allonlinenovel Chapter 223 Encountering a Human Trafficker 1
Chapter 223 Encountering a Human Trafficker 1
While complaining about Gu Yongwen's family's fantasy and shamelessness, the villagers left in groups of three or four.
How funny! Do they think these ordinary people are some kind of wealthy businessmen? They can barely afford to eat, so where do they get the money to give to people who have nothing to do with them?
Gu Wenxuan, who witnessed the famous scene of Gu Yongwen's family fleeing in panic, was in a good mood. She looked at her grandmother, Mrs. Li, and said, "Grandma, can we have pork belly stewed with sauerkraut and pork tenderloin fried with yam slices tonight?"
Her mother Jia Guizhi scolded her, "It's already this late, and you're still thinking about eating delicious food."
Gu Wenxuan smiled and lowered her voice to talk to her family, "Others may not know that family is a grasshopper after autumn, but don't you know? Haven't you heard about what Jingzhou and I said before?"
Jia Guizhi couldn't help but sighed, "Haven't you heard that grasshoppers are only active in autumn? Look at the way their family is. They will definitely cause trouble for our family in the future."
Gu Wenxuan shrugged, "Then we'll just have to deal with it as it comes. We can't just hand over all our wealth and let those bastards take it away for nothing, right?"
"Of course not!" Jia Guizhi's eyes widened immediately. "With the wickedness of that family, they will sell out our entire family the moment we give them the money."
Although their family had been separated by Old Man Gu when she married into the family, Jia Guizhi, as the daughter of Gu Yongming's master, knew very well what had happened to Gu Yongming's family.
The villagers had no reaction to Gu Yongwen's threats, in fact, it was because they knew very well what kind of people Gu Yongwen's family was.
After all, everyone has lived in the same village for so many years, and they know what kind of temperament each member of each family has. Even if the villagers are not as smart as the educated people, they will slowly figure it out after suffering losses many times.
If they didn't know very well that they were a family of wicked and black-hearted people, and that even if you sold yourself to give him money, he would just take the money without hesitation and complain that you were not valuable enough, the villagers would not have tacitly refused to step forward when Gu Yongwen asked them to curry favor with him.
Bai Jingzhou, who had come to the Gu family's side at some point, suddenly suggested, "How about we go to the county town tomorrow?"
Gu Wenxuan thought for a moment and said, "It's good to go and take a look."
The premise for Gu Yongwen and his men to not cause much harm is that County Magistrate Peng will continue to sit in his position. The current situation in the county is unclear. In order to ensure that his family can live a peaceful life to the greatest extent possible, Gu Wenxuan is still willing to make this trip and find out some information.
What Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan didn't know was that at the same time they were discussing who to take to the county town, the second wife of County Magistrate Peng not only ate less every day, but also always drove the servants out and lay motionless in the room, pretending to have lost all hope. Finally, the old woman who was guarding her relaxed her vigilance.
With the help of her trusted servants, she temporarily got rid of the old woman who was staring at her, managed to meet her two children, and hurriedly said a lot of words with ulterior motives to them.
What do you mean your father is partial to the two born to that dead woman in front? Those two are the only ones in his heart and eyes.
What you brothers and sisters are all bad people? You often say bad things about mom in front of your dad.
Just because you brothers and sisters dislike mom, your father ignored the years of friendship between mom and him and sent mom directly to the farm.
What? Your father didn’t consider at all that you two are still so young and still need to be raised and taught by your mother. Now that your mother is not around, are your lives not as good as before?
The reason her two children lived better in the past than they do now is that she had been abusing her position as the mistress of the house for personal gain and gave her two children treatment far better than that given to Peng Xuan'an and his siblings.
Now her two children are not living as well as before, only because County Magistrate Peng had people take away those special treatments that did not belong to them in the first place. It is not because they have been treated poorly, and no one has withheld what they deserve.
However, County Magistrate Peng's second wife and her biological children were obviously not able to present facts or reason objectively.
She threatened her two children, "If this continues, how can you have a good life? When you grow up, your father will definitely not bother to plan for you. He will just give you some things and send you away to marry or to separate the family."
At the end, she said to the two children confidently: "Except for me as a mother, no one will care whether you are doing well or not."
The two children were frightened by her. She took advantage of the children's confusion and tactfully guided them to cry to Magistrate Peng. She also told them that they must cry so that Magistrate Peng would relent and keep her in the mansion, and preferably give her the power of housekeeper again.
The two children were persuaded by her and could not wait to go find Magistrate Peng, but Magistrate Peng was out of the house for something.
They waited in Magistrate Peng's yard for a long time but no one showed up. They became impatient and wanted to go out to look for him, but the servants stopped them. So they climbed over the wall with the servants and maids who served them.
Both them and the servants and maids who usually serve them are actually children of only ten years old. They are usually well protected by County Magistrate Peng and the adults around them. Recently, they have never left the county government office. They had no idea that there was actually chaos outside.
As soon as a few children with rosy complexions, healthy looks and good looks appeared, the kidnapper wandering on the street took a liking to them.
Trying to dissuade the two children was futile, so the maids and servants who had to accompany them out also suffered. The six of them were knocked unconscious, and then put into sacks and backpacks and carried out of the city.
The next day, Gu Wenxuan, Bai Jingzhou, Fang Youfu, Fang Youliang and Bai Jingshan left the village together and went to the county town to inquire about the news.
They got up early, hoping to encounter fewer refugees wandering around the official road.
Facts have proved that their decision was very correct. The group of people pulled the ox cart and walked halfway without encountering a single refugee.
Gu Wenxuan did not follow the main group, she kept running back and forth on the official road.
Bai Jingzhou and others did not stop her. They all knew very well that recently there were many refugees wandering outside the village, and Gu Wenxuan had not dared to leave the village and go out to have fun. Now that she had a rare opportunity to breathe some fresh air outside the village, it would be strange if she was not excited.
Gu Wenxuan happily ran back and forth several times, and each time the starting point and end point were Bai Jingzhou and his friends.
She finally ran enough and slowly stopped. Bai Jingzhou was just about to take out a bamboo tube filled with ginger and sugar water and let her drink some to prevent catching a cold when an ox cart slowly drove up on the official road opposite them.