Guan Yuxi quickly took out another handful of candy and finally managed to appease the little boy and the dog.
Lin Tiandi slapped her younger brother in an annoyance, "Mind your own business!"
Lin Guoyun felt extremely wronged.
It's clearly a good deed, so how did it become meddling?
Guan Yuxi looked at the dog that was eyeing her menacingly and laughed rather unkindly.
A man and a dog, with shifty eyes and a fierce look on each other, it's hard to tell who is the rat and who is the dog.
"Guards! Arrest the human traffickers!"
The heart-wrenching scream startled Guan Yuxi.
Before the three could react, they were surrounded.
"We're here to discuss business, not to traffic people."
Guan Yuxi pointed inside the bamboo door.
The leader, an old, thin, dark-skinned middle-aged woman, immediately retorted, "You're talking nonsense!"
You've been here for ages, but you haven't gone in yet.
They were giving the military kids candy and coaxing them; they're clearly human traffickers.
Lin Tiandi pulled her younger brother in front of her, "My brother was bitten by your dog, and we didn't say anything."
You even accused us of being human traffickers?
"Don't human traffickers just grab a child and run?"
The group glanced at the motorcycles behind them and whispered among themselves for a while.
But they still didn't let go.
"Sister Tiantian, may I borrow your work ID?"
Guan Yuxi handed over Lin Tiandi's work badge, saying, "My sister works at the supply and marketing cooperative selling clothing. We're here to discuss clothing accessories."
She paused, then added, "This dog is really impressive; it stopped us."
Out of desperation, I gave the dog two candies, and the child ran out...
She certainly couldn't bring herself to talk about the little boy fighting with the dog for candy.
Anyway, I've already eaten it.
The children in Lengjiagou were just as unsophisticated; when she was little...
Well, thankfully, there was no Xiaobai back then!
"You brat, are you trying to steal candy from Big Yellow again?"
"Spit it out!"
The middle-aged woman immediately took her hands on the little boy.
The little boy immediately started crying again, his lips trembling as he looked at Guan Yuxi with teary eyes.
"Uh, that one was given to him by me."
The one they tried to steal was snatched back by Big Yellow.
Fearing she wouldn't believe her, Guan Yuxi pointed at Lin Guoyun and said, "Dahuang thought he was hitting the child, so it bit him."
The middle-aged woman apologized to Lin Guoyun and then said to Guan Yuxi with embarrassment, "I'm really sorry, I mistook you for human traffickers."
My surname is Hu, you can call me Sister Hu.
"Let's go inside and talk."
She opened the bamboo door, and Guan Yuxi then realized that something was wrong with it.
It used to be an iron gate, but it was only recently changed to a bamboo gate.
I noticed she was staring at the door.
Sister Hu sighed and said, "I took this door down and sold it."
This is my second son. My eldest daughter was abducted by human traffickers a few months ago.
My husband sold everything he could to try and find our daughter…
Guan Yuxi and Lin Tiandi looked at each other in bewilderment. No wonder!
She said, "How could I be mistaken for a human trafficker for no reason?"
“It’s not just my daughter; there’s another girl in our team who was also abducted. They’re both around eleven or twelve years old.”
Can a teenager be abducted?
Lin Tiandi was somewhat surprised, "Was it robbed or kidnapped?"
"It was a combination of robbery and crutches."
Sister Hu's mood sombered, and she forced a smile, saying, "Please feel free to look around; there are only some leftover stock."
I won't be doing these clearing-outs.
This is a relatively large factory.
The place was cleaned thoroughly, and all the machinery and equipment were still there.
The small warehouse was filled with zippers, embroidery, appliqués, buttons and other items.
Guan Yuxi and the others looked through all the items.
The factory's previous prosperity can also be seen from the leftover stock.
Those items are all of good quality.
It's clear that Sister Hu is someone who wants to make something of herself.
Guan Yuxi felt a little sorry for her.
"Sister Hu, are you not planning to continue?"
Forgive my bluntness, but finding your daughter will cost you a lot of money.
Even in the 21st century, with its highly developed information technology, finding missing children remains extremely difficult.
Moreover, this was in the 1970s when transportation was underdeveloped.
Human traffickers can just haphazardly put someone on a train, then transfer them to another train, and who knows where they'll end up?
Sister Hu covered her face and squatted in the middle of the factory building, crying.
After a while, Guan Yuxi also squatted down and gently patted her shoulder.
She didn't know how to comfort her.
She had personally experienced the pain of losing her beloved child.
She knew that those empty and powerless words were useless to say.
“Our country is so big, even if you two search together, you might not be able to find it.”
It would be better to run the factory well and have sufficient funds as a backing.
That way, your husband can go further and find his way faster.
When "Lost and Found" became a hit, Guan Yuxi didn't dare to go to the cinema to watch it.
She's easily moved to tears; she cried uncontrollably just from reading the plot summary.
She recalled that a very popular film critic at the time raised a highly controversial point:
If a child is abducted, the most sensible thing for parents to do is to have another child and forget the lost child through empathy.
Otherwise, even if the family is destroyed and people die, it will be of no use.
Because approximately 200,000 children are abducted each year in the country, the recovery rate is only 0.1%.
Sister Hu turned around and hugged Guan Yuxi, crying uncontrollably.
Guan Yuxi reciprocated by staying with her and crying along with her.
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