The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 117 Fisherman’s Pride (11)

Since there were both buyers and sellers, earning the money was just a matter of leading the way, so Li Si naturally agreed.However, he valued credibility the most in his work, so he proposed to take a look at those children first.The trafficker agreed and led him to his hiding place.The place was very cramped, just an uninhabited shabby cottage, and it was still on a dilapidated street with few people.

There were three children in the hut, all with black cloths over their eyes.According to traffickers, some children are very smart and can remember the route they traveled all the way when they were abducted, so they try to cover their eyes when they are transferred.In this way, the children do not know how to get home at all, and the desire to escape will be weakened.

When the trafficker brought Li Si into the cottage, the three children were talking.They also knew that they were about to be sold, and because of their sympathy for each other, they walked together all the way, and naturally developed some feelings for each other.They said that after being abducted, they could not go back to their previous home. For them, they now have no relatives in the world.

If this is the case, then they will treat each other as brothers, so that they will not even have a relative. No matter where they are sold to in the future, they will come here to get together when they can act alone.These children are only about seven or eight years old, and they are still acting like a baby to adults at home under normal circumstances, but at this time they have undergone great changes, but they uttered these precocious words.

It's just that although the words are precocious, people are still naive after all, so when they spoke, they spoke in a sad tone and each sobbed, making the whole thatched cottage filled with despair.Even though Li Si Tie has a hard heart, he still felt a little uncomfortable hearing these words.Fortunately, the silk reeling factory needs more than one child. They can continue to stay together and even grow up together.

Li Si inspected them, and found that there were no deformed hands or feet, nor mental problems, so he made an agreement with the traffickers that the buyer would come and take them away tomorrow.After confirming the matter, he left the thatched cottage and went straight to the silk reeling factory to report the matter.Unexpectedly, when he arrived at the silk reeling factory, he found that the owner of the silk reeling factory was arguing with others, and there was a policeman beside him.

He stood aside and listened for a while, and then he knew roughly what happened.The person who quarreled with the owner of the silk reeling factory was a merchant of silkworm cocoons from other places. They deducted [-]% from him.

The businessman was naturally unwilling, so he quarreled with him.The two parties could not settle down, so naturally they had to find someone to judge, and the police came to mediate.In the end, both parties made concessions, and the businessman lowered the original price by [-]% and sold the cocoons to the silk reeling factory.

Li Si heard that they had settled the matter, so he told the owner of the silk reeling factory that the "goods" he wanted were ready, and he would go to receive them tomorrow.The "goods" Li Si mentioned actually refers to those children.Unexpectedly, the businessman hadn't left for a while, and he heard this in his ears, thinking that the silk reeling factory had ordered cocoons from others, so he unscrupulously lowered his price.

The businessman got angry immediately, and sneered a series of times, saying: "Well, well, the silk reeling factory is doing good business!" His tone was sarcastic, obviously very dissatisfied in his heart, and he left immediately after speaking, and Li Si and the others didn't let it go. Take it to heart.The policeman settled the matter and left too, leaving only Li Si and the owner of the silk reeling factory.

Li Si told the situation of those children, and then fixed the price with the owner of the silk reeling factory, and agreed on the time to pick them up, and then he left and returned to the trafficker's hut again.They finally agreed that tomorrow Li Si will pick up the buyer with the buyer, and the money will be settled by then.

When the time came on the second day, Li Si took the owner of the silk reeling factory to the thatched hut as promised.But for some reason, when Li Si came to visit yesterday, the three children were all in good shape, but at this time two of the children were bleeding from the corners of their mouths.

The owner of the silk reeling factory was afraid that they might have some hidden disease, so he squeezed their mouths open to take a closer look.But those two children were only bleeding gums, so he didn't take it seriously.After checking that there were no problems with several children, he handed over the money and prepared to take them away.

Originally, the hands and feet of the three children were bound, and they were only untied one by one when they were eating.At this time, when they were about to leave, they did not untie the rope, but let them slowly move to the door, and when they got on the car, they could be taken back to the silk reeling factory.

The owner of the silk reeling factory walked out of the thatched cottage with three children, but at the moment when he stepped out of the house, one of the children suddenly broke free from the rope, stretched out his hand from behind and pushed him hard.The owner of the silk reeling factory was caught off guard, and fell on his back all at once, until his eyes stared at him.

This was so unexpected that Li Si and the trafficker were stunned for a moment.After the child pushed down the owner of the silk reeling factory, he ran away in one direction regardless.The remaining two children shouted hoarsely from behind: "Run! Run! Run!"

They screamed extremely hard, the blood dripped from the corners of their mouths, and the expressions on their faces were almost ferocious.After hearing their yells, the child who ran out started to walk more quickly. He almost staggered and fell to the ground several times, but moved forward regardless.

He gradually ran away, but Li Si and the others didn't realize it for a moment, and they didn't rush to chase immediately.Seeing him running away, the two remaining children showed happy smiles on their faces, glanced at each other, and suddenly burst into laughter, as if they were extremely happy in their hearts.But after not laughing for a long time, their laughter gradually turned into crying.

Not only were they crying, but they were crying out of breath, as if they were about to die.This kind of emotional ups and downs might be fine if it happened to an adult, but it's really indescribably weird when it happens to two seven or eight-year-old children.

At this time, their hands and feet were still bound, so they couldn't raise their hands to wipe their tears, but let the teardrops smear the whole face at will, depicting various shapes of sadness.It was only at this moment that the human traffickers realized that since the person ran away before getting into the car, they would naturally help the buyer to catch him back.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they moved their feet, the remaining two children rushed towards them, trying to buy time for the escaped child.Naturally, the trafficker was furious, and slapped them several times, causing their faces to swell.

But these two children did not back down, whimpering and rolling all over the floor, using their heads and bodies to interfere with the trafficker's kicking.At this time, the other two traffickers caught up and grabbed them tightly, preventing them from moving.Only then could the two traffickers set out to chase after them, but by then the child had long since escaped.

Li Si looked at the two children thoughtfully, picked up the ropes that had been broken off from the ground, and found that the two ropes were all broken, but the breaks were extremely irregular, and it seemed that they were not broken with any utensils.He looked at the remaining two children again, and suddenly realized in his heart that the rope was bitten off by them with their mouths!
Seven or eight-year-old children are still in the teething period, so the teeth cannot be very strong, but they actually bit off the rope with their teeth.By themselves alone, it was obviously impossible to bite off the ropes of the three of them. They knew this, so they chose one of them, and then tried their best to help him escape.

This is something that adults can't do, but a few children have done it outright.Not only Li Si was a little surprised, but the owner of the silk reeling factory and the traffickers were also surprised.The child who ran away ran desperately, while the remaining children shouted desperately, because in their hearts, what ran away was not a companion, but their freedom and hope.

Li Si and the owner of the silk reeling factory were a little bit embarrassed. The human traffickers were not as easy to talk to as they were. When they knew the reason of the incident, they became furious and beat the two children again.Li Si was afraid that things would change again, so he hurriedly stopped him, and asked the owner of the silk reeling factory to take the two children into the car first, and it would not be too late to send the remaining one after he was caught.

The two children were severely beaten, and they were in unbearable pain. Seeing that their companions had run away, they didn't struggle anymore, but obediently got into the car.But just as the car was about to start, many people appeared around, and some of them yelled, "Don't move, put the child down!"

Li Si was taken aback, thinking that the runaway child had called for help so quickly, but when he looked carefully, he found that these people were actually police officers from the local police station.Human trafficking is a felony regardless of the dynasty, so the two traffickers immediately ran away when they saw that the situation was not right.

Several policemen were chasing after him, including the one Li Si had seen at the silk reeling factory before.Human trafficking is a felony, but the law does not stipulate any responsibility for buying people. At most, they are ordered to let the abducted person go home.Therefore, Li Si and the owner of the silk reeling factory were very calm, did not offer any resistance, and let themselves be controlled.

In fact, at that time, most of the abductees did not know where they came from. Even if they were rescued, they would have nowhere to go, and it was impossible to stay in the police station. Therefore, they basically stayed in the buyer's house, and the police turned a blind eye. Eye.

The police who went after the traffickers quickly brought them back. It was the late Qing Dynasty, and human trafficking was still a capital crime.The police took Li Si and others away with the traffickers, and the two children naturally followed.The owner of the silk reeling factory knew that the two children would stay in the silk reeling factory in the end, so his tone was extremely firm, and he kept muttering that he didn't know these people were human traffickers, and hoped that the police would return the money they bought.

Li Si listened beside him, and his heart was moved. No one else knew about the buyer this time, so why did the police show up.Could it be that the owner of the silk reeling factory reported the case by himself, wanting to get back the buyer's money, but also wanting to keep the person in the silk reeling factory, with the idea of ​​benefiting both people and wealth?
If this is the case, it will hurt him.Li Si was increasingly angry, so he asked the owner of the silk reeling factory, "Did you report the case yourself?"

"Reporting such dirty activities is what kind people like us should do."

Because the police were right in front of him, the owner of the silk reeling factory might want to say something righteous, but to Li Si's ears, it undoubtedly confirmed his questioning.Li Si was annoyed in his heart, this person is treacherous and only seeks profit, he doesn't care about his partners, he is really a villain through and through.

He made up his mind that he would never have any contact with such dirty villains in the future.A group of people returned to the police station and did the procedure that should be done.The police station really couldn't do anything to the owner of the silk reeling factory, so they severely reprimanded him and released him. Li Si said that he was helping to buy people, so he was also released.

After he came out, he ignored the owner of the silk reeling factory and left on his own. After returning to his residence, he sulked a lot.After spending the whole night like this, he thought that maybe the police station really returned the buyer's money, and the owner of the silk reeling factory got both money and money, but he didn't even get a bonus.

The more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became, so he slapped the table and decided to come to the door to ask for the money he deserved.Unexpectedly, before he came to the door, he got a piece of news.The owner of the silk reeling mill died.

Li Si was shocked when he first heard the news, because he was also involved in this matter, so he was worried that the police might suspect him.But after waiting and waiting, the police station ignored him all the time, and didn't even ask him to question him.Only then did he feel relieved, but he was still thinking about who would kill the owner of the silk reeling factory.

It wasn't until the police posted a notice a few days later that he suddenly realized that the person who killed the owner of the silk reeling factory was actually an accomplice of the two traffickers who were arrested!

(End of this chapter)