Yao Kangle was clearly well-prepared; the vouchers he took out were already cut up.
Moreover, these were vouchers valid at the store. When the waiter who took orders saw Yao Kangle pull out that stack of vouchers, his expression went blank.
After the final exchange, Yao Kangle paid fifty yuan out of his own pocket and received a large table of food enough for three adults and five children.
Shen Qingqing gave him a thumbs-up with admiration in her eyes.
Yao Kangle chuckled smugly.
The children enjoyed their meal to the fullest, but then felt sleepy and declined the teachers' suggestion to go for a walk, choosing instead to return to the hotel for a good night's sleep.
Unexpectedly, they didn't encounter any human traffickers when they arrived, but they had a terrifying experience when they left.
On Sunday morning, the teachers leading the group and accompanying the students woke them up one by one. They had booked tickets for the same time as when they came, so they could have dinner on their way back.
Shen Qingqing had no appetite when she woke up early. She took the bread given to her by the teacher and followed the teacher in charge into the train station listlessly. She was so tired from sitting on the train yesterday that she had no interest in seeing what the train station in the provincial capital was like.
I arrived early today, so I have time to walk around and look at things.
Upon looking at him, Shen Qingqing recognized a familiar face.
Well, they weren't exactly acquaintances. She knew him, but he didn't know her.
It's that student I mentioned yesterday who was half an hour late but still managed to finish the competition on time.
However, Shen Qingqing noticed that the student seemed a bit off, clinging to a seemingly ordinary and unremarkable middle-aged man, being carried by him, with his eyes tightly closed.
The student was still wearing that exquisite school uniform embroidered with gold thread, but the middle-aged man carrying him was covered in dust and dirt, and his shoes were those old-fashioned military green cloth shoes.
The middle-aged man looked hurried, and he didn't even notice that the person he was carrying was about to fall off due to his rapid pace.
Shen Qingqing stared at them. She didn't know who the student's teacher was, but a school that would dress its students in such exquisite uniforms couldn't possibly have a teacher who was so... plain, right?
Suddenly, the middle-aged man seemed to see something, changed direction slightly, and then ran over quickly.
When Shen Qingqing saw another woman in a pink dress whispering to a middle-aged man, she suddenly realized that something was wrong.
She immediately tugged hard at the teacher in charge of the group from Yanqi Elementary School, then pulled her towards the student, shouting, "Teacher! There's a kidnapper!"
The teacher in charge was shocked by her words.
As Shen Qingqing pulled her along, she pointed at the middle-aged man ahead who had finished talking to the woman in the pink dress and said, "That's the man carrying someone on his back. The one he's carrying is the one who was late for the exam yesterday!"
The two teachers who were originally following behind them caught up with them immediately when they suddenly started running, even though they didn't understand why.
So he also heard what Shen Qingqing said.
The teacher in charge immediately turned to one of the female teachers accompanying the group and said, "Xiao Yang! Please go and contact the staff at the train station right away!"
The female teacher, called Xiao Yang, pushed Wu Zeyi toward the male teacher and then ran towards the ticket booth.
With a group of children in tow, the two remaining teachers at Yanqi Elementary School were torn between the fear of losing their own children if they ran ahead and the fear of falling behind if they were too slow.
They are too far away now to make a scene and alert the enemy.
Seeing that the two people were about to take the person somewhere unknown, Shen Qingqing hardened her heart, mustered her courage, let go of the teacher's hand, gritted her teeth, and ran desperately towards the two human traffickers.
"Hey!" The teacher in charge was left behind by Shen Qingqing before she knew it.
Shen Qingqing ran with all her might, and thankfully, the hurried footsteps in the train station were loud and numerous, so her loud commotion did not attract the attention of the two people.
The closer Shen Qingqing got, the clearer she could see the student being carried on the middle-aged man's back and what his condition was like.
He was being shaken and jolted so much, and his posture was so strange, yet he didn't wake up. This is clearly an abnormal state.
As he got closer to the two people, the middle-aged man finally noticed Shen Qingqing, who was running towards him at full speed.
His expression changed, and he immediately sped up to avoid Shen Qingqing.
But he was carrying someone on his back, and when he found Shen Qingqing, there were only a few meters left between them. His braking speed was not as fast as Shen Qingqing's, who was running at full speed.
Shen Qingqing stared intently at the middle-aged man, and finally, when they were only a hair's breadth apart, she leaped forward and pounced on him.
The middle-aged man couldn't dodge in time and was knocked off his feet by Shen Qingqing's impact, causing the person on his back to be thrown off.
With the middle-aged man acting as a cushion, Shen Qingqing rolled away and got up.
But the student wasn't so lucky. No one caught him, and he slammed hard to the ground. He was already unconscious in an abnormal state, and now he was physically unconscious.
"Grab this man and the woman in the pink dress! They're human traffickers! They're abducting students from a private elementary school!" Shen Qingqing shouted as she ran toward the student, pointing at the man who had fallen to the ground, grimacing, and the woman in the pink dress who was helping him up.
Regardless of the era, the term "human trafficker" is a bombshell in the public eye.
The onlookers, who were initially unaware of what was going on, rushed forward and surrounded the two people without even having time to judge whether it was true or not.
Then a burly man grabbed the two men by the neck and pinned them to the ground.
The human traffickers were apprehended, and the train station staff that Teacher Yang had contacted finally arrived in a hurry.
Shen Qingqing finally ran to the student who had been thrown out of the air. When she turned him over, she saw a large, red, swollen bump on his forehead, with signs of bleeding.
She immediately shouted, "Staff! He's injured and bleeding! He needs wound treatment and bandaging!"
After the staff who had come over checked the situation, they immediately took out their walkie-talkies and notified the platform.
The middle-aged man and the woman in the pink dress, who had been restrained, started yelling: "What's wrong with you, kid! You even made my son fall! You're accusing us of being child traffickers! Who are you! You ill-mannered brat!"
Shen Qingqing held the boy's head tightly, not daring to move, but her mouth didn't stop: "You say he's your son? How can you prove it? You're old and ugly, while this older brother looks handsome and good-looking even when he's asleep. What kind of son is he to you?"
"You just spout nonsense like that, aren't you afraid your real son will suffer retribution!"
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