At this time, little Youchen in Boyi's arms suddenly woke up. He was just learning to speak, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he called in a baby voice: "Grandma, grandma..." It seemed that he was craving for milk.
Boyi was originally feeling angry and a little embarrassed, but the baby voice of little Youchen made him feel less embarrassed.
"Youchen, be good and don't cry! When we get to town, Daddy will get you some milk."
Shumei quickly treated Boyi's wound and said, "Come, give me little Youchen!"
Shumei took little Youchen, turned her back to Boyi, lifted her shirt and fed little Youchen. This was the first time the child was breastfeeding, and he was not very good at it at first. Shumei helped him feed with her hands. After tasting the sweet milk, little Youchen began to suck vigorously.
In order to ensure that her child could have her own breast milk when she returned home, Shumei had been expressing her milk whenever her breast milk became swollen to prevent it from drying up.
Seeing Shumei feeding the child, Boyi felt a little embarrassed. He stood up and walked out of the cave, leaning against the Shandong entrance and lit a cigarette.
One, two, three... Boyi didn't remember how many cigarettes he had smoked. He should have been happy for rescuing Shumei, but for some reason, he felt extremely depressed.
It was not until Shumei walked behind him and asked him to leave that he dropped the cigarette in his hand and prepared to pick up the child.
"Give me the child!"
"Your arm is injured. Let me hold you! Let's hurry back to town and take the police with us to rescue those innocent people."
Shumei walked forward first with the child in her arms, and Boyi followed closely behind.
"Rescue people? Forget it! We finally got out of the den of wolves. If we go back, I'm afraid things will get worse. The people here are tough and I'm afraid the police won't be able to handle it."
"No, I promised to rescue Qianqian. As a woman, I can't stand by and watch my fellow woman suffer like this in prison! We must let the officials know and ask them to change this bad social custom, otherwise more people will suffer in the future."
"With nothing but words, how can we move those high-ranking officials?"
"We've been through reform and opening up, and don't we all advocate equality, peace, and freedom for all? I believe the police are reasonable. We're not scammers. We're trying to save lives, so they won't ignore us."
Shumei's words were powerful and Boyi could not argue with her. They hurried along the main road to the town. Fortunately, they stopped a tractor on the way and got a ride, which saved them a lot of trouble.
Sitting on the pile of sugarcane on the back of the tractor, Shumei looked at little Youchen in her arms who was looking around and admiring the unfamiliar environment.
"Boyi, you are such a fool. It's so dangerous to come to see me, why did you bring little Youchen with you? If he gets hurt, you will regret it."
Boyi forced a smile and did not answer Shumei. Everything was over. He didn't want Shumei to have any psychological burden and didn't want Shumei to know about Wen Dazui's complaints.
After returning to the town, the two rushed to the police station and explained the situation to the police officers.
The director called the county for instructions, and the county leaders immediately dispatched personnel to accompany Shumei and the others back to the village. They were accompanied by ideological propagandists and a film projection team specially assigned by the county.
Previously, they had only heard rumors but no concrete evidence. A secret investigation had uncovered no evidence of human trafficking. Now, with Shumei's personal experience, county leaders were confident in taking concrete action.
The leadership instructed: Everyone should be equal, the spring breeze of reform and opening up should blow across the country, and feudal ideas should be completely disintegrated.
Arriving at the village entrance, the police did not storm in directly, but instead stationed themselves outside. Just as they had done when welcoming Boyi, the villagers, armed with sticks and clubs, blocked the entrance, and the two sides remained in a stalemate.
Zhuo Er, with a cloth wrapped around his head, spotted Shu Mei from the crowd. He was as angry as a lion, and rushed towards Shu Mei and Boyi with the carrying pole in his hand. Boyi nimbly stretched out his right hand and steadily caught the carrying pole that was heading towards Shu Mei.
Fortunately, the police intervened, otherwise Boyi would have to fight with Zhuoer again.
But seeing the conflict between the police and Zhuoer, the villagers, who had always been united, also gathered around, coming with a fierce momentum, as if they were going to fight the police to the death.
Just as a fight was about to break out, the director pulled out his service pistol and fired two shots into the air as a warning, thus preventing an unnecessary fight.
The villagers retreated back to the village entrance and still showed no intention of letting them go.
Then calm returned, and both sides continued to stare at each other. Time passed by minute by minute, and the director did not give the order to enter the village.
Seeing this situation, Shumei stamped her feet in anxiety. She found the director in charge and asked, "Director, why don't you go into the village? There's no point in waiting here! If you wait any longer and wait until they hide all the people they bought, then going in will be useless, right?"
"Even if we storm in now, we may not be able to rescue the victims. County leaders have said that if we want to eradicate this kind of behavior, we can't just try to stop the problem by adding more water to the pot, but we have to address the root cause."
Shumei actually had the same idea in her mind, but her vision was limited, so she didn't know how to solve the problem fundamentally. "Is that so?" Although she didn't quite understand, since they were already here, Shumei believed that they would not just talk without action, but would definitely keep their word.
Shumei held the child and wandered around anxiously, hoping that they would act quickly.
Under the command of the director, the film projection team set up a film scaffolding at the entrance of the village and hung up the projection screen.
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