Late at night, a man and a woman walked on the mountain road one foot deep and one foot shallow. From time to time, younger men are concerned about the status of older women, and ask women if they are tired or thirsty every time they walk.
Women are very touched by the thoughtfulness of men, and rely more on and trust the man in front of them. Finally, after some distance, the man and the woman came to a country cave.
"Sister, you sit here for a while." I'll go say hello to a relative, tell him about you, and I'll be back in a minute. The man said to the woman.
The woman looked at the man in front of her, although she was only a fellow who had known her for less than twenty days, but the man's care and companionship these days had gained her great trust, and she quickly promised: "Be well, you should first say to the people, you go, I will wait here." ”
After the man went out, the woman sat in the cave and waited for the man to return. About half an hour later, the door of the cave was pushed open, and a man with the smell of sheep's hair, who looked more than fifty years old, came in.
The man immediately bolted the door from the inside after entering the door, and began to look up and down at the woman, revealing a feeling of satisfaction in his eyes.
The woman looked at the man's eyes, and suddenly felt that something was wrong in her heart, and asked, "Who are you, my fellow countryman?" The man replied, "Your fellow countrymen sold you to me, and you will be my daughter-in-law from now on!" ”
1. The first half of life full of evil
The woman, named Peng Hongju, was one of the main perpetrators of the "8.17" mega-trafficking case in Chongqing in the 1980s.
Peng Hongju was born in a very poor rural family in Chongqing, and after completing primary school, she began to drop out of school to work, helping her parents earn money to support her younger siblings.
During the days of part-time work, Peng Hongju suffered a lot. Because there is no culture, Peng Hongju can only do some manual labor work, wash dishes for restaurants or help supermarkets deliver goods, and most of them have to be used at home after getting money.
When he reached an age, Peng Hongju's parents introduced a family affair to Peng Hongju, and Peng Hongju married Chen Dingqi, a man from a neighboring village who was similar to his own age and family.
Neither couple has much culture and does not understand the business set. Seeing that the families around them were getting rich one by one, but their own families could not even afford to eat, the two could not avoid being anxious and trying their best to make a lot of money.
There is also a family in the village, just like Peng Hongju and his wife, but that family is very rich. This made Peng Hongju and his wife doubtful, and they usually paid more attention to the movements of others.
Finally, one day, Peng Hongju returned to her mother's house, and when she came back in the middle of the night, she bumped into the hostess of the family holding a small baby to enter the house. The two were a little surprised to see each other, Peng Hongju asked the hostess whose baby was, and the hostess was confused for half a day.
After returning home, Peng Hongju told Chen Dingqi about it, and the two guessed that the baby should have been abducted by the family.
The next day, Peng Hongju and Chen Dingqi went to the family's house, after entering the door, Peng Hongju asked the hostess straight away whether the baby was abducted by them to sell, and the hostess was initially reluctant to admit it, until Peng Hongju threatened to call the police to report them, and the two couples let up.
The hostess told Peng Hongju that the baby had indeed been abducted by herself, and said that as long as Peng Hongju did not call the police, she would take Peng Hongju and her husband to work together.
So after some tentative inquiries, Peng Hongju and her husband joined the family's organization of abducting and trafficking women and children. At first, Peng Hongju was still a little scared, and his heart was trembling.
In the middle of 1986, after the first abduction of a child, Peng Hongju and Chen Dingqi earned a full 5,000 yuan, which made the two more determined to continue this business.
After Peng Hongju's daughter was born, the cost of the family became more and more large. With the success of the crime again and again, Peng Hongju and Chen Dingqi earned more and more money, and the family became more and more wealthy, and Peng Hongju completely became a vicious woman who only saw money in her eyes.
Once, Peng Hongju went to a foreign country to abduct a baby boy who had just been born. But the baby boy was sick, short of breath, and coughing incessantly.
Instead of taking the baby boy to the hospital, Peng Hongju was worried that taking the baby boy on the train would attract the attention of the police, so when passing a bridge, he threw the baby boy off the bridge with his backhand. And something like this Peng Hongju has done more than a dozen times. Whenever he encountered fierce resistance when abducting and trafficking women and children, Peng Hongju would beat up the abducted people, and when he encountered a sick child, he would see if the child could hold on to it.
Children who can stand up are continued to be abducted and sold by them to earn money, and those who can't hold on are discarded on the side of the road and left to fend for themselves. Later, Peng Hongju and Chen Dingqi developed into the leaders and backbone of this trafficking gang.
Since 1986, the gang has committed 85 cases of abduction and trafficking of women and children, and almost most of them have been abducted and sold to Henan Province.
However, the good life of the two did not last long, in early 1992, the Chongqing and Henan police noticed this rampant criminal gang, under a series of squatting, surveillance, and platooning, determined the hiding place of the criminals in the gang, and arrested them in many places.
Peng Hongju and Chen Dingqi were the focus of the police's arrests, but on the day of the arrest of the two, Peng Hongju temporarily received a business and went to a foreign country, resulting in the police only catching Chen Dingqi alone.
After Peng Hongju returned to the village, he heard that her husband had been arrested by the police, and he was immediately frightened and scattered, and immediately embarked on the road of escape in a hurry.
2. Escape from birth or fall into hell
When Peng Hongju escaped, she didn't even enter the house, she only had a little money on her body, and she didn't even have a few pieces of luggage, so she first ran to the home of an acquaintance in Henan to take shelter.
During this time, she heard that her husband Chen Dingqi and many members of the gang had almost been sentenced to death, and she began to be glad that she had run out.
After a period of time, the acquaintances began to urge her to leave consciously or unconsciously, she knew that she had caused trouble for others, and during this time, whenever a stranger came to the door, Peng Hongju was like a frightened bird, afraid that the police had come to the door to arrest her.
After much thought, Peng Hongju decided to go to some remote and poor areas to work. In the years she has been engaged in trafficking, she knows that the police in remote areas are weak and the police will not catch her so easily.
She knew that she was the target of the main search in Chongqing and Henan, and did not dare to appear in these places, so she decided to go to Baotou, Inner Mongolia.
Peng Hongju took more than 200 yuan lent to her by relatives and continued to embark on the train to flee north. After arriving in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, Peng Hongju quickly ran out of money and could only enter a black brick factory to work.
But what she did not expect was that the owner of the black brick factory could not see her origins, knew that she did not dare to go to the police, and actually used this as a blackmail to deduct her salary, so that she did more than a month of hard work in vain.
Peng Hongju really did not dare to go to the police, so he had to bite his teeth and swallow into his stomach, turn around and go to a steel factory to work.
The treatment of the steel factory is slightly better than that of the black brick factory, and the people who come here to work are almost all people from other places, and everyone does not know each other.
Peng Hongju thought that he could settle down for a while, and even planned to save money for a while, and when the wind passed, he would go home to see his daughter.
However, one day, several men with Sichuan accents suddenly came to the factory, and even revealed in small talk that they had caught a few traffickers in their hometown before. Peng Hongju was frightened again, and quickly packed up his things and ran out of the steel factory, not even paying the salary.
At this time, Peng Hongju had no place to go, could only work some short-term jobs piecemeal, often could not even afford to eat, and had no place to live, and could only wander on the street, and lived a miserable time.
In the wandering days, Peng Hongju inadvertently met a young man from the same village, the young man took great care of her, often booed and asked for warmth, cared about her daily life, and even brought Peng Hongju back to the place where he rented.
Peng Hongju wandered for a long time, suffered a lot, and finally got a little comfort here in the sunny and cheerful young man, and after sleeping on the street for several months, he finally ate a hot meal and slept a good night's sleep.
The young man and Peng Hongju's feelings grew deeper and deeper, and one day, the young man told Peng Hongju that he had a relative who was now doing some small business in Hequ County, Shanxi, and wanted to find someone to help.
The young man said that he planned to go to Shanxi to help this relative, and asked Peng Hongju if he wanted to go together, eat and live, and have a place to stay.
Peng Hongju already had great trust in the young man at this time, and naturally agreed to it. It didn't take long for the two to reach Hequ County in Shanxi by train.
After a difficult mountain road, Peng Hongju was taken by the young man to a cave in a village. But the boy did not bring relatives and never returned. Peng Hongju did not know until the buyer pushed the door in, he did not know that he had been sold by a young man to a sheep for 3500 yuan as a wife, which was the scene that happened at the beginning.
3. The life of being abducted is tortured
The man who bought Peng Hongju as his wife was named Zhao Xiurong, an old single stick in his fifties in Hequ County, Shanxi.
The men in Zhao Xiurong's village were too poor to find a wife, so the whole village had the custom of spending a sum of money to buy a wife.
Zhao Xiurong was no exception, but he himself probably couldn't have imagined that this wife he had been abducted and sold was actually a demon who was doing the business of abducting and selling women and children!
Even if Peng Hongju had the ability before, he now had to stay in this remote mountain village to be a daughter-in-law for Yang Qi.
Like all abducted women, Peng Hongju initially wanted to escape. At first, he rushed out with a hard scalp, but he was stopped, slapped, and locked in the cave to prevent him from going out. Later, Peng Hongju knew that there was no way to break out, so he began to act with Zhao Xiurong.
On several occasions, Peng Hongju pretended to be obedient and obedient, and seemed to have a dead heart for escape, and even began to cook for Zhao Xiurong, as if he wanted to live with Zhao Xiurong.
Zhao Xiurong saw her like this and also let down his vigilance, so Peng Hongju took advantage of Zhao Xiurong's lack of attention to escape from the house.
Because I was not familiar with mountain roads, I did not have a good rest for so many days, and my physical strength was weak. Coupled with the fact that someone in the village was staring at her, she immediately went to report to Zhao Xiurong after she escaped, resulting in her being arrested every time she did not go far.
Every time she was caught, she always had to be beaten badly, not only to be beaten, but also to endure Zhao Xiurong's violation of her. Peng Hongju was beaten so badly in the first few months that she could hardly turn over, and lived in pain and torture every day and night.
In 1993, Peng Hongju suffered from cerebral thrombosis in the second year of being abducted to Zhao Xiurong's home.
At this time, Peng Hongju had no way to escape at all, so he had to admit that he had to live in Zhao Xiurong's house and become a husband and wife with Zhao Xiurong.
However, Zhao Xiurong is not a good person to get along with, he is short-tempered and paranoid. Because of the reason that Peng Hongju had escaped, he became extremely distrustful of Peng Hongju and punched and kicked her at every turn.
After Peng Hongju suffered from cerebral thrombosis, Zhao Xiurong did not let Peng Hongju seek medical treatment, and only let the clinic doctors in the town see it a few times. When Peng Hongju was most ill, he only took her to the hospital once, and immediately took her home after seeing the patient, and did not stay outside at all.
Zhao Xiurong's strict supervision of Peng Hongju, coupled with Peng Hongju's own illness, made Peng Hongju completely lose hope of escape.
Poor living environment and frequent domestic violence made Peng Hongju's physical condition worse and worse. At first she was able to walk on the ground with a limp.
A few years later, high blood pressure and cerebral thrombosis, as well as a series of ensuing complications, left Peng Hongju completely paralyzed and confined to sitting on her bed and unable to move. Peng Hongju knew that his condition could no longer escape, so he begged Zhao Xiurong to buy himself a TV and pass the time by watching TV every day.
There was no convenient running water in the cave, and Peng Hongju was not easy to move, and in the more than ten years since she was abducted and rescued, she had only taken three baths and eaten meat once. Peng Hongju lived in such a numb and painful environment for 12 years.
4. The belated trial
Twelve years later, at the end of January 2004, Peng Hongju was watching TV on Kang as usual. Suddenly, the door of the cave was knocked open by several policemen. Looking at the familiar and distant word Chongqing on the documents presented by the police, Peng Hongju knew that his trial would eventually come.
Peng Hongju did not evade or deny the police's inquiry, and even after acknowledging her identity, she tried to make a slurred voice to the police officers who arrested her: "Great, you have finally come to arrest me, I dreamed last night that you arrested me and went back." ”
Zhao Xiurong's family and the entire village at first wanted to deny it and not let the police take Peng Hongju away, but when they heard that Peng Hongju was actually a super-suspect who had been chased by the police for many years, they quickly broke off relations with her.
After being examined by the accompanying policewoman, Peng Hongju had multiple wounds on her body. Some are old wounds, and some are new wounds that have only recently healed. The large and large scars were superimposed, and Peng Hongju did not have a good piece of meat on his body.
The quilt she had covered was also dirty, and the cotton wool inside was all clumped, and on the bed where she slept, on her body, and in her hair, it was crawling with lice.
The dirty dirt that had accumulated over the years made her whole body smell of rot and sour, and her hair was sticky like felt.
It is difficult to imagine through the appearance of a woman who is only in her forties, and her face is covered with the traces of gray and aging, like an old man who is about to run out of oil and walk into the grave.
Peng Hongju could no longer walk on her own, so the police had to lift her into a police car and escort her back to Chongqing for interrogation overnight.
During the interrogation, Peng Hongju confessed to the facts of his crime and expressed deep remorse and apologies for the 85 families he had abducted and sold.
She said: "In the more than ten years that I have been abducted and sold, I have regretted the evil things I did every day, and I was sold to Zhao Xiurong, which is the retribution for the evil I did." ”
In 2004, after a court judgment, Peng Hongju was sentenced to death according to law. Before her execution, her only wish was to see her daughter.
After seeing her daughter, she finally couldn't help but break down and cry, and said to her daughter over and over again: "Mom is sorry for you, didn't raise you well for a day, didn't grow up with you, and my mother is really sorry for you." With peng Hongju's execution, her sinful and tortuous life finally came to an end.
When Peng Hongju abducted and trafficked women and children and destroyed so many families, he should not have thought that he would one day end up being abducted and sold. After the second half of her life, she was not only tortured physically, but whenever the physical pain increased by one point, the condemnation of her conscience was even deeper.
Peng Hongju has borne a tragic price for the evil things he has done in the first half of his life, which shows that in the darkness, all causes and effects have retribution.
Therefore, people should still do more good deeds in ordinary days and keep the moral bottom line of their hearts. Don't try to challenge the law, or you will end up in a miserable end.