While sitting in a certain restaurant to eat, Gu Qingjiu smiled unconsciously when he saw Ji Shitong's face looking decayed and trying to get credit at the front desk with a smile on his face.
When the two Gu brothers saw their mother's attitude of being very familiar with this place and the short and thin old man, they couldn't help but be full of curiosity about their mother's past here.
Gu Mingxi said: "Miss Gu, when you see Uncle Ji, he seems to be very afraid of you?"
Gu Qingjiu glanced at the other party's inquiring eyes and smiled calmly:
"He just owed me some debt before, but now it's even."
Seeing that Gu Qingjiu had no intention of informing him, Gu Mingxi stopped asking, nodded, lowered his head and concentrated on eating.
Gu Qingjiu looked at Ji Shitong who was still struggling with the front desk and fell into memories——
More than ten years ago, probably when she was 14 years old and still in college, Gu Qingjiu thought of her mother's old friend Professor Fang Wenshanfang in order to learn medical skills.
At that time, Professor Fang was still serving as a military medical consultant in the military camp, so in order to get in touch with him, Gu Qingjiu made up his mind to join the army in a year.
But the problem that followed was that in order to join the army, she needed to develop a body that was not afraid of wind and frost.
You need to know at least some basic fighting skills to avoid being discriminated against in the military.
So by chance, she came to the Haidu Black Market.
This is not only the largest trading place in Haidu, but also has various training camps for training thugs.
When Gu Qingjiu first arrived at the black market, Ji Shitong jumped out of nowhere and asked her questions warmly, just like now.
Although she was cautious at that time and knew how to disguise herself with indifference, she was still too young after all. Facing a short and shriveled dwarf uncle, she still had good intentions in her heart and was grateful to this uncle for guiding her.
Who knew that when he heard that he was not here to buy anything, but to come to a thug training camp, Ji Shitong's face changed slightly, and then he put on an eager smile:
"Training for fighting, I know."
Then he turned around and sold her to a family, which was a training camp in name but actually a place for human traffickers.
But he never thought that Gu Qingjiu could escape from it.
Gu Qingjiu was drugged at that time. When she woke up in the cell, she was surrounded by other people who were also kidnapped with her. Those people were crying and seemed to know their next fate, which was to be sold as slaves.
, or have their organs removed.
Gu Qingjiu was extraordinarily calm, neither crying nor making a fuss, which attracted the attention of the person guarding them. The strong man with a scar on his face asked her:
"Why aren't you afraid? Once the decision is made, you won't know where you will be sold."
Either for mining, or as slaves, or for people's entertainment, or as reproductive machines, or to have their organs removed.
Gu Qingjiu glanced at him and asked:
"If crying was useful, you should have let the other people here go, right?"
Her words not only stunned the strong man on guard, but also the other arrested people at the scene gradually stopped crying when they heard it.
The strong man chuckled: "You're quite interesting, girl. If you weren't about to be sold, you might be able to have more fun if you became my colleague."
What he said was sincere. After all, he was engaged in the dark business of human trafficking every day. Although the decisions were made by those above him, the real suffering was when those below him were executing.
The people above make decisions by looking at the data written on the list, allocating them, and selling them everywhere. But people are not data. Only when they are in person and participate in the whole process, can they look directly at their emotions.
, will you feel the sorrow generated in the human soul.
Therefore, although we are already engaged in the dehumanization of human nature, human nature is not completely lost overnight. Only over time, human nature will be truly slowly worn away.
Gu Qingjiu glanced at the strong man in front of her with unpredictable eyes. She knew that at least for now, this man's humanity was still on the edge of tangle, so she asked him tentatively:
"Then why did you choose such a dangerous job?"
There was still a trace of fire in the strong man's eyes, which was different from the other numb guards:
"Why? Isn't it just for money..."
"People like us who come from small villages have low education. In a big city like Haidu, no company is willing to accept them. Even if they work part-time in factories, the money they earn will always be taken by the boss.
Withholding, I can barely subsidize my family, I still have a daughter and a wife to raise..." When he said this, when the strong man thought of his wife and daughter, his eyes were filled with hope and helplessness for the future:
"But I only have this brute strength. If I don't do a job like a thug, what can I do?"
He smiled self-deprecatingly, as if because Gu Qingjiu looked about the same age as his daughter, he unknowingly said a lot.
Gu Qingjiu's eyes looked a little more complicated when she looked at him:
"Are you going to destroy other people's families for the sake of your own?"
Although she knew that human trafficking was not the strong man's original intention, he was still an accomplice. This was a fact that could not be escaped. How many families had been torn apart because of their actions of accomplices? Will heaven and man be separated forever?
Gu Qingjiu not only wants to escape, she also wants to change everything, but she still can't destroy this den with her own strength.
So she silently vowed in her heart that if one day she could get the power to compete with him, she would definitely come back and completely rectify the black market.
And until then, at least...
She glanced at the people huddled in the corner behind her.
They have to be rescued.
The people who came to "see the goods" arrived quickly.
The man was dressed like a playboy and wore a pair of sunglasses. Although he couldn't see his face clearly, he could guess that there was a cynical expression behind the sunglasses. He was wearing a floral shirt in a dark suit, and his leather shoes were polished.
The pace was fast, followed by two bodyguards in black and sunglasses.
When he looked inside the cage, the man in sunglasses suddenly put up his sunglasses, and with a pair of rare and beautiful eyes, he glanced at the people inside.
Finally, his eyes fell on Gu Qingjiu.
He raised his eyebrows up and down, looking at her playfully:
"Girl, aren't you afraid of me?"
"You are the second person today who has asked me if I am afraid." Gu Qingjiu looked him up and down, then looked away and stared at the ground: "Is this some new way of striking up a conversation?"
The man seemed not to have thought that this little girl was not only not afraid of him, but also dared to tease him, twitching the corners of her mouth:
"Just her."
The strong man seemed not to have expected it, with a look of surprise on his face:
"Master Feng, she is just a child..."
"Huh?" The guy called Master Feng raised his eyebrows and looked at him with some displeasure:
"Are you questioning my decision?"
"No, no..."
The strong man could only obey and opened the door and escorted Gu Qingjiu out. He sighed in his heart that it was rare to meet someone who could still talk to him...
It's a pity that once you are targeted by someone from above, you will probably lose your life.
