Chapter 22: Human Traffickers
The temperature on the Demon God Road began to gradually decrease, and the cold and long winter was about to begin, and Li Erdan had been in Los Angeles for several days, and most of the food had been prepared. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
There are less than ten days to enter the cold winter, when the heavy snow will close the road, and the transportation of grain will become extremely difficult, and the rest of the grain will be ready in about three days according to Li Erdan's estimate.
The one-stop service of grain merchants adjusting grain and loading also saves buyers a lot of energy, and Li Erdan is ready to go around the city when he has nothing to do.
Watching the flowers all the way made him dazzled, all kinds of streets and alleys went around, and even he was about to get lost, Li Erdan looked at the sky, and was still early, ready to go back to the hotel after a while.
At this time, an alley mouth attracted Li Erdan's attention, and he saw that people were coming in and out of the alley from time to time, of course, it was not strange just to go in and out, but almost everyone who came in and out would take this child, both male and female.
If you go in with a child and then come out, there will be only one person whose child is gone, and most of the people who enter the alley alone will come out with children.
Although the entrance of the alley is small, there is a different world inside, and a huge courtyard is presented in front of you
"No, no, no, this money can only buy this ugly point, and I want to buy another one plus 10 silver coins. ”
"Damn, you're grabbing money? The last time I came to buy a more beautiful one than this, it cost 1 gold coin, and you actually have to add 10 silver coins to this, and you can add 5 silver coins at most. ”
As soon as he entered the alley, Li Erdan saw two adult men bargaining, but then he saw that there was a huge cage next to the two, and the cage was actually filled with some young children.
Two men, most of whom were sold by their parents to traffickers or orphans, were negotiating prices for the "goods" in the cage, ranging in age from seven to eight to teens.
I saw that the children who were locked up were wearing thin clothes, each of them was chained and shivering, no matter where there is light in the world, there is darkness, and in this small alley is the existence of the dark side of Los Angeles.
Human trafficking is actually not uncommon in the Demon God World, but as Li Erdan, who has just lost his mother, is very sympathetic to the plight of these children, even if some of them are trafficked here by their parents, they are no different from orphans.
"Okay, okay, okay, I see that you are also an old customer, I will suffer a loss, 1 gold and 5 silver coins, you can take this girl." ”
The traffickers directly opened the cage, took a wooden stick, drove the children together, and pulled out the "goods" that the "customer" fancied.
"Hehe, this time the goods are good, it seems that someone has helped me warm my bed this winter. “
After paying, the man carefully looked at the girl who had purchased it directly, and felt very satisfied.
"I said, you old pervert didn't buy it once last month, why are you in such a hurry to change it. “
"Last time, she died in a few days without playing, otherwise you still want to earn my money. “
"Hahaha.... You old buckle, you won't be able to play for long this time, and you're coming to me again. “
While talking and laughing, the two of them didn't care about the life or death of a life, just like a dead pet, no!
"Wait!"
Li Erdan didn't know what he was wrong with, but he actually walked up.
"This young man, do you want to buy a cub too? 1 gold coin for men, 50 silver coins for women, 1 gold coin and 10 silver coins for women, you can take a look at the goods first. “
When the traffickers saw that Li Erdan didn't bring a child over, they definitely didn't come to sell children, in this case, there are two kinds of people who come here, one is to sell Li Erdan, not the first one, that is, to sell children, and it must be a joy to have business to come to the door.
"Aren't you blatant human traffickers afraid of the government coming to arrest you?
Li Erdan didn't understand why no one cared about this kind of thing.
"Little brother, we are benefiting one party, we can't afford to raise children, we find good people for them to take in, how can it be called human trafficking, you say yes. The trafficker said with a smile.
Just kidding, the mercenaries patrolling and guarding the city in the city all came to him, who would care about this matter after buying a little girl.
There are more than a dozen traffickers in the alley, each with one or several iron cages next to them, all of which are children waiting to be sold, Li Erdan can't bear to let these children be sold, listening to their conversation before, it is obvious that there will be no good end after the children are sold.
"How many children do you have?" asked Li Erdan
"I have eighteen in this cage, I just sold one, and seventeen, why do you want them all??"
The traffickers are clearly joking, who would be bored enough to buy so many children back at once.
"I told you that you want to buy a warm bed, I still have a good product here, and you want to buy a working ..........."
"I want it all!"
Before the traffickers finished speaking, Li Erdan said that he wanted to buy them all, but the traffickers thought they had heard it wrong and asked again before they were sure.
"I have seventeen men and nine women left, a total of 21 gold coins and 90 silver coins, are you sure you have enough money?"
The traffickers didn't want to see what Li Erdan was wearing, and the big families were suspicious of whether he had so much money.
"Give you 22 gold coins, and you can do something for me. “
As soon as the trafficker saw that Li Erdan had really paid and given an extra 10 silver coins, he immediately patted his chest and said that there was no problem, as long as he could do it, he would do it, and Li Erdan told him to buy all the children here.
"Are you sure? That's a lot of money!"
It is estimated that there are more than a few hundred children sold by all the traffickers here, and it costs a lot to buy them at once, even if the average rich person would not do such a thing.
Li Erdan took the money to buy a year's food for thousands of people, and now he only spent less than one-tenth of the gold coins, and there were hundreds of dollars left, although the money was not his, but he couldn't think about it so much.
When winter comes, these children will die if they haven't been sold, and the traffickers won't give them extra food to survive the whole winter.
"If you want to do it, find me for money, and I'll change someone. ”
As soon as he heard that he was looking for money, the traffickers immediately quit and said that the number of people was counted within a stick of incense, while Li Erdan waited and watched the traffickers pull the children out like livestock.
Seeing such a scene, although he wanted to stop it, Li Erdan knew that this was not something he could say, and now embezzlement of public funds to save them was already the best he could, and the mainland was carrying out human trafficking all the time, so it can only be said that the children in it today are lucky.
After a while, the statistical results came out, a total of 238 boys and 194 girls, all ranging from seven or eight years old to teenagers, according to the price of 1 gold coin for boys, 50 silver coins for girls, 1 gold coin and 10 silver coins, Li Erdan paid 438 gold coins and gave him a discount.
These children were all malnourished and brought back to the border village, and there were more than 400 mouths at once, Li Erdan had to increase the amount of money to buy from the grain merchants, but fortunately, the remaining gold coins were still enough.
"This lord, if you still need it after the winter, just come to the alley to find me, and I will definitely give you the most satisfactory goods. The trafficker at the beginning said flatteringly.
Li Erdan asked them to take off all the children's chains, although the traffickers were puzzled, but the boss spoke and did so.
Hundreds of children were taken out of the alley, and the mighty procession of "little beggars" attracted passers-by to avoid them, as if the children had an infectious disease.
"Yo he, where did you get so many little deflated three today! Uncle Ben finally came out and walked down the street, it's really fucking unlucky!"
In the distance, a rich young master found a group of "beggars" very unhappy, and when they saw that they were all children, only a man led by an adult wanted to come forward to have fun.
"Stop! I said, what are you kid walking around with a group of little beggars?
"Boy, do you know what the consequences of messing with Uncle Ben are? But seeing that it is not easy for you to lead a group of little beggars, I will pick one to go home and raise it for you. ”
As soon as he waved, the two servants came up, and the rich young master found the prettiest looking little girl and wanted to take it away.
"You stop! A rich man like you doesn't know how to help the poor, and you still bully men and women every day, aren't you afraid of retribution!" Li Erdan stepped forward to stop the servant who was doing it, and cursed.
"Retribution.....? Well...... I'm really not afraid!Hahahaha! Beat Lao Tzu! me and dare to scold Lao Tzu and beat him to death!"
"Oops!ahh
Li Erdan, who was originally beaten violently, heard a few screams and felt that the people who beat him had stopped, and when he raised his head, he saw that the rich young master was rolling on the ground with his stomach covered.
"Damn! My eldest brother has only been working hard for a few days and hasn't shown his head, why do you little bastards come out and make trouble!"
"You, you.... You guys...... No, I don't know me....... Oops!"
"Third brother, can you fucking say a few words! As soon as my mother heard that you stammered, she was angry, and her mother wanted to beat someone!" After speaking, the eldest brother Cheng kicked the three people lying on the ground a few times.
"Brother Da is wrong, we shouldn't be wild on your territory! Don't be angry!"
The eldest brother became a few people, and they were originally a few gangsters, and somehow they suddenly had money, and it was not terrible to have money, the most important thing was that some officials and mercenaries in the city were polite to them, and everyone was confused for a third of the time, but since those who were officials did not dare to provoke them, the ordinary people were naturally more afraid of them. 、
"Thank you, a few strong men!" Li Erdan wiped the blood on his face and thanked Big Brother Cheng and the others.
"Hey~!, small things, little things, my eldest brother asked the three of us to do a good deed every day before leaving, na~.. Today's task is complete, let's go to drink!" After speaking, the eldest brother Cheng took the second and third children and walked towards the tavern.
Although he felt surprised, it was strange that Li Erdan didn't have time to think about those messes, and now he had to buy some food again, and he had to arrange for these hundreds of people to live before returning to the border village, which was really enough for him to worry about.