Mai Qi was forced to confess and be lenient when her son exposed the village's biggest secret.
Most mountain villages favor boys over girls, and female fetuses are usually thrown into the mountains to feed wolves. The ills that have been passed down from generation to generation have finally appeared. There are more boys than girls, resulting in many young men of the right age becoming bachelors.
Only then did the villagers realize the importance of the girl.
So demand gave birth to a market.
How can a country girl compare to a delicate and beautiful daughter-in-law in the city?
It is a very honorable thing for any family in the village to have money to buy a daughter-in-law; and the price of a daughter born to a "city daughter-in-law" is so high that hundreds of families are vying for her.
I don’t know when the trend of comparison started, and the situation of abducting and trafficking women became more and more serious, forming a vicious circle.
The head of Dashidong Village had met with County Magistrate Bai, and had attended elementary school for a few years. He considered himself an educated man, so he prevented the villagers from participating in this matter.
Compared with other closed villages, Dashidong is connected to the villages at the foot of the mountain, and some poor families are willing to marry their daughters over.
Lin Xiao was the only daughter-in-law who was bought from outside. As a result, her father lost his accounting position and was fined a large amount of money.
The Mai Zhuangzi family blamed Lin Xiao for all this. They abused her in every possible way, sleeping with pigs, getting up early and working late at night to do endless work.
Lin Xiao always tried his best to escape. After running away once, he was always put in chains. He was only released after unexpected pregnancy. Unexpectedly, this time after the child was born, she once again escaped without anyone noticing, and she did not expect that Mai Tieniu would follow him.
There are hunting traps outside the village, and it is easy to fall into them without the guidance of acquaintances.
Mai Tieniu accidentally stepped on a pit, but Lin Xiao pushed him away. It was such a coincidence that a police comrade happened to pass by and rescued Lin Xiao, causing him to step in the air.
There are spikes standing up at the bottom of the pit. According to Mai Tieniu, the comrade's thigh was pierced by the spikes...
After Mai Qi called the police for the first time, he found that his son was not at home, and the villagers went out to search for Lin Xiao. When desperate, Mai Qi turned to the police for help, and called the police a second time.
Police officers on the field in the mountains...
Zhou Yinghuai’s police vest…
With some vague guesses in her mind, Jiang Anan went to another ward and asked Mai Tieniu: "Is the policeman uncle you mentioned taller and stronger than your father, with a pretty handsome face?"
Mai Tieniu nodded vigorously, his big round eyes full of admiration: "That's right! I will also be a policeman in the future, as handsome and powerful as my uncle."
Jiang Anan returned to the temporary interrogation room and quietly informed Wu Jianguo of his thoughts.
"I guess it's really Zhou Yinghuai..." Wu Jianguo struck his palm.
At this moment, he finally pulled out the memory of the beginning of the month from his mind.
midnight.
The old director summoned him and Zhou Yinghuai alone.
"We have a clue about the person spreading rumors in the black market. According to insiders, the man speaks an awkward Yunzhou dialect, like someone from a village in the mountains."
Zhou Yinghuai frowned: "The bureau is open to look for proof of missing persons. I will go up the mountain to investigate tomorrow."
"The folk customs in some villages are fierce, and the villages are far apart. How long will it take to investigate each one?" Wu Jianguo disagreed: "It is better to keep an eye on Jiang Dezhu. Sooner or later, those people will send people to contact him again."
Zhou Yinghuai: "...It's too late."
As for why it was too late, he and the old director did not explain clearly, which once made Wu Jianguo puzzled.
The memory ends.
Wu Jianguo thought for a moment, and then said: "This matter is very important. You have to go with me to report to the old director."
He obviously concealed other things, but the abduction and trafficking of women fell under the jurisdiction of the Women's Federation, and Jiang Anan had no reason to refuse.
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Two o'clock in the morning.
The old director was in good health. He was not tired at all when he was woken up by unexpected events in the middle of the night. He listened to their reports on the situation in high spirits.
After hearing this, he turned his head and asked Jiang Anan: "Do you know what the expedition team has been doing recently?"
Lin Meiru is now the intelligence leader of the whole village. Jiang Anan really knows: "The expedition team hired six members to go into the mountains every day to survey. They did not dare to go deep into the mountains. They wandered around the edges every day and almost flattened the nearby mountains. How could there be anything?" Something? I picked a lot of mushrooms."
Therefore, the air in Nanxi Brigade has been filled with the smell of mushrooms recently.
Wu Jianguo smiled and said: "That's good. The mountains are dangerous, so they don't have to bother us to rescue them when they are in danger."
Unexpectedly, the old director's next words would instantly soften the smile on his lips: "Professor Sun has applied for police force from above. After the New Year, they will go into the mountains."
"Why do the expedition team want to drag the police behind them if they want to die?" Wu Jianguo said angrily, "Just because of some false rumors..."
He stopped abruptly when the words reached his lips, turned his head with lingering fear, and met the little girl's half-smiling eyes.
"The expedition team is here for the treasure, which is a box of small yellow croakers. You caught a group of treasure diggers last time, and they encouraged my uncle to join. Da Ya Nai is an accomplice with them.
Zhou Yinghuai went to the countryside with a secret mission to lurk. He is not in the same camp as your police and investigation team.
Currently, there are three groups of people from the Nanxi Brigade tracking down the whereabouts of the treasure. "
Wu Jianguo was so frightened that he stammered: "W-how did you know that?"
Jiang Anan spread her hands helplessly: "Last time you interrogated Da Ya Nai, the old director and I were right next door."
She even knew a little more than the police, such as the involvement of Uncle Yu, the second roommate of the Jiang family, and her biological father in this matter sixteen years ago.
Wu Jianguo: "..."
However, based on the interactions during this period, Jiang Anan is a trustworthy and good comrade, upright and brave, and even if she knows the information, she will not reveal it to the outside world.
Wu Jianguo lowered the corners of his lips, and there was a hint of ridicule in his cold tone: "It's not that easy to dig out treasures. If those people above don't find someone who knows how to hunt, how can they find a group of students with thin skin and tender flesh? This is not just looking for death. ?"
Jiang Anan: "If there is a treasure, of course the fewer people know about it, the better. These students have great backgrounds."
Wu Jianguo: "The gang in the mountains doesn't care what your background is. In the end, it's not us, the police who serve the people, who are unlucky?"
The five words "serving the people" must be particularly emphasized.
A brief silence fell in the air.
The old director finally spoke: "Send a few people to take doctors up the mountain to rescue Zhou Yinghuai. Based on Lin Xiao's identity, put the "missing persons" investigated by Zhou Yinghuai on her body and bring them out together."
The country strictly cracks down on human trafficking, but the village chief of Dashidong is a smart man who understands current affairs and will not stop them. Maybe by cracking down on human traffickers, we can successfully enter other villages to search for the whereabouts of the spies.
"Without any further delay, please act quickly."
The old director got up, called the police officer, arranged a car, and drove to Magistrate Bai's house in the dark.
The other end.
Under the leadership of Mai Qi, Jiang Anan followed the police comrades on the mountain road.
It was pitch black all around, with flashlights and torches lighting up the way. The howling wind made the tree trunks rustle, and the coolness seemed to penetrate into the skin through the cotton-padded jacket.
Occasionally you can hear wolves howling in the distance.
