Chapter 191: Human Trafficking
When the sky was completely dark and the lanterns on the street were brightly lit, Gu Chaocai got up from the small tea stall and walked towards Baiwei Building.
Speaking of which, Baiweilou is the place where they met for the first time, and it can be regarded as the place where they met, their meeting was not friendly at that time, but it also had a different meaning, and now they are back there, I wonder if it will be a new beginning?
Entering the Baiwei Building, it is inevitable to see the Jade Doll Pavilion next to it, now that it has reopened, business is still as prosperous as before, there are still women eyeing the door, looking inside, still being driven out by the guards at the door.
Gu Chao remembered the pearl girl who was transferred last time, as well as the sneaky Cisse people who behaved at that time, and she felt that this Jade Doll Pavilion was not simple.
At this moment, she was standing in the middle of Baiwei Tower and Yuwa Pavilion, looking at this side for a while, and looking at that side for a while.
She still wanted to go into the Jade Doll Pavilion to have a look, but now was obviously not a good time, the janitors at the door were fierce and vicious, and those women who might have come to find their husbands were all beaten back one by one, and they didn't have to think about going in at all.
If they climb over the wall like last time, not only is it not safe, but it is also easy to cause trouble, and after such a fuss last time, they must have strengthened their vigilance.
Obviously, the wives at home are good enough, giving birth to children for them, taking care of household chores for them, taking care of their lives, laundry and cooking.
It's just that because the faces they once loved will grow old with time, they don't want to look at their wives again?
They are obviously about the same age as their wives, and they will also grow old, and they will endure the torture of their bodies every day, but why can't they empathize?
Those ladies who are blocked at the door, looking inside with disappointed eyes, those ladies who look tough, but are injured by their husband's infidelity in their hearts, although they have no right to speak and are powerless to resist, but who will pity them, who will speak for them?
Gu Chao shook his head, sighed, turned his head and turned his steps, and walked towards Baiwei Tower.
As soon as he entered the gate, Xiao Er greeted him happily, and it was already head to head, shoulder to shoulder, and it was not easy to get through the crowd.
Faced with Xiao Er's extremely enthusiastic inquiry, Gu Chao had no choice but to quickly say.
"I'm here to find someone, someone is already waiting for me, can you help me find it?"
"This young lady, who asked you out?"
"A son about the same age as me, he should be the only one wearing dark blue clothes."
"There is a private room on the second floor, there seems to be a person like you said, let me take you to see it?"
Gu Chao then followed the shopkeeper upstairs and walked to the door of the private room, through the papier-mΓ’chΓ© window, she looked inside, and saw that the figure seemed to be Ling Zhuo.
Xiao Er was worried that she was embarrassed to open the door to see, so she took advantage of the tea to open the door, Gu Chao took the opportunity to take a look, sure enough, it was Ling Zhuo, and there was a big table of dishes in front of her.
Looking at the dazzling array of delicacies on the table, Gu Chao was not only not happy, but a little disgusted.
If it was usual, she would be very happy to see such a large table of dishes, but she had just eaten two sweet jujube dumplings, plus a bunch of hawthorn pills, and drank herbal tea, these things were piled up in her stomach, and she didn't take two steps, so she was still very full.
Gu Chao thanked the little two, then walked over slowly, pulled a chair and sat down, and then supported his chin and looked at the dishes on the table.
"You came out so early, just to come here and order such a big table of dishes, there are only the two of us here, can you finish eating?"
"If you don't eat it, let's talk about it another day."
Gu Chao pursed his lips and looked at the big circle on the table, chicken, duck and fish, beef bone broth, and all kinds of dim sum, so he said.
"You really don't like a waste, you really don't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, and there are people outside who can't eat enough, so you order so many dishes to waste, I don't think we can even eat one-third of what is here."
"yes, I ran outside to eat snacks before eating, and when it was time to eat, I naturally couldn't eat."
Gu Chao's face was embarrassed when she said this, and her cheeks immediately became a little hot.
"You saw me on the street? You see me, why don't you say it? Are you hiding somewhere to spy on me? β
"I didn't mean to peep at you, it's just that I went out early, you heard it, after I ordered food here, I came out to hang around a few times, who knew and saw you, sat down at the most famous herbal tea stall here, and bought something to eat."
No wonder Gu Chao always felt a little strange after eating, although looking around, no one seemed to look at her, but with her intuition, she always felt that something was wrong, it turned out that she went to a famous herbal tea stall.
The herbal tea there is indeed very good, with her sweet zongzi and cool hawthorn balls, it can remove some of the stuffiness of the early spring evening, and can make the glutinous rice go down, not so sweet and greasy.
But at this moment, Gu Chao didn't want to discuss this issue with him anymore, Gu Chao first picked up chopsticks and grabbed something at random, put it in his mouth and chewed it, and then began to cut to the chase.
"Let me ask you, have you seen the Jade Doll Pavilion next to it open?"
"I'm not blind yet."
"Did you hear last time that the Pearl girl was revealed to be a fake identity? And behind the screen, the sneaky Cisai and the bustard mother there were talking to each other, not knowing what to plan. β
"What you can see, I can see."
"Don't you think this incident has something to do with those girls who went missing in the countryside?"
"You're trying to say those women were trafficked, right?"
"yes, that's what I've noticed lately."
"But what kind of tooth dealer would be stupid enough to sell a local girl to the local area."
Gu Chao was suddenly stopped by this question, although this seemed unreasonable, but she always felt that this Jade Doll Pavilion, as well as the Cisse people in it, must have something to do with those missing girls, and even felt that it had something to do with Erma Ayi.
"Then you say, where are the missing girls?"
"I'm here to talk to you about it tonight."
"What? Didn't you say you were going to tell me about your family? Why did you suddenly change your mind again? You don't want to use this to avoid the topic, do you? β
"I didn't say it before, why do I say it now?"
Gu Chao was angry with this sentence, but there was no reason to refute it.
"But when you asked me out during the day, you said that you would tell me that you were playing tricks on me now?"
"It's not that I mean to hide it from you, it's just that the time has not yet come, and it won't do you any good to tell you, instead of dwelling on this, you should think about how to save those women."
"I don't have any clues, I don't understand, how can I save them?"
"Do you remember that day, someone shouted a name at that fake pearl?"
Gu Chao thought about it for a moment.
"It seems so, but I can't hear it clearly."
"That old bustard once said to her subordinates, how can you let Miss Pearl see people?"
"Yes, Miss Pearl is an Oiran, and she shouldn't see anyone."
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