Chapter 200: The Final Settlement
Jun Lan: "No, no, my friend said that everything has been arranged for me over there, and I won't be as miserable as you said when I get there."
Mrs. Zhao sneered. "To put it nicely, you're naively optimistic, and to put it bluntly, you're stupid. Last time, a corrupt official smuggled his wife and daughter into Myanmar, claiming they had paved the way there and that they were using our boat. Do you know what happened to him? On their first night in Myanmar, he was forced to witness his wife and daughter being gang-raped by a group of so-called "brothers" there. Afterward, his daughter was sold to a drug lord, his wife was forced into prostitution, and he himself was captured by drug traffickers and forced to grow poppies."
Junlan broke out in a cold sweat after hearing this, and said to herself: "Don't be afraid, Junlan mom. I will protect you and your brothers and sisters."
Mrs. Zhao: "Sister, you got married very early, didn't you? How come your eldest son is so big now? Are you holding twins, a boy and a girl?"
Jun Lan was shocked: "Are you human traffickers going to sell me and my child?"
Mrs. Zhao: "I can swear to heaven that my husband and I would never do such evil things. If I really wanted to do something to you, I wouldn't be talking so much nonsense with you."
Jun Lan: "I'm sorry, sister-in-law. I've been really scared recently, so I said such words."
Mrs. Zhao: "I'll go make some porridge for your children! Look how hungry they are."
She scooped some rice from the rice jar, washed it, and then lit the firewood to cook.
Junlan coaxed all the children to sleep, and as the long night wore on, only she and Mrs. Zhao could not sleep.
To pass the time, the two women began to chat.
Mrs. Zhao: "Look at your delicate appearance, how could you be reduced to sneaking across the border to escape without anyone around you? Your husband and parents are really willing to let you go."
Jun Lan: "I guess they don't know I ran away at this moment."
Mrs. Zhao: "When my husband first told me he was going to take someone to Myanmar, I thought it was some vicious gangster or a desperate criminal who had committed a serious murder. Who knew it would be such a lovely girl like you."
Jun Lan: "You face so many people all day long. Have you never encountered any danger and aren't you afraid?"
Mrs. Zhao: "What can I do if I'm afraid? To live, I need to eat, and to eat, I need to earn money. I'm not afraid to tell you the truth. I'm not an innocent person either. I've also taken a few lives."
Jun Lan: "Then you are not afraid of the police coming to your door?"
Mrs. Zhao seemed quite nonchalant. "I'm not afraid of that. They all deserve to die. The police should be grateful to us for making their workload easier and for ridding society of this scum."
Junlan: "Then why don't you find a proper job?"
Mrs. Zhao: "Do you think I don't want to? But it's not as easy as you say. I came from the countryside, and Lao Zhao has been a fisherman since he was a child. We haven't even graduated from elementary school or junior high school. What good jobs can we find? Fishing and farming don't make much money year-round. Lao Zhao and I can earn tens of thousands of yuan transporting them to small fishing villages in Southeast Asian countries. If you were us, we would choose this route too. After all, what we do is not against the law."
Mrs. Zhao: "Is your husband a gangster? Otherwise, how could you be hunted down and forced to flee to Myanmar?"
Jun Lan: "My husband is not a gangster. The person who wants to kill us is his grandmother."
Mrs. Zhao: "What kind of plot is going on in your family?"
Jun Lan held her cheek with her hand and said, "It's hard for me to explain it to you clearly at the moment."
Mrs. Zhao: "Forget it, every family has its own problems."
At this time, the dark eastern sea surface slowly began to turn pale. Mrs. Zhao called out to the leader outside, "Old Zhao, how long will it take to arrive?"
Lao Zhao: "We are lucky to have good weather and smooth sailing this time. We will be there in just one or two hours."
Mrs. Zhao: "I hope your arrival will be as smooth as today's weather."
Junlan: "How did you meet your husband?"
Mrs. Zhao: "I was sold to him as his wife by human traffickers."
Jun Lan: "Ah, then why don't you run away?"
Mrs. Zhao: "Keep your voice down. Old Zhao doesn't like others knowing about his affairs."
Jun Lan: "I'm sorry, I was too excited."
Mrs. Zhao: "My parents have always thought I was a money-loser, so they sold me to human traffickers when I was sixteen. Then they brought me here and sold me to Lao Zhao as his wife. When I first arrived, I did want to escape, but I was new to Lao Zhao's village and didn't know the way around. Even if I ran away from his home, I wouldn't have known where to go. Plus, Lao Zhao was really good to me and never forced or hit me, he wouldn't even bother to scold me. People are made of flesh and blood, and seeing him sleep on the floor so many nights couldn't bear it, so they called him to their bed and started living with us. Later, when the child was born, money became even tighter, so I borrowed money to buy this fishing boat to fish and carry people."
Jun Lan: "Now that I'm there, I don't know what to do."
Mrs. Zhao said, "Sister, listen to my advice. There are no laws over there. Money and guns are king. Your man is not with you now. If you go there as a woman, it would be like sending sheep to the entrance. I'd better send you back to China. It's more like your own place and it will be much easier to make a living there."
Junlan looked at Junlan with eyes asking for help.
Mingli: "You probably haven't seen the methods of my uncles. You didn't do anything, but they treated you like that. Now Situ's life is probably hanging in the air to save you. If you want to go back now, how do you think he will treat us?"
Jun Lan: "Sister Zhao, please send us to Myanmar as soon as possible."
Mrs. Zhao: "You must think it over carefully."
Jun Lan: "I will never regret it."
In Yulongwan Community
Situ and Zhang Fanxi were tied up in the house.
Fang Xiaoshen kicked Zhang Fanxi, causing him to spit out blood. Perhaps he was choked by his own blood, and he kept coughing.
Fang Xiaoshen: "Stop pretending, you traitor! Your master has betrayed you one after another, and you were running really fast just now! Keep running! I wonder how far you can get."
Zhang Fanxi: "We are all equally matched, so what right do you have to criticize me?"
Fang Xiaoshen: "Your sister's mouth is still pretty hard, I wonder how long you can hold on."
He kicked Zhang Fanxi again and again as if he wanted to kick him to death.
Seeing that Zhang Fanxi was about to die, Situ said: "If you have any problems, just come to me. He is just a pawn who follows orders. If you are angry, just vent it on me! Why bother those little guys?"
Xu Tuohai: "Fourteen, stop for a moment."
Fang Xiaoshen walked aside to watch the show. Zhang Fanxi glanced at Situ, then lowered his head again.
Xu Tuohai: "Situ, you really like to sacrifice yourself for others! In order to fulfill your wish, I decided to give you another chance."
He turned around and gently kicked Zhang Fanxi: "Are you dead, you bitch?"
Zhang Fanxi looked up at him: "You won't die for the time being."
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