The police explained, "We've already asked. Our suburbs are remote, and the supply and marketing cooperative is small. Now that the New Year is over and it's still cold, fewer people are going out, and not many people come to buy things."

Therefore, the sales staff of the supply and marketing cooperative usually take turns on duty, with only one person on duty at a time.

Unexpectedly, that person seized an opportunity today, taking advantage of the absence of other customers, and simply robbed me of my money and left.

Fortunately, several colleagues saw it; otherwise, because he moved so quickly, the sales clerk didn't notice and didn't see his face clearly, making it very difficult to catch him.

That's incredibly bold!

However, considering the man's physical strength, Su He and the others estimated that he might indeed be able to escape. In this era, there were no surveillance cameras, and they couldn't see his face or the direction he was going to escape, so it was quite possible that he could get away.

Fortunately, they've caught them now.

After finishing this matter, Su He did not forget the purpose of her visit.

"How's it going over there? Are the human traffickers still around?"

The police nodded. "They're still there. We observed that they seem to have only bought Zhao Xiaoxue; they haven't made any other moves."

But it's also possible that we only discovered them recently, less than a day ago, and didn't see what they had done before.

However, the reason we haven't caught them yet is because one of them isn't here right now.

They were afraid that if they caught them too early, they would alert the enemy and he would escape, and they didn't even know if the enemy had accomplices.

However, we just received news that one of them went out today, heading to the train station. We didn't see him talk to anyone; he only asked the ticket sellers about train schedules. I suspect they're leaving.

Su He and the others remained silent after hearing this.

Zhao Xiaoxue's stepmother had already been interrogated by the police station. She said that she overheard the two men talking outside and they were from out of town. They mentioned that they had made money and wanted to buy a wife, so she decided to sell her stepdaughter and give her good marriage to her own daughter.

Could it be that these two aren't human traffickers, but simply want to buy a wife?

Su He and the others were unsure, but they couldn't wait any longer. After all, if it wasn't human traffickers, they had to rescue her as soon as possible, otherwise Zhao Xiaoxue would be in danger.

Without hesitation, Su He and the others cooperated with the police station and arrested both of them when the person who had left returned. They successfully rescued Zhao Xiaoxue, who was locked in the room with her hands and feet tied.

They also interrogated the two human traffickers overnight.

However, the result was very disappointing for them.

Because the previous guess might be correct, they were not professional human traffickers, but just a father and son from a remote mountain village in the south.

The two were introduced to logging in Northeast China last winter. After logging all winter, they earned money and planned to return to their hometown. When they were changing trains in Beijing, they thought that since they had come all this way to the capital, they would get off and take a look.

As a result, they encountered Zhao Xiaoxue's stepmother, who had returned from her parents' home. After overhearing their conversation, she went up to them and offered to sell her daughter to them.

They didn't quite believe it at first, but later Zhao Xiaoxue's stepmother even took them to secretly see Zhao Xiaoxue. Such a city girl was something they, as country folk, couldn't even imagine. Even when someone in the village bought a wife before, none of them were as beautiful as her.

So the son was tempted, but Zhao's mother asked for too much money, and they couldn't afford it. When they were at an impasse, the father saw that his son really wanted it, so he gritted his teeth and took out all the money he had earned on this trip, and only then did his stepmother reluctantly agree.

Then she tricked Zhao Xiaoxue into going out, and together with the father and son, they knocked her unconscious and let the two of them take her away.

However, since they had given all their money to Zhao Xiaoxue's stepmother, they didn't have enough to buy tickets back home. They could only find a dilapidated house in the suburbs to stay in for the time being. They spent the next few days inquiring about train schedules, hoping to sneak onto the train and leave without paying.

During this time, her son did want to have sex with her first, but Zhao Xiaoxue resisted fiercely, saying that if they pushed her too far, she would go on a hunger strike or bite her tongue to commit suicide, and she would not let them succeed.

The two men were afraid that the money would be wasted, and they thought that she would probably accept her fate after they left and arrived at their hometown, so they didn't force her. Therefore, when Zhao Xiaoxue was rescued, apart from her wrists and ankles being tied, she was not injured.