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Contemporary Slave
一、落入虎口
1、Sixteen-year-old Zhangxiao went to Shanxi for a job.
2、He was taken to a brick mill by a job agent.
二、繁重的劳动
3、Since then he lost his freedom because he had to work for 15 hours a day carrying adobe bricks into the kiln and carry the hot bricks out with a small cart.
4、His body is covered with scars from burns.
5、A foreman would beat him with a thick stick whenever he was slow.
三、悲惨的生活
6、He ate feeds for livestocks and was locked in the work shed in the night, sleeping with bricks underneath his body without any protection.
7、As the workers were guarded by several foremen and dogs, it was impossi ble to escape.
8、One day he saw a worker beaten to death by a foreman and buried in a ditch.
9、He lived this way for three years before he and several hundreds of other workers were saved by a young journalist who reported what he found out even if he had to put his life at risk.
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