After Su He came to terms with it, she stopped thinking about anything else and began to work on the case at hand.
The rest of the team breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this.
However, the impact of this case is far from over.
After the matchmaker was arrested, news of what she had done spread throughout the town, and everyone realized that she had been trafficking girls under the guise of introducing them to potential partners all these years.
Moreover, most of those who were abducted were women who had married into urban families.
The families of these girls finally realized why their daughters had stopped contacting them after getting married. It wasn't that they were ungrateful and didn't want to have contact with them; they had been sold!
Even though some of these people hadn't treated their daughter well before, they still wanted to get some benefits.
So they all went to the matchmaker's house and started making a scene!
Shortly after the matchmaker was arrested, the eldest son of the Yu family was also arrested for tipping off human traffickers. The remaining daughter-in-law and youngest son had no idea what had happened.
After the news was sent, the victim's family members confronted him.
There was no other way but to use all the money in the family to compensate.
But the matchmaker had spent almost all the money she had earned over the years, and what was left was not enough to cover the losses, so they were forced to sell their house.
The remaining members of the Yu family were unable to return to their hometown. However, during this time, the wives of the two Yu sons divorced them, and given Yu's bad reputation, the remaining members probably won't have an easy time in the future.
Of course, not all family members are there for the compensation.
There are also some people like the old man who reported the case before, who are good to their daughters and want to find out where their children were sold.
The old man even came to the municipal bureau every few days to inquire.
Su He and the others felt guilty upon seeing this, but they were powerless to do anything about it and could only tell him the truth.
The old man was utterly disappointed, seemingly losing all his energy, but he still looked at them with eager eyes, as if hoping to hear something else from them.
Su He sighed and assured him, "Don't worry, sir, we haven't given up. We will do our best to find your granddaughter. So you must live well, lest you find yourself unable to see your granddaughter when she finally has a chance to return."
The old man finally perked up after hearing this, "Yes, yes, I have to live, I have to live well, and wait for my Yaya to come back."
Seeing this, Su He and the others finally felt relieved.
However, fearing that he was too old to take good care of himself, the people from the municipal bureau pooled their money to buy him some food and supplies and sent them over, and also asked the local village chief to take extra care of him.
Hopefully, he can hold on until his granddaughter returns.
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Besides the local area, the news gradually spread to the capital as well.
This matter is actually related to Su He.
Didn't she previously hold a seminar about the methods used by human traffickers?
At that time, she had already described, based on what she had heard in later generations, most of the methods that human traffickers might use.
But this method of using blind dates as a pretext was something she had never seen before. Perhaps it's because times have changed and she hadn't expected it.
But it's also scary, because it's really hard to judge and it's easy to be deceived.
So she also wanted to spread this message to raise awareness.
However, because the criminal investigation team was too busy, she didn't have time, so she could only tell Grandma Su about it and ask her to spread the word.
Although we don't have the internet and the media isn't as developed now, we shouldn't underestimate the power of the people.
In this era with little entertainment, people's only hobby was listening to gossip. Sometimes, the speed at which news spread was comparable to the internet of later generations, except that it couldn't cross geographical boundaries.
Especially when it actually happens, anything even slightly interesting can cause a sensation.
So she figured it would probably spread very quickly.
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