After Chen Qiang and others came to the cave, Xu Lang took the girl and ran towards the mountains.
The mountain road was not easy to walk. What's more, there was no road where they chose to escape. There was nothing everywhere except rocks and trees. It was night again, and the sky seemed to be changing. The originally bright and clear sky
The moon was also shrouded in dark clouds, and without the moon's illumination, it became even more difficult for Xu Lang and the others to walk, and they could only move forward in the dark.
The girl was thin and exhausted after running for so long that night, and Xu Lang was not much better. Although Xu Lang pretended to be drunk when eating in Chen Wei's country, he was indeed
After drinking a lot, Xu Lang had already sobered up after exercising, but the stimulation and damage caused by alcohol to the body still made Xu Lang obviously feel very tired.
After they ran for who knows how long, they finally couldn't run anymore, and they couldn't see the other side of the cave from here, they could only vaguely see some light.
In the dark night, they had lost their direction. At this time, they could no longer run, so they found a small cave and the two of them hid in it.
Xu Lang's body had already been scratched by leaves, and there were wounds everywhere. Now that he stopped, Xu Lang felt that his legs were sore and his whole body ached. His clothes were also torn by branches, and several buttons of his shirt fell off.
, and the pants also came off in several places.
Compared to Xu Lang, the girl's clothes were in similar condition, and her skin was scratched by leaves. At this time, she was sitting at the entrance of the cave, gently stroking the wounds, and gasped from time to time.
The sound made Xu Lang feel distressed.
After Xu Lang rested for a while, he calmed down, and after confirming that it was temporarily safe, Xu Lang began to recall the entire incident.
Xu Lang and the others came to Chenjiahe Village this time to find out what secrets Chenjiahe Village was hiding. However, before they could figure it out, a series of things happened.
At first, Xu Lang thought that Chenjiahe Village was just smuggling and selling wild protected animals at most. However, if they were just smuggling and selling wild protected animals, there was no need for them to do this, attack the police, and go to such great lengths to deal with themselves, because smuggling
Selling wild protected animals is generally punishable by a fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years and not more than ten years. Even if the circumstances are serious, the punishment is only a fixed-term imprisonment of not less than ten years or life, but not the death penalty.
In this case, they would not do this. Based on Xu Lang's current understanding of Uncle Li, it is impossible for Uncle Li not to know this, but why would he do this?
Thinking of wild protected animals, when Xu Lang came to the cave to rescue Lai Pi and the others, he found many cages near the thatched house. There were indeed many animals in the cages. At that time, it was dark and Xu Lang did not notice what animals they were.
, however, it should be similar to the animals that Chen Wang had transported that the police investigated before.
Where did they get these animals? Xu Lang didn't know.
Moreover, through what happened tonight, Xu Lang felt that the hidden secrets in this village may not be as simple as smuggling and selling wild protected animals. There must be other things, but what exactly is it? What is this secret?
What could make Uncle Li do this at all costs?
Thinking of this, Xu Lang turned his head and looked at the girl sitting next to him.
Only now did Xu Lang remember one thing. He still didn't know the girl's name until now.
"What's your name?" Xu Lang asked.
"Chen Lingxuan, they all call me Amei," the girl said.
"Your surname is Chen, are you also from Chenjiahe Village?" Xu Lang looked at Chen Lingxuan and asked.
"yes."
"Then how did you..."
When Xu Lang asked this question, he looked at the girl's fair face and pink neck, and frowned.
"What?"
Chen Lingxuan was stunned by Xu Lang's question, but she soon noticed Xu Lang's gaze. She looked down following Xu Lang's gaze and found that her clothes had been torn, and a large piece of white was exposed on her chest.
His face suddenly turned red and he quickly said: "Don't look at it."
As he said this, he pulled on his clothes, trying to cover his chest.
Xu Lang did not change his gaze, but stared at the girl's face because Xu Lang did not believe that Chen Lingxuan was really from Chenjiahe Village.
Although Xu Lang has only been to Chenjiahe Village twice, during both visits, Xu Lang saw the women and children in the village. Both men and women had darker skin, which was caused by long-term labor. However, Chen Lingxuan
No, her skin is very fair, fairer than the skin of many girls in the city. If she is in the city, her skin is so fair, it may be due to good maintenance or other reasons, but in the countryside, a girl
His skin was so fair, Xu Lang felt it was unrealistic.
In addition, when Xu Lang was in Chen Weiguo's room, Xu Lang was awake when the girl took off her clothes and lay next to him. He smelled a fragrance. At first, Xu Lang thought it was
The girl's own body fragrance, but now that she thought about it, Xu Lang felt something was wrong. It seemed to be the smell of some kind of cosmetics, which made Xu Lang even more curious and confused.
In a dark night, in a small cave, a strange man and woman sat next to each other. The girl was looked at directly by a man, and she felt that something bad was going to happen.
Chen Lingxuan's face was completely red, and even her earlobes were red. She could feel the eyes of the men around her, although the eyes were not the kind of naked eyes she usually saw from men when they saw her.
The light, however, still made her feel very uncomfortable. In addition, in this small cave, she could clearly smell the man's breath emanating from Xu Lang's body, which made her even more flustered.
"Why is your skin so white?"
After a long silence, Xu Lang asked again.
"ah?"
Chen Lingxuan raised her head, looked at Xu Lang blankly, then quickly lowered her head, her face even redder.
Xu Lang's words are very problematic. If it were normal times, it might not be a big problem, but now in this place, there is a man and a woman alone. A man is staring straight at a woman, and
There was also a sentence about why your skin is so white. This was so suggestive that Chen Lingxuan couldn't help but think about it.
Seeing the girl's reaction, Xu Lang finally realized that there was something wrong with the way he asked the question. He shifted his gaze and looked into the dark night and asked, "Have you always lived in Chenjiahe Village?"
"yes."
When Xu Lang changed his gaze, Chen Lingxuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Then why isn't your skin tanned?"
"Oh, you tell me this, I was raised by my grandma. I haven't worked in the fields since I was a child, so naturally I won't get tan."
"Where are the parents?"
"They went out to work when I was very young and only came back once a year."
"Have you read any books?"
"Educated and graduated from junior high school."
"Why didn't you go to high school?"
"I wanted to, but I didn't pass the exam," Chen Lingxuan said.
After hearing Chen Lingxuan's explanation, Xu Lang turned his head, glanced at the girl, then turned his head and continued to look at the night and asked: "How old are you this year?"
"Sixteen years old, oh, no, I had my birthday a few days ago, and now I'm seventeen."
Perhaps it was because Xu Lang was no longer looking at her that the girl felt that Xu Lang meant no harm and she relaxed. Although she knew that the man next to her would not do anything to her, she was still a little shy and wary.
"Why did you appear in my room?" Xu Lang asked again.
"My uncle asked me to go."
"Uncle? Is that Uncle Li?"
"yes."
"Do you know what he asked you to do?"
Hearing Xu Lang's question, Chen Lingxuan blushed again. She glanced at Xu Lang secretly, quickly lowered her head, and then couldn't help but raise her head, looked at Xu Lang, and whispered: "I know."
"If you know, why do you do it?"
"If I don't do this, I will kill me and ask my grandma for it."
"Are you so afraid of him? Has he killed someone before?"
Xu Lang turned his head and looked at Chen Lingxuan.
Chen Lingxuan glanced at Xu Lang, turned her head, followed Xu Lang's example, looked at the dark night, and said in a resentful tone: "No one in this village is afraid of him. Since you know that he is Uncle Li, you should see
The village chief must have seen his attitude. Officials as big as the village chief are so afraid of him. How could we not be afraid? Moreover, three years ago, I saw with my own eyes that he killed a man who came to our village to investigate.
of the police.”
"What? Kill the police?"
Hearing this, Xu Lang was shocked.
Chen Lingxuan turned her head and glanced at Xu Lang, nodded, and said: "Yes, that policeman is very young, a little younger than you. He came alone at the time, as if he wanted to investigate something. At the beginning, the village chief
Uncle He also used the same method to deal with you, but the policeman, like you, did not choose to compromise. He tried to escape, but his luck was not as good as yours. He was caught, and then, the uncle said it in front of all of us.
He killed him out of respect for others, and also asked all of us to go up and stab him, including the child."
"Then do you know the name of that policeman?" Xu Lang asked.
Chen Lingxuan shook her head and said: "I don't know, I was only thirteen years old at that time. I only know that his surname seems to be Gao, and they all call him Police Officer Gao."
Hearing this, Xu Lang suddenly felt a little silent.
It seems that the police suspected someone from Chenjiahe Village a long time ago. However, unfortunately, he was killed by Uncle Li and the others. It was Uncle Li who killed him, not him, but everyone in this village.
People, Xu Lang can imagine how desperate the policeman was in that situation. If Xu Lang hadn't brought Lai Pi and the others with him this time, if Uncle Li and the others hadn't been concerned that he was from the urban area,
If Xu Lang had not taken the opportunity to escape, perhaps Xu Lang would have ended up like the policeman, becoming a corpse and being randomly dumped in the mountains or fed to wild animals.
"Then after you killed the policeman, what did you do with his body? Buried it or fed it to animals?" Xu Lang asked.
Chen Lingxuan shook her head and said, "Speaking of which, you may not believe it. After the policeman was killed, his body was cut into pieces and asked to be taken back by every villager to be cooked and eaten."
"What? Did you eat it?" Xu Lang was shocked and turned pale.
Chen Lingxuan didn't speak, just nodded.
"Did you eat too?" Xu Lang turned his head and looked at Chen Lingxuan's side face and asked.
Chen Lingxuan shook her head and said, "No, our family also got a piece. However, my grandma didn't cook it, but secretly buried the body parts."
"Where is it buried?"
"Behind our house, that
There are two cypress trees inside."
It is not that Xu Lang has never investigated such cases as killing people and cooking corpses. However, the people who commit such cases are usually just individuals, but Chen Lingxuan said that the entire village was involved, which made Xu Lang feel a chill for no reason.
Come.
There was another long silence.
"On the way to the cave just now, I heard Chen Weiguo talking about business. Do you know what the business is? Is it smuggling and selling wild animals?" Xu Lang asked.
Chen Lingxuan nodded, shook her head and said, "Those animals are just part of it, the main business is not that."
"Not these? What is that?" Xu Lang asked.
Chen Lingxuan shook her head and said: "I don't know what it is specifically, but every once in a while, someone will come to our village and send a group of pregnant women."
"A woman with a big belly?"
Xu Lang frowned.
"Yes, it's a pregnant woman."
"Then what did they do when they were brought to the village? Did they live in the village?"
Chen Lingxuan shook her head and said: "No, every time I come here, it is in the middle of the night. I also accidentally saw them taking these women to the back mountain, which should be the cave."
"Then what? Did you see them again?" Xu Lang asked quickly.
"No, I've seen them several times. They came and never went out again. I don't know where they went?"
Hearing this, Xu Lang stopped asking. He knew what the secret of Chenjiahe Village was.
Women with big bellies. If Xu Lang had not guessed, while Chen Weiguo and the others were engaged in smuggling and selling wild protected animals, they were also engaged in human trafficking, and it was not the women who were trafficked, but the children in their bellies. After all, trafficking
Adults are at certain risks, especially since the country has always attached great importance to the case of women trafficking. Over the years, some trafficked women have been rescued, thus uncovering human trafficking organizations and gangs. However, babies
It's different, they are just born and don't know anything, not even that they are being trafficked, and this is very profitable.
The abduction and trafficking of women is inherently a serious crime and can be directly sentenced to death if the circumstances are serious, not to mention the abduction and trafficking of children.
However, there are still many questions that Xu Lang has not figured out.
First, if Chen Weiguo and others are really engaged in criminal activities of selling babies, then the source of these children is a problem. It is definitely impossible to rely on people in the village for reproduction. Moreover, there are children in the village, and every family
Every household has children. Obviously, they are not crazy enough to sell their children. So, these children must be born to women with big bellies. And where did these women come from?
Second, judging from Chen Lingxuan’s story, it is definitely not just Chen Weiguo and Uncle Li who are engaged in this criminal activity. It is likely that most people in the village know about it. In other words, this is not a crime committed by one person, but by
A group of people are committing crimes, and it is still unknown whether they know that what they are doing constitutes a crime, and if this is the truth, then why do they do it?
Third, since the people in the village are already engaged in smuggling and selling wild protected animals and selling babies, they should have made a lot of profits from it and should be very rich. However, why did they not choose to leave Chenjiahe Village?
Choose to stay?
Fourth, the young adults in Chenjiahe Village, especially the younger generation, have gone out to work. Many of them have read books, such as Chen Zhen, who is a college student. Since he has read books, he must know the law, and they
Why break the law if you know the law? Are those women with big bellies related to them?
Fifth, what was the fate of these pregnant women after they were brought here and gave birth to their children? Were they trafficked or killed?
Sixth, what is Uncle Li's identity? Why are the people in the village so afraid of him, even the village chief is so afraid of him? What is the reason?
Seventh, behind the villagers of Chenjiahe Village, Uncle Li, and the village chief Chen Weiguo, besides Chen Guodong, the director of the Hengtong County Public Security Bureau who also came from Chenjiahe, are there others behind them to protect them?
Eighth, whether they are selling wild protected animals or selling babies, they all need a buyer? And who is this buyer?
Ninth, if it was Sun Wenyao who killed Chen Qiumin, then who was the one who killed Chen Wang? What was Sun Wenyao's purpose of killing Chen Qiumin? Did he want Xu Lang and the others to investigate everything that happened in Chenjiahe Village?
In addition to these questions that Xu Lang is currently thinking of, there are still many questions that need to be answered, and the end of all these questions is in Chenjiahe Village.
Thinking of this, Xu Lang looked in the direction of Chenjiahe Village and frowned. He hoped that Ding Haoqiong and the others could arrive early. If Chen Weiguo and Uncle Li could be arrested on the spot, these questions would be easily solved. However, everything
Will it really go so smoothly? Xu Lang doesn't know.
"Look, there's a fire over there."
At this moment, Chen Lingxuan stretched out her finger and pointed to a place where the fire was coming.
Xu Lang looked in the direction of Chen Lingxuan's finger, and sure enough, there was a fire there. It was small at first, but soon it became bigger, and that direction was the direction of Chenjiahe Village.
After seeing this scene, Xu Langdun felt bad. He immediately stood up and prepared to go down the mountain to Chenjiahe Village.
However, just as Xu Lang was about to go down the mountain, another accident occurred.