Chapter 22: Episode on the Train
Since it is the middle of the Spring Festival recently, there are not many people who want to take the train. When it was my turn to check in, I followed the crowd in line and got on the train.
After getting on the bus, I looked at the ticket in my hand, the top berth of the No. 5 in the 10 carriage. After throwing my luggage on the luggage rack, I pulled my laptop out of my bag and began researching the kidnapping file.
Since I bought the train ticket at 10 a.m., the arrival time in City C was 2 p.m. two days later. So I had plenty of time on the train.
I started watching it at 10 and forgot to eat lunch at noon. During this time, I went to the link car to smoke a few cigarettes and went to the toilet a few times. The rest of the day was spent in my bed.
The large-scale child trafficking cases in S City began around the late eighties of the last century. At that time, the number of child abduction cases reported to the local police station in S City increased significantly.
A large part of these were reports from rural areas near the city of S. In other words, children in rural areas are much more likely to be kidnapped. However, this does not mean that children in urban areas are not recorded as being trafficked.
I looked at the photos of children who had been trafficked and trafficked, and many of them were trafficked before they could have a photo of themselves, and then trafficked to other places by some traffickers.
I deliberately took a look at the reports of Chen Zili and Zhao Guoqiang. That's right, in February 1992, Chen Zili reported to the police, saying that his child Chen Li had been abducted; Gao Wangming was abducted in 1988, when Zhao Guoqiang's family reported that his child Zhao Hongyuan was missing.
After reading a lot of cases, I suddenly found that there seemed to be a line between these abduction cases, as if there was a pair of big hands manipulating the occurrence of these abduction cases behind my back.
Gao Wangming can be said to be the "first" child who was abducted, and then the incidence of cases gradually increased. At first, it was confined to rural areas, but from around 1993 onwards, it gradually increased in urban areas.
This is enough to show that in S City at that time, the abduction and trafficking case was obviously not a special case, and there was also a gang nature and a business nature.
From only a few people committing crimes at the beginning, there was a vigorous development in the number of people in the later stage. What I think about is that, on the one hand, the child trafficking industry itself is a profiteering industry, and the abduction of a child is not only extremely costly, but also very easy to do;
On the other hand, there are many infertile people who are willing to pay a high price for a healthy baby or a 1-year-old child, and there are some wealthy people among them. Therefore, many criminals feel that this industry is really profitable, and they have joined the child trafficking industry.
However, I found that most of the families of these abducted children have a common pattern, that is, their children have two or more older children in the family before the abduction. And because of the family planning policy in place in China at the time, most of these families were fined by the local family planning commission.
Even though it was just a small detail, I wrote this strange point into my sticky note. After all, you can't let go of anything that seems like a coincidence.
Time to think about the case always passed quickly, and by the time I found my stomach rumbling with hunger, it was already 7 p.m.
So I got out of bed and went to the food truck to see if there was any left. If you really don't have it, you have to buy a bucket of instant noodles to fill your stomach.
When I got to the dining car, I noticed that there was a lot of leftovers that hadn't been sold, so I bought one, sat down in the seat next to no one and began to gobble it up.
As I ate, I felt a hard blow on my back, and I looked up to see a big, muscular man wearing a black coat with red patterns, swaggering past me.
"Hey bro, be careful when you walk." I shouted at him.
He tugged back at me and grinned at me.
"Lao Tzu is walking like this, can you manage it?"
Outrageous guys. I didn't pay any more attention to him, not wanting to make myself bored. He bowed his head again and began to eat my food. He didn't say anything more and continued to walk towards the other carriage.
After eating, I had nothing to do, just wandering around the moving train car, digesting my food and continuing to think about the case.
As I walked like this, I found myself walking to a few carriages in front of the train. It's all hard-seated here. It's nearly 9 p.m. now, and there are a lot of people chatting on their phones, and some people are already asleep.
Suddenly, I noticed that some people in front of me were gathering a little bit ahead, and some people in their seats were looking up.
Curious, I walked over to join in the fun. I turned out that it was the big man who had just hit me in a black coat, and he was arguing with a little girl with a flushed face in front of him.
"You rascal! If you touch someone casually, you won't admit it, right? I'm going to call the police office in the carriage right now and ask them to call someone over! "The little girl is very petite, dressed like a student, but she looks very delicate and cute.
"Hahahaha...... Where did you come to the little **, just looking forward to your uncle touching you? Uncle didn't touch you just now! The big man looked at her with a wicked smile.
There were a lot of onlookers next to him, but none of them stood up to help the little girl say a word. There were even people who were talking to the big guys.
"Little girl, forget it, won't you be touched, don't make things bigger, these things are too bad for your little girl's reputation."
"Auntie, where did you come out again?! Why don't you stand up and let him touch it? When the girl heard this, she was furious, and tears rolled in her eyes.
I slipped into it at once, and stood between the girl and the big man.
"Brother, apologize to her." I pouted.
The big man was upset all of a sudden: "What the are you?" Do you want to take care of Lao Tzu's affairs? Soon I accidentally touched it, what's the big deal......" said he was about to stretch out his fist and make it look like he was going to hit someone.
"Uncle, forget it, let's call the police......" The girl saw me supporting her, a little worried that I would be hurt.
"Hehe, there's no need to bother."
I grabbed the big man's hand, pulled him to my side, and clasped it around his neck, only to hear the snapping of finger bones and the big man's screams of pain.
"I'm the police."