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"Why is there one more?"

“This is incidental.”

“…”

Two muffled voices were heard in the alley, and several figures left in a hurry, taking away with them two children who were being held horizontally.

In a daze, Lu Mingfei felt that a voice sounded a little familiar. He tried to open his eyes a little and looked back. He saw a figure huddled behind him, which gave him a sense of familiarity.

But he couldn't remember who this person was for a moment.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

When they came to a deserted intersection, the human traffickers stuffed the kidnapped children into a carriage.

"Let's go!" A low voice came from outside.

The carriage started running immediately afterwards.

After being thrown into the carriage for a while, Lu Mingfei's mind gradually cleared up. He had held his breath when someone covered his mouth and nose, so he didn't inhale much of the drug, but he did inhale a little. So although he was conscious now, he was still weak and had no strength.

At this time, he also realized that they had encountered human traffickers. In addition to himself being abducted, the young boy who was with him at the time was also abducted.

Besides the two of them, there seemed to be other children in the carriage. Needless to say, these children were definitely kidnapped by these human traffickers just like them.

The only thing that made him feel fortunate was that these human traffickers probably thought that they had been drugged and would not wake up, and because they were in a hurry to leave, they did not tie their hands and feet with ropes.

Realizing that there were human traffickers in the carriage, he did not dare to open his eyes to check the surroundings immediately after he woke up. Instead, he closed his eyes, pretending that he was still unconscious, and listened to the sounds around him with his ears.

He first heard the traffickers say to leave, and then he heard the sound of horse hooves. So, were these traffickers planning to send them out of the city overnight?

If he were a human trafficker, he would probably do the same thing, sending the children out of the city tonight to successfully divert his attention. Otherwise, when the parents who discovered their children were missing reported the city gates to the authorities, the authorities would search every household and the captured children would not be able to hide.

It seems that they were unlucky today as they encountered human traffickers when they went out.

Lu Mingfei thought about how worried his mother and adoptive parents would be if they found out he was missing. Furthermore, his father was waiting for him at home. If his mother went back alone without him, she wouldn't be able to explain herself to his father, who would definitely blame her for losing him.

At this moment, while thinking about his family, he was also thinking about how to escape. Because he knew that once they were sent out of the city by these human traffickers, it would be very difficult for them to escape and seek help.

The best way... These people must go out of the city through the city gate, where there are soldiers guarding the city. The moment they pass through the city gate is their chance to ask for help!

“Da da da…”

There was a clattering sound coming from outside, which should be the sound of horse hooves hitting the bluestone street.

The sound of the drums became farther and farther away until he could no longer hear the sound. He knew that they were getting farther and farther away from South Street.

The carriage had been running for a while and hadn't stopped yet. Could it be that these people weren't planning to leave through the South City Gate? Because according to the time, the carriage should have passed through the South City Gate after such a long journey.

It seems that these human traffickers did not plan to go out through the South Gate, but should have gone out through another gate.

Ordinary people couldn't leave through the East Gate, so the only exits were the North and West Gates. Hopefully, the generals guarding the city wouldn't be bribed by these people, or else these children would be taken out of the city by these traffickers, and their future lives would be ruined.

“Da da da…”

“Da da da…”

Every tapping sound outside seemed to strike his heart. As time went on, Lu Mingfei felt inexplicably nervous.

After a long while, when he no longer felt the surveillance gaze on him, he quietly opened his eyes a little and took a look inside the carriage. However, it was too dark inside and he could not see anything at all. He only vaguely saw two figures sitting on the side, who must be the people watching them from inside.

I don’t know how many people are sitting outside the shaft of the carriage, and whether he will have the chance to break through the last line of defense and rush out.

Suddenly, a slightly cold little hand touched his hand. Lu Mingfei was startled. After reacting, he realized that the owner of this little hand should be a child who was captured here like him.

After hesitating for a moment, Lu Mingfei grabbed the hand that was holding him and squeezed it, telling the other person in this way that he was awake too.

The owner of this hand was Zhao Lang, who had already woken up. After waking up, he also realized that something was wrong, so he did not sit up and shout for help immediately. Instead, he carefully looked for the child who was kidnapped with him. Just as his hand grabbed a small hand, the owner of the small hand grabbed his hand in return and squeezed his palm. He knew that the owner of the small hand was awake like him.

At this moment, neither of them knew who the other was, but they both had the same tacit understanding in their hearts at this moment, that is, not to move first, to respond to changes with constancy, and the best way is to find a chance to escape.

***

After a while, the carriage carrying them stopped.

"Ah!" The driver in front reined in the old horse, took out a piece of silver from his pocket and stuffed it into the hand of the soldier who was checking the carriage. He said with a smile, "Master, the carriage contains our wife and children. They are tired from playing and have fallen asleep. We are driving them home to sleep. Please give us some convenience, Master."

Their chance has come!

Lu Mingfei almost exhausted all the strength of two lifetimes, and rushed out of the carriage door like a shot arrow. But before he could reach the door, a hand grabbed his clothes and pulled him back.

"Help!...Mmmmmm!"

Before he could shout, his mouth was covered by someone.

Now! Zhao Lang pulled out the dagger hidden in his boots and rushed towards the back of the trafficker who was facing away from him. With lightning speed, he slashed the trafficker's neck with the dagger in his hand, shouting, "Go!"

"puff!"

A stream of warm blood spurted out, and the trafficker fell down without even having the chance to cry out in pain.

The other human trafficker had no time to react and his accomplice was killed.

The hand covering his mouth loosened, and Lu Mingfei rushed towards the car door again without any pause, waving open the car curtain and shouting at the soldiers outside: "They are human traffickers!"

"Catch them!" The general guarding the city reacted immediately, drew his knife and rushed forward.

The soldiers guarding the city reacted in the shortest possible time, drawing their swords and rushing forward to capture the human traffickers.

"Gee!" When the human trafficker driving the cart in front saw something was wrong, a fierce light flashed across his face. Without thinking, he grabbed the reins and whipped the horse's butt. The horse started running when it felt the pain.

The general standing in front did not move aside, but instead clenched the sword in his hand and struck the horse that was charging towards him.

"Hiss-"

The frightened horse raised its front hooves, and the carriage behind it was pulled up. Lu Mingfei, who was standing at the door, wanted to grab the door to stabilize his body, but he couldn't hold on at all. He fell backwards and hit the people behind him.

The dagger in Zhao Lang's hand flew towards the human trafficker who was trying to catch them, and with his free hand he hugged the child who was flying towards him.

“Boom!”

"Bang—"

The next moment, the horse fell to the ground with a bang, and the carriage behind it also overturned.

"Ouch!" Zhao Lang in the carriage protected the child in his arms, and his head hit the carriage with a "bang", causing him to groan in pain.

Lu Mingfei also found himself being held in someone's arms. When the carriage fell, several cushions of flesh were placed under him, so he didn't feel much pain. Hearing a muffled groan, he knew that the person behind him who was cushioning him was hurt. He reached back to touch the person holding him, "Brother?"

"Don't be afraid." Zhao Lang endured the pain and comforted the child in his arms.

There was a knife wound on the neck of the horse lying on the ground, blood gushed out from the wound, and the horse's legs twitched and then stopped moving.

After the carriage collapsed, the two human traffickers who fell out of the shaft wanted to run away, but before they could stand up, two big knives were put to their necks.

"You dare to run!" A soldier was so angry that he kicked the human trafficker on the back and kicked him to the ground.

The general defending the city, Wang Daqian, brought his men over and lifted the curtain of the carriage to rescue people.

When the curtains were lifted, the soldiers discovered several children and two adults inside the carriage. Needless to say, the two adults were definitely accomplices of the human traffickers. They first brought the children out one by one, and then discovered two human traffickers: one still alive; the other dead. There was a knife mark on the neck of the dead human trafficker, as if his throat had been slashed by a sharp weapon.

As soon as Lu Mingfei was carried out, he grabbed the hand of the person who carried him out and said, "Uncle, they are all bad people! They are human traffickers, they want to take us out of the city and sell us!"

"Okay, don't be afraid, we've caught them." Wang Daqian, the general defending the city, put his big hand on the child's head, telling him not to be afraid. He discovered that the human trafficker who had died here had been killed with a single blow, so he asked the two children he had rescued, "Did you kill this man?"

"They deserve to die!" Zhao Lang's face was gloomy. This sentence was equivalent to admitting that the dead human trafficker was killed by him.

Wang Daqian looked at the young master with a pair of big eyes like copper bells as he said "They deserve to die" with an expressionless face. These human traffickers did deserve to die, but this young master, who looked only eight or nine years old, dared to kill people. He was also very brave.

From the young master's clothing, he could tell that he must be from a wealthy family. There weren't too many powerful people in Kyoto, and Wang Daqian wasn't someone who flattered the rich and powerful. Otherwise, he wouldn't have guarded the West City Gate for more than a decade, rising from a small soldier to a veteran.

So after just glancing at the young master who was speaking, he asked the soldier next to him to notify the people from Fengtian Prefecture to come and arrest these human traffickers. Because these cases were under the jurisdiction of the Fengtian Prefecture Yamen, these people were only responsible for guarding the city and had no business trying the cases. Author's words: Thank you Bole 9492239 (9492239) for your support, mua! To know more exciting content, please leave me a message on Liancheng Reading