Another girl stood up tremblingly and said, "Me, and me, I was abducted by them, I want to go home, wuwuwu..."

As soon as the girl spoke, several girls nearby stood up and said, "We were abducted by them. Please, save us!"

More than a hundred women stood up, and soon the right side was filled with people.

The women were wearing thin and worn clothes, shivering in the cold wind, and the bruises and scars, both new and old, on their bodies were shocking.

Their hair and faces were disheveled, and their eyes were full of fear and helplessness. They fell to their knees with a "thump", and tears burst out like a dam breaking.

"Please, let us go! We've been abducted for several years and have been living a life worse than death." A woman burst into tears, her voice hoarse and broken, revealing endless sorrow: "I even gave birth to a child. For the sake of the child, please spare us!"

They prostrated themselves on the ground, hugging Zhao Qiaoniang and Mulan's legs tightly with their scarred hands, weeping and sobbing:

"As long as they can let us go, we will do anything.

We can work day and night, do laundry, cook, plow the fields, and all the dirty and tiring work at home is left to us. Even if we don’t have enough food to eat or warm clothes to wear, we will never complain.

We will serve you like the most loyal servants, working like slaves. We only ask that you show mercy and forgive us this time, and don't hurt us and our children.

We have no one else to rely on in this world. You are our only hope. Please, please be kind and let us go..."

Zhao Qiaoniang sighed and said, "Were you all kidnapped?"

"Yes, that's right... these ones are not, they are all from the village."

These people quickly reported it, and the women were almost going crazy: "Are you crazy? What does this have to do with you? Just wait, if I can get out, I'll find someone to kill you."

"Bitch, you are just a dog in my family. How dare you hurt me? I will beat you to death."

Zhao Qiaoniang sneered and said, "Take them all back."

Soon all the women who had been trafficked into the village came forward. They all brought their own children, and some had simply abandoned their children.

A woman squatted down and looked at her children and asked, "Are you willing to go with your mother?"

"Bah! You are an ungrateful person. I don't want to go with you! I want to follow my father. You are a servant in my family. What will we do if you leave?" The boy looked at him with hatred.

The girl hugged the woman's legs and said, "Mom, I'm willing to follow you, wuwuwu... Mom, please don't leave me."

The village chief's wife stood up. Her face was full of flesh, her eyes were fierce, and she put her hands on her hips and shouted at these women:

"You are a bunch of traitors! I have provided you with plenty of food and drink every day, and now you dare to help outsiders. Believe it or not, I will kill you all!

You bastards, just stay still!

You know my methods. If you don't obey me, I won't let you off when my people come."

A woman suddenly stretched out a trembling finger, pointing directly at the woman with the fleshy face, and shouted in grief and indignation: "That's her! She is the culprit who kidnapped us!"

"She used to be a brothel owner, ruthless and cruel! Later, I don't know how she managed to marry the village chief, and ever since then, she's been dragging our village into the abyss, step by step!"

The woman's voice became shrill with excitement:

"Although our village was poor before, it was also kindhearted. It was she who kept telling me that human trafficking could make a lot of money and allow everyone to live a good life.

Under her instigation, some people were blinded by greed and followed her into doing this heinous act!"

"And their evil deeds don't stop there! Whenever passers-by stop in the village, they become malicious and kill those innocent people and steal their property.

We abducted people live in fear every day. If we show any resistance, we will be beaten. We live a life worse than death.

It was she who ruined our lives and the peace of this village! " By the end, the woman was sobbing and the women around her echoed her.

Lin Wanwan never imagined that human traffickers would be so rampant.

She thought that life here was better and people would be more simple, but how could she have known it would be like this?

No wonder not many people survived in ancient times...

Zhao Qiaoniang sneered, "So that's how it is. Let's go see what's in this old hag's room."

The old woman's eyes turned red with anxiety: "How dare you? I tell you, I have someone protecting me. If you dare to touch me, believe it or not, you will all die."

Someone shouted, "Isn't it just that he and the Ninth Rank Magistrate are old lovers? There's no need to scare us."

"That's right, it's just my old mistress, you still have the nerve to say it out loud."

The old woman looked at them and said:

"What do you know? I pay him taxes every year, otherwise would he protect me?

So you better let me go quickly, otherwise you will be in big trouble.

I can tell you that the mayors of Qingping Town are all my people. You can’t escape from Qingping Town, but you can try.”

The old woman's face was filled with sarcasm and sarcasm. Zhao Qiaoniang asked with a half-smile, "Oh? So you're so powerful? The mayor of Qingping Town is your man, and the county magistrate is also your man?"

"Her old lover is not a county magistrate, but just a chief clerk in the county." Someone said quickly.

Zhao Qiaoniang looked at him approvingly and said, "You know quite a lot, quite good! How about you tell me the chief clerk's last name?"

"I heard his last name is Cao."

"So he's a scholar..."

The man nodded and said, "I've long been fed up with their behavior, but I can't do anything about it..."

The village chief's face flushed with anger: "Cui Dawang, are you still a human being? Your annual tuition is paid by our village. How could you do such a thing now?"

Cui Dawang looked at the village chief and said:

"You did pay for my tuition, and I'm so grateful to you for that.

But that doesn't mean I agree with your approach. How innocent are these women? "

The old woman sneered:

"You old fool, I've told you long ago that these scholars are the most useless people. Look at them, when something happens, they run away faster than anyone else.

You even set up a clan school for them, haha...see if that's a joke?"

Cui Dawang looked at them and said:

"You've done such a cruel and heartless thing, and you still expect me to protect you?

Every year they paid 100 taels to the chief clerk and 500 taels to the county magistrate.

I saw it with my own eyes when they took me to the county government office, and they would even send them beautiful women.”

The village chief was so angry that he laughed and said, "Cui Dawang, you are really great."

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