"Yes, that's me. May I ask who you are?" Zhou Chunhua asked, puzzled.
“My…my dad’s name…is on the list you published.”
Zhou Chunhua's pupils contracted. Here it comes!
The person she was waiting for finally arrived!
Before she could speak again, the person on the other end of the phone said urgently, "Please, please tell me, does that diary say where my father went in the end?"
Zhou Chunhua took a deep breath and spoke calmly.
"The diary says that he was sold abroad."
As soon as the words were spoken, a thud was heard on the other end of the line, sounding as if the person making the call had bumped into something.
Just as she was about to speak, she heard crying coming from the other end.
"Mom! Did you hear that? Dad... he didn't abandon us! He was tricked into being locked up, he didn't abandon us! Mom! You can rest in peace now! Mom! Waaah..."
Hearing those cries and wails, Zhou Chunhua felt as if her heart was suffocating, unable to breathe.
Human traffickers never just destroy the lives of a single person.
It's the family behind that person!
This applies to children as well as adults.
When a person mysteriously disappears, his parents, wife, children, and husband often spend their entire lives searching for him to no avail, and eventually die in despair.
She... had seen and heard far too many similar stories in the family reunion group.
"Please accept my condolences." Zhou Chunhua managed to squeeze out the two words.
Her daughter is lucky.
But they and their families were not so lucky.
Suddenly, the crying on the other end of the phone abruptly stopped.
Instead, the man screamed hysterically, "I'm going to sue them! I want them to pay for their murders with their lives!"
Zhou Chunhua's eyes narrowed, and she gave the address in a deep voice.
Finally, he instructed, "Only by uniting as one can we bring them to justice!"
"Okay!" the person on the other end replied and hung up the phone.
Before her phone screen even went black, another call came in from an unknown number.
As expected, the caller, like the previous man, had seen her video online and then contacted her through the phone number in the comments section.
However, this time she came to see her mother.
The woman on the phone told her that her father had been disabled in an accident, so her mother went out to work to support the family, but she never returned and has been never heard from again.
Their family was pointed at and gossiped about in the village.
The villagers all say that her father is useless and her mother ran away with someone else.
Their family became the laughingstock of the village overnight.
The siblings were even jokingly called wild children by their peers, children born of a mother but without a mother to care for them.
They were penniless and didn't even have the money to go out and search for their mother.
He could only endure the villagers' ridicule day and night, licking his wounds alone.
From that time on, the whole family became taciturn and no longer willing to face outsiders.
Even the siblings dropped out of school one after another, hiding from people like turtles. Even if they bumped into each other on the road or in the village, they would shrink their necks and run home with their heads down.
Later, her father became an alcoholic, and he used all the money he earned from farming to buy alcohol.
In an accident, her father, after drinking, slipped and fell into a ditch by the field... From then on, she and her brother became orphans.
No relatives were willing to adopt them, so they were sent to an orphanage in the county town.
Her younger brother, being a boy and being very young, was quickly adopted. She grew up alone in the orphanage.
This family, which was not wealthy but was still quite happy, ended up like this.
Until I accidentally saw a video online...
Zhou Chunhua offered no words of comfort, because she knew that words could never soothe that wounded heart.
Just like the man before her, she left her address with the woman on the other end of the phone, hoping she would also get involved.
The woman was very excited and agreed almost without hesitation.
Then, such calls started coming in more and more often.
Her phone finally went silent at dawn.
I stepped out of the bathroom and onto the balcony.
Zhou Chunhua looked at the rising sun in the distance, her eyes flashing with a competitive light.
This time, she's going to be the ant that kills the elephant!
...
Meanwhile, in another room, Gu Yao was looking at web pages on his phone while making a phone call.
"Gu Lu, you know, it's one thing to mess with yourself, but why do you always mess with us? You almost ruined us guys tonight."
"Can we stop now? We're so tired, we can barely keep our eyes open."
"Hold on a little longer," Gu Yao said.
He needs to make enough time for more people to see the information online.
"Huh? Still holding on! We... Attorney Gu! Aren't there countless ways to kill someone? He's in custody right now, isn't he? Quite a few people die accidentally in those cells. Why bother? The result is the same, isn't it?"
"no the same!"
What she wanted was not simply that Wang Lin and Xu San were dead.
What she wants is fairness and justice under the law!
Since she wants it, he'll give it to her.
Gu Yao's fingers flew across the phone screen, switching to WeChat.
[Teacher Gu, are you still spending money on the trending topics?]
Don't worry about the money; the hype must not wane.
【OK. 】
After sending the WeChat message, he put his phone aside, closed his eyes, and rubbed his temples.
Staring at your phone screen all night can be really bad for your eyes.
"Hold on for two more hours, and then you'll be done with this."
Although the person on the other end of the phone kept complaining, they didn't dare to say no.
After hanging up the phone, he was finally able to catch his breath.
...
Meanwhile, Zhou Chunhua took a shower before Nini woke up, hoping to stay awake after two sleepless nights.
She came out of the bathroom right on time, just as Nini woke up.
After washing Nini up, she took Nini's hand and went to knock on Gu Yao's door.
According to their schedule, they should be returning to Jiang City today.
After all, the task force was established, and they had told the task force everything they needed to say.
They even handed over the original drafts to the investigators.
So the task force told them they could return to Jiang City.
But she didn't plan to leave, but...
She glanced at Nini, then raised her hand to knock on Gu Yao's door.
Before I could even knock, the door opened.
“You…” Gu Yao’s expression was not good.
It looked like he, like her, hadn't slept for at least two nights.
The bruising under my lower eyelid almost completely covered my eye.
Zhou Chunhua pointed to her eyes.
Gu Yao glanced at her and then coughed awkwardly twice.
"I often suffer from insomnia, as you know."
Zhou Chunhua then stopped saying anything.
After a moment of silence, she spoke again: "Gu Yao, I still have things to do here and can't go back to Jiang City yet. Could you please take Nini back with you?"
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