Upon hearing this, Sun Hao's eyes lit up immediately. "No problem, absolutely no problem."
After settling these matters, Qiao Xia went to Pingkang Town. She felt sorry for Chenxi's journey and for Li Yu, but she also overlooked the women who had been trafficked.
Like all the media, she focused her attention on the children who were also victims, sparing them even a glance.
But after she learned the truth from the local police, she truly felt angry.
The women who were abducted to the remote mountains included college students who had not yet graduated, white-collar workers who had just entered the workforce, and rural women with families.
All of those who escaped became mentally unstable. Some were caught and brutally beaten after escaping, while others were driven insane by being locked in a dark basement for a long time.
Hong Gu said, "At first, the people who were abducted could escape while working in the fields. Later, the villagers got smarter. No matter which family bought the woman, they would chain her up with iron chains. After two years, she would have to learn to walk and talk again. She would forget her past and wouldn't run away."
Hong Gu is in her fifties. She spoke calmly, and she was the most well-dressed of all the women who had been abducted.
Qiao Xia asked, "What about you? Haven't you ever run before?"
Hong Gu laughed and said, "How could I not have run away? I even succeeded, but after I ran away, my former family refused to acknowledge me, and there was gossip everywhere..."
"So you're back again?" Qiao Xia's eyes were full of confusion.
Hong Gu gently shook her head. "No, I moved to a different town. Society changes too fast. When I first came out, I didn't know anything, I couldn't even speak. No one wanted me to work in a factory, so I went to the slaughterhouse to pluck duck feathers."
"The factory smelled of chicken and duck droppings everywhere. I almost suffocated when I first went there, but I got used to it after a while."
“I rented a small house and worked to support myself. I even changed jobs at a factory. Those were the happiest days of my life, but not long after, I was trafficked again.”
Hong Gu's eyes were calm, and she spoke without the slightest resentment. She seemed to have surrendered to fate, and life could no longer arouse any passion in her.
“I’m lucky to have met an old bachelor, but he’s quite self-aware. He knows he can’t afford to raise children and doesn’t want to be that foolish. He just wants a wife to keep him company, and he’s usually willing to listen to me.”
It's unclear whether Hong Gu was speaking to Qiao Xia or to herself.
Qiao Xia looked at her with heartache, but this seemed to provoke Hong Gu, who desperately tried to prove that she was doing well, so she kept listing evidence to Qiao Xia.
“I live on Niutou Mountain. There are no other trafficked girls on the mountain besides me. The feng shui on the mountain is good, and a big star came from there. Wasn’t Niutou Mountain the first mountain you wanted to donate to back then?”
"When you go up the mountain, the smell of chicken manure you smell halfway up is coming from my yard. I can sell hundreds of livestock all year round, and I live a pretty good life."
“When I was little, my mom praised me for being smart, saying that I could remember everything that happened, so I could do well wherever I went, right?” Hong Gu was eager to get Qiao Xia’s approval.
"Yes," Qiao Xia replied, quickly wiping away her tears. "There's something I need your help with."
Hong Gu instinctively refused, "How can I help you?"
Qiao Xia said firmly, "Only you can help with this."
The women who were trafficked were mostly mentally unstable and forgot their families. Since the police could not find anyone to take care of them in a short time, they sent them to mental hospitals.
However, they couldn't stay there for too long because the police station couldn't afford their long-term hospitalization expenses.
Those who were abducted for a short period of time were successfully reunited with their families, but neither society nor their families had much patience in helping them reintegrate into society.
In less than a month, two people who ran away from home were found by the police, and another person committed suicide by jumping off a building.
As for those women who knew they had been sold by their families and remained silent about their original families, after confirming that they had no mental problems and that the families who bought them showed a willingness to accept them, some places actually persuaded the women to return to the mountains and live a good life after a simple reprimand and education.
In this process, everyone, under the guise of "doing what's best for her," made decisions for her and even legalized illegal behaviors. No one really cared about what they actually needed.
Qiao Xia first took all the women who had been trafficked and developed mental problems out of the mental hospital, and then provided job opportunities for college graduates who could not find work.
Make sure they are patient, starting with eating, and gradually return to a normal life.
Qiao Xia also took the initiative to cover all the medical expenses for women whose hands and feet were broken or who suffered irreversible damage due to continuous childbirth.
Hong Gu was responsible for communicating with them and confirming that they had returned to a normal level of communication. After that, Qiao Xia provided them with job opportunities so that they could return to the production and labor process.
This was destined to be a difficult and protracted process, but fortunately Qiao Xia was rich and did not expect them to make money, so she did not even blink an eye at the costs required in the early stages.
After taking the person over from the police station, the local police breathed a sigh of relief. "We're not heartless people. We rescued this person from a den of wolves after going through countless hardships."
"No one would willingly push someone back into the fire unless absolutely necessary; there's just no other way!"
Qiao Xia expressed her understanding and brought together the best film crew in the country.
"My requirements are simple: a documentary, it must be authentic, and the focus must be on the trafficked women, not on you recounting their suffering."
“The dangers they encounter during their abduction must be presented, but not for you to portray as a tragic drama.”
The dozen or so pairs of eyes sitting opposite Qiao Xia were still filled with confusion.
Qiao Xia sighed, "Women rescued from the deep mountains have always been a marginalized group that has been neglected by society. We want the audience to see not only the phenomenon of their trafficking, but also to pay attention to their lives after they are rescued."
"And their powerlessness in the face of abusers and social rules, our goal is to push for legislation, do you understand?"
The director, known as the "National Master," clapped his hands and replied in a booming voice, "I understand, but the audience for documentaries..."
Qiao Xia raised her hand to interrupt: "That's my problem, I'll handle it."
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