feel compassion.
At that time, Chen Man's father was about to be executed, and Wang Weizhi was 67 years old.
Wu Feng was also worried that the old man could not take care of Chen Man. He decided to help the child find a "new home."
Superbirth "daughter"
Adoptive mother Chen Ruolan only knew about Chen Man after seeing Wu Feng's friends circle.
On the day of Chen Man's third birthday, Wu Feng was unable to accompany her to celebrate her birthday because of something, so he sent a circle of friends and asked for help from caring people in Zhengzhou to accompany the orphans for him.
After seeing this circle of friends, Chen Ruolan immediately decided to go.
It was early summer, and Chen Ruolan brought cakes and skirts to Wang Weizhi’s community.
As soon as she entered the gate of the community, she saw an old man holding a girl standing at the gate.
After acknowledging each other, Chen Man stretched out his little hand to hug and called Chen Ruolan "mother".
Chen Ruolan picked her up, the child kept leaning on her shoulder.
After spending her birthday with Chen Man, Chen Ruolan couldn't sleep through the night for several days. When she closed her eyes, she looked like a child resting on her shoulder.
In the dream, it seemed to hear Chen Man's biological mother begging her: "Please help me take care of this child."
After thinking twice, Chen Ruolan called Wang Weizhi and asked if she could be Chen Man's godmother.
Wang Weizhi did not hear clearly at the time, thinking she was going to adopt Chen Man, so he took the child to Chen Ruolan's house.
Chen Ruolan already has a son, so she was not considering adoption.
But out of pity, she decided to raise the child.
In order to welcome Chen Man, Chen Ruolan's family set up two or three banquets.
Chen Ruolan said to the public that Chen Man is her biological daughter. Because she is a superbirth, she secretly placed Chen Man in foster care. Now the child has to go to kindergarten before he takes it back.
Chen Ruolan's family also didn't know Chen Man's real life experience, only that he was an orphan.
This also includes Chen Ruolan's husband.
Chen Man's elder brother, who is 5 years old, has always regarded her as his own sister.
Seeing Chen Man sleeping with his mother every day, the two are intimate, and he is often jealous.
In order to "inspect" his new home, Wang Weizhi also moved into Chen's house for a few days, and left with satisfaction when he saw that the family was kind to the child.
Thereafter, on weekends, Wang Weizhi would visit the children and stay for two days by the way.
Chen Ruolan's father had died in a car accident, and the family also plans to provide for Wang Weizhi.
Wu Feng is also silently caring about Chen Man. Whenever he goes to Henan, he will visit her as a friend of his adoptive mother and give his children some care and financial support.
Chen Man was frail and sick and often had a fever. Chen Ruolan always took her to the hospital.
In order to cure the child's high-grade anemia, the medicine tonic and the food tonic have not been stopped at home.
Chen Ruolan often prepares ingredients such as chicken liver and pork liver. Until now, Chen Man turned around when he saw these foods.
On December 16, a reporter from the Beijing News met Chen Ruolan.
She opened the phone album and recalled Chen Man's growth from 3 to 9 years old.
In the photo, Chen Man has grown from a thin and timid little girl to a big girl: a round face, big eyes, and a smile.
"When taking pictures, she would say to take pictures of my long legs."
"Secrets" to be guarded together
Chen Man's life experience has always been a "secret" guarded by Wang Weizhi, Chen Ruolan, and Wu Feng.
In Chen Man's cognition, she is Chen Ruolan's biological daughter.
In mid-2014, when Chen Man went to kindergarten, Wang Weizhi and Chen Ruolan discussed that they would change her name and start a new life.
At that time, Zhang Qiang had not yet been executed.
Wang Weizhi went to the police station where Chen Man was registered to apply for a name change. The staff refused him on the grounds that "the child's biological father is still alive, and the grandfather has no right to change his name."
One month later, he received another reply: "Your situation is special. You must consult the leaders of the city bureau and go back and wait for notification."
After seven months of continuous applications, Chen Man still failed to change his name.
Angrily, Wang Weizhi thought of going to court again. He applied for administrative reconsideration to the relevant departments and sued the relevant departments of Zhengzhou City. The case was heard by the Zhengzhou Intermediate People's Court.
In the end, the court ordered the relevant departments to make a reconsideration decision and initiate the name change procedure.
Subsequently, he went through the application and review procedures, which took nearly two years. Around September 2015, Chen Man had a new name.
Wang Weizhi couldn't help sighing, "Fortunately, he changed when the child was in kindergarten."
The new name was taken by Wu Feng.
The surname is the same as Chen Ruolan's, the second word is part of Wu Feng's name, and the third word means a good life.
Wang Weizhi was also very satisfied with this loving name.
Chen Man continued to grow up and entered elementary school, but the real estate disputes left by his parents continued.
Before Zhang Qiang fled, he signed the "House Transfer Contract" with Wang Lin, delivered the house keys, and took away 550,000.
Following the Zhang Qiang case, Wang Lin has never given up the confirmation of the property rights or recovered the purchase price.
This real estate lawsuit lasted for several years.
In June 2019, the court of Jinshui District of Zhengzhou City made a first-instance judgment: to terminate the contract signed by Wang Lin and Zhang Qiang; Chen Man and his grandfather and grandmother shall bear the responsibility of returning the purchase price of 550,000 yuan within the scope of Zhang Qiang's estate.
At this time, Chen Man was in the third grade of elementary school.
Wang Weizhi was afraid that Chen Man would know the hidden situation, and after discussing with Chen Ruolan, he decided to send her to a boarding elementary school 15 kilometers away from home.
The annual tuition fee of nearly 30,000 yuan is jointly borne by Wang Weizhi, Chen Ruolan and Wu Feng.
Whenever Chen Man returns to his grandfather's house on weekends.
Wang Weizhi will tell his neighbors that this is a child of a relative's family, and his granddaughter has already been sent abroad.
The age is so long, no one asks too much.
As long as Chen Man was at home, they kept silent about the case.
In Wang Weizhi's room, there are various case materials.
Chen Man was not literate yet, so grandpa told her that she was helping others in a lawsuit.
"We hope she never knows this."
Restricted to high consumption twice
A notice to restrict high consumption orders broke the tranquility guarded by the family.
After the first-instance judgment of the real estate dispute case, Wang Weizhi appealed.
In December 2019, the Zhengzhou Intermediate People's Court sent the case back for retrial.
In August 2020, after the retrial of the Jinshui District Court, it still ruled that Chen Man, within the scope of the inheritance of Zhang Qiang's estate, should bear the return of 550,000 yuan for Wang Lin's purchase of the house.
Wang Weizhi refused to accept and continued to appeal.
On October 26 this year, the Zhengzhou Intermediate Court upheld the original verdict in the second instance.
On November 25, because Chen Man did not return RMB 550,000, the court issued an order to restrict high consumption.
This is the second time that Chen Man has been restricted from high consumption. In December 2017, she was also restricted from high consumption due to the "legacy lawsuit" of Wang Weizhi's wife and her grandmother.
After the death of her grandmother, she left a unit house of more than 70 square meters and more than 300,000 movable properties. Chen Man and her great-grandmother have the right to inherit their estate.
In order to give Chen Man the right to live in the house left by his wife, Wang Weizhi sued his mother-in-law and demanded an abortion.
The court finally ruled that the appraised value of the house was 650,000, and the value of movable properties such as deposits and stocks was more than 300,000. Chen Man and his great-grandmother each inherited half.
At that time, my great-grandmother took away more than 300,000 movable properties, and Chen Man who wanted a house needed to supply them with nearly 200,000.
Unable to repay the loan, the Jinshui District Court issued an order to restrict high consumption to Chen Man.
After a year and a half, the court lifted the high-consumption restriction order due to a settlement between the two parties.
When the height was restricted this time, Chen Man was 9 years old.
In previous winter and summer vacations, Chen Ruolan would take the children out for travel.
Now that Chen Man is restricted to high consumption, she will not be able to take airplanes and trains with the prefix G, and cannot stay in hotels above the star rating.
Chen Ruolan was worried, "The winter vacation is coming soon, if the child asks, how should I answer."
The family found the media and reported the whole story, hoping to lift the height limit order.
On December 15, the Jinshui District Court issued the "Letter of Execution Decision" to lift the high-consumption restriction order against Chen Man.
The "Enforcement Decision" shows that in the process of enforcement, the court found out that the person subject to enforcement Chen Man is a minor, and when deciding to take measures to restrict high consumption according to regulations, it should consider whether the person subject to enforcement has passively performed, evaded enforcement, or resisted enforcement. Factors such as the behavior of the person being executed and the performance ability of the person being executed.
In the early morning of the 16th, the Jinshui District Court issued a statement of apology through its official Weibo, stating that it would immediately review the case, and issuing an order restricting high consumption to minors is not in line with the spirit of the relevant legislation and the concept of good faith and civilized implementation. It is wrong.
But the matter did not end there.
In the afternoon, Wang Weizhi received an interview call from reporters and learned that all civil judgments related to the case were posted on the Judgment Documents website, and Chen Man's previous and current names were also published.
He immediately contacted the Jinshui District Court and requested the relevant documents to be removed.
Chen Ruolan was also worried.
The number of viewers in the upper right corner of Wenxue.com has exceeded 500. "If the name is finally changed, will these people spread the child's information?" After that, she frowned and looked out the window, and then called.
On the other end of the phone was Wu Feng. He couldn't help but be indignant: "Why are we exposed for so long a secret?"
After a day of urgent application and approval, the relevant documents were finally removed.
On December 17, a reporter from the Beijing News came to the Jinshui District Court.
The staff of the Propaganda Section of the court quickly apologized, “As stated in our letter of apology for revocation of the height limit order, some tasks may be more mechanical, and this is indeed our problem.”
The staff member stated that in the next step, they will concentrate on handling the case well, and as much as possible to integrate emotion and law.
Later, on issues involving minors, the courts will pay more attention to privacy protection and will also handle related matters more carefully.
"I'm sorry, but we also hope that she will spend this life steadily without knowing it." Ms. Chang said.
Unfinished
Outside of the case, Wang Weizhi is still worried about Chen Man's future.
He is 72 years old and his body is not as good as before.
According to the previous agreement, when Wang Weizhi is incapable of guarding or unsuitable for guarding Chen Man, his grandparents can be supervised.
If so, Chen Man would know his life experience.
Since 2013, Wang Weizhi has been relying on his pension of more than 3,000 yuan to raise his children.
It was not until 2017 that Wang Weizhi remembered applying for Chen Man's orphan card and subsistence allowance under the reminder of his friends.
"There were too many things before, I didn't take care of it." Wang Weizhi said.
Jia Aili of the Child Welfare Security Section of the Zhengzhou Civil Affairs Bureau stated that the total monthly allowances and subsidies related to orphans in Zhengzhou are 1,380 yuan, including basic living expenses, education expenses, basic medical expenses, rehabilitation expenses, foster family labor expenses, etc. .
The Civil Code, which will come into effect on January 1, 2021, expands the scope of adopters, who can be childless or only one child.
Jia Aili said that if Chen Man's relatives are old, Chen Ruolan can also go through formal adoption procedures with the consent of her grandfather, grandpa and grandma.
Jia Aili reminded that formal adoption procedures must be completed before the child is 18 years old.
Before going through the adoption procedures, the adoptive parents should be informed of the true situation, and related disputes should be handled properly, so as not to affect the child and the family of adoptive parents.
After thinking about it, Chen Ruolan decided to tell her husband Liu Yong the secret of Chen Man's life experience.
The husband was shocked and distressed.
The next day, it was the winter solstice, and they decided to go to school to see their children.
The bell rang after class, and a few pupils hopped to the school gate.
Chen Ruolan recognized the child at a glance, beckoned, Chen Man quickened her pace.
Just out of school, Liu Yong picked up Chen Man. The two were very close, holding their foreheads against each other.
Chen Man leaned into the ear of the "adoptive father" and asked, "Dad, can I travel during winter vacation?"
During the lunch break, the bell rang, and Chen Man walked to the campus carrying snacks.
After walking a few steps, she looked back and waved, shouting "bye bye" in her mouth.
Chen Ruolan discussed with her husband that she should go through formal adoption procedures for Chen Man.
But Wang Weizhi did not agree, and for the first time the two sides had differences on the child's matter.
But it doesn't matter whether it is formally adopted, or whether it is his biological daughter.
Some netizens commented, "This little girl was looking for her mother in the sky, but she accidentally walked the wrong door, and later found her way home." Chen Ruolan couldn't help but blush, "Although there is no law and blood relationship, But she is my child."
(In order to protect the privacy of minors, Wang Weizhi, Chen Ruolan, Wu Feng, Chen Nan, Liu Fang, Chen Man, Liu Yong, and Zhang Qiang are all pseudonyms in the article)