His father-in-law looked disappointed: "You are so confused... You said you have a skill and can make money, why do you have to get involved in this kind of thing? You will suffer the consequences..."
His brother-in-law also scolded him: "Brother-in-law, you have been very good to my sister, the children, and our family over the years. We have never treated you as an outsider. Tell me, how could you do such a thing before?
As for the incident at Zhanjiazhuang, I was only a teenager at the time, but I remember it was quite a big deal. We really didn’t expect that even you would…”
His wife remained silent and gloomy, looking terribly grim. It looked like this matter was not going to be easily resolved.
But things have developed to this point, and he must explain it to his family.
Only then did his family know how he met Zhan Tiehua, how he accepted the support of the Zhan family, and how he was forced to board the Zhan family's pirate ship.
According to Qin Xingzhou, he was not responsible for kidnapping the children, nor was he responsible for contacting the buyers. He simply used his delicatessen as a cover to help hide the abducted children and then transfer them out.
Later, the Zhan family fell from power and he divorced Zhan Tiehua. He planned to keep this matter to himself.
He thought that after so many years, he could get away with escaping legal punishment, but he didn't expect that the truth would eventually come out.
As for the fact that Zhan Jinhua came to him to ask for money, he explained that most of it was the inheritance his two sons received from Zhan Tiehua. In order to calm the situation, he added more than 300,000 yuan.
Looking at the disappointed and disgusted eyes of his family members, Qin Xingzhou felt as if he was sitting on pins and needles, his heart in turmoil.
Under repeated questioning by his family members, Qin Xingzhou finally confessed the information he knew about the children he had handled back then.
He was not sure where the child was, but he was able to find the middleman who was responsible for contacting the buyer.
His family advised him to surrender himself and make meritorious contributions, but he was hesitant.
On the one hand, he was worried that he would go to jail and affect the future of his two children. On the other hand, he was also afraid that the accomplices he reported would retaliate against him in the future, causing his family to suffer unrest.
But whether or not to turn himself in and make meritorious contributions while serving his sentence was not something Qin Xingzhou could decide on his own.
That anonymous letter was enough to show that someone was secretly monitoring their every move.
As expected, after Qin Xingzhou hesitated for a few days and did nothing, someone came to talk to him.
Just by looking at the other person's aura, you can tell that he is not an ordinary person.
Qin Xingzhou has made some money over the years, but he is just a self-employed person after all.
After the other party stated his purpose, he opened the letter and explained the interests involved and his current situation to Qin Xingzhou.
If he doesn't tell the truth about the things he has been involved in, it will only be a matter of time before he is found out.
If he confessed earlier, he could have gotten leniency.
Qin Xingzhou also told the other party his concerns truthfully, the most important of which was that he was worried about being retaliated against by human traffickers.
Before he married Zhan Tiehua, he was in the cooked food business, but his stall was small at the time and the money he made was limited.
Zhan Tiehua happened to go to Qin Xingzhou's stall to buy cooked food, and the two got to know each other after a few visits.
Qin Xingzhou is good-looking, and although Zhan Tiehua is not very good-looking, she knows how to dress, has a high education, has a formal job, and comes from a wealthy and powerful family. People always strive for higher status, so it is natural for Qin Xingzhou to marry Zhan Tiehua.
At that time, he did not know where the money of the Zhan family came from. He was a timid man. If he had known that the Zhan family was doing such an affair, he would never have married Zhan Tiehua.
At first, the Zhan family didn't trust him and didn't let him participate in any of the "business." Four years into their marriage, the Zhan family kidnapped a child from the train station. The child's family discovered the situation early, and a few soldiers at the station happened to be visiting their families and helped find the child.
They took the child and hid in Qin Xingzhou's delicatessen, and finally managed to escape. After those people left, they took the child away.
Qin Xingzhou was scared to death that time, and only then did he know what the Zhan family did for a living. Because of this incident, Qin Xingzhou had the handle in the hands of the Zhan family, and they dragged him into the pirate ship.
The Zhan family was afraid that he would do something bad, so they specially selected a young man from Zhanjia Village to work in his shop under the guise of a helper.
Qin Xingzhou complained to Zhan Tiehua about this many times. He just wanted to run his small business peacefully.
Zhan Tiehua really liked him and didn't want to make things too difficult for him, so she discussed with her family and tried not to drag Qin Xingzhou into the trouble.
Therefore, the couple was not deeply involved in these matters.
Qin Xingzhou took out a small notebook, which recorded the situations of the abducted children he had witnessed in a way that only he could understand. There were a total of six children, and the time was also recorded.
In order to dispel Qin Xingzhou's concerns, the person who came to talk to Qin Xingzhou promised that as long as he actively cooperated, they would strive for leniency for him to the greatest extent possible, and suspended sentence or even exemption from sentence might be possible.
As for his concern about retaliation, the other party said that six children were involved, and this matter was of great importance. The higher authorities took it very seriously, and after investigating these cases, the criminals involved in the kidnapping and trafficking would never be freed.
At this point, Qin Xingzhou finally made up his mind to tell everything he knew.
According to his own records, he wrote down the detailed information of the children he remembered, and also confessed the names of three human traffickers he had come into contact with before.
The other party also took out many photos of abducted children for Qin Xingzhou to identify. He could clearly confirm that three of the children were transferred away from his delicatessen, but he was not sure about the others.
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