Liu Chunlan tried to step forward to stop Liu Renzhi and Lin Wanyi.
She was mad with anger: "He is your uncle, Lin Wanyi, your uncle!
"When I die in the future, I will need him to attend my funeral. You can't treat him like this."
Lin Wanyi shoved her away:
"Liu Chunlan, right now you are nothing to me, and Liu Dabing is even less than nothing.
"In my eyes, he is just a human trafficker now. A human trafficker, do you understand?"
Liu Xiulan had been listening for a while, and she finally understood.
She looked at Liu Dabing:
"Is what she said true? Brother, are you really a human trafficker?
"Did you really abduct Zhao Pei?"
Liu Dabing kept his mouth shut, but Liu Chunlan defended him:
"Sister, how can you listen to Lin Wanyi's nonsense?
"What human trafficker? What abduction? Don't listen to her lies.
"Lin Wanyi is just deliberately smearing our brother."
Liu Xiulan still couldn't understand: "Then why not call the police?"
Just as Liu Chunlan was about to say something else, Liu Renzhi grabbed Liu Dabing and hauled him out the door.
Lin Wanyi glanced at the list and said:
"There is another one in Wang Family Village. Brother Liu, let's go to Wang Family Village first."
Liu Renzhi nodded and followed Lin Wanyi.
Liu Chunlan cursed from behind: "Lin Wanyi, you bitch, you dead bitch, let go of your uncle!"
Lin Wanyi completely tuned out her voice, and it wasn't long before they arrived at Wang Family Village.
Looking at this familiar place, Lin Wanyi felt a complex mix of emotions.
Wu Qin also saw her, completely baffled as to why she would return:
"Wanyi, why haven't you left? Why would you even think of coming back?
"I thought I'd never see you again in this lifetime."
Lin Wanyi grabbed her hand:
"I wasn't planning on coming back, but my conscience wouldn't let me rest.
"Wu Qin, I found out from Liu Dabing about eight poor girls. I'm going to rescue all of them."
Wu Qin's eyes grew red: "Oh, you!"
She didn't know what else to say, so she could only urge Lin Wanyi:
"Be careful, you hear me?"
Lin Wanyi knew, and Liu Renzhi knew even better.
He had already prepared a contingency plan.
Zhang Cuihua and Liu Xiue were also standing by the side of the road.
They saw Liu Dabing being dragged along like a dog by Liu Renzhi behind Lin Wanyi.
Zhang Cuihua deliberately said loudly:
"Oh my, Chunlan, what's going on with your brother? Why is he being dragged around like a dog?"
Liu Xiue chimed in:
"I've despised this Liu Dabing for a long time. Only you, Liu Chunlan, still treat him like a human being."
Liu Chunlan was furious: "What nonsense are you talking about? What has my brother ever done to you? What gives you the right to talk about him like that?"
"Ha!"
Zhang Cuihua spat at Liu Dabing:
"Who doesn't know that he partakes in every vice, drinking, whoring, and gambling? Liu Chunlan, he is just a piece of trash."
Liu Chunlan wanted to continue arguing, but Liu Renzhi had already dragged Liu Dabing to Wang Erniu's house.
Upon seeing Liu Dabing, Wang Erniu immediately smiled and offered him a cigarette:
"Dabing, what brings you to my house? Do you have some new goods?
"I've been waiting for you. My brother and I only have one woman between us, and it's just not enough. We feel like fighting every night.
"Hurry up and tell me, what good merchandise do you have this time? Just name your price."
Before Liu Dabing could say a word, Liu Renzhi shoved him aside and strode into the house.
Wang Erniu hurriedly followed him inside:
"What are you doing? Hey, who are you? Why are you entering my house?"
Liu Renzhi and Lin Wanyi charged straight in.
Wang Erniu recognized Lin Wanyi: "Wang family's daughter-in-law? What are you doing here?"
"Didn't you run away? Why are you back?"
"Who is that man?"
Lin Wanyi stopped in her tracks and pointed at Liu Renzhi.
"Take a good look at who he is. Didn't you take two thousand yuan from him at Chen Guanshan's house?"
Wang Erniu was stunned. His eyes widened in shock, and he suddenly stumbled backward, pointing at Liu Renzhi.
"You... you... what are you doing in my house? I didn't buy your sister!
"Get out! Leave my house!"
Liu Renzhi ignored every word and immediately sent out a text message.
A few minutes later, a group of bodyguards who had been on standby at the village entrance arrived at Wang Erniu's house.
They completely surrounded the property.
Liu Renzhi glared at Wang Erniu.
"Hand over the person you bought."
Wang Erniu turned pale with fright.
"No! Why should I? You know I paid good money for her.
"Why should I give her to you? Not unless you pay me."
Liu Renzhi didn't hesitate to deliver a brutal punch to the man.
"I gave you a chance, and you threw it away. Now, no more chances."
He waved to the bodyguards outside. "Go in and search. Tear the place apart if you have to, but find her."
They didn't have to tear the place apart. They found the woman on Wang Daniu's bed, trembling uncontrollably and chained up.
It must have been so long since she had seen anyone else. Terrified, she instinctively buried her head in her knees.
Liu Renzhi dragged Wang Daniu off the bed, while Lin Wanyi quickly wrapped a bedsheet around the woman.
She held her tightly. "Girl, we're here to save you.
"Tell me, where is your home? Do you have any family?"
The woman just kept shaking. Lin Wanyi hugged her even tighter.
"Don't be afraid. I promise I can get you out of here."
"I..."
Just as the girl was about to speak, Wang Erniu roared.
"Don't say a word! You're just livestock that my brother and I bought. What right do you have to speak? Shut your mouth!"
The woman instantly clamped her mouth shut on pure instinct.
Lin Wanyi's heart ached terribly.
How could they do this?
Why would anyone do this?
How could a perfectly normal girl be broken and trained like an animal?
Furious, she yelled to Liu Renzhi:
"Brother Liu, hit him! Hit him for me, beat him hard!"
Showing no mercy, Liu Renzhi smashed his fist right into Wang Erniu's nose.
Blood instantly gushed out.
Wang Erniu clutched his nose and screamed.
"Why did you hit me?! You're not the police! Even they don't care, so what right do you have to interfere?!"
Wang Daniu, hastily pulling up his pants, also started shouting:
"This is my house, and she's my wife! All of you, get out!"
He even shouted through the crowd at Wang Hao and Liu Chunlan:
"Wang Hao, aren't you going to control your wife?
"You're just going to let her bring other men to my house to act crazy?"
Wang Hao listened in silence, not saying a single word.
He stuck to his stance: he wouldn't help Lin Wanyi, but he wouldn't stop her either.
He still had a shred of conscience left.
But Liu Chunlan was different.
She stormed into the room and pointed an accusing finger at Lin Wanyi.
"You're asking for death, Lin Wanyi, you really are!
"Daniu and Erniu have nothing to their names. They scraped and saved just to afford a wife.
"And you just have to ruin it for them! I don't understand you, Lin Wanyi. You aren't the one who was captured. You aren't the one locked up.
"Why do you insist on playing the hero?"
Lin Wanyi was sick and tired of hearing this. So incredibly sick of it.
She had heard these same excuses over and over again.
They always said the same thing: It has nothing to do with you, so why do you care?
Everyone said that, and because of that, everyone just stood by and watched in silence as these poor girls suffered.
They would even throw in a few mocking remarks:
"Women are just cheap! They brought it on themselves!"
"If they didn't dress up so provocatively, why would anyone go after them?"
"It's all their own fault. They have no one to blame but themselves."
At the thought of this, Lin Wanyi suddenly slapped Liu Chunlan across the face:
"Shut up!"
