Chapter 47: Kidnapped
It was so dark at that time that once Gou Wa got home, he basically wouldn't come out.
Sudden disappearance is likely due to danger.
When Gou Wa's mother heard that her son might be in danger, she burst into tears: "My son! Many boys have gone missing in the village before. I used to be very careful. Yesterday, I thought it would be okay for a few of us to go out together. But because I was busy with housework, I was careless for a moment, and how could he get lost!"
Speaking of trafficking, Hu Xiner suddenly thought of the Luo family.
Luo Yan almost kidnapped and sold Mu Qing.
Could there be any connection between these two things?
"Auntie, don't worry, Gou Wa will be fine." While comforting Gou Wa's mother, she couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
She recalled Luo Yan's guilty expression when she casually mentioned that the Luo family was trafficking people at Li Sangui's butcher shop.
The dog's mother sat down and cried for a long time. Suddenly, she crawled over with her hands and feet and kowtowed to Hu Xiner: "Boss Hu, everyone says you are a good person and you have great powers. Please save our dog! I beg you, I beg you..."
"You can't do that!" Hu Xin'er hurriedly helped her up. Fortunately, her legs had almost healed recently, otherwise she would not have been able to pull Gou Wa's mother.
Even so, Gou Wa's mother threw herself on the ground desperately. The only things a poor family could ask others for were their dignity and life.
Her forehead was bruised and swollen, and she cried miserably: "I knew it long ago. In the past, lost children in the village have never been found. My Gou Wa, he is my sweetheart! Please, Boss Hu."
"Auntie, get up!" Hu Xin'er gritted her teeth, "Don't worry, I will definitely find Gou Wa back."
Gou Wa's mother looked up blankly, as if she couldn't believe that Hu Xin'er was moved so easily.
She knew that rich people did not take human life seriously.
Hu Xin'er helped her up and wiped the dirt off her forehead: "Gou Wa will definitely come back, and you must see him safely."
"Thank you, Boss Hu, thank you so much!"
Gou Wa's mother kept wiping her tears and wanted to kowtow to Hu Xin'er, but was stopped.
Thinking of her child, new hope flashed in her eyes.
After comforting Gou Wa's mother, Hu Xin'er went straight to find Erdong.
"What? That little boy is missing?" Erdong was very surprised, and then he thought of something, "It's probably the Luo family!"
"What do you know?" Hu Xiner asked seriously.
"You don't seem surprised." Erdong looked at Hu Xiner strangely.
Hu Xiner then told the clues she had found and said that she also suspected it was the Luo family.
"Good guess." Erdong nodded. "I've discovered that the Luo family seems to be secretly engaging in the business of 'catching beggars', specifically kidnapping handsome little boys and selling them to wealthy families in the capital."
"Sell it to the capital? It's so far away, what's the point?" Hu Xiner couldn't believe it.
If it was sold to a nearby place, she could still understand it, but if it was sold so far away, the risks on the road were completely unpredictable.
"These children are handsome. If they are sold to brothels in the capital, or if they have special hobbies, they will be worth thousands of gold. It is a business with no capital investment. Because of the long journey, those poor families can't find the children at all. If they get sick or die on the way, they will be abandoned anywhere." Erdong lowered his eyes.
"Would the wealthy families in the capital dare to take her?" Hu Xin'er felt that she had underestimated the cruelty of this era. "That child is from an unknown background!"
Erdong sneered: "Do you think those wealthy families are any good? They are just a den of filth and dirt."
"Gou Wa is already eleven or twelve years old. Can't he speak? Can't he complain to the authorities? Is there no one to take care of such a poor child?" Hu Xin'er asked a series of questions.
"The powerful and wealthy are in collusion with the government, they are all birds of the same feather. Complaining will only lead to a beating. If you try to escape on the way, how can a child survive alone?" Erdong looked reluctant.
"After arriving in the capital, the supervision has become even stricter. Even if I tell you, no one will believe me. If something really happens, they will find a reason to execute you."
"Grant of death?!" Hu Xin'er found it extremely ironic. "Even if they were servants or small servants, don't they have human rights?"
"What are human rights?" Erdong sighed. "Those who were sold there like this have no household registration. They can only be considered illegal immigrants. Even if they are sold, they are still the lowest kind of slaves."
In many novels, ordinary girls from good families become maids or servants in wealthy families, and are raised to be more noble than the daughters of ordinary families.
But most people, once they sign the contract to sell themselves, will be forever buried in the filth of those people's homes. After all, no matter how rich a family's dog is, it is still just a dog.
Not to mention those children who have fallen into prostitution.
With the Luo family around, there are always children missing in the nearby villages, so if there are any good-looking boys in the family, the family members dare not let them go out easily before they reach adulthood.
Hu Xiner felt a little regretful. If she had known these things earlier, she would not have kept these children so late yesterday.
She also understood why she seemed to rarely see young men in the village, and why Mu Qing was so popular.
Because people rarely see such people in their daily lives. The more handsome they are, the more likely they are to encounter disasters and die early.
"Human trafficking is so rampant, why doesn't the local government do anything about it?" Hu Xiner asked seriously.
Although she was born in ancient times, she is a modern Chinese after all. In her mind, such a serious case must be reported to the police!
Erdong laughed at her naiveté: "Because the government is also involved. They use these handsome young men as connections to curry favor with the rich and powerful families in the capital."
The less capable they are of developing a place, the more they resort to unorthodox methods.
Hu Xin'er's sense of justice suddenly surged, and she couldn't help but condemn him, "Those are all human lives. They call themselves the people's parents. The official uniforms they wear, the salaries they receive, every stitch and thread is given by the people! Have their consciences been eaten by dogs?"
"Those people, their brains are distorted by all their reading, and they only want to climb the ladder. It's not just like this here, it's the same in officialdom everywhere!" Erdong gritted his teeth and said, "What can we do?"
Back to the matter of Gou Wa, there are so many intricate connections behind such a small human trafficking case.
The government is protecting the Luo family, so even if there is solid evidence, I'm afraid they won't release the person.
And by that time, I'm afraid everyone would have been sent away.
If we want to rescue Gou Wa, we have to find another way.
But when he threw away the gorgeous clothes, Erdong said that even someone with such high martial arts skills as him could not enter the Luo family.
Hu Xiner knew that this landlord was not an ordinary person, but the child was lost and she had to break into the Luo family even if it was a dangerous place.
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