Li Xiu Lian stood at the door and watched Zhao Defu say this, her eyes moved.
The more Zhao Defu looked at her, the more he liked her. An obedient woman was better than anything else. He turned around and pointed at Li Cuilian: "What are you still standing there for? Go! Clean these up! Don't prick anyone."
Li Cuilian walked forward silently, like a slave in the house, and a mentally depressed and numb slave at that.
"Comrade Zhao, when will you call the police to send me home?" Shi Ye sighed and asked in a delicate voice.
Zhao Defu's eyes flickered, and he grinned, "Why are you in such a hurry? Look at my house, how much worse is it than yours in the city? If you can stay and live with me and get married, I promise to send you home in person!"
As he spoke, Zhao Defu took a few steps towards Shi Ye, with a lewd and obscene expression on his face.
Shi also showed a hesitant and struggling expression at the right time, crying: "But, I'm already engaged! Comrade Zhao, how can you go back on your word? Please let me go! My family is waiting for me to return!"
Zhao Defu's face suddenly turned sinister, and he slammed the table: "Go back? You've eaten my food, so you're my family. Where are you going back to? I advise you to be obedient and stay in Hutou Mountain. We can talk about everything. Otherwise, I'll throw you out to those human traffickers!"
First he spoke softly, then he used threats and inducements. Zhao Defu was an expert in this area.
Just as Zhao Defu was about to grab Shiye's hand, Li Cuilian suddenly emerged from under the table and said, "Clean it up."
She stood between the two of them. Zhao Defu looked at her face, feeling a little unhappy, but he also knew that he couldn't be too hasty about this matter. He snorted coldly, "Take her back to the room to sleep! Try to persuade her. Isn't it better for her to stay with me than to fall into the hands of human traffickers?"
Because of Fu Xing's impatience, Zhao Defu was too lazy to disguise himself anymore. After all, it was a rabbit that had already entered the hole, so there was no need to worry about it running away.
Li Cuilian lowered her head and nodded, while Zhao Defu glanced at Shi Ye with a determined look.
As soon as he left, the room fell silent. After a moment, Li Cuilian whispered, "Come on, I'll take you upstairs."
Shi didn't refuse and followed Li Cuilian upstairs. Compared with the upscale decoration of the first floor, the second floor was like a weed nest, without even a proper room. Li Cuilian pointed to the weed nest in the corner and said hesitantly, "Let's sleep here."
After she finished speaking, she was about to go downstairs, and Shiya suddenly asked in a calm voice: "Why didn't you expose me?"
Li Cuilian paused, lowered her head even more, and said nothing. Instead, she quickened her pace and went downstairs.
Shi didn't care. He walked through the grass nest, stood on the second floor and looked down. Through the gaps in the locked window frames, he could see the scene in the yard and the twinkling lights of fire in the village in the distance. The Hutou Mountain in the night looked eerie.
*
Bao Qing sat in the passenger seat, looked around, frowned and said, "Is this Hutou Mountain?"
"Hutou Mountain?" Xiao Yue frowned slightly, his black pupils reflected the inky forest.
Even he had heard of this place. It was a lawless area in Ling'an City, named after its shape which resembled a tiger's head. There were many vegetation and wild animals in the mountains, and it had never been developed. However, there were some villages located in it, and the villagers were wild and undisciplined.
Bao Qing's face became even uglier. "It is indeed Hutou Mountain. The villagers here are in collusion with each other and are very united. There was even a farce scandal. Over time, no one is willing to come here. If we really cause trouble, I'm afraid there will be bloodshed."
Xiao Yue half-closed his eyes, his pupils were full of indifference: "Farce scandal?"
Before Bao Qing could speak, the police drove over and shone their lights. Someone exclaimed, "Hutoushan?!"
Then, a policeman opened the car window and shouted to Bao Qing: "Comrade Bao Qing, are you sure you are in Hutou Mountain? If you really think so, we may have to call more people. This is not a place where you can just go casually."
Xiao Yue didn't even look at the policeman, and said coldly: "Human life is at stake, do you want to go or not?"
After saying that, he stepped on the accelerator, and the military vehicle went straight into the mountains like a roaring beast in the night.
"A young man from the village went out to work and brought back a girlfriend when he came back. Unexpectedly, the son of the village secretary fell in love with her. The young man's parents were afraid of offending the village officials, so they ignored the girl. In the end, she couldn't stand the grievance and committed suicide. If the young man hadn't felt so bad and called the police, no one would have known about it!"
"The people on Hutou Mountain are in decline, and the villagers don't even have basic morals. Even when the police brought the lesbian's parents to their home, they tried to obstruct them and turned against the police. If the police hadn't used their guns in the end, they probably wouldn't have been able to bring back the lesbian's body. But the villagers all said that the lesbian fell off the cliff and died. How do you think this case should be judged?"
Bao Qing said in a heavy tone: "If Comrade Makiye and the others were sold to Hutoushan, it would be very difficult to deal with them."
Xiao Yue's eyes curved into a cold arc, and his momentum became stronger and stronger: "No matter how difficult it is, we must bring him back."
When Bao Qing heard what Xiao Yue said, he grinned and said, "Of course! At worst, we can flatten this Hutou Mountain! We want to see what kind of monsters are hiding in it! Maybe we can even find the den of human traffickers and benefit the people!"
Hearing this, Xiao Yue paused, turned his head and glanced at Bao Qing. The guy's initial heavy expression disappeared, and instead he winked and looked teasing, as if he had been testing him from the beginning, testing his attitude towards rescuing Shiya.
Xiao Yue was about to speak when his eyebrows suddenly became sharp, and the next moment, he stepped on the accelerator to the bottom.
“Bang—Ka—”
There was a loud and sharp noise, and the military vehicle seemed to be obstructed by something, and Bao Qing was almost thrown out.
He looked back and saw that the tightly sealed fence was knocked over. He frowned and snorted coldly: "These stupid villagers really think that Hutou Mountain is their own territory? They are still doing this kind of thing!"
Xiao Yue pursed his lips, his eyes were deep and hard to discern: "Do you remember the bandit attack on the army in the northwest that year?"
Hearing this, Bao Qing was stunned, touched the goose bumps on his arm, and hesitated: "Why do you suddenly mention this? Hasn't that group of bandits been executed? Is there something else I don't know?"
Xiao Yue spoke in a moderate voice, his Adam's apple rolling slowly: "Back then, the bandits attacked the army, and some of them slipped through the net. The Northwest Army has been looking for them, but unfortunately there has been no news for many years. I didn't expect to find traces here."
"Hiss - a trafficking case actually involves this group of dangerous elements? How did you know?" The incident at that time caused a lot of uproar. At that time, he had not yet retired from the army and was still a general under Xiao Yue. Naturally, he was aware of the matter.
Xiao Yue's words were calm, but there was a hint of rigor in them: "The fence. The way it's tied is different from that of ordinary people. The lower right corner is smeared with red powder, which is used to drive away poisonous snakes in the Gobi Desert. It can't be used on Hutou Mountain."
Bao Qing was furious: "They have been accustomed to it for many years and have retreated to Hutou Mountain! They are now trafficking in women and children?"
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