When the magic flower blooms

The hotel where the "investigation group" stayed is located in the center of Q City, and it is also the most luxurious hotel here.After the inspection team took a break for about half an hour, they gathered for a short meeting.

According to the previous arrangement, in order to deceive others.Starting today, the delegation needs to visit five flower farms in Q City.Among them, Shezhi Rose Garden is arranged to be the second home tomorrow morning. All the itineraries have been checked repeatedly, and there are no changes so far.

After having lunch step by step, the convoy immediately went to the first farm named "Xinzhou Garden".

This is the largest rose plantation in the area, and the greenhouse can't be seen at a glance.However, what is extremely unsuitable for the huge output is the relatively backward cultivation methods, as well as the techniques of screening, processing and transportation.

Although this family is not their real target, Ming Ruoxing still plays his role of flower merchant very conscientiously.

Maybe it's because the homework done before has played a role, or the receptionist of the farm saw him so young and automatically regarded him as the second generation ancestor who inherited his father's business.In short, the host of the farm obviously did not have any doubts about the delegation.

At the end of their visit, they came to the rough processing center of the farm.Here, the employees need to perform simple preliminary processing on the picked flowers, and then pack them into boxes for sale, or refrigerate them for delivery to further stores.

Beside the flower packing table, they noticed seven or eight boys who looked short.

"Are these the children of the workers on the farm?" Ming Ruoxing asked intentionally, "I thought it wasn't the summer vacation."

"No, these are kids working here full-time!"

Perhaps because they felt that there was no need to hide foreign businessmen, the receptionist of the farm actually said bluntly, "Their families are poor. We give them these jobs and help them solve their family difficulties. We are doing good deeds! Moreover, doing so also helps We cut costs. And lower costs allow you to buy better flowers at lower prices!"

Ming Ruoxing nodded, pretending to understand his interest logic.When he was about to ask more questions, He Tiansi suddenly asked, "But won't your government check?"

The receptionist was obviously taken aback for a moment, and there was a hint of vigilance in his eyes.

However, He Tiansi still looked worried, and continued to ask: "If there is a fine, will the cost be passed on to our buyers in a disguised form? Also, if the child labor is dismissed, your delivery Will the quantity fail to meet our needs? Do you have any countermeasures?"

"No, of course not!"

The receptionist shook his head again and again, and replied in not very proficient English: "We are the largest cut flower farm in this city. Everything we do is strongly supported by the government! Please rest assured, there will be absolutely no problems! "

In other words, this farm has an official as an umbrella?

Ming Ruoxing and He Tiansi looked at each other, but He Tiansi continued to ask questions.

"To tell you the truth, we will inspect several other farms next. Do they have the same care from the government as you do?"

"They're not, of course they're not!"

The receptionist shook his head like a rattle, "Only we are the legal organization for minors to work! The others are not allowed! They are afraid of inspections, and they all secretly build basements on the farm and hide people in them to do hard labor. Children They were all abducted from other places, without parents or mothers, not locals at all! If you see them using children, tell me, and I will report to the government!"

interesting.

Ming Ruoxing and He Tiansi looked at each other again, and there was a deep meaning in the eyes that others could not understand.

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"I found that the aborigines in this country are quite honest. There are no twists and turns, and everything can be said after a little agitation. I think if we work harder, we may be able to provoke these companies to report each other. Do something."

Back at the hotel at night, He Tiansi sneaked into Ming Ruoxing's room after taking a shower, and rolled on his bed.

Ming Ruoxing sat on the side of the bed in pajamas, facing the laptop on his lap.

"Isn't it good to be honest? Besides, do you think they haven't reported each other?"

"What are you looking at?" He Tiansi took the initiative to lean over and found that what appeared on the screen was a local Chinese newspaper. The main headline that caught his eye was "Police recently raided the city's major farms for illegal employment".

"The time of the surprise inspection should almost coincide with the time when the text rose appeared for the last time. That is to say, the reason why the kid called for help should be that the farm encountered a surprise inspection, and he and his companions were forced to hide underground. "

Ming Ruoxing speculated based on some clues he got today, "If this is the case, maybe he has been released to work again now. But it is also possible that we are already late."

As soon as these words came out, even He Tiansi was stunned.It took a while before he smiled wryly.

"Forget it or don't think too much, anyway, we will know tomorrow. Sometimes it depends on fate, but at least we have worked hard, and we can get the 50% with a clear conscience, right?"

Ming Ruoxing was about to speak when suddenly the phone rang.It was the call from the "English translator", saying that the drone dispatched at dusk had sent back the picture, using the night vision function to take a bird's-eye view of the entire Shezhi Rose Garden.Ask everyone if they need to sit down now and do research.

Looks like it's going to be another sleepless night.

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At ten o'clock in the morning of the next day, after successfully completing the inspection of the first farm, the "investigation group" arrived at the Shezhi Rose Garden on time according to the original plan.

Shezhi Rose Garden is the newest of the five rose gardens, and it also produces the highest quality roses.Unlike several other farms that are basically run by locals, Shezhi Rose Garden is a farm run by Westerners, and there are many Western faces in the management.

"Westerners came to Southeast Asia to open factories, just to take advantage of the cheap labor here." He Tiansi muttered in a low voice, "Those who work on human rights all day long are not lenient when they exploit children from other countries."

The convoy got off the highway and turned into the private road paved by the Rose Garden of Shefa.This is actually a four-lane cement road with better road conditions, and billboards and flags about the Rose Garden can be seen from time to time on both sides.

And behind the tall fences on both sides of the road are rows of greenhouses, which are so bright that it hurts people's eyes under the scorching sun.

"Look! There are surveillance cameras."

Ming Ruoxing pointed to the silver rectangular camera above the wall, "Be careful when sneaking in."

The convoy soon arrived at the main entrance of the Rose Garden.The heavy iron gate slowly opened to both sides, and the first to run out of the gate were armed men with live ammunition.

"...This posture, even if there is no Camela, it seems that it will not be very easy." He Tiansi and Ming Ruoxing looked at each other.

After showing their advance reservation vouchers, the convoy pulled into the gravel parking lot of the Rose Garden.A reception team sent by the park was already waiting by the side.

The host and guest meet and greet each other.Ming Ruoxing directly mentioned the monitors on the wall and the armed guards.The receptionist also spoke bluntly, saying that all precautions are to guard against competitors in the industry—after all, Shezhi is not only late in building the park, but also wholly foreign-owned, which seems to be more vulnerable to the joint attack of local capital.

Formal visits began soon, according to the terrain of the park.They first visited the greenhouses of different varieties of roses, followed by the breeding nursery and selection laboratory.There are people working in these three areas, but no trace of suspected child labor has been found.

Of course, Ming Ruoxing was not in a hurry - long before departure, He Tiansi left a message on the back of his clothes with a special paint invisible to ordinary people.

If there were demihumans in the rose garden who could perceive ultraviolet rays, he could also get in touch with them according to the information on the clothes.

After leaving the breeding nursery, the flower rough processing center is next, and this is also the area where the workers are most concentrated.According to prior analysis, it is very likely that the text on the rose was secretly written here.

The "investigation group" followed the receptionist slowly into the flower processing center - this is actually a collective name for a large area of ​​more than a dozen open flat rooms.

The cut roses sent from various greenhouses are first simply removed with some redundant or rotten leaves, and then roughly uniform in length on the cutting machine.Then start sorting.

Like the previous farms, the Shezhi Rose Garden also uses a purely manual sorting method.More than a dozen workers are proficiently classifying roses according to different details such as size, color and open state.Then a different dressing is done.

"This is already very similar to the Shezhi rose that we auctioned from Yunnan."

Ming Ruoxing deliberately pretended to be interesting and approached, but after observing for a while, he shook his head and sighed.

"But it's not right... In this bunch of twelve flowers, not only are the sizes not exactly the same, but there are also color differences when you look closely. Is there a problem with the quality of this batch of flowers recently, or has the sorting staff on your side changed?"

When the receptionist heard this, he came over nervously to check.Ming Ruoxing secretly did something bad - released a little bit of his own pheromone, so as to make the other party more upset.

Sure enough, the receptionist quickly followed Ming Ruoxing's words and began to explain, saying that the sorter was indeed new and not proficient in the business. "

Ming Ruoxing accepted the explanation with a nod, and at the same time cast a look at He Tiansi.

He Tiansi immediately understood, and opened his mouth to help.

"Speaking of which, we also visited two other farms yesterday afternoon. I heard from them that the work of sorting is most suitable for children to do, with sharp eyes and quick response, and the labor cost is also low. Why, you don't seem to Agree with this approach?"

The receptionist seemed a little wary.

"The kind you are talking about is child labor. Many locals do like to hire child labor to do things. But we absolutely do not do this kind of thing. Of course, we will not pass on the extra labor costs to our customers! "

Sure enough, it was not that easy to admit.

Such an answer is of course within Ming Ruoxing's expectations.In order to avoid the other party's suspicion, he did not continue to dwell on this topic.

After that, they successively visited the packaging workshop, several cold storages with different temperatures and other ancillary facilities.Starting from Ming Ruoxing, all members of the "investigation team" showed a strong interest in this project, and this naturally also played a role in paralyzing the host to a certain extent.

At the end of the visit, Ming Ruoxing asked for about half an hour of free time to visit, to take a look around and take some additional photos.The reception party readily agreed, but still emphasized that for safety reasons, the receptionist must be accompanied throughout the process.

Ming Ruoxing nodded and said that this is the best way, and immediately named her to go to the sorting workshop again.The accompanying personnel of both sides naturally followed closely behind, only He Tiansi understood and walked slower and slower, and finally fell at the end of the team.

When the large army was drifting away, he put on an anxious expression and grabbed a worker by the side of the road.

"Excuse me, where is the bathroom?"

"There is a guest toilet over the breeding laboratory, I can take you there." The worker responded in not-so-fluent English.

"That's too far away, I want one nearby!" He Tiansi stomped his feet "anxiously".

The worker seemed to be infected by his tension, and quickly pointed to a simple house not far away.

"There are only workers' toilets here, uh, if you don't mind..."

"I don't mind, I don't mind!" He Tiansi said and ran over.

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At first, He Tiansi was a little puzzled, why this worker deliberately pointed him to the guest toilet further away.But soon he understood.

There are still about [-] steps away from the "workers' toilet", and the terrible stench like the end of the world has already hit the face.The smoke made people nauseous again and again, and they instinctively wanted to turn around and run away.

He Tiansi had to stop temporarily, took out a napkin from his pocket, and carefully blocked his nostrils.

The simple house is the most primitive dry toilet.Swarms of flies were flying and used toilet paper was everywhere.He Tiansi bit the bullet and looked around carefully, and sure enough, he made an important discovery soon.

On the wall of the toilet, he saw that "invisible text" again.And there are a lot of them.Most of them are concentrated at a height of about one meter above the ground.This shows that the person who wrote these words was short in stature, in line with the characteristics of a seven or eight-year-old child.

Not only that, there are many graffiti painted or carved on the walls and door panels of the toilet by other means.There are many childish, crooked handwriting and stick-like stick figures.There are even a few small palm prints...

It couldn't be more obvious that the garden has been deceiving people—there are indeed child laborers in the Shezhi Rose Garden, and they have been hidden. It is currently unknown whether they are alive or dead.

The author has something to say: The issue of child labor in the Rose Garden refers to the reality of the seafood processing industry in Southeast Asia.A large number of seafood produced by child labor is sold to Europe and the United States, and there have been news reports.There are also cases of kidnapping people to work as slaves on small islands in some areas.