Liu feng Yao is born in 1918 , born in the Wanghe village in Suning, Hebei Province. He has 6 brothers and sisters. He is the fourth kid in the family, but due to poverty, his parents sent him to a couple in nearby ZhaoBao village. They are well-to-do landowner  couple,  took care of Fengyao like their son and sent him to schools. He married at 14, to a 18 years old girl.

It is very common to marry an 18 year-old girl. This is called  Shimpua marriage, In mainland China, the practice was outlawed by the Communist Party of China in 1949. They had 3 daughters and 2 sons. My grandma, my mother's mother, is his second daughter. Feng Yao later became a headmaster for local elementary school in his early-20s. When the landlord couple passed away, they gave him 2 buckets of gold. This is during happend during Sino-Japanese War, where Feng Yao lived a relativily happy life.
He is playful and loves to help out other, and in fact, a little too generous. If you compliment his jacket, he would took it off and give it to you as a gift.

When he got out of prison: 1959，he tried to do an appeal to the court. It was successful. Xingquan forced to quit his job.  In 1977 Xing Quan resume his job as maigstrate, and jailed Feng Yao Feng Yao sinked in depression. In 1978 a family member brings him food to the jail with a basket. In the basket, there are pen and paper. He wrote his last words on that paper. That night he escaped the prison and went out and found a tree on the outskirt of the village. He hanged himself.