Turbid Light
Xu Jiaming was detained, and from his behavior it seemed that he really knew nothing about the family business.
When Xun Muke arrived, Li Qiuqi was still huddled in the corner and trembling. The DY incident was exposed because Li Qiuqi called the magazine and attracted a large number of reporters.
Xun Muke comforted her softly and took her to the treatment center next door. The whole consultation room was filled with warm colors, and Li Qiuqi felt much calmer inside.
"What's your name?" Xun Muke answered the phone, put the phone upside down on the table and started asking.
Li Qiuqi's voice was a little hoarse, and she opened her mouth several times but couldn't say anything. Xun Muke stood up and poured her a glass of warm water with elegant and calm movements. Li Qiuqi took the water and drank it slowly, observing her while drinking.
After a long pause, she put down the cup and said, "My name is Li Qiuqi."
"Don't be nervous, we're just having a simple chat."
Li Qiuqi slowly raised her head and looked at the smiling woman. Her back, which had been bent for a long time, seemed to have regained some support. "I know what you want to ask."
The story began after she returned from the National Day holiday. Xu Jiaming took her on a trip abroad for more than ten days. After they came back, Xu Jiaming became much colder towards her. At first, he thought it was because of his busy studies. Later, he saw a post on the Internet saying that men don't care about things when they get what they want. Li Qiuqi was feeling uneasy while working part-time. Before she could figure out Xu Jiaming's change, the arrival of the child caught her off guard.
She didn't expect to be so unlucky. Li Qiuqi called Xu Jiaming and told him about it while crying. Xu Jiaming only said coldly, "If you don't want it, just beat him."
How could she ask for it when she was still in school? Should she take a leave of absence and have a baby? She didn't want to. She had other things to do. She didn't want to become a mother so soon. After a few days of consideration, Li Qiuqi decided to go to the hospital for an abortion.
On that day, Li Qiuqi called Xu Jiaming and asked him to accompany her, but Xu Jiaming did not go and only gave her money. Li Qiuqi was disheartened and decided to take care of the child first before thinking about the problems between them.
A week later, Li Qiuqi asked Xu Jiaming to talk, but he still didn't show up. Rumors started to spread in the school. Everyone knew that Xu Jiaming, who had expressed his love so affectionately downstairs in the dormitory, liked to mess around outside. Li Qiuqi was very angry, and the two began a cold war.
“It was almost November when I got a call.”
On the way back to school after class, Li Qiuqi received a call from the hospital, saying that there were still reports to be collected and asked her to come back. Li Qiuqi didn't want to go at first, but the other party may have heard her reluctance and told her that a lump was found in her abdomen and they needed to talk in person. So Li Qiuqi hurriedly took a taxi to the hospital.
"They kidnapped me."
Li Qiuqi's voice was choked with sobs, and her hands were shaking. Xun Muke gently held her hands and comforted her, "Are you saying that you disappeared and were taken away by people from the hospital?"
"I don't know how they took me away, but I woke up there."
Her tears fell onto the table one by one. She had been missing for more than two months and didn't know how she had gotten through it. "Every day someone would come to give us injections. One time I heard a couple come in outside the examination room. They chatted with the doctor and said they were very satisfied with me. I was very scared, and then I resisted even more violently. Sometimes..."
"Sometimes I even think I'd rather die. My parents don't love me, and my boyfriend doesn't love me either..."
Xun Muke took out a tissue to wipe her tears and interrupted her, "The fact that you're willing to make this call shows that you have a will to survive, Qiuqi. Accepting that others don't love you as much as they do is also a very important lesson in life. This 'others' refers to anyone other than yourself."
"But... I'm already like this, is there still a future?" As she said this, she unconsciously touched her flat belly, and then it started to ache. She felt pain even though she hadn't had an injection.
The fear of the egg retrieval injection has been branded in her heart. She becomes stressed when she sees the syringe during the injury examination. The cruel scenes keep flashing back in her mind. Can she return to normal life?
"Of course," Xun Muke affirmed, "You can remember the pain and refuse to reconcile with the past, but you can't hate yourself as much as you hate the criminal, because you are innocent."
“…Hmm.” Li Qiuqi was skeptical, but when she lowered her head and remained silent, she felt that what she said was right. No one stipulates that you must overcome the past to move towards the future. You don’t have to face it if you don’t want to, as long as you keep moving forward.
"Can you tell me why you thought of calling the newspaper?"
"Newspaper..." Li Qiuqi said, "Actually, I just happened to see it."
"See?"
"Yeah. They keep us like livestock, feeding us at fixed times and places. I'd successfully cut my wrists before, but I didn't recover. That couple seemed to have taken a fancy to me, so they spent over a month recuperating. What I eat is different from what they eat. There was a newspaper left in the meal delivered yesterday at noon. I saw the phone number in the newspaper and memorized it. By the time the delivery person came to take it back, I had memorized it. This afternoon, I found an opportunity to go out and make a phone call. I was just trying my luck, after all, the public phone looked like it hadn't been used for a long time, but it worked!"
"Maybe it's God's blessing that we are not destined to die." Li Qiuqi sighed.
"Did anyone try to escape or call to report before you?" Xun Muke asked.
"Yes," Li Qiuqi said, "Everyone who didn't come here voluntarily is thinking about how to escape. A deaf-mute man ran away once before, but was caught in the middle of the night, and then..."
"And then what?"
"And then she was electrocuted to death." Li Qiuqi frowned. She had also heard from those pregnant women that most of those who came in voluntarily lived a relatively good life. They were well fed and well served, and had everything they wanted. There was just an iron gate, and on the other side were young pregnant women who could move freely. Here, they used forced tools.
"These are all what I heard... There is no real evidence." Li Qiuqi added when she saw that Xun Muke's face was not very good.
Xun Muke smiled at her and ended the conversation.
When they came out, Li Qiuqi's parents were already sitting in the hall. When they saw Li Qiuqi, they thought of taking her home to get married. The couple coaxed her, "Qiuqiu, I'm your mother. We're here to take you home. Come on." The mother stretched out her hand to her. Li Qiuqi hid behind Xun Muke, closed her eyes in fear, and kept shaking her head.
Li Qiuqi's mental state is unstable, and Xun Muke suggests that she live in his own home first. On the one hand, it will make it easier for her to cooperate with the police in investigating the DY base, and on the other hand, it will also protect her.
Regarding this industry, they learned a name from other pregnant mothers when interrogating them, Fu Xue.
According to them, these businesses were introduced to them by Fu Xue, their senior who stayed in the local area to work after graduation. They met each other when they were looking for jobs.
In the economic downturn, deception and being deceived are widespread between employers and young job seekers. Initially, a group of college students were looking for part-time jobs to earn money for their studies. However, once the employers knew they were college students, they began to aggressively lower their prices. After being deceived several times, they learned the ropes and disguised themselves as experienced adults working part-time. However, they were accidentally exposed, and that's when Fu Xue appeared.
"Fu Xue, please come with us." Cheng Xiaoxiang came to pick someone up, but he didn't expect that he was picking someone up in the hospital. The operating room was closed, and the woman was sitting on the ground with disheveled hair, as if she didn't hear anything.
"Are you Fu Xue?" Cheng Xiaoxiang squatted down and looked at her. From this angle, he could clearly see that there was a palm-sized birthmark on her face and he was shocked.
The woman still didn't react, waiting woodenly for the door to open.
The nurse pushed the door open and came out. Fu Xue knelt over and asked anxiously, "How is it?"
The nurse shook her head, and then the doctor came out and took off his mask, indicating that the rescue was ineffective.
Fu Xue knelt down and pulled the doctor's clothes, "Doctor, please think of a way! Please think of another way! She is so young, there must be other ways, right! I have money! I have a lot of money! Please save my sister!"
The doctor left resolutely, pushing a body covered with a white sheet out of the ward. Fu Xue rushed over and held her cold hand, "Sister is back! Wake up!"
The nurse pushed the body to the morgue, and Fu Xue followed all the way until the cold air in the morgue made her shiver, and she finally realized that her sister was gone.
Cheng Xiaoxiang witnessed all this and did not rush her, giving her some time to accept the current situation.
Fu Xue stood in the corridor and laughed. She had done so much for her but the final outcome was still like this. She still died, leaving her all alone.
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