Rebirth 90: The Long Road to Finding a Son

After the huge human trafficking gang headed by Zhan Dayou was smashed, although it will take a long time to conduct an in-depth investigation of the case, major radio and television stations have begun to report on it, and newspapers have also exaggerated the shocking scene of investigators going to Zhanjiazhuang to arrest people.

For a time, this incident became explosive news that shocked the whole country and was a major case that was specially supervised by the Ministry of Public Security.

Wu Xing and Zhao Hongjun finally received the news of the court hearing, just one week after the criminal forces in Zhanjiazhuang were wiped out.

In fact, special arrangements had already been made for this lawsuit, which fired the first shot in convicting and sentencing the gang members.

Originally, the evidence of Zhan Jinhua and Qian Jindou's crimes was limited to the three abducted children who were transferred from the noodle shop to the orchard, Zhou Yue, and the sons of Wu Xing and Zhao Hongjun.

However, after the account book was seized from Zhan's house, more than 30 additional charges of suspected human trafficking were added to the two men.

In addition to the two houses and a small amount of deposits registered under the same identity information of Zhan Jinhua and Qian Jindou, investigators also confirmed a considerable amount of property under their other two identities.

The factual evidence is conclusive and the two persons are unable to explain the source of their property, so it is regarded as illegal gains and is confiscated.

As for the shocking crimes listed together, investigators have repeatedly inquired about the whereabouts of the abducted persons who have not yet been found.

The two had originally refused to confess, hoping that the powerful Zhan Dayou would come to rescue them. But when the investigators played the news of the arrest of all the members of Zhanjiazhuang in front of them, their psychological defenses collapsed at once.

Zhan Jinhua has always been an unrestrained person. Knowing that she had no way out, she even came up with the trick of getting pregnant to escape legal punishment.

But she herself was unable to complete asexual reproduction, so she turned her attention to the guards and interrogators.

Whenever she found a male staff member left alone, she would start to flirt with him, lift her skirt to reveal her belly, and say some obscene things that ordinary people would not even dare to hear.

This gave the staff a headache, and they described Zhan Jinhua as a "modern female hooligan". As a last resort, they replaced all the staff who had contact with Zhan Jinhua with women, completely stopping her from acting like a hooligan.

When she arrived at the courtroom, she watched the judge read out more and more charges. She finally couldn't bear it anymore and her whole body went limp and she could hardly stand.

Because she knew that these charges were enough to get her head chopped off several times.

She only had one last trick left, and she burst into tears in front of the judge: "I've been arrested, and I have three children. They are still young. How can they live without their parents?"

Everyone present sneered at Zhan Jinhua when they heard her cry. Wu Xing was the one who reacted most violently.

His child was abused in the Zhan family for ten years. She stole the child back. Why didn't she think about how the child would survive without his biological parents?

"Bah, your children are children, but other people's children are commodities to you? You should treat all your children the same as the children you kidnapped. This is the retribution you deserve!" Wu Xing shouted excitedly at Zhan Jinhua.

This statement resonated with other people present, and they all denounced the two evildoers, Zhan Jinhua and Qian Jindou, causing the court to fall into a state of chaos.

Finally, the judge stepped in to stop it, and order was restored in the solemn courtroom.

Regarding the cases of Zhan Jinhua and Qian Jindou, the facts are clear and the evidence is conclusive, and they have no room for rebuttal.

What's more, the lawyer representing Wu Xing and Zhao Hongjun is a big name in the industry who was introduced by Professor Zhou, and the Zhan Jinhua couple is now notorious. No reputable and capable lawyer would ruin his or her career for such people.

Moreover, the couple and even the entire Zhan family have had their house searched and are unable to hire a lawyer. In the end, they only had a legal aid lawyer, but that lawyer hardly spoke during the entire process, like a spectator.

During this hearing, the court did not announce the verdict for Zhan Jinhua and Qian Jindou in court, but decided to announce the verdict at a later date.

However, judging from the trial situation, Zhao Hongjun and Wu Xing thought that even if they were not sentenced to death, they would have to stay in prison for the rest of their lives.

In order to protect their son and to no longer have any relationship with Sun Xiaohao, Yuan Jie and Sun Aimin did not file a lawsuit against Zhan Jinhua and Qian Jindou this time.

In fact, even if there was no such charge, it would be enough to put Zhan Jinhua and Qian Jindou to death.

This incident involving the Sun family is related to the hospital where Yuan Jie gave birth. There must be an insider involved, and the hospital's director, director of obstetrics and gynecology, and even the doctors and nurses in the department are all involved.

Now, Zhan Yinhua works in the obstetrics and gynecology department of that hospital, but has not yet been promoted to the position of director of the obstetrics and gynecology department.

There is no doubt that she helped her sister and brother-in-law exchange children, and Yuan Jie has also engraved the names of other people involved in the case in her mind.

The account books seized from the Zhan family this time all involved the human trafficking business carried out by the Zhanjiazhuang gang and had nothing to do with what happened at the hospital.

I wonder how much the hospital business owners are involved in this, and whether there are any account books related to the hospital's black industry chain?

They still need to find ways to investigate these matters. I don't know if asking for a copy of my medical records now will alert them.

After all, when they dealt with this matter 20 years later, they saw the original medical records after several years, but when the medical records came out, they actually didn't play much of a role.

Because many members of the interest chain have risen to a new level of power after years of development, a level that Sun Aimin and Yuan Jie cannot compete with.

Although their arrogance at that time had aroused public indignation, it had no effect on the outcome. Sun Aimin and Yuan Jie fought with them for seven or eight years but still failed to get the desired result.

None of the criminals received the punishment they deserved. Instead, many online trolls hired by the other side were "sacrificed" in this protracted war.

At the same time, the Sun and Yuan families paid a heavy price for this. Any relatives or friends who spoke up for them suffered crazy revenge from the criminals.

If not, they would not have ended their rights protection journey in such a lonely way.

Fortunately, two years later, three more powerful victims, including Professor Zhou, emerged. These people joined forces and used all their connections to reopen the investigation of all related cases in the Zhan family's interest chain.

This time, the highest authorities finally took action and arrested all the people involved in the case.

At that time, many people had already retired and were planning to enjoy their retirement with their high pensions. They did not expect that these things would be dug up.

The basic operation is to stop paying pensions, confiscate illegal gains, and sentence according to the crime. Some criminals who once held high positions committed suicide because they could not accept such a result.

That thunderous action shocked people at home and abroad, allowing everyone to see the determination of the authorities to fight corruption and human trafficking.

The Zhongyuan Province, to which Mafang City, Jiangyuan City, Jiangjin City and other cities belong, has almost achieved a major change in its leadership, which has also allowed the Zhongyuan Province to gradually regain the credibility that it had lost due to inaction from top to bottom.

Yuan Jie still has vivid memories of that action, but no matter how gratifying the outcome was, it could not make up for the huge price paid by her family.

This also caused her and Sun Aimin to live in guilt towards their loved ones for the rest of their lives.

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The cases of Zhan Jinhua and Qian Jindou have been tried, but the case of the members of Zhanjiazhuang is still being tried intensively. Because there are too many people and cases involved, it will take a long time.

In cases like these, it is not enough to just sentence the criminals based on the crime they committed. The most important thing is to recover the women and children they abducted and sold.

The account book of Zhan Dayou's family only records the cases in which their family has been involved, but some villagers may not necessarily contact "customers" and deliver goods to their homes entirely according to Zhan Dayou's arrangements.

There are definitely some people who are not controlled by Zhan Dayou and develop their own "business". In this way, they can reduce Zhan Dayou's commission and earn more.

Therefore, during the interrogation, the property status of each family must be checked in detail to see if it matches the records in Zhan Dayou's family account book.

If the discrepancies are large, those people must have committed many other crimes that are not recorded in writing, and these people need to be interrogated in detail.

Even if we don't take into account those cases of conducting "business" privately, the number of cases involved in the Zhan family's account books has exceeded 2,000, spanning 17 or 18 years.

Such an astonishing number can be said to be unprecedented and it is difficult to surpass it in the future.

Unfortunately, no evidence was found in the account books that Zhan Yinhua and Zhan Tiehua were involved in the crime.

Although the police later summoned and questioned the two families, they all denied knowing what the Zhan family had done, let alone being involved.

Although they all have a lot of property under their names, they can all explain the source of their property. For example, Fan Hua and Zhan Tiehua are both in the medical system, and Fan Hua is a nationally renowned medical expert, so it is understandable that he is in good financial condition.

As for Zhan Tiehua, he worked in the health system of Jiangyuan City as a formal employee. Qin Xingzhou ran a delicatessen, and the two of them said that the main source of their wealth was the credit of the delicatessen.

After further investigation, it was found that the cooked food made by Qin Xingzhou has a unique taste. The aroma of his cooked food can be smelled from a long distance away. His business is indeed very good and he has a good reputation among local residents.

In this way, their two families temporarily escaped the disaster during this major cleanup campaign.

The Zhan family was arrested, but the children were left in the village. In addition to Qian Niandi and her two siblings, there was also Zhang Ling, the daughter of Zhan Tiehua and Qin Xingzhou, who was fostered here.

The Zhang family was not spared in this event, so Zhang Ling had nowhere to go.

The Zhan family still has a baby, Zhan Yingying, the daughter of Zhan Baoku and Wang Ling. She is just over half a year old. When the accident happened at home, she was still sleeping on the kang.

When she woke up, everything had changed. She was so anxious that she cried loudly because she couldn't find her relatives. It was not until some villagers came to the family where the wedding was held to check on the situation that they found Zhan Yingying.

Fortunately, she did not crawl around on the kang, otherwise she would have fallen off the kang and been seriously injured.

Zhan Baoliang’s daughter Zhan Tingting is now in junior high school. Her grandparents, uncles and aunts could not escape, and even her mother was arrested in this incident.

After Qian Niandi took her two younger brothers away and fled from Zhanjiazhuang, Zhan Tingting became the eldest of the Zhan family's children.

She felt a headache when she looked at seven-year-old Zhang Ling and Zhan Yingying who couldn't walk yet. The only solution she could think of was to call her third aunt Zhan Tiehua in the city.

When Zhan Tiehua received the call, he already knew what had happened in Zhanjiazhuang.

Now all her family members except the child have been arrested. She thought, these investigators are really cruel. They should leave someone to take care of the child, right? Besides, there is a baby who can't talk or walk inside.

How is she supposed to take care of so many children now?

She has two sons at home. It would make sense for her to bring back her daughter Zhang Ling who was fostered in her mother's home. But if she counted the number of children in her older brothers and sisters' and younger brothers' homes on her fingers, she felt overwhelmed just thinking about it.

Fortunately, she heard Zhan Tingting say on the phone again: "Sister Nian Di, Xiao Shu, and Xiao Fei are nowhere to be found. Now it's just me, Ling Ling, and Ying Ying. Third Aunt, can you come back? There's no one at home, and we're scared..."

The first person Zhan Tingting thought of was Zhan Tiehua. First, because she lived at her grandmother's house and was closer to her grandmother's family; second, because she knew that her grandmother's family had been arrested, she tried her luck and called her third aunt in the city.

God knows how excited Zhan Tingting was when the call was connected. She thought there would be no adults to take care of them anymore!

After her father died, she was left at her grandmother's house. Her mother remarried. Although she still kept in touch with her grandmother's family, she rarely took her to her grandmother's house. Now she doesn't even know who is in her grandmother's house or what they look like.

After listening to Zhan Tingting's words, Zhan Tiehua patiently comforted her: "Take care of the two sisters first, get them some food, and remember to close the gate and don't let anyone else into the yard. Third Aunt happens to be resting today and will rush back from the city soon."

As for the three missing children of Zhan Jinhua's family, although Zhan Tiehua felt a little worried, it was very limited.

She didn't like her elder sister's behavior. She was a high school graduate after all, but apart from learning how to draw eyebrows and do sideburns like the city people, perming her hair, and buying expensive and beautiful clothes, her temperament was out of place and her style was a bit unruly and not presentable.

Although they are sisters, she and her second sister Zhan Yinhua are far more elegant than her eldest sister Zhan Jinhua. They are already typical people of status and position in the city.

What's more, now that her eldest sister and brother-in-law are in trouble, the charges must be serious. In that case, if she helps to find her eldest sister's children, wouldn't she be asked to help raise them?

Qian Niandi is a teenager and old enough to work and support herself, but the two younger ones are still unable to take care of themselves.

After weighing the pros and cons, she instantly gave up the idea of ​​looking for her three nephews and nieces.