Introduce me to Wang Tongshan, the thief king

At the entrance of the truck department of Suzhou East China Automobile Market, Wang Tongshan looked at every passerby who came forward to ask questions with alert eyes. He said with great certainty: "According to experience, that young man with a foreign accent is up to no good." This is his third day at work, from the cleaning staff in the community to the doorman in the automobile market, all belong to Sunshine Property Group, but it seems that the responsibilities of the post are more important.

This is an ordinary job. But before, his "job" was a professional thief. He worked for more than 40 years until he was released from prison again last year.

After Wang was released from prison for the last time in 2004, he was exposed by the local media and attracted attention. He made programs on CCTV's Xiao Cui Shi Shuo and Phoenix TV's Lu Yu You Yue, and became a "red man". According to his experience, the long documentary literary novel The Gangnam Thief has been published in Hainan Province.

Walking together in the bustling Guanqian Street, he can quickly tell who the thief is. Although Wu Nong speaks softly, he still keeps the figure and temper of the northerners. He is 1.75 meters tall and has sharp eyes.

Enter the Tao

At the beginning of May, 1958, a young pregnant woman was picking broad beans in Jiangnan.

A sharp-eyed and quick-witted young man stole the round wallet in her coat pocket.

The boy ran to a quiet place and opened it. There are more than 60 yuan and various tickets in the wallet, such as egg tickets, fish tickets, meat tickets, sugar tickets and cloth tickets. This may be all the money this woman needs to have a baby, but the nervousness and excitement of her first success soon overcame her worries and guilt. From then on, Wang Tongshan began his career of professional theft in the first half of his life.

Young Tongshan Wang, 13 years old. His hometown is Kaifeng, Henan Province, and his father entered Suzhou in 1949.

His parents divorced and his father was violent and violent, which paved the way for Wang Tongshan's life. After his father jumped ship, he served as the chairman of a trade union in a factory and sent his son to a boarding school. The wild child met Xiao Zhang, a 4-year-old Singaporean overseas Chinese, at school.

Xiao Zhang is generous and as reliable as "brother". He skated with Xiao Zhang, watched movies and ate, and regarded him as his only good friend. The first time I found out that Xiao Zhang was a thief, my heart was pounding, but once I put on sportswear and basketball shoes bought with stolen money, "easy money" attracted him like a magnet. Xiao Zhang became an "entry master".

The master's request is "steal my wallet, which will be full of teachers." Two or three months later, the "master" went out to take a bath and Wang entered. The two men collided at the door and took the wallet. Just like the Indian movie "Wanderer", Riaz stole Zaka's wallet. He threw it in the air twice and said, "Is this what you are looking for?" The master laughed: "You are full of teachers!"

From then on, Wang Tongshan, with excellent academic performance, was smart, published articles in Youth Literature and China Youth Daily, liked reading literature, and dreamed of becoming a writer. He was one of the first young pioneers in Suzhou and became a pickpocket "Little Suzhou".

under arrest

On the first day of junior high school, Wang Tongshan was caught stealing by a female deskmate. His father took him home, tied him up and beat him severely. The stubborn boy didn't shed a tear. At dawn, he broke free from the rope and ran away. Never go home, never go back to school.

He wandered around, lying in the park and in front of big shopping malls, stealing letters of introduction and staying in hotels. Anyway, money has a source. When the wind in Suzhou got tight, he went to Shanghai and Hangzhou, and even followed others to Guizhou and Guangzhou to make a living by pickpocketing.

"196 1 year12 pm on October 8 165438." Many years later, Wang Tongshan still reported this time in one breath. Shortly after returning to Suzhou, he was arrested. Sent to Jiangsu Juvenile Delinquency Center for 3 years.

Wang's memory is amazing, and he remembers the date of every entry and exit clearly. Without the "Cultural Revolution" and 15, Wang Tongshan believed that he would not always be a "thief". 1966 in the early days of the cultural revolution, Wang Tongshan, as a member of the "anti-rightist movement against rich fields", was once again sent to Xiaomaoshan in Jurong for socialist re-education. He was free to go to 1979 without charge.

Wang Gan's job is to make ceramics. He can eat 2 kg 1 rice and 3 kg/2 meat at a time, and eat 7 kg of goose at most.

It was a time for him to breed hatred, but he suffered for a long time because of theft when he was young. So, he escaped four or five times, came back, ran away, came back and ran away. His intelligence and eagerness to learn also gradually emerged in prison, learning wrestling and boxing with the national runner-up in wrestling. Although he only has junior high school culture, he loves literature very much. After reading Lao She, Ba Jin, Gorky, Jack London and Hardy, he still clearly remembers the story and the names of the characters, the gadfly's strong will and courage to overcome difficulties. He relishes it and even worships Pavel Colta King the most. However, his worship only lies in the individual will of the hero.

break jail

I escaped several times, all during the reeducation through labor in Xiaomaoshan. He prepares, analyzes and judges whether he can succeed or not, but he always sticks to one track-minded, just like the Hollywood movie The Shawshank Redemption, which is a realistic version of China.

1in July, 968, Wang Tongshan was punished for fighting with others, and he was shackled with a weight of 10 kilograms, so he had the idea of running away. He first traded with the children outside the farm and bought a saw blade. Every night, while everyone was asleep, he secretly sawed the shackles and wrapped them in cloth during the day, so that no one would find them. It took half a month to finish one. Anxious, he can't wait. In the free time of 5 minutes after the roll call in the evening, he went to the toilet, pulled open the iron fence that had been loosened during the day, jumped out gently and ran to the farmland. In less than five minutes, all the searchlights were on and prison police were everywhere. He hid in a small pond in a paddy field, and the frog's croak interfered with the police's judgment. After that, he continued to escape. He carefully analyzed the three ways out, only the reservoir in front. Snakes hundreds of meters wide often haunt the water. Wang Tongshan tied the chain on one leg and then jumped into the water. Young and strong, he won't last long, let alone the chains on his feet. Halfway through the swim, I was exhausted and wanted to give up.

Later, Wang Tongshan recalled that it was this book that finally gave him strength. It seems incredible that Jack London's Love Life gave him the courage to move on. After stepping on the mud, I almost got up, climbed over the reed beach, dug three small sweet potatoes and recovered my strength.

He found a stone on the mountain and smashed the chain, but he couldn't open it. He closed his eyes and hit it hard. The next day, he washed and dried his clothes, analyzed every intersection and went down the mountain. But when he tried to go out among the plumbers, he was discovered by the sharp-eyed militia. Waiting for him is a heavier and bigger shackle.

In the early spring of 2005, Wang opened the collar of his clothes, and the scar tied by the rope around his neck was still there. 15 years, Wang Tongshan could not bear to look back.