045, Come on, I'll carry you
045, Come on, I'll carry you
Tonight is Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon is very bright, its white light filling the entire Kyoto Prefecture and scattering across the blue brick streets. Compared to the bustling South Street, West Street is much quieter. The streets are deserted, and there are no small stalls selling goods. Only two lights are lit at the door of an inn on the street.
Kyoto Prefecture is very big, and it takes a long way to walk from West Street back to South Street.
As they walked along, Lu Mingfei's mind kept replaying the familiar voice he had heard at the entrance of the alley just after they were abducted. Who was that figure with his back hunched?
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration came to his mind, "I remember it!"
"She is Aunt Li!"
The hunchbacked old woman who had been talking to the traffickers was Aunt Li, who had been coming to their house to fetch water recently! Only then did Lu Mingfei realize that he had been targeted by traffickers for a long time. In today's incident, the young master who had been kidnapped with him might have been implicated by him and abducted by the traffickers as well.
"What do you remember?" Zhao Lang asked.
"I remember now. The old woman we just caught talking to the traffickers was our neighbor on Tongshu Street, Aunt Li. She often came to my house to fetch water!" Lu Mingfei quickly told the soldiers accompanying them Aunt Li's age, appearance, and where her home was. "Brother, you must hurry and notify everyone. Let's go arrest her together. Don't let her get away after hearing the news!"
"She is a human trafficker. Maybe everyone living in that yard has problems." The latter sentence was his guess, but Lu Mingfei felt it was pretty close.
Upon hearing this, the soldiers realized that these human traffickers were gang members.
Only when Zhao Lang heard Lu Mingfei calling someone "brother" did he feel unhappy for a moment. So, wasn't he the only brother?
A tall and thin young man among them said to the other brothers, "I will go back and tell the boss right away. You guys send the young master and the young master back first." After saying this, he turned around and ran, as if he was afraid that if he ran slower, the human traffickers would escape.
The remaining soldiers continued to escort the young master and the young prince back. To be more precise, they escorted the young prince home, while the young master went with someone else. At this time, the soldiers were also confused, not understanding why the young master left the Dingwang Mansion and insisted on going with someone else.
However, even though they were puzzled, no one dared to ask the young master the reason.
So, Lu Mingfei, escorted by several soldiers, led his younger brother towards South Street. His adoptive father had just explained to him the layout of Kyoto Prefecture. He knew that the four main streets of Kyoto Prefecture formed a cross, and the intersection in the middle was the Imperial City, where the emperor lived.
But knowing is one thing, he was not very clear about the way, so he still had to rely on a few soldiers to show them the way along the way, otherwise the two children would not know which way to go.
When they found the child next to them was tired, Zhao Lang walked around to the front of the child, turned his back to the child and said, "Come on, I'll carry you."
"No, no, I can walk by myself." After knowing the other party's identity, Lu Mingfei dared not let the young master carry him.
The soldiers who followed them did not dare to let these young masters condescend to carry a commoner boy, although they did not know what the relationship between the two was, and why the young master was so kind to a commoner boy.
Upon hearing this, a soldier hurriedly said, "Young Master, Young Master, let us carry you two away."
At this time, Zhao Lang glanced over and the person who made the suggestion did not dare to speak. Then, regardless of Lu Mingfei's wishes, he forcefully pulled the person onto his back.
"Hey! Wait a minute..." Lu Mingfei was forcibly pulled to someone's back. He was afraid that if he struggled, both of them would fall to the ground, so he had no choice but to cooperate and lie on the back of the young master who was only a few years older than him, and let the other party carry him away.
On the dark streets at night, a young boy was carrying a child even younger than him on his back as they walked on the blue brick street. Beside them were several soldiers who were sending them home.
The moonlight shone on them, and their shadows on the ground grew longer and longer...
***
When they finally walked back to South Street, there were no more dragon and lion dances, no more drum beats, and even fewer people walking around.
"It's my mother!"
Lu Mingfei spotted his mother who was looking for him on the street. He slipped off the back of the young master and ran towards his mother, shouting, "Mother!"
"Have you seen my child? He..."
At this time, Liu Sanniang was looking for people on the street to ask if they had seen her child. When she heard the voice of "Aniang", she turned her head suddenly and saw the child she had been looking for all night running towards her. A look of disbelief appeared in her eyes at first.
When the child bumped into her arms and called her "A'mother", Liu Sanniang burst into tears while holding the child, "Where have you been? Do you know that A'mother has been looking for you all night?"
"I'm sorry, Mom. It's my fault. Don't cry." Lu Mingfei looked at his mother who was hugging him and crying. He knew that he had disappeared for a night and had made his mother worry.
At this time, the soldiers came over and helped explain to the young lady: "Madam, don't be angry with the child. The young man was abducted by human traffickers. We just rescued some children and sent your young man back."
"What? Human traffickers?" She recognized every word she heard, but when they were put together, Liu Sanniang couldn't believe what she heard.
So the night their child disappeared, he was abducted by human traffickers?
When she realized this, Liu Sanniang's hands were shaking as she held the child. Her child was almost kidnapped?!
"Don't worry, mother. I'm fine. I'm back safely." Lu Mingfei felt his mother's body trembling. He raised his hand and patted his mother's back soothingly.
Liu Sanniang hugged the child tightly in her arms and apologized to the child while crying: "I'm sorry, mother shouldn't have misunderstood you. It's mother's fault. Mother didn't take good care of you."
Zhao Lang, who was standing aside at this time, looked at the mother and son hugging each other in front of him. He thought of his mother who was far away in Beijun. If his mother knew that he was kidnapped and sent back by bad guys, she would definitely hug him and cry like this.
He thought that he was now alone in Kyoto, a place he was not familiar with. He might not have the chance to go back to Beijun in the future, and he probably would not see his mother and father again. Zhao Lang felt sad.
After being comforted by the child for a while, Liu Sanniang calmed down and stood up. She bowed deeply to the officials who brought her child back, expressing her gratitude, "Thank you for bringing our child back."
"You're welcome, it's what we should do." Several soldiers waved their hands to indicate that they didn't need to thank them.
The young master was standing next to them. Even if they had to thank someone, they should thank these young masters. If this young master had not killed the human traffickers with his own hands, they might not have discovered that there were several abducted children in the carriage, and that the coachman who drove the carriage out of the city was actually a human trafficker.
After the adults finished speaking, Lu Mingfei asked his mother, "Mother, where are my adoptive father and mother?"
"They are also looking for you... I don't know where they have gone now." Liu Sanniang looked around and didn't know where Xu Yueniang and Boss Lu had gone.
The police who were looking for someone on the street came over and saw the woman who had just come to them to say that she had lost her child holding a child in her arms. Someone came over and asked if the child had been found.
"We were just about to look for you. We just stopped a carriage at the west gate. There were several abducted children in the carriage. This child and the young master were abducted by them, and we just sent them back." They were all working in Kyoto Prefecture, and the soldiers guarding the city also knew the yamen runners working in the Fengtian Prefecture government office.
The two sides exchanged greetings, and the soldiers guarding the city explained to their brothers what had happened at the west gate that night.
After learning the identity of the young master standing nearby, the officials from the Fengtian Prefecture government office hurried over to greet the young master: "We greet the young master."
Zhao Lang waved his hand, "No need to be polite."
"Thank you, Your Highness." After expressing his gratitude, several officials stood up straight.
Because the matter concerned the young master of Prince Ding's Mansion, the officials from the Fengtian Prefecture Yamen had to quickly send someone back to the Yamen to notify the prefect and tell him about the matter.
After learning from the soldiers defending the city that a human trafficker had slipped through the net, the officers from the Fengtian Prefecture government discussed with the soldiers defending the city to apprehend the remaining trafficker and bring him to justice. Today's incident concerned the Crown Prince of Ding, and they must handle this case seriously. Otherwise, if the higher-ups blamed them later, none of them would be able to bear the responsibility.
Boss Lu and Xu Yueniang, who came from the other end of the street, saw that Liu Sanniang had found her adopted son, and they both ran over quickly.
"Qillang!" Xu Yueniang shouted, grabbed the child and asked, "Are you okay? Where did you go just now? We couldn't find you." The following words were more worried and did not mean to blame the child at all.
"Mom, Dad, I'm sorry for making you worry. We had a little trouble tonight." Lu Mingfei had no choice but to tell his adoptive parents about his kidnapping and told them not to worry. "The bad guy has been caught."
When they heard that the child was abducted by human traffickers, both Boss Lu and Xu Yueniang broke out in cold sweats.
Looking at the child who returned safely, Xu Yueniang bowed to the heaven and earth and said, "Thank God, you are okay." If the child was not found, the couple would have uneasy conscience for the rest of their lives.
If she hadn't suggested going out shopping, the child wouldn't have encountered this kind of thing tonight. When she was looking for the child just now, Xu Yue Niang was feeling extremely self-blame and guilt.
Boss Lu was also terrified. If anything really happened to the child, he would never forgive himself in his life. Fortunately, the child came back!
Thinking that there was still a fish that had slipped through the net and that it was possible that a small fish could dig out a fish nest, Lu Mingfei said to the soldier who sent them back: "Brother, I will take you to find Aunt Li. I know where her home is." Otherwise, with a poisonous snake left by his side, who knows when this poisonous snake will bite him again, and it may even implicate their entire family.
"Auntie Li?" Liu Sanniang asked in confusion. What did this have to do with Auntie Li?
"Mother, I heard Aunt Li talking to those traffickers tonight. She must be in cahoots with them!" Lu Mingfei felt a chill in his heart when he thought about how he had been targeted by traffickers since the first day they moved to Tongshu Street. He knew that even if he wasn't abducted by traffickers today, he would one day be abducted by the trafficker who had targeted him.
Liu Sanniang then realized that the woman who lived near them and came to their house every day to fetch water was actually a human trafficker, and she had even set her sights on their child! Thinking of this, she felt a chill in her heart. Her kindness almost harmed their child! Author's words: Thank you Bole 9492239 (9492239) for your support. Kisses! To know more exciting content, please leave me a message on Liancheng Reading.
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