"Ahhhh! Help, help, help—"
Little Lingling was sleeping soundly when she was suddenly awakened by a scream. It hurt her ears so much that she jumped up from the bed subconsciously.
Little Bell, with messy hair, looked around in confusion, "What happened? Who is it? Who's here?"
After shouting for a long time, she found that the room was empty. She subconsciously lowered her head to look in the direction where the shouting had just come from. When she turned around, she saw her fourth brother Lin Wu sitting on the bed with a dazed expression.
It was obvious that it was he who shouted just now, after all, there were only two of them in the room!
Soon, the people outside who heard the noise came, the door was pushed open, and a group of people rushed up one after another.
"What's wrong? What happened?"
"Oh, could it be that the person who escaped yesterday is here to take revenge?"
"That's impossible. I was just exercising downstairs with my second brother, and I didn't see anyone coming up."
"Maybe he got in through the window? Let's find the thief."
A group of people were searching everywhere in the room, which made Xiao Lingdang and Lin Wu feel a little embarrassed.
Xiao Lingling plopped back down on the bed, looking at Lin Wu with a look of despair, "So, Fourth Brother, why were you shouting for help just now?"
Lin Wu's face flushed slightly, and he scratched the back of his head with one hand, looking a little embarrassed.
"I, I just had a nightmare. I dreamed that those bad guys took me away. I didn't expect that I would be rescued. I screamed out of fear.
Little sister, you don’t know that they actually sold me to a rich family to do hard labor. I have to fetch water, wash clothes and empty chamber pots when I’m still so young. I’m so pitiful!
Thinking about that scene now makes me want to cry."
As he spoke, his eyes turned red.
Maybe the dream was too real and really scared the child...
Everyone knew it was a misunderstanding, but instead of being angry, they felt relieved.
"Okay, now that you're awake, get up. I just called the waiter to prepare breakfast, so we can eat something later.
Originally, we could have gone back today after meeting the prefect, but now we don't know if those bad guys have been caught. Qiuyue, according to the current situation, if we want to go back, can we leave?"
Zhao didn't know much about these things, so she could only ask Huo Qiuyue.
Huo Qiuyue frowned slightly, "It's reasonable to say so. After all, Xiao Lingling is a princess, and our family is also a victim. If you want to leave, you just need to tell the prefect.
But shouldn't we wait until those bad guys catch us before leaving? It makes me feel uneasy if I leave like this. What if those guys take revenge on us?
After all, they are all ordinary people, and those beggars are people who value money more than their lives. Now that they have destroyed their hideout, they may hate them.
When this was mentioned, Zhao felt a little uneasy.
"Well, how about we wait a few more days? Wait until we catch those bad guys before going back?"
I don’t know when Chu Yu and Yang Qi walked in. They disappeared early in the morning. Fortunately, Yang Qi was there, so Zhao didn’t worry too much.
"Don't worry, Grandma Zhao. I've arranged for a few people to investigate, and we'll probably have news soon. And now that the city is under lockdown, it's only a matter of time before we catch them.
I think there will be news by tomorrow at the latest, so don’t worry.”
Although Chu Yu is young, he has always been steady in his words and deeds, and Zhao trusts him very much.
Hearing him say this, the stone in my heart fell to the ground a little.
"Okay, then, let's wait a little longer. Come on, let's eat first."
The breakfast at the inn was very rich and the price was very affordable. Pei Huan had paid one thousand taels in advance before leaving, so the innkeeper was trying his best to curry his favor.
Throughout the entire day, almost all the officials and runners from the government office were dispatched to search every street and alley, including shops and inns of all sizes.
The capital of Chen'an Prefecture is very large, almost as big as the county towns of six Huaxiang counties.
A thorough search would take a lot of time and effort.
Such a big move made the common people panic, but after knowing that they were trying to capture Huazi, they cooperated quite well. Some people even spontaneously formed small teams to help the officers search for traces.
Most of them are families whose children have been abducted. They hate the kidnappers so much that they will spare no effort, whether it is for revenge or for the future safety of their children.
Soon, in the evening, Cheng Che came to report again.
He even brought the interrogation transcript and a prisoner who was tied up very tightly.
"Your Highness, I interrogated the prisoners all night last night and did get some information. Here are their transcripts. You can review them yourself."
Little Lingling was also curious about what they had said, so she picked it up and looked at it carefully.
However, the more I looked at her, the angrier I became, and my hands began to tremble.
This turned out to be a very large gang, and even the human traffickers in Huaxiang County were their subordinates.
This is a very old organization. The people who were arrested yesterday were all small fry. Although they knew some information, they only knew the basics.
They don't know the deeper news.
But even though they were just small fry, they had a lot of things going on. A total of seven people were caught, and the one with the least number of children they had stolen had stolen nearly twenty children.
The most stolen was 52, most of whom were refugee orphans. If they looked good, they would be brought back to raise them and then sold.
They were very cautious and would not stay in one place for more than three months before moving on to the next prefecture or county town.
They just stole, and they had no idea what the children were taken away for.
The people who took the children away were a group of masked men. Judging from their height, they seemed to be men. They seldom spoke to each other and always counted the number of people and gave them silver notes directly.
The prices are fixed. The younger the girl, the more expensive it is. Boys and girls are the same price, but if the girl is good-looking, it will be more expensive.
On average, each child can earn at least one hundred taels. Many of them have become rich and even married because of this.
Therefore, even though they know that doing such things is not good, they are still willing to do it.
Xiao Lingling was so angry that she slammed the notes directly on the table. This time she even used her spiritual power.
In just one move, the four legs of the table seemed to have been hit by something and broke into several pieces!
This scared everyone, even Chu Yu looked at Xiao Lingling in shock.
Xiao Lingling took a deep breath, barely controlling her anger, and stared at the prisoner behind Cheng Che.
The fog, which had turned thick black and red, enveloped him completely. Although he was a prisoner, he always looked calm.
From this we can see that this person must not be an ordinary person.
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