I'm a prisoner. Let me in! Part 2

 

He was afraid to look for work in case he was identified and relied on whatever money he could beg or on whatever his mother was occasionally able to send him. Finally, in 1990 he was, somehow, able to get his hands on ¥1000 which he used to buy a false ID card in the name of Wei Zhimeng.

He married a Nanning woman and had a son, but he was still unable to find work. The poverty was too much for his wife, who divorced him. He managed to survive by doing bicycle repairs, raising pigeons, and other odd jobs. Finally, he managed to rent a fish pond and built up a fish farm. In 2002, it started to make a profit. In the last year, it made ¥100,000.

Feng was now rich and frequently visited his mother but was too afraid to spend the night. His mother was in poor health and she began to beg him to hand himself in, finish his sentence and then be free. She wanted him to be a free man before she died. 

In 2007, Feng bought his son a computer and accessed the internet for the first time. He found a webpage which had an article about how conditions in the local prison had improved greatly since his escape and began to consider complying with his mother’s wishes. On October 11th, 2007 he called the prison and spoke to a section chief. He pretended to be a ‘friend’ asking for advice as to what escaped criminal Feng should do. A number of phone calls took place over the next few weeks and, after telling his ex-wife and son his real name, on December 28, 2007, he travelled from Nanning to Liuzhou where he had arranged to meet the prison authorities.

He was later given an extra six months imprisonment on top of the original sentence.

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