Chapter 35 Slapping the Real Daughter in the Face 35
"My dear, the situation in Yujia Village is worse than you think. The conditions of each household in the village are similar, and everyone is extremely poor. They can't be compared with the families outside. Since I was young, it has not been easy for the young men in the village to find a wife. Over time, there are more and more bachelors in the village. The more bachelors there are, the more conflicts there are. Some idle bachelors began to harass the young wives in the village and the unmarried girls in the villagers' families, causing complaints from the villagers."
Jiang Lan nodded to show that he was listening carefully.
"The matter was reported to the village chief, and everyone insisted that he come up with a solution. Later, the village chief got to know a woman from somewhere. The woman seemed to have some connections and said that she could find a wife for the bachelors in the village, but it would cost some money."
Jiang Lan frowned, "Using money to buy a wife, isn't this human trafficking? This is illegal!"
"Everyone in the village knows that these girls were abducted from other places by the old women. They just pretend to be ignorant." Zhang Ergui sighed, "The villagers can't get married. If they can't get married, they will have no descendants. Without descendants, the whole village will disappear. No one cares so much about whether they are criminals or not. The villagers are not rich. It costs tens of thousands to buy a daughter-in-law. Many people's life savings are emptied. Some families with poor conditions discuss and pool their money to buy one, at least to leave a descendant for the family."
[My three views are shattered...]
[Hell is empty, and the devil is in the world.]
[These people, there is no need to leave descendants. 】
"The villagers know clearly that they are breaking the law, aren't they afraid?" Jiang Lan clenched his fists. Knowing the law and breaking it is a heavier crime.
"Of course, everyone is afraid. But the emperor is far away from the mountain, who will take care of this matter? There are people from the town in this village, and every family is related. They are more afraid of being killed than breaking the law. The woman from outside the mountain has thin arms and legs. She can't run away without someone to lead the way. Even if she runs out, she can't run far. If she wants to report the case, she will be taken back to the police station in the town soon after she enters."
Jiang Lan felt cold, "Is there no one to take care of it?"
"In the early years, there were police from outside who came to investigate, but there haven't been any in recent years. There are many Tibetans in these mountains, and the villagers can't hide the little movements outside. When the police from outside come, everyone moves their people away. If the police come to question, the villagers will not tell the truth to outsiders. The police from outside will leave sooner or later, but the people here are all from the same village, and they will see each other sooner or later. Even if their family has not bought anyone, they are afraid of being retaliated by other people in the village if they tell others."
"So... everyone turned a blind eye and watched these things happen. They knew it was wrong, but they pretended not to see anything and even helped the evil."
Jiang Lan's eyes revealed anger. As one of the bystanders, Zhang Ergui felt guilty and did not dare to look her in the face.
"I don't dare. I really don't dare. Some people in the village felt sorry for those women and helped them escape. Later, the villagers found out and the family became traitors. They were often bullied and their house was burned down. Gradually, no one dared to do it anymore."
In this dark world, innocence is the original sin. It is really sad that innocent people can only live by going along with the evil.
"What about the women in the mountains?"
"Those are the women bought by the village chief and placed in the cabin."
"Doesn't the village chief have a wife? Why did he buy women?"
Zhang Ergui felt embarrassed to say this in front of his daughter, so he had to bite the bullet and continue, "Many people in the village can't afford to buy a woman, so the village chief came up with a solution, which is that he bought some women and then rented them to some bachelors in the village to give birth to children. Those women who had given birth or were unwanted were locked up there."
Jiang Lan thought that human trafficking was the bottom line, but he didn't expect the village chief to have such a bottom line. The darkness of human nature is really beyond imagination.
[Sorry, I really vomited...]
[How evil can human nature be. ]
"So this is how the village chief built his building?" I'm afraid this building is not built with bones.
Jiang Lan was furious, thinking that one day she must deal with this black-hearted village chief.
"There are many more such things, I won't tell you to pollute your ears." Zhang Ergui is an honest man, he has always been unwilling to face these things, today he has made up his mind to tell these things.
Jiang Lan can feel Zhang Ergui's guilt, she doesn't blame him for being cowardly, she is just helpless that ordinary people's abilities are so weak that they are not enough to protect people weaker than themselves.
"Is it because of these things that you have been unwilling to return to the village? Or have you offended the village chief, or even know some secrets of the village chief?"
Jiang Lan has also seen clearly these days that the original owner's biological father, Zhang Ergui, is not a cowardly and foolish filial character at all. Although he has never been to school and has little cultural background, he is open-minded, honest but not rigid, and very positive.
It stands to reason that with a character like Zhang Ergui, if he works hard, he can still be content with a small fortune, if not rich. Now the family lives in a mountain, living a poor life. If it was just the problem of not having a house, it wouldn't be such a big deal.
"What are you thinking about?" Zhang Ergui smiled, feeling a little guilty.
"The village chief is a ruthless character!" Jiang Lan made a reasonable inference, "The village chief completely treats people as cattle and sheep to sell, selling women and renting women to give birth to children is just one of the links. He also opened illegal places in the mountains for the consumption of the village bachelors and squeezed their money. I even suspect that his business scope is no longer limited to this village..."
As expected of a lady who can be admitted to university, Zhang Ergui was relieved and uncomfortable.
"Daughter, Yujia Village is not a place for you to come, you should go back early." In the past, the village was very wary of outsiders. Although Jiang Lan was a villager, he was not born and raised there after all, and Zhang Ergui did not dare to take the risk.