12dz Chapter 312: A Lie That Cannot Stand Up to Scrutiny
Chapter 312: A Lie That Cannot Stand Up to Scrutiny
Now, the village chief also understood what was written on the phone. He had read those words one by one, and Wu Yan had typed them out one by one.
He sighed and dropped his handcuffed hands helplessly.
"It's all life!"
More than 20 years ago, he was already the village chief. At that time, every household in the village favored boys over girls. There were already several men in the village who could not get married, so they came to ask him if he had any solution.
He vaguely realized that something was wrong, so he gathered all the villagers and told them not to abandon the baby girl. He also said that when the baby girl grew up, she could be exchanged for a husband or a dowry.
Unfortunately, no one listened to him.
They agreed everything on the surface, but secretly gave birth to a baby girl and threw her into a ravine on the same day, for fear that she would eat more of their food when she grew up.
Under this extreme preference for boys over girls, there are fewer and fewer girls in the village.
The few families that kept their daughters, when they grew up, would either marry them off to outsiders or demand extremely high dowries, so that in the end, even if you were rich, you couldn't get married.
It was at this time that many people in the village began to think about buying wives from human traffickers.
In the past few years, it was indeed easy for my wife to buy one, and if you had money, you could even pick out some nice-looking ones.
Wu Yan's mother was bought by Wu Dashan and Wu Dahai's parents who emptied their family savings. After buying her, the two brothers drew lots, and Wu Dashan was lucky and won.
It was a pity that the woman had a very bad temper. Wu Dashan did not love his wife and often beat and scolded her, and even chopped off her legs. So not long after giving birth to Wu Yan, she committed suicide.
In recent years, as outsiders have become more aware of their risks, many human traffickers have run out of goods, so even if villagers want to, they cannot buy people.
As the village chief, he became a little anxious as he saw that more and more bachelors in the village were unable to find wives.
These bachelors have no wives, and their energy cannot be vented, so they steal things everywhere. There are even several who break into the homes of widows and force them to hang themselves.
For the sake of village harmony, he had no choice but to ask Qian Chengfu for help.
At that time, Qian Chengfu also said that he had no choice. He also said that even if the girls from outside came from families that favored boys over girls, they would not lack food and clothing. There were also more men than women in the outside world. Even if they had lower demands, it would be impossible for them to marry into that poor mountain area.
Besides, Qian Chengfu came from Hongwen Village. The men in Hongwen Village were all lazy and gluttonous. Not only did he look down on women, he looked down on all men.
The old village chief was a little angry when he heard Qian Chengfu belittling his peers in the village.
In his opinion, they are all from the same village, and they are related. They prosper together and suffer together. How can he, who has become successful without helping his fellow villagers, take advantage of them and then kick them when they are down?
Therefore, the old village chief threatened Qian Chengfu that he must send a woman into the village.
Qian Chengfu knew those trolls on the Internet too well. Once the old village chief put an advertisement in the newspaper, saying that the whole village had gathered everyone's strength to send him to college, but he did not turn against them after he became rich, those netizens would definitely strip him to the point of leaving nothing behind.
Qian Chengfu is a person who can analyze the pros and cons. Over the years, he has worked hard to climb up to his current position step by step. Even if he can clear his name in the end, all his hard work will probably be destroyed.
Therefore, he agreed to the village chief's request, but on the premise that he was only responsible for sending the women away, and whether the women could stay depended on the ability of the villagers.
The old village chief was very happy and said it was no problem.
In the following ten years, Qian Chengfu sent more than a dozen groups of teachers to Hongwen Village on the pretext of teaching.
In addition to Dong Yunlu, there were actually several other teachers who were retained by the locals for various reasons.
The most infuriating person is a female teacher named Jiang Xiu.
Not long after she went to Hongwen Village to teach, she announced that she had fallen in love with a local man in his 40s.
As soon as this topic came out, it immediately ignited the Internet at that time.
The headlines of online reports at the time were all: A female teacher who graduated from a prestigious university married a young man from the mountain village for love. Why did she stay in the mountain village?
No one could understand it and thought Jiang Xiu was just obsessed with love. They all said that she married into the mountain village because of love and that her child would need the biggest brain to get out of the mountain village.
Some people scolded her for being selfish and not considering her parents. She had to take the high-speed rail to a bus, then from the bus to a three-wheeled motorcycle, then from the three-wheeled motorcycle to a motorcycle, and then she still needed manpower to walk for several hours. She was afraid that she would not be able to go back to her parents' home for ten years.
This incident went viral on the Internet for a while, but was then pushed down by a new hot search.
No one knew that Jiang Xiu didn't stay here voluntarily.
She didn't love the man at all. The reason she stayed and let him do whatever he wanted was because she was kidnapped on the road and later some humiliating photos were taken of her as a threat.
If she had any idea of resisting, the man would spread her photos online.
Cases like Dong Yunlu and Jiang Xiu have appeared almost every one or two years over the past decade.
Even the school leaders said that Hongwen Village was a magical place and the men there were so likable.
When Qian Chengfu heard this, he just said expressionlessly that the men in the mountains were honest and hardworking, unlike some slick young people in the city.
But if they were really honest and hardworking, Hongwen Village would not be a particularly backward village until now.
Such lies actually cannot stand up to scrutiny, but who would be willing to stand up for those women whose lives have been ruined?
Afterwards, Qian Chengfu confessed to what he had done.
Due to the serious circumstances, Wu Dahai, Qian San and others were sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment, Qian Chengfu and the old village chief were sentenced to life imprisonment, and Wu Dashan was sentenced to death for purchasing women and abusing them to death.
Women like Dong Yunlu and Jiang Xiu who were forced to stay in Hongwen Village were also rescued, but sadly, several of them chose to stay because they couldn't bear to leave their children.
After this incident, Hongwen Village became the focus of social attention. Everyone lived cautiously and dared not speak carelessly.
A new village party secretary came to the village. As soon as he took office, he forced everyone to learn the law and read in order to improve everyone's knowledge.
As for the parasites who govern Hongwen Village, they also underwent a major replacement under social supervision.
At the school, Director Qian Chengfu's title has been revoked, and Zhou Yi was awarded the titles of Outstanding Citizen and Outstanding Teacher for his contribution in exposing the truth about Hongwen Village.
Lu Nannan's team, which reported the truth about the teaching in Hongwen Village, was also awarded the title of excellent media that "dares to tell the truth."