Chapter 429 Rescue Mickey (4)

Jie Ping invited everyone into the villa's living room and poured each of them a cup of strong Blue Mountain coffee...

"Xie Ping, you have a lot of friends. Do you know this person?" Heath picked up the coffee cup, took a sip of hot coffee, took out a four-inch photo from his pocket, and asked the owner of the villa casually.

"I know this person... I'm very familiar with him. His name is Hood, and he's a friend of mine." Xie Ping said while observing Heath's expression.

"Tell me how you found someone to buy a child for him." Heath put down his coffee cup, his expression became serious, and his two deep eyes stared at Xie Ping, motionless.

"Um, um... Sheriff Heath, has something happened?" Jie Ping asked hurriedly, a trace of panic passing across his face.

"You'd better answer my question first," Heath said.

He's not someone who can be easily controlled, Liu Shan thought. He noticed that whenever his conversation partner tried to change the subject, Sheriff Heath would quickly redirect the conversation to the question he had raised...

"Okay. Let me think about it..." Xie Ping's eyes began to roll.

"It's like this, Sheriff. Some time ago, at a dinner party, Hood and I were drinking and eating with a bunch of friends. We were having a great time drinking and everyone was a little drunk, so we chatted about all sorts of things in the small bar. As we were talking, Hood started crying... At that time, his crying made me half sober. I saw that the other friends were all drunk, so I hurriedly asked him why he was crying. You see, his business is doing so well, and he makes a lot of money every month; he also married a young and beautiful wife, had a lovely daughter, and has a happy family... What else could he worry about?" Xie Ping said, taking a sip of coffee.

"But he told me that every family has its own problems. His daughter, Yali, inherited his thalassemia, and her condition was getting worse... He loved his daughter very much, but he didn't expect that her health was so bad... Hu De became more and more sad as he talked, with snot and tears, which made me feel bad too. So I said, brother, if there is anything he needs my help with, I will do my best to help him. Once when I was having financial difficulties, I borrowed some money from him. Not only did he lend me the money, but he also didn't charge me a penny of interest. This helped my small agency survive the economic crisis. So, I thought, I must find a way to repay him." Xie Ping said.

"Later, he asked me, as a real estate agent who has contacts with all kinds of people and knows many people, if I could help him find a human trafficker. He wanted to buy another child, and a boy. I agreed immediately. With my connections, I quickly found a human trafficker named Alexander. He always had a lot of children to sell to rich people. So, I acted as a matchmaker and introduced them to each other. As for how the business was negotiated, that was a matter between the two of them," said Xie Ping.

"Sheriff Heath, as Hood's friend, there should be nothing wrong with me helping him," said Xie Ping.

"Human traffickers, trafficking children, is an illegal act in itself. You knew it was illegal, but you still helped to introduce them. Do you still say you did nothing wrong?!" Sheriff Heath's expression was very serious.

"He wanted a child but couldn't, and his daughter had this strange disease... I still sympathize with him," said Xie Ping.

"Quibbling!" said Heath.