Farmers search for 6 years without fruit to save hundreds of black brick kiln slave workers
Studio:
welcome to face to face. Next, a father, who is known as Yuan Cheng, is a silent farmer in Fengning, Hebei province. In the course of six years, Yuan Cheng, 44 years old, has been lost, and after suffering, it saved hundreds of abducted "black brick kiln" slave workers. And let the black brick kiln enter the public field of vision, and eventually triggered a nationwide campaign to investigate the black brick kilns, conducted jointly by several government departments. But six years later, his own children still did not find it.
this week we drove away from Beijing, and after seven hours of long journey, we finally met Yuan Cheng in the deep mountains.
commentary: at two o'clock in the afternoon, Yuan Cheng had been waiting for us for an hour by his tractor.
Yuan Cheng: it's hard.
reporter: it's okay. How far is it to your home from here?
Yuan Cheng: there's still four or five miles left.
reporter: do we have to ride on your tractor?
Yuan Cheng: Yes.
reporter: why?
Yuan Cheng: because other cars can't get away, it breaks down on rainy days and rains.
reporter: let's go. You can take us to your home.
Yuan Cheng: OK, OK.
reporter: OK, I'll take this rear bucket, right? Can I just go straight?
Yuan Cheng: is it up? Slow down銆�
reporter: no problem.
Wang Ning's tractor
explanation: it's only 20 minutes for us, and over the past six years, yuan has been searching for a son countless times. In recent years, yuan, most of the time, had been looking for a son outside, and nothing could be taken care of at home. Last year, the house in the house had come to the point of collapse without refurbishment. On the table of this room, we saw the picture of Yuan Xueyu, son of Yuan Cheng.
reporter: you just put it in this?
Yuan Cheng: I'll put it in this place and see it at the time of the hour.
reporter: but how sad it is to see this?
Yuan Cheng: Well, I also want to see it every day.
reporter: how old is he now?
Yuan Cheng: he was a photograph of the missing person.
reporter: 14, 15 years old?
Yuan Cheng: Yes, then this was the
reporter in Zhengzhou, Henan: do you think the children have changed a lot now?
Yuan Cheng: there must be a big change, because from 15 to more than 20, there must be a change because it is growing.
reporter: actually we all know that finding is very difficult, but I want to know how hard these six years are.
Yuan Cheng: in the past six years, how can I describe this?
explanation: six years ago, Yuan Xueyu, 15, went to a construction site in Zhengzhou, Henan, to learn to install aluminum alloy doors and windows, but just 15 days later, in March 28, 2007, Yuan Cheng received a call from his hometown and told him that Yuan Xueyu was missing. From that day on, Yuan Cheng began to search for children.
reporter: How did you find your son?
Yuan Cheng: it is in Zhengzhou near where he disappeared, posted on the search for inspiration,
Yuan Cheng: I don't remember, either.
reporter: how many days have you looked like this?
Yuan Cheng: I have searched for ten days, and I have no clue. Later, there was no clue to the apocalypse.
Yuan Cheng: half a month later, after half a month, I went to the newspaper of Henan Dahe newspaper. There were some people calling in this newspaper to say where the child was, where, with my money, and then I said to him the money, and he said it would not be enough,
reporter: how much does he want you?
Yuan Cheng: more than 1000 dollars. He said that the child was ill there, and then I passed, and I used to see him in the public places. He said that he had changed the place, that is, he did not believe me alone.
reporter: do you encounter such a liar?
Yuan Cheng: so much.
explanation: Although the revelation has no effect, it has made Yuan Cheng an unexpected harvest: the newspaper has also published several revelations for children, the missing children are the same age as Xiao Yu, the interval of disappearance is only 20 days, and the missing place is in Zhengzhou, Henan.
reporter: Why are you so sure that he must be abducted to black kiln?
Yuan Cheng: because there is a child who runs out of a brick kiln, and he says this is usually the case.
reporter: as long as this period of time lost children must be related to black kiln factory.
Yuan Cheng: Yes, this is the case before 2007.
reporter: what are these black brick kilns in?
Yuan Cheng: they are generally in rural areas, remote villages and towns.
explanation: a month after the disappearance of his son, the five parents, known by Yuan Cheng together in the revelations of the newspaper, formed the original search alliance. They locked their targets in the black brick kiln in Henan.
reporter: do you ask anyone else to tell you? No one would say that I was a black brick kiln.
Yuan Cheng: they won't say, but let's go in. We dare not say we are looking for children.
reporter: what about that?
Yuan Cheng: we are going to work in the form of working or buying bricks.
reporter: then you have to take five pictures of your child.
Yuan Cheng: for the five people, take five photos and let the person who is working in the inside. Let them see and identify them. You have not seen them before, and they do not live to work here.
reporter: is your identity exposed?
Yuan Cheng: we have to be bright and clear when we can go in. After bright bright, they are talking with the boss and saying good words. They can't help them.
reporter: whoever gets caught asks who has seen these children. Or do you have a choice to ask?
Yuan Cheng: there must be a goal, because, well, the head of the brick factory, you told him, he can't tell you that you can only find the workers who are working, you can only find them.
reporter: will you ask everyone?
Yuan Cheng: not necessarily. Three or four basic questions are almost the same.
explanation: the scope of the visit to the black brick kiln has been expanding. In April 2007, Yuan Cheng went to Shanxi and went to Jincheng, Gaoping, Changzhi, and other places, and ran all the towns and counties of Shandong, Hebei and Shaanxi on the border of Henan. Every morning and evening, sometimes a day can not eat a meal, a steamed bread one day, one day, they turn to more than 30 brick factory. In the black brick kiln, Yuan Cheng found many children who were the same age as their sons.
reporter: how do you judge it is a black brick kiln instead of a regular regular brick kiln factory.
Yuan Cheng: because it is a regular brick factory, people are free to come and go, and it does not control you.
reporter: what about the black brick kiln?
Yuan Cheng: the black brick kiln is to say that the control of you is to say that you can do it, and another is to say that the time is dry from the morning to dark, it is usually fifteen and six hours this kind. The man who works, some of the children do not wear shoes. They wear their pants at the top. They are miserable at any time.
reporter: now in my mind, I will emerge from some of the film and TV series, for example, there are two or three big men standing in the door, and then there are some people working in it, is that the kind of scene?
Yuan Cheng: usually he is not at the door, he is watching you from the top of the kiln. Manpower pulling a car is coolie. If you see it in the future, see it, do not pull the motor car, then they will come over and see it.
reporter: how do you hit it?
Yuan Cheng: pick up bricks and fight
reporter: do workers not resist?
Yuan Cheng: they dare not resist. Which revolt can be played alone.
reporter: how far will it hit?
Yuan Cheng: beat it black and blue.
commentary: the hearts of the people are long, and whenever Yuan Cheng sees the encounter of the children in the black brick kiln, he seems to see his son, Yuan Xueyu, the mountains and the people, and let yuan have decided to save the children.
reporter: but it is very strict. How can we get him out?
Yuan Cheng: that's what we say to them.
reporter: who would you say?
Yuan Cheng: These are their owners.
reporter: what will the boss say?
Yuan Cheng: some bosses can do that without paying wages, and you want to take them away. It was 2007, and that brick factory would be more relaxed.
commentary: however, not every time it is able to take the abducted child smoothly, one day in 2007, in a black brick kiln in Shanxi, Yuan Cheng sought the opportunity to sneak into the brick kiln and found three children struggling to pull the brick. In order not to be noticed, Yuan Cheng left his jacket and pulled up a brick car with several children.
Yuan Cheng: particularly noticeable, they were wearing school uniforms, looking like the students, like students, when we said how these three children came, they said it was voluntary, and I asked the two children, the two children were abducted.
reporter: did the student describe your life to you?
Yuan Cheng: he said, after being cheated, they were doing it every day, suffering hard, pulling a car every day, eating meals and not eating enough, reporter: do they have no chance to run away?
Yuan Cheng: if you run, if they know and catch up with you, they will get you back and beat it up. One of the children ran three times and did not run away. Later, we said that we should take him away.
commentary: after being refused, Yuan Cheng decided to inform the police station to let the police take them away from the "Magic Cave". At that time, he had become the target of the brick kiln attack.
Yuan Cheng: they sent those thugs and those with mental retardation and picked up brick shovels to chase us.
reporter: why do we do this? Worried that you might expose them like this?
Yuan Cheng: Yes, yes, that's the case. At that time we were rented cars, car rental we then just sit in the car and drive around more than 100 kilometers, because that hill inside that road, they put the road to the card, not let you pass, we can not walk around more than 100 kilometers to go to the past.
reporter: have you ever wondered what would happen if they were caught?
Yuan Cheng: if they are caught, it is also a poison.
commentary: Yuan Cheng, who was lucky enough to escape, rescued the three children through the local police station. The three children reunited with their families, crying bitterly, stabbing Yuan Cheng's heart.
Yuan Cheng: especially in the heart.
reporter: I think my son may be suffering from this kind of pain.
Yuan Cheng: Yes, I think so, other people's children come back, a family reunion, maybe one day, our family may, by that time, a family reunion.
reporter: I think you are young and you can give birth again.
Yuan Cheng: this has been thought of, but I think so, the rebirth of a few children, who can not replace who, you three or two, can not replace him.
commentary: in May 2007, after Yuan Cheng's search alliance was reported by television stations, it was paid attention to. Then, a special action to regulate illegal employment and fight against illegal crimes was launched in the country. In particular, the black brick kiln incident in Shanxi was even more sensational. In the black brick kiln, hundreds of kiln workers trapped in illegal compulsory labor were rescued, and the children of most of the coalition members were rescued, and Yuan Cheng's son, Yuan Xueyu, has not yet been informed.
reporter: it seems that black brick kilns are becoming more and more obscure, and they are becoming more and more difficult.
Yuan Cheng: right.
reporter: is there any possibility of finding help from some departments?
Yuan Cheng: like this, there is no way for the government, the children are missing, the public security department can only give you a line of investigation, you have clues, they help you look up, if there is no clue, they say no way.
reporter: after all these years, to tell you the truth, how much help do you think such help will bring to you?
Yuan Cheng: it's not very useful. People say I haven't seen him. He can't help it.
reporter: because I was thinking that if I was your role and a father, I would hope that all the black brick kilns all over the country were banned.
Yuan Cheng: Yuan Cheng: I have thought about it, but my own strength, I want to let these black brick kilns all over the country be banned, it seems unrealistic, because now to the countryside, their local protection is also one, he has to benefit, or to make money.
reporter: are you going to keep looking like this?
Yuan Cheng: Yes, I will keep looking for it, no matter how difficult it is.
commentary: after the storm hit, the black brick kiln did not disappear, and the black contractors and illegal workers connected with it always existed. Yuan Cheng, who failed in his search for six years, can only continue to adhere to this road. In the past six years, after the spring harvest and autumn harvest, yuan Chengdu will set foot on the road of finding children. Before departure, he will contact the other families who lost their children, and then take a map in hand, and find another head from this side. Yuan became their own expense at first, and Yuan Cheng went out to search for children by working. Later, a public welfare project was set up. They went out to reimburse the public welfare project, which reduced yuan to their great pressure, but 6 years later, Yuan Cheng had also spent about one hundred thousand yuan. Not long ago, Yuan Cheng took this picture in a brick kiln in Yongji County of Shaanxi province to find a hint of his son Yuen Xue Yu.
Yuan Cheng: Yes, I was transferred to the contractor more than ten days ago.
reporter: why don't you follow this thread and go on to catch up?
Yuan Cheng: then we went to the police station, the police station asked, the contractor said he did not admit that I did not transfer the child, but the child did not work in my here, he did not admit.
reporter: do you deny it?
Yuan Cheng: I still can't put it down.
reporter: you can only accept this moment with great reluctantly.
Yuan Cheng: No, it's not.
reporter: so you may still have to follow this clue, because this is the latest one with your son.
Yuan Cheng: right.
commentary: 0314 - 8391491, this Yuan Chengjia's fixed phone not only bears the hope of waiting for his son to go home, but it is now a link to the intercommunication of a number of children.
reporter: you have posted the phone number on the Internet. I think there is a small book on it. It's all you call.
Yuan Cheng: Yes, the phone calls also include telephone calls from government departments, as well as parents of children. I asked me to help him find it. He was in Ningbo. After he got off the plane, the child was 10 years old. After he got off the plane, he could not find it.
reporter: that son is now 16 years old. It has been lost for 6 years.
Yuan Cheng: Yes.
reporter: there are everywhere, and Shijiazhuang and Chengde.
Yuan Cheng: all of them have.
reporter: you are now more of a helping others and looking for children, do you have to bear more responsibility like this?
Yuan Cheng: at the very least, that is to say the comfort of my heart, that is to say that my own child or the children of others are not looking, but you pay, that is to think, I do my duty as my parents.
documentary scene: Yuan Xuejing and grandma are sitting in the yard, silently speaking, and secretly weeping...
explanation: Yuan Xueyu's sister, Yuan Xuejing, is 13 years old this year, at West Lun elementary school. She wrote a composition "my brother": my brother told me when he walked away, my sister, his brother came back to buy clothes for you and bought shoes for you... I said, brother, where have you been? You can still. I'll play with you. I'm happy to be able to do it.
reporter: what do you think when your father looks for his brother? In particular, I want my brother to come back, right.
Yuan Xuejing: well.
reporter: do you cry so often when you are in front of your parents?
Yuan Xuejing: I'm afraid they are sad.
Studio:
six years ago, the black brick kiln, which caused a sensation, made black brick kiln a black memory for people. In the past six years, the news of children's missing from time to time suggested that our black brick kiln had not disappeared. Although it was hidden, it had its own black logic. For six years, Yuan Cheng's search range, from Henan to Shanxi to Shaanxi, was used to measure a map of the distribution of a black brick kiln with his footsteps. Now, as his father, he still does not give up hope, still insisting that we have only a stronger government and legal power to reduce the map, Even disappear, only in this way, Yuan Cheng's search for children can reach the real end. Thank you for watching today's face-to-face. Let's see you next week.