The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 118 Fisherman’s Pride (12)

Because a child ran away before, two human traffickers chased him, which made them inadvertently escape the arrest of the police.And when they came back and found the police appeared, they naturally hid in the dark.

They may have heard what the owner of the silk reeling factory said to Li Si, or they may have deduced it by themselves. In short, they believed that the owner of the silk reeling factory had betrayed them, so they harbored hatred.These people are all desperadoes, since they hated someone, how could they let it go, so they sneaked into the silk reeling factory in the middle of the night to kill people.

The reason why they knew that they killed people was because someone heard the owner of the silk reeling mill begging for mercy that night, arguing that he had not betrayed them.It's just that those two desperadoes were willing to listen, and slashed at the owner of the silk reeling factory. The screams at that time muddied the night.

After the owner's death, the silk reeling factory naturally fell and the monkeys scattered, and soon it was abandoned.Li Si's heart felt cold for a while, and at the same time, he was a little scared, and warned himself to avoid dealing with these desperadoes in the future.And at this moment, he learned another thing—it turned out that the two children who were rescued by the police were not sent to the silk reeling factory.

Both children no longer know where they came from and cannot be sent back to their country of origin.But the police station can't keep them forever, so they let it out, hoping that someone can adopt them.However, no one was rich at that time, and most families were full of children, so naturally they would not be interested in these abducted children.

In desperation, a policeman in the police station claimed one of the children, who was the one who was mediating at the silk reeling factory.The other child was adopted by another person, and when Li Si learned about this person, his surprise was beyond words.Because this person was actually a silkworm cocoon merchant, the one who had a dispute with the silk reeling factory at the beginning!
He faintly felt that something was wrong, so he found the cocoon merchant before he left and asked him to prove something.Sure enough, the businessman told him that the betrayal of the traffickers had nothing to do with the silk reeling factory, and he reported the case to the police.

As for why he knew that the silk reeling factory was going to buy children from human traffickers, it was because he was undercut by the silk reeling factory and heard Li Si say that the "goods" were ready. That's why I deliberately lowered his price.Angry in his heart, he hid in the dark and followed Li Si.

His original intention was to find the "businessman" who supplied the supply, and expose the mean nature of the silk reeling factory, so as to disrupt the business. But in the end, he accidentally learned that Li Si was looking for a human trafficker, so he reported to the police. The case was reported.As for what happened later, it was beyond his expectation.

When he thought of his unintentional actions, which caused the tragic death of the owner of the silk reeling factory, he felt very sorry.So when the police station let out the news that someone would adopt the abducted child, he went to the police station to adopt one.

"So Zhao Yi, Qian Er and Sun San are the three kidnapped children?" Ji Mingmei and I were dumbfounded after listening to Li Si's narration.It turned out that the three of them had known each other since childhood, but they had been separated for more than ten years, and they couldn't recognize each other when they met again.

"Yes." Li Si nodded with a smile.

"Sun San was adopted by the police, and Qian Er was adopted by that businessman." I hesitated, "What about Zhao Yi? Didn't Qian Er and Sun San try their best to make him escape?"

"Why don't you say that good luck tricks people?" Li Si was a little emotional, "At that time, Sun San and Qian Er tried their best to help Zhao Yi escape, but in the end Zhao Yi was found by the traffickers chasing him, and the people who stayed where they were Qian Er and Sun San were rescued by the police. The world is so ridiculous that people are speechless."

The one who ran away desperately fell into the clutches of the devil again, while the one who was sitting on the sidelines escaped unexpectedly.This is so absurd, Ji Mingmei and I laughed wryly when we heard it, and felt heavy at the same time.

"The three of them, didn't they all go to the end of the world back then, why did they appear there at the same time?" Ji Mingmei asked.

"That's why I said they are not bad people." Li Si replied, "Do you still remember what they were talking about when I first met them?"

I thought about it for a while, and then said: "At that time, they agreed that since they have no relatives in the world, they will treat each other as relatives, and when they are free to move, they will come to the place where they said this."

"So, they came to look for relatives." Li Sidao, "It's just that Zhao Yi ran away at that time, and I don't know the whereabouts of Qian Er and Sun San, and Qian Er was adopted by a silkworm merchant one step ahead of Sun San, and I don't know Sun San. As for the whereabouts of Sun San who stayed there, he has been blackmailing and extorting all these years, and he has long forgotten about it. So when they meet, none of them will recognize the other."

I was a little silent when I heard the words, no matter what kind of people Zhao Yi and Qian Er became in those years, I always kept in mind the promise they made when they were young.They are people without a past. In order to comfort themselves, they agreed to a family relationship with each other.Many years have passed, even though this family relationship seems a little illusory, they still came there to fulfill the promise.

"Zhao Yi said that he hated human traffickers the most in his life. Do you think it's ridiculous?" Li Si smacked his lips and said, his expression became serious. "He is the only one among the three children who did not escape the clutches of human traffickers. Human traffickers caught him again In the end, I didn't sell him, but kept him by my side."

Li Si said that in those years, Zhao Yi followed the traffickers in human trafficking, so he had to join the gang no matter how he wanted to. Otherwise, where would he go if he left them as a child?This child who was trafficked by traffickers finally became a trafficker too.He has always hated these people in his heart, even including himself.

So in those years, as long as they met him, most of them were killed by him.But he couldn't get out of this job, because in those days, he had nothing to do but starve to death if he didn't do it.

"Whose fault do you think this is?" Li Si said in a low voice, "If he hadn't been trafficked, he might be from a rich family or a farmer, but he would never be a human trafficker. He has abducted and trafficked many people with his own hands over the years. I was a victim myself, but I ended up creating more victims."

This is the horror of the evil in this world.It's like the plague, maybe it only affects one person at the beginning, but this person will spread the epidemic for it.Those who were abducted by Zhao Yi may be like him after undergoing great changes in their lives. They are involuntarily wrapped up in evil things and cannot get out, and then spread the word...

I felt chills in my heart, and Ji Mingmei remained silent, with a sympathetic expression on her face, obviously touched by Zhao Yi's situation.

Li Si glanced at us, and then said: "Qian Er is relatively better off among the three. After he left with the silkworm cocoon merchant, he took over the silkworm cocoon business. But you also know that the world has become worse and worse over the past few decades. Poor, I can’t even afford to eat, so who wants to wear silk.”

The silkworm cocoon merchant died after Qian Er grew up. Before he died, he told him that he must have his own silk reeling factory.Because in such a world, silkworm cocoons are unreliable, and the value can only be preserved by weaving silk into silk.He also told Qian Er that before ancient times, silk could be directly used as money.

This businessman's family has been engaged in industries related to silkworms for generations, so he has an unusual obsession with silkworms and silk.Qian Er listened to his words, so he has been obsessed with having his own silk reeling factory.

Qian Er bought silkworm cocoons all the way, putting all his eggs in one basket. He only waited to sell the silkworm cocoons and then planned to open a silk reeling factory, but he couldn't sell the silkworm cocoons anyway.He was so worried that when he knew he had a chance to take the old silk reeling factory for himself, he took the risk until he finally killed someone.

"Do you think he is a bad person?" Li Si asked quietly.

Ji Mingmei and I didn't know what to say for a while, so we kept silent and didn't answer.Li Si didn't take it seriously, and continued on his own, "There is another Sun San. He grew up with the police, but because of his experience of being trafficked, he has a violent and cowardly temperament. By the way, when you listened to his talk , Do you often say that you are hungry?"

Ji Mingmei and I nodded at the same time.

"In fact, since he was adopted by the policeman, he has never been hungry again, but for some reason, he just has an unusual desire for food. I guess, it may be the experience of being abducted that made him have serious problems. With heart disease, only food can bring him a sense of security."

Sun San grew up with the police adoptive father, who gradually discovered the flaws in his character. In order to prevent him from going astray, he also got him into the police station.In fact, the police system has been established since the end of the Qing Dynasty, and later the establishment of the Republic of China took over this system, so most of the police stations are acquaintances.

When the adoptive father was alive, with the help of everyone, Sun San had been his policeman honestly.Not long after his adoptive father passed away, Sun San suddenly became extremely insecure. Not only was he often hungry, but he was also extremely greedy for money.So he relied on his status as a policeman to blackmail some rich people.

Others in the police station knew this well and tried to persuade him, but to no avail.Because of his adoptive father's face, everyone didn't want to do anything to him, but they refused to let him wear the police uniform again, for fear that he would go out in the police uniform and do whatever he wanted more, which would discredit the police station.

But how could they know that Sun San desperately wanted to wear that police uniform not for better extortion, but for comforting himself.Because his adoptive father was an upright person before his death, and he has always taught Sun San by precepts and deeds, hoping that he can get out of the shadow of being abducted back then and become a good person.

Sun San also hoped that he could become like his adoptive father, but he couldn't help it, he couldn't contain the uneasiness in his heart.So while doing all the evil things of extortion, he desperately wanted to make meritorious service to the police station, hoping that after he put on that police uniform, he could become a person like his adoptive father.

"Of course it's ridiculous." Li Si said lightly, "But it's more sad than ridiculous."

Those three abducted children once showed their kindness and bravery to the world, and tried their best to help their companions escape.But when they grew up, they fell apart. Where did their childish hearts go? Is the world swallowing their goodness, or is goodness itself easy to perish?
Seeing that each of us was in a melancholy mood, Li Si smiled slightly and said, "Look, I have already said that none of them are bad people."

"No, they are bad people." I shook my head. "Although they have tragic experiences, the only criterion for judging a bad person is whether he has done bad things, not whether his situation is miserable."

Li Si was startled, thought for a while and then nodded, "That makes sense. So, they are just bad guys with tragic experiences."

"Presumably, they have lived in anxiety and self-blame all these years?" I looked at the rolling river and sighed, "All three of them killed Wan'er. That's why they're involved. That's why they came on this boat voluntarily, and jumped into the river after telling their sins. They're actually atoning for their sins, right?"

"Not bad." Li Si replied.

"But almost 20 years have passed, why did they suddenly gather here?"

"Because I was the one who asked them to come. I've been traveling around for almost 20 years just to find them and get them to come here."

Li Si glanced at the boatman, who had no expression on his face, so he said to us: "You probably still have a lot of questions about the silk reeling factory, right?"

"That's right. Someone once promised Qian Er at the gate of the silk reeling factory that he would buy his silkworm cocoons, but there was no such person in Zhao Yi's group. So who is this person? Smiling, she said that she saw a giant silkworm. What's going on here, and why was she repeatedly killed without dying?"

(End of this chapter)