Lock and secure

Li Er frowned and stared at Yuan Zhaoling fiercely.

How confident is this guy that he thinks he won't kill him?

The dagger entered his skin and Yuan Zhaoling trembled with fear.

it hurts...

Li Er turned his wrist and put away the knife, and wiped the blood oozing from his neck with his rough fingers.

"You're very brave. I'll spare your life. If you don't want to talk about it, forget it. I can find out what you can find out, so take care of yourself."

Li Er went out, and Yuan Zhaoling lay back on the bed, pulling the quilt to wrap himself up.

A feeling of inexplicable grievance surged in his heart. Yuan Zhaoling touched his neck which was cut by a knife and felt like he was dying of pain.

The big golden beans fell down like they were free. He felt so wronged that he felt his little heart shrink into a small ball.

Daddy, Mommy, Uncles, Brothers and Sisters, Ling'er misses you so much...

He was feeling sad about the passing of spring when the door suddenly opened with a bang.

Li Er entered the room and placed some things on the table. "Take your medicine today. I have some more for a few days. I'll give you some silver for your travel expenses. Young Master Yuan, go home early to honor your parents."

The door slammed shut.

The sounds outside had died down. If he didn't want to take her with him, then he wouldn't have to go. He would go by himself when he felt better. Thinking of this, Yuan Zhaoling closed his eyes and went to sleep.

During this trip, more than a dozen secret guards were left behind to protect the people staying in the Li County government office, and Du Bing was also left behind to guard the people in the government office.

Luo Yao and Li Er took the secret guards to Daoya Village to rescue people. The situation in Qinlin County was still unknown, so Zhu He also accompanied them on this trip.

Xiao Ba's mission is to find Xiao Qi, who is very likely to have died, and bring him back to the county government office. Luo Yao and his party follow the pathfinder bird and rush straight to Xiaogui Village.

Fortunately, Li County was not too far from Qinlin County, and the group rode day and night until they arrived at Gui Village early on the fourth day. The horses were left in the deserted village, and the rest of the journey, as Yuan Zhaoling had said, could not be carried out by horseback, so they had to walk.

The terrain of Xiaogui Village is dangerous, and the government only thinks that the people of Guicun have become bandits and treat the people living in Daoya as bandits in the mountains.

The mountains are high and the roads are long, so the bandits in Xiaogui Village are not seen doing evil, and the government is too lazy to intervene.

After riding a horse for so many days, the thighs that were burning with pain two days ago have become numb, and Luo Yao's brain has lost contact with the roots of his thighs.

Without caring whether he still had legs, Luo Yao and his party tied up the horse in the ghost village, prepared enough horse feed, took a short rest and ate some warm food, and then continued on their journey at noon.

The route followed by the pathfinder bird is mostly in a straight line, sometimes climbing over mountains and sometimes crossing ravines. Even if one has light skills, it will still be very difficult for the group of people.

The only advantage is that the straight line is the shortest distance between two points, so they arrived at the so-called ghost village early before dark.

Little Ghost Village is sparsely populated and extremely poor, with no trace of the harmonious secluded paradise. Instead, it looks like a tribe of wild men.

The houses are all thatched huts, and very few are built with wood.

People were sent to investigate, while Luo Yao and his group hid in the dark and observed the village.

After watching for a while, Li Er noticed something unusual. "Young Master, have you noticed anything strange about the children here?"

Luo Yao looked in the direction Li Er was looking with confusion, and saw two children talking.

One of the children was dressed in rags, while the other was dressed fairly well and even had shoes on.

This is... Yuan Zhaoling sent the children to this little ghost village to be taken care of by the villagers?

Luo Yao frowned. If he were the two human traffickers, he would either pretend to be a good person and trick the villagers into believing him and asking them to help him move all the children out; or he would collude with the villagers to bribe them into selling all the children and dividing the spoils.

No matter how you look at it, this place looks more like a scam den in northern Myanmar, and Luo Yao's teeth were grinding.

"Brother, if it were you, what would you do?"

Li Er frowned and thought for a moment, "If it were me, I would use a trick to trick the villagers into helping me move the children out. Of course, I'm talking about the children in the village as well."

Luo Yao: "But if that's the case, what should the villagers do if they report it to the authorities?"

Li Er: "Report to the authorities? There's no evidence. They've already been identified as bandits by the authorities. I'll then put the blame on them. Even if they can still act rashly at the authorities, it'll just be the thief crying 'stop thief'. I can do that. Young Master Yuan's subordinates are as cunning as him, so they can definitely do it too."

Luo Yao felt depressed when he heard what Li Er said. People are treacherous. If this is true, they might end up clashing with these unarmed villagers.

My younger brother Chenchen is the latest child to be kidnapped. He will definitely not believe what the traffickers say. As the only variable, the traffickers are very likely to detain him alone in a place, and no one knows where he is, whether in the Little Ghost Village!

Luo Yao was restless and his intuition told him that his brother was not in the Little Ghost Village!

Soon Ye Shisan, who was sent out to investigate, came back.

A group of people looked at him and waited for him to tell them what was going on inside.

"Everything is normal in the village, but there's one thing that's a little strange. There aren't any young men in the village. The only two young men are probably the two prisoners. I happened to run into them. They weren't doing anything but teaching a group of children to read and write. They seemed very popular."

"Also, my subordinates have investigated several places and discovered that they seem to be holding a fire ceremony tonight to celebrate."

The Fire Society will celebrate? It seems that this is the plan of the human traffickers.

Ye Shisan thought of the human traffickers pretending to be kind and teaching the children to read, and a chill ran down his spine. "Princess, we can't let them succeed. When are we going to take action?"

Luo Yao thought of something and said quickly, "Two of you go and follow those two human traffickers. They are very likely to have locked Chenchen up alone. If we follow them, we might be able to find Chenchen's location."

The two secret guards followed, and Luo Yao sent people back to the ghost village to take away the horses left in the ghost village to eliminate the traces of their presence, and also sent people to guard the two mountain roads leaving the ghost village.

If I'm not mistaken, the traffickers are most likely doing business in Ghost Village. Too many people would make it difficult to manage and easy to be discovered. Ghost Village is the only village within a ten-mile radius, and traffickers definitely wouldn't want to take care of so many children walking dozens of miles.

With the villagers around, they couldn't just get into conflict with the two men, otherwise the ignorant villagers might confront them. They had to separate the villagers, the children, and the two scumbags.

The buyer will definitely come to the ghost village. After they complete the transaction, there are only two ways to leave the ghost village, one of which is the mountain road. By then, the children, villagers, and two thieves will be separated, and it will be a good time to take action.

After arranging all this, Luo Yao and his party rested and waited for the fire meeting to begin.

As the sky darkened, gongs were struck in the village, and soon all the villagers, less than a hundred people, gathered together.

The village chief of Hualin Village was standing on a high place and speaking.

"Fellow villagers, our Hualin Village was targeted by ghosts and monsters a few years ago. The government ignored all the monsters and monsters, and we were displaced and even treated as bandits. The government has ignored us for several years, so we can only live together in this wild hill..."

At this point, the village was in a desolate state. Some of the people covered their faces and sobbed, and the atmosphere was extremely tragic.

"Luckily, our village has finally welcomed a benefactor. The witch Luo predicted that a benefactor would arrive in the coming days to help us all overcome our difficulties and lead the Hualin Village to leave this haunted place and rebuild our homes... Everyone has seen these benefactors. They are these two young men. They are of noble status and previously rescued more than a dozen abducted children. Because they were missed by others, they had to leave temporarily. They came back a few days ago to send the children home, giving our village a chance to leave this haunted village..."

The villagers looked at the two men standing on the high ground and whispered to each other.

"My son Yangzi has been taking lessons from the noble master these days, learning to read and write for free. I never dared to think of such a thing before!"

"Really? Two days ago, these two gentlemen helped repair my roof. They are such nice people!"

"I heard from my child that these two young men are subordinates of the noble young man who didn't come. The noble young man found work for our village. Children aged eight or nine to teenagers can go out to work."

……

There was a buzz of chatter below, and many people were staring intently at the two well-dressed human traffickers on the stage.

"Fellow villagers, please be quiet. Please let these two gentlemen tell everyone what is going on!"