This fifty yuan is his allowance, and he said he would send it to her every month from now on.

Let her spend it as she pleases.

Also, he might come here in April, so he asked her to wait for him.

Su Li felt a sweet warmth in her heart after reading the letter.

The next day, after Su Li had lunch, a major event occurred in the village.

Zhao Meilan was arrested by the police. She happened to run into the police when she went to find Chen Shengnan.

Zhao Meilan refused to leave, saying, "Why are you arresting me? I haven't done anything illegal."

The young policeman said coldly, "You colluded with human traffickers to abduct Zhou Yuting, a fellow educated youth who went to the countryside with you. Now we've found her, and she's identified you. What else do you have to say?"

The brigade leader was shocked to hear this, not to mention the educated youth in the educated youth compound.

The people they spent every day with turned out to be accomplices of human traffickers.

They were filled with lingering fear; they had actually lived with such people for so long.

Zhao Meilan never expected that Zhou Yuting, that idiot, would actually be found. Wouldn't that mean she was finished?

"No, you've got it wrong. I just went out with her that day. I don't know any human traffickers at all."

The captain stepped forward and asked, "Officer, are you sure? Is she really an accomplice of human traffickers?"

Although Zhao, the educated youth, was rather stingy, calculating, and somewhat clever, there was no way she could tell that she was an accomplice of human traffickers!

"Yes, she's from the same place as the human trafficker, and the trafficker has already confessed. We've also found Zhou, the educated youth who went missing last year. She's in the town hospital now, and she's identified Zhao Meilan as the one who drugged her."

Comrade Zhou Yuting stated that on that day, Zhao Meilan, using some unknown medication, patted her on the shoulder, and she became disoriented.

But while she was still conscious, she overheard Zhao Meilan telling the traffickers that she would sell her to an old man in the mountains, so this was a premeditated human trafficking case.

Upon hearing this, the female educated youths turned pale. "What kind of drug is so potent? Just a pat on the shoulder and they're knocked unconscious? That's incredible!"

The young police officer nodded heavily and said in a serious tone, "That's foreign medicine."

Everyone gasped, a chill running through them.

One person exclaimed, "My God! Zhao Meilan actually helped human traffickers traffic people. Zhou Yuting was so good to her back then! She gave her food, supplies, and money, but in the end, she was sold herself."

Another person chimed in, "Yeah! Luckily, I've always disliked her, otherwise she might have been sold off somewhere by now!"

Some people said, "It's a pity about Zhou Yuting. She's so beautiful, but because of her kindness, she ended up hurting herself. Zhao Meilan is a terrible person. Zhou Yuting really treated her as a friend, but she betrayed her."

Another person chimed in, "Didn't you hear the police say that Zhao Meilan had someone sell her to an old man in the mountains? She's really heartless."

"Who can argue with that? This is a classic case of the slave and the snake. They treated her so well, and in the end, she turned around and bit them."

........

In the courtyard of the educated youth, everyone was talking about it.

Two young police officers, one restraining Zhao Meilan and the other walking up to Su Li, said, "Comrade Su, we still have to thank you this time. If it weren't for the clues you provided, we wouldn't have been able to find the victim."

No one expected that Su Li was also involved in this matter.

They all looked at her curiously.

"This fifteen yuan is a reward and recognition from our Public Security Bureau. Thank you for your bravery in solving this major case for us. In the past two years, many girls in the town have gone missing, and this time we have found six of them."

Amidst the envious glances of the crowd, Su Li accepted the money.

"Thanks"

When everyone saw Zhao Meilan being taken away by the police, they all went to Su Li.

"Su, the educated youth, tell us quickly how you helped the police solve the case?"

"Yes! Did you also encounter human traffickers? They didn't do anything to you, did they?"

"Tell me quickly! What exactly happened? How could Zhao Meilan be an accomplice of human traffickers?"

Chen Shengnan's mind went blank as she listened to the cacophony of voices.

"Can you guys be quiet? It's so noisy, how can anyone talk to you?"

Su Li briefly recounted the events, omitting the part about hitting someone, and only saying that after she discovered it, she found a passerby to subdue and take the person to the police station.

Everyone praised her for being amazing.

If it were them, they would probably have been kidnapped by human traffickers.

On the other side, Zhou Yuting, who was found, was still in the hospital receiving an IV drip.

She was covered in injuries; she had lived a life worse than an animal for the past few months.

She often recalled Su Li's words: "Don't pay attention to just any Tom, Dick, or Harry, or someone might sell you out."

Su Li's words proved prophetic; she was too foolish. Su Li had warned her more than once to stay away from Zhao Meilan.

She couldn't see things clearly and always felt that people weren't that bad.

As a result, his retribution came.

She went to town with Zhao Meilan that day, and later Zhao Meilan patted her on the shoulder and drugged her.

I vaguely remember hearing Zhao Meilan ask the traffickers to sell her far away, preferably to an old man in the mountains. The traffickers did just that and sold her to the mountains.

She didn't know which mountain it was, or what place it was, but she knew that the people there were very poor.

Most families couldn't afford to find wives, so she was bought by one family to be their wife.

The three brothers spent half their life savings to buy her.

The very night she was bought, she was forced to marry the eldest son of the family, a man more than twenty years her senior.

It reeked of foul odor and had frog-like eyes that were particularly frightening when it looked at people.

She used to hate slovenly people the most, but this man wasn't just slovenly; he was filthy from head to toe, his hair was matted, and his clothes were covered in mud and some unknown liquid. She felt nauseous just looking at him, but she didn't dare show it.

He grinned, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth, and approached her step by step. She had never encountered such a situation before.

She screamed in fright and fainted. When she woke up the next morning, all her clothes were gone.

Her body was covered in bruises and ached all over; even if she were stupid, she would know what had happened.

Before she could even feel sad, another man entered the house. He was the second son of the family, a little younger than the one from yesterday, probably in his thirties.

He ignored Zhou Yuting's struggles and pounced on her immediately.

Su Yuting was bitten all over by him, and the nightmare began.

Aside from eating and using the toilet, she was tormented by these beasts every day; she wasn't even allowed to wear clothes.

She couldn't take it anymore and wanted to escape, just then another woman was abducted to the mountain.

The woman found her and said that the two of them had run away together.

That was the first time she ran away, but she didn't get very far, not even to the place they had agreed to meet.

He was caught by the villagers.

It was the woman who had asked her to run away who betrayed her, and she experienced the evil of human nature once again.

After this incident, the three brothers, fearing she might run away again, chained her up in the pigsty.