Our reporter learned that a worker named Xiao Li (a pseudonym) borrowed a mobile phone from another worker, saying he wanted to send a text message, and Xiao Liu immediately lent it to him.
Unexpectedly, because of this one text message, Xiao Liu suffered a shattered shoulder blade, a punctured lung, and head injuries.
What kind of text message could have caused Xiao Liu to go through such an ordeal?
Xiao Liu, a 22-year-old young man from Anhui Province, came to Hangzhou last November to work in a processing plant on Chutian Road in Binjiang as a quality inspector. His supervisor described him as "quite an honest person."
On the afternoon of February 19th, coworker Xiao Li approached Xiao Liu, saying he wanted to borrow his phone to send a text message. Knowing that Xiao Li didn't have a phone, Xiao Liu lent his to him.
Not long after the text was sent, Xiao Liu received a strange call. The man on the other end of the line started cursing at Xiao Liu, accusing him of stealing his girlfriend.
Xiao Liu was completely baffled. Later, he figured out what had happened: Xiao Li had used Xiao Liu's phone to send a text message to a female coworker in the factory, hoping for a private meeting to see if they could become a couple. Unfortunately, the girl's boyfriend saw the message.
Xiao Liu didn't know how to explain. Should he say he wasn't familiar with the girl? Or that he already had a girlfriend and wouldn't send such a message? Or that the message wasn't actually sent by him but by someone else borrowing his phone?
Unable to explain clearly, and with the other party cursing furiously, back and forth, the other party proposed "meeting at the factory gate after five o'clock," and surprisingly, Xiao Liu agreed.
"I thought that encountering such a complicated situation would result in nothing more than getting hit a few times, and it would be over," Xiao Liu thought. So, at 5 p.m. the day before yesterday, he showed up at the factory gate as scheduled. Unexpectedly, as soon as he appeared, seven young men in their twenties wielding long knives surrounded him.
Before Xiao Liu could say anything, he had already been slashed seven or eight times. After being rushed to the hospital, the doctor said that his shoulder blade was shattered, his lung was pierced, and his head was injured.
Yesterday, Xiao Liu lay in bed at the Binjiang Armed Police Hospital. His mother leaned by the bedside, saying she couldn't understand "how one text message could cause such an incident." However, Xiao Li, who borrowed the phone, did come to the hospital to visit Xiao Liu.
When Xiao Liu got into trouble, the factory staff didn't have time to intervene. "Our factory is small, with only one security guard. The other side had seven people and were armed," said Factory Manager Ma. He was flying back from Guangdong to Hangzhou and said he would cooperate with the police investigation. Currently, the factory has prepaid 5,000 yuan for medical expenses.
Due to his head injury, Xiao Liu has been dizzy and unable to talk much. The police record will be taken when he regains more consciousness, and the doctor said he hasn't fully escaped life-threatening danger yet.
The specific details of the case are still under further investigation by the police. Our newspaper intern reporter Pan Yuefei