He Huanhuan ate three large bowls of rice before wiping her mouth with unfinished content and looking at me with an embarrassed smile.
Seeing that her mood was much more stable, I felt it was time to ask her why she was missing.
"Huanhuan." I asked worriedly, "Where have you been these past few months? It's really easy for us to find you. Can you tell me now?"
Hearing this, He Huanhuan's eyes first showed fear, and then she shed tears again. She choked and sobbed and looked at me pitifully: "An, Brother An, I, I..."
"Huanhuan, don't worry, speak slowly." I held her hand directly.
At this time, my grandfather also looked serious, waiting for her answer.
"Brother An, I, I." He Huanhuan took a deep breath and said slowly: "Brother An, I was abducted."
My eyes turned cold, and I secretly thought that Huanhuan was indeed abducted!
Grandpa suddenly asked with an ugly face, "Huanhuan, who abducted you."
"Are they Yin Wenqian and the others?" I suppressed my anger. If it were really them, I would definitely make their lives worse than death.
"I don't know." He Huanhuan said with horrified eyes: "I, I was kidnapped by a bald man. I don't know if it has anything to do with Yin Wenqian."
A bald man?
I suddenly thought of the bald man who had an affair with Yin Wenqian. Could it really be him?
I wiped her tears and asked quickly: "Huanhuan, is that bald man very tall? Is there a hideous scar on his face?"
He Huanhuan heard this and looked at him in surprise, "Yes, Brother An, how do you know?"
Sure enough it was him!
As expected, it was Yin Wenqian and the others who did it, so there was almost no need to think about it.
The bald man looked very strange. I had never seen him in the village before, so he was definitely not from the village.
Coupled with He Huanhuan's description of that spectacular appearance, who else could he be?
However, I suddenly thought of the place where He Huanhuan went missing...she might have really disappeared by the river or on the way to the river.
When my grandfather heard this, he asked me how I knew that bald man.
After I nodded, I looked at He Huanhuan and said again: "I saw that bald beast once. By the way, Huanhuan, how did you get kidnapped by him?"
"The night you went to town to find Xiao Mengxin, my dad called me home. There was nothing wrong at the time. He just said he missed me and wanted to see me. He went home and stayed overnight. Early the next morning, I thought Back to our grandma's house." After He Huanhuan finished speaking, he suddenly paused.
The critical moment arrived, and I almost held my breath as I listened.
"But..." He Huanhuan seemed a little hesitant, and after thinking for a long time, he said: "But, Brother An, I, I thought that you and Xiao Mengxin were going to her house to meet her parents, and I felt bad, and then... "
"Then I just want to take a walk by the river and relax."
I sighed after hearing this. At that time, I was still curious about why He Huanhuan went to the river before she disappeared. It turned out to be this reason.
She must have been worried that I would neglect her after we got together with Xiao Mengxin, so she went to the river to relax in a bad mood.
"Hey, Huanhuan, are you stupid?" I took her hand and said again: "Then, did you meet that bald man on the road?"
"Well..." He Huanhuan said with a scared expression: "I didn't even look behind me at that time, so I just walked forward. But when I was approaching the river, I suddenly heard footsteps behind me. I turned around and then I noticed that at some point, there was a bald, strong man following me, holding a large sack in his hand and smiling evilly at me."
The next thing I thought was the same. He Huanhuan felt that she had met a bad person, and she was so scared that she ran across the river.
As long as you reach the other side of the river and walk for more than ten minutes to reach the village in front, you will be completely safe.
But how could the teenage He Huanhuan outrun the strong man? The gangster caught up with him with a strange smile, carrying He Huanhuan on his back like he was walking into the countryside.
He Huanhuan yelled for help, but was knocked unconscious by the bald man and stuffed into a sack.
"Then what?" I asked quickly, "Where did the gangster get you?"
He Huanhuan shrank her body and said with memories in her eyes: "When I woke up, I found myself in the compartment of a large truck. The light was dim. There were five or six boys and girls like me inside, probably all of them. They were captured from different places. We were all tied up and had rags stuffed in our mouths. We didn’t know where we would be taken. At that time, everyone was whimpering in fear and were extremely scared.”
When He Huanhuan said this, he started sobbing again, saying that at that time, he realized that he had been abducted. At that time, he was scared, missed me very much, and felt very hopeless and helpless.
I endured my anger and patted her shoulder to comfort her.
"This must be a criminal gang that abducts children." Grandpa asked again with a solemn and worried expression, "Then what about Huanhuan, where did they take you? You weren't hurt at all."
After speaking, my grandfather looked at He Huanhuan's body worriedly. He must be worried that Huanhuan would be sold to northern Myanmar and have her organs cut off or something.
He Huanhuan shook his head, wiped his tears and said: "The car drove for a long time, I don't know how long. I felt it would be at least two or three days. During this period, the car stopped several times. A man came in, untied us, and threw each of us Two steamed buns and a bottle of water,"
"There was a boy who was crying, cursing and clamoring to go home, but the man punched him and broke his teeth. After that, no one dared to talk nonsense anymore. We were all scared and anxious at the time, and we didn't dare to cry out. We don’t know what is waiting for us.”
"In this way, the truck probably drove for another two or three days. Our daily food was only two steamed buns and two bottles of water. When it was convenient, they took us to the wilderness until one day the truck finally stopped."
When He Huanhuan said this, he showed a horrified and distressed expression.
"Then what? Where did those beasts drag you?" Grandpa asked quickly.
"Them." He Huanhuan trembled and said, "They took us to a dark basement. In a space of more than fifty square meters, there were more than a dozen children like us living. The oldest was seventeen or eighteen, and the youngest was They were only eight or nine years old. Their eyes were filled with fear, indifference, despair and helplessness, a dead silence, and eyes full of yearning for the outside world. They..."
He Huanhuan paused, and said again with deep fear in his eyes: "Several of those children were lying on the wooden boards, their limbs were irregularly twisted, and they were obviously broken. At that time, we were all afraid of what was waiting for us. Knowing what it was, I was so frightened that I cried."
"However, the expressions of the children in the basement who watched us cry were extremely indifferent or bleak, as if they no longer had any illusions about life."
"Huh." I took a deep breath and asked worriedly: "Those children must have been arrested from all over the country and imprisoned, but what are those people doing to arrest these children?"
While I was curious, my grandpa also looked puzzled. Suddenly he thought of something and his brows furrowed into knots.
"I was curious at first as to why they arrested us children, but we found out the next day." He Huanhuan hugged her body tightly, with fear and anger in her eyes, "Those bad guys actually asked us to dress up as beggars and go to the streets. If you ask for money, if you don’t get enough, not only will you have nothing to eat, but you will also be beaten up!”
"I asked you to pretend to be beggars and ask for money, and then beat you?" I was suddenly filled with the flames of anger. I felt that those people were just scum, and they actually used children to beg for money?
"That's true." Grandpa suddenly exclaimed, "I have heard of such evil forces in the south before. They capture children and control them, making them beg for money. They are simply beasts, a bunch of beasts."
Grandpa was a little agitated and looked angry.
"Huanhuan, since you were able to move during the day, didn't you take the opportunity to escape?" I asked curiously, feeling that when begging, you could just escape.
"It can't be that easy." Grandpa suddenly said coldly: "Those children are under control. When they are begging during the day, there are people from the dark forces watching secretly. If you dare to run away, your legs will be broken if caught. .”
"So vicious?" I looked at Huanhuan and asked, "Is Huanhuan like this?"
He Huanhuan nodded and said: "Yes, grandpa is right. They released us during the day and monitored us throughout the day. They captured us at night. At first, there were children who tried to talk and ran away, but when they were captured, they were beaten. The legs were broken, blood flowed all over the ground, and the bones penetrated the skin, and then no one dared to escape."
"These beasts!" I hammered the kang hard, and then said again: "Huanhuan, didn't you ask passers-by for help?"
While I was very curious, I thought I would ask Huanhuan how he escaped later.
He Huanhuan shed tears and said in a choked and trembling voice: "No one dares to ask passers-by for help. The streets where we beg are full of bad guys. They take us very seriously. We don't even say anything about begging. When it comes to money, I dare not say anything. Once, once..."
Speaking of this, He Huanhuan's body began to tremble violently.
"What happened once?" I asked quickly.
"Once." He Huanhuan showed a horrified look, "Once, a child tried to ask for help from someone on the roadside and said something he shouldn't have said. He happened to be discovered by the bad guys. As a result, he was caught and Use scissors to cut off the tongue, woo woo, woo woo..."
When He Huanhuan said this, his body trembled violently as if he was frightened.
I thought to myself that there was really nothing I could do about this situation. Even the passers-by wouldn't dare to even hint at it. Besides, there were a few passers-by who dared to meddle in other people's business. Those people were evil forces.
My heart hurt, so I hugged Huanhuan and comforted her for a while. Then I suddenly asked anxiously and worriedly: "Huanhuan, what about you? Did they beat you?"
"Yes." He Huanhuan lifted up the sleeves of both arms with tears in his eyes.
"Huanhuan, here you are." I quickly grabbed her arm, tears welling up in my eyes. I was sad and angry at the same time, making my body tremble.
There were bloody scars all over her arms. Some had stuttered, some had just sprouted burs, and some were red and bloodshot. It was obvious that they had been injured just a few days ago.
