(Clearwisdom.net) I am a farmer. I used to have a strange disease. I felt so dizzy that I could not move, threw up repeatedly, and was very weak. I tried to get the disease treated at the big hospitals in Beijing and Baoding. After spending a lot of money and rendering my family penniless, the disease was not cured. I tried to practice many kinds of qigong, but not one was effective. As the man in the family, I not only couldn't do any work but was also a burden to the entire family. I was really in deep sorrow. Once, I secretly bought some rat poison while contemplating suicide. But when I thought about my family and how they would suffer if I died, I gave up. In this way, I struggled between life and death.
Fortunately, I started to practice Falun Gong in February 1999. When I was watching the videotapes of Master's Fa-lectures, Master helped me and purified my body. I regretted obtaining the Fa so late, but a fellow practitioner encouraged me, saying, "It's not too late. If you firmly and truly practice cultivation, you will not miss anything." I insisted on attending group Fa study and group exercise practice every day. Very soon, I was healthy again. From that moment, I felt full of confidence about my life. It is our merciful and great Master who pulled me back from my life and death struggles. Facing the picture of Master, tears ran down my face even though I seldom cried.
Beginning on July 20, 1999, Jiang Zemin and the Communist Party collaborated to brutally persecute Falun Gong. I talked to Master's picture with tears, "Master, you should never come back. The Chinese Community Party is capable of any evil deed." (Later I realized that I was not understanding the Fa from within the Fa.) At the beginning of the persecution, and in order to let fellow practitioners obtain Master's new lectures and truth clarifying materials in time, I always traveled dozens of miles downtown to make copies. Therefore, the circulation of the newest information could be guaranteed within a dozen of our local villages. We kept clarifying the truth, handing out leaflets, and hanging up banners without a break.
Around 2 a.m. on June 2, 2001, a dozen people from the village cadre, public security, the town's armed forces department, the 610 Office, and the local police station all came over the wall and ransacked my home. They took away Master's picture, Falun Gong books, and truth clarifying materials. They even threatened my five-year-old daughter to make her tell them whether there were any remaining truth clarifying materials or banners. She was so frightened that she lost her voice. The director of the local police station, Chang Jiuquan, wanted to abduct my wife, even though she had not put on a jacket. When I tired to stop him, they handcuffed me and took me to the police station. I was handcuffed to a bed and forced to kneel down with my upper body straight. The policemen started to violently kick my legs with their hard leather shoes. At the same time, they applied an 8, 000-volt electric baton to my head, face, and all over my body. They did not stop until I was on the verge of death.
When they could not achieve their objectives even with such brutal tortures, they requested the chief of the criminal police team, Ruan, to interrogate and torture me. I had only Master and Falun Dafa in my mind. No matter what they did, it was useless. Ruan could not help but give up either. Later, they tricked me with a telephone book that I had torn apart. Because I could not identify their trick and was afraid of implicating fellow practitioners, I said something that I should not have said. Later they sent me to the city detention center and illegally detained me for more than five days. Then they took me back to the police station to persecute me even more.
My wife was afraid that my body could not stand the tortures, so she requested the police station to release me. Chang Jiuquan told my wife to pay 5,000 yuan to gain my release. She went to the Village Commission to appeal. The Secretary of the commission asked her to spend 1,000 yuan to treat them. My family was penniless, so how could we have so much money? My wife could only borrow money from friends and relatives. I was finally released after the authorities had extorted 7,000 yuan from my family.
After I returned home, I saw banners and flyers requesting my unconditional release posted everywhere. It was because my fellow practitioners had been trying to save me! I immediately attended a meeting of the team involved in validating the Fa. In order to let more sentient beings know the truth about Falun Gong, I called directly to the chief of the police station, the public security department, and the 610 Office to persuade them not to persecute Falun Gong. I told them about the rule of "Good is rewarded with good, and evil is met with evil." Some people who used to persecute Falun Gong practitioners are not doing it any more. This was all because of Master's great mercy and the power of Dafa. I just did a little bit that a practitioner should do under the merciful protection of Master.
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