Chapter 28 Trafficking
Wang Hu wished he could also pin the blame for kicking the stray dog on the pretty boy.
"Officer, you absolutely mustn't believe what that pretty boy says. That pretty boy is wicked! He's incredibly ruthless, cheating women out of money and sex, and he won't be satisfied until he's squeezed every last bit of value out of them!"
“He started doing this five years ago. I was a good person back then and didn’t want to help him do these immoral things, but he threatened me. I was forced to go astray. I’m a victim too, officer!”
Wang Hu wiped away his tears, almost managing to convince himself.
"Officer, don't let my fierce appearance fool you. I'm a man of few words. Before that pretty boy threatened me, I was a kind-hearted person who wouldn't even kill an ant..."
Lin Ming listened to Wang Hu's nonsense with a blank expression, never expecting that pulling up the radish would bring up the mud, and there would be other "surprises".
He composed himself, suppressing all his emotions.
The most important thing now is Cheng Zhenzhen, who has been sold.
"Stop talking nonsense and just answer me, did you help sell Cheng Zhenzhen?"
“Yes,” Wang Hu shrank back, “I sold them! But I was forced into it! It’s all that damn pretty boy’s fault. I told him I was going to retire from this life, but he insisted on forcing me to do one more job, saying he’d sue me for human trafficking if I didn’t…”
Lin Ming ignored his excuses, "Tell me honestly, where did you sell them to!"
"At once……"
Wang Hu's eyes darted around, and his intelligence suddenly kicked in.
"Officer, didn't that pretty boy get sold to any village with you?"
Lin Ming gave him a cold glance. "Fine, don't talk about it if you don't want to. Anyway, you're the one who wants to make a name for yourself, not me."
He turned and walked away so swiftly that Wang Hu was momentarily flustered.
"No, officer, that's not what I meant!"
He yelled and tried to chase after them, but was held down by Lin Ming's apprentice.
"Behave yourself! I gave you a chance just now, but you didn't take it. Now it's too late!"
As he spoke, he grabbed Wang Hu and tried to shove him into the police car.
Wang Hu hurriedly grabbed the car door, "Officer, I was wrong! I was wrong! I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything!"
Lin Ming's apprentice ignored his pleas for mercy, pried open his fingers one by one as he clung tightly to the door frame, and kicked him into the car.
Seeing that the police were losing patience, Wang Hu became obedient.
“Officer, I know where Cheng Zhenzhen was sold to. The person who bought her is my distant third uncle. I’m very familiar with him!”
"He's in Crescent Moon Village, north of Hong Kong. You can ask around and you'll find out!"
"I'm telling the truth! Officers, officers! Please listen to me!"
Having obtained Cheng Zhenzhen's location, Lin Ming's apprentice closed the car door. "Master, Wang Hu said that Cheng Zhenzhen was sold to Crescent Moon Village, and the person who bought her is Wang Hu's distant third uncle."
Lin Ming was momentarily stunned, not expecting that Wang Hu was actually a key figure.
The medium actually guessed it correctly.
"Let's go to Crescent Moon Village."
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Crescent Village
Cheng Zhenzhen got out of the car and frowned when she saw the backward village in front of her. She waved her hand in front of her nose.
"Honey, didn't you say you were going to take me to make big money? Why did we come to this backward rural area?"
The young man walking beside her was tall and handsome, with a gentle and refined smile, just like a dashing gentleman in an ancient costume drama.
Seeing her husband smiling so happily, Cheng Zhenzhen's displeasure vanished instantly.
She didn't notice the fleeting sarcasm in the pretty boy's eyes, and leaned her head affectionately on his shoulder, a sweet smile playing on her lips.
"Fine, I'll forgive you because you're so good-looking!"
She smiled brightly, "Tell me the truth, are you planning to give me some kind of surprise?"
The man looked at her foolishly expectant face, and the mockery in his eyes became more and more obvious, but Cheng Zhenzhen, who was deeply in love, did not notice.
“Yes,” the man patted her head as if touching an expensive object, “I did prepare a surprise for you, but the purpose of this trip was indeed to make a lot of money.”
"Really? A surprise and money at the same time?" She hugged the man's arm without realizing it. "Honey, you're so good to me! I knew I didn't marry the wrong person!"
The man smiled and took her a few steps. In the distance, they saw a middle-aged man in old, dirty clothes walking towards them on the narrow path.
The middle-aged man was taken aback when he saw the two of them. Then he waved and ran over as if he wanted to sprout wings and fly over.
Cheng Zhenzhen also saw the middle-aged man running over, and when she saw the stains on his clothes, she covered her nose in disgust.
"Honey," she whispered, leaning closer to the young man, "you wouldn't be thinking of doing business with someone like him, would you? Judging by his poor appearance, he definitely can't afford any money!"
“He’s poor, but being poor doesn’t mean he has no money.” The pretty boy touched her flawless face and patiently explained, “To get someone like this to spend money, you have to offer them what they want most.”
"What do you want most?"
As the two men were talking, the unkempt middle-aged man quickly ran up to them.
Cheng Zhenzhen rolled her eyes at him disdainfully, then looked up at the pretty boy with admiration.
"Honey, do you know what they want most?"
The pretty boy smiled gently at her and suddenly pushed her into the middle-aged man's arms.
"Men like them are just missing a beautiful wife."
The unkempt man couldn't help but drool over Cheng Zhenzhen the moment he saw her.
He was holding a beautiful woman in his arms when he bent down and kissed her.
"Wow, all that money was well spent! It was all well spent! She's so beautiful, smells wonderful, and has such fair skin!"
"Wife, let me touch you! Let me touch you now!"
Cheng Zhenzhen was bewildered by the pretty boy's actions.
It wasn't until she was hugged and a pungent, indescribable stench filled her nostrils that she suddenly realized what was happening.
He started struggling desperately, yelling, "Let me go! You filthy scoundrel, let me go! Let me go now!"
She threw her bag at the middle-aged man who was hugging her, but the man only took her resistance as a joke.
"My wife is beautiful even when she's angry! Honey, let me kiss you, let me kiss you!"
Seeing his unshaven face and pouting lips approaching, Cheng Zhenzhen almost threw up her dinner from the night before.
"husband!"
At this point, she no longer cared about what was wrong and shouted at the only young man who might be able to help her.
"Honey, pull this filthy beggar away! He touched my leg!"
The pretty boy stood not far away, ignoring her, and instead smiled slightly at the middle-aged man.
Are you satisfied with the goods you ordered?
Looking at Cheng Zhenzhen's porcelain-white profile, the middle-aged man almost drooled.
He nodded repeatedly, "Satisfied, extremely satisfied! I deserve such a beautiful wife!"
He picked up Cheng Zhenzhen in his arms, groping her as he walked back with a grin.
"Wife, let's go to our bridal chamber!"
"You madman! Let me go! Who wants to marry you?"
Cheng Zhenzhen screamed desperately, scratching the middle-aged man's face with her fingernails, and looked at the pretty boy with hatred.
"You lied to me! You said you'd bring me here to make money and give me surprises, but you lied to me!"
The pretty boy still wore that gentle smile. "I didn't lie to you. If I sold you, wouldn't I make money? As for the surprise, aren't you surprised by the current situation?"
Looking at this desolate place in the middle of nowhere, and the man who was about to carry her into the bridal chamber, Cheng Zhenzhen burst into tears.
She pushed away the man who was trying to get closer to her, sobbing uncontrollably.
"Let me go! I have a family, how dare you sell me out! I want to break up with you, break up!"
As soon as she finished speaking, the pretty boy's expression changed, and he suddenly walked over.
Cheng Zhenzhen thought he had changed his mind, but the pretty boy just stopped the middle-aged man who was about to take her away and reached out his hand.
"I gave you the person, but where's the money?"
The middle-aged man had no choice but to put Cheng Zhenzhen aside. He wanted to take out money from his pocket, but he was afraid that the beautiful wife he had finally won over would run away.
As he hesitated, the neighbor he had just spoken to suddenly appeared from the side.
"Don't worry, brother, I'm here to help you!"
He helped hold down the struggling Cheng Zhenzhen, and looking at this beautiful and young woman, he secretly pinched the soft flesh on her waist.
No wonder she's a daughter raised by a wealthy family; she's so fragrant and soft!
Cheng Zhenzhen was so frightened that she broke down in tears, but she couldn't break free no matter what she did, and could only keep calling for the pretty boy to save her.
But the gigolo only cared about taking the money, and then he turned around and left.
The middle-aged man paid the money, happily hoisted the person onto his shoulder, and walked briskly home.
The neighbor, seeing this with envy, couldn't resist following him, smiling ingratiatingly:
"Brother, big brother! Your wife is so beautiful, can I sleep with her for one night? Name your price!"
Cheng Zhenzhen turned pale with fright.
She quickly looked at the middle-aged man's expression and was surprised to find that he was seriously considering what price to ask for!
"Are you crazy! I'm a person, not an object! How can you disregard my wishes!"
Her response was two groping hands.
"I've already paid for it, so you're mine! I bought you, so you can use you however you want!"
As he spoke, the middle-aged man chuckled twice and gestured with his chin toward his neighbor, "You get your money ready first, and I'll let you play with it when I'm done with it!"
The neighbor happily agreed.
Cheng Zhenzhen struggled frantically, but was slapped twice.
"Damn it, you old hag! You just scratched my face twice, and I didn't even bother with you. You're never going to let this go!"
When they got home, the middle-aged man threw her into the yard and started to tear off her clothes.
"You bitch, if you don't want to go inside, I'll do it to you right here!"
Cheng Zhenzhen frantically tried to protect her clothes, crying out, "Don't touch me! Don't take my clothes off!"
"You just want money! My family is rich, my family is very rich! Don't touch me, I'll give you the money, okay!"
The man sneered, "Do you think I'm stupid? If I let you go back, not only will I not get my money back, but the money I spent to buy you will be gone for good!"
He forcefully pried open Cheng Zhenzhen's fingers, which were covering her clothes.
Only when Cheng Zhenzhen screamed in agony after his finger broke did he lose interest and slap her twice across the face.
"You damn old hag, keep yelling! If you yell again, I'll kill you!"
Cheng Zhenzhen clutched her broken hand, feeling as if she were lying on the ground, not like a human being at all, but like a beast of burden to be slaughtered.
She crawled forward on her elbows, large tears falling onto the ground beneath her.
"Let me go... Mom, save me, Mom..."
"Don't touch me! You bastard! When my parents find me, they'll kill you!"
The man was tearing at her clothes, completely unconcerned.
Pointing to the cellar next door, he said, "See that? You'll be having my babies there from now on. I'll tie a rope around your neck, and your parents will never find you again!"
The cellar over there was pitch black, like a giant beast with its mouth wide open, waiting for people to walk into its trap.
Cheng Zhenzhen felt her clothes getting thinner and thinner. Helplessly calling for her parents and struggling desperately, she only received a few more slaps in return.
Just as her clothes were about to be completely stripped off, there was a knock on the door.
An anxious voice came from outside the door.
"Brother! Quickly hide your newly bought wife!"
"The police have come to our village!"
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