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a few days ago, and returned to his hometown Jigongling. Haishan, who grew up together, chatted with me and said that Aunt Mai Qing was dead. I was stunned for a long time before I realized that what he was talking about was his former aunt, the woman who was raped by Gawa twenty-six years ago.
I was only ten years old that year. I was in the third grade of elementary school with Haishan, and I was confused about anything. But I clearly remember one evening in early summer that year, after school, our group of children gathered in front of the stone mill at the entrance of the village and played the game of officers and soldiers catching thieves. The sky is shining with sunshine, and golden clouds are spread all over the sky. We are chasing and having fun. At this moment, we saw a strange scene: our village chief carried a hoe and took Gawa, who was called the second fool by the villager, from Jigongling, followed by Aunt Mai Qing, who was crying.
When they got closer, I saw clearly that Gawa had a blue nose and swollen face, blood was oozing out of the corners of his nostrils and mouth, and tears flowed to his chin. His upper body was stripped naked, his body was black and thin, and his ribs were clearly visible one by one. The most ridiculous thing is that his two hands were carrying large pants, and his belt was untied by the village chief. One end was tied firmly to his neck and the other end was held in the village chief's hand, like a dog to be taken to slaughter. Aunt Mai Qing, who was walking behind them, had her hair disheveled and her clothes were messy, and she cried like she was losing her parents. When she arrived in front of us, she sat on the ground with her crying louder, and she burst into tears, saying that she had lost the Yao family's face and that she was not alive.
The Yao family refers to Haishan and their family, which is considered a big family in our village. Mai Qing is Haishan's aunt and the wife of Haishan's third uncle Yao Qiusheng. My impression of Yao Qiusheng is very vague, because he became a soldier when I was very young. I heard that he was a car soldier. Later, because he did a good job in the army, he turned into volunteer soldier . Later, he married Mai Qing as his wife and came back a few times a year. In short, Mai Qing has been married to Yao Qiusheng for more than six years. Because the man is in the army, she can only handle housework diligently alone, busy at home and outside. In Haishan's words, Aunt Mai Qing is a glorious military family, and half of the military merits are the third uncle and half of Aunt Mai Qing's. Because of this, the villagers took great care of Mai Qing and knew that it was not easy for her to plant and harvest in spring and autumn to do farm work. She often took time to help her. The one who helped her the most diligently was Gawa.
In fact, there is a reason Gawa is willing to help Mai Qing, because Mai Qing promised him more than once to help him get a wife.
I heard that when Gawa was just born, his father was mowing grass on the mountain, and accidentally rolled down from the hillside and fell to death, leaving his mother to pull the two brothers alone. It was also that year that Ga Wa had a high fever and burned her brain. When she grew up, she became a little stupid. People who were not good at speaking called him a second fool. Gawa's mother raised two children and lived a hard life. Gawa's brother couldn't marry a wife even when he was thirty-seven or eight years old. There was no way, so he went to a place dozens of miles away to become a son-in-law. Maybe his life was not good, or maybe he was a son-in-law who was under control, but he almost never saw him come back to see Gawa and his mother.
Although Gawa is not smart, after he is in his thirties, he has no knowledge of men and women. Whenever someone in the village gets a wife, Gawa is more excited than anyone else. He can stare at the bride and stare at the bride for a long time. So someone joked about him, "Gawa, let me introduce you to a wife." Gawa believed it and said yes. The man said that this wife had a little long waist, a little ears, a little short thighs, and she ate a little too much. Gawa thought about it and said I don’t mind. Everyone around him burst into laughter. Everyone knew that the sow was introduced to him, but he didn't expect it. Later, Gawa finally figured it out. He shook his head angrily if anyone wanted to joke about introducing his wife to him.
After Mai Qing married into our village, the village chief held a meeting with everyone and told everyone that Mai Qing is a military family and everyone should help her more. Gawa became serious and every time he finished his work at home, he would go to help Mai Qing. After a long time, Mai Qing was dissatisfied and said, "Gawa, let me introduce you to a wife." Gawa shook his head and said no.Mai Qing didn't know that Gawa had been teased about this matter, so she mentioned it twice intentionally or unintentionally. Gawa's eyes lit up and she happily asked if what Mai Qing said was true. Mai Qing said it must be true, can I still lie to you? After hearing this, Gawa helped Mai Qing work harder. But Mai Qing turned around and forgot about this matter, and had no reply for a long time. So the villagers started to make fun of Gawa for this incident again. Even we children would shout to him when they saw Gawa: Aunt Mai Qing took your wife to your house, so hurry up and take a look.
In my ten-year-old memory, Gawa may be very angry because others teased him, but he never scolded and beat people, and had a very gentle temper. So when the village chief tied his neck with a cloth belt and pulled him to the entrance of the village, we were all very surprised and we suddenly gathered around to find out what was going on. Even Haishan didn't care about his aunt and asked his elder sister, so he followed him to the village chief and asked loudly: What's wrong?
The village chief took off the hoe on his shoulder with great momentum and leaned it on the ground, saying with a loud voice: Go and call all of you, the second fool raped Yao Qiusheng's woman! The message
is like a slap, which immediately stunned us. It took a few seconds to realize how heavy the slap is. We began to rush towards the village like the wind.
Gawa raped Aunt Mai Qing! Haishan shouted excitedly.
Gawa raped the person! We then shouted excitedly.
Soon, the men, women, young and old in the village came and surrounded the village chief and the others. The village chief separated the crowd and jumped onto the stone mill with Gawa. He waved his arms indignantly and said that he had just passed by Jigongling and saw Gawa raping Mai Qing with his own eyes. He rushed up immediately, smashed Gawa's bare butt with a hoe, and captured him on the spot.
In order to prove that what he said is true, the village chief pointed at Gawa's nose and asked loudly: Am I right?
Ga Wa was frightened, shrank her neck and hid the village chief's finger, and could not even say a word.
At this time, Gawa's mother ran over tremblingly. She squeezed into the crowd and rushed to grab the village chief's arm and said: You must have made a mistake. Gawa is stupid, but he will not do anything illegal!
The village chief shook her hand away and said contemptuously: He won’t? Why can't he be a man? As he said that, the village chief pointed at Gawa's nose and asked: You said yourself, are you right? You said, have you messed with someone?
Gawa looked at his mother with tears in her eyes and nodded.
The village chief continued to ask: Did you think you got it in?
Gawa was so scared that he cried, but he nodded. Gawa's mother suddenly couldn't stand steadily, and she fainted when she felt weak. Several people behind her quickly helped her up.
Seeing this, the village chief quickly nodded and began to assign tasks. He asked several strong laborers to carry Gawa's nun to the village clinic; Haishan's parents were responsible for taking care of Mai Qing who was sitting on the ground and crying endlessly; the village militia captain went to the police station in the village to report the case; others stayed to accompany him to guard Gawa.
More than an hour later, the militia captain led two police officers to drive a three-wheeled round of fighting, and rushed to the entrance of our village from under Jigongling. They got off the motorcycle, learned about the situation, and asked the village chief to take them to the crime scene to see it. After coming back, they didn't say a word, handcuffed Gawa, threw him into the tricycle side fight, and then said to the village chief very seriously: Let's go back to the police station first, you and the victim come to record the confession within an hour. After saying that, he started the motorcycle, a stream of black smoke came out and rushed down Jigongling in lightning.
In the next two or three months, news about this rape incident has been constantly spreading. People cannot tell whether it is true or false, and only listen to it. First of all, this incident happened. According to Mai Qing, she pulled weeds in the fields on Jigongling on the afternoon of the incident. Later, Gawa came and helped her pull weeds while asking about introducing him to his wife. She shirked and said that when Xia finished collecting and returned to her parents' home, she asked for him. Gawa was very disappointed and stood up and walked away without saying a word.After Gawa left, she wanted to pee. She looked around and saw that there was no one, so she found a cluster of grass and took off her pants and squatted down. Unexpectedly, Gawa suddenly came back. Seeing her naked butt, she pounced on her and pressed her down. Mai Qing also said that Gawa had been busy with her for a long time and her movements were very rough. She kept shouting for help loudly, but the village chief came. What happened next was what the village chief said, and the content was exactly the same as what he said before.
The second thing is that Gawa's brother heard that Gawa was arrested, so he ran back in a hurry. He first sent his mother to the township hospital, then bought clothes and daily necessities, and went to the police station to see Gawa. Who knew that the police told him that Gawa had been detained in the county prison. He ran to the county again, but the other party refused to let him in, saying that Gawa committed the case during the crackdown, and the victim was a military family, and the above regulations were not allowed to meet anyone. He waited at the door all day, but in the end he had no choice but to buy a cigarette for the doorkeeper and ask the person to bring the things in. When he handed the thing to the man, he said: My brother didn't even wear clothes when he was caught, so you can do it.
Then Mai Qing's man Yao Qiusheng came back from the army, dressed in a straight military uniform and entered the house with a tiger face. Someone in the village listened in front of his house with his ears in a hurry, but there was no sound inside. The next day, the village chief, village secretary and women's federation director all went to his house. After coming out, they were all calm and secretly secretive. On the third morning, Yao Qiusheng left before dawn, and no one was alarmed. Four or five days later, Mai Qing, accompanied by the director of the Women's Federation, took the letter of introduction issued by the village and went to the county maternal and child health station for curettage surgery. The news that
is coming down is quite shocking, saying that Gawa's life may not be saved. Some people say that Gawa will be regarded as a scapegoat; some people say that Gawa has encountered the guns of severe crackdown, and the government is killing the chicken for the monkey to see. Of course, these are all gossip. Although the news has no reliable source, it has been rumored throughout the village. Many people who used this rape incident as a topic of conversation after dinner could not help but stutter. Several old men in the village said to Gawa's brother: You have to find a way to save your brother, he is not guilty enough to die. Gawa's brother squatted on the ground with his head in his arms and cried. He shed tears and said: How can I save him? I don't know anyone! More than ten days later, a white announcement was posted all over every corner of the township, and Gawa was sentenced to death and executed on the day of public sentencing. On the day of
public verdict meeting , almost all the people in the township came out, and tens of thousands of people rushed into the trial venue, and the scene was extremely spectacular. At about nine o'clock, a police car flashed with police lights and led more than a dozen green military trucks into the field. The trucks were full of armed police with live ammunition. Every two armed police escorted a criminal. The criminal had his name and crimes written on his neck. There was also an machine gun on the roof of each truck. To be honest, I was shocked by such a scene, and so was Haishan standing next to me.
Soon, we saw Gawa. He was different from other criminals. Other criminals were handcuffed, and he was tied up with a strip of wooden sign behind him with the words "Rapist" and his name, with a bright red fork on it. Several strips of cloth were tied to his trouser legs, and later I realized that it was because I was afraid that his incontinence would flow out. There was a silence in the crowd. We watched all the criminals being taken to the trial table one by one, their heads were pressed down, and those who were dishonest were kicked with their feet. The loudspeaker began to read the verdict, and it took about twenty minutes to read it, and it was so noisy that it could not be heard clearly. Finally, the other criminals in the jury were taken back to the truck. Only Gawa got into a car, and more than a dozen armed police soldiers were surrounded by him.
convoy began to drive towards Dongsha River, where it was the place to shoot Gawa. The crowd was like wriggling ant , following the convoy from far and near. In the crowd, I saw Gawa's brother, and was in a daze and pulled an car .
When we arrived on the wide river beach, the crowd was separated by dozens of meters away, and more than a dozen police cars and military trucks lined up. Several armed policemen jumped out of the car quickly, opened the carriage, and dragged Gawa down.Finally, he heard Gawa roar miserably, and his body became soft. The two armed police had to lift their arms and drag him to a low-lying area. One of his shoes was lost at some point. Gawa half-kneeled and half-sitted on the ground. The wooden sign behind his neck was pulled off. He tried hard to look up at the crowd, his eyes were panicked and helpless, and his muscles on his face were distorted.
Soon, a long spear was pressed against the back of Gawa's head, and then there was a dull sound. A bloody red color splashed on his forehead, but his body rushed forward, his legs twitching desperately. After Gawa fell to the ground, a man wearing an armed police uniform but wearing a white coat quickly stepped forward, probed with the instrument in his hand, turned around and shook his head and said something. Another armed policeman walked forward, pressed Gawa's head with a pistol and fired it again, and Gawa's legs stopped twitching. He stepped forward and looked in again, but still shook his head. The third armed policeman stepped forward and did the same thing, but shot Gawa's head with a pistol. Gawa's head was completely destroyed, and the black and red blood flowed all over the ground with the brain matter, and the fishy smell attracted groups of flies. After exploring the white coat, they nodded and quickly turned around and left a car, leaving only a policeman guarding the execution site.
Everyone held their breath and watched this scene, and suddenly started talking like a furious incident: Oh my God, I died after three shots. Is it too unfair to die! Amid the people's discussion, Gawa's brother came with a cart. The policeman stopped him, asked a few questions, handed him a piece of paper with things written, charged him a 50-cent bullet fee, and then left. Gawa's brother took out a pair of scissors, carefully cut the rope tied to Gawa's body, then picked up an old quilt from the cart, wrapped Gawa up, and carried it to the cart. He pulled the car and slowly passed through the crowd, lowering his head. Gawa's blood penetrated the quilt and dripped all the way.
No one knows where Gawa was buried by his brother in the end. We only know that after Gawa's death, Gawa's brother was driven out by the family that came to his house and returned to our village. From then on, he no longer looked up and talked to people. Gawa's mother couldn't afford to get sick and died a few years later. After Gawa's mother passed away, his brother went to another province alone, and there was no news since then.
In the autumn of the year after Gawa was shot, Yao Qiusheng returned from the army and went through the divorce procedures with Mai Qing. It is said that the Yao family is a big family, and it is insulting that Mai Qing is kept. After Mai Qing moved out of the Yao family, his parents' family naturally couldn't go back and moved into an old warehouse in the village. The village chief was very annoyed when he found out, and stood in front of Yao Qiusheng's house with a gong and cursed all day long, saying that Yao Qiusheng was a feudal ruthless bastard, which was considered a fight for Mai Qing. Yao Qiusheng's family, while the door was closed, deaf ears to the village chief's scolding. Later, what was more dramatic was that the village chief married Mai Qing. I forgot to say that the village chief is over 20 years older than Mai Qing. He had a wife before and gave birth to two sons for him. However, he died of illness two years before Mai Qing married into our village.
In the past twenty-six years, the rape incident that happened in Jigongling has left me with so many memories. A few years ago, I heard that the old village chief died in a car accident. After the old village chief's death, his son no longer cared about Mai Qing, she was alone. On the contrary, Haishan always thought she was an aunt and sent some things to see her from time to time.
Now Haishan told me that Aunt Mai Qing was dead too. I calmly said, and asked her how she died.
Haishan did not answer me positively, but said: Aunt Mai Qing repeatedly said before her death, saying that the most sorry for in her life was Gawa. She never thought that she would kill Gawa.
I asked: Why did she say that?
Haishan paused for a long time and whispered: Maybe the child she abolished was from the village chief.
