At 4:48 p.m., at Old Chenghuang Dock, a middle-aged man with a beard smoked a cigarette while gazing at the distant highway.
He was Snakehead Old Wang, a professional human trafficker.
Over the years, he had abducted many women to Jinbei Mining Area.
The Jinbei Mining Area was the poorest place in Jinzhou, without a doubt.
The gender imbalance there was severe, and many of the miners had not taken wives by the age of fifty.
In desperation to take a wife, these workers toiled with abandon, but women from outside scorned the place.
Various reasons led to an acute dearth of women in Jinbei Mining Area, and it was precisely this that traffickers like Old Wang capitalized on.
In the past two years, he had brought quite a few women to Jinbei Mining Area, each fetching at least 50,000 yuan, with demand still exceeding supply.
However, recently Jiangling City had intensified its crackdown on human trafficking, making it inconvenient for Old Wang to operate personally.
