After contacting Lu Chen, Ye Zhiyu observed the route taken by these human traffickers. These people were clearly people who frequented the riverbank.
The preparations were very thorough. This route was probably unknown even to the Red Flag Brigade. Although it looked like it was in the mountains, they actually walked around the foot of the mountain, which greatly reduced the possibility of encountering wild animals.
Moreover, with seven grown men, if she were the original Ye Zhiyu, there would be no chance of her escaping.
As expected of Li Xi, she can even find someone like this.
She would leave a mark on a tree every so often.
Ten minutes later, they finally arrived at their hiding place.
The makeshift shed made of straw still had a dozen or so children inside.
It seems they didn't just target the Red Flag Brigade this time; they've raided the surrounding area as well.
Ye Zhiyu felt utterly disgusted with Li Xi at this moment. She could deal with her if she wanted to, but to do so in order to achieve her own goals, she was willing to sacrifice these innocent children, which was utterly despicable.
Once these children leave this land, their hope of returning home becomes slim.
Some of those who were trafficked never managed to return home in their entire lives.
Some families treat adopted children well, but that's a very small minority. Most children don't have a good life, since they're not their own.
The man carrying Ye Zhiyu threw her to the ground, and Ye Zhiyu gritted her teeth to keep from crying out in pain.
It hurts so much, my back is even a little numb.
If she hadn't promised Lu Chen she'd wait for him, she would have hung him up and beaten him right now. What kind of person dared to throw her like that?
......
Lu Chen returned with a dark face, and Lu Weimin's heart skipped a beat when he saw this.
Could something really have happened?
He walked over quickly: "Didn't find anyone?"
Liu Shengnan and the others, who were still working, quickly gathered around.
Lu Chen said in a deep voice, "She ran into human traffickers. Several children from our village have also been abducted."
"What?"
Lu Weimin was horrified. He grabbed the megaphone next to him and shouted, "Stop what you're doing! Look for your children! There are human traffickers! There are human traffickers!"
This incident caused a huge stir, and people stopped caring about anything else. They started spreading the word and calling out their children's names.
Liu Shengnan asked, her hands trembling, "What about Ye Zhiyu? Where did she go?"
“She went after the human traffickers. Time was short, and she didn’t have time to notify them, but she left some information.” After saying this quickly, she looked at Lu Weimin and said, “Dad, I have to go to the police station. You keep the families of the missing children calm. We don’t know their exact location yet, so don’t alert them.”
Lu Weimin nodded solemnly. Human traffickers are beasts that everyone despises.
Children are the lifeblood of every family. If things go wrong, several people in the village will die.
Lu Chen rode his bicycle to town.
At the adults' calls, the children who were running around and playing quickly returned to their parents' side.
They couldn't find seven or eight places no matter what they tried, and immediately started crying and wailing.
"God, how am I supposed to live? Those damned human traffickers, why don't you strike them dead? My son!"
"Honey, what's wrong, honey?"
Some of them couldn't withstand the shock and fainted on the ground.
The whole team was in chaos. Those who hadn't lost their children clung to them tightly, afraid they would disappear at any moment.
Some people, after searching around, discovered that the lost child was their own granddaughter; instead of crying, they became excited.
"It's good that this money-losing child is gone; it saves the family food. This human trafficker is actually quite nice."
This person is Li Cuihua, and she finished speaking.
People around her began to curse her: "Li Cuihua, you old hag, what's wrong with a girl? She's still a human life! You just wanted her to die? You're a woman yourself, why didn't the human traffickers kidnap you?"
"You're always calling me a money-loser, you're a woman too, you're a money-loser too, why don't you just die first and save food for your son."
“Exactly, those flowers were so beautiful. Your daughter asked you to watch them for a couple of days, and you lost them. I wonder how you’re going to explain this to her.”
Li Cuihua was indignant that her words had been met with such harsh criticism, but she didn't know how to retort.
When he heard someone say that they couldn't explain it to their daughter, he immediately straightened his back.
"What can she do to me? I fed her and raised her with great care, so what? She's not going to strangle me for her daughter's sake, is she?"
Aunt Guihua chuckled, "Then why don't you give it a try?"
Li Cuihua still thought her daughter was working for her. People say that when children grow up, they become independent, and this saying applies perfectly to Li Cuihua's daughter.
Once she gets married, she won't come back except for holidays and festivals.
She didn't want her daughter to suffer the same hardships she did as a child. If it weren't for this major family emergency that made it impossible for her to take care of the child, she would never have sent her to her.
Now that her child is lost, she can just wait for her daughter to go crazy.
Li Cuihua felt uneasy after what Aunt Guihua said, but she didn't show her fear and kept her head held high.
Lu Weimin was busy comforting several families who had lost their children.
"Calm down, we will definitely find the child. Lu Chen has already called the police, so don't worry."
Some were emotional: "How can we not be anxious? Of course you wouldn't be anxious if it weren't your child who was lost."
These words sound like a curse, as if she would only be happy if all the children were lost.
But no one held it against her; everyone knew she was just saying things because she was too heartbroken.
"Captain, let's hurry and go look for them. They can't have gone far." The man suggested, his eyes red and swollen, clearly having just been crying.
Lu Weimin remembered Lu Chen's instructions and refused outright: "No, we must wait for the police to arrive. They are professionals. If we search haphazardly, we will not only destroy the clues, but we may also alert the human traffickers."
The man clutched his hair in despair, then slumped down in a crestfallen state: "What can we do? Are we just going to wait here?"
Lu Weimin patted him on the shoulder.
Li Xi clenched her fists, secretly cursing. These human traffickers had told her not to get any other ideas, just take Ye Zhiyu and leave quickly. Now they were in trouble.
He looked at Xu Fen, who was tied up, with a sinister gaze.
At this time, at the village party secretary's home.
Li Xiaohua slowly woke up, not knowing why, but she felt extremely sleepy after eating the two poached eggs her mother had given her that morning.
"Ouch~" She raised her hand to rub her temples and muttered to herself, "Why does my head hurt so much? Did I sleep too long?"
After a while, she opened her eyes and instinctively reached for the spot where she remembered the child.
Empty?
She scratched her head and realized that the little slips for wrapping the baby were gone.
Suppressing her panic, Li Xiaohua called out, "Mother? Mother, are you back?"
No one answered, and she continued calling out, "Father, Mother, Dashan? Don't scare me, did you take the child away?"
Silence was her only response.
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