RPAGF Chapter 214 Is she destined to be sold?
Chapter 214 Is she destined to be sold?
"It's open! It's been crashed open!" a young woman exclaimed excitedly.
Someone shouted "Run!" and everyone rushed over, jostling and pushing to get out.
The young lady, dressed in a mint-colored dress, tripped over the scattered wooden sticks on the ground, cried as she got up and continued running outside.
Lin Xiaotang and the two young ladies dressed in coarse cloth walked behind. She bent down, picked up a wooden stick, and held it in her hand, reminding them, "Sisters, quickly pick up a handy wooden stick to protect yourselves, just in case."
Whether it was bad luck or her words had some kind of magic, the last three of them had just stepped out of the room when they saw the dozen or so young ladies who had just escaped earlier retreating step by step.
They were so frightened that they dared not breathe, their bodies stiff, as if they had seen a ghost.
Through the crowd, Lin Xiaotang spotted the two men who had entered the room earlier.
They were armed with daggers, and behind them followed a burly middle-aged man with a large, hairy mole on his face. His triangular eyes were full of shrewdness, and he looked at everyone as if they were a pile of goods waiting to be sold, which gave everyone goosebumps.
When the young ladies saw the two men carrying sharp daggers, they were all terrified and secretly regretted their escape. Now, they had been caught red-handed as soon as they escaped.
The two young ladies standing with Lin Xiaotang, dressed in coarse cloth, also showed signs of panic in their eyes.
"Sister, it seems we can't escape."
"I can not be reconciled……"
Lin Xiaotang was in a state of utter confusion. It was true that there were many of them, but of the dozen or so women, only a few of them were brave. The others could only cry and were probably afraid to even step on an ant.
The two men, armed with sharp blades, were clearly not good people. Those who could commit such heinous acts as kidnapping women for sale were usually vicious and ruthless. They had no conscience and treated human life as worthless. If you fought with them, you might be killed with a single blow.
How to do?
Lin Xiaotang felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar. Was she destined to be sold like everyone else today?
This Dushui County is so prosperous, and the county magistrate seems quite good. Back then, when Gu Minghuai was chased by people from the brothel, he escaped and went to report to the authorities. The officials immediately shut down the brothel. Why do these people still dare to risk their lives to do this kind of business?
Lin Xiaotang tightened her grip on the stick. She desperately wanted to fight the two men with daggers, but she was too small and weak. Her two older sisters, who were also holding sticks, were also weak women, and she couldn't risk their lives.
So she whispered a reminder, "Let's quickly retreat, hide the sticks under the straw, observe the situation, and look for another opportunity later."
"That's all it can do!"
The three of them silently retreated back to their room. The other women were terrified, almost scared out of their wits. Realizing what had happened, they immediately scrambled back to their rooms, crouching on the floor, trembling, their hands covering their heads, sobbing uncontrollably.
The man with the dagger pulled out a whip from somewhere, and they strode in, glaring fiercely at everyone. They then lashed out at each of them with the whip.
The whip cracked loudly as it struck everyone, causing them to howl in pain and cry out for mercy.
"Ah...stop hitting me...please stop hitting me, it hurts so much..."
"We won't dare to do it again, we'll never dare to run away again..."
The man holding the whip said sternly, "If we hadn't come back in time, you sluts would all have run away. I'm going to teach you a lesson today so you'll behave and listen to me."
After saying that, he took the whip and lashed it haphazardly dozens of times.
Because Lin Xiaotang and the two young ladies dressed in coarse cloth had retreated early and hidden in a corner, the whips fell on them less often.
Lin Xiaotang was whipped on the shoulder, the burning pain causing her to gasp.
Just one lash hurts so much. Back then, Xiao Jiu was whipped until her skin was torn and bleeding, but she didn't utter a sound. Such endurance is truly admirable.
Thinking of Xiao Jiu, she felt a little annoyed. She wondered where he had gone off to do, and whether he had gone back to look for her fourth uncle. She wondered if they would report him to the authorities if they couldn't find her.
Will the authorities be able to find them?
With so many women missing, there must have been many people reporting it to the authorities, yet there were no soldiers searching the streets today. It's really strange!
Lin Xiaotang endured the pain and was pondering inwardly when another whip fell on her, causing her to almost faint from the pain.
She cursed the beasts inwardly; if she knew kung fu, she would beat them to a pulp!
Suddenly, a woman fainted from the pain and fell to the ground. The man who had been whipping everyone stopped, cursed "bad luck," and then he and another man tied everyone up again and gagged them.
This time, they tied it exceptionally tightly, and Lin Xiaotang's heart sank.
This time, it won't be so easy for him to break free of the rope again!
……
Xiao Jiu searched all the nearby streets but still couldn't find Lin Xiaotang. At this moment, he was filled with regret. Why didn't he tell Xiaotang that he was going to buy candied hawthorns?
Shen Qianchuan led the carriage and saw Xiao Jiu return looking dejected. He was alone; he hadn't brought Xiao Tang back.
So he led the carriage and hurried to meet them.
"Jiu'er, stop searching blindly, let's go report to the authorities!"
Xiao Jiu suddenly looked up and said with a determined look, "Yes, report it to the authorities. Let's report it to the authorities. It's much better for the government to send people to search than for me to search aimlessly by myself."
So the two of them hurriedly drove their carriage to the government office to report the incident.
To everyone's surprise, dozens of people suddenly gathered outside the government office.
The clerk sat at the entrance of the county government office with paper and pen, asking questions and making records.
"What brings you here to report to the authorities?"
"My lord, our daughter has gone missing. Please have the magistrate send people to help us look for her!"
"Don't panic. It's not too late to find them after we've explained everything. When did they disappear? Where did they disappear? Were they with anyone when they disappeared? How long have they been missing?"
"She disappeared yesterday, Master. Please stop asking. My daughter is very obedient. She has hardly ever left the house since she was little. She always has a maid with her. At most, she would go to the jewelry shop to buy some rouge and then come home. Now she has suddenly disappeared. She must have been kidnapped. Please arrange for people to help search for her."
The clerk said somewhat impatiently, "The magistrate is away from Dushui County on business. I know you're in a hurry, but with so many people reporting to the authorities, I need to find out the details before I can arrange for people to handle each case one by one."
The people queuing behind to report to the authorities suddenly started discussing excitedly, and only then did everyone realize that they had all come to report to the authorities to find their daughters.
The advisor was so shocked that he dropped his pen.
So many people have reported to the authorities that their daughters have gone missing; this must be a major case!
The advisor forced himself to remain calm and asked, "Does anyone have any other clues? Did those people leave anything behind when they kidnapped your daughter? Did they ask you for a ransom?"
Everyone shook their heads in unison, "There's nothing here, no ransom was asked, the person is just missing."
No ransom?
That means the murderer was after sex, not money!