Yang Qiaoqiao looked at the box that Huo Beixiao had opened in front of her, somewhat incredulous.
Huo Beixiao's dowry chests were filled with large and small yellow croakers, porcelain, jade, antiques, and calligraphy and paintings.
The box that held the small yellow croakers was clearly half empty; no wonder Huo Beixiao helped her pay off all the bank loans she had taken out shortly after the accident.
She was still wondering where his money came from, since the profits from the electronics store and the cement factory were calculated and directly deposited into her account.
So that's where it all is.
"Honey, don't worry. I'll sell the stuff tonight, and we'll wire the money first thing tomorrow morning."
An'an and Lele will definitely come back to us.
Huo Beixiao comforted Yang Qiaoqiao with a kiss on the forehead.
Yang Qiaoqiao was no longer as panicked as before. In any case, at least she had a direction now.
"I'll go with you tonight."
Yang Qiaoqiao said firmly.
If they want to sell so many yellow croakers for cash all at once, they definitely can't do it through legitimate channels; they can only resort to other shady methods.
Taking the dark side carries risks.
Huo Beixiao hadn't originally planned to take her, but since she brought it up, he thought about it and nodded, "Okay, then you can take a nap first."
Yang Qiaoqiao didn't really want to sleep, but in order not to worry anyone, she obediently prepared to go back to her bedroom.
Just as they stepped out of the storage room, they heard a noise downstairs. It was Lin Xiaohui and Yang Jianguo returning from their search. Like them, Lin Xiaohui and Yang Jianguo had also found nothing.
Lin Xiaohui's eyes were so swollen from crying that they looked like rotten peaches.
When she went upstairs and saw Yang Qiaoqiao, she couldn't help but cry again, "Qiaoqiao, I'm sorry, it's all Mom's fault. Mom didn't take good care of An'an and Lele. Hit Mom! Waaah..."
Yang Qiaoqiao was emotionally exhausted, sad, and completely drained, but she hadn't reached the point where she couldn't distinguish right from wrong.
"Mom, it's not your fault. They planned to kidnap the child. You alone are no match for them."
"Kidnapping?" Yang Jianguo, who had followed, asked in shock.
They had always believed that human traffickers had kidnapped the two children.
Yang Qiaoqiao nodded and told them what had happened.
Upon hearing that number, Lin Xiaohui was completely bewildered. "Five hundred thousand? My God, where are we going to raise so much money?!"
"Damn it! An ordinary worker's monthly salary is only around two hundred yuan, and these kidnappers are asking for hundreds of thousands! They...they..."
Lin Xiaohui couldn't think of any words to curse those people for a moment.
“Little sister, don’t worry about the money. I have 50,000 yuan saved up here. I’ll go get it for you right away,” Yang Jianguo said.
Yang Qiaoqiao waved her hand to stop him, "Brother, no need. Bei Xiao and I have already taken care of the money. We'll make the transfer tomorrow."
"Mom, brother, you've both worked so hard these past few days. You should go and get some rest."
Yang Jianguo was somewhat surprised when he heard Yang Qiaoqiao say that she was going to wire the money directly. He originally wanted to advise Yang Qiaoqiao to be more cautious.
At the very least, they should let that person hear the child's voice over the phone, or send them a keepsake from the child to see, before sending money to the other party.
But he swallowed the words back.
The two children are as important as life itself to Qiaoqiao.
Now, as long as there is even the slightest hope, Qiaoqiao is willing to spend any amount of money to achieve it.
If he were to stop Qiaoqiao from sending the money at this point, and something were to happen to the two children, it would be tantamount to shattering Qiaoqiao's hopes.
After careful consideration, he sighed.
Oh well, money is just an external thing. If I lose it, I can always earn it back.
Yang Qiaoqiao returned to her bedroom but couldn't sleep at all. She took out and sorted through all the things her two children had worn, used, and played with since birth.
Looking at those things, she felt as if her two children were still in their cribs, and that as soon as she walked over, they would grin at her with their toothless little mouths.
As she thought about it, she couldn't help but hug the baby's little clothes, and her eyes welled up with tears again.
On the other side.
In a courtyard in the suburbs.
"Wow—wow—"
The two little ones only drank a little bit of leftover formula from last night this morning, and they are already crying loudly from hunger.
Especially Lele, whose desperate cries were incredibly penetrating and could be heard clearly in the next yard.
Hearing the child's heart-wrenching cries, the old lady in the next yard couldn't help but ask her daughter-in-law, "Lanhua, who exactly are these people who moved in next door? Why aren't they doing anything about their child crying like this?"
Lanhua is the woman who went next door this morning to ask if anyone was home.
"I don't know. I heard the child crying terribly this morning, and I went to ask again. There was a response from inside. Maybe the person is young and hasn't raised children before, so they don't know how to take care of children!"
Guo Jingyun lowered her voice and said to her daughter-in-law, "What mother would bear to let her child cry like this? Lan Hua, you saw that couple when they moved in before, didn't they look like human traffickers?"
Wu Lanhua thought for a moment, "The man was tall and thin, and the woman was of average height and a little chubby. She looked like she had just given birth."
that is……"
Wu Lanhua said, then hesitated slightly.
Guo Jingyun quickly pressed, "So what happened? They look like human traffickers to you?"
Wu Lanhua said, "Didn't they move next door to us two months ago? Mom, did you hear the child crying before?"
Guo Jingyun slapped her thigh and said with certainty, "No, absolutely not! Those two days of killing dogs, they must be human traffickers. I wonder which family's child they stole?"
"Orchid, quick, let's go to the police station to report this."
When Wu Lanhua heard her mother-in-law say this, she hesitated for a moment. "Mother, I heard that these human traffickers are all in the same line, and they have many accomplices."
"What if we report it to the police and they retaliate? Should we wait for Dad and Dayong to come back and ask them first?"
Guo Jingyun calmed down and asked Wu Lanhua, "Lanhua, shouldn't Pengyu and Xiaoyu be getting out of school soon? Go pick them up."
During this period, please pick them up and drop them off at school; don't be careless.
Wu Lanhua took off her apron and nodded, saying, "Okay, I'll go right away."
After Wu Lanhua left, Guo Jingyun went back inside.
But the increasingly heart-wrenching cries of the child next door seemed to possess a magical power, penetrating the walls and reaching her ears.
It stung her so much that she felt a deep, agonizing pain.
About half an hour later, she could no longer hear the child crying in the room, but she felt even more distressed.
He quickly ran to the yard and listened carefully against the wall.
I could hear the child next door still crying, but the child had probably been crying for too long and was too tired, so his voice was hoarse and he couldn't cry much anymore.
Just then, she faintly heard a vicious curse coming from next door, "You little bastard, go ahead and cry! Go ahead and cry! Aren't you so good at crying?"
Guo Jingyun shuddered upon hearing this, her horrified expression becoming even more serious.
The person who moved in next door is definitely a human trafficker!
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