Xi Hongdou stabilized his mind: "Don't panic, I'll take a look at the ruts first!" ”

"It only rained last night, and there are people coming and going at the city gate, and the ruts are quite obvious, so it's hard to judge." Dude reminder.

The ruts in the mud pit are indeed relatively obvious, and many rut marks are still intertwined, but Xi Hongdou took a look at it and finally found the latest one, and said, "It's definitely this!" Then he followed the seal and found it, and finally determined the direction of the carriage.

At this time, the guy who went to the Yamen to report to the official finally came, with two people behind him and five or six guys from his own family, Xi Hongdou said: "This road, chase quickly!" ”

The two catchers chased in front, but they didn't run fast, Xi Hongdou always felt unreliable, so he hurried to find it with his own plan.

When he arrived at the grove outside the city, he finally saw the figure of the carriage, and Xi Hongdou watched from afar as two rough men carried several children out of the carriage, including Lingling and Maomao.

"The kid is there!" Xi Hongdou said, and then got up and went to chase, and the two catchers rushed up, and finally came close with a knife in their hands, but stopped.

"What's going on? Hurry up and hold down the bad guys! Xi Hongdou reminded that now that the grass has been startled, and the two traffickers are about to flee by car when they see that there are officers and soldiers.

"No, I'm afraid the two of us won't be able to beat it!" One of the catchers said quickly, but in fact, they didn't want to bother, the traffickers were extremely vicious, and if they resisted, they were afraid that they would be injured.

Xi Hongdou felt that these two catches were really useless, there were other children in the carriage, and if they didn't stop them, they would run away!

Xi Hongdou couldn't count on catching fast, so he rushed up directly, saw that the carriage was about to run, and picked up a dry resin and poked it into the wheel, the wheel did not run smoothly, and finally got stuck directly.

The guy was also dumbfounded, a woman in this owner is so bold, if they look like this again, they won't be men!

The traffickers saw that the carriage could not be used, so they wanted to take out a dagger to resist, and the two catchers did not go forward but went backwards, Xi Hongdou grabbed a handful of soil and threw it over, and when the guy saw this situation, he also threw the soil.

The lethality of one person throwing dirt is too small, but a large group of people throw dirt, and the two traffickers can't even open their eyes, and finally they are held down by the guys when the traffickers can't open their eyes.

Xi Hongdou stomped on the wrists of the two traffickers, and the traffickers let go of their hands when they were in pain, and the knife was kicked far away.

Seeing that there was no threat, he finally locked the trafficker's feet with shackles, and then said, "Okay, we'll take the people!" ”

"Wait!" Xi Hongdou directly stopped the people, and the two of them quickly said, "What are you going to do?" ”

"The people we arrested, it's not good for you to grab the credit directly, right?" Xi Hongdou said directly.

The two catchers said impatiently, "Then what do you want?" So we let people go for you? ”

Xi Hongdou shook her head: "That's not necessary, but it's ......" She looked at the two traffickers and beckoned to the guy: "Call me, don't kill me, just keep your breath!" ”

The catcher hurriedly said: "You are lynching!" ”

"That's not what you said when the two of you stepped back, you can't beat it, right?" Xi Hongdou didn't give a good face: "Why didn't you fight when you could fight just now?" The traffickers all deserve to die, do you still have to protect them? ”

The two catchers knew that they were at a loss, and when they saw that the trafficker was also hateful, they would have beaten it anyway, so they retreated, and it was a shame to say it, and finally gritted their teeth: "Don't slap your face, it's too obvious to go back and it's hard to explain!" ”

"Well said!" Xi Hongdou directly asked the guy to get on, except for not slapping his face, other places were not spared.

The two traffickers begged for mercy, Xi Hongdou didn't hear it, let alone lose a child, even if the dog he raised was lost, the owner would be sad and sad, these traffickers are not human, they are not as good as animals, and they should be killed on the spot if they are caught!

"Okay, it's really dead to fight again." Xi Hongdou asked the guys to stop, and then looked at the catcher: "Okay, take it away, there are other children, you have to take them away, whoever sends them back quickly." ”

The two catchers quickly took the people and the children away, and Xi Hongdou led Lingling and Maomao, and a large group of people returned to the city first.

Qiao's met halfway, and he was still crazy and asked people, and when he saw Xi Hongdou leading the child back from the road, Qiao's whole person was like a kite with a broken string, and he fell to the ground uncontrollably, crying directly, she was going to be scared to death!

"Okay, the child has been recovered, and the traffickers have not taken it away." Xi Hongdou patted Qiao's, and the two children fell into Qiao's arms and cried.

Everyone went back to the grain shop first, and Sister-in-law Liu went back to rest first, so she didn't have to go to work today, the two children had a fever that night, and Fang Langzhong came to open cinnabar to be considered the end.

The next day, Xi Hongdou asked people to go to the yamen to inquire, and the children who brought back were not found at home, but the news of the people who came back was not good, because there were more people who went to the yamen to report to the officials and lost their children.

Xi Hongdou wondered, why are there so many human traffickers in Kyoto City all of a sudden? How hard are parents who have lost their children?

Xiao Zhi came back at night and listened to Xi Hongdou talk about the day's events, so he said: "It's not just the boss's surname that lost the child, I heard that the little grandson of Dali Siqing was also lost today, and he is looking for it all over the city, and he hasn't found anyone yet." ”

"I always feel that something is wrong, although I have arrested two people today, there should be more people who have not been caught." Xi Hongdou said, and this group of traffickers is also crazy, completely ignoring the origin of the child, and abducting and selling indiscriminately.

"It doesn't seem to be quite right with Baishantang these days, there are a lot of children who go, and most of them are stupid." Xiao Zhi said that the aftermath of the matter of King Alcohol has not yet been dealt with, so Baishantang is still within the scope of supervision of the Ministry of Officials.

Xi Hongdou said: "Are they all stupid? ”

Xiao Zhi nodded: "Many of them were also intercepted from human traffickers. ”

Xi Hongdou felt strange, so he said: "What is the purpose of abducting and selling children?" She empathized, if it was a boy, it was estimated that he would be sold to someone as a son or a slave, and a girl would be sold to be a slave or sold to Flower Street and Willow Lane, but if she was stupid, she still needed someone else to take care of her, what was this abduction for?

Xiao Zhi was also thought about by Xi Hongdou's words, if it was one or two stupid, it could still be said that the traffickers were abducted and sold without seeing it, but they were all stupid, this probability is too small, right? Could it be that the traffickers are all fools?

A few days later, Dali Siqing finally found someone in Baishantang, but ...... People are stupid.

"Was his little grandson stupid in the first place?" Xi Hongdou wondered, he had never heard of it before.

Xiao Zhi shook his head and said: "I wasn't stupid before, I went to the magnification house once, the child was young, very lively, and could speak well, in order to show off the intelligence of the little grandson, he also asked the little grandson to memorize a few poems in front of him, which is indeed smart and clever." "But now people are stupid, they don't recognize people, they don't speak, and their eyes are dull, if they don't have a birthmark on their bodies, they are sure that they are not mistaken, Master Fang absolutely can't believe that the stupid child in front of him is his original smart grandson.

Xi Hongdou asked: "This is the problem, it is unlikely that the people who were abducted and trafficked were stupid, and now the people who were not stupid are stupid, could it be that someone deliberately made the abducted children stupid?" ”

"But what is it for?" Xiao Zhi couldn't figure it out, it wasn't logical for a good person to deliberately be stupid!

Xi Hongdou flashed all kinds of thoughts in his mind, and said: "Some traffickers will make the legs and feet of good children deformed or broken, and then let such children go to the street to beg, using people's kindness to obtain violence and hurt nature, so will it be for some kind of benefit to make good children stupid?" ”

Xiao Zhi thought about it, and then said, "The children of Baishantang are distributed according to the head of the money. He suddenly remembered such a thing, and then explained it in detail to Xi Hongdou.

In addition to the fixed expenses of Baishantang, other expenses are calculated according to the number of children, and if there are many children, the money given by the court will be more, and there are many infertile couples who adopt after marriage will also go to Baishantang to pick people, and they must also choose smart and good-looking ones to take away, and no one is willing to adopt fools.

Xi Hongdou suddenly asked: "Then if the smart child is taken away, will there be no court subsidy?" ”

Seeing Xiao Zhi nodding, Xi Hongdou suddenly had a disgusting thought in his heart, and said, "I suspect that there is something wrong with the people from Baishantang." ”

Xiao Zhi asked, "What problems will they have?" When those children arrived at Baishantang, they were already eating anything, deaf or dumb, and had problems. "They can't be the one who did it, right?

Xi Hongdou shook his head and said, "Could this be the case?" For example, someone in Baishantang wants more money, but there are many adopted children, and the subsidy money he gets will be less and less. ”

Xiao Zhi was shocked by this thought, so he said, "This ...... This is impossible, normal children will make more money by selling directly to others, right? ”

"But the chance of overturning is also great, I think those children are six or seven years old, and even eight or nine years old, they can already speak and remember, those traffickers abduct and sell children regardless of family background, high-ranking officials have children, if you tell the matter and find your family, the consequences can be imagined, but if you make people stupid, you can't say anything, and no one knows about the evil things they do!" Xi Hongdou said, people are really illogical sometimes, and they can hurt others for such a small profit, because for those beasts, whether others die or not has nothing to do with them, but even a penny is their own, and they are not allowed to delay them to earn even a penny!