Rebirth: Inheriting Millions In The Eighties
Chapter 228 We Can Finally Go Home_1

Chapter 228: Chapter 228 We Can Finally Go Home_1

"How can you arrest me! The child was abducted by human traffickers! You should be going after the traffickers, not me!" Mrs. Luo was incredibly agitated, utterly unable to comprehend the authorities’ actions, her face screaming injustice.

She had spent money to buy something yet still had to go to jail—where in the world did such logic exist!

With each word that came out of Xia Ningxing’s mouth, it was laden with hatred and fury, "Do you think just because you spent money buying a child who was trafficked, you wouldn’t have to go to jail?"

Mrs. Luo’s eyes widened in shock—she truly didn’t know.

People like them, who had lived here generation after generation, neither educated nor informed, nor venturing beyond their surroundings, were the very essence of ’blind people’. They were completely unaware that such acts would result in jail time, thinking it was the same as any legal transaction where you simply spent money to purchase goods.

Even if they were indeed supposed to go to jail, they felt it should be the traffickers who were incarcerated. After all, it was the traffickers who kidnapped the people, nothing to do with the buyers.

Xia Ningxing really didn’t want to exchange another word with such people. It was infuriating!

Just as Xia Ningxing and the others were about to leave, there was another commotion in the crowd.

A woman suddenly burst forth, her face smeared with tears, "Wait, please, take me with you, officials. I was also sold by these people. I was originally a decent family’s daughter, but I was deceived and brought here alive..."

She spoke amidst sobs, her voice filled with boundless hatred.

She was but a young girl before being trafficked, yet now she was middle-aged, but she thought of returning to her hometown at every moment.

"You shameless wench, haven’t we treated you well in our household? And now you want to run away! Get back here right now!" The moment the woman’s mother-in-law saw her daughter-in-law attempting to escape, she immediately started yelling, picking up a stick to strike her.

They had thought that after so many years, she had settled down, which was why they brought her out to help in the presence of outsiders. But now, she was trying to run away!

The old woman was almost choking with rage.

"Stop!!" Xia Ningxing couldn’t stand it anymore—it was intolerable for someone to be beaten in front of her. She immediately kicked away the stick from the elderly woman’s hand and pulled the woman up from the ground, offering a statement filled with hope and light, "Auntie, let’s leave this mountain together!"

"Thank you! Thank you!"

Xia Ningxing looked at the woman’s tear-filled face and suddenly, as if reminded of something, turned to address the officials, "Uncle officials, there must be many others here who have suffered like this auntie. We should help them!"

If she wasn’t mistaken, there had to be other women and children hidden in the homes or cellars of these villagers, taken by force just like her.

"Certainly!" the officials nodded in agreement.

Helping those in difficulty was their duty!

So, in addition to Tuanzi being rescued, five other girls were also freed from cellars and pigpens. However, many more trafficked women didn’t want to leave because they had become mothers—their children were their world, and they couldn’t bear to part with them.

For such people, Xia Ningxing and the others didn’t insist. After all, people have their own free will.

It was just pitiful and tragic.

Of course, rescuing those who were trafficked meant that the buyers would also have to be arrested.

Though they weren’t sentenced to many years, later on, word had it that everyone in that place who had bought women and girls fell ill with strange ailments and spent the rest of their lives in agony.

Those who abetted the evil also led miserable lives.

Of course, that’s a story for another time.