"Husband, what do you think of this child?" the woman walking at the front said softly to the man beside her.
"Well... okay, as long as you like it, wife." The man said to the woman beside him.
The couple in question was the two who looked richer. The man pointed to the boy over there who was wearing some tattered clothes and asked:
"How old is this child?"
The Clown King glanced at the man here, raised the corners of his mouth, and said with a smile: "Two hundred and fifty thousand."
The couple looked at each other and didn't think much about it, so they took the child away. The two couples walking behind frowned after hearing the quotation, because the price was really expensive for them.
Somewhat high.
Then the second couple also chose a boy. The clown quoted 100,000 yuan. They thought it was a bit too expensive, but they happily accepted it in the end.
The last couple, the one who was a little nervous and scared as soon as they walked in, swallowed their saliva and pointed at the child they were interested in, with their outstretched fingers trembling slightly.
"Excuse me, how old is that child..." the man asked without confidence.
"Hehe, one hundred thousand." The clown said with a smile.
"Ten, one hundred thousand?! This..." The couple looked at each other, showing a very embarrassed look, but they also wanted a child because the couple was infertile.
We have been together for more than ten years and our relationship is very harmonious, so we were introduced here through an acquaintance.
"Husband, let's forget it..." the woman on the side said softly.
"But..." The man looked at the child and seemed a little reluctant to leave, but he really didn't have the financial conditions. Finally he sighed and was about to say thank you and leave when the Clown King said with a smile:
"Hehehe, since your financial conditions do not allow it, then we will pay in another way..." The corners of the clown's mouth raised, and he slowly walked in front of the couple.
The couple seemed frightened by the clown's charming smile and took a few steps back.
"Don't be so nervous, you two. I've already investigated the two of you. The financial conditions at home are indeed a bit prohibitive. How about we..." The clown leaned into the man's ear and whispered softly.
The woman also heard the clown's whispers. The couple looked at each other, then nodded tacitly, looking at the clown emperor with gratitude in their eyes.
Then the two of them took away the child, and then the clown let two other couples in, and finally there was only one little girl left. The clown emperor couldn't help but sigh,
Slowly walking towards the iron cage, he squatted down and looked at the little girl in the iron cage. The little girl was also sitting in the cage blankly looking at her, her eyes blinking, looking very cute.
,
But this little girl had birthmarks the size of two coins on her face. The Clown King sighed and said, "Well, if no one comes to adopt you, just follow me and be Harley Quinn..."
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Qin Nan, Wu Haotian, and Zeng Li sisters came to the police station. Qin Nan told Song Yi what Zeng Li had told. Song Yi also found it incredible after hearing it.
The reason is why the Clown Emperor sent Zeng Li and the others back intact. I don’t know what the reason was.
While Qin Nan and Song Yi were deep in thought, Zeng Li, who was playing with her cell phone, found a notification on her cell phone. She opened it and saw that it was a wanted order, and it was issued by the police station where she was now.
She clicked in and took a look. When she saw the photo on the wanted poster, she frowned instantly. She put the phone in front of Mo Dan. Mo Dan also frowned and said, "This is not the one hanging in the air."
My aunt?
Unexpectedly, he turned out to be a personal trafficker."
Qin Nan on the side also overheard their conversation, so she walked up to Zeng Li and asked, "What's going on?"
Zeng Li handed the phone to Qin Nan, and then said: "When we were locked up, this aunt was also hung in the air inside the venue.
Her treatment is not as good as ours, the clowns don't seem to give her food or drink, and they even deliberately tease her."
Qin Nan frowned slightly, not knowing what he was thinking.
Afterwards, I had a brief chat with Song Yi, and then went to visit the parents of two of the children. Through understanding, I found that the things the children said were roughly similar to what Zeng Li and the others said.
They also talked about the aunt who was hung in mid-air, and they also said they saw Zeng Li and the others in that place.
Qin Nan originally thought that this incident would have a psychological shadow on the children, but none of the children who visited the home seemed to have any psychological problems. On the contrary, these children seemed to want to go there again.
And they also acted very happy. Even those children who were frightened and cried at the beginning behaved very normally at this time.
During this home visit, Qin Nan also discovered an important issue, that is, before these children disappeared, they had been beaten and scolded by their parents to some extent.
Ma Xiaotao did some ideological work in this regard for these parents, asking them not to spank their children. After all, they were only a few years old. These parents also listened. After all, such a thing had happened before.
They could no longer bear such a fright.
Qin Nan and his group walked out of a residential building and said to Ma Xiaotao on the side: "Xiaotao, let's go to the monitoring room of this community and take a look. Judging from the descriptions of the children,
That night, they all seemed to have met a clown and ate unknown candy. I think there must be something wrong with that candy."
Ma Xiaotao nodded, and then a group of people came to the community property. Through surveillance, they found that several clowns sending balloons appeared in the community at the same time. The clowns' faces were all painted with uniform oil paint.
The clothes and heights are all the same. From the surveillance, it was found that the clowns gave candies to the children who cried. After some children discovered the candies, they seemed to want the clowns to give them.
But the clown refused to give them, and only gave them some balloons and small toys.
Several of them couldn't help but frowned when they saw this. Even Zeng Li and Mo Dan, who didn't understand anything, had strange expressions.
"Why do I feel like these clowns can give candies to those children? What is the purpose of this?" Zeng Li looked at Qin Nan and said to herself.
Qin Nan and Ma Xiaotao looked at each other, thought for a long time, then frowned and said, "Why do I feel like these clowns are trying to reconcile the conflicts between these children and their parents?"
Ma Xiaotao also nodded in agreement, raised the corner of his mouth and said, "You said what I wanted to say. In fact, I think so too, but I always feel weird."
"Do you think there is a possibility that the clown just brought those who were still there to that place, deliberately making the parents of the children nervous and letting those children know how to cherish their parents?
So we took them to that place, performed a circus show, and then let them go home. In this way, isn't the clown not guilty?" Zeng Li expressed her thoughts.
"I think it's unlikely, because I saw a lot of blood stains on the floor of the venue. They couldn't be ketchup, and the clown also handed us a few puppets.
I still remember that one of the dolls had dried blood stains on it, which was dark red, I think..." Modan lowered his head and said.
Qin Nan and Ma Xiaotao also listened to their words. They seemed to make sense. However, if there were blood stains in the venue, it proved that the clown's purpose was not simple. Moreover, why were human traffickers wanted by the police found in that venue?
Woolen cloth,
This is somewhat unjustifiable, but judging from what Zeng Li and others said, it seems that the number of children in the iron cages at that time was far greater than the number of children returned home now.
But he still didn't understand why the clown took Zeng Li and the sisters to that place and sent them back safely. It seemed a bit unnecessary.
Qin Nan frowned tightly, looking at the clown in the surveillance video, wondering in his mind: Did he bring Zeng Li to that place on purpose?
Qin Nan looked at Zeng Li and asked, "Do you remember the venue where you were imprisoned? What did it feel like?"
[Author's digression]: The event in this chapter is December 25th