"Are you Han?" Huo Xi asked again to the woman in black who abducted her.
The woman only glanced at Huo Xi, lowered her head, and did not respond.
"I know that although you can't speak, you can understand what I say."
Huo Xi asked someone to bring her a chair for her to sit on, "In that mountain stream, if you hadn't hinted several times, I probably wouldn't have made the decision to escape so quickly."
The woman's arms were tied and her head was lowered, not looking at Huo Xi.
"I read the confessions of those three people. You want to send me across the border and sell me to Laos, right?"
This woman had been with her for a few days, and maybe she couldn't bear it at the last moment, so she didn't tie her so tightly along the way. She also hinted at her running away several times.
"If you have any difficulties, you can defend yourself, otherwise you will be sent to the county government for the crime of human trafficking."
The woman shrank back after hearing this.
Huo Xi saw it and sighed.
"I heard that people who plunder and sell people will be punished with a hundred sticks and exiled for three thousand miles. Not to mention whether you can bear the punishment of a hundred sticks, even if you survive it, you will be exiled for three thousand miles.
I'm afraid you won't be able to reach the place of exile alive."
The woman's body trembled.
"You don't want to die, right? If you have any difficulties, please tell me. I will let you live for the sake of reminding me."
After waiting for a long time, she still didn't respond.
"Madam, maybe she really doesn't understand."
"No. If she responded to what Madam said, she must be able to understand what Madam said." Mother Ma was the best at observing people's words. After standing nearby for a long time, she was sure that this woman could understand what her girl said.
I just don’t know why he looks so hopeless.
Seeing that she didn't respond, Huo Xi sighed and said, "Forget it, because your conscience is still intact and you hinted at me to run away, I wanted to help you and reduce your punishment, but since you are unwilling, forget it.
But because of your reminder, I finally managed to escape and was found by my husband. I have ordered someone to notify your family and ask them to give you a lift."
After saying that, he got up and left.
Unexpectedly, there was a plop behind her, and the woman slipped from the chair and kowtowed to Huo Xi.
"What is she doing?"
"Thank you ma'am?"
"Please, please Madam..."
"Ah, you can talk!" Vanilla and others were very surprised. She was not mute. They ran over to help her, but she was unwilling to get up. Vanilla and others squatted down and looked at her, "So you are not mute?"
"Then our lady asked you, why didn't you respond at all?"
"That's right, and our wife tried to trick you along the way, but you didn't say anything. That's wrong of you. Otherwise, our wife wouldn't have to suffer so much, and she might have escaped long ago."
As soon as the woman's hoarse voice came out of her throat, she even frightened herself. After it calmed down, she spoke again: "Please, madam, please madam..." After saying two words in a row, it became smoother and less so.
The guy is mute.
"Quickly, get her a glass of warm water." After giving the order, Mother Ma walked over to look at her, "Have you not spoken for a long time?"
The woman nodded with tears in her eyes: "Two, twenty years..."
Haven't spoken for twenty years? Everyone was shocked again. Huo Xi looked at her in surprise. She hadn't spoken for twenty years? Why? She would rather treat herself as mute.
The lady drank two glasses of warm water to soothe her throat. Although she spoke slowly but coherently, "Please Madam, please don't tell my family. Just treat it as if I'm dead." Just treat her as dead.
"Why? We asked those three men. Although they didn't know where you were from, through the clues they provided, we found your home. There are men in your home, a son, a daughter-in-law, and a two-year-old grandson.
You also have a daughter to be married. You have a family. Why don’t you want to see them? "
The woman was weeping and shaking her head. Her daughter was afraid that she would not survive now. She had nothing left to miss in this world.
Communication failed, so everyone had to leave the house.
Looking back, I saw that the door of the room where the woman was imprisoned was tightly closed again, and two guards were guarding the door, one on the left and the other on the right. They couldn't help but sigh.
"Madam, why do you think she doesn't want to see her family?"
"After doing such a thing, I'm afraid my family won't be able to tolerate her."
"But you are about to die. Don't you want to see your family again? Don't you have any concerns at all?"
"Madam, isn't she from Luoluo? Why do you keep asking her if she is Han?"
Huo Xi sighed: "The investigators came back and said that they didn't know where her mother's family was. She was sold to her husband's family. She could understand what I said, and she looked different from the barbarians. I guessed it.
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"Then she must have some hard reasons, otherwise she wouldn't speak for twenty years and even hid it from her own man and children."
"Forget it, if she doesn't want to say it, just don't say it."
"Yes, no matter how hard you are, you will help the tyrants and follow those three men to sell your wife. It is really disgusting. Let the prince send someone to take them to the county government. If you do something wrong, you will be punished."
"The Crown Prince?" "I've met the Crown Prince."
"Why are you here? Is the matter done?" Huo Xi walked towards him with a smile. Mu Yan held her hand.
The two of them returned to the house. They had an early dinner, freshened up, and got ready to go to bed.
"Let's rest at the inn tonight and return to Kunming tomorrow morning."
Huo Xi nodded, thinking of the woman named A Wu, and asked him: "Can that woman's sentence be commuted?"
Mu Yan frowned. He wished they would die, but his sentence was reduced? His face was full of disapproval.
"Don't you think I'm okay?" "No."
"If she hadn't hinted, I wouldn't have chosen to jump off the cliff. Otherwise, I would have been sold to a neighboring country now!" Seeing that Mu Yan was indifferent, she pushed him and talked to him before she saw the woman.
situation.
"I always feel that she must have some difficulties, she looks quite pitiful. Furthermore, why do you convict them of human trafficking? Shouldn't it be 'human trafficking, selling to others as concubines and slaves'?"
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If you are only convicted of the crime of robbing and selling human beings, you will be punished with one hundred rods and three thousand li in prison. If you are convicted of the crime of robbing and selling people and selling them as concubines and slaves, the crime will be increased by one level, and you will be punished with one hundred rods and three years in prison.
If that woman could withstand the punishment of a hundred sticks and three years in prison, she could still come out. But if she was exiled three thousand miles, she might not be able to survive on the road.
Mu Yan raised his eyebrows. If they were convicted of this more serious crime, wouldn't that mean they were allowed to survive?
"Because it's unreasonable." Mu Yan frowned.
Most people couldn't bear a hundred sticks. Even if those three men could bear it in the end, they couldn't bear it on the three thousand miles of exile without any treatment or medicine. Even if he had to carry his life to the exile, he wouldn't let it go.
They live.
If you touch his heart, you must die.
He didn't want to say more, "I will send them to the next county tomorrow morning, and the county magistrate will take care of it. Go to sleep, we have to get up early tomorrow morning and go on the road." He would not let her come to this place again.
Huo Xi pouted and refused, "Can't we spare her life? We can just separate them and convict them."
"Convicted separately? Are three men guilty of lesser crimes than her?"
"And why not spare her life? She is only exiled for three thousand miles, and there is no hanging like the previous dynasty. Whether she lives or dies depends on whether she is strong-willed or not." Mu Yan didn't want to say more and held Huo Xi in his arms.
Just sleep.
Unexpectedly, I was woken up by the sound of crying outside in the middle of the night.