In rural areas, when a daughter is married off, as long as enough money is given, the family doesn't care who the girl will marry. As long as the bride price is high enough, or even if they have already agreed, the unmarried girl in the family will go to the Jing family in advance to get acquainted with them. They will then receive another bride price after the cousins give birth to a girl. This is why there are rumors of polygamy.
Although everyone was expressing disdain for the Jing family during their conversation, quite a few secretly envied them as well.
Li Hui rubbed his temples: "The Jing family has already sent quite a few children to R country. The Jing family patriarch is getting old and is determined to achieve something so that he can return to China for a proper burial. This achievement has ruined so many families in China. I learned from them that some of the trained children have already been sent back to their biological parents."
It's good that lost children have returned home, but brainwashed children are a disaster. The worst thing is that the people who trafficked the children might appear as their saviors. If the child comes from a highly educated family, the whole family could be dragged down with them.
Zhu Fanfan asked, "Can you find out the addresses of these children?"
Li Hui smiled bitterly: "They were all collected by the Jing family. Some of them are people we know and can verify. If they look like they belong to wealthy families, they just grab them and send them away. We probably don't even know where they came from. We can only verify them slowly."
Zhu Fanfan asked curiously, "What will become of the Jing family?"
Li Hui snorted: "Trafficking in women and children and selling state intelligence should be prosecuted as espionage and the perpetrators should be executed."
Zhu Fanfan was not optimistic: "The men of the Jing family deserve to die, but the women didn't participate. If they are executed, they will probably cause a scene."
Those women were kept so poor that they had no ability to survive. With their support gone, they were afraid to risk their lives and cause a scene at the police station. The police might have reservations about innocent people, since the men in the Jing family were very good at brainwashing and might instill in them the idea that they should sacrifice everything for men.
Just like during the war, a newlywed husband from Country R became obsessed with marital bliss. His wife, fearing that he would lose his ambition to fight China because of his affection for his children, committed suicide and left a suicide note asking her husband to kill Chinese people so as not to be a burden to him. She was even set up as a model, and women in Country R rushed to follow suit.
If the women of the Jing family are also indoctrinated with the idea that they should live and die for men, and even bang their heads against walls for men, bystanders won't care what happens; they'll only sympathize with the weak. Things could get complicated. Of course, if the police are ruthless, those women won't be able to cause any trouble.
Li Hui didn't care: "Don't worry! National laws are not to be trifled with. If anyone dares to cause trouble, Qishan won't take it lying down."
Qi Shan learned from Commander Zhu that as long as it doesn't harm others, one can do whatever it takes. He's not a soft-tempered person either. If he gets overwhelmed by a few women, he might as well resign.
Zhu Fanfan asked curiously, "They've been in China for so many years, haven't they accumulated any gold bars or large sums of money?"
Li Hui rolled his eyes at Zhu Fanfan: "What are you thinking? They're just small fry, how much money could they have? R country just wants to use them, they don't want to give them any benefits at all. Their whole family is working class, how much wealth could they have?"
We earn a lot now, but we need money for food and vegetables everywhere. Plus, men eat a lot, so most of our monthly salary goes to food. How much is left?
Zhu Fanfan didn't believe it: "They keep dogs to guard the house, and they even feed them some soup when they eat meat. They sent so many people to R country, and they didn't give them any reward?"
It seems the Jing family didn't reveal the gold, silver, and artifacts from their ancestral graves. They're actually quite kind; even after she confiscated their entire fortune, they remained tight-lipped. She couldn't help but wish them well, thinking they were destined for a good life!
The men of the Jing family are now spitting blood. The cultural relics and gold and silver they hid in the ancestral tomb were their family's fallback plan. Almost all of them knew this, except for the foolish frog in the well.
Those cultural relics were obtained by searching for items left behind by a group of merchants who fled before the founding of the People's Republic of China. Some of them were also taken by the group during the crackdown on capitalists after the founding of the PRC. They even fought several times with another group, resulting in heavy losses for both sides. Later, they reached an agreement with that group that whoever seized the artifacts would keep them.
Most of it was collected by Country R before the founding of the nation, but the quantity was too large, so they were asked to keep a portion of it. Once it was in their hands, it belonged to the Jing family, so how could they possibly give it away? After contacting the organization, they lied and claimed that they had been robbed in the chaos. They didn't even know what the robbers looked like, and were even punished by the organization for it.
Who knew that you really can't just say whatever you want? A few years ago, the boomerang hit them right between the eyebrows, and they really were robbed without even knowing what the robbers looked like.
Originally, this double-cross was a sure thing. Boss Qian's backing was too powerful. They had been planning this for several years. They could take advantage of the situation to raid the places where Boss Qian hid his money and the places where people who had contact with him hid their money. They could also ensure that Boss Qian and his gang would not recognize them or be able to catch them. By sacrificing one frog in the well, they could successfully go into hiding.
Who knew that Fang Zhiguo would suddenly appear and disrupt their plans?
Zhu Fanfan asked again, "What's the situation with those two daughters who returned from R country?"
Li Hui was surprised: "Who told you they came back from R country?" Fanfan just beat someone up and left, how did she know?
Zhu Fanfan gave a mysterious smile: "I have my own connections."
Now it was Li Hui's turn to be curious: "Your grandfather is quite well-informed?"
The Fu family wields considerable influence in Shanghai, and it's not difficult for them to know things that others don't.
Zhu Fanfan scoffed, "Do you think my grandfather, a factory director, would care about the activities of two strange girls? I have my own personal charm."
Li Hui didn't know what to say: "What else do you know?"
Zhu Fanfan didn't answer, but instead asked, "Should I go and interrogate those two girls?"
Li Hui said, "The Jing family man confessed. He said that his two daughters were already old enough to understand when they were sent away, and that they were reported missing. Both daughters' mothers are at home. This time, the girl came back and said that she left clues when she was looking for her daughters, and that a kind person reminded her."
The men of the Jing family had already planned to find a husband for their daughter who had returned home. They made a big fuss about it to all the neighbors, just to promote their daughter and let others know that she was as beautiful as a flower and as gentle as water. The men of the Jing family believed that they understood men best and thought that their daughter was the ideal type for all men. They would only have the choice to pick and choose.
Zhu Fanfan asked curiously, "Didn't those two girls confess to anything?"
She met two girls who had a very special aura, confirming they weren't ordinary people and probably possessed superpowers; they would likely be difficult to recruit.
Li Hui told him everything he knew: "We've verified the information of those who were afraid of being exploited and those who were sent back, based on the locations they provided. We'll have news soon."
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