Chapter 82 Kidnapping (ETL) Part 2
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Chapter 82 A Car of Human Traffickers
After a while, the boss lady brought 3 bowls of noodles with double meat serving, a large plate of braised beef, and 5 cold dishes, and said generously, “This meal is my treat. Let me know if you are not full and I will make more.”
Gu Ye smiled and thanked the boss lady. After she went down, he received two pairs of contemptuous eyes. Gu Ye explained, “If people don’t mention it, we naturally have to pay. But since the boss said to treat me as a thank for my previous help, we will accept this meal. Otherwise, it will be bad for the host.”
Both of them took the chopsticks to start eating noodles but their faces were still saying ‘Yeah sure, you just keep fooling us’. Gu Ye was helpless. He told the truth but they didn’t believe it. After tasting the noodles, both of them gave a thumbs up in surprise, “This taste is amazing!”
Gu Ye drank a mouthful of soup, it was still the familiar taste. He felt warm in his heart after drinking it. Smiling, he said, “Trust my words. It can’t go wrong.”
Xia Xiang was puzzled, “How did you find this place before? Your parents let you run around to places like this?”
Gu Ye smiled, “I have legs, so I can go wherever I want.”
The boss lady came up with a big bucket of ice and bottles of Sprite, and said with a smile, “I really haven’t seen you before, but I am quite familiar with a fortune-teller. The child often comes to my place to eat noodles. I don’t know what happened to him in the past few years because he hasn’t come for more than a year now.” She put the Sprite on the table, looked at Gu Ye, and said with a smile, “That young man is also good-looking, as handsome as you.”
Gu Ye chuckled, “As the saying goes, we will meet if we are destined to.”
At this moment, on the commercial street next to this street, a young woman was pushing a baby stroller and taking her one-year-old daughter out shopping. An old man was holding a dozen colorful balloons, which quickly attracted the child’s attention. The child pointed at the balloons happily, and her tender voice could only say simple words, “Mom! Mom! Balloon!”
The child’s mother smiled and asked after seeing it, “Baby, do you want balloons? What shape do you want? Do you want this little duck or this big rooster?”
The child pointed at the big red rooster and clapped her hands happily. The child’s mother was paying for the balloon when a young man hurried over and called the child anxiously, “Tian Tian!”
The child’s mother grabbed the stroller vigilantly, “Who are you? My daughter’s name is not Tian Tian.”
The man wore glasses and looked honest. He turned his head and looked at the woman in disbelief, “What did you say? You asked me who I am? Are you sick?!”
“You are the one who’s sick!” The child’s mother immediately realized that something was wrong and wanted to pick up the child, but the child was sitting in the stroller facing forward. The man directly took the child out of the cart and hugged her in his arms.
The child’s mother panicked and rushed over to grab the child back, anxiously saying, “What are you doing? Put my child down!”
After some struggle, the man could no longer bear it and gave the child’s mother a hard slap. The child was frightened and started crying.
Holding the child, the man pointed at the child’s mother angrily and cursed, “You quarreled with me and you want to divorce. But don’t torment my daughter! The child is sick, you took her out shopping! How can such a young child withstand your torment? Do you want to kill her?”
The child’s mother realized that the strange man was a human trafficker who wanted to steal her child. She rushed over and held onto the man, anxiously shouting, “Help! He is a human trafficker! He wants to steal the child!”
When they heard someone snatching a child, all the passers-by gathered around and asked, “What’s going on? Who tf dares to snatch a child?”
“In broad daylight, which bastard snatched the child?!”
Snatching a child is such a nasty thing that when people hear this word, some passionate young people want to beat the traffickers to death. The man looked aggrieved and said, “This is my own child! She cheated on me and was caught by my mother. After quarreling with me, she ran away with the sick child!” The man felt more and more aggrieved as he spoke, and he comforted the crying child in his arms with heartache, “The child is still sick! Don’t cry, Dad is here.”
The onlookers saw that it was not a case of child kidnapping but someone else’s family affairs, so it was not easy to say anything. A busybody old lady advised, “If you have something to say, please talk nicely. You called the child’s father a human trafficker right away. It’s a bit unreasonable. It’s more important to let the child see a doctor first.”
The child’s mother whose face was swollen from the slap cried out, “I don’t know him! Believe me! He is really a human trafficker!”
The man’s eyes were red and he shouted aggrievedly, “You don’t know me? You said you don’t know me after 2 years of marriage? You only know that wild man! You have the guts to cheat on me so you should have the guts to admit it!”
The older people who were watching the scene pointed at the woman and said that she was too unreasonable. Even when she was slapped by the man, no one sympathized with her. The child’s mother looked at the people around her in disbelief. No one spoke up for her. She held onto the man tightly and shouted desperately, “It doesn’t matter if you people don’t believe me. Please help me call the police! Call the police!”
At this moment, an old lady came over angrily and grabbed the woman’s collar. Then she pushed her away fiercely, “You unfilial daughter-in-law, you still want to call the police? Who do you call the police to arrest? Arrest your wild man? Or arrest your husband? What sin did our Li family commit to marry such a restless woman like you?! You don’t mess around my granddaughter! Son, hurry up and take the child to the hospital!”
The old lady’s words immediately aroused the sympathy of the onlookers. Everyone looked at the child’s mother with even more contempt, and advised the old lady, “Don’t be angry, just go back home and tell her if you have anything to say. Family disgrace should not be made public. It is important to let the child see a doctor first.”
The man took the opportunity to carry the crying child away from the crowd. The child’s mother didn’t know what to do to make everyone believe her. She got up from the ground in despair but was then grabbed by the old lady. She flung her hand away like crazy and rushed over to grab her child back. Unexpectedly, an old lady nearby couldn’t stand the disrespect anymore and pushed the young woman, “The child is sick but you don’t take the child to see a doctor. Now you push your mother-in-law down and don’t even look at her, are you still a human being? Help your mother-in-law up!”
“Yes! Help her up!”
The child’s mother couldn’t hear what the people around her said to her. Her mind was blank. She madly scrambled up from the ground and pushed through the crowd. Rushing towards the man, she cried desperately while running, “Give the child back to me! Give her back to me! He is really a human trafficker! He took my child away! Help! Police! Where are the police?!”1
A group of old people were pointing and scolding this woman for being ignorant, while some young people started to sense that something was wrong, “Could it be that someone really snatched the child? The child’s mother doesn’t seem to be lying.”
“Not really, the man looked honest to me. Even her mother-in-law came and said that the woman cheated on her husband and took her sick child out shopping out of spite.” The young man looked in the direction the man was going, “Isn’t he taking the child to the hospital?”
Just when many young people were hesitating, a man in a police uniform stopped the woman on her way, “What’s wrong? Do you need help?”
The woman fell to the ground several times in a row when trying to chase after the kidnapper, and her hand was scraped and bloodied by the road. When she saw the policeman, she excitedly held his hand, causing her blood to rub on his hand. Crying, she pointed at the man’s back and said, “Mr. Police! He took my child away!”
The policeman grabbed the young woman’s wrist and said softly, “Don’t worry, talk slowly.”
The child’s mother was so anxious that her eyes were red. She anxiously shouted, “That man took my child away! Police, catch him! He is a human trafficker!”
The policeman was not in a hurry at all, and said slowly, “Don’t worry, which man?”
At this point, the child’s mother immediately realized that something was wrong. She wanted to shake off the policeman and chase the child, but she was caught at the wrist by the fake policeman. She couldn’t break free and could only watch as her child disappeared from her sight. Facing the crowd, the fake policeman said seriously, “You two have called the police so many times, and you quarrel every day. Come with me, go back and talk it out. Can you two still live like this?”2
The child’s mother struggled desperately, hysterically hitting the fake policeman, crying and shouting, “I won’t go, I don’t know that man! I don’t know you either. You are together with that kidnapper!”
The police said sternly, “You should be detained for making such a fuss!”
The onlookers thought that the man took the child to the hospital for treatment. And now seeing that the woman attacked the police, they couldn’t stand it anymore, “How could you hit the policeman? Can’t you just talk it out?”
“You are attacking the police, do you know? You will be held legally responsible!”
“You are too much, woman. First, you cheated! Then, you don’t care about the life and death of your child, and you slandered your husband as a human trafficker! Next, you pushed your mother-in-law down! Now, you hit the police!”
There was a lot of noise around. The child’s mother looked at the strange faces around her, none of them had good intentions and suddenly felt dizzy. Her head was buzzing, and she wanted to chase the child but was stopped by the people around her, so she couldn’t go anywhere. At that moment, she took out her phone in a daze and wanted to call the police.
The fake police took the opportunity to snatch her mobile phone and said sternly, “If you have anything to say, go back and talk. Everyone else, dispersed!”
The man who took the child away came directly to the corner road of the hospital, got on a hearse with only a temporary license plate, and quickly took the child away. The fake police dragged the child’s mother more than 100 meters away from the crowd until they got to a place with fewer passersby. Then, he left the woman behind and ran away. Before leaving, he also took her mobile phone. No one actually came to help the young woman along the way. Everyone believed the lies woven by the three people – ‘the child’s father’, ‘the mother-in-law’, and ‘the police’.
The child’s mother saw the hearse passing by the intersection beside her, and the fake police hurriedly got in the car. At the moment of opening the door, she vaguely saw the shadow of her daughter. She got up in horror and shouted to passers-by while running, “Stop it! It’s a car of human traffickers!”
However, no one went up to stop the car. It was a hearse and it just came out of the hospital. There might be dead people in it. How unlucky!
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After finishing their meal, Gu Ye and his friends said goodbye to the boss and his wife with satisfaction. They were about to go back to school. When they passed this street, they heard a woman crying.
There were many people around a woman. After listening to her narration, everyone realized that they had been deceived, so they helped to call the police. At the moment, the police had just arrived and the leader was Mu Jingfei, who Gu Ye was familiar with.
Stopping the car, Gu Ye counted on his fingers and his eyes immediately darkened. The three of them quickly got out of the car and came to the crowd, “Sister Mu, do you need help?”
Not expecting to meet Gu Ye here, Mu Jingfei’s eyes suddenly lit up, “Yes! Sister needs you so much!”
Gu Ye’s expression turned cold, “Sister Mu, can we use legitimate defense when catching criminals?”
With a domineering tone, Mu Jingfei said, “In the face of such heinous criminals, we can use force to arrest them. If you catch them, I will apply for a medal for bravery for you!”
Gu Ye helped the mother who lost her child up and pointed to the sports car on the side of the road, “Get in my car, I can get your child back today!”
Raw word count: 6083 (whole chapter)
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[Banana: I have seen this kind of scheme for human trafficking in different novel. Each time I would get so angry despite knowing it’s fictional. I feel like this kind of scheme only works in China where passerby would butt in like everyone is a big family but idk.
Anyway, this chapter was supposed to be out yesterday but Banana is too angry lol and immediately pressed on to translate the next chapter. So, please enjoy the justice served at Chapter 83 (will be published a min later as per scheduled]