Chapter 211: Father, I don’t even know how he died. …
Yue Lingchuan's eyes suddenly brightened, and just as he was about to step forward, Shen Qingye raised his hand to stop him:
"You want me to guess?"
Shen Qingye said calmly: "Just now when I was in the basement, I found that there was another exit there, which corresponds to the back of your yard."
"When I came here, I took a quick look and saw that there seemed to be a lot of bamboos planted there, densely packed. There were also not many people around, so it was quite secluded. It looked like a very suitable place."
She lowered her eyes to look at Feng Shiyou and slowly said, "What do you think?"
Feng Shiyou's face gradually became gloomy.
While they were talking, Yue Lingchuan had already led his men to break open the iron box, revealing a box full of golden bars and two notebooks the size of an adult man's palm. When they opened the books, they found that one of them recorded how many children they abducted, when and where; the other book recorded the details of the Hui-Hui transactions and the time of death of the children who were "traded".
A cursory look shows that there are at least two to three hundred children involved; and those involved in these "transactions" are all familiar names in the business and political circles, which looks shocking.
Everything is clear and obvious.
Yue Lingchuan simply half-knelt in front of him, and spoke in a light tone, with some indifference and contempt: "Feng Shiyou, it has come to this, what are you still insisting on? What, are you counting on... those people behind you to protect you?"
He raised the notebook and said, "With these things, they are already in a difficult situation, how can you expect them to pay attention to you?"
"You're not that naive, are you?"
Feng Shiyou glared at him fiercely and clenched his fists tightly, but after a moment, all the energy in his body relaxed again.
He also knew in his heart that Feng Shiyou was right and that he probably would not be able to escape the disaster.
"I said..."
He was powerless to speak.
So, on the way back, they found out the details of their activities.
Feng Shiyou admitted that he and Chai Gui were working for Liang Shiming, but in addition to the two of them, there was another group of people who specialized in "collecting" good-looking five or six-year-old children from all over the country and sending them to him.
After the children arrive here, no matter what else they do, they are locked up in a separate compartment in the basement for a few days. Children are temperamentally unstable and cannot stand being locked up alone for a period of time. At that time, no matter how stubborn or tough the child is, he will be obedient.
After a simple training, he sent them to Chai Gui's villa, where he "taught" the children how to serve others. After about a month, each child would be able to go out to receive guests.
Children are consumable goods. If the "guests" play too much and the unlucky children die on the spot, they will be sent back and buried directly in the bamboo forest behind. If they are lucky enough to still be alive, they will be put in the basement and given some medicine. It would be best if they can hold on so that they can receive the next batch of guests. If they are dead, they are dead.
Generally, they have twenty to thirty children, half of whom are kept here to be educated, and the other half are sent to Chai Gui. If someone dies, someone else will come to "replenish the stock". In short, the number of children will generally not be less than this scale.
In the past few years, they have replenished more than ten or twenty rounds of goods. Originally, they only had fourteen children. Later, Liang Shiming realized something was wrong, so he temporarily stopped the business with Chai Gui and sent all the children here.
The account books were also sent over, which was just right, as they were caught red-handed.
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The car was speeding. Xiao Ma had informed Deng Yi of the situation at the very beginning. Now that evidence and witnesses had been found, the police from the entire provincial department were probably busy arresting people.
They quickly returned to the provincial office. Just as they had told Feng Shiyou to be detained, they saw Deng Yi hurriedly approaching with a bad look on his face. When he saw them, he said directly, "Liang Shiming ran away."
Everyone looked at each other.
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Liang Shiming's escape speed was surprising, but when you think about it carefully, it wasn't that surprising.
After all, he has always been cautious. He was afraid that when they found the Life Orphanage, he would realize that something was wrong and escape in time, trying to flee abroad with his son.
Even though the provincial department immediately asked relevant departments to restrict his exit from the country and strictly screened all roads and railways, Liang Shiming had his own private plane. The situation was urgent, so he did not apply for a flight route and left directly on his private plane.
The action was swift and quick, I'm afraid he had already prepared for the truth to be revealed.
The relevant departments immediately started to investigate, but this kind of thing inevitably takes some time and it is not possible to find the person in a short time.
And these have little to do with Shen Qingye and Yue Lingchuan.
Because the case involved so many people and was of such a serious nature, especially because Deputy Director Meng Wenhai and many politicians were involved, the Ministry of Public Security was furious when it heard the news, and it directly set up a special task force and sent a team leader to supervise the case throughout. Shen Qingye and Yue Lingchuan were busy arresting and interrogating people for several days in a row.
In the end, it was counted that 269 children were involved, of whom 242 had died; a total of 31 people participated in the "transaction," all of whom were well-known figures in the province and even in several neighboring provinces.
The whole country was shocked.
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I was busy for several days and could not even get a few hours of sleep every day. Finally, I arrested all the people on the list this morning.
Leaning on the corridor of the headquarters, Shen Qingye squinted at the dazzling sunlight in the sky. He had been staying in the dim interrogation room all the time, and suddenly saw the sunlight, feeling a little uncomfortable.
The door behind him opened and closed. Shen Qingye looked over and asked him, "Did Nie Chonghai hang up?"
Yue Lingchuan yawned, stood beside her, and said lazily, "It's over."
Nie Chonghai was also a participant in this case, but even after being arrested, he still refused to give up. Even though the evidence was so clear before his eyes, he still shouted that he was not guilty, that he knew nothing and had never been involved.
Yue Lingchuan was very upset and showed him the wanted order of Liang Shiming. Only then did he stop talking.
In fact, there are quite a few such people. Most of the people arrested in this case are well-known figures from various places. They are used to being flattered and coaxed by others. How can they bear to be suddenly interrogated like criminals? They were still hoping that someone could rescue them.
Yue Lingchuan has been having a headache lately.
Shen Qingye looked at him and said, "I just got news from the hospital that the conditions of those children have stabilized and they are finally out of danger. The families of several children have also rushed over. Do you want to go and see them?"
Yue Lingchuan stretched and said, "It's good to go and take a look."
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Those children had been running a fever for some time, and their condition was very critical when they were sent to the hospital. The doctors and the police on duty stayed up all night, and their fever recurred for two or three days. Only now have they been barely stabilized.
Shen Qingye finally had time to go see them.
The children were all on the third floor. Shen Qingye walked along and saw that in some wards there were parents sitting by the beds, either talking to their children or just watching them quietly. He was already satisfied.
Those children were abducted from all over the country by Liang Shiming's men, and their homes were in different places. Some children have clear memories and know where their homes are and their parents’ names, so their families were quickly contacted and the family was reunited. There are also some children who either do not know the exact address of their home or the names of their family members and cannot find their families for the time being; or their homes are too far away and their parents have not yet arrived.
Qi Jiayuan belongs to the latter.
His home is in a small village in the southernmost part of Guangdong Province, which is a bit remote. Even though he still remembered his family's names and knew which province, county and village his home was in, the police were able to contact his family smoothly. But after traveling from Guangdong Province to here by car, train and even plane, I only managed to get here an hour ago.
When Shen Qingye arrived, the young but old couple were lying in front of the glass window in front of the ward door, staring at the child who was sleeping soundly inside.
"Captain Yue, Sister Chen!" The policeman guarding the door saw the people coming and hurriedly greeted them.
——The criminal police from the provincial team, including those from the cities below, somehow started to address Shen Qingye as "sister".
No one knew who called out first. Shen Qingye had gotten used to it these past few days. He nodded and glanced at the couple: "Why don't you go in and stand here?"
The police officer said: "The child's condition finally stabilized and he fell asleep. His parents were afraid to wake him up if they went in, so they insisted on watching him from outside the door."
Shen Qingye tilted his head and saw that the woman, who was clearly only 26 years old in the information, now had a haggard face and looked ten years older than an ordinary person.
She leaned against the glass window, staring at the child on the bed, whose little face was exposed, without blinking, her eyes red and full of longing.
Shen Qingye and Yue Lingchuan looked at each other and recalled the results of their previous investigation, which said that after Qi Jiayuan "went missing", his parents had never given up looking for him...
Poor parents in the world.
Shen Qingye looked at their tired appearance, opened his mouth, but did not ask them to go somewhere else to rest. Instead, Qi Jiayuan's father seemed to have finally noticed their presence. After learning their identities from the police, his eyes instantly turned red, his expression became excited, and he bent his knees and wanted to kneel down.
Shen Qingye didn't react, but Yue Lingchuan was well-informed. He guessed what he was thinking when he saw the signs, and hurriedly stepped forward to hold his arm: "No, no, no! No, no, no!"
Qi Jiayuan's father held his arms tightly with both hands, tears streaming down his face: "Thank you, police comrades, thank you, police comrades!"
They had heard about it. If the policewoman had not discovered the basement in the first place and brought the child out in time, their child would have been burned and would have died at least!
As Yue Lingchuan grabbed the child's father, the child's mother burst into tears and sobbed, "Thank you for saving my life. There's nothing we can do. Thank you so much, police comrades..."
Shen Qingye never liked this kind of occasion, nor was she used to it. She was overwhelmed at this moment. She struggled to hold her and kept comforting her, "Don't be like this. We are police officers. This is what we should do. You're making me not know what to do..."
Yue Lingchuan restrained one of them with one hand, and kept saying: "You are older than us, how can we ask you to kneel down to us? Besides, it will not be good if the leaders know about it!"
"Get up, get up, both of you, get up quickly..."
After a while of arguing, a policeman nearby rolled his eyes and said hurriedly, "Hey, the child seems to be awake!"
As soon as these words came out, the child's parents stood up straight and leaned against the door frame to look inside: "Where is it? Where is it?"
Shen Qingye and Yue Lingchuan looked at each other and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The police just said it casually so that they could calm down and talk properly. But when the couple looked inside, they found that the child had actually opened his eyes and was staring blankly at the ceiling.
The couple was so excited that they opened the door and wanted to go in, but the police stopped them and told them to go in first and talk to the child so that he would be prepared to avoid being too happy and emotionally unstable. The couple naturally agreed.
The door of the ward was open, leaving a crack. The policeman walked in, and the child's eyes slowly fell on him, still unable to help trembling.
——This is an instinctive reaction he has developed over such a long period of time.
If anyone comes in, it means he will be tortured again.
The policeman was used to his reaction and sat down beside the bed very skillfully, saying something softly. The child was stunned for a moment, his eyes moved blankly to the outside of the door, just in time to meet the gaze of the woman by the window.
Mom couldn't hold it in any longer and ran in crying: "Jiayuan, Jiayuan..."
She hugged him in her arms, sobbing, "My child, my child!"
Qi Jiayuan's father also burst into tears. He raised his big hands and embraced his wife and children in his arms.
Qi Jiayuan was still in a daze, with his eyes wide open and a bewildered look on his face.
The policeman said to him in a gentle voice: "Remember, these are your father and mother. Dad is Qi Jianguo, Mom is Fan Qiuli, you said this yourself, remember?"
Fan Qiuli listened, and quickly let go of the child's hand, half-knelt in front of the bed, and held his cheek with tearful eyes: "Xiaoyuan, it's mom, it's mom, don't you remember?"
"You love the rice cakes that mom makes the most, have you forgotten? And there's also the store near our house. You said before that you wanted to buy firecrackers, fireworks, and bubble gum, and mom bought them all for you!"
Qi Jianguo was also frantically rummaging through the bag on his back: "Yes, yes, look, this is the rice cake your mom specially steamed before she came. I put your favorite raisins in it. Try it, it's delicious!"
"And this, this, this bubble gum, and the firecrackers. Your mom brought them all for you! When you get better, we'll go back and set off the firecrackers, okay?"
All the messy things were piled up in front of him. Qi Jiayuan stared blankly at the white and soft rice cake in front of him, then looked at his parents' old but cautious expressions, blinked slowly, and called out in a very soft voice:
"Mother……"
Fan Qiuli responded quickly, her eyes moistened again, and her hands holding the rice cake were shaking: "Hey! It's me, Baoer, it's me!"
Qi Jiayuan didn't seem to react: "Dad..."
"Yes, Dad is here." The always strong man couldn't stop crying.
"Dad...Mom..."
Qi Jiayuan's tears suddenly welled up in his eyes, and his little hands tightly hugged his mother's waist: "Wow - why did you come just now, why did you come just now..."
From the time he was rescued to now, he finally burst into tears.
The policeman standing by couldn't help but sigh.
Shen Qingye was watching outside the door, looking a little dazed for a moment.
That’s great…
The family of three hugged each other and cried for a long time. The couple finally stopped crying, looked back, and pulled Shen Qingye and the other two into the ward: "Son, come here, this is the police sister who saved you, kowtow to the police sister!"
Shen Qingye was shocked and said hurriedly: "No, no, it really can't be done..."
The two groups argued for a while, but Shen Qingye finally said decisively: "The child is fine, don't scare him!" The couple had to give up.
The child was still in his mother's arms, staring at them blankly on the bed. It was not until he met Shen Qingye's gaze that he suddenly spoke, calling softly, "Sister."
Shen Qingye hummed, and met his timid yet somewhat intimate gaze. She was moved and softened her tone: "Do you still remember me?"
Qi Jiayuan leaned in his mother's arms and whispered: "Hold me and take me out of that dark place..."
Shen Qingye's eyebrows softened, and she restrained herself from touching his head. Instead, she moved closer and said, "Yes, you have come out of that place and returned to your parents, so don't be afraid, okay?"
Qi Jiayuan nodded, opened his big eyes, looked at her, and said, "Sister, did that beautiful sister ask you to save me?"
"Beautiful sister?" Shen Qingye paused.
Qi Jiayuan said: "The beautiful sister next to that brother."
Shen Qingye was stunned for a long time before blinking his eyes, his voice a little dry: "Yes..."
"It was that sister who asked us to rescue you."
Qi Jiayuan smiled and asked, "What about that sister? Can I see her again?"
Shen Qingye was speechless for a moment.
“That sister…” Her voice was a little hoarse: “She, she went to a very far place. Yes, she turned into a star in the sky, and will always watch over you.”
"So... Jiayuan should eat well, study hard, grow up well, become a great person, and don't let her down, okay?"
Qi Jiayuan did not respond, but looked at her with his pair of clear black and white eyes and asked, "Is my sister dead?"
"Just like Da Hu, he died."
"Is it because of me?"
Qi's parents looked shocked and dumbfounded, not knowing what to say.
Shen Qingye was silent for a long time before finally speaking: "No."
"No."
She looked at him, her expression soft but firm: "She didn't die because of you."
"She did it for herself."
She could actually turn a deaf ear to it, pretend nothing had happened, and live her life well. The Liang family also gave her chances.
But she didn't.
Just as she herself said, she must be true to her conscience, the education she has received over the years, and her own moral values.
The most important thing is to be true to yourself.
Through the diary entries, Shen Qingye seemed to have seen the girl with his own eyes.
That gentle, beautiful, yet extremely courageous and strong girl.
"She was a hero and a great person."
She looked at the couple and said softly, "So, instead of thanking me, you should find some time to go to her grave and pay your respects."
If it weren't for her, who would be able to realize how dirty and filthy the real people are behind all those glamorous and beautiful people?
She used her own life to exchange for the lives of these twenty-six children.
And, in the future, it is possible that there will be the lives of two hundred, three hundred, or even more children.
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When I left the hospital, the evening breeze was blowing.
They were so busy for so long that they didn't realize it was already October.
It is the National Day Golden Week. Although it is not time to get off work, there are still many pedestrians on the road. The scene is bustling and prosperous with a lot of traffic.
Shen Qingye looked into the distance for a long time, and suddenly said: "Actually, sometimes, I really wish all the human traffickers in the world would die."
Shen Qingye is usually calm and composed, and rarely does he make statements that show such obvious emotional fluctuations. Upon hearing this, Yue Lingchuan couldn't help but look down at her.
Shen Qingye tilted her head and smiled at him, then said lightly what had been weighing on her heart:
"My father died while investigating a human trafficking case."
She raised her chin and looked at the orange sun in the distance, her eyes narrowed slightly due to the bright light:
"I don't even know how he died."
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