Chapter 28 Li Zhenhong's Burial

When he was beaten and buried alive, all he could think about was the bear in the iron cage roaring and showing its fangs and blood-red tongue. If the players here are disobedient, they will often be taken to the bear cage and asked, Do you want to stay outside, or do you want to go in and play with it... Li Zhenhong couldn't see anything, and it was difficult to breathe. The air he could breathe in his nose had a strong earthy smell, and a salty liquid flowed into his mouth. He wanted to raise his hand to wipe it, but he couldn't move it at all, because he Half of the body was buried in the soil.Those people are still shoveling the sand and threatening: "You fucking be honest!"

Half an hour ago, Li Zhenhong was kidnapped by someone. Those people pushed him hard from behind. He staggered and fell into a pit on the ground. Then he felt that his face was covered with sand and dirt, because they suspected him. For match-fixing, these people will bury him alive, and ask him to admit it while burying him.Li Zhenhong would rather die than admit that he had played match-fixing. He knew that as long as he admitted, his life might be lost.It was dark all around, and a numb pain in his wrist reminded him that when he was brought here just now, his hands were tied behind his back, and the sack from his head rubbed against the wound, and every step he staggered was painful.

At this moment, Li Zhenhong's panic was far greater than the pain. He had just experienced the moment of life and death, and there was only one thought in his mind, run away!Run away whenever you get the chance. Li Zhenhong is not Chen Haonan or Pheasant in "Young and Dangerous", nor is he Big D and Le Ge in "Underworld". He is an ordinary professional player in mainland China. In 2007, he played for Changsha Jinde Club.It was one day in late summer and early autumn of this year that he was almost buried alive by a group of unknown people, and encountered a plot that most people in this country could only see in movies.

All the specific details about Li Zhenhong’s burial were later told by him to the media. Many people couldn’t believe what he described and questioned: “Is this person out of his mind? Hypochondria?” Regardless of whether the details described by Li Zhenhong are absolutely true, a week after he was "buried alive", Singapore's very influential "Lianhe Evening News" published an appalling article with the headline "Chinese Super League star arrives in Hong Kong to break the news Admitted to accepting money for match-fixing, imprisoned and beaten for 8 hours."The next day, the Lianhe Zaobao website quoted this article: “Li Zhenhong, the captain of the Chinese Super League team Changsha Jinde, arrived in Hong Kong recently, claiming that on the 24th of last month, several people locked him in a confinement room, beat him for 8 hours, forced him to He admitted to taking bribes to play match-fixing in a Chinese Super League match, and the situation is like extorting a confession by torture." - Li Zhenhong, who was full of fear, fled from Changsha to Hong Kong to seek refuge.

Li Zhenhong, born in 1979, is from Shenyang.The registration form of the Football Association is registered as born in 1985, which is not true, because Li Zhenhong entered the Shenyang team in 1990. According to the age of registration, he was only 5 years old at that time. In 1994, the Bayi team was promoted.Since then, he has moved to Sichuan Guancheng, Chengdu Wuniu, Jiangsu Sainty and Shenyang Jinde. While playing for Jiangsu Sainty in 2004, after losing an away game against Qingdao Hailifeng, he was included in the list of "inner ghosts" by his head coach Chi Shangbin, and was immediately banned. In 2006, when he played for Kinder, in the 0-1 loss at home to Wuhan Optics Valley, the opponent's winning goal was scored by his side. After the game, Kinder's executives clearly pointed out that Li Zhenhong was "playing match-fixing". , began to bury the primer for the subsequent deterioration of the relationship between the two parties. On August 18, 2007, Jinde lost 0 to 2 away to Greentown.In the previous 17 rounds of the league, Li Zhenhong played 15 times as the team captain and the absolute main force, but there was no record of appearances after that.

On September 17, Li Zhenhong, who secretly returned from Hong Kong, secretly accepted an interview with "Football". Those things that happened to him more than 20 days ago still haunt him like a nightmare. For the slightest sound in the room, he will subconsciously turn his head and look around, like a frightened bird.And retelling that experience is even more painful. When it comes to important points, his face will involuntarily appear twitching. I remember very clearly that it was the night of August 24th, the night before our team went to Qingdao for an away game. Driver, I went out without thinking too much.When I got outside the dormitory, several people took me to a bungalow not far from the dormitory.After entering the room, they locked the door and said that I had played match-fixing. I was surprised at the time and immediately argued that I hadn’t played match-fixing. As a result, several people beat me up and injured me in many places, forcing me to admit that I had committed match-fixing. up.Seeing that I was very tough, they took out ropes to tie my hands, put two sacks around my head and feet, and carried me to the river, saying they were going to throw me into the river.I was stunned at the time, desperately trying to figure it out, but my mind was messed up and I was very scared. I felt a little unreal. How could the scenes in the movie happen to me?They asked me if I had anything to say in the end, and I said, "I didn't play match-fixing, and I have a clear conscience." Maybe they didn't achieve their goal, and they took me back to the bungalow.After an unknown amount of time, I was put into the sack again. This time, I was carried to a pit that had been dug beforehand, and I was thrown into the pit. Then I felt that they were filling the pit with a shovel. earth.Although I was very scared at the time, when they asked me at the end, I still insisted on confessing that I had not played match-fixing. When they saw me, they refused to let go and got me out.

They sent me back to the team the next morning and it was 5:30.The team is about to go to the airport. In that round of the Chinese Super League, the Changsha Jinde team was going to Qingdao for an away game.Before the team left, a team doctor was deliberately left behind to accompany me to Zhuzhou People's Hospital. As a result, I had 6 stitches on my head and a CT scan to check whether my brain was contused.At that time, the club stated that they were not aware of the matter and promised to investigate it clearly.So I didn't call the police. At that time, I was afraid that I would be beaten again, so I put them off first.While they were not paying attention, I secretly called the police.But when the police came to the door, they called me and said they couldn't enter the yard.

I thought the club would help me figure things out, but I never imagined that on September 7, the nightmare came again and I was taken to that bungalow again.Same as last time, I was still required to admit that I had played match-fixing, and asked me to hand over the 2 million yuan I got from the so-called match-fixing.I argued that I had not played match-fixing, nor had I received 2 million yuan.They also said that they should pay 100,000 yuan first, and pay back the rest later.At that time, I was afraid that I would be beaten again, so I put them off first.While they were not paying attention, I secretly called the police.But when the police came to the door, they called me and said that they couldn't enter the yard.When I heard this, I became anxious, and I said that you must come in and take me out, otherwise my personal safety would not be guaranteed.When the police picked me up, several people followed me to the police station.The police said they would investigate the matter, but I felt that my safety was no longer guaranteed. At that time, I thought that the only way to ensure my safety was to leave the mainland.Finally, under the protection of the police, I arrived in Changsha. After leaving Changsha, I went to Hong Kong.I also had another consideration when I went to Hong Kong, that is, I also wanted to expose this matter through their media.At that time, a Hong Kong reporter called the club leader to ask me where I was while interviewing me. The other party’s answer was: "Li Zhenhong is in Beijing for medical treatment." Hearing such an answer, the Hong Kong reporter was a little bit dumbfounded.The Hong Kong reporter also called the Zhuzhou police. The other party replied that because I lacked a forensic examination, the police could only guarantee my personal safety at that time, and it was difficult to deal with other matters at the moment.Indeed, I couldn't produce any evidence for everything I said at the time.Now, the team doctor didn't dare to stand up and speak for me. He just admitted to taking me to the hospital, but refused to explain the condition.The teammates of the Kinder team did not dare to stand up and speak for me. I can understand these, and no one wants to cause trouble for themselves.Now I can only say that I use the lives of my whole family to guarantee that what I say is the truth.

There are indeed some irrational things in Li Zhenhong's intermittent memories. For example, why did those people beat him and bury him alive, and then sent him back to the club?Why did Li Zhenhong feel that the person who buried him alive came from the Kinder Club, and why did he stay in the team until he was beaten severely for the second time?Why did Li Zhenhong have the opportunity to call the police when he was "kidnapped" for the second time? However, there was an element of black humor in this sensational "murder case": while newspapers across the country frantically reproduced this news, the Kinder Club, the party that was said to have committed the violence, had been running around trying to refute the rumors. Jin Yan, who was the general manager of Jinde Club at the time, was gentle and honest, and his voice trembled with anger: "Who said the club buried him alive? It's just a lie!"

In the end, Li Zhenhong's affairs did not go down. He himself was sold at a high price after the end of that season, and he retired because no one was delisted.However, during the intermission of the 2009 League match between Kinder and Shaanxi, a senior person in Kinder sternly warned the players: "Don't mess around. I asked someone to do Li Zhenhong at the beginning." He didn't think What kind of trouble will this sentence cause him, but he is more willing to let the players understand that if they can do Li Zhenhong, they can do anyone who wants to make trouble. However, in the eyes of some players who know the inside story, this sentence may have another meaning.He Bing, the general manager of Kinder, was arrested a month ago, further revealing the mystery.The club's top executives once clearly stated at the team meeting that players are prohibited from playing match-fixing. "Every player is a member of the team and should maintain a high degree of consistency with the club."In fact, some people have long pointed out that Li Zhenhong was not the only one who was severely beaten at the time, but that others bowed their heads and paid the "confession money" before being let go, but Li Zhenhong chose the most violent escape Way.After him, another player, Yu Bo, also disappeared suddenly under the pretext that his girlfriend in Shenzhen was seriously ill, without even packing his personal belongings.A few days later, Kinder club executives received a text message from him: "Don't look for me, I will never come back to play again."

Jinde, who went to Changsha, is no longer the Shenyang team that spent money to pass the test. The players sell the impact they can have on the game, while the club sells the entire team's grasp of the game result.Behind the Li Zhenhong incident, what is actually hidden is the struggle between those who master the rules and those who break the rules, and it is the struggle between big dealers and small retail investors.The "vendetta" between the controllers and the anti-controllers should be the historical truth after stripping away the moral cloak. It is said that in the Zhuzhou Jinde Industrial Park where the Kinder Club is located, there is a special person who raises black and ferocious bears.Li Zhenhong once told a reporter that when he was beaten and buried alive, all he could think about was the scene of the bear in the iron cage roaring and baring its fangs and blood-red tongue. Beside the cage, I was asked, do you want to stay outside, or go in and play with it... At that time, people looked at bears, and bears looked at people, and they couldn't tell who was who.