In 2019, Yongshan County police received a report from a villager. The reporter said: When he was digging wild vegetables in the mountains, he encountered a savage. The savage was wearing what appeared to be human clothes, and his whole body was dark and dirty. They were stained, their appearance was unclear, they were grinning, and their behavior was very fierce. When they saw food in the hands of the villagers, they came to snatch it with their teeth and claws.
The villagers were so frightened that they ran back down the mountain and never dared to go up to check again.
The villagers were afraid that this guy had escaped from a mental illness, so they rushed to the public security bureau to report the situation. However, the public security agency thought of another person based on the villagers' description. This person is a wanted criminal named Song Moujiang who has been on the run for seventeen years.
Human trafficking
Who is Song Moujiang? This matter has to be told from the 1950s. Song Jiang was born in a little-known mountain village in Yongshan County, Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province. Song Jiang's family was very poor since he was a child, and he couldn't get enough to eat.
But it’s not just his family that cannot afford to eat, because the local area is located deep in the mountains and the conditions are backward. Most of the villagers can only rely on the mountains for their whole lives and have never seen much of the world. Therefore, the entire village basically lives a life of poverty and no way out. , and the illiteracy rate is extremely high, with more than 90% of the people in the village illiterate.
It is not easy to survive and grow up in such a village.
But the boys in the village will face a serious problem when they grow up, that is, they cannot marry wives. Of course girls from outside are not willing to marry in, and there are even fewer girls of the right age in the village.
Because the local concept of favoring boys over girls is too serious, many girls are drowned in ponds by their parents when they are just born. Some girls are sold to other villages by their parents to earn bride price when they are thirteen or fourteen years old. The atmosphere is very bad, leading to an increasingly serious imbalance in the ratio of men to women.
When the boys of Song Jiang's generation grew up, it was almost impossible to find a suitable girl to marry in the village.
Under this situation, the men in the village started to think about human trafficking. Since they couldn't find a wife on their own, how about buying one from outside?
As a result, another criminal human trafficking chain was born. Song Jiang also joined the human trafficking gang in the village. Their main targets were those villages and towns with relatively backward conditions in Yunnan, and they mainly targeted those who came out to work alone. Girls, or female students who are young and have poor resistance ability.
Several young men in their village formed a partnership and specialized in committing crimes in other places. They were also very arrogant and dared to rob people directly on the street. Once they got a girl under control, they would pretend to be her husband or brother and forcibly take her away. Drag it to the car.
Young girls are generally frightened when encountering this kind of situation, and are unable to resist at all. After dragging the girl into the car, Song Moujiang will first take the girl to a predetermined destination, rape, beat, insult, cut off all contact between the girl and the outside world, and then abduct the girl back to those villages where she cannot find a wife. inside.
Song Moujiang’s village is naturally the first beneficiary of this human trafficking chain. Relying on this sinful business, the men in the village have married wives one after another, but the girls who have been trafficked have been miserable. , they were locked in a dark room with no light for a long time. In order to prevent them from escaping, the entire village became guards.
Because the village itself has complex terrain, it is difficult for many girls to find a way out even if they want to escape. Everyone in the village from old to young was united, because this matter was good for them, and the villagers had no legal concept. Therefore, despite such illegal and criminal activities continuing, some girls resisted desperately and were beaten to death.
When he first started to engage in abduction and trafficking business, Song Moujiang was still a little nervous, but later he found that no one was controlling him, so he became more and more courageous. In the end, he was not satisfied with just abducting and trafficking women, and began to abuse innocent people again. of children.
Since some people are short of wives, there are also people who are short of children, and abducting children is more convenient and easier than abducting sensible adult women.
fell into law
Song Moujiang committed crimes crazily and used human lives to make money. He had reached the point of frenzy. His criminal gang was getting bigger and bigger, from his village to several surrounding villages with relatively backward economies. Trapped in his human trafficking chain. Song Moujiang's pockets are getting bigger and bigger. He has never experienced such a wealthy life in the past.
With the money gained from human trafficking, Song Jiang went to Kunming and other big cities from time to time to stay in luxury hotels, eat, drink, go whoring, and gamble. He even ambitiously wanted to expand his human trafficking group again. Why not do something profitable anyway?
Song Moujiang smugly believed that all police officers would protect him. After all, poor people come from poor places, and many police officers, as grassroots personnel, did not want to cause too much trouble for themselves.
Song Moujiang’s abduction and trafficking of women and children in the village has obviously become a big deal, but no police have ever come to investigate.
Sometimes when the police came, Song Moujiang was very experienced in organizing the villagers to hide the trafficked women and children and tie them to the mountains. When the police came, nothing could be found, and the villagers had prepared their confessions in advance. , coupled with the fact that the police themselves did not have the intention to investigate and crack down strictly, the matter further deteriorated.
Such cruel things have been going on for nearly two years, and finally the incident came to light.
Song Moujiang's trafficking behavior was so rampant that the local police finally made up their mind to catch this trafficker in one fell swoop. So when Song Moujiang started taking action again, the police quietly followed him behind and caught Song Moujiang in person with evidence of human trafficking. In this way, Song Moujiang was finally arrested, and soon he was sent to prison to undergo reform through labor.
Song Moujiang did not expect that his business would be over so quickly. He had not enjoyed enough before he entered the detention center. Looking at the bars in front of him, Song Moujiang no longer had the arrogance he once had, and kept begging the police to let him out.
He also vowed that he was willing to pay for his freedom. Even if he gave all the money in his pocket to the police station, he didn't mind, as long as he could be let go home.
Song Moujiang is not stupid. The calculation in his mind is that as long as he can get out, he can always make money back in the future, but if he is locked up in prison, how can he survive such a hard life? There hasn't been a day in these years that he didn't enjoy, so how could he still think of the hard days in the past?
Jailbreak
However, of course, the police will not really let him go just because of his plea. He is such a vicious human trafficker. If he is released instead of being rehabilitated at home, he is simply planting a time bomb for society.
Song Moujiang ignored the law, and the police would not let him do whatever he wanted. Therefore, Song Moujiang was quickly sent to a labor camp in Liangshan, Sichuan, and began to work with the prisoners.
Prisons certainly do not abuse prisoners, but only make them undergo labor reform in accordance with the regulations and provide them with ideological education.
But in Song Moujiang's opinion, such a life is simply unbearable. He has never been a serious worker. Now he is in prison. He has to get up early to study and get education according to the schedule every day, especially Song Moujiang couldn't bear it even for a moment when he went to work hard with farm tools.
Moreover, the prison is still a collective dormitory. So many prisoners are crowded together, and the whole room is filled with a sour smell.
Since Song Moujiang made a fortune through human trafficking, he built a small western-style building for his family. Sometimes he would stay in five-star hotels when he went to other places. There was nothing good to eat, just cabbage and potatoes. Song Moujiang complained all day long. He also complained to the inmates in his room, and sometimes complained to the police. Everyone was tired of him and didn't want to listen. he muttered.
Song Moujiang tossed and turned in prison all day long, thinking about how he could get rid of this kind of life. Finally, one day he was inspired. He thought that he couldn't survive in the labor camp, so why not just run away?
In Song Moujiang’s view, the guards at the labor camp are not too strict, because it is also located in a remote place and there are not many people living around it. This means that if a person escapes, the surrounding people will not be able to find him in a short period of time. of.
Moreover, Song Moujiang carefully observed the commuting time of the prison guards and found that every night, the prison guards would have a relatively long shift change. Although it only lasts a few minutes, if the prisoner wants to escape, he can seize the opportunity.
Song Moujiang felt that God was helping him, and he had to escape from this hellish place. In the future, good days outside would be waiting for him.
One day in March 2002, Song Jiang decided to launch his own jailbreak plan. As expected, as Song Jiang expected, at the scheduled time, the prison guards began to change shifts, and there was a gap in guarding. Song Jiang took advantage of this gap to come immediately. Arrived at the wall.
He had already observed that the wall of the labor camp was not high enough for an adult man to climb over. Song Moujiang climbed over the wall on his hands and knees, and outside was the world of freedom that he had always longed for.
He was afraid that the prison guards would catch up with him, and he didn't care about the direction. He just ran away desperately. The prison guards quickly discovered that there was one less prisoner, and quickly organized a team to arrest him. However, he was surrounded by vast wilderness and it was really difficult to judge. Where did Song Jiang run away?
Escaped into the Deep Mountains
In desperation, the police had no choice but to issue a wanted order, hoping that the public could report this heinous gangster in time. At the same time, the police thought that Song Moujiang was likely to return to his hometown in Yunnan, so the police arranged a large number of observation points near Song Moujiang's hometown to wait and see.
The police's prediction was correct. After Song Moujiang escaped, his first reaction was indeed to run to his hometown.
Science and technology were not so developed at that time. Many urban streets were not monitored, let alone face scans. This gave Song Moujiang a big advantage. He easily crossed the border between the two provinces and relied on memory to return to the place. Arrived in his hometown. But before he even got close, Song Moujiang realized something was wrong.
Song Moujiang has been in the human trafficking business for so many years and has been dealing with the police all year round. Even if the police are in plainclothes, Song Moujiang, as a habitual criminal, has his own acumen and can see it at a glance.
He found a large number of plainclothes police ambushed outside the village. He immediately thought that these policemen must be here to arrest him. If he went back, he would be trapped in a trap. Thinking of this, Song Moujiang did not dare to go home.
But if he doesn't go home, he has no place to stay. Most of his accomplices are squatting in prison. He has no relatives or friends outside to seek refuge. If he doesn't return to the village at this moment, where can he go?
Song Moujiang thought that there were deep mountains and old forests outside the countryside. Why not run to the mountains and hide for a while? It’s impossible for the police to stare at me outside the window forever. When the wind has passed, I can come down the mountain and go home. Wouldn’t this be the best of both worlds? Thinking of this, Song Moujiang turned around and walked towards the mountain shrouded in clouds and mist.
But this mountain was not originally inhabited. Because the land on the mountain is barren, the climate is harsh, and wild beasts and poisonous insects appear from time to time, so it has never been inhabited. Song Moujiang wandered around for a long time and only found a few abandoned wooden houses, which were still there for many years. It was built by hunters who used to hunt in the deep mountains and old forests. It is really not a suitable place to stay.
Song Moujiang thought about it and found a cave to hide temporarily. In the past, he used this cave to hide the girls and children who were abducted and trafficked by him, but now he is hiding here himself.
Song Moujiang believed that the mountain was hidden in a hidden location, so even if the police came to investigate, he would have enough time to escape. At first, Song Moujiang did not plan to live here for a long time, because he was sure that the police would not investigate him for too long, and he was very worried. There will be a chance to go home soon.
But he may never have imagined that he has lived here for seventeen years. The main reason is that the police have never given up on the search for Song Moujiang. The police have searched the mountains several times, but the first few searches Song Moujiang had not returned at that time, so the police found nothing.
Coupled with the rugged terrain in the mountains, it is not a suitable place for people to live, so the police did not expect that Song Moujiang would actually settle in the mountains.
On the other side, seeing that the police were not leaving, Song Jiang had no choice but to find a way to continue to survive in the mountains. Although he had grown up next to the mountains, Song Jiang had no experience in surviving in the wild. For several days, he relied on Pick wild fruits from the mountains to satisfy your hunger.
Later, he found a few rusty bowls in the abandoned house and learned to make a fire to cook. There were wild fruits, wild vegetables, and enough water, which allowed Song Jiang to barely survive here. .
Song Moujiang occasionally went out hunting and could catch a few snakes or other animals, and he could also eat meat.
But such a life is really meaningless. Song Jiang spends almost every day in the mountains counting the days, praying to God every night, hoping to get him down the mountain as soon as possible. These hard days are worse than a detention center. It's just that it's too late for Song Moujiang to regret now, and it's hard to get off the tiger.
Wilderness Survival
The longer Song Jiang escaped, the less willing he was to go back. The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became. He himself had committed a felony and was sent to labor reform, but now he ran away again, committing human trafficking and escaping from prison. I don't know how many years I will be sentenced, and I don't know for sure, and I will never get out of prison in this life. When he thought of the police station, Song Moujiang shook his head again.
He finally waited so long to get free. If he was asked to go back all of a sudden, he would not be willing to go back, so he planned to stay in the mountains for a while. One day the police would forget him. But the long wait has not given Song Moujiang any hope. It is impossible for the police to forget this guy.
The crimes he committed in the past were too serious. How many innocent women and children were separated from their relatives because of him, and how many families were destroyed because of him. These tragedies one after another were all caused by Song Moujiang. Yes, he must go back with the police to accept punishment in order to wash away his sins.
But now he chooses to hide in the mountains, not to give himself a way to survive, but to push himself towards a dead end.
Song Moujiang wanted to go down the mountain several times, but as soon as he reached the foot of the mountain, he gave up when he thought about the police who might still be guarding him in the village. So he could only continue to brainwash himself and comfort himself by saying that living in the mountains was not bad. At worst, he would live like this for the rest of his life. At least he was free now and could do whatever he wanted.
But living in the mountains, isn't it like entering another detention center?
Nowadays, he has no freedom. His range of activities is only the barren mountains in front, back and left. Moreover, he is always worried and frightened. He has nightmares and is afraid that the police will arrest him.
Because the conditions in the mountains were so harsh, Song Moujiang suffered from several serious illnesses, but he was also very lucky. There were no doctors or herbs in the mountains, so he just lay in bed for a few days and then recovered inexplicably.
The experience of several illnesses made Song Moujiang feel anxious and uneasy, but at the same time, he did not want to go down the mountain. The price he paid to obtain this freedom was too high, and the sunk cost was too high. The more this happened, the more he resisted the idea of going down the mountain. I even told myself that it would be a good choice to live alone in the mountains for the rest of my life.
In this way, under paralysis day by day, Song Moujiang actually spent 17 years on the mountain.
The longer the days passed, the more and more Song Jiang didn’t want to go down the mountain. The public security agency at the foot of the mountain had been tracking Song Jiang’s whereabouts. He had to give an explanation to the victim. However, when Song Jiang did not go down the mountain, the public security agency found out. Can't reach him.
Later, a villager accidentally discovered Song Moujiang's traces. At that time, the villager himself went up the mountain to dig wild vegetables, and his location was very close to the village.Generally speaking, Song Jiang would not go near places where villagers might appear, for fear of exposing his whereabouts, but that day Song Jiang was so hungry that he fainted.
Almost all the wild vegetables on the mountain were eaten by Song Moujiang. He had to choose to continue walking a little further, hoping to find some dry food with luck. Unexpectedly, when I went there, I met the villagers. Both sides were very frightened. After the villagers returned home, they thought more and more something was wrong, and finally plucked up the courage and decided to call the police.
It is hard to escape the blame.
This discovery surprised and delighted the police. For many years, the police found no trace of Song Jiang in the local area and thought he was still on the run. But if what the villagers said is true, then Song Jiang has always been there. Stayed local and never left.
The police immediately decided to use drones to conduct a blanket search in the mountains. After searching for more than five hours, the police made a discovery.
In a cave near a cliff, the police found that the roof of the cave was covered with plastic sheets, rag strips, etc. These things looked like they were artificially constructed, and there were many wild fruit stones and feces outside the cave. The police determined that Song Moujiang's hiding place was this cave.
The police immediately dispatched the police, and the arrest operation was extremely smooth, because Song Moujiang did not run away at all. 17 years of life had caused Song Moujiang to deteriorate in intelligence and behavior.
Seeing the police surrounding them, Song Moujiang was still tearing leaves and playing with them. It wasn't until he saw the uniforms worn by the police clearly that Song Moujiang seemed to realize. He held his head with both hands and jumped up and down like an ape, thinking He tried to escape, but was caught by the police.
At this time, Song Moujiang was yelling inarticulately, but he couldn't even utter a complete sentence.
The police had no choice but to send him to the hospital down the mountain for examination. The doctor found that Song Moujiang's various body functions had seriously deteriorated. He had not seen the light for a long time, did not communicate with others, and lived a beast-like life. Now it is difficult to say that he is still alive. A normal human being.
17 years later, Song Moujiang once again stood in the dock of the court. This time he would face a more serious punishment. After several months of recovery, Song Moujiang sat in the courtroom and still shocked everyone. .
Song Moujiang was skinny and skinny, half of his teeth had fallen out, and his hands were covered with thick calluses. The judge asked him about the case, but he could hardly hear him. He looked stupid, dumb, and frightened. Whenever the police touched him, he would bite and fight.
Later, when a reporter went to interview him, Song Moujiang said blankly: "It's good that I'm back, I don't have to drink ravine water anymore..."
Maybe he has suffered enough over the years, and Song Moujiang is sober. At that time, the most talked about thing was that the food in the prison was good, and being able to eat decent cooked food was like heavenly treatment for Song Moujiang now.
At this moment, Song Moujiang probably realized that the detention center was much better than his cave. At least there were clean water sources, sufficient food, and no need to worry. After seventeen years of escaping from prison, Song Moujiang had not gained anything. The advantage is that you only pay the price of turning yourself into a savage.
Of course, this does not seem to be worthy of sympathy. Think about the women and children who were harmed by him, those who were imprisoned and humiliated for no reason. The life that Song Moujiang has lived over the years is just the experience of most of the victims. Read it again.
Even the lives of some victims over the years have been much more miserable than Song Moujiang's life in the past seventeen years.
So these seventeen years in the mountains are not a kind of retribution?
The sky network is vast and meticulous. Even if Song Moujiang escapes to the mountains, there will always be a day when the incident comes to light. When he starts committing crimes, he has already embarked on the road of no return. Poverty, isolation, and ignorance are indeed Song Jiang's life regrets, but they are by no means an excuse for Song Jiang's crime.
