028: Child Bride (4 Updates)

"Adopted daughter" is actually a more pleasant term for child bride in some places.

If you are poor and cannot find a wife, you can buy a girl home early, who can help the family work, and marry the son of the family when she grows up. You really don't miss any use value.

Dian Province.

This area, which was governed by chieftains during the Ming and Qing dynasties, was liberated in 1949, but its poverty was even worse than that of other provinces.

Comparing Northern Hebei Province and Dian Province, they are both economically developed regions.

Xia Xiaolan still compared the current situation in 1988. Looking back more than 20 years, one can imagine the level of poverty in Yunnan Province.

There are also many ethnic minorities living here, and each ethnic group has its own language. The promotion of Mandarin is not high. If Tang Youru, who was sold here 29 years ago, wanted to escape, it would be harder than climbing to the sky!

Even if Xia Xiaolan herself was reborn to the age of 7 and encountered the same situation, she might not be able to successfully escape from the mountainous areas of Dian Province.

It’s useless to be smart, because she can’t get out on her own feet—it’s useless to be eloquent, because the locals may not understand Mandarin at all!

From the capital to Northern Hebei Province, and then from Northern Hebei Province to Yunnan Province, such a fast investigation speed shows how ruthless Tang Hongen was. Tang Hongen and the Zhou family became in-laws, and the Zhou family could not ignore it. In the end, this matter alarmed Mr. Zhou, and with joint efforts, the investigation went so smoothly.

Zhou Cheng's wedding leave was all spent on this matter.

The traffickers don't ask for the name of the "goods". They resell many young girls, and they are not sure which one is Tang Youru.

Xia Xiaolan and Zhou Cheng went to see seven or eight abducted women who might be Tang Youru. Unfortunately, they all went there with high hopes and came back disappointed.

The search process was not pleasant either.

The seven or eight abducted women are all about the same age as Tang Youru. The oldest is only 40 years old. All of them have children and are inseparable from the families who bought them... Looking for relatives is possible, but it requires Take their current "family" to the police station, but they don't agree!

Even though they suffered a lot, even if they were bought and beaten and scolded by men at will, they still accepted their fate.

That's the scariest thing.

Some young women still want to run away. They were kidnapped from childhood and are basically brainwashed.

Xia Xiaolan felt uncomfortable, and she was unable to change this situation.

She was trying to help a particularly pitiful woman. She wanted to take her away after knowing that she had been subjected to domestic violence for a long time. Only with so many police officers following her did Xia Xiaolan dare to say this, otherwise she and Zhou Cheng would not even be able to leave the village.

The more backward and poor a place is, the more united it is when faced with this kind of thing.

If one of the "wives" I bought ran away, and the others would all run away, I don't know how many people in the village would be single. On the contrary, if there is a case of buying a wife in a place, it will definitely not be an exception——

Let's just say that the woman Xia Xiaolan wanted to take away had given birth to three daughters and could not continue the family lineage of the man's family, so she had suffered domestic violence for a long time.

Xia Xiaolan asked her if she could leave. The woman was reluctant to leave her daughter.

Xia Xiaolan patiently said that she could take her daughters out of the mountains. The older ones would learn some skills and go to work, while the younger ones could be sent to school. She also promised to temporarily support the four of them until they could live independently. .

As a result, what the woman said next almost made Xia Xiaolan furious.

"She asked me if I could arrange a job for that man!"

Even after leaving that ghost place, Xia Xiaolan was still worried about it.

Zhou Cheng knew that his wife was already in a state of being ready to go berserk at any time. She might not have found Tang Youru, and the several abducted women he met in person made Xia Xiaolan furious... Xia Xiaolan in this state was Lian Zhou Cheng An existence that no one can afford to offend!

"We are looking for someone to help Uncle Tang. Didn't we catch a lot of traffickers by following the clues? You have tried your best to help those abducted women and were unwilling to leave. You also asked the police to help them find their families."

They alone cannot help everyone. If they see it, they can at least live up to their own conscience.

Xia Xiaolan also knew that these things cannot be managed by two people, let alone solved overnight. She thought of the "Eagle Eagle" plan again. She really hoped that the pilot of this plan could achieve some results quickly. Even a little change would be good. ah!

"My temper has been a little bad these past two days, so you have to work hard."

Zhou Cheng motioned her to look out the window, "Be calm and think of this trip as our honeymoon."

The natural scenery in Dian Province is very beautiful.

Zhou Cheng really knew how to enjoy hardships, and Xia Xiaolan's heavy heart relaxed slightly.

"This is the last place. If we can't find it again, the clues will be cut off for the time being."

"Don't worry, we have traveled so many places, we will definitely gain something."

To enter this village, you have to climb a mountain.

Xia Xiaolan's feet were blistered as she walked. A dozen police officers accompanied them into the village, all armed with guns and batons. This was a guarantee of safety.

It is said that a woman suspected of being Tang Youru was sold to this village as an "adopted daughter".

Tang Youru didn't even leave a single photo. Before 1959, taking photos was a very luxurious thing. Xia Xiaolan and Zhou Cheng could only talk about it in person.

After all, they are brother and sister, so they look somewhat similar, right?

Moreover, Tang Youru was 7 years old when he was sold, and he should still remember important information such as his name and family members.

Tang Hongen put aside all his work in Pengcheng and waited for Xia Xiaolan and Zhou Cheng to meet first before notifying Tang Hongen to come over.

Finally we reached the village and saw people.

Not as dark and skinny as Xia Xiaolan imagined, the woman they were looking for actually had a pretty good life! The village is very poor, but this family's conditions are slightly better, their life is quite prosperous, and the woman looks simple and happy.

Could it be Tang Youru?

Xia Xiaolan looked at the woman, tentatively called "little aunt", and mentioned names such as "Tang Youru" and "Tang Hongen", but the woman didn't react at all.

Xia Xiaolan's heart dropped.

Could this be Tang Youru?

"Zhou Cheng, do you think it looks like it?"

Xia Xiaolan was too nervous to confirm.

Zhou Cheng shook his head, "I'm not sure either."

Tang Youru didn't have any birthmarks on her body. The deepest impression on Tang Hongen was that there were two pear dimples on her sister's face. Where were the pear dimples where Xia Xiaolan was desperately looking for a woman... At first glance, they were all folds of nasolabial folds.

Zhou Cheng was about to say, why not do a DNA test, and this technology can confirm it. The woman understood their purpose, became anxious, and spoke a series of dialects.

"She said that she is not the person you are looking for. She was brought here by a matchmaker to exchange marriages. Her hometown is in Shu Province. You have found the wrong person... Hey, wait, she said that a few years ago, there was a family in the village. The child bride has escaped, she may be the person you are looking for!"

What a wonderful turn of events!

Xia Xiaolan suppressed her excitement and asked, "Do you have any specific information about that woman?"