"But if you hurt someone irrelevantly just to prove that you are not a jerk, then you are actually a jerk."
"It hasn't happened yet, there's still time for you to do anything."
He Youwei looked at her for a long time and asked, "Do you trust Cui Baixing so much?"
"You remember what he said, journalists can only illuminate a small area, and the rest of the world is dark. You should not regard this only light as the whole world."
Lin Jiaqiao said: "I believe him not because he is Cui Boxing, but because he is a journalist."
"He is a true journalist. He doesn't speak for traffic or hype. He only speaks for the facts."
"If I remember correctly, you studied journalism."
"If you wanted to be famous from the beginning, you should study broadcasting. But you chose to be a journalist."
Lin Jiaqiao asked He Youwei: "Do you still remember why you became a reporter?"
He Youwei doesn't remember.
After Lin Jiaqiao left, He Youwei sat alone in the reception room for a long time. She couldn't remember why she chose this major.
She called up the program plan for "Looking for Xiaoxu", flipped through a few pages, and unconsciously opened the search bar.
She didn't know what to search for. When she came to her senses, the three words "Cui Baixing" had already appeared in the search bar.
There were many news reports by Cui Baixing on the web page. After his name, there were three characters "He Youwei".
He Youwei opened and closed them one by one aimlessly.
The new program had just started, and there were still many things she needed to deal with. But she just huddled in her chair, aimlessly reading these old reports.
She actually couldn't take anything in. She seemed to just be making sure that after the name 'Cui Baixing', there was 'He Youwei'.
A piece of celebrity news suddenly appeared on the web page. He Youwei told herself that there was nothing interesting about social news. The audience obviously prefers to read celebrity gossip.
She has met a lot of people recently, including the agent of a second-tier star.
She was looking for the agent's contact information on her mobile phone when the phone suddenly rang. It was Mr. Liu calling.
Mr. Liu said that he had helped her find Xiaoxu's husband and son, and brought them to Haicheng.
Mr. Liu also said that the company used all its resources to promote her program and wanted her to succeed.
After hanging up the phone, He Youwei closed all web pages.
No matter how talented a reporter is, he can only illuminate a small area. In the boundless darkness, there may be conclusions that are completely opposite to his.
There is always someone who wants to be famous in this world. He Youwei thought, now the time, the place and the people are all right, and that famous person must be her.
She opened the document and wrote a report in a very eloquent manner, adding fuel to the fire of the "Looking for Xiaoxu" incident.
The report was signed "Wang Ruile", which was the pen name she used when submitting articles to newspapers when she was in college.
She has been using this name recently to hype up the 'Looking for Xiaoxu' event.
She had already made a plan. If this matter did not end well, she would let this 'pen name' commit suicide and put all the blame on this 'Wang Ruile'.
Gu Yiming hasn't contacted Gu Xiaoxu for two days.
Gu Yiming doesn't like surfing the Internet very much. He learned about the sensational "Looking for Xiaoxu" incident from discussions among his classmates after the incident had fermented.
At that time, everyone was scolding this woman named "Xiao Xu".
Ever since he heard the name, Gu Yiming had a bad feeling.
He hurried to Gu Xiaoxu's house, but no matter how hard he knocked, Gu Xiaoxu didn't open the door.
Fortunately, he had the key to Gu Xiaoxu's house.
He rushed into the room in a panic. Gu Xiaoxu was sitting on the carpet, curled up in a ball.
The first episode of "Looking for Xiaoxu" was playing on the computer on the coffee table.
Zhou Lai Fu has dark skin, gray hair, and the skin on his face has become loose, with large wrinkles forming as he speaks.
It can be seen that he has put on his most respectable clothes, but there seems to be a layer of dust that cannot be washed off, making him look gray, which conforms to the inherent impression of most people on the group of "farmers".
He looked at the camera timidly and said in Mandarin with an accent:
"My wife escaped to our village. She fell in love early, dropped out of school, and eloped with a man. Later, the man kept beating her, and she couldn't stand it, so she ran away and escaped to our village."
"She was in such a miserable state at that time. She was so hungry that she looked like a ghost. Her body was smelly. I felt sorry for her, so I gave her a bite of food."
"Later, she said she wanted to take a bath, and I agreed. I also gave her a new set of clothes."
"Later, she often came to my house to ask for food. As time went by, we became familiar with each other, and then we had a feast and started living together."
He Youwei asked: "So, there is no abduction or trafficking of women, right?"
Zhou Laifu seemed frightened and immediately waved his hands: "Don't talk nonsense, we can't do anything illegal."
He Youwei took out the report from that year and said, "But the newspaper said that you bought your wife with your own money."
Zhou Laifu blushed. "I, I can't read, I don't know what's going on. I don't have any money. My wife took all my money away."
He held his sallow and skinny son in his arms and faced the camera with a sincere attitude:
"Xiao Xu, life in the village is too hard. I don't blame you for leaving."
"But you can't take all the money from home. Xiaobao is still waiting for money to go to school."
"He lied, he lied!" Gu Xiaoxu cried out in tears, "He clearly spent 1,200 yuan to buy me!"
Gu Xiaoxu was drugged and sold.
When she woke up, she first smelled a musty smell, then saw Zhou Laifu's ugly face. Finally, she realized that she was naked and lying in the same bed with this man.
She couldn't cry because the effect of the medicine had not yet completely worn off, so she could only scream silently.
When she regained her strength, the first thing she did was to ask Zhou Lai Fu for help.
She kowtowed to him until her head was bruised. She reasoned with him, saying that this was against the law. She also said that she could give him money, only asking him to let her go.
Zhou Lai Fu pretended not to understand, locked the door and went out.
That morning, the two set up a banquet in the village.
The gangster and his mother actually stayed to eat some.
Gu Xiaoxu was just a young girl at the time. She was terrified and begged them to take her away, saying that she could ask Mother Gu to give them money.
The bastard said disdainfully that they sold Mrs. Gu because she refused to pay.
Mother Gu knew about this.
Gu Xiaoxu didn't believe it, so the gangster called Gu's mother directly. Gu Xiaoxu cried and begged her mother to save her, but Gu's mother said coldly that she was already married and belonged to another family.
Also, for a slut like her, it's already great that there is a man willing to take her over.
That afternoon, the gangster and his mother left, and Gu Xiaoxu was left behind.
Gu Xiaoxu escaped twice.
The first time was about a month after she was sold here. Zhou Laifu locked her in the house every day, and she saw the opportunity, escaped, and moved into the most luxurious house in the village.
The village was so poor that Zhou Laifu's family didn't even have electricity. She had inquired and found out that the best house in the village belonged to the village chief, who had a telephone.
She wanted to call the police or her homeroom teacher who was so kind to her.
The village chief was not at home at the time, and there was only a boy at home, who was the village chief's son. When she came back from college on vacation, she asked this peer for help, saying that she was abducted and asked him to help her.
The village chief's son did not agree immediately. While he was hesitating, Zhou Lai Fu brought people to arrest her.
In a hurry, she reported the number of the class teacher. Just as the boy finished writing, Zhou Laifu and a group of people rushed in. They rudely snatched the boy's notebook, and Gu Xiaoxu was completely desperate.
There was nothing written in the notebook, the village chief's son just drew circles on the paper.
That night, Gu Xiaoxu was severely beaten.
She started a hunger strike, and Zhou Laifu forced her to drink rice soup several times. When he got tired of it, he started to negotiate with Gu Xiaoxu.
Gu Xiaoxu couldn't understand the dialect, so he asked the village chief's son to act as an interpreter.
The village chief's son relayed Zhou Lai Fu's words, saying that he would let her go after she gave birth to the child.
Gu Xiaoxu asked, why did you lie to me.
The village chief's son looked at Zhou Lai Fu and saw that he agreed, then he said that there were many girls like her in the village.
He said that their area was surrounded by mountains and was too remote, the police couldn't get in and couldn't do anything about it, and women like them couldn't escape.
He also said that Zhou Lai Fu spent all his savings to buy her, which was quite pitiful. At least he left a descendant for his Zhou family.
He asked Gu Xiaoxu to measure Zhou Laifu.
Gu Xiaoxu said nothing. On the third day, he drank the pesticide.
It was also her bad luck that the pesticide had expired for a long time and was not very effective. Zhou Lai Fu came back early that day and she was rescued.
Gu Xiaoxu thought she was living in a nightmare, but after that day, she knew what a nightmare was.
After returning home, Zhou Lai Fu did not beat her, but from the next day, she had an iron chain around her waist for tying dogs.
The chain was very short, and her range of movement only reached the front of the kang.
Zhou Lai Fu did not leave any food for her, nor did he allow her to drink water. He only placed a basin in front of the kang for her to defecate.
Every day when he went out, he would lock up Gu Xiaoxu. When he came back from the fields, he would untie Gu Xiaoxu and cook for himself. After cooking, he would tie her up again.
There was no clock in the room, and the windows were papered over, with only a small piece of transparent glass.
The piece of glass was broken by Gu Xiaoxu when she was struggling, and for this she was almost beaten by Zhou Laifu with a carrying pole.
All Gu Xiaoxu has is this small window.
She had no cell phone, no television, and no books. She could only look at the low wall made of stones and imagine what life would be like after she was rescued.
At first, she read the newspapers pasted on the wall. After reading, she began to recite the English words and texts she had learned, and sometimes she would think about the math problems she had not finished.
When she had thought about all these things to pieces, she began to count the words on the wall.
There were 21,800 characters in total, 3,020 of which had faded in the sun, and she had a hard time recognizing them.
For a while, Gu Xiaoxu was very afraid of going to Stockholm, and she began to look forward to Zhou Laifu's return home.
No matter who it was, she wanted someone to talk to her.