Before Lin Jiandong could even register the pain in his teeth,
Leng Yuan’s fist ca down again, this ti on his body.
He was so frightened he pissed his pants.
"Leng Yuan... I was wrong... Owww, I was really wrong... O.."
Leng Yuan only threw two punches before he couldn’t bring himself to hit him anymore.
He frowned, looking at Lin Jiandong and his wet pants on the ground, his expression dark and unreadable.
Sweet Girl stood to the side, tightly gripping Gu Jiaojiao’s hand, while Xiao Yang clung directly to Gu Jiaojiao’s leg, his small body trembling uncontrollably.
He was so small and hadn’t been eating properly lately, so he had no strength at all.
But he understood fear, and he knew he had almost been sold.
Gu Jiaojiao softly comforted him, but Xiao Yang didn’t say a word, only hugging her tighter.
"Sister, is he going to try and sell us again?"
Gu Jiaojiao fell silent.
Then, she called Chen JianShe over and whispered a few words to him.
Chen JianShe’s eyes lit up. He rushed straight into the Lin Family’s kitchen, erging with their pot lid and grabbing a broom from the corner.
He started banging the lid with the broom as he walked outside.
"Everyone, co quick! Soone’s house is on fire!"
Fire!
As soon as that one word rang out, all the neighbors threw open their doors and ran outside.
Heedless of the heavy snow, they all ran to their doorways to see what was happening.
"JianShe, what’s going on? Whose house is on fire?"
Chen JianShe hadn’t expected this trick to be so effective. Everyone who heard him had co running out.
He imdiately pointed to the Lin Family’s entrance and gave everyone the juicy gossip.
"Aunties, listen up! This Lin Jiandong here was about to sell Xiao Yang to human traffickers, but my Brother Leng caught him! He’s teaching him a lesson right now! You all should hurry over and take a look!"
What?
’Lin Jiandong was going to sell Xiao Yang?’
’No way!’
After all, Lin Jiandong was known throughout the Qingshan Team as an honest man. He was usually quiet, a hard worker, and had a good reputation.
In the years after Sweet Girl lost her parents, tis were unbelievably tough, yet the Lin Family had still been willing to part with a bowl of rice for her and Xiao Yang.
But suspicion was one thing, and juicy gossip was another. They couldn’t miss out.
Everyone started filing out of their hos.
In just a few monts, a crowd had gathered in front of the Lin Family’s ho.
Chen JianShe finished notifying everyone in the imdiate area and then ran off to alert villagers from other parts of the team.
When Lin Jiandong opened his eyes again, he saw that more than half the villagers of the Qingshan Team were standing right in front of him.
He squeezed his eyes shut, wishing he could just faint on the spot.
Chen Shulan hid in the courtyard, shrinking back and not daring to make a sound.
When Jin ifeng saw the huge commotion outside, she imdiately yanked the curtains shut with a SWISH.
The young couple who had co to buy the child had been left to the side by Chen JianShe. The man was still on the ground, clutching his chest. When they saw the large crowd approaching, they were completely stunned.
Snapping out of it, the man pulled the woman to her feet, and they tried to slip away with their heads down.
The n in the crowd rushed forward at once, surrounding the pair.
"You two are human traffickers! You’re not going anywhere."
The couple was utterly dumbfounded. ’Human traffickers?’
’They were workers from the County Town.’
’In this day and age, being a worker was a glorious thing—they were the object of everyone’s envy.’
’What the hell was a human trafficker? How could they be compared to that?’
’It was a complete insult.’
Li Aihong couldn’t help but explain indignantly, "We’re not human traffickers! We’re relatives of the Lin Family."
None of the villagers believed her.
’Chen JianShe already told us these two were human traffickers, and now they’re trying to lie to us.’
’Do they really think we were born yesterday?!’
"You’re human traffickers still trying to sweet-talk your way out of this! Tie them up! We’ll hand them over to the Team Leader to handle later."
That’s how it was in those days; everyone hated evil as if it were a personal foe.
They would absolutely never let a single bad elent escape.
Li Aihong and her man desperately tried to explain, but the villagers grew tired of listening and simply stuffed socks in their mouths to shut them up.
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