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.Chapter 25.

In a gold mining area nearly [-] kilometers away from da|vao, several trucks were parked in front of a group of simple bungalows.

This is a place where miners in the mining area live, because some of the miners are illegal laborers bought through human trafficking, and there are also underage children among them, so the surrounding area is surrounded by barbed wire that is higher than half the body of the head.In addition, this area is also patrolled by armed personnel to prevent these workers from absconding.

Human trafficking is the hardest-hit area in Southeast Asia. In addition to trafficking women and children to engage in pornographic services, human traffickers have seen a clear upward trend in the trafficking of adult labor in recent years.The Philippines was not originally a country with serious human trafficking, because it had a complete set of sound labor export system, so this country was listed by the United Nations as a country other than the hardest-hit areas of human trafficking.

However, in recent years, the continuous loss of labor force has become the biggest obstacle to the socio-economic development of the Philippines.High taxes and rising labor costs have forced some businessmen to use illegal means, and buying large quantities of cheap illegal labor has become their main way to save costs.

It can be said that the poverty and social turmoil in the Philippines have bred those dark existences, which are unbearable existences for ordinary people, and the madness is unimaginable.

Ruan Jinwen was betrayed by the foreign monkey on the boat.

It was a group of anti-government armed personnel who hijacked the cargo ship that day, and the target was the ore mining machine of this ship.They hijacked the machines, and then sold them to private mining companies at a relatively low price in exchange for US dollars, which were used to raise troops and raise generals, and had a long-term confrontation with the government.

As for human trafficking, it is a dark line.

Knowing that there were laborers who secretly went to work in Hong Kong on board the ship, they took advantage of their illegitimate status when they returned to the Philippines, and forcibly sent them into the illegal human trading market in order to obtain unimaginable profits.Those laborers never imagined in their nightmares that after so many years of suffering, they thought they could bring money back to their hometown, but in the end they were sold to various places and became a "commodity" that would never survive.

The foreign monkey has been coveting Ruan Jinwen's bag of dollars for a long time, and has never had a chance to make a move. It was his turn before, and he took a bag of things in his bag, and found Ruan Jinwen and that little black (Akun) walking back from a distance. .Later, the ship was hijacked and there was no chance at all.

The foreign monkey went back to his room and secretly opened the package. He didn't think it was worth anything at first, but when he saw it, his heart was beating so hard that it almost came out of his throat.It was also at that time that he had the idea of ​​not doing one thing but doing two things.In that package was a check for 40 billion, plus a Rolex watch.

After the rebels took away the Filipinos in the bottom cabin, he handed Nguyen along.Because Ruan Jinwen does not have a passport and cannot prove his identity, and he left Hong Kong secretly without any registration at the immigration office, so it is the best commodity in the hearts of traffickers.All the foundations are cleared, and there is no need to worry about the future.

The only thing that worries them is his disobedience.This is actually very easy to handle, and traffickers naturally have their own set of training|training methods.

When Ruan Jinwen was taken away, he looked respectable, kept shouting, and had a bad temper, very aggressive.

In the next half month, the traffickers kept him mentally and physically abused in a small dark room with harsh environment and bad smell.Sometimes as soon as he had any sense of resistance or emotion, he would be pulled out and beaten.

After that, he was injected with a drug that paralyzes the central nervous system, makes people obedient, and makes people feel no pain, and the muscles are highly excited.This medicine has very strong side effects. If it is used too much, people will become stupid. In the end, the central nervous system will be necrotic, and people will die of exhaustion.Therefore, ordinary human traffickers will not use this kind of potion after they have finished training this kind of "commodity" with stubborn personality, so as to prevent this kind of labor from dying prematurely.

Half a month later, Ruan Jinwen, who had been trained to be obedient, was sold to Mindanao with some others, a gold mine located in the deep mountains, [-] kilometers away from Da|vao.

This gold mine is a small mine under the name of the largest mining company in Mindanao. The owner is a speculator surnamed Tan.

The Philippines is the No.18 gold producer in the world, but in recent years, due to high domestic taxes, many legal gold mines have been closed one after another.Some small gold mines have turned into "underground" producers, smuggling the produced gold to foreign buyers to evade taxes.Therefore, some large-scale mining companies will have several such small underground mines in private.

Mr. Du wants to take Jian Tianxi to Tan's big gold mine.

Two hours before their car arrived, several trucks took all the illegal workers away from the mine.Those miners who remain are people with legal identities.

The mining conditions of the gold mines in the Philippines are not ideal. In addition to overloaded physical work, the miners also have to work in a toxic environment for a long time because of the outdated mining facilities.

Mr.Du is determined to change this phenomenon, so he takes improving the welfare of miners, improving the working environment, and cooperating with foreign advanced mining companies as an important proposal in his presidential election. The domineering monopoly of similar large companies, in order to win the hearts of the people.

In fact, he took Jian Tianxi around the mining area because he wanted a consortium like JS with huge funds to become his capital backing on the road to election in the name of investing in mining development.

In fact, Jian Tianxi understood all this without him saying it.Jian Tianxi was also concise and told him that he could choose several mines to invest in, but the premise was that Mr. Du could help find Ruan Jinwen.

After returning to Da|vao from the mining area, Jian Tianxi and his friend from Malay were taken directly to Mr. Du's local manor villa.

In fact, everyone tacitly said that they were entertaining, but in fact they were being watched.

In addition to arranging the residences of Jian Tianxi and his Malay friend, Mr. Du also specially arranged for the two of them personal servants who were in charge of daily life.

Filipino servants are famous all over the world, and they belong to the same category of people who can be remembered at a glance like British butlers.The boy who was arranged to follow Jian Tianxi was a boy with a beautiful face. Although he was not tall, he was well-proportioned and stylish.The skin is darker, but the eyes are bright and round.Because he had stayed in Hong Kong for a long time, Mr. Du specially asked him to follow Jian Tianxi.

This kid was diligent, obedient and clever. Although he knew that he was from Du, Jian Tianxi used his hands within a few days.

After a week, the Malay friends had to go back to Malay first, leaving Jian Tianxi alone in Mindanao.

As soon as the friend left, Jian Tianxi went to several nearby mines to continue exploring according to Du's suggestion, in order to look for investment and development.

This time he went farther, in the extreme southwest of Mindanao.

There are mountains in that area, and the mountains are rich in gold. Because of the inconvenient transportation, there are only small mines distributed in the mountains.Mineral merchants along the col have set up some shacks for the miners to live in, and the transportation in and out of the mountains is usually done by manpower.

When Jian Tianxi arrived, it happened to be raining heavily, and the mountain road was muddy after the rain. The guide who accompanied him saw the situation at that time and suggested not to go, and come back when the weather improves.Jian Tianxi had a rare moment of interest that day, so he asked the guide to wait outside the mountain depression, and went into the mountain with his accompanying male servant.

The guide knew his identity, so he didn't dare to leave him alone, so he could only bite the bullet and follow behind.

Half an hour later, the mountain on this side collapsed, and mudslides buried many shantytowns.

At that time, Jian Tianxi was near the sorting pond in the mining area. Several miners were soaking in the water to sift the gold sand. Most of the sifting work was done by relatively young child laborers, so they escaped disaster when the mudslides fell.

The mineable land and the final refining area were severely damaged, and half of the shantytowns were buried under the mud.

The scene was very terrifying, and the scene was even more chaotic. Crying, shouting and screaming suddenly resounded throughout the valley.

This kind of mudslide is closely related to over-exploitation, and experienced heavy rain, so this can be regarded as a catastrophic accident caused by man-made natural disasters.

Rescue operations in the Philippines were slow. It was already night when the police and medical teams arrived, and the mountain roads were blocked. Excavators and other rescue machines could not enter the disaster site, so the death toll has been soaring.

Although Jian Tianxi is the son of a wealthy family, he has also experienced the invasion of advanced Western ideas, and his humanitarian concepts are deeply rooted.Before this kind of disaster, he didn't choose to escape immediately, but joined the rescue team.

Ruan Jinwen was picked up by him in the abandoned shed.

When the man dug it out, he didn't know who it was. After all, after a month of life as a miner, the young master who used to be thin-skinned and tender-skinned turned into a black-skinned rough man.If the maid didn't know him and called Brother Wen to him to get his attention, he wouldn't have thought that he would be able to find someone so easily.

As long as you find it, you will be taken out of the mountain immediately.

The male servant and the guide who came with him made a simple stretcher to carry Ruan Jinwen, while Jian Tianxi held the little boy's hand all the way.It's strange to say that this kid woke up once, his eyes were fixed, completely different from the bright ones before, he smiled when he saw his mouth, and after the smile, that hand kept holding him did not let go.

Ruan Jinwen has broken skin and was hit by gravel, so he had to be sent to the hospital. This is a mountainous area, and there is no good medical station nearby. It takes more than three hours to get from the mining area to Da|vao. In desperation, Jian Tianxi asked Mr. .Du asked for help, a helicopter was coming.

Ruan Jinwen was in a daze all night, his head was swollen and painful, and his ears were filled with the roar of the mudslides rolling down, which shocked his whole ears to the point of piercing their membranes.

He thought he was dying, that's why he saw Jian Bai.He thought in his heart, it's very good, when he died, Jian Bai was by his side, after all, Jian Bai would not ignore him.So he called him when he opened his mouth, "Ben, Jian Bai, Xiao Bai" are all kinds of nicknames.

After giving Ruan Jinwen another dose of diazepam, the doctor took care of Jian Tianxi, "The patient's trauma is not serious, there is no fracture, just multiple skin abrasions, and some soft tissue contusions, but the patient's spirit is not very good, it seems that he has been injected for a long time. Drugs that affect the central nervous system may not be able to sleep well these few nights. Although we have taken An|Stable, we have to control the dosage in consideration of conflicts with those drugs. Therefore, now we can only rely on the company of family members and Take good care of it."

After the doctor left, Ruan Jinwen fell into a deep sleep for a while, possibly due to the effect of tranquilization.During this period, Jian Tianxi asked the maid to bring over a basin of warm water.

The male servant moved quickly. After bringing in the warm water, he said to Jian Tianxi, "Mr. Jian, I've called for water. Do you want me to wipe brother Wen's body?"

Jian Tianxi nodded.

Seeing him sitting beside Ruan Jinwen's bed and holding his hand, the male servant said, "Then... can you let Brother Wen's hand go?"

The corners of Jian Tianxi's eyebrows twitched, and he looked at his hand that was held by this kid all night, and picked it with the other hand, then broke free, pointed to the side table with his finger, and said, " I'll do it, put your water there."

He didn't ask how the male servant knew this kid, he just rolled up his sleeves and went to the basin to stir up a towel, then he went back to the hospital bed and wiped the boy himself.

He wiped it carefully, wiping Ruan Jinwen's face and the exposed skin.

Half an hour later, the person lying on the hospital bed started talking nonsense again.

Jian Tianxi leaned over to understand, and leaned over in front of him, unexpectedly, the person who had his eyelids closed opened them, but he was still in a daze, still in a daze.

The moment he saw the person in front of him, Ruan Jinwen happily hooked the other person's neck and didn't let go, muttering, "Ben, it's really you, I knew it, you won't leave me behind."

He didn't see people clearly.

He didn't even see clearly, at this time, Jian Tianxi's gradually deep eyes, hard-to-see eyes, and unsatisfactory expression.

For the first time in this world, Lao Tzu was recognized as a son.

The author has something to say: (just made some changes)

What happens to the wrong person, how do you think we should be punished?

In addition, I actually have [-] words to write about human trafficking, and I also have [-] words to write about mining in the Philippines. For these, I have read a lot of relevant materials.

But I know you don’t want to read these things. What you want is to hold the baby, kiss the baby, and hold the baby high, so I cut off more than 1 words, so I hope you don’t read it today. I don't understand, this is already the most concise introduction to the local situation.

Finally, close your eyes and beg for flowers, please leave a comment, please beg.

Thank you for sending Lei Reisa flowers to me yesterday and saying cheers to me. I didn’t have time to reply to you. I love you so much.