As they walked down the street, they saw the yamen in front of them, surrounded by many people, and the cries and pleadings could be heard in the distance.

Wei Lingmiao walked in the front, and when he heard the movement, he stepped forward to look, whispering in the back, and the three people who thought Wei Lingmiao was angry followed from a distance.

Wei Lingmiao peeled through the outermost crowd, endured the discomfort of being pushed and squeezed, and observed the situation outside the yamen.

Obviously, the rulers of the yamen did not appear, and only a few small officials were outside to deal with the crowd.

The attitude of those officials was quite passable, but there was a faint look of impatience.

And there were a dozen men and women sitting on the ground, who seemed to be fighting a protracted battle, and they were all blocked at the gate of the yamen and refused to leave.

Several women kept their heads down and wiped their tears, and some even erected a mound at the gate.

Wei Lingmiao casually found a woman who was watching and asked what was going on, whether it was the people of the government who were careless about people's lives, and whether these ordinary people were here to ask for an explanation.

The woman shook her head deeply, and her face was full of sorrow and sadness.

"It's not that the government cares about people's lives, it's that they don't save them when they see death."

The woman sobbed and said.

"You're an out-of-towner, aren't you? You don't know, recently there are always people missing in our Qingcheng County, at the beginning someone reported to the official, and the yamen also sent people to investigate, but it was the house leak that happened to rain overnight, and the boat line encountered a head wind, and there was an epidemic again, and there were not enough people in the yamen, and gradually it didn't matter, and now there are still children missing, we all say in private that they have formed a team to harm our children! ”

Wei Linghao wanted to continue asking, but Gu Chao and the others had already followed at some point, Gu Chao listened to what the woman said, and asked with concern.

"What about your child, should he be fine?"

Gu Chao thought that if this woman's child was also lost, she would go to ask for an explanation like those people sitting in front of her.

But the woman's expression was stagnant, and she began to cry.

"My eldest daughter, who is in her prime of life, disappeared last month! It's just that the one in my family who kills a thousand knives is not allowed to make trouble. said that I was afraid of being embarrassed, I, I can only hope day and night, hoping that my Meng'er will come home soon. ”

Gu Chao couldn't understand it all of a sudden, how could he be so ruthless as a father, even if he lost his child, he could care about his face.

Wei Linghao can understand it very well, he even remembered his father, but he personally sent the child to the point of no return.

Gu Chao asked cautiously.

"Kid, father, aren't you in a hurry?"

The woman suppressed her cries.

"I gave birth to three children, two daughters, and the youngest son, in the eyes of that killer, if the son is not lost, it will be fine."

It turned out to be patriarchal, but, after all, it was his own flesh and blood, and he had raised it for so long, didn't the father have any reluctance, and said he didn't want it?

At this point, Chang Yue came up with an idea later.

"Your husband must have to work to support the family during the day, right? He can't look at you every day, you secretly come to ask about the situation, it's okay, when the time comes, your eldest girl will find it, he can't be unhappy when he goes back, right? ”

The woman's sobbing stopped, but the tears continued to flow down one after another.

"We don't live in the county town, we are in the countryside Aiye Village, where it is remote and barren, women are at home to serve the one acre and three points of land, men will go to the county town to farm, if you want to go from Aiye Village to the county town, you can only take a horse-drawn carriage once a day to come to the city early in the morning, I can't come out with my family, he also told the driver, if I take the car to the county, I will immediately tell him, I have no chance at all, today, or my family is sick, I said to come to catch medicine for him, so that I can come here to have a look, There is no situation, but more people are lost. ”

Looking at the clusters of people in front of the yamen, this is willing to stand up for their children, how many children are lost, because people are soft-spoken, or they feel that losing one is insignificant, so they don't care?

Gu Chao couldn't imagine that the county had lost so many people, and the government didn't pay attention to it, not only did it not pay attention to it, but also held a large-scale celebration during the epidemic when human traffickers were rampant.

Like last night's night market, and the celebration of the second dragon raising its head on February when they came on the first day, how many people did they have to lose?

They stood for a long time, and finally a man who seemed to be talking with weight came out to drive away the demonstrators in front, some of whom still resisted, and some of whom had to disperse helplessly.

In the end, the few people who were left there were also driven away by the officials with sticks, half forced and half frightened.

Gu Chao and they continued to walk forward, and when they looked around, there were still young women playing with their children, or young girls walking around the streets alone.

At this moment, in Gu Chao's eyes, those people with straw hats covering half of their faces, those leaning on the corner of the wall and not moving, and those who follow behind others are all like thieves and rats, and they want to abduct and sell children.

Presumably, those who are at the gate of the yamen have lost their only love and can't wait to replace their parents!

If their children are never recovered, how will they live the rest of their lives?

When they went back, they looked at the bed where the child had lived, the clothes he had worn, and the courtyard where he had existed, was the child's voice and appearance deeply engraved in their minds?

Will they have a bleak night, no one to send them to the end, the incense is cut off, and before they die, they still think about the child who will never come back.

And those children who have lost their traces, wandering all over the world, without the company of their families, are abducted alone in a foreign land, and they don't know what kind of bullying they will suffer.

Gu Chao thought of this, and remembered the woman's tears like broken pearls just now, and her heart hurt so much.

They are really pitiful, even more pitiful than those orphan disciples in the Qing Bottle Pavilion, they just haven't passed.

And these trafficked children, they clearly know that they have a happy past, and they also clearly know that they may never go back.

was originally a well-loved child of a good family, no matter how poor it is, it is also a child who is favored by relatives, but now he may have to be a slave and a maidservant, a prostitute and a prostitute.

Chang Yu was also silent, obviously worried about this matter, and Lu Zhen mentioned on the side that he had a very good playmate when he was a child, a well-behaved girl who was his childhood sweetheart, if it wasn't for being patted away by Huazi, maybe they would have been married now.

His childhood sweetheart's little playmate, although the family is poor, but the parents love their daughter very much, and they can't find it all their lives, and the couple can only grow old slowly and lonely at home, and finally die of depression.

Wei Lingmiao saw that the atmosphere was instantly shrouded in sadness, but he was thinking in his heart, although it is common for traffickers to abduct children to sell, if a large number of children go missing in a short period of time, then there is a problem.

Moreover, so many children were lost, and the yamen shirked not to investigate because of the lack of manpower, and said that because of the epidemic, now that the epidemic has gradually come to an end, no matter how much manpower should be enough.

And the treatment of the epidemic is a matter of Langzhong, what does it have to do with the yamen? also held a large-scale celebration, in fact, knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, biased towards the tiger mountain.

However, his purpose has now been achieved, and he wants to see if there is anything unusual in the street or any suspicious person on foot.

Now that we have a general idea of what is wrong in Qingcheng County, we don't have to take these unjust paths anymore.

So he stopped and turned his head and said to Gu Chao.

"Now you can hire a carriage."

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