Speaking of fireworks in the world, everyone must think of the lively night market, and the reason why the night market is crowded is because the vendors are dense, and the vendors here have become a warm and fiery scenery in the world by selling various special snacks.
But when it comes to the word "trafficking," we always inevitably think of something shady, such as human trafficking.
This kind of thing is not uncommon in ancient and modern China and abroad, for example, in ancient times, many young women were abducted and sold to the qinglou dark alley by the so-called "human servants", and there are also many people in modern society who are abducted because they are young and most of their lives are separated from their relatives for life.
Trafficking in human beings
Among these abducted children, they either broke their hands and feet and rushed to the streets to beg, or they were sold to remote mountainous areas to be children and daughters-in-law.
He Yongxiu, from Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, is one of the unfortunate people, who were abducted to the mountains at the age of 14 to be the daughter-in-law of the old Bachelor, and did not find her hometown until twenty-six years later, but learned that her father had long since died.
How did He Yongxiu's life be ruined by human traffickers?
Acquaintances commit crimes and are abducted at a young age
In the 1980s and 1990s, in Zunyi, Guizhou, deep in the mountains, there was a place called Huanglian Village in Songlin Town, where a family surnamed He lived.
His father, He Licai, did not have the same big heart as his name to achieve a great cause, but was just an ordinary farmer with his back to the hot sky and facing the loess soil, and he ran an inconspicuous family with his equally ordinary wife.
Like most rural families in that era, the couple raised three children in total, the eldest son was named He Yonggang, and the second daughter was called He Yongfang, and there was nothing wrong with the health of these two children.
However, the youngest child in the family, the third daughter He Yongxiu, has a disability in his legs from birth, which has also become a great regret in the hearts of his parents.
He Yongxiu's mother
After He Yongxiu was born, the family's economy can only be said to be more and more tight, after all, the children are still too young to work, and the two adults do not have the ability to go out to make a living, and can only rely on the family's acres and three points to barely survive.
He Yongxiu gradually grew up, and when she reached the age of going to school, her parents did not choose to let her go to school. On the one hand, it may be the feudal ideology of preferring sons to daughters in traditional rural areas, and the economic conditions at home are not good;
On the other hand, because going to school at that time was not as easy as children's reading now, at that time there was neither a special car transfer nor a shortcut to go, and every day to go to school had to walk a long, rugged mountain road, and He Yongxiu was inconvenient to walk due to his leg disability, and it was very difficult to go to and from school every day.
Big mountains
In this way, He Yongxiu lost the opportunity to go to school from an early age. But the child did not know so much, at that time He Yongxiu did not know how important it was to go to school and study, nor did she complain about the choices her parents made for herself, she stayed at home with peace of mind.
He Yongxiu is very sensible at home, often taking tools and following his parents to the field to do farm work, or he cleans up the housework at home, making meals every day and waiting for his parents to work and come home.
In 1990, when He Yongxiu grew up to be 14 years old, she began to be unable to sit still at home, and she also had a "restless" mind.
From childhood to adulthood, she has been staying at home with her parents to do farm work, so that He Yongxiu has experienced the difficulty of a low-level farmer, looking at her parents who have worked for this family for half a life but still have not lived a good life, she sincerely feels the responsibility that she should have on her shoulders.
He Yongxiu's family
So she told her parents that she wanted to work in other places so that she could earn some money to subsidize the family's daily expenses.
The parents were of course very pleased with their daughter's idea, because it showed that the daughter had begun to understand things, but they still shook their heads and refused their daughter's request.
The reason is that there is no him, after all, He Yongxiu was still a 14-year-old little girl, thin and weak, and her legs were disabled, how could parents rest assured that she would go out alone to work?
After a while, a relative came to the house as a guest, and heard about He Yongxiu's idea of going out to work between small talks, so he patted his chest and said that he could take her into the city to work, and also promised that he would take good care of He Yongxiu and not let her suffer losses outside.
Work
The relative's words made He Yongxiu's parents waver, after all, the daughter could not stay in this small village all her life, and could not be under the protection of her parents forever, so after thinking about it again, the parents confidently handed over their daughter to the hands of this relative.
He Yongxiu was overjoyed to learn that she could go out to work with her relatives, so she didn't think about it, happily packed up her things and went out with her relatives.
Along the way, relatives were talking to her about the outside world and saying that they would definitely take her to a place where she could make a lot of money, and He Yongxiu did not have the slightest doubt.
The so-called know-it-all knows the face and does not know the heart, where does the young He Yongxiu know that this makes a lot of money, in fact, he uses himself to make a lot of money for this relative.
Traffickers
He Yongxiu walked to the town under the guidance of his relatives, and then the two of them got into the car again, then took the bus, and finally got on the train, and after a few days of wandering, they finally stopped running.
When her relatives said "arrived" to her, He Yongxiu finally sensed something was wrong in his heart, because in front of him was not a big city with high-rise buildings and traffic, but a small village that looked as poor as his hometown, surrounded by rolling mountains.
Unable to think straight, she was led by relatives to the door of a family, when several strange faces came out of it. Before he could react, He Yongxiu was pushed by his relatives, and then he was pulled and pulled into a small room, and then a man who looked to be in his fifties walked in.
Outside the door, the so-called relatives were counting the stacks of banknotes given to him by the owner of the house with their eyebrows open, and then got into the car and walked away.
He Yongxiu realized in hindsight that he had been abducted and sold.
Abducted children
He was not allowed to escape, to be a wife and to have children
In fact, He Yongxiu was abducted and sold by this relative to a small mountain village in Handan, Hebei Province, far from his hometown, where some men could not find a daughter-in-law for various reasons, so they would entrust people to "look for" a woman outside, and then directly buy it as a daughter-in-law.
Most of the abductees are young girls, ranging from illiterate rural girls to college students who have gone to school, and when they are trafficked, they are confronted with either men with disabilities or very old bachelors.
He Yongxiu was sold by relatives to an old bachelor in his fifties, and the family gave her a new name called "Zhao Genxiu".
Here she was not only responsible for passing on the generations, but also serving the family like a servant and doing farm work on a regular basis.
Trafficked persons
At the beginning, He Yongxiu tried everything to escape, but here she was not familiar with life, every time she ran out, she could not find the way home, and she could not speak the local dialect, could not communicate with people normally, coupled with the reason of her leg disability, she would always be arrested before running far.
Being caught meant more torture, either being locked up in a small dark room and not allowed to eat or drink, or being punched and kicked at will, and then more strictly guarded.
After so many times, He Yongxiu was finally beaten "honestly", and she no longer had the luxury of being able to escape, and could only live here temporarily. Perhaps only by living can hope be seen.
He Yongxiu fell into a trap and was sold away, and for a long time afterwards, her parents still knew nothing about it.
He Yongxiu and his mother
Because the relative who abducted her came home and made up lies, from time to time he would "explain" Toh Yongxiu's work and living conditions to her parents. Much later, He Yongxiu gave birth to his first daughter.
For this reason, the family was more lenient with her than before, but when He Yongxiu proposed that he wanted to go home to visit her relatives, she was ruthlessly refused.
He Yongxiu, who has a child, also has a little sustenance in his heart, after all, it is the flesh that fell from his body, or there is still blood affection.
In this way, He Yongxiu has been in this family for more than twenty years. During this period, she gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, her in-laws and in-laws have died, her husband has been much gentler to her, and the family of four lives together relatively peacefully.
I don't know whether it was fortunate or unfortunate, He Yongxiu's peaceful life was still broken, because her husband died of an accident while going out to work, and then her young daughter also died of illness.
After the death of her husband, the most important source of income for the family was cut off, and the death of her daughter also caused He Yongxiu to suffer a great blow. After that, she could only take her 18-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son with her, and struggled to survive on the two acres of land in her family.
The reason why it may be lucky is because at this time, He Yongxiu no longer needs to be monitored and guarded by others, and to a certain extent, he has regained his freedom, so the idea of going home quickly spread in his heart.
However, the hometown is a long road, he has no money to drag his children and daughters, and his memory is not very clear, so how easy is it for He Yongxiu to go home?
He Yongxiu and his family
The search for relatives is successful, and the road back is difficult
The dull days came and went by day, and He Yongxiu thought of home a thousand times and ten thousand times in his heart, but he could not find any way.
Until May 2016, when he was chatting with his neighbor's daughter who was studying at college, He Yongxiu tried to confide in his story.
The neighbor's daughter was very sympathetic to her after hearing about it, and quickly posted a message of search for her on the website. Fortunately, it didn't take long for He Yongxiu to receive a call from a volunteer asking her for specific information about her hometown.
He Yongxiu was only 14 years old when he was abducted, and more than twenty years have passed, and many impressions have long been worn away in the dark life, but fortunately, because of the deep obsession, she still has some memories.
According to He Yongxiu's recollection, his hometown was called Songlin Town, and when she was young, her mother also took her to a place called Niuhou Town to catch the market.
After the volunteers gathered the information, they began to check and screen one by one across the country. Volunteers found the He family in Zunyi Songlin Town and determined that He Yongxiu was the daughter that the family had lost more than twenty years ago.
On July 22, He Yongxiu's daughter held an engagement ceremony in Handan, Hebei Province.
After the rectification was completed, He Yongxiu and his two children, with the help of volunteers, embarked on the road home according to the planned route.
After arriving in Guiyang on the morning of August 13, He Yongxiu was arranged to get into the car to go home, which took about two hours to drive, and when he was in the car, He Yongxiu couldn't stop looking out the window. At ten o'clock in the morning, the car stopped on the street of Pinewood Town.
He Yongxiu, wearing a pale yellow shirt, black pants, and a pair of sandals on his feet, opened the door and got out of the car, standing on the long-lost hometown land, there was still a little unreal feeling.
After getting out of the car, He Yongxiu couldn't help but look around, the previous scene gradually overlapped with the scene in front of her, and she couldn't help but sigh: "The houses on the street have become taller and more beautiful, but the mountains around them are still like that." ”
Perhaps because of his homesickness, He Yongxiu also turned his head and smiled at the volunteers behind him and said, "A little excited."
Twenty meters away, there was already a middle-aged man standing, after seeing He Yongxiu, he could not hide his excitement and trotted over, shouting "Third Sister" excitedly, it turned out that this was He Yongxiu's eldest brother He Yonggang.
Seeing the eldest brother, before he could speak, He Yongxiu couldn't help but shed tears.
The eldest brother also told He Yongxiu that her mother was waiting for her at home because she was old and had limited mobility, and then the two of them went home together.
However, before he reached the door of the house, He Yongxiu saw the old mother with gray hair, trembling and waiting in the middle of the road, although after many years, the two still recognized each other at a glance, and quickly hugged each other and cried, and everyone present saw this scene and shed tears.
Back home, everything was so familiar and so strange.
From the mouth of the eldest brother, He Yongxiu knew that his father had already died, and now his sister was married to Fujian, and his brother was married and divorced and lived alone with his mother and two sons.
26 years have changed too much, He Yongxiu has changed from a 14-year-old girl to a 40-year-old middle-aged woman, her mother has been dying of old age, and she has lost the opportunity to see her father again. And all this was caused by the mad relative.
When the reporter asked He Yongxiu what plans he had in the future, she said that she still had to go back to Hebei, on the one hand, because the Zunyi family was poor, and even the house was rebuilt with the help of the government after it was destroyed by fire, He Yongxiu did not want to increase the burden of the eldest brother; on the other hand, because his son and daughter were still living and studying in Hebei, he could not leave it alone.
Volunteers
So after a short period of time together, He Yongxiu had to return to her home in Hebei again, and she could only return to Zunyi to visit her family occasionally.
He Yongxiu was abducted for 26 years, youth has become a tragic dust, family affection has become a helpless regret, and the wounds of the soul can no longer be healed, we should also remain vigilant at all times while sympathizing with it, and be vigilant against the occurrence of dangers around us;
Traffickers do not hesitate to abduct people for personal gain, but they will push the life of the trafficker into an endless and terrible abyss, and bring irreparable grief to the family behind them, and their deeds are hateful! He is a man to blame!
He Yongxiu was finally able to go home, inseparable from the help of kind family-seeking volunteers, and we should praise it!
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