Chapter 358: Is this your new marketing strategy?
Gu Hongwei frowned and walked over to the counter to dial the emergency number.
She never thought he’d actually call the cops. The arrogant look on the woman’s face faltered. She tried to pull the child away through the crowd, but found Tong Yao squeezed up to the kid’s face again, inquiring about their relationship.
The audience’s attention was also on the little boy, worrying if the woman was indeed his mother.
"Child, don’t be scared, tell the uncles and aunts, is that woman your mother?"
Despite everyone’s questions, the little boy remained silent. A man with vast experience guessed,
"Could this child have been drugged? I’ve heard about kidnappers medicating children to mute them. Some even intentionally cripple the kids and then send them to public places to beg for money."
Kidnapped children sold to others to be raised as their own are considered lucky. The unlucky ones would be drugged to become mute or even crazy. With no reaction from the boy despite our repeated inquiries, he may indeed have been muted by drugs.
After hearing this, Tong Yao felt her heart sink. She pried open the boy’s mouth and saw something that sent shivers down her spine. The boy’s tongue was cut in half and the wound hadn’t fully healed. It wasn’t a congenital deformity.