Chapter 305
"Niannian, who is she?"
Si Nian clenched her fists and said coldly, "Division Commander Jiang, Auntie Jiang, you should know her too. She is my former foster mother, from Fu Yang's wife's maiden family."
"What?" Division Commander Jiang was stunned upon hearing this name.
"Battalion Commander Si's family?" Although he had been retired for a while, he was formerly the old division commander of the South China Military Region. Naturally, he knew of Si's father.
At this moment, his expression turned even uglier.
For a military family member to say such unforgivable things—it was simply shameful!
Zhang Cuimei hadn't noticed these two people initially. When she heard Si Nian address the man as "Division Commander," she was completely dumbfounded.
Division Commander?
Division Commander?
Where did a Division Commander come from? Why hadn't she ever heard of this?
Could they be bluffing her?
Is a figure like a Division Commander someone you can just casually know?
Before Zhang Cuimei could recover her wits, several police cars drove up with sirens wailing.
Captain Li, leading the group, got out of the car and stepped forward. "Sister-in-law, Uncle Jiang, the traffickers have already been taken in for interrogation. I know you've all had a huge scare, but the children might still need to go to the station to give statements."
As soon as he finished speaking, a few more cars pulled up.
Yu Dong ran over hurriedly with a group of brothers, along with Fu Qianqian and her mother.
"Si Nian, Si Nian, are you okay? Is the child back?"
Fu Qianqian rushed to the front, looking at her with concern.
Si Nian shook her head. "I'm fine. He's been found."
Seeing the child, Ms. Zheng also breathed a sigh of relief. "Niannian, you've suffered. When Qianqian and I heard about this early this morning, we asked your Uncle Fu to help look for him. Thank goodness the child is safe."
Yu Dong also rushed over, and the group shouted in unison, "Sister-in-law!"
"Sister-in-law, we're late!"
Si Nian looked up and saw people from the farm, as well as Yu Dong and the brothers from Zhou Yueshen's former auto repair shop.
Everyone looked at them with concern.
In this moment, even though Zhou Yueshen wasn't there, she still felt the warmth of being protected and cared for.
Zhang Cuimei was already scared witless by the imposing presence of these dozens of big, burly men.
It wasn't until Ms. Zheng let out a surprised "Huh?" from the side. "Cuimei, why are you here? Did you hear about what happened and come over to help too?"
Zhang Cuimei froze. Her mouth gaped open but no words came out, and she was sweating profusely.
Her in-laws were here; she couldn't exactly say she had come over to mock Si Nian, could she?
It was simply too awkward.
However, before she could find a suitable excuse, she heard the other woman exclaim in surprise, "Division Commander Jiang, Mrs. Jiang, why are you here too?"
After speaking, Ms. Zheng realized that behind them was the Jiang residence.
Having rushed over with her daughter just now, she hadn't paid attention to the location.
Only now did she realize that Si Nian's home was actually right next to the Jiangs'.
She looked astonished.
Division Commander Jiang nodded, then immediately gave a cold snort. "Little Zheng, you really found yourself a 'good' set of in-laws!"
Ms. Zheng was a bit confused.
Subconsciously, she glanced at Zhang Cuimei.
She saw that Zhang's face was pale and covered in cold sweat.
Her heart instantly skipped a beat.
Meanwhile, Zhang Cuimei was completely stupefied. All color drained from her face, as if she had been struck by lightning!
This man is a Division Commander?
A real Division Commander?
It's over—
"Cuimei, what on earth is going on?" Ms. Zheng asked anxiously.
Zhang Cuimei stammered, "Mis... misunderstanding, it's a misunderstanding. You heard wrong. I also heard about the incident and hurried over to check on the child..."
After she finished speaking, everyone stared at her with mockery.
Zhang Cuimei couldn't even keep up her own lie. She braced herself and said, "Really, it was nothing..."
"You're lying! You clearly said my brother deserved to be trafficked, that my mom is immoral, and you told my mom to give up hope because you definitely wouldn't help us find my brother..." Zhou Zedong shouted angrily.
The entire scene fell into a deathly silence.
Captain Li, Division Commander Jiang's family, Yu Dong's group, Fu Qianqian, Ms. Zheng, and everyone else glared at Zhang Cuimei with fury.
With such a serious incident, it was one thing not to help.
But to rush over just to mock them!
It was simply too wicked, too vicious.
Captain Li said angrily, "Comrade Zhang, you are crossing the line. That is just a child. How could you say a child deserves it? How are you any different from the traffickers?"
Yu Dong glared at her furiously. "Are you even human? How could you say such outrageous things!"
Fu Qianqian looked shocked. "Auntie Si, how could you be like this?"
Ms. Zheng looked utterly disappointed. "Zhang Cuimei, I misjudged you. Have some decency!!"
Division Commander Jiang said, "I didn't expect a military family member to be someone so morally corrupt. It's truly shameful. If Battalion Commander Si has such poor judgment, he might as well stop being a Battalion Commander!"
Si Nian looked at her with disgust. "Get out. From now on, I have no ties with your Si family. Do not come to my house again!"
Zhang Cuimei's head was buzzing.
Her mind was filled with only two words: It's over—
...
The traffickers were caught, and once they sobered up, they were quickly interrogated.
Sure enough, they had help.
Before long, Teacher Xu, who was packing her things to flee, was caught by the men Captain Li had sent to monitor her in advance.
At the entrance of the police station, many family members were waiting to judge the traffickers' atrocities.
When Teacher Xu was escorted out of the car, she looked up to see a row of parents staring at her with bloodshot eyes and livid faces.
The parents of the abducted children rushed over and slapped her several times. "You vicious woman! You scum! We trusted you so much, spoke up for you, and let you return to the school to teach. Yet you conspired with traffickers to abduct our children! How did we ever wrong you? Bitch, go to hell!"
Teacher Xu was slapped into a daze; her scalp and cheeks burned with agonizing pain.
But under the extreme terror she felt, she could barely feel the physical pain anymore.
"I... I didn't! I was forced! I didn't mean to! I was forced to do it! I'm an innocent victim too..."
How could the crowd listen to this? They slapped her several more times.
"You are the scum of society. Go die."
"We will never believe you again."
Teacher Xu was escorted into the station.
As soon as she entered, she saw the two captured traffickers.
Her legs gave out, and she collapsed to the ground.
"Teacher Xu, the witness testimony and physical evidence are all here. What else do you have to say?"
"Why did you harm so many children? Don't you know that aiding traffickers in abducting people is a serious crime?"
"You really have guts as big as the sky, drugging seven at once!"
Teacher Xu looked sluggish. "Seven... seven? I didn't drug seven of them. You're talking nonsense. I only drugged five. Those other two kids have nothing to do with me!"
At this moment, Si Nian and all the parents of the abducted children arrived.
Hearing this, the police shouted, "You're still lying! There were clearly seven children in the van!"
"I... I really don't know how those two kids got in the van. It has nothing to do with me!"
Teacher Xu's face was a mess of tears and snot. "I do hate Si Nian, but her children really have nothing to do with me. I didn't do it on purpose, either. They forced me to do it. They said if I didn't help them, they would abduct my son. I had no choice!"
"Those two children were probably taken by them out of their own greed, who knows."
Hearing this, the two human traffickers flew into a rage.
"Bitch, you're full of shit! We originally only wanted you to swap two people. You were the one who drugged so many children and handed them over to us, telling us to leave quickly. We were startled too, alright?"
"That's right! She didn't pay back her debts, so someone took her son and sold him to us. She said she would help us find better ones, and that's why we agreed."
"It has nothing to do with us! How could we dare to abduct so many people at once!"
Hearing this, Si Nian and Grandma Jiang simultaneously looked at the two children. "Little Han, Jiang Jiu, how on earth did you two get abducted onto that vehicle?"
"Are they lying?"
The two children were still a bit dazed and exchanged a glance upon hearing this.
Then Jiang Jiu said, "We were playing hide-and-seek, and Second Brother and I hid inside the vehicle. Later, Xiao Liu and the others couldn't find us. We got sleepy and fell asleep. When I woke up, I was in Second Brother's hometown."
Jiang Jiu still didn't know that these people were human traffickers.
At this moment, his face was full of confusion.
Only then did it click, and he let out an "Ah."
"Grandma, are they human traffickers? Aren't they teachers?"
Grandma Jiang: "......"
"Alright, you don't need to speak anymore." How embarrassing.
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