Chapter 392 Past Events

When the female police officer recalled that past event, the emotions in her eyes surged like a volcano about to erupt, but after several twists and turns, she finally suppressed them and did not erupt. She just spoke of the past in a heavy voice.

"It was the first day of July three years ago. I remember it very clearly. Comrade He, who joined the same batch as me, got engaged the day before. He was very happy and brought us wedding candies. Just after he distributed the candies, a woman in ragged clothes and covered with bruises staggered into the station."

"She said that her parents-in-law and husband wanted to kill her daughter, and she couldn't stop them. No one in the village was willing to help her. Finally, she ran away at night. She was afraid of being caught by her husband's family. She didn't dare to walk on the path that had been trampled by others, so she could only walk through the bushes in the forest."

"She had never been to the county seat in her life. She just heard about it from someone. She walked in this direction for three days and two nights, asking several people during the process, before she found the police station."

"She was a member of Beishan Village in Bapu Commune. We couldn't really understand the language there. She gestured for a long time, but we only understood half of what she said."

"Seeing how weak she was, I poured her some water, and other comrades went to the canteen to get her two rice cakes. I also asked the gatekeeper Lao Tian to come over and translate for me, and only then did we fully understand what she meant,"

"She was a child bride. She doesn't remember where her parents are from and she doesn't have a name. As far as she can remember, her parents-in-law have always called her Xiaoya. She got married at the age of 14 under the arrangement of her parents-in-law and gave birth to her eldest daughter the following year."

"When my daughter was born, my parents-in-law said they wanted to take the child out and drown her. But my daughter begged me, saying that I was still young and would definitely give birth to a son for them in the future."

"After consideration, her in-laws decided to keep the child and named him Wangdi. When the child was one and a half years old, Xiaoya gave birth to her second daughter, a child she never saw. Then came the third. By the time of the fourth, her in-laws had completely lost their patience."

"When Xiaoya brought her daughter to drain the ditches in the fields at night, she heard her parents-in-law and husband say that the reason they kept having daughters was because Wangdi was at home, which made the female fetuses feel that they could survive in their home, so they kept being reborn."

"They planned to use cruel means to deal with Wangdi. This way, they could scare the female fetuses and they would definitely have sons in the future."

"The little girl was terrified after hearing this and rushed into the house to plead for mercy, but her husband's family didn't care about her thoughts at all. They said that the day had been chosen and when the time came, they would send Wangdi off. Seeing how much she was making a fuss, they just wanted her to be beaten a few more times until she was almost dead, and then she would naturally stop."

"Xiao Ya has looked for other respected people in the village, but in that place, the ones who can survive are all old monsters. Everyone thinks this is a common operation. Many of them have killed girls before. No one will help her."

"The little girl made a lot of noise, and her husband's family was afraid that she would cause trouble, so they beat her up a few times. Seeing that she refused to give up, they simply locked her up. The little girl had no other choice but to remember that she had heard someone talk about someone reporting the case to the police, so she sneaked out at night while her family was asleep.

"She also knew that she couldn't rely on the commune. You may not know that in a poor and remote place like Bapu Commune, there is little arable land and the food supply is not enough every year. They don't pay the public rations and are self-sufficient."

"If the village didn't need needles, thread, salt and sugar, I guess they wouldn't even bother to deal with the leaders of the commune. The county can't do anything about these communes, so they can only let them go."

"After the comrades translated, we found out the whole story. Several of us new comrades were very angry and planned to rescue Wangdi."

The female police officer paused here, calmed herself down, and then continued speaking.

"The leader of the station reprimanded a few of us and told Xiaoya that this matter was not our responsibility and asked her to report it to the officials of their commune."

"The commune officials have no say in their village. Xiaoya had no choice but to kneel on the ground and beg, but the leaders still refused to send anyone to deal with it. They even warned us sternly not to act on our own."

"finally--"

The female police officer took a deep breath and said, "The five of us secretly discussed that after get off work, we would secretly follow Xiaoya to their village. We thought that we had to live up to the clothes we were wearing. As for the fierce villagers, we all had guns, so no matter what, our safety was guaranteed."

Xia Zhizhi listened quietly, and the female police officer's eyes had already turned red.

She tried hard to hold back the tears in her eyes.

"We spent the night in the mountains and didn't arrive at their commune until the next night."

"There is a stream in the mountain, and a small waterfall rushes out along the cracks in the fallen rocks. Under the waterfall are small deep pools, the deepest of which can be four or five meters. At night, many children will bathe in the pools."

"When we were heading to Xiaoya's village, we came across a little boy who had drowned."

"I learned some basic nursing knowledge, and after picking him up, I gave him first aid. I learned that he lived near the commune, and because other children said he was stupid and couldn't learn to swim, he ran to this empty pool to practice secretly."

"Wangdi is still waiting for someone to rescue him. We discussed it and decided that the four of them would follow Xiaoya to the village first, and I would take the child home."

"After I arrived at the child's home, I explained the situation to the child's parents. Their attitude was not as ignorant as I had thought. They thanked me sincerely and warmly invited me to dinner.

The hostess even caught the only chicken in the house and prepared to kill it to treat me, but I had to persuade her to give up the idea.

I stayed at their house for a while, preparing to say goodbye to the couple and then go to meet up with other comrades, when I heard a commotion outside and vaguely heard gunshots.

I felt a little uneasy.

The couple's attitude was normal, and the man even comforted me by saying, "Let me stay home first, it's chaotic outside, don't go out and get hurt." Then he went out to get the news.

The female comrade pursed her pale lips and continued.

“I looked out through the crack in the door and saw that several of our comrades had been arrested. I wanted to go out and help.

But I saw that Comrade Xiao Zhao was struggling fiercely. A villager took a knife and chopped off his leg from the base. The blood sprayed on the faces of several people nearby, but they all looked indifferent.

Soon, the other comrades were also beaten to a bloody pulp and their lives were unknown.

Another lesbian had her clothes stripped off and they surrounded her and pointed at her.

I also heard someone outside say, 'There are five of them, and the other one has gone somewhere, look for him again!'"