Chapter 34 of 38
C33 Part1
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Chapter 33 part 1 Dolls(2)
Zhai Chen, listened to this, while being speechless.
The sad story suddenly turned into an action movie. For a moment, a funny expression went through the host’s face and the topic was changed abruptly: “Our crew found the village where you were before. Do you want to have a look?”
After saying this, without Gao Yusheng’s answering, a picture was shown on the large screen. With a low-pitched voice-over and proper background music, the atmosphere went back to sadness again.
Beautiful mountains, green trees, murmuring water, a beautiful scene that one can not see the whole at a glance.
Voice-over: “According to the description of the client and the results of our survey, we have roughly determined that the village was in T County in the north of S Province.”
The crew of the program did work hard to find the town nearest to the village. All the work was based on Gao Yusheng’s memory. He remembered that there were tourists from other places and a huge stone tablet in that town. This town’s about 20 kilometers away from that village, but it’s impossible to find out where exactly the village was. The camera took pictures of the town and the surroundings and had two children to reappear the story.
Voice-over: “The little Gao was abducted and brought here. Gao’s adoptive father was afraid that Gao would run so he’d tie Gao up in the yard with a leash when he worked in the field during the day. Gao’s brother was a neighbor next door who had been abducted for many years. At that time, he was curious to see through the fence and that very deed made the two children become inseparable
The two children in the video were running in the field hand in hand. The shabby bungalows, uneven fences and ropes dangling on trees flashed through the black and white background.
“You were a child from the city, the family should be able to provide you a lot before your abduction, right?” Of course, the host knew that this man’s the son of Jiuyi company’s boss’, but for the sake of the show’s effect, she had to pretend that she didn’t know Mr. Gao. It would be wonderful if the audience who knows Mr. Gao got surprised when they watched the show.
“It’s OK, just average.” Gao Yusheng said with no expressions on his face.
“… Must life in the village be very hard?”
“At first, they were afraid that I would run and did not let me go out. Later, they were reassured after I met my brother. My brother took me to fish for shrimps, fish and bird eggs. I don’t feel miserable with him by my side.” Although Gao was lack of food and clothing, that happiness was also true. It was all a nightmare, from the train to the mountain village, but from the moment he saw Zhai, the nightmare was over.
“I heard that people were very poor over there. They need to trade eggs for salt in town. Did you collect bird eggs to make better the family?” The host tried to mold Mr. Gao into a sensible and pitiful young boy character.
“It was for us to eat.” Gao Yusheng looked at the host, baffled. It is said that they were poor but not so poor that they cannot afford salt. Otherwise, how did they get the money to buy children?
“… ”
The sentimental background music was still going on but the talk was almost impossible to carry on. Zhai Chen quietly found a corner to squat, he rather no to see all this.
Gao Yusheng turned his head and didn’t see Zhai Chen. His eyes brightened slightly. Last night, he vaguely heard Zhai Chen answered the phone in the second bedroom: “OK, I’ll be there tomorrow.”
Be there tomorrow. Where?
At first, he didn’t expect the program team to find Zhai Chen. But if they did, his brother’s denial had to be a surprise for him!
Gao Yusheng looked at the electronic screen at the end of the stage. The screen itself was also a door. If the finding task succeded, the person found would come out from the back of the screen and meet the person who asked for help. All of a sudden, Gao lost his interest in what comes next.
When the host saw that the guest wanted to jump to the door-opening part, which was of course not good, she quickly continued the topic: “Your brother ran away with you, right? How did you manage to get out when you were so young?”
The mountain roads were zigzag, and there was often only one way to the outside world., It’s very difficult to escape even for the adult women who were abducted and trafficked there, let alone children. And they could bump into the villagers. In an undeveloped place like that, people were used to trafficking. No one would pity them and help them to call the police, they would only send the children back.
“My brother walked with me on his back for a long time, and then we hid in a truck and escaped to the county.” Gao Yusheng simplified the hard process. That was an impossible task that ordinary children couldn’t accomplish at all. Any extra information would expose his brother’s particularity.
This was probably the most boring family finding program of all time. There was no heartbreaking cry, no soul-stirring escape. There was nothing to see except Gao’s pretty face.
“You two were then rescued by the police, you went home and your brother went to the orphanage.” the host continued to make this seemed interesting with the information, “What’s his name?”
“I don’t know his original name. I always call him brother Xingxing.” And for the old name, brother never mentioned, anything for Gao Yusheng to remember.
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