The Comeback of the Charming Farmer's Wife-Chapter 2166 - 2168: The Whole Town Involved in Human Trafficking

"Keep your voice down!" The proprietress gave him a slap. "I’ve heard that martial artists have keen ears, don’t let them hear us."

"Got it." The boss, feeling uncomfortable about not being able to make money, took a couple of puffs of tobacco and went back to his room.

Upstairs in the room, Yang Chuxia also hadn’t slept, still waiting for news from Ye Liu and others.

Ye Liu only came back at the hour of Yin.

"Knock knock..."

"Knock knock..."

Yang Chuxia opened the door, and Ye Liu and another person came in.

"How did it go?"

Upon entering the room, Ye Liu urgently said, "Madam, you guessed right. There’s a big problem with this town. I found a dozen children aged five to six years old locked up in an empty house at the edge of town. Several of the guards outside are people from the town. These children must have been brought from elsewhere."

"Are you sure they’re from the town?"

"I’m sure. The person delivering meals to the guards is the proprietress of the grocery store next to the inn, and she called one of the men ’husband.’" Ye Liu continued, "And from their conversation, it was mentioned that there were some easy targets at the inn... um... they also said the innkeeper was going to make a big profit. They sounded quite envious."

Yang Chuxia ignored the fact that she was being referred to as easy targets.

"Is there anywhere else that seems suspicious?"

"Madam, this town has a lot of problems." Ye Liu added, "On one of the streets in front, there are two families that recently married wives, and we’ve discovered that those young wives were actually tied up. Madam, think about it, why would anyone bind a person for a legitimate marriage?"

"It seems like this is a town of traffickers."

"Yes, there’s a good chance this town is connected with the authorities."

"Why do you say that?" Yang Chuxia was puzzled. Could it be that the authorities are involved in human trafficking? If so, this issue is quite serious.

"I overheard the grocery store owner telling someone that a couple named Sunzi from the town were poisoned by a child recently. The owner said the couple were likely coming back from the prefecture in a few days." Ye Liu said, "Madam, think about it. If a trafficker is caught by the authorities, they’d be sentenced to years in prison at least, but this couple is returning soon, which clearly doesn’t align with the laws of Great Zhou."

"Your analysis makes sense. That child is probably Yangyang." Yang Chuxia swore silently; everyone in this town deserves to be implicated for trafficking the entire town.

Luckily, her Yangyang is clever enough to use poison; otherwise, falling into such people’s hands would be disastrous.

"Madam, this town isn’t safe. We should leave overnight and later send word to the young master, who is investigating matters in the prefecture. He probably hasn’t made much progress yet. If this town is connected to the authorities, taking down this town might unravel much about the authorities’ involvement."

"You’re right, we don’t have many people, so we can’t act against them yet." Yang Chuxia nodded. "We’ll leave now, without alerting these people."

Earlier in the night, the innkeeper loitered outside her door for quite a while; if they stayed any longer, these people might pull something on them.

They didn’t use the main exit when leaving but climbed out the window instead.

The innkeeper and his wife were still sound asleep.

When they reached outside the town, Ye Liu sent a signal to those searching nearby.

A quarter of an hour later, everyone returned.

"How is it? Any discoveries?"