After Wang Xiaojuan (pseudonym) lost contact with her two daughters, her sister Wang Xiaolan (pseudonym) and her family searched all night. The next morning, the bodies of the three were found in the Yaqian River in the county.
According to a report from the police in Yuexi County, Anqing City, Anhui Province, at 23: 40 on May 12, Wang Xiaojuan tied his two daughters with a rope from home and drowned.
The victim Wang Moumou and his daughter
Wang Xiaojuan was born in 1988. In the eyes of relatives, classmates and neighbors, she is a gentle and shy person who takes care of her daughters wholeheartedly. Relatives have not found a suicide note at present, and they can’t figure out why Wang Xiaojuan made such a decision. The cause is still a fog.
The last call
At 8 o’clock on the evening of May 12, Wang Xiaolan made a video call to his sister Wang Xiaojuan, who was answered by Wang Xiaojuan’s eldest daughter. She was punching in the school with her mobile phone, so Wang Xiaolan hung up. At 11 o’clock at night, Wang Xiaolan received a phone call from Wang Xiaojuan’s ex-husband, Chu Mouquan. The other party said that at 8: 40 pm, Wang Xiaojuan went out with her children and hasn’t come back yet. Although Wang Xiaojuan and Chu have all divorced, they still live together with their children.
Hung up the phone, Wang Xiaolan immediately dialed her sister’s number. No one answered the first time, but the second time she got through. Wang Xiaolan said, my sister said that she and Chumou all quarreled and went out for fun, so she would go back later. She asked where her sister was and was going to pick her up. Her sister didn’t speak and hung up.
Wang Xiaolan calls or videos again, but Wang Xiaojuan doesn’t answer. He replies "Nothing, I’ll go back later" on WeChat. Wang Xiaolan remembers that she called her sister until 11: 40, and after that, her sister’s cell phone prompt was turned off.
Wang Xiaolan and his relatives went out to look for him, and his younger brother and parents in his hometown also came to the county seat. Wang Xiaolan recalled that at 1 am on the 13th, she met Chu Mouquan on the road, and he was also looking for him. She asked what happened. Chu Mouquan said that because of the sale of the house, he is going to sell the house in the county where they are currently living, and has already received a deposit. If they don’t sell it, they will have to pay 200,000 liquidated damages.
Wang’s relatives found someone to find around 4 am, ready to go home and have a rest, and then look for it in the morning.
At 9: 31 am on the 13th, someone reported that someone was suspected of drowning under the Hedong Mountain Bridge in Yaqian. The staff salvaged three people ashore, and confirmed by 120 on-site that there were no vital signs.
After investigation, the police confirmed that the deceased was Wang Xiaojuan’s mother and daughter. The police later informed that at about 23: 40 on the 12th, Wang Xiaojuan tied his two daughters with a rope from home and drowned.
On the morning of 13th, Wang Xiaolan knew about the accident and went near Dongshan Bridge. Wang Xiaolan said that Chu Mouquan was also at the scene at that time. He told the Wangs’ relatives that at about 11: 30 last night, he got through to Wang Xiaojuan’s mobile phone, and the voice of his eldest daughter came, "Dad, help". The call lasted six seconds.
Shy and quiet.
Wang’s parents live in a village about 40 kilometers away from the county seat, and they grow water bamboo and tea at home. Chu Mouquan’s hometown is about 6 kilometers away from Wang’s village.
Wang Xiaolan said that my sister and Chu Mouquan got married about ten years ago, and they met and fell in love through the introduction of the man’s relatives. Chu Mouquan was working in Hangzhou at that time. After the birth of his eldest daughter, the couple lived in Hangzhou. Before the birth of the second daughter, the two returned to Yuexi County and later ran an optical shop.
Wang Xiaolan said that after marriage, Chu gave Wang Xiaojuan a monthly living allowance of 2,500 yuan, which included all the expenses for her children and life. Although the two run an optical shop, because my sister wants to look after the children, Chu has invited two employees to help manage the shop business. Three years ago, Wang Xiaojuan divorced Chu Mouquan, but in order to take better care of her children, she still lived with Chu Mouquan. A relative in the same village of the Wang family told reporters that when Zizania latifolia needed to be treated last year, Chu Mouquan had returned to the village to help.
The Paper previously reported that the Wangs’ father mentioned that her daughter didn’t talk much, and she was under various pressures and didn’t talk to her family. When she divorced, Wang Xiaojuan didn’t tell her family. At that time, she just gave birth to her little daughter and was in confinement. It was only later that the family learned that they were divorced.
Wang Xiaojuan’s father said that about 20 days before the incident, his daughter went back to her parents’ home once, and he and his wife were too busy picking tea to accompany her. The daughter cooked her own meal and rested for one night. "I regret it very much." He said.
Shy, gentle and quiet, this is the impression that Wang Xiaojuan usually gives to people around him.
Wang Qing (a pseudonym) is a friend of Wang Xiaojuan’s childhood in the same village and an old classmate. They often met to go to school together. In her memory, Wang Xiaojuan is introverted, speaks softly, talks more with the children in the neighborhood, and doesn’t talk much with other students. Later, the two went to different high schools, and they lost contact for several years, but they still met in the county or their hometown, and Lala was always at home.
In Wang Qing’s impression, Wang Xiaojuan didn’t mention whether there was any trouble in marriage, but as a daughter and wife, Wang Qing could understand her silence. "If I don’t have a good life, I won’t tell my mother’s family that I will report good news and not worry." She said.
Because of Wang Xiaojuan, Wang Qing also met Chu Mouquan and had dinner together. Wang Qing felt that when they first got married, they seemed to have a good relationship, but things between husband and wife were difficult for outsiders to tell. "If it weren’t for this incident, I didn’t know they had a divorce certificate." Wang Qing said.
On the morning of 13th, Wang Qing hurried by Dongshan Bridge with her children and saw many people around, wondering what happened. Later, when she heard that people in her village had jumped into the river, she called her hometown to ask, only to know that something had happened to Wang Xiaojuan and her daughters. The next day, Wang Qing deleted Wang Xiaojuan’s WeChat, which made her feel uncomfortable.
Full-time mother
Wang Xiaolan said that her sister didn’t want to sell the house, and her sister’s name was not on the property certificate. She believes that before the incident, the sale of the house triggered the contradiction between Wang Xiaojuan and Chu Mouquan.
According to another news report, an intermediary company said that for more than a year, Chu Mouquan has been hanging his house in the intermediary office for sale. Recently, the property was signed in the company and the buyer paid a deposit. But two days before the drowning of Wang Xiaojuan’s mother and daughter, Chu broke the contract and lost the buyer 500 yuan. In the past, when the intermediary took the house-finder to the residential area to see the house, he met Wang Xiaojuan and Wang Xiaojuan, who knew about selling the house.
The reporter repeatedly tried to contact Chu Mouquan by phone, but he was not connected.
In recent years, in the eyes of many people, Wang Xiaojuan appeared as a loving mother. Wang Xiaolan said that her younger sister takes children as seriously as life and takes full-time care of their education and life. Wang Qing said, "It must be a woman who can bear hardships with two such small children. She usually saves money and is reluctant to buy cosmetics."
Several neighbors and villagers remember that Wang Xiaojuan always took two children with him, both beautiful little girls. The proprietress of the maternal and infant shop in the square below their residence remembers that when Wang Xiaojuan’s little daughter was a baby, Wang Xiaojuan and Chu took her children to buy milk powder and diapers. Later, they didn’t go shopping together, but they could still see Wang Xiaojuan playing and having breakfast with her children nearby.
At present, the official has not further disclosed the results of the follow-up investigation on this matter, and Wang Xiaojuan, who was shy and didn’t talk much, didn’t leave any more information before his death. After leaving with her daughters for three hours, it is still a mystery why she tied her two daughters together and threw them into the cold Yaqian River.