I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl

Chapter 224 Encountering a Human Trafficker 2

There were a dozen strong men standing around the ox cart, with baskets piled up one on top of the other, and sacks filled in the baskets.

Gu Wenxuan and the others took a quick look and found that all the sacks were loose.

If you look closely, you can vaguely see that the outlines of the things inside are somewhat strange, and they don't look like common things such as grains, dried vegetables, etc.

That vague triangle looks more like it is supported by a person's shoulders and head.

As soon as this thought came to her mind, Gu Wenxuan immediately ran back.

Under the surprised eyes of Bai Jingzhou and others, she stretched out her arms and stopped the ox cart that had passed them.

Bai Jingzhou didn't understand what was going on, but he immediately got into character. He quickly ran back and said, "Everyone, what are these things you are transporting? Do you want to sell them?"

Those people stared at them warily, and some of them even took out long sticks from the car.

The leader stared at Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou. "It's food. We're not selling it. We just bought it. We're in a hurry to get on with our journey. If you have nothing else to do, please get out of the way and don't get in the way in the middle of the road."

"Is that so?" Bai Jingzhou smiled and took a step to the side, apparently believing their words and preparing to give way. However, at the moment when the group of people relaxed their vigilance a little, Gu Wenxuan slipped onto the ox cart like a loach.

She used a dagger to cut the hemp rope that tied the bag, and as expected, she saw a half-grown child unconscious in the sack.

"It's human!"

Following her shout, the expressions of the dozen or so strong men changed in an instant. They either raised their sticks and rushed towards Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan, or bent down to reach for the sticks and hatchets that they had placed on the cart but had not taken immediately.

Gu Wenxuan and the others are all martial artists, so it is not difficult for them to fight one against two or even three.

Those who went to attack Gu Wenxuan and get weapons were knocked down by Gu Wenxuan and her cousins. Others who went to greet Bai Jingzhou were subdued by him and Bai Jingshan.

Bai Jingzhou made a prompt decision, "Uncle, please tie up all these human traffickers."

Then, he went to rescue people with Gu Wenxuan who had completed the counterattack.

Gu Wenxuan rescued the people from the sacks one by one, while Bai Jingzhou was responsible for taking their pulses.

After a moment, he concluded, "He's just drugged. He'll wake up on his own after a while."

Gu Wenxuan breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that. She lifted all the baskets to the ground, then took the three girls out of the sacks and put them one by one on the ox cart they brought with them.

There was a simple carriage to block the cold wind and an old quilt laid in the carriage to reduce the bumps, which could help the three girls suffer less from the cold.

Seeing this, Bai Jingzhou and his friends pulled out the boys from the basket.

They spread the sacks that were originally used to carry people on the traffickers' bullock cart, and then laid the three boys on top.

Fang Youfu felt sorry for these children. Seeing that their faces were blue and purple from the cold, he simply offered them his own sheepskin coat.

His sheepskin coat was long, and when stretched out, it was barely enough to cover the three young boys.

Gu Wenxuan did not stop him from doing so, but instead handed over the brown sugar ginger water that Bai Jingzhou had prepared for her.

After that, they did not stay on the official road any longer, but drove their own ox carts and the seized ox carts, taking the human traffickers with them, and continued towards the county town.

As soon as she arrived at the city gate, Gu Wenxuan saw a group of people whose clothing styles and colors were very familiar to her. They were holding portraits and gesticulating and talking to people.

She poked Bai Jingzhou and said, "Look over there."

Bai Jingzhou frowned, "Isn't that a servant of the Peng family? Are they looking for someone?"

Gu Wenxuan glanced at the traffickers who were tied together with hemp ropes and asked, "Is there a possibility..."

Bai Jingzhou was silent for a moment. "It can't be such a coincidence, right? Are these guys really that bold?"

Gu Wenxuan shrugged, "We didn't know when we arrested them, and who would dare to send them back when we knew?"

If we send the kidnapped children back, will the kidnappers no longer be kidnappers? Is this any different from walking into a trap? It would be better to go all out and sell these troublemakers far away.

If it is sold, the possibility of keeping the secret is higher.

Bai Jingzhou thought it made sense, and said, "Then I'll go call them over here now."

Gu Wenxuan nodded and said, "I'll ask my uncle and his men to drive the ox cart farther away from the city wall."

There are people coming and going at the city gate, and news can easily leak out. If the human traffickers in the city get the news and run away in advance, they will not be able to completely eradicate the evil.

It would be safer to call the servants of the Peng family over to quietly hand over the matter, and then have them report the situation to Magistrate Peng.

The servants of the Peng family had gone to deliver holiday and New Year gifts to Baijia Village more than once, so they all knew Bai Jingzhou. Bai Jingzhou whispered a few words to them, and they immediately followed Bai Jingzhou to Gu Wenxuan's side.

Although the half-grown children had been stripped of their clothes and changed into dusty, patched, and sweat-smelling coarse cloth clothes, their masters and the maids and servants who served them still recognized their appearances.

When they came closer to take a look, they almost immediately recognized the six people on the two ox carts. They were their lost young master and four servants.

The leader thanked Bai Jingzhou, Gu Wenxuan and the others repeatedly, while taking off his thick clothes and wrapping up their young master, who was only wearing a sheepskin coat, with three layers of clothes.

As for the little girl of the county magistrate, they, a bunch of mean men, did not dare to put their clothes on the daughter of the master's family, so they let her and her two maids stay in the ox cart with Gu Wenxuan and her family wrapped in old quilts.

Bai Jingzhou waved his hand, "Don't be so polite, we just happened to catch up."

After a pause, he continued, "They have been in the hands of the traffickers for quite some time, and they must have caught a cold by now. Uncles, please take them back quickly and ask a good doctor to treat them."

He pointed at the traffickers who were tied together and said, "We met these people on the way to the county town. We thought the sacks in their baskets were of the wrong shape and looked like people, so we stopped them and checked the sacks ourselves."

When the servants of the Peng family heard this, their eyes suddenly became particularly hostile. One of them stepped forward and kicked the human trafficker closest to him, "Damn human traffickers, you even dared to kidnap the young master of the county magistrate's family. I think you are really bold!"

Although the other man did not go up to hit them, his tone became cold and gloomy, "That's great, let's take them back to the county government to be punished."