Rebirth 90: The Long Road to Finding a Son

After the old lady Zhan and her youngest son Zhan Baoku returned to the village, the whole village was in an uproar. In this family, Zhan Dayou and his eldest son-in-law were both sentenced to death, and several of their daughters, daughters-in-law, and nephews were sentenced to prison. They were the "stars" of the village.

The "Zhanjiazhuang Case" quickly fermented across the country through publicity and reports on television, radio, and newspapers. It became known to almost everyone and became the hottest topic discussed by the people recently.

Not all the people in Zhanjiazhuang are bad, but they have been implicated by the Zhan’s gang. If anyone dares to say that he is from Zhanjiazhuang, even if he is not caught and beaten, everyone will avoid him, for fear that their children will be targeted.

Now that the Zhan family, the culprits who had ruined the village's reputation, had returned, the villagers spread the news and gathered more and more people who had suffered greatly from them. They threw dirt and rotten vegetable leaves at the mother and daughter, and some even went directly to their own toilets to pick up manure and throw it at the people.

It is clear how much public anger this family has aroused. It is unknown how long it will take for Zhanjiazhuang's reputation to improve. They are easily discriminated against when they go out to work.

Old Lady Zhan and Zhan Baoku used to be arrogant in the village, and no one dared to challenge them, but now they have become rats crossing the street and everyone wants to beat them. That feeling is no better than being in prison.

If they continued to stay in the village, the villagers might set their house on fire at any time and burn them both to death inside.

Zhan Baoku couldn't stand this kind of injustice and wanted to go against the villagers. However, before he could do anything, he was surrounded by the villagers and beaten and kicked.

Old Mrs. Zhan felt sorry for her son. She lay on him to protect him and yelled at everyone to stop beating him.

Did she ever think at that time how the villagers who had worked so hard to build their houses, but whose houses were finally demolished by Occupation Dayu and his men, cried and begged them not to demolish them?

Have you ever thought about how desperate the lives of those villagers who were forced to leave their homes and work hard outside to make a living are?

How do the villagers who stayed in the village with no way out and who barely made a living by farming in the marginal fields in the mountains and by the rivers survive?

The more the mother and daughter cried and begged for mercy, the more vigorously the villagers beat them. It was a great pleasure to watch this family of beasts in human form being destroyed.

The mother and daughter of the Zhan family originally wanted to come back to see what had happened to their house and their children. They also thought that there were still many families of gang members in the village and no one would dare to do anything to them. However, they didn't expect that everything had changed.

When the villagers had vented their anger, they gradually stopped, cursed and spit at them, and then gradually dispersed.

Old lady Zhan eats too well, so she has a lot of fat and flesh, and is quite resistant to beatings.

After everyone had left, she stood up, helped her youngest son up, and the two of them limped back home, grimacing.

When I arrived at the door of the house, I found it open and the yard had been almost completely looted. All the useless things that could not be taken away had been smashed and destroyed.

The car parked in the yard was now left with only its dented and broken iron shell.

The mother and daughter were completely dumbfounded and finally realized that the Zhan family was now doomed.

When they were arrested, there were a bunch of children in the family. Where did they go?

Because there were so many people involved in this case, a detention center reserved more than a dozen people in each room, but they put more than 20 people in. When sleeping, the big bunk beds were so crowded that you couldn't turn over at all. If you turned over and affected the people next to you, you might get beaten.

Even so, one detention center could not accommodate such a large number of hundreds of people, so the human traffickers in Zhanjiazhuang were dispersed into three different detention centers.

Old lady Zhan and her son Zhan Baoku were put in the same detention center and were released at the same time after the trial was completed.

Because the detention center is closer to Zhanjiazhuang than the urban area, the mother and daughter did not contact their third daughter Zhan Tiehua who lived in the urban area, but returned home first.

They didn't expect to encounter such a thing after returning home. Despite the pain all over their bodies, they stepped over the various garbage scattered in the yard and entered the house.

Now, they have to do something very important. With such a big business and so much dirty money, they must have some tricks up their sleeves.

The reason they were in such a hurry to go home was actually to get the hidden money and belongings. If those were also taken away, wouldn't all these years of hard work be in vain, and wouldn't Zhan Dayou's death be in vain?

The mother and daughter locked the front door of their house, went into the house and locked the door again.

After making sure that no one was targeting them, the mother and daughter endured the pain and struggled to move a heavy cabinet from the old couple's room.

Because this cabinet looks very inconspicuous, the dark red paint on it has peeled off and is mottled, which looks a bit ugly.

The wooden cabinets are very heavy and the style is from several decades ago. Almost no family can afford such cabinets nowadays.

The villagers, in order to vent their anger, turned the contents of the cabinet into a mess and threw them everywhere. Surprisingly, no one wanted to touch this heavy and ugly thing. When the mother and daughter entered the house and saw that the cabinet was still there, they were relieved.

There is a secret in the design of this cabinet. The partition against the wall is not nailed to the cabinet body, but is movable.

Two people worked together to lift up the cabinet panel at the back and removed it completely, revealing a dark layer recessed into the cabinet body, about twenty centimeters thick and the same length and height as the cabinet body.

Now, there are about a hundred bundles of hundred-dollar bills neatly stacked there.

In 1997, this amount of money was a huge sum for ordinary people. Even or years later, many ordinary people still cannot afford such a large amount of money.

The Zhan family should be regarded as a lean camel that is bigger than a horse. The income related to human trafficking recorded in the account books has been basically cleared, and Zhan Dayou uses his position as the village chief to rent out the idle farmland in the village every year, which makes everyone jealous.

It can be said that the wealth of Zhan Dayou's family is unmatched in the surrounding area.

Before Zhan Dayou's downfall, there were more than a thousand acres of fertile land that nominally belonged to the village collective and had not been distributed to the villagers. If all these lands were rented out each year, the village could generate an income of three to four hundred thousand yuan.

Of course, while the Zhan family eats the meat, those accomplices who follow Zhan Dayou will definitely also have some soup.

But for the rest of the villagers, they didn't see a penny. Even giving the villagers a little bit of profit during the New Year or other festivals was something that had never happened before.

Regarding this kind of corruption case in the village, the higher-ups did not send anyone to investigate. Under pressure from the Zhan family, the villagers did not dare to report it and could only swallow their anger.