"Mom, please don't sell me out. Zhao Zhao can do a lot of work..."
Li Ying impatiently kicked Zhao Zhao away as he crawled over. The dark cellar was filled with a pungent stench. "It's so stinking! How am I going to use this cellar from now on?"
Li Chengjun also covered his nose. God knows how many times he vomited that day. His stomach was cramping.
"Alright, alright, if I wasn't afraid that the beast would find Zhaodi, would I do such a disgusting thing?"
Zhao Zhao huddled in the corner, still feeling scared.
After Chengru and Chengjie fell into the water, she wanted to go back to the village to call for help. But as soon as she turned a corner, she saw her uncle sitting on a rock. She rushed over and said, "Uncle! Chengru and Chengjie fell into the water! Go and save them... Um..."
Before he could finish his words, Zhao Zhao's mouth was covered and he knew nothing after that.
Li Chengjun picked her up and took a shortcut back to Li Ying's house. Fortunately, there was no one in the village and he was fast, so he locked Zhaozhao in the cellar without much effort.
Then he sprinkled some slop in the cellar to cover up Zhao Zhao's smell, and forced himself to stay with her and wait for Li Ying to come back.
Li Ying pretended to search the village with everyone for a whole night before returning home slowly. She even hid this from Fu Tianming. She waited until her husband fell asleep before she went into the cellar with some food.
After Zhaozhao woke up, she cried several times and was severely beaten by Li Chengjun. She lay on the ground and dared not make a sound. When she saw Li Ying, her eyes suddenly burst into light, as if she saw some hope. She crawled over with difficulty and hugged her mother's legs.
"Mom..." Zhao Zhao's little hands clenched Li Ying's trouser legs, "Mom, please don't sell Zhao Zhao..."
Zhao Zhao learned from Li Chengjun that she was about to be sold, and the ignorant girl instinctively realized the danger.
Li Ying is her mother. She wouldn't be so cruel as to see her uncle sell herself, right?
"Get away, you annoying little girl," Li Ying covered her nose and kicked Zhao Zhao away. "What a crappy name! Your grandparents, these two old bastards, are so different from other old people. Why are they so troublesome?
It's so stinking, I can't sell it for a good price!"
Li Chengjun looked at his sister angrily and said, "I've found a buyer, but it's far away. The son of that family is a fool, and they want to buy a daughter-in-law to take home and raise her. The price they offered is very high! It's more than this amount!"
Li Ying looked at the finger his brother raised and asked, "How much? Five dollars?!"
Li Chengjun curled his lips in disdain, "You're useless! It's fifty yuan!"
Li Ying was immediately excited. Fifty yuan was two months' salary for a city worker, enough for their family to eat for a long time. "Great, great, I didn't expect this little girl to be so valuable!"
"If it were a son, he would sell it for a higher price." Li Chengjun glanced at his sister with ill intent.
Li Ying's face changed. "No! Success is my destiny. I won't sell it for any amount of money!"
Li Chengjun naturally knew that his sister disagreed, he just said it casually.
But Zhao Zhao had already understood that it was her mother, not her uncle, who wanted to sell her.
Zhao Zhao curled up there sadly, feeling cold, hungry and scared. Grandpa and grandma, aunt, Panpan, Baoer, Heiwa, will you come to save her?
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At this time, there were quite a few people sitting in the Fu family. The village chief, secretary and several young people were accompanying the police for questioning, while others were anxiously waiting for news.
Heiwa has been running around in the mountains all night and hasn't seen anything suspicious. Now everyone suspects that it was human traffickers who have transported Zhaozhao out of the village. If that's the case, then things will be difficult.
"Don't worry, we'll send more people back now to check the surrounding stations. We won't let any suspicious people go!"
When Fu Baoer heard what the police said, she felt confused. If they had left the village, there was no reason for there to be no trace at all. With Heiwa's speed, they shouldn't have run far. Besides, there were children playing at the entrance of the village, and the road on the mountain was not easy to walk on. How could there be no footprints left?
Fu Baoer lay in Song Fang's arms and looked towards the table. There was a kerosene lamp there, dimly illuminating an area. Only the area around the lamp holder was dark.
It's dark under the lamp!
At this moment, it seemed as if all the doubts were connected, and Fu Baoer immediately understood that this matter must be related to his stepmother.
Why was she so active today? She kept saying that the person must have been taken away by wild beasts in the mountains.
There was also the incident of Fu Chengru and Fu Chengjie falling into the water and leading Heiwa away. Everything had a reason.
Fu Baoer called out to Heiwa in his heart, who had been blaming himself all night, and asked him to go find Li Ying quickly.
Heiwa was trying hard to find clues on the mountain when he heard his master's instructions. He turned around and ran down the mountain towards the old house, barking all the way, attracting everyone to run over to see what was happening.
There were many people gathered in front of the Fu family's old house.
Fu Tianming was woken up, rubbed his eyes, turned around and did not see his wife, but his youngest son Chengcai was sleeping soundly.
"What are you arguing about? It's late at night, what are you doing?"
"Fu Tianming, how can you still sleep? Your daughter is lost," someone said, looking down on the family with an extremely unfriendly tone, "If you didn't know, you would think she wasn't your daughter!"
Before Fu Tianming could curse back, he saw Heiwa rushing in and sniffing around in the yard.
"What are you doing! Haven't you been looking for her all night? The girl might have been eaten to the bone! In my opinion, don't waste your energy! Just leave it to fate!" Fu Tianming was in a bad mood when he woke up and was very annoyed.
Heiwa didn't smell Zhaozhao's scent, but he was sensitive enough to smell a stench, which came from the toilet on one side and the backyard on the other. It was faint and not obvious.
"Woof!" Heiwa took the lead and ran towards the backyard. Seeing this, the others followed closely. Heiwa always makes a big discovery every time he does this!
Fu Manshan and Jiang Fengxia, supported by Fu Xiuzhi, stumbled into the crowd, "Heiwa, what did you find? Did you find Zhao Zhao?"
Fu Tianming felt a little unhappy when he saw everyone rushing into the backyard, but when he saw the police, the secretary and the village chief behind him, he didn't dare to say anything and just muttered a few words of "trouble".
Heiwa was arching his back against the entrance to the cellar, barking non-stop.
"I say, Third Brother Fu, did you hide your daughter in the cellar? Otherwise, why is Heiwa acting so abnormal?"
"That's right, are you going to sell your daughter?"
Fu Tianming was immediately overwhelmed: "Bullshit, I don't need to go through so much trouble to sell my daughter, why not just sell her directly!"
The police officer behind him turned pale: "Human trafficking is illegal! Even your own daughter is not allowed!"
"That's right, if you didn't do it, just open the cellar!"
"Maybe it's not Zhao Zhao who's in there, it's the third sister's family! There's no sign of Li Ying despite all the commotion. Could she be having an affair?"
"Hahahahahahaha..." The crowd suddenly burst into laughter.
Fu Tianming's face turned purple. Could it be that his wife was really having an affair? But compared to this, he suddenly realized that maybe it wasn't a cheating relationship, but that his wife had actually done something she had wanted to do for a long time...
That's serious.
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