Volume 1 Chapter 16 A Chance Encounter with Human Traffickers
The capital city of province A is called Gudu, the name of the city sounds like an ancient city with a long history, but the root of it is only less than two hundred years of history, according to legend, during the Daoguang Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, there was a landlord bully who was quite rich and powerful, he was rampant and bullied the township, and the life of the local people was miserable. I don't know who took the lead, in order to escape the bullying of this landlord bully, the people gradually spontaneously hid in the mountains and forests , the result of this person is more and more, the landlord bully found that the situation is not right, he took his minions to the mountains to arrest people, and finally found countless good fields on the other side of this mountain forest, and these fields are borderless land, the greedy landlord bully wants to take these good land as his own, so he ordered his subordinates to beat all the people who are hard-working, how can the people who were forced to a dead end sit still, they finally chose to fight with the landlord bully, and the landlord bully was killed in the melee. This incident alarmed the local government, and after the local officials learned the whole story in detail, they ordered these people to build villages and divide fields here to appease, so this became the predecessor of the ancient city, as for the name of this village at that time, there is nowhere to find out.
Later, in the period of modern warlord wars, an officer won the battle, passing through this village on the way back with the troops, because of the long-term warlord habits, the officer ordered his soldiers to enter the village to rob, but was met with fierce resistance from the villagers, the officer was furious and ready to kill, the village chief took people to offer a lot of money and food, begging the officer's subordinates to spare the whole village, and the officer who was still angry saw that the money and food from the village contained a few antique playthings, and he was aroused greedy. He then led his men to kill several people and broke into the village, and finally ordered his men to loot everywhere despite the village chief's pleadings. It may also be that the village chief was in a hurry, or his head suddenly opened up, and the village chief found the officer and asked him to stop, on the grounds that this village is the ancient capital of the Nine Dynasties since ancient times, and it is an important historical and cultural relic (I don't know if the officer can understand it) and cannot be destroyed. Although this officer can't read, write, and has no education, he has heard a lot of operas, and he has never heard such a paragraph sung in any operas.
"The ancient capital of the Nine Dynasties, I'm a good girl, dear mother, how many antiques can be robbed here?" The officer thought of robbing, but he was not stupid, since it was called the ancient capital, why is it a dilapidated village now, with a tall and majestic city wall?
I don't know which nerve of the village chief is abnormal, or whether the officer's left or right brain has convulsions, the village chief opened his eyes and said nonsense, and this officer actually believed it!
The village chief said nonsense at the time: "Our ancestors have been living here for generations, and it was the ancient capital five or six hundred years ago, and it is the ancient capital of the Nine Dynasties with a history of thousands of years. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing army invaded the Central Plains, and the ancestors decided to lead their descendants to hide from the war, in order to prevent the Qing army from discovering it, so the ancestors led people to demolish all the ancient cities, including the tall city walls and magnificent buildings, and finally only left so many hundreds of houses, until now it has become this village"
As for why this officer believes this nonsense, there is no way to verify, in short, this officer only robbed the villagers' property in the end and did not create casualties, probably in order to show that he is a hero who has protected the national cultural heritage, he renamed the village "Gudu" before leaving after robbing and happy, and ordered people to build a stone tablet as a basis, since then this village has been renamed Gudu Village, after the founding of New China, because of the importance of geographical location, the government expanded Gudu Village into an ancient city, and set it as the capital of Province A so far.
Wu Zhong finally made this decision a week later and went to work in the Provincial Department Anti-Abduction Corps, while Zhao Mei stayed in Baishan City to take care of Wu Ai and Hu Zhuang's study and life. After the anti-trafficking work in Province A was previously under the responsibility of the Criminal Police Corps of the Provincial Department, and many years ago, after the anti-trafficking work was taken seriously by the whole society and the government, Province A set up a relatively targeted anti-trafficking office group. Because the work object, location, method, concealment, social impact, and other aspects are different from other criminal investigation work, after many years of running-in, province A finally separated the anti-trafficking work and set up a separate anti-trafficking team, which is a trial initiative in province A and even in the whole country. Wu Zhong was the deputy captain of the anti-abduction detachment in Baishan City before, and is now the deputy captain of the anti-abduction corps of the A Provincial Public Security Department.
After the results of the high school entrance examination came out, Wu Ill and Hu Zhuang's life was much easier and happier, Wu Ill's grades have been very good, Hu Zhuang barely passed the score line, and the brothers were successfully admitted to the second high school in Baishan City, which is the best high school in Baishan City, and they are the same as Bai Ling and Zhang Zhi, which they agreed in advance to enter the same school. After Wu Zhong left, Wu Ill and Hu Zhuang had more free time, the two had nothing to do all day, except for the daily boxing practice, the two brothers were bored to the point of bursting, during this time Bai Ling went to play at a relative's house in the field, and Zhang Zhi used the summer job to earn money, the two brothers also wanted to follow Zhang Zhi together, but were resolutely stopped by Zhao Mei, this day Hu Zhuang proposed to go to Zhang Zhi's place to work to play, the two brothers hit it off and left after saying to Zhao Mei.
Zhang Zhi's place of work is in a western restaurant in Tengshan District, Baishan City, he is a waiter in it, Zhang Zhi's age is only 15 years old like Wu Ill, originally according to the regulations of the local government of Baishan City, student labor and child labor are absolutely not allowed to be hired, because the owner of the hotel is Zhang Zhi's neighbor, the boss is very sympathetic to Zhang Zhi's situation and suffering, and only reluctantly agreed to hire Zhang Zhi as a short-term worker after Zhang Zhi begged many times. After the end of the high school entrance examination, the children of every family were immersed in joy, but Zhang Zhi had to worry about the tuition fee for the first year of high school, because several of his uncles and aunts had already begun to discuss dividing his grandmother's inheritance- The old house, because it has become the scope of the government's new plan for demolition, the original dilapidated old house has now appreciated, Zhang Zhi, who has no support, looked at several uncles and aunts who did not care about it in front of him and blushed, no one cares where Zhang Zhi will live after the demolition, and no one cares how he will eat and live in the future, these indifferent people include Zhang Zhi's biological parents. After the high school entrance examination, Zhang Zhi found his biological parents more than once and wanted to rely on them, but what responded to him was a 'passion' full of strangeness and a sense of distance, which did not make Zhang Zhi feel the slightest warmth, but felt more lonely and lost in his heart. When Zhang Zhi was born only about a month ago, the conflict that his parents had accumulated for many years finally broke out, and finally the two parties chose to divorce when Zhang Zhi was 3 months old, but no one was willing to raise Zhang Zhi, and in the end, only Zhang Zhi's grandmother adopted him. After Zhang Zhi's parents divorced, both parties quickly formed a family, and it didn't take long for them to have their own children, and Zhang Zhi became the superfluous person. Since he was a child, he has not enjoyed father's love and mother's love, except for his grandmother's care and love, it seems that people all over the world don't like him, and negative emotions such as loneliness, low self-esteem, and depression have been with him for more than ten years, until he met Wu Yi and Hu Zhuang, the power of friendship gradually dissolved these gloom, and Zhang Zhi's life slowly took on color. Now, he has to worry about his future life, food, housing and tuition, how to solve these problems?
Zhang Zhi, who was desperate, did not have an adult around him who could give him advice, and he was unwilling to ask Wu Zhi and others for help, he didn't want to add a burden to the pure friendship, he hid his current situation from Wu Zhi and others, just under the pretext of working to earn some pocket money. In the end, Zhang Zhi, who was helpless, had to ask his neighbor Boss Zhang for help. Although the two-month salary is not high, but because of the care of Boss Zhang, Zhang Zhi can get a certain commission from the promotion of wine, and in addition to the tuition fee, there is a surplus in addition to the hotel, in addition to food and accommodation, this news is really good for Zhang Zhi.
At nine o'clock in the evening, Wu Yi and Hu Zhuang were both wearing very casual T-shirts and short sleeves, sitting in the restaurant relaxed and waiting for Zhang Zhi to get off work, and there was still half an hour before Zhang Zhi got off work at ten o'clock in the evening. The brothers chose the northeast corner of the second floor of the restaurant, which has a very good view and is close to the window, where they can see the street and the park outside. After a while, Zhang Zhi, who was busy, saw the two brothers, said hello and went to work again, after all, it was still the time to work.
Hu Zhuang made a fuss and went to the toilet, and Wu Yi, who was bored, faintly heard a low quarrel from the next place, because there was a partition in the middle, and only some parts of the content were heard.
"You're sick...... That's all...... This is a baby boy...... Don't buy and pull down!"
"This ...... It's big...... Cheaper ......"
The two sides of the conversation were a woman and a man, and Wu Yi was sitting near the partition, so he heard some key words, and Wu Yi, who had been abducted, suddenly felt a thrill all over his body, and immediately realized what the content of the conversation meant. Because their parents are policemen, Wu Zhong and Zhao Mei often talk about work at home, and they have learned a little way to deal with Wu's illness after hearing about it. Wu Yi immediately bowed his body, took advantage of his small stature, hid his body behind a potted plant next to the partition, and stretched out his ears to listen carefully to the other party's conversation.
"Fifty thousand yuan, it can't be less, I will share this money alone, hurry up and whether you buy it or not, if you don't buy it, someone will buy it" A female voice with a foreign accent urged.
"No, 40,000 yuan can't be more, this boy is a little older and not worth that much money, it's the same if you sell it to other people" This was a hoarse male voice.
The two sides bargained back and forth, as if they were only discussing the price of a particular commodity, not the abducted child to be slaughtered.
"Okay, TM's I'm also convinced of you, forty-five thousand! If you want to buy it, you will pay for it, if you don't buy it, I will leave" The woman with a foreign accent seemed to compromise.
"Okay, now take me to the child, and we'll pay for it with one hand and deliver it with the other!" said the man in a hoarse voice.
Then the pair of men and women got up to leave, Wu Yi quickly avoided his body and was not discovered by the other party, at this time Hu Zhuang also came out of the toilet, and after seeing the pair of men and women walking down the stairs, Wu Yi said what he had just heard.
"You go and call Zhang Zhi over, our three brothers are going to catch the villain today!"