Chapter 201 She also discovered a pattern
Chapter 201 She also discovered a pattern
The hidden door was only half a person's height. Huangfu Qian opened the hidden door, and it was completely dark inside. There was a faint stench mixed with the smell of fish, which rushed out of the small door.
Yin Rou frowned subconsciously, but unlike most girls, she didn't cover her nose in disgust.
Huangfu Qian, disguised as the manager, took out a tinderbox, blew on it, and used the light in his hand to illuminate the dark, completely dark doorway.
Those inside the hidden door gasped in fright at the sudden light.
They remained silent, staring at the small door with fearful eyes.
As Yin Rou saw the fifteen girls crammed into the small, cramped room, her heart sank.
“You…” Yin Rou’s throat tightened, and she was too dry to speak.
Among the fifteen girls, the youngest was only eleven or twelve years old. Although she was skin and bones, her face still had some baby fat, and her little face was filled with fear.
Looking at these girls, Yin Rou felt another wave of suffocating pain in her heart.
“You…come out, we’re here to help you,” Yin Rou gritted her teeth, unable to suppress her anger, her hands clenched into fists.
Just then, shouts came from the deck of the ship; it was Hanhan's voice.
Xia Mo, disguised as a maid, shouted, "Miss, the officials are here!"
The message, delivered at the end of summer, still carried the same charade.
Yin Rou looked at the girls locked inside the small door and said, "Listen, they're shouting from above that the officials are here. You're saved."
The fifteen girls huddled in the cramped room, not daring to move even when they heard the officials were coming.
until……
Only when a group of people dressed in official uniforms appeared in the cabin did a young woman slowly walk out of the small room.
"Hiss..."
"The Cao family's goods... they even take on jobs dealing with human traffickers?!"
The lead constable, Zhuang, gritted his teeth and said.
"Waaaaah..."
The fifteen girls realized they were saved, and some of them burst into tears.
"This ship has been temporarily taken over by the government! As well as the boatmen and Young Master Cao!" The middle-aged constable Zhuang frowned deeply, a large "川" character forming between his brows.
He handled it impartially, but what about the people above him... and the power behind the Cao family...?
Officer Zhuang looked at the fifteen girls and still couldn't breathe a sigh of relief.
Constable Zhuang waved his hand: "Come on, you'll come with me to the yamen."
"Please wait a moment. Please prepare some cloth to cover their heads and faces, and also prepare a carriage. Please don't let the girls go out like this!"
Yin Rou's sincere request.
Officer Zhuang instantly understood Yin Rou's intention and nodded, "Alright."
Constable Zhuang was delayed on the boat for a while, so he asked his men to help prepare some face coverings and a carriage.
Fifteen girls would require at least three carriages, with five girls squeezed into one carriage.
When the fifteen girls disembarked from Cao's cargo ship, they immediately attracted the attention of everyone at the dock.
And then there were those who stopped what they were doing and gathered around to watch, trying to see the true faces of the girls whose faces were covered by veils.
The girls who had been trafficked and treated differently, even with masks covering their faces and only their eyes showing, felt uneasy when they saw so many people gathering around them, so many people wanting to examine their faces. They lowered their heads and shrank their bodies.
Yin Rou stood in front of the fifteen girls, her face stern, and looked at those who were still approaching, shouting, "Don't come any closer! Get out of the way!"
Yin Rou had been caught in the rain, and even though she hadn't fully recovered herself, she already wanted to hold an umbrella for the girls who had also been caught in the rain.
Yin Rou's gloomy expression did not scare these people away. Taking advantage of the fact that Constable Zhuang and the others were not paying attention, they continued to approach the fifteen girls. Some even tentatively reached out to remove the hood from one of the girls.
The fifteen girls had been specially trained, and when faced with a wolf-like man, they were terrified and instinctively dared not resist, nor did they try to stop the man who was about to remove their veils.
Xia Mo, disguised as a maid, made a move.
Xia Mo lunged forward and appeared in front of the man who had reached out his hand. She raised her hand and slapped his hand hard with a "smack."
The other party's malice was merely to satisfy a small amount of personal animosity; it wasn't to the point of ruining their hand.
Xia Mo simply pried the other person's hand open, causing them to be in so much pain that they couldn't lift it for the time being.
"My hand, my hand..."
The man who was testing his skills clutched his hand, which was in so much pain he couldn't lift it, and cried out.
"Don't worry, your hand is just temporarily numb, it will recover in a while," Xia Mo, disguised as a maid, replied in a simple and honest voice.
Upon hearing that his hand wouldn't be wasted, the other person breathed a sigh of relief, but also looked at Xia Mo with some fear.
Xia Mo walked back to Yin Rou's side, not forgetting that she was now disguised as Yin Rou's maid.
Yin Rou nodded to Xia Mo with a satisfied expression, as if Xia Mo's actions had been instructed by Yin Rou beforehand.
The fifteen girls disembarked from the boat, walked a short distance, and arrived at the place where three carriages were parked.
Yin Rou helped the fifteen girls onto the carriage.
The fifteen girls were frightened and looked at Yin Rou uneasily when they saw that she was not with them.
"Don't worry, I'll keep a close eye on things inside the yamen," Yin Rou said, deliberately raising her voice.
It's a message to the Cao family: she won't let this go so easily! Don't think that just because they have powerful backers, this matter can be swept under the rug!
The fifteen girls remained uneasy, but the carriage started moving, and they stayed inside, feeling the movement.
The fifteen girls trusted Yin Rou more than the government officials.
Yin Rou stood there, watching the constables and carriages leave. She turned to Xia Mo beside her and asked, "Will this matter be resolved in the end?"
I remain noncommittal as summer draws to a close.
Xia Mo's divine sense was focused on Cao Kai, who was standing to the side.
Constable Zhuang took the boatmen and others away, but dared not take away Cao Kai, the current young master of the Cao family.
Cao Kai, his face dark, walked up to Yin Rou with a forced smile: "I didn't expect you to have become so insidious after not seeing you for a while!"
"Heh, whether I'm the one who's cunning, or you're the one who's heartless and rotten, remains to be seen," Yin Rou sneered.
At the end of summer, they said that Cao Kai was the one plotting against her and Young Master Cao. Rationally, she didn't believe it, but emotionally, she already believed it.
Cao Kai sneered and deliberately said, "You've spent a year in the lowest-class brothel, and it still hasn't worn away your arrogance."
He emphasized the words "low-class brothel" so that everyone around could hear them, all to embarrass Yin Rou.
Yin Rou's expression did indeed turn somewhat unpleasant.
Xia Mo noticed that all of this was taught to Cao Kai by the bullet comments on the screen in front of him.
She also discovered a pattern...
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