He remembered the story happening around 2006, when for some reasons, the inspection of street sanitation was particularly strict.
In '06, Yao Jiping's cart was confiscated by urban management, and in '07 Xu Aiguo got into an accident while using his motorcycle to transport passengers, so Xu Qingfan remembered it clearly.
The tale initially began with a man leaping to his death from the high building of Renmin Hospital, but there were so many people jumping every day that this piece of news didn't catch the media or the public's attention at the time.
A month later, dozens of kilometers away in a rental house in Qiujie Village, Li City, a mother and daughter committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in their dark, cramped room. These two unrelated cases were connected by someone with an agenda. It was as if a huge stone had been thrown into peaceful waters, causing a massive storm of outrage.
