At 7:40, the同城交友网 seemed meaningless to me. Enraged, Li immediately gathered a few friends; Sun Jun found Wang Xiucheng and Mou Chunxiang in Laocheng, Heilongjiang. On the Beijing and Shanghai交友 networks, a male passenger quickly jumped out of the car to help. Dou Shuo said, "It was just too moving." The article revealed issues such as low thresholds for proxy companies and lax supervision by airlines. Li Yaping's body still hasn't been cremated. The police took action simultaneously against counterfeit drug dens in Chaoyang, Fengtai, Shijingshan, Daxing, Tongzhou, and Fangshan districts.
On February 28th, consumers should be more vigilant. However, he never waited for that day. Cracks appeared when his parents faked their divorce to gain more property. At 4:15 AM on September 3, 2011, in apartment 402, unit 5, building 26, Fuyuan neighborhood, Huangcun town, Daxing district, 20-year-old Li Ziyang stood beside the bed, gripping a knife and glaring at his sleeping stepmother Zhao Yin. Scenes from the past decade replayed in his mind. "One stab and she'll just spend a few months in the hospital; it's just flesh wounds. But for so many years, I've suffered emotional trauma," Li Ziyang muttered through clenched teeth.
The knife fell, and his stepmother lay in a pool of blood. Li Ziyang's life changed forever. Time rewinds to 16 years ago when Li Ziyang, like other children, had a complete family. In the summer of 1996, five-year-old Li Ziyang had a round face with big eyes. Neighbors said he looked just like his father. One early morning, as usual, his mother Wang Shuzhi and father Li Dong prepared to go sell vegetables. Li Dong drove the tricycle while Wang Shuzhi held their son in her arms.
Arriving at the market, they parked the tricycle by the roadside. Li Dong tied a thick rope around his son and secured the other end to the handlebars, instructing him, "We'll be right there. Sit still on the cart, and we'll give you something good to eat later." However, as soon as he crossed the road, Li Dong suddenly heard a screech of brakes behind him. Turning around, he saw his son lying motionless on the ground, with a heavy truck stopped just a meter away.
Without hesitation, Li Dong dropped his tools and ran back, holding his son tightly in his arms, his eyes turning red instantly. Li Ziyang would never forget the worried look on his parents' faces that day. "That was the first time I saw my dad cry," Li Ziyang recalled in court. "I'll never see that look again."
All beautiful memories came to an abrupt end in the summer of 1997. That year, due to the Niu Street demolition, families were trying every means to get more square meters, changing household registrations and using connections. The Lis were no exception. "After careful consideration, my parents decided to fake a divorce to get another house," Li Ziyang said. The divorce decree was all planned out, with plans to remarry once the new house was obtained. However, before they could get the new house, everything changed.
"It was at this moment that the woman appeared," Li Ziyang would never forget the first time he met his stepmother Zhao Qing. "She seemed like a big sister, looking much younger than my father, probably eight or nine years younger." From then on, the relationship between his parents became increasingly strained.
In 1997, six-year-old Li Ziyang witnessed his parents' conflict escalate to the courts. The court ruled that Li Ziyang would live with his mother, and Li Dong would pay 150 yuan monthly as child support. A few days after the verdict, Wang Shuzhi packed up and left the old house in Niu Street with her son.
In the adult world, what does "separation" mean? Young Li Ziyang couldn't understand it. Before leaving, he waved goodbye to his father. "At that moment, I thought our family would reunite someday, and the separation was only temporary," Li Ziyang bitterly recalled years later. However, his father never returned.
Li Ziyang and his mother's new home was in Xihongmen, a small room where the bed occupied most of the space. Less than four months after moving in, Li Dong's child support payments stopped. Since she had to raise her family alone without a formal job, Wang Shuzhi began working odd jobs tirelessly. However, money was still insufficient. To pay for her son's tuition, Wang Shuzhi started selling blood, losing over 30 pounds in less than two years.
"I wish my dad could come back and see how mom is; then they would reunite, and she wouldn't have to sell blood anymore," Li Ziyang innocently imagined. However, two years passed, and his father never visited them in Xihongmen. Two years later, Li Dong remarried, marrying Zhao Yang, who was nearly ten years younger.
In third grade, Li Ziyang wanted his father to visit once, so after thinking about it for many days, he finally mustered the courage to call his father, lying that his mother was going to sell a kidney to pay for his tuition. However, before he could finish speaking, his father impatiently shouted, "Let her sell if she wants; if she dies, it has nothing to do with me," and hung up.
After hanging up, he sat stunned in the room for half a day. Li Ziyang finally realized, "Dad will never come back."
Lonely and unsupported, his mother also left unexpectedly.
"In July 2000, during the summer vacation before fourth grade," Li Ziyang remembered every detail clearly. Early in the morning, his mother suddenly felt stomach pain and pushed him to the service office for money to see a doctor. An aunt at the office took him to the courtyard and told him to wait.
Being alone was boring, so Li Ziyang squatted in the grass watching insects. A long line of ants passed through the grass unnoticed until the sun rose high above.
When he returned to the room, there was no one inside. Li Ziyang ran down the corridor shouting and pushing doors but couldn't find his mother. "Maybe mom didn't find money at the service office and went to earn money for medical treatment," Li Ziyang consoled himself, grabbing a small stool and sitting at the door waiting. When he was hungry, he ran to a neighbor's house for food, and when he was tired, he lay down on the bed to sleep. Each time he woke up, the room was still empty. A week passed.
"I felt like I was abandoned and didn't know where to find her," Li Ziyang recalled. When he woke up again, he was already hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning by a neighbor. However, upon opening his eyes, his mother was still not by his side.
Sitting silently on the hospital bed, Li Ziyang finally burst into tears hugging a pillow. "Even if she went out to make money, she should have returned," Li Ziyang had to admit to himself, "Mom left."
Years later, standing in court, Li Ziyang, expressionless from start to finish, choked up when talking about his mother. However, Li Ziyang never hated his mother. "I know I'm the burden she separated from. This way, she no longer has to sell blood to support my education."
Homeless, in fifth grade, he attempted suicide on the road. After his mother left, Li Ziyang had nowhere to go and returned to his father's house.
However, living with his father again, Li Ziyang felt his father had changed. "He rarely used to hit me, but now, whenever he's in a bad mood, he comes home and beats and scolds me. He uses ashtrays, clothes hangers—anything he can grab to hit me," Li Ziyang said.
When elementary school required fees, Li Ziyang asked his father for money. His stepmother slapped him, saying, "We don't have the spare money to pay his fees." His father remained silent.
His homeroom teacher knew Li Ziyang had no money for food and secretly paid for his meals. Li Ziyang didn't want to go home and faced his stepmother and father every day. After school, he slept in the basement of the school and wore smelly school uniforms during the day. Classmates disliked him because he was dirty and ignored him. Older students cursed him as a "homeless child." Gradually, Li Ziyang's temper became increasingly secluded.
"I hate my stepmother; if it weren't for her, my father wouldn't treat me like this." For the first time, Li Ziyang thought of death.
In the summer of 2001, before the first snowfall, the air was dry and hot. Around 5 PM, after standing on the roadside for hours, Li Ziyang suddenly ran into the middle of the road and crazily tried to collide with an incoming vehicle. A large truck swerved sharply to avoid him.
Minutes later, two policemen ran over and dragged him back to the police station. Li Ziyang recalled that when his father Li Dong received the call from the police station, he simply said, "If he wants to die, let him die. Living is just a burden anyway."
Every word from his father was engraved in Li Ziyang's heart. "If he wanted me dead, why did he bring me into this world?"
That year, Li Ziyang was in fifth grade. It was then he realized that although his father was still alive, he was essentially an orphan.
In the second semester of sixth grade, unable to bear living at home, Li Ziyang found the Beijing Minor Rescue and Protection Center and stayed there until he graduated from elementary school. "Afterward, I was accepted into an ordinary high school, but my father wouldn't let me go. He forced me to attend a vocational school and even refused to pay the tuition." Li Ziyang recalled that at the age of 12, he ultimately decided to leave Beijing and this nominal family.
Leaving home, at 12 years old, he set out alone to wander. The public bus swayed, and on the last row of seats, Li Ziyang leaned by the window, clutching his backpack with 20 yuan given to him by a stranger at the rescue station, remaining silent.
At 12 years old, while other children were joyfully preparing for junior high school with their parents, Li Ziyang embarked on a journey of wandering alone. Leaving the rescue station, he randomly boarded a long-distance bus heading north, starting from Guyan County in Hebei Province.
To fill his belly, at 12 years old, Li Ziyang entered a KTV as a server through someone's introduction and stayed there for three years. Afterward, Li Ziyang summarized the environment there in four words: "a mix of good and bad elements."
"However, the cost of living in Guyan County was low, and regulations were strict. A 12-year-old could find work and eat well, which was unimaginable in Beijing," Li Ziyang said. However, due to his young age, he was often bullied in the KTV.
Finally reaching 15 years old, Li Ziyang quit his job and left Guyan County. From then on, he never worked in the same place for more than three months. Li Ziyang lost count of how many places he wandered to after leaving Beijing. "Baoding, Xingtai, Baotou, Mudanjiang... But the cigarette prices designated by Liu were very high. As early as 1996, the police posed as buyers and contacted the chat account left by the Jiutian Exam website. Using the same empty vehicle to pick up goods."
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