After rebirth, she first killed the book thief, and she was busy writing articles to save people

Ji Lu's work efficiency has always been very high. Within two days, he brought good news to Jiang Baige and the others.

The "person in charge" has been found!

"It's Yan Fang." Ji Lu told them solemnly in the office. Seeing their stunned looks, he slapped his forehead and explained, "Oh, it's Erzhu's mother."

Now they understood.

Then he showed a somewhat surprised expression. But after a brief moment of surprise, he seemed to accept it all immediately.

"You don't look very surprised?"

Ji Lu finished speaking with a smile, and Shu Xiu, Jiang Baige and Song Siwen looked at each other and nodded.

Because there were only three people in the group before: Erzhu and his parents.

But compared with Erzhu's "low-key" mother and the disabled Erzhu, it is obviously his father who is more likely to arouse suspicion.

However, it is precisely because of his high profile that people cannot be very sure: after all, the people who are really in charge are usually very low-key.

Besides, if Erzhu's father was really the "person in charge", why would he have to go to Liang San's house to contact the outside world?

And Auntie An had said before that Erzhu's father had had a few fights with the human traffickers because the old Aimin Hotel was investigated. If he was really in cahoots with them, was it necessary to do this?

"Let me make a bold guess..." Jiang Baige rubbed his chin with his fingers, "Is it possible that the one who was 'in charge' before was Erzhu's father, but because he committed certain crimes, the 'person in charge' became Erzhu's mother?"

"Oh?" Ji Lu looked at her, "Why do you think so?"

"The sealed passage between the two underground floors of that hut... Also, when Siwen and I visited Erzhu's house at night, we heard Erzhu's mother tell his father that if Erzhu couldn't go up, then his father should go up..."

Song Siwen understood immediately: "So you think it was the girl that Erzhu's father had kidnapped for them... so..."

This time it was Ji Lu who took over the conversation.

"You guessed it right. I checked the previous files and found that more than 20 years ago, the county bureau rescued several trafficked girls. However, because their conditions were very bad and their families believed that it was a 'shameful matter', the police did not get enough clues and the traffickers got away with it."

"So those girls also escaped from Wangnan Village?"

"I didn't connect the two cases together before, but when we were interrogating Yan Fang these two days, she said that the reason why the contact person was changed from Erzhu's father to her was because she found out that her husband was hiding a bunch of women at home and often went there at night. The two had a big fight and the door was not closed properly, causing those women to escape. Since then, the 'transit station' in Wangnan Village was closed for a few years and was only reopened later."

"That guy didn't know about the reopening?"

Ji Lu nodded: "This is what we found out from the interrogation. Since that time, he only has the authority to buy. Other than that, the traffickers have no contact with him."

Jiang Baige pondered over this sentence for a while: "Only... did he buy it before? Otherwise, the traffickers wouldn't come to him for no reason..."

Song Siwen also guessed: "Could it be... that Yan Fang was also kidnapped by him?!"

"We did take this into consideration." Ji Lu turned his gaze to Shu Xiu. "Judging from her age and Er Zhu's age, she must have been trafficked here quite a long time ago. That's why I called you yesterday and asked you to confirm this with Aunt An."

"She and Auntie An are from the same batch?"

This time, Shu Xiu shook her head: "Aunt An said that when she arrived in Wangnan Village, Erzhu's mother was already here. However, Brother Liang's wife was also bought. Although this family has moved out of Wangnan Village now, Aunt An also confirmed it with her..."

Liang San’s sister-in-law was the woman who was sold to Wangnan Village at the same time as Yan Fang.

Unlike An Zhen, who never really gave in because she missed her daughter, Liang San's sister-in-law was also trafficked, but she originally lived in the countryside.

At that time, even if she had not been trafficked to Wangnan Village, she would have been married off by her father at a young age in exchange for the bride price to marry her younger brother. It made no difference to her who her "husband" was.

When An Zhen was first kidnapped, she always ran away. When Liang San caught her and beat her, it was this sister-in-law who took care of her. But she also advised her that there was no need to be so stubborn, because what if she was beaten to death one day?

She was not afraid of being beaten to death, but she was afraid that after she died, she would never see her daughter again. She finally "settled down", but her heart was never in Wangnan Village.

"When I was handling this case, my biggest feeling was... In addition to the initial anger, I also felt a deep and powerless despair..."

Ji Lu, who had always been strong, sighed deeply: "I feel that there is too little I can do. If you hadn't come to rescue your friends, and if Ah Xiu hadn't risked her own life to sneak into the village, and if she hadn't happened to meet Aunt An who wanted to escape... I don't know how long this evil human trafficking chain would have lasted..."

"But even if we weren't there, there would be others. This matter is indeed despairing, but I always believe that there will still be people like Senior Sister, us, and Sister Shu Xiu who are willing to do something to escape this despair..."

Song Siwen smiled widely: "Besides, isn't that what we journalists should do...reveal the truth and sow hope."

Ji Lu and Shu Xiu laughed: "We thought that the most important thing for the news industry was to attract attention and earn traffic..."

Song Siwen frowned and sighed helplessly: "Your thoughts are the despair of us journalists..."

"It doesn't matter. We online writers also have our own despair." Jiang Baige volunteered to join this "despair competition". "I ponder for hours every day, write thousands of words every day, work hard to earn a few cents, and write novels at the risk of starving to death, but there are always readers who say what you write is rubbish... Who can I go to for justice?"

After Jiang Baige finished speaking, everyone burst into laughter.

It’s not because they are no longer desperate, but because they all know very well: even though they know the road ahead is so hopeless, they have never thought of turning back.

This is their choice.

Just like how unlike Aunt An and Sister-in-law Liang, Erzhu’s mother, Yan Fang, chose another way to “survive” after being abducted.

Jiang Baige still had many questions in her mind and couldn't help but ask more.

"But after Erzhu's father's authority was revoked, how could those people think of cooperating with Yan Fang, who was once trafficked by them? I don't believe that such a large human trafficking group would be so short of people..."

"The traffickers said that it was Yan Fang who contacted them first."

After Ji Lu finished speaking, the other three girls widened their eyes and held their chins - as if they were afraid that their jaws would drop out of shock.