"You're a woman, a Hua Xia woman. What right do you have to tell us what to do?" Although Jin Lexian had lived in the United States for many years, his pride as a Korean man was still ingrained in his bones.
When Ruan Qingshuang saw his face, she did not want to bother with him anymore. It was disgusting!
Jin Xiu looked at her younger brother coldly. Because their family was poor, Jin Lexian had left the family very early. Other than her, there was only her mother in the family. It was not easy for Jin Xiu to survive for so many years. She was lucky that she was pretty and didn't need plastic surgery. Because of her face, she could find a job as a salesperson in a department store.
However, because of her family background, she was looked down upon by many people. She was bullied by her colleagues and teased by men.
However, she endured all of this because she wanted to protect this family for her mother and brother. If she couldn't hold on, this family might be gone.
Today, her younger brother really disappointed her, very much.
Her mother used to tell Jin Xiu a lot of ugly things about her country, but Jin Xiu refused to believe it. Now, she despised her country more and more.
Kim Soo's father died an unnatural death when she and her brother were very young. Her mother said that they used to live in Seoul, which was now Seoul. That year, Seoul hosted the Olympic Games that every country in the world wanted to host. Because the Olympic Games were like a car's turbocharger, it would bring about a huge economic boost.
It was the most significant thing in Korea during those years.
After all, even the superpower next to them, Hua Xia, was not qualified to hold the Olympic Games. Hua Xia's Olympic Games were held twenty years after theirs. Of course, the Koreans were very proud.
But many people didn't know that behind the pride of the Olympic Games in Seoul, thousands of people were enslaved and tortured, just for the sake of their country's reputation.
At that time, her mother believed that people in her country would do anything for the sake of their reputation. She hated those hypocritical people in her country very much.
Those self-righteous people who thought that they could do whatever they wanted as long as they didn't lose face were the people her mother hated.
Jin Xiu knew a lot of things from his mother. That year, his mother moved out of Seoul and came to Pusan … That year, his father died an unnatural death in Seoul. Speaking of this, his mother kept shaking her head and crying.
In the eyes of many Koreans, the Olympics was an important turning point for Korea to walk towards modern civilization. When talking about the Olympics, many Koreans were still intoxicated.
Indeed, that world-class competition was a turning point that could not be ignored for Korea.
But for some of the Korean people, this was also their nightmare.
On the eve of the Seoul Olympics, in order to let the world see a more modern country, tens of thousands of Koreans were forcibly arrested. Some of them were arrested because they were poor, ugly, and rustic, so they did not look like good people. They did not look like people from a developed country. If foreigners saw them, they would be laughed at.
Jin Xiu's mother said that they had gone through a hellish nightmare. Both of Jin Xiu's parents had been captured. She was lucky enough to escape with Jin Xiu and Jin Lexian to Pusan, but her father had died.
Jin Xiu's parents and some innocent people were imprisoned in dozens of secret prisons, where endless hard labor, humiliation, torture, and death awaited them.
But Korea had been trying to cover up what had happened in those years. Many people who had experienced what had happened in those years were desperate. They desperately wanted to tell their stories.
Later, a victim stood quietly in front of the parliament building for a month with a sign asking for justice, but there was no response.
Most of these victims were now homeless. They lived in shelters or mental hospitals. Many people suffered from anger, depression, and poverty.
But no one admitted the fact that the officials at that time had encouraged the police to kidnap and imprison those innocent people for the sake of the country's reputation.
Jin Xiu's mother intermittently told the story of that year.
That year, his parents were standing on the street wrapped in loose black rags. They did not dare to look up, and their eyes were fixed on their rubber shoes. A policeman stood in front of them and accused them of stealing bread from a shop. Their hearts were beating wildly in fear, but they had never stolen anything before!
Then, the policeman took out a lighter and was about to burn their faces!
They had no choice but to nod repeatedly and admit that they had stolen something.
But this time, the confession brought them endless pain and torture. They were arrested and thrown into a prison. That night, they realized how terrible their following days would be.
A guard broke into Jin Xiu's mother's "dormitory" that night and humiliated her. It was the same the next day, and the third day … Every day, she would be humiliated by the same person or by different people!
The slightest disobedience would be beaten, and every day during the day, she would have to do hard labor. She wondered what she had done in her previous life that God had sent her to this kind of hell on earth.
But then, something even more terrifying happened. Jin Xiu's mother saw with her own eyes that a guard dragged Jin Xiu's father by his hair to an open space and beat him with a stick. Blood gushed out from his head!
The guards immediately covered him with a blanket. Some of them stomped on his head with their feet, while others hit other parts of his body with their fists. Jin Xiu's mother saw dark red blood seeping out, and the blue blanket was quickly dyed red.
After a series of punches and kicks, the blanket slowly slid down. Jin Xiu's father's eyes rolled back, and he stopped struggling forever …
Jin Xiu's mother later said that this was the first time she had witnessed death, but she did not expect that the person who died was her own man.
Although it was painful for Jin Xiu to hear about these things, her mother would talk about it from time to time. Perhaps it was because of the psychological trauma. Jin Xiu's mother also said that on the night of her father's death, a guard came to humiliate her. No matter how painful it was, she did not dare to make a sound …
There were thousands of "prisoners" in the place they were sent to. A huge reinforced concrete structure forcibly separated them from the outside world. This place was called the "House of Brothers." The people here faced guards with sticks and hunting dogs day and night.
The story behind this wall was inevitably related to the modern history of Korea!
All the innocent people who were called "criminals" were arrested during Seoul's bid for and preparation for the Olympic Games. It was all because the government wanted to give the world a "modern," "clean," "advanced," and "westernized" Seoul!
This kind of behavior was called the purification of the city's wanderers by the government at that time!
The police arrested tens of thousands of people with the help of the so-called "House of Brothers" and other organizations.
These people not only included real wanderers, beggars, thieves, but also poor street vendors, disabled people who had difficulty living, homeless children who were separated from their parents, and some university students who held anti-government leaflets …
Ninety percent of the people who were arrested were innocent! Jin Xiu's parents were just street vendors who lived in poverty.
The people who were involved in the case later said that they would die on the street anyway.
Therefore, Jin Xiu's mother had always been very resistant to the so-called "upper class" of Korea. She said that she felt disgusted when she saw government officials and wanted to vomit.
The funny thing was that the theme song of Seoul at that time went like this: Let's hold hands and raise them to the sky. The calm of the morning brings us the dawn of peace …
Jin Xiu's mother said many times that the dark place at that time was ruled by violence. When people were locked in a place where people were beaten to death every day, they could not complain about hard labor, abuse, or humiliation.
At that time, there were people who tried to escape.
However, once the people who tried to escape were caught, they would be subjected to the most brutal beatings. The bloody scene made her not dare to try.
But at that time, Jin Xiu and Jin Lexian were still very young. They were scared after not seeing their parents for a few days. As a mother, if she could not escape, her children would starve to death! She suddenly realized that she could not do that. Whether she escaped or not, she would die. However, if she succeeded, she could feed her children!
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