Chapter 409: Selling Children
"Give me back my son. Give me back my son's life, you murderer!"
As I got closer, I heard a woman crying loudly.
But because there were so many people gathered there, I couldn't tell where the person was crying and shouting.
"What's going on over there?"
The place occupied by Han Ying and the others was now surrounded by people, so she and Lu Yuan had no choice but to move back and put the two backpacks against the wall, then asked Qin Qinghai and the others.
"Xiao Han, do you remember that the two pairs of father and son lived across from us?"
When Wu Tingfang saw Han Ying and the others coming back, her strong curiosity prompted her to whisper to Han Ying and Lu Yuan what she had just learned.
"I remember there were three people before, a young couple and an older woman."
The old lady had also reminded Han Ying and the others not to sleep too deeply at night, in order to be careful of someone stealing their things.
She was referring to Li Baohui's family who lived next door to her aunt's family, but Li Baohui divorced her husband and left with her daughter.
"It turns out that the two father and son pairs who just moved in across from us are actually human traffickers! They sold a child to the couple across from us."
"We were afraid that the child would be found by his original parents, so we moved him to the innermost part."
After the end of the world, few people dare to have children.
Firstly, people don’t have much to eat. Secondly, the environment is bad and people are afraid they won’t be able to raise children. Thirdly, giving birth is too dangerous due to the lack of medical care and medicine.
But just because you don’t want to have children doesn’t mean your family doesn’t want a child to carry on the legacy.
Some people want to have a child, while others cannot afford to support one and want to sell their own child.
So a new industrial chain emerged, which is the reselling of children.
"Selling children?"
Yesterday, the older kid across the street said he wanted to ride the dog and then kill it.
When his father slapped him, Han Ying remembered that his father said, "I'll sell you out if you say that again."
Then the child became obedient instantly.
Originally everyone thought that the father said that to scare the child, but they didn't expect that the man was actually reselling the child.
"Yes, I heard the business is pretty good. Some people want to sell, some want to buy, and the brothers act as middlemen to make a profit from the difference."
Wu Tingfang actually heard what the onlookers said, that the brothers sometimes stole children and sold them.
However, she didn't know whether this was true or not, so she didn't dare to say anything nonsense.
"And then? How did it turn out like this?"
Some people are buying, some are selling, and the location has been moved. Shouldn't everything be peaceful and pretend that no one knows?
How did it turn out like this?
"And the child who was sold to that couple just died."
"The family that sold the child regretted it and went from house to house with food, hoping to get their child back. But when they found the child, they realized that the child was dead, so both families looked for a middleman."
He Xiu, who was standing by, saw that her daughter-in-law was still not getting to the point, so she interrupted and told Han Ying the main point.
After knowing the reason, Han Ying and Lu Yuan fell silent.
They are just bystanders in this kind of thing and cannot understand the feelings of the family when they sell the child, when they regret selling the child, or when they learn that the child has died.
I don’t know the mood of the family who bought the child, who gained and lost.
There is also the mood of the two brothers who acted as middlemen and resold the child, and when they told their own child that they were going to sell him.
In short, anyone who sells children deserves death, whether before or after the apocalypse.
The authorities deal with these kinds of cases as they are caught, but they still continue to happen.
Soon, soldiers who heard the news arrived took all three families away.
The soldiers didn't care about the family who sold the child, how they cried for their dead child, or how they asked the middleman and the person who bought the child to return the child to her.
She was the one who sold the child first. Who is she crying to now?
For this group of people, it’s okay if they cooperate, but if they don’t, we will directly execute them violently!
There were a dozen people in total from the three families, all of whom were tied up by the soldiers with ropes on their wrists and taken away directly.
"This mother is so heartless that she even sells the flesh that falls out of her own belly!"
"It's easy for you to talk, but if the whole family has nothing to eat, won't the child starve to death too?"
"Hey, how did that child die?"
"Don't mention that I just took a look at him. He was just skin and bones. I think he probably starved to death."
"They won't starve to death, will they? If someone has food to buy a child, will they buy him and not feed him?"
"If they didn't die of starvation, then they died of illness..."
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Han Ying and a few others sat against the wall, watching the onlookers who were reluctant to leave and were still discussing what had just happened.
But after all the guessing, no one knew how the child died.
There were too many people gathered there just now, so Han Ying didn't see what the child's body looked like.
It's normal for a few people to die in the apocalypse.
In other words, there is more official intervention in this life, and everyone’s life is much better.
In the previous life, no one would talk about things like this.
Because if you step on a dead person, no one will make a fuss.
The crowd gradually dispersed, and Han Ying and her team quickly returned to their previous state.
But the two pairs of father and son opposite, along with their luggage, were gone.
None of them talked about what happened to the child just now.
Instead, it was Lei Minghu who started asking about Han Ying and Lu Yuan's situation outside.
"The meteor shower should have stopped. We have been out for so long and haven't seen any falling meteorites. I guess we can go back tomorrow."
"Many of the buildings hit by meteorites were completely smashed through. If too many buildings were hit by meteorites, they would become dangerous buildings and uninhabitable."
Han Ying and Lu Yuan did not return to Hongmei Village to check, so they did not know what the situation was there.
But judging from the situation around here, the situation in Hongmei Village shouldn’t be that good either.
"What should we do if the house in Hongmei Village...?"
Everyone realized the seriousness of the matter, especially since they had several rooms' worth of firewood piled up there.
If a meteorite hits the room, all the firewood in the room will be set on fire.
Then the whole house will be reduced to nothing.
"We'll just have to take it one step at a time. If it's really uninhabitable there, we can only follow the official lead."
In fact, Lu Yuan has another intact house, but it is not within the scope of Penglai Base.
Moreover, that place had also been hit by a meteorite, so he couldn't guarantee what the situation would be.
"That's the only way, but if the temperature drops in a short period of time..."
Wu Tingfang knew that she didn't need to worry about the housing issue, as Han Ying and Lei Minghu would take care of it.
But she was worried about the cooling problem.
If all the firewood they had collected was burned, how would they survive the upcoming extreme cold?
"We'll see the details when we get back tomorrow. There's no point in us worrying here, right?"
Han Ying patted Wu Tingfang's arm and told her not to worry.
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