However, Yang Chen had already expected this to happen, not to mention the children. With a few quick steps, he blocked the girls' path and looked at the children with a faint smile.
"You have to answer the adults' questions. If you run away, you'll be spanked."
The girls were startled and retreated while trembling.
"Aiya, why are you running?" Guo Xuehua and the rest chased after them and continued to ask, "Little girl, tell us quickly, who ordered you to sell mooncakes?"
Yang Pojun also walked over curiously. He was obviously more interested in finding evil people than pitying the little girls.
"We … we don't know," the dark-skinned girl said.
"How can you not know? Don't be afraid, tell auntie, it'll be fine," Guo Xuehua said patiently.
"We really don't know …" another girl said while crying.
Yang Cheng squinted his eyes and lowered his head, "How about this, if you tell us, we'll buy all the mooncakes. How about that?"
When the girls heard this, they were instantly tempted. However, they seemed to have thought of something and hurriedly shook their heads.
Yang Cheng's face darkened and said, "If you don't tell us, then I won't let you go back today. Little girl, you're selling low-quality mooncakes that have expired. If I call the police later, the police will come and arrest you. "
"Police?!"
Sure enough, the little girls were scared. Their watery eyes were wide open, full of pitiful expressions.
"That's right!" Yang Cheng continued to play the role of a bad uncle, "You should know that if you're arrested by the police, you'll go to jail. Jail, do you understand? It means being locked up, not being able to eat, and getting beaten up … "
The little girl was so scared that she even forgot to cry. She could only choke on her tears.
Lin Ruoxi couldn't bear it anymore. She blocked Yang Cheng and smiled gently, "Little girl, don't be afraid. As long as you tell us who told you to sell mooncakes, everything will be fine. Big sister promises you. Pinky swear, okay?"
The tanned girl seemed to be infected by Lin Ruoxi's kindness. She murmured, "But … but if I say it … I'll be beaten."
"He was beaten!?"
Guo Xuehua and Lin Ruoxi's faces turned serious. Sure enough, there was a criminal behind this.
These criminals who used children to make money appeared in social reports. She didn't expect to bump into them today.
As someone who ran an orphanage and did charity work, of course, she loved children very much. Guo Xuehua naturally hated this kind of thing.
Hearing this, Yang Cheng's eyes flashed with a strange light. He walked forward and grabbed the little girl's thin arm.
"Don't! Yang Cheng, don't be rough! Let the child speak slowly, "Guo Xuehua thought that Yang Cheng couldn't wait any longer, so she anxiously dissuaded him.
The little girl's face was also full of fear as she shrank back.
Speechless, Yang Cheng smiled, "Do I have to be serious with this child? Mom, you've underestimated me."
"Then you are …" Guo Xuehua was a little embarrassed and anxious.
Without saying a word, Yang Chen rolled up the girl's sleeves, revealing her skinny and weak arms.
"This is!?"
Guo Xuehua and Lin Ruoxi's eyes reddened. They couldn't bear to look at it.
They could only see that the girl's arm was covered with shocking scars of different old and new! Some of the scars were left behind because the skin and flesh had been torn open and they couldn't be treated in time.
"How can there be such a cruel person?! She's still a child! "
"Little girl, did the people who forced you to sell mooncakes beat you up?" Lin Ruoxi forced a smile and asked.
The little girl didn't seem to understand why the woman in front of her looked like she was about to cry. She nodded blankly.
"No, we can't just stand by and do nothing. I want to see what kind of monsters they are!" Guo Xuehua said angrily to Yang Cheng, "Son, let's not go back now. We must go and investigate this matter."
Naturally, Yang Cheng didn't have any objections. In fact, seeing such a young child beaten up like this, he was more emotional than anyone else.
"Little girl, bring us to the people who forced you to sell mooncakes. Don't worry, they won't beat you up as long as we're here. But if you don't bring us there, we'll have to call the police." Yang Cheng smiled.
The tanned little girl had no choice. She glanced at the other girls and nodded obediently. However, it was obvious that her eyes were filled with worry.
Since the sky was getting dark, and they were walking on the crowded streets, nobody noticed Yang Chen and the others following the little girls as they walked around the streets.
After passing through a few crossings, they gradually left the bustling city and arrived at a relatively quiet old street.
Not long after, the little girls stopped in front of a two-story old house and pointed at the rusty iron door covered in moss.
"Aunts and uncles are here," the little girl said.
Guo Xuehua frowned. She looked around at the trash and dirty gutters, "The environment here is too bad. Why isn't anyone doing anything?"
Yang Cheng walked forward and opened the iron door. The scene inside was somewhat surprising.
In the courtyard in front of the house, there were all kinds of cardboard boxes, plastic bags, and a series of messy plastic film strips.
There were seven or eight little boys, who looked to be about the same age as these little girls. They were small and thin, and they were sitting on a row of small stools. Each of them was doing some work.
Some of the boys were in charge of pulling out some of the discarded plastic films and organizing them. Some were sorting the plastic bags one by one, and some were even in charge of cutting the thick cardboard boxes with scissors and squeezing them.
If these were not children around seven or eight years old, they would have thought that they had come to a small abandoned processing workshop!
When the door was opened, the few boys looked up curiously. When they saw the little girls, their dull faces revealed a hint of doubt.
"Xiao Jia, are you sold out?" A little boy with messy hair asked.
The tanned little girl squeezed through the door, shook her head and said softly, "No …" "Something happened."
"Ah, then hurry up and sell it! Otherwise, you won't be able to eat dinner! "The little boy was very anxious.
The little girl called Xiao Jia turned around awkwardly and looked at Yang Cheng and the others, not knowing how to explain.
Guo Xuehua, who had walked into the courtyard, looked around and asked in confusion, "What's going on? Why are there so many children doing this kind of work here!?"
"Humph," Yang Pojun snorted, "Is there a need to guess? Isn't this child labor?"
Yang Pojun's expression was also very ugly. After all, this scene was really worrying.
At this moment, a hoarse shout came from the door of the house.
"Who is it! It's so noisy! "
A plump woman in her forties with permed hair and lipstick came out wearing a floral sweater. She was cracking melon seeds with one hand and spitting out the shells casually.
When she saw that Yang Cheng and the others didn't know her, she immediately said with an unfriendly expression, "Who are you!? What are you doing here!? "
Guo Xuehua asked coldly, "Are you the one who forced these children to do child labor? Do you know that this is a crime!? "
The plump woman looked at Guo Xuehua from head to toe, then glanced at Yang Cheng, Lin Ruoxi, and Yang Pojun, and sneered, "Yo, who do I think you are? Are you here to pretend to be a philanthropist? Humph, I've seen too many people like you who don't know the immensity of heaven and earth! Know your place and get out of here! Otherwise, don't blame me for being vicious when you can't leave later! "
"What … what did you say!?" Guo Xuehua was very angry. She naturally argued for what was right, but how could she be reasonable when facing such a shrew?
Seeing that his mother couldn't take it anymore, Yang Cheng touched his forehead and was about to say something when the plump woman started to scold the little girl.
"Little things, isn't it enough for you to eat and drink? How dare you bring people to make trouble for me today!? I think you guys are itching for a beating again!? "
The plump woman picked up a broom made of bamboo from the doorway and charged toward Xiao Jia and the other girls in a menacing manner.
Xiao Jia and the other girls were so scared that their legs turned to jelly. They hurriedly squatted down and hugged their heads. They threw the bags of mooncakes on the ground as if they were prepared to be beaten.
Seeing that they were ready to be beaten, not to mention the two women, Guo Xuehua and Lin Ruoxi, Yang Cheng's heart twitched!
How many times had they been beaten up that they didn't even dare to instinctively dodge!?
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