A 17-year-old girl experiences sex and violence in an Internet addiction recovery school

After Hu Hailiang was humiliated at school, his parents made a "mentor and helpful friend" banner for the teachers and wanted to send the banner to the school with their son. Hu Hailiang collapsed. After returning home, he beat his parents and ran away from home.

Time: 2008-2018

Location: A county in Sichuan

One

When she was 17 years old, Zhou Linxin was sent to A civil and military school. On the two walls in front of the school, one side is printed with "CCTV 5 Exclusive Interviews" and the other side is "Demonstration Base for Quitting Internet Addiction." At that time, Professor Yang Yongxin and his school for combating Internet addiction were not yet known to the public.

On the day of registration, Zhou Linxin was dressed like a little girl. Wearing a black short skirt, black stockings, black and red nail polish, and a little cyan eye shadow.

Walking into the office of the head coach of the Wenwu School, the school’s head coach was smoking a cigarette and sitting on a chair with his legs crossed.

"Stand up for me! Your dad called me a few days ago and said: Hit me if you want. Your kid better not mess with me." There were two boys standing in the office, one of whom With his legs bent, the coach stood up and kicked the boy in the stomach. The boy fell backwards and fell to the ground.

After showing off, Zhou Linxin was assigned to a freshmen martial arts class. The students in the class range in age from 8 to 22, and the school implements a military-style closed management. Students basically stay in school all year round except for the Spring Festival. Parents who are too busy to take care of education or are helpless with their children will send their children here.

Zhou Linxin’s father is a very arrogant person. He does not ask his daughter to achieve academic success. He only hopes that she will stay in school until she reaches adulthood and follow him to drive a truck. His father often fights with others, and there are often violent men in and out of the house. Zhou Linxin has been influenced by this since he was a child, and has become a "notorious" school bully in the technical secondary school. He smokes and drinks, and falls in love with his "eldest brother" in the senior year. We have a fight every week at the back of the school.

Zhou Linxin will also take care of the weak. If a boy bullies a girl in the class, she will stand up to defend them. Every time his daughter was called to school because of a fight, Zhou Linxin's father came out of the office and gave her a few hundred yuan: "Invite some of your friends to dinner."

When the class teacher was beaten outside the school, The head teacher insisted that the leader had a relationship with Zhou Linxin and said she was the instigator. The school ordered her to drop out. It was not an option for a rebellious girl to stay at home, so her parents decided to send her out to any place where they could control her until she reached adulthood.

When she was at a loss what to do, Zhou Linxin’s mother saw a civil and martial arts school on the website that taught both cultural classes and martial arts. She asked her: "This school is good at both civil and martial arts. Do you want to try it next year?" ?" Zhou Linxin agreed without thinking too much.

II

This civil and military school located in Mianyang City, Sichuan Province was in its heyday at the time. Teachers and students of the school have appeared on CCTV many times. In those years, Chinese parents were deeply disgusted by their children's Internet addiction. Cultural Heritage School took advantage of the situation and launched a banner of "Quiting Internet Addiction", and the campus was overcrowded for a while.

There are roughly four types of students in the civil and martial arts schools: disciples led by the head coach. They often win awards in various martial arts competitions and are considered the "confidences" of the head coach. They often report their classmates who come home late and are private. Hiding mobile phones, in return, these people enjoy the privilege of "turning big mistakes into small ones, and turning small mistakes into small ones" from the head coach, such as Hu Hailiang in the Sanda class.

Teenage girls like Zhou Linxin who are in the rebellious stage and disobey discipline belong to the second category. The ones who were under the strictest supervision were children with severe Internet addiction. They were tricked or sent to this school by their parents. There was also one in Zhou Linxin's class. The parents found a few strong men and tied their sons to the school.

The most pitiful ones are the 8- and 9-year-old children whose parents are busy with work and are sent here.

Zhou Linxin’s first impression of the civil and military school was that theft was prevalent. Parents pay living expenses to the relevant martial arts coach's card, and the coach usually advises parents to pay less: firstly, because the child does not perform well, and secondly, because too much money will cause trouble.

Financial oppression has prompted many students to steal money, snacks, and daily necessities.

The Civil and Military School claims to attach equal importance to culture and martial arts, but cultural teachers are often absent from class, and martial arts courses are relatively strict. At the end of every night's martial arts training, all teachers and students gather in front of the school's rostrum. The chief instructor will criticize and punish students who violated discipline one by one.

There are generally two types of punishment: beatings with sticks and beatings. Beating with a stick is suitable for students who make minor mistakes. During the execution, students are lined up on the podium in order, with their hands on the ground and their buttocks raised. The head coach spanks their buttocks with a wooden stick with a thick wrist. The head coach first asks the students to think how many sticks they should hit. If they answer less, it will be regarded as an admission of mistake and a bad attitude, and an extra ten sticks will be added. If you answer more, you will be serious about admitting your mistake, and you will be spared the last few sticks as a reward. Students who were beaten often had their buttocks bruised for several days.

The hanging is carried out on a square frame with a thick rope tied into a circle. The punished students put their hands on the ground, put their feet into the circle, and rotated themselves to make the circle tighten, otherwise they would fall and hit the ground head first.

There are two people next to the shelf. Each person pulls a rope to hang the person from the ground in mid-air. The head coach uses a stick with a thick wrist to hit the student's buttocks. Once the stick is hit, the student's body will spin twice in the air. Students who are beaten often cannot get out of bed for several days.

Zhou Linxin had never been afraid of anything before. Watching the execution in the audience, she felt frightened for the first time.

The food in the school is not good. I don’t have enough to eat during the day and I can’t sleep well at night. At three or four o'clock in the morning, several coaches, each holding a stick in their hand, made a surprise inspection of the dormitory of the Internet addiction treatment class. They used sticks to knock on dormitory doors. Once they found a hidden cell phone or other prohibited items, the person would lie on the ground and be beaten and counted.

In the silent night, the depressing sound of counting "1-2-3-" is often heard, mixed with piercing cries. Not many people dare to cry, and those who cry will be beaten even more. sharp.

With fear, Zhou Linxin was often awakened by various movements at night.

Three

What is more embarrassing than physical punishment is mental humiliation. In civil and military schools, what makes students take risks and violate disciplines is mostly out of a vague desire for sex. But in the eyes of coaches, these kids' impulsiveness is treated like an adult joke.

Once, a couple was reported for being intimate behind the school dormitory. While the coach was beating him, he laughed at the boys for being "scared into impotence" and for the girls, "You can take off your pants in a place like that. It's a shame not to be a young lady." The sound passed through the speakers on both sides of the podium and reached the ears of everyone in the school clearly.

Among the students, there is a clear hierarchy of superiority and inferiority, and there are many provocations and fights between students. Less than two months after entering school, Zhou Linxin, who was extremely insecure, found a "big brother" from the civil and military school to be her boyfriend. She didn't like him very much, but just wanted to find a supporter.

After being together for half a month, the eldest brother vaguely expressed his desire to have sex with her. Zhou Linxin did not agree. She knew her bottom line.

After becoming her eldest brother’s girlfriend, she accepted several younger brothers in her freshman martial arts class. In July 2008, Zhou Linxin's younger brother got into an argument with someone while helping her fetch water. The other person smashed Zhou Linxin's water bottle and pushed her down on the broken pieces.

Zhou Linxin originally wanted the other party to apologize to her younger brother, but the man refused and he joined another eldest brother, Hu Hailiang. Zhou Linxin has a generous spending and personality on campus. Hu Hailiang has long disliked her, "I will beat him every time I see him (referring to Zhou Linxin's younger brother)."

Hu Hailiang is at the top of the pyramid in the civil and military school. That kind of person. He was in the Sanda class and won the team runner-up in the provincial fighting competition that year. Hu Hailiang is a popular person in front of the head coach, and he can usually talk and laugh with the head coach.

Zhou Linxin doesn't want to fight, the risk is too great, so she is ready to strike first. Hu Hailiang's girlfriend lived next door to him. Zhou Linxin took a few small colorful ropes to sleep next door, pretending to ask for help in knitting bracelets, and eavesdropped on the conversation between the girl and her roommate. For more than half a month, Zhou Linxin learned that she would meet with Hu Hailiang every week in a fixed toilet in the teaching building.

She sent a younger brother to hide outside the toilet. The younger brother put a garbage bag on his hand and dug into the toilet hole and found a used condom.

Hu Hailiang got on the hanger that night and was hoisted to a height where only five fingers could touch the ground. He was beaten thirty times. His girlfriend received twenty lashes for wearing a skirt.

The head coach seized this opportunity to laugh at them. When the girl stood up in front of him, he said, "You still have "dog armor" (dirt) in your knee sockets, but you still have the nerve to come out wearing a skirt." "When Hu Hailiang complained of pain after being beaten, he said, "I can't bear the pain, but I still have the nerve to fall in love." Two days later, Zhou Linxin returned to the dormitory and found that everything on her bed was gone. He was thrown to the ground, which was filled with garbage from the toilet, and several bloody sanitary napkins lay open on the quilt. During the afternoon practice, someone sent a message to Zhou Linxin, "Wait to be beaten!"

Throughout the afternoon, Zhou Linxin was afraid that she would be called to the podium on some "crime." As a result, the head coach did not call Zhou Linxin's name during the meeting. When she returned to the dormitory, she saw Hu Hailiang's girlfriend, who was being beaten, leaning against the door of the dormitory and sneered.

Zhou Linxin realized that the other party was going to start a group fight.

Four

At that time, the Beijing Olympics was about to be held. At the regular meeting, the head coach emphasized that no disciplinary violations would be allowed during the Olympics. Hu Hailiang sent a message saying that the fight would be tentatively scheduled after the Olympics.

Zhou Linxin breathed a sigh of relief temporarily, thinking that the Olympics would have to last for more than a month, but when she learned that the Olympics would end in 20 days at most, "Why do we have such a big battle after it only starts for such a short time? "The Olympics are far less important than what she is worrying about.

At 8 pm on August 8, 2008, everyone arranged the martial arts classes in order. The head coach took down the large TV hanging in his office and moved it to the rostrum for the whole school to watch. People watch together. A student sitting in the last row reported that the TV he saw was not much bigger than his little finger. The head coach said: I let you watch TV to train you to applaud where you should applaud. Whether you can see clearly is a secondary issue.

In his eyes, watching the Olympics is not important, but learning to obey and be disciplined is important.

That night, as soon as the sound of applause from the audience came from the TV, the head coach immediately said "drum!" into the microphone, and there was warm and neat applause from below; the host began to speak or the performance started on the stage. During the show, the head coach immediately shouted into the microphone and the applause stopped abruptly.

Watching the Olympics gave Zhou Linxin an opportunity to win foreign aid. She used the excuse of going to the toilet and secretly ran to the place where she had agreed to meet her boyfriend. After discussion, she decided to let Zhou Linxin use her morning jog to seek help from people outside the school. They handed Zhou Linxin a piece of paper every night with the names, mobile phone numbers and addresses of their friends outside the school written on it.

In those days, Zhou Linxin achieved a lot, and several people came to her and said they were willing to help.

On the afternoon of the 27th, Hu Hailiang was already waiting at the agreed place. When he saw Zhou Linxin and more than 20 people approaching him, he felt angrily and rushed over to Zhou Linxin and shouted: "Are you stupid? With so many people, they will definitely be discovered! Tell them to leave quickly!"

There are six people at Hu Hailiang's side. Zhou Linxin asked him: "How do you want to fight?"

Hu Hailiang said: "Call your boyfriend out!"

More and more people gathered around, many of whom came here specially Come to watch the fun. After Hu Hailiang cursed a series of curse words, he ran away with the people. Zhou Linxin also quickly told everyone to disperse.

五

The news spread so fast that Zhou Linxin was caught off guard. At the rally that night, the head coach asked those who were going to fight today to take the initiative to stand on the stage. No one in the crowd moved. He took out a note from his trouser pocket and called Zhou Linxin and her boyfriend, Hu Hailiang and his girlfriend, and the two "little brothers" who had a conflict in the water room to the podium. .

After taking the stage, the head coach asked them to point out who was the leader, and everyone pointed at Zhou Linxin. Zhou Linxin was hanged and beaten, and the others received lighter punishments.

Zhou Linxin remembered that she was hoisted to a height where her hands were completely off the ground.

With her head down and her feet up, the world was turned upside down, and all she could see were the school walls, the sky, and the rickety chandelier on the ceiling. She was beaten 15 times, and the first five were relatively heavy. Once the stick was hit, her body could still swing back and forth with the force. When the stick fell on her waist, she felt her whole body tearing apart from the waist down.

After being taken off the shelves, she was helped back to the dormitory by several people. She lay in bed for four days. During those days, she didn't want to talk or eat. Her self-esteem completely collapsed, and she could no longer trust anyone in the civil and military school. On the fifth day, she called her parents at the school canteen and cried and said she wanted to go home.

After staying at home for a few days, Zhou Linxin told her mother that she did not want to go back to the civil and military school. Her mother scolded her, "The tuition is so expensive and you still don't go to school. You are simply ignorant." She threatened to send her back in two days and planned to let her stay there until she was twenty.

The next day, her mother began to restrict her going out to no more than half an hour. Zhou Linxin heard her mother calling her former friend: "Zhou Linxin is slowly learning, please don't disturb her."

She couldn't even believe her parents anymore, so she bought a razor blade and searched online for how to cut her wrists. He won't die. At night, she hid in the bathroom at home. Worried that there were bacteria on the blade, she burned it with a lighter. She sent a text message to her parents: "I committed suicide, and it was all because of you."

She She aimed the blade at her wrist and cut where she felt the thinnest blood vessels were. The blood flowed so fast that she suspected that the things she said online were all lies. She raised her arms high, fearing that she would really die from bleeding too much.

Blood dripped from her elbow to the ground. When she was about to fall, she heard a loud bang on the door, and the thought that popped into her mind was: "Fuck, you are finally here. "

Zhou Linxin didn't want to die, she just wanted to scare her mother.

Six

Her parents gave in and packed her clothes back to school. For a long time after leaving school, Zhou Linxin didn't know where to vent her emotions. Later, she secretly poured a basin of water on her mother's computer host because she learned about the school online.

After the beaten Hu Hailiang left school, his parents made a banner for the head coach with the words "Good Teacher and Friend" written on it. They took their son to deliver the banner to the head coach in person. Hu Hailiang collapsed. After returning home, he beat his parents and ran away from home.

Hu Hailiang's obedience, cleverness and sense of proportion in school were performed out of fear. Parents are willing to use violence in civil and military schools in exchange for superficial obedience from their children. Zhou Linxin felt that it was impossible for Hu Hailiang and his parents to get better, and she could still contact her parents at least.

After staying at home until the age of 18, Zhou Linxin began to go out with her father to run business. At the age of 20, she was able to independently take charge of a major transportation route. She was able to reach this stage not only because of her father's connections, but also because of her strict integrity, business-like attitude and extremely high efficiency. After experiencing the "betrayal" in the civil and military school, it was difficult for her to trust others again. She has lost contact with all her former friends, and now she only has two or three friends with whom she speaks.

She told her parents about her experience in the civil and military school. Her mother said, "I wanted you to be well at that time." Her father apologized to her, but she said, "This is not an apology." Whatever she said later, her father wanted to give her money to make up for it.

Later, Zhou Linxin moved from the county seat to the city. She could not completely let go of the fact that her parents had sent her there, and she only contacted her parents once or twice a year. Even now, her sleep is very light, and the occasional car driving by downstairs at night can wake her up.

Zhou Linxin became pregnant at the age of 24 and was waiting for delivery at home. Her mentality has become calmer over the years. That summer, I sat in front of the TV and watched the entire Olympic Games for the first time.

After becoming a mother, Zhou Linxin occasionally talked with other parents about the civil and military school. Some said, "I knew I would be beaten if I entered that school." Others said, "The disobedient children should be beaten in there." . Some parents, with nothing but sticks and candies, will only place their hopes on these schools that use violence to correct their children's behavior.

Ten years have passed.

During this period, she sent a report about the civil and military schools on the local government’s official website. A reply saying “Thank you for the supervision” popped up on the web page, but there was no further news. Once, she saw an advertisement for a civil and military school on the seat of a bus in the county town. It read: "The TV station interviewed many times, selected the best teachers to teach, and the teaching CD of Vice Principal XX was distributed around the world..."

When the 2012 London Olympics opened, Zhou Linxin was running all night. At four o'clock in the morning, the host's passionate explanation suddenly came from the radio, which brought back her memory of being hung on the podium.

She tuned several stations in succession, all with the same content, so she simply turned off the radio with a snap.

*According to the oral statements of the parties involved, the characters in the article are all pseudonyms.

Oral narration by Zhou Linxin, author Yao Qianxu