Chapter 95 Concussion

Mu Nanzhao gave the direction and walked west along the official road for a short distance before turning onto a small road.

It's obvious that these traffickers are very experienced.

Deliberately abandoning the official road and taking a side road was to prevent the victim who lost the child from catching up.

Mu Nanzhao said, "The ox cart they drove probably wouldn't go very far."

"Two pairs of children's footprints, one pair is slightly larger, probably the dog and the stone."

"But they didn't follow too closely, so they were pretty smart."

"Don't chase too fast, or the sound of horse hooves might alert the enemy."

Gu Xixi breathed a sigh of relief, "Yes, it would be terrible if these lunatics were desperate and took the children as hostages."

Just as Mu Nanzhao expected.

After walking forward for about a cup of tea and turning a corner, I saw a flatbed cart pulled by an ox in the distance.

In addition to the driver, there were three men sitting on the carriage.

Several large sacks were piled among them.

There is no mistake, it is these people!

Gu Xixi looked around but didn't see any trace of Shitou and Gou Wa.

She whispered, "Could those two have been put away by someone?"

Mu Nanzhao glanced at the grass beside the road and said, "Maybe not."

He asked Gu Xixi to stop, dismounted and picked up a few stones, each the size of a child's fist, then got back on the horse and said, "Speed up and don't worry about what's ahead."

Gu Xixi didn't know what he was going to do, but out of trust, she did it without hesitation.

It ran at a furious speed, shocking the people in the car ahead so much that they turned around to look.

But before they could react, Mu Nanzhao threw the stones in his hand one after another.

The first stone got stuck on the rear wheel and the cart was forced to stop.

The following pieces hit the heads of four human traffickers in succession.

Accompanied by screams, bright red blood flowers bloomed on the white snow.

Gu Xixi braked the horse behind the ox cart.

The human trafficker who was driving the cart was the first to fall to the ground from the front and immediately stopped moving.

The three people on the car were rolling around with their heads in their hands, wailing incessantly.

It seems that everyone has lost the ability to resist.

Gu Xixi was dumbfounded. Just now, she saw Mu Nanzhao throwing stones with such ease that he didn't even have to build up his strength. She didn't expect the power to be so astonishing.

At this time, two little kids jumped out from the bushes beside the road, "Sister Xixi!"

“Mr. Chen!!”

Gu Xixi turned over and got off the horse, "Are you two okay?"

Shitou said, "It's okay! These bad guys didn't notice we were following them!"

Gou Wa puffed out his chest and said, "We followed their tire tracks all the way, and then hid in the bushes and followed them."

Gu Xixi glared at the two little guys with a stern face, "You two are so proud of running out to take risks without even saying hello to the adults?"

"I'll deal with you two when we get back! Come here and help me first!"

She turned and walked towards the carriage, pulling out some hemp rope from her bag.

Gou Wa and Shi Tou worked together to tie up the four human traffickers tightly.

There were three sacks on the car, and when they were opened, they were filled with little girls.

Xiaotao and Doudou were quite frightened and started crying when they saw someone they knew.

The other little girls were infected and started crying with their mouths wide open.

Gu Xixi was not very good at coaxing children, so she took out a small bag of pine nut candy and patted Shi Tou's hand.

"Hurry up and comfort the little sisters so that they can stop crying."

Gu Xixi jumped off the car and walked towards Mu Nanzhao, "Gou Wa and Shi Tou must have seen you do it."

Mu Nanzhao said calmly, "It's just throwing stones. Anyone can do it."

"But you..." Gu Xixi looked back at the children and said in a low voice:

"Is that just throwing rocks? You almost cut someone's head in half."

Mu Nanzhao pondered, "It seems that the attack was a bit too heavy."

He raised his eyes to look at Gu Xixi, "If someone asks about it later, just say that they were hit by a rock, and when they fell, they pushed and crushed each other, and accidentally hit the car board, which aggravated their injuries."

Gu Xixi was silent for a moment, "Very good, say so when you hand it over to the government office."

She discovered that Mu Nanzhao had not only adapted to Chen Fang's identity.

I am becoming more and more adept at making up lies.

On the ox cart, Shitou and Gou Wa also fortunately fulfilled their mission.

The girls gradually stopped crying. Each of them held a piece of candy in her mouth and ate it with relish, with tears in her eyes.

Gu Xixi let Mu Nanzhao ride the horse alone, and let the children sit on the ox cart.

She drove back and got on the official road, only to meet Lao Qian who was rushing over with a large group of villagers.

All the young and middle-aged people in Huachidu Village, regardless of gender, are here.

Everyone was holding farm tools in their hands, looking aggressive.

Old Qian saw Gu Xixi and Mu Nanzhao first, "Niece? Mr. Chen?"

Gu Xixi slowly stopped the car and said, "Uncle Qian, don't worry, everyone. The children are fine."

After confirming that Sakura and Doudou were brought back safely, everyone still surrounded the ox cart in indignation, intending to take the human traffickers off and give them a severe lesson.

Gu Xixi looked embarrassed and said, "Let's not do it. If he is beaten to death, it will be difficult to explain to the government."

Only then did everyone realize that several human traffickers were tied up and squeezed into a corner, with blood all over their heads and faces.

Even Lao Qian looked surprised.

Gu Xixi said awkwardly, "They are all alive. They just have some external injuries that look scary, but they are not dead."

Old Qian waved his hand and said, "Then don't fight them. Just hand them over to the government office and be done with it."

When the criminal was received by the county government that day, they sent two runners to the village at noon to inquire about the situation.

Gu Xixi and Mu Nanzhao, as eyewitnesses, provided eyewitness testimony.

Of course, one of the questions that cannot be ignored is “How did the prisoner’s head become bloody and his brain become shaken?”

This is what Western medicine later called "concussion."

Gu Xixi did as Mu Nanzhao had said before.

In addition, Shitou and Gou Wa were far away in the grass at the time and did not see it clearly. They only knew that the bad guys fell into a ball and cried for their parents.

This actually indirectly confirmed what Gu Xixi said.

The yamen runner did not become suspicious in the end and went back after recording everything.

This incident has sounded a wake-up call to every household in Huachidu Village. The village school is on holiday and the children are running around playing, so safety issues cannot be taken lightly.

It just so happens that the adults have been idle at home recently and have plenty of time to take care of the children.

The snow died down in the afternoon, but started to get heavier before evening.

Aunt Zhang stewed a big pot of food. Thinking that it was snowing so heavily and no one would come at this moment, she walked towards the door, intending to lock it early so that the family could sit on the kang and eat peacefully.

But just as she touched the bolt, there was a loud and rapid knock on the door.

Aunt Zhang looked through the crack of the door in confusion, "Who is it?"

Four tall men, dressed in black clothes and black boots, were standing outside the door, all dressed as yamen runners.

The person knocking on the door had a stern face and a fierce tone, "Open the door! Is Chen Fang home?"

Aunt Zhang had no choice but to open the door and said with an apologetic smile, "Didn't the yamen clerk go back at noon? Why are you here again? And it's so late, and it's snowing heavily..."

"What's wrong with such a heavy snow?" the yamen runner retorted unhappily, and without saying a word, he pushed Aunt Zhang aside and walked into the yard.

"No matter how heavy the snow is, we have to arrest those who need to be arrested!"