After lunch, Luo Jingyan chatted with Grandma Qin for a while before preparing to return to the brigade.

Just as she was looking for the oxcart and reached the entrance of an alley, she spotted a middle-aged man with a stubble beard, who looked to be about forty or fifty years old. He had a bag on his back, and his eyes were strange. He would look around from time to time, as if he were always on guard against others. In addition, he was walking in a hurry.

Normally, Luo Jingyan wouldn't find it strange to see someone carrying a bag, but this man caught her attention.

What attracted her was not the man himself, but his strange behavior and the pocket on his back.

The pocket looked bulging, but Luo Jingyan noticed that the thing inside the pocket moved. Usually, anything that can move on its own is either a person or an animal.

Luo Jingyan felt that what he was carrying was unlikely to be an animal. If it were something like a calf, pig, or sheep, the outline of its limbs would be clearly visible on the outside of the bag, completely different from what she was seeing now.

If it is an animal like a chicken, duck, or goose, its outline will be more fragmented.

Furthermore, animals usually make sounds when they struggle, but she heard nothing at that moment.

Since it's not an animal, there's only one possibility: the bag contains a person.

Based on the outline on the bag, it looks more like a child's.

It turns out to be another despicable human trafficker.

At that time, there was no network surveillance and communication technology was very underdeveloped. Under the influence of feudal ideology, people mostly favored sons over daughters, which led to rampant human trafficking. Most of those trafficked were young boys or teenage and adult girls. Many children playing outside their homes would be abducted by traffickers without warning.

Where there is a buyer, there is a seller. At that time, medical technology was backward, and many couples with infertility would spend money to "adopt" children. Families lacking male offspring would also get what they needed from human traffickers.

Another group of trafficked children are forced to undergo highly difficult acrobatic training, becoming street performers at a young age, or being trained to be pickpockets or professional beggars.

In short, human traffickers' behavior is extremely heinous and deserves to be punished by everyone.

Even though he was in the alley, the man was still carefully surveying his surroundings.

Upon seeing Luo Jingyan behind him, he noticeably increased his vigilance, immediately turned into another, narrower alley, and sped up.