amaotonovel Chapter 105 Dealing with Human Traffickers
Chapter 105 Dealing with Human Traffickers
Xiao Siyue didn't sleep well that night, and kept dreaming that she was kidnapped by human traffickers and then killed.
I felt a little dizzy when I woke up this morning.
After resting for a while, I got up.
"Where is my mother?" Xiao Siyue asked after wiping her face with Lan Yi's help.
"Madam said she made breakfast for Miss," Lan Yi replied.
After Xiao Siyue finished washing up, she was about to go to the front hall when Lin Qin came in carrying a bowl.
"Yue'er, you're awake. Come and try the lotus seed porridge your mother made for you." Lin Qin placed the bowl on the table and helped Xiao Siyue sit down in a chair.
"Thank you, Mother." Xiao Siyue picked up her spoon and started eating. Since the family had maids and servants, she rarely cooked. She had been in Qianyuan County for so long, and the number of times she had eaten a meal personally cooked by Lin Qin could be counted on one hand.
Xiao Siyue happily finished a bowl of porridge. Lin Qin's cooking skills weren't very good, just average, but perhaps because this bowl of porridge was full of Lin Qin's love, Xiao Siyue found it very delicious.
"Mom, where's Dad?" After finishing her meal, Xiao Siyue noticed that Lin Qin was staring at her, so she quickly tried to shift her attention. Although she enjoyed Lin Qin's maternal love, she still couldn't stand the constant attention.
Lin Qin then looked away from Xiao Siyue: "Your father stayed at the yamen all night and hasn't come back yet."
Xiao Siyue wanted to know how Xiao Qinian planned to deal with these human traffickers, so she decided to go to the yamen (government office) to find out.
"Mom, I'm going to find Dad. You go ahead and do your work." Xiao Siyue thought to herself and got up to leave.
"Well, be careful then."
When Xiao Siyue arrived at the yamen, she learned that Xiao Qinian was working in his study, so she went to the study.
"Yue'er is here, come over here quickly." Xiao Qinian looked up and saw Xiao Siyue peeking in from outside the door, so he waved for her to come in.
"father."
"Yue'er, how are you today? Are you still scared?" Xiao Qinian looked at Xiao Siyue and couldn't help but recall the scene from yesterday.
He was busy with official business and didn't see his daughter last night. I wonder how she is, and if she had nightmares about what happened yesterday.
"Father, I'm alright now, I'm not scared," Xiao Siyue replied. Although she had nightmares all night, she felt much better today.
"That's good."
"Dad, what happened to those human traffickers?"
"Hmph, I interrogated several people last night and found out that this is not their first time committing this crime. They will go to different places to kidnap children and sell them."
"They say they've already sold dozens of children," Xiao Qinian said angrily. "These traffickers deserve to die."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Siyue realized that these people were indeed repeat offenders.
"Dad, did they tell us where these children were sold to?" Xiao Siyue hoped to find the children who had been sold.
"Sigh, we didn't get any answers. They only said that they would sell the children to a man named Lao Liu each time, but they didn't know where the children ended up." Xiao Qinian sighed. He had hoped to get some clues from these people, but in the end, he got nothing.
"Dad, did they say what this Old Liu looks like, and where they usually meet him?"
Xiao Qinian was surprised that Xiao Siyue was so meticulous and immediately figured out the problem.
"I asked around, and this Lao Liu is very cautious. He looks different every time he meets someone, and the meeting place is never the same." This is what's giving Xiao Qinian a headache.
"However, we found out that they always met in Yuzhou Prefecture."
This gives us a clue: Yuzhou Prefecture is the prefecture where they are located, and Qianyuan County is a county under Yuzhou Prefecture.
"Dad, I heard the human traffickers say they were going to take us away today. How are they planning to meet us this time?" Xiao Siyue suddenly thought that if she knew how they were going to meet us, she could send someone to keep watch beforehand and then arrest them.
"Yes, Yue'er is indeed clever. I've already found out how they make contact," Xiao Qinian praised with a smile.
"Is it still Yuzhou Prefecture? Father, how are you going to arrest them?" So his father had already asked.
"It's still in Yuzhou Prefecture, so it's inconvenient for me to go there to arrest people. I've already written a letter to the Prefect of Yuzhou overnight." Xiao Qinian had thought about this matter after the interrogation last night, and finally decided to report it to the Prefect of Yuzhou.
Since this happened in Yuzhou Prefecture, it would be best if Yuzhou Prefecture handled it itself.
Xiao Siyue thought it was a good idea when she heard Xiao Qinian say that. If Xiao Qinian went to arrest them personally, not only would he be unfamiliar with Yuzhou Prefecture and the chances of catching them be slim, but he might also offend his superiors.
"Father, what are you going to do with the four human traffickers we caught?" Xiao Siyue knew a little about the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty, but she wasn't very sure.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Qinian's expression changed instantly.
“These people should naturally be executed. They have committed such heinous crimes that they deserve to die.”
Xiao Siyue also felt that this was the best way to handle it, as human traffickers are the most hateful.
Xiao Siyue was also thinking that she would go and see these people being executed in person.
"Father, when will it be carried out?"
"Tomorrow at noon"
“You can’t go, you know?” Xiao Qinian said again.
Xiao Qinian could tell from Xiao Siyue's expression that she was being disturbed, so he quickly stopped her. His well-behaved little daughter shouldn't be allowed to see such a bloody thing.
Xiao Qinian pouted. How did her father know she wanted to go see that?
"I understand, Dad," Xiao Siyue said, her voice tinged with disappointment.
"Dad, you go ahead with your work. I'm going to find Mom." Xiao Siyue already knew what she wanted to know and didn't want to stay here anymore.
"Well, let's go."
The next day, although Xiao Siyue did not go to see the human trafficker beheaded, she still heard about it from the servants in her household.
Because this is a major case, it has been widely discussed in the past two days, and almost everyone in Qianyuan County knows about it.
The servants said that many people went to join in the fun.
Especially on the way to the vegetable market, many people threw rotten vegetable leaves at the traffickers.
The most serious cases involve families whose children have been kidnapped by human traffickers. These families hate the traffickers so much that they throw eggs and stones at them, beating the traffickers until they are bleeding from their heads.
The guards responsible for escorting the person did not stop them, probably because they were quite pleased. As long as the person wasn't killed, they didn't care, which is why they didn't stop them.
However, these people are also careful and won't actually kill someone.
Xiao Siyue was overjoyed to hear this, and wished she could go over and throw stones at the human traffickers herself.
However, she didn't have that chance; her mother kept a close eye on her.