Where were their parents on the night when four children died while baking in the fire?

Four children died in Yunnan while baking on fire: The parents even had a phone call with their second son on the night of the incident.

On December 30, in Liangzishe, Qingshan, Baogunao Township, Qiaojia County, Zhaotong, Yunnan, the cold weather made people shiver. The village roads were littered with ghost coins, and when the wind blew up, yellow clouds all over the ground were blown away. Paper.

Visitor Li Shunlian held a pile of charcoal fire in front of her house to keep warm. No matter who came to the house or what people around her said, she would cover her head with the brim of her hat and bury her head in her arms. He raised his head, said nothing, and did not speak. There was only the charcoal fire on the ground. When the wind blew, the sparks flickered and white charcoal ash appeared.

It’s not that Li Shunlian doesn’t know how to treat guests. In the impression of the villagers, Li Shunlian and Chen Caiben were good people, enthusiastic and helpful. Her children were also affected by this, greeting everyone with sweet words and smiles.

Li Shunlian, mother of 5 children. On December 22, she and her husband rushed to Kunming to visit their eldest son who was being detained. However, they did not see her eldest son, but they received a call that something had happened to their four children at home. She has not said a word since the incident.

On December 22, the couple left their four sons at home and rushed to a detention center in Kunming to visit their eldest son, who was detained on suspicion of participating in gang robbery. Before she could see her eldest son, she was devastated by a phone call at noon on the 25th - her four youngest sons were warming up by the fire and something had happened.

After hearing this, she instantly collapsed on the streets of Kunming. At home, when police officers from the police station and neighbors broke in through the window, her sons were still fully clothed in clothes and shoes. The younger one was lying on top of the older one. They both lay on the closed door and stopped breathing. There were three children in the room. The burnt charcoal fire in the pot still has residual warmth.

Five Brothers

The secondary road from Qiaojia County to Baogunao Township is built in a winding mountain with steep curves and steep slopes, and there are bare mountains on both sides of the road. On December 30, the sky was overcast, the mountains were covered with clouds and mist, and there were white ice particles.

After nearly three hours of driving, Qingshan Liangzishe appeared halfway up the mountain below the secondary highway. The villagers' houses are scattered on the hillside, built among the sparse pines and cypresses, and there is not a single conspicuous small bungalow in the surrounding area.

Villagers can only ride motorcycles when entering and exiting the village. A section of unhardened, uneven mud road strewn with ghost coins and yellow paper leads to Chen Cai's home.

45-year-old Chen Caiben has two older sisters and one younger sister.

Chen Caiben worked in a coal mine in Qujing in 2006. During the nationwide snowstorm in 2008, his boss gave him 9 tons of coal. Because he was reluctant to burn it, he piled it in the corner of the door to this day.

"(I) have no one to discuss with when things happen." Chen Caiben told reporters. As a result, he and his wife Li Shunlian had several more children. He hoped that they would take care of each other in the future. .

Chen Caiben and his wife have five children together, all of whom are sons. The eldest is 18 years old, the second is 11, the third is 9, the fourth is 7, and the fifth is 4.

He said that when the three babies were registered, they had no birth certificates. For this reason, he spent 7,200 yuan on a paternity test in Zhaotong City, and later paid another 5,000 yuan when registering. Fine, "I owe a lot of debt, and I still haven't paid off the money."

Like the Chen family, it is not uncommon to have five children in the family in Liangzishe, Qingshan Village. Villager Zhu Jiuqin said that at first, Chen Cai’s family had the most children in the village. Later, like the Chen family, her family also had five children. Most other families had two or three children. Most of their parents worked at home and farmed, and there were not many left-behind children in the village.

The five Chen brothers have a good relationship. Chen Caiben remembered that although the eldest son had not returned home after working outside for two years, when he came home two years ago, the eldest brother brought back a roast duck from Kunming for his four younger brothers. This duck made his three younger brothers jailed. I remember my eldest brother firmly. The youngest, Lao Wu, was less than two years old at the time and has no memory of his eldest brother.

The four brothers at home are also popular among the villagers. Over the years, the four brothers have been influenced by their parents and have become well-behaved and sensible. When they meet people in the village, they smile and say hello from a distance, and their parents rarely hit them.

The second and third children are in the third grade of Qingshan Primary School, the fourth child is in the preschool of Qingshan Primary School, and the fifth child is still at home. Among them, the second child has excellent grades in the class and is in the top three every time in the exam. The latest award is from Qingshan The second-class certificate of comprehensive achievement of the whole class was issued by the primary school on September 1, 2017.

Speaking of his sons, the one Chen Caiben loves most is the smart and obedient Lao Wu. "Look, isn't he very handsome?" He stored the most photos of Lao Wu and talked about Lao Wu the most. He held the phone in his hands, fearing that he would slip and drop the phone and lose the photos of Lao Wu. On the same day, when Chen Caiben was looking through the photos of his sons on his mobile phone to reporters, he discovered that there was no photo of his four sons in his mobile phone.

Bake a fire to survive the winter

Burning wood to keep warm is a way for almost every villager in Qingshan Liangzi Community to survive the winter. Because coal is more expensive, villagers burn firewood when heating or cooking in winter. The firewood is either picked up from the mountains during slack periods, or is scrap wood boards left over from building houses.

On December 30, Chen Caiben’s 42-year-old wife Li Shunlian wrapped her up tightly, covered her face with a hat, buried her head in her arms, and gathered around a pile of charcoal to keep warm.

On that day, relatives, friends and villagers of the Chen family were warming themselves by the fire at her house. But no matter who came to the house or what people around her said, Li Shunlian seemed unable to hear her. She didn't even raise her head and remained motionless around the fire without any reaction. When the wind blew, charcoal sparks flickered, and then white charcoal dust appeared, falling on her head, shoulders and back. She still sat still.

In the corner in front of Chen’s house, there is a pile of coal, covered with leaves, papers and debris, and not far away there is a pile of freshly chopped firewood.

“I couldn’t bear to burn (coal) and kept piling it in the corner.” Chen Caiben said that because his family only had 2 acres of land, in 2006, he went to Dongshan Town, Qujing City, Yunnan to work digging coal to support himself. As a family, he remembered that the monthly salary at that time was only more than a thousand yuan, and his wife Li Shunlian was responsible for taking care of the children at home. In 2008, when there was a heavy snowstorm in southern China, his boss gave him 9 tons of coal as a gift because he was a hard worker, worked long hours, and his family was poor. He has piled it in the corner of his home to this day.

The Chen family has four rooms that were rebuilt after the 2014 earthquake. The couple usually sleep in the first room on the left, and their four children sleep in the second room.

The house of Chen Cai’s family is a row of four rooms that look newly renovated. He introduced that after the 6.6-magnitude earthquake in Ludian, Yunnan Province in 2014, the original adobe house was damaged, and the government provided a subsidy of 40,000 yuan. He borrowed tens of thousands of yuan and built four new houses with brick and tile structures. The person slept in the first room on the left, and the four children slept in the second room.

The reporter noticed that in addition to the two rooms where people usually live, the other two rooms are the kitchen and the warehouse. Each room is equipped with an iron door. In addition to the anti-theft lock inside the door, the other two rooms are the kitchen and the warehouse. There are also iron latches that can be locked, and the windows are equipped with anti-theft cages.

Because the old man at home has passed away, when the couple occasionally went out and the children were unattended, they let the four children take care of each other, and the eldest took care of the younger without any mistakes. There was a time when the couple went out, and Chen Caiben told his second son to pay attention to safety when warming up by the fire, open the windows for ventilation, and he would not warm up by the fire in a room where people sleep.

Like the Chen family, most of the villagers' houses were rebuilt after the 2014 Ludian earthquake. In winter, the villagers often burn charcoal at home to keep warm. Villager Zhu Jiuqin received a reminder from her neighbor that when burning firewood, you should open the windows and let the air into the room. She admitted that she had no idea about "suffocation" and "poisoning". "I didn't know that burning fire to keep warm would kill people."

Going to the city to see their children

On December 22, Chen Caiben and his wife received a letter. They opened it and saw that it was a "Criminal Detention Notice" sent by the Kunming police. Their eldest son was detained by the police in accordance with the law on suspicion of robbery.

Chen Caiben may have felt that he could not hold his head up, so he lied to others and claimed that he was "detained for fighting." Kunming police confirmed to reporters that on December 14, Chen Caiben's eldest son, Chen, was arrested on suspicion of He participated in gang robbery and was detained by the police in accordance with the law. The case is under further investigation.

After receiving the notice from the police, the Chen couple hurriedly packed their bags and told their second son to take care of their brothers and left a phone for him to contact them. “They have been alone at home before. Nothing went wrong, so we are relieved."

Before departure, the couple originally planned to leave the fifth child in the care of their sister-in-law Xie Cailan, and let her take her home to play with their granddaughter. , but the second child interrupted and said "No need to go" and took over the job of looking after his younger brother.

On the afternoon of the 22nd, the couple rushed from Qiaojia County to Kunming City, but it happened to be the weekend and they were unable to successfully meet the boss who was being held in the detention center.

At about 21:00 on December 24, Chen Caiben and his wife called the second child at home and learned that the brothers were watching TV in the house and had not yet gone to bed.

After the incident, Chen Caiben burned the children's clothes, schoolbags, and certificates. The second child's certificate was not burned because he could not see it in the refrigerator.

The next morning, Chen Caiben received a call from the teacher of Qingshan Primary School. His three children who were studying failed to arrive at school on time and did not attend class. He called Xie Cailan, the sister-in-law next door, and asked her to come to his home to see what was going on.

The first person to discover that the four children were in trouble was Xie Cailan. She told reporters that when she arrived at Chen's house after receiving a call from Chen Caiben, the door and window where the children slept were closed and could not be opened because there were bolts inside. Through the glass gap of the anti-theft cage, she saw a child sleeping on the ground and felt When something bad happened, she told other villagers about the situation, and then reported it to the village committee and township government. The police station told them not to damage the scene. The police who arrived later opened one of the window security cages, and a villager opened it after entering the house. At the door, everyone found the second, third, and fourth children wearing clothes and shoes. The younger one was lying on top of the older one. The three of them were crowded at the door of the house. The youngest child, the fifth child, was on the bed and had no breath.

In addition to finding four children who had stopped breathing, people also found three iron pots and braziers that had burned out and still had residual heat in the room.

Villager Chen Caiqing recalled that the weather was cold and gloomy on December 24. He couldn't stand the cold while working on the mountain, so he lit a charcoal fire to keep warm.

Burned down

Until noon on December 25, the Chen couple still had not seen their boss, but they received a call from the Baogunao Police Station of the Qiaojia County Public Security Bureau— — Four children in the family had an accident.

After hearing this, the children’s mother Li Shunlian immediately collapsed on the streets of Kunming without saying a word. Chen Caiben himself didn’t know what to do. That day, they gave up visiting their boss and hurried home from Kunming by chartered car. Five hours later, they returned to their home in Liangzishe, Qingshan.

After Chen Caiben identified it, the three braziers in the room were the charcoal leftover from cooking pig food during the day. They were placed in three iron basins respectively. The children carried them into the room to warm themselves by the fire at night. " Unexpectedly, three braziers took away four lives, and they were not sleeping when they died."

According to sources, after the incident, the Qiaojia County Public Security Bureau reported the preliminary investigation results. After an appraisal by the Yunnan Provincial Public Security Department, the initial investigation revealed that carbon monoxide poisoning was caused by keeping the door and windows closed for warmth.

After the incident, the Qiaojia County Civil Affairs Department sent 40,000 yuan in condolence money to the Chen family, and the Baogu Nao Township government sent rice, noodles, oil and other food to appease the Chen family.

Among the five children, Chen Caiben loves the smart and obedient Lao Wu the most. He has the most photos of Lao Wu on his mobile phone. He is afraid that he will lose the photos of Lao Wu if he drops the phone, so he holds the mobile phone in both hands.

Because the three children who were studying purchased insurance while they were in school, people from the insurance company also rushed to the Chen family to visit after the incident. According to Chen's family, after the public security organ issues a death certificate and confirms the accidental death, the insurance company will pay compensation, which may be 50,000 yuan per child.

In addition, some schools in Qiaojia County carried out fundraising activities and raised more than 18,000 yuan from the Chen family ***. Among them, a donation record with a date of "2017.12.28" circulated on the Internet showed a total donation of 271.40 yuan from another local primary school, which contained mostly wrinkled change of 50 cents, 1 yuan, and 10 cent coins. This donation record caused "distressed" cries from netizens.

It is worth noting that in the fundraising notice organized by the Central School on December 27, it was mentioned that during the fundraising activities, each school site must do a good job in preventing gas poisoning, using fire and electricity, and traffic safety. publicity.

From the time she learned the news at noon on December 25 to December 30, the children’s mother Li Shunlian did not say a word. Relatives and friends of Chen's family told reporters that she did not even eat and needed to be accompanied by relatives and friends. As for his father, Chen Caiben, he looked extremely sick and haggard because he hadn't slept for several days.

Talk about future plans, Chen Caiben said: "I don’t want to go out anymore, my baby is gone, and I have no energy."

On December 28, Chen Caiben was in With the help of relatives, friends and villagers, the bodies of the four children were wrapped in blankets and carried out of the room and placed in four coffins. The coffin was leftover wood from the reconstruction of the house after the 2014 earthquake.

At noon on the 29th, everyone carried four coffins to the mountain behind the village. They carried the coffin for more than two hours. "We couldn't bury them near home. I felt so cold when I saw them," Chen Caiben said.

The graves of the four brothers are lined up in a row on the back hill. Chen Caiben ripped off the children's certificates from the wall at home and threw them into the fire along with the children's schoolbags and clothes. In a rage, he burned the "Criminal Detention Notice" of the boss. .

The poor child just left like this. I hope that the parents can face it with strength and continue to live.