Just a month after they met, 80-year-old Zhao Guiyun (a pseudonym), an elderly woman living alone, had already come to regard 40-year-old Li Xia (a pseudonym) as her own daughter.
Afterwards, Li Xia disappeared without a trace and Zhao Guiyun could no longer get in touch with her. Worried that she had been deceived, Zhao Guiyun reported the situation to Secretary Yan of the community committee, who then accompanied her to report the case at the Yong'anTai police station of the Xinfu District Branch of the Fushun Public Security Bureau.
Li Xia was sweet-talking and eager to please; whenever she returned home, she would always be the first to take on any chores. Normally, she would frequently call out "Auntie, Auntie," and Li Xia's 6-year-old son DuoDuo would also address Zhao Guiyun as "Grandma." Later, Li Xia moved into Zhao Guiyun's house with her son DuoDuo.
On June 1st this year, a nearby kindergarten opened, but Li Xia's son DuoDuo did not attend it. Not long after, Li Xia made up an excuse to pick up her son DuoDuo.
Yesterday, I went to the Yong'anTai police station of the Xinfu District Branch of the Fushun Public Security Bureau. Deputy Captain Du Junqing of the Case-handling Team introduced that it is currently impossible to file a case regarding Zhao Guiyun's incident because Li Xia provided a promissory note when borrowing money. Now, since Li Xia cannot be contacted, it cannot yet be considered fraud. Yesterday, when our reporter was verifying the matter of Li Xia borrowing money, it was discovered that Li Xia borrowed money from not just Zhao Guiyun but others as well. However, Zhao Guiyun told our reporter that she still does not believe that Li Xia is a fraudster. She hopes that Li Xia will quickly step forward and repay the money.
In just over a month, Li Xia gained Zhao Guiyun's trust. Zhao Guiyun said that she felt like Li Xia was her own daughter.
The 80-year-old unmarried elder Zhao Guiyun lives in a more than 90-square-meter apartment in the Nantai Community of the Yong'anTai Subdistrict in the Xinfu District of Fushun City. She once adopted a daughter.
Zhao Guiyun recalled that after the first loan, Li Xia began to live at Zhao Guiyun's house less often, staying only three to five days a month. Zhao Guiyun thought that perhaps Li Xia's business was quite busy, leaving her no time to come over.
On May 18th this year, Li Xia borrowed another ten thousand yuan from Zhao Guiyun, saying, "Including the previous loans, the repayment date will be around the end of August."
At the beginning of this year, Zhao Guiyun met a woman named Li Xia while buying health supplements at a store. Li Xia was in her 40s, and Zhao Guiyun said, "She was smooth-talking, and everything she said sounded very true."
Zhao Guiyun was most worried about two things: one was that after retiring from a certain unit, her retirement benefits had not been properly arranged; the other was due to strained relations with her adopted daughter, she was concerned about being left unattended in her old age. Li Xia seized upon these two points and told Zhao Guiyun that she knew people at the provincial level who could help resolve her retirement benefits issues. At the same time, she planned to open a nursing center where she could take care of Zhao Guiyun in her old age. During this period, Li Xia also took the elder on a trip to Beijing.
Yesterday, when I dialed the two telephone numbers provided by Zhao Guiyun, one was turned off, and the other was out of service, making it impossible to contact Li Xia.
After gaining Zhao Guiyun's trust, Li Xia claimed that her business needed cash flow and started borrowing money from Zhao Guiyun. She borrowed 150,000 yuan from Zhao Guiyun all at once. The promissory note presented by Zhao Guiyun clearly stated: "Today, I am borrowing 150,000 yuan RMB from Zhao Guiyun, and the repayment will include a total cost of 170,000 yuan." The signing date was February 27, 2011.
These two loans exhausted all the money Zhao Guiyun had stashed away.
Little did she expect that her "dear daughter" would borrow 160,000 yuan from her and then disappear, becoming unreachable.