Chapter 2009: Because You Don’t Want To
Seeing Uncle Bai Lu trying to back out, Little Taotie angrily grabbed Hua Jinyan’s hand and walked out: "Huahua and I will go buy some warm food and come back. Regardless, you have to deal with this!"
"The situation is quite complex!" Lu Yuan stood in place and sighed. He accidentally met the gaze of a four-year-old girl, who shyly smiled at him.
Lu Yuan stiffened, rubbed his forehead with helplessness: "Ultimately, I’ve gotten involved and can’t let it go."
He followed along to ensure the safety of the two children. But now, as he was here looking after the group of abducted children, he couldn’t leave at the moment, praying in his heart that those two little ancestors wouldn’t run into any trouble.
"Beep beep!"
Lu Yuan looked at his phone; it was a message from headquarters.
He believed the wheelchair man and Country R must have close ties, or else they wouldn’t hide assets in Yuanshi Mountain in Country R. So, he reported the information to his superiors and had been waiting for their response.
——Return to the country immediately.
Lu Yuan frowned tightly; he hadn’t expected the message from his superiors to be an urgent recall.
Lu Yuan: I am in Country R and cannot return to the country for the time being.
"Beep beep!"
——Little Taotie, Hua Jinyan, danger!
Lu Yuan immediately called, only for the call to be disconnected.
"Beep beep!"
——Hurry and bring them back to the country! Danger!
...
"Those kidnappers are so terrible, they don’t even give them food. Who knows how long they’ve been hungry!" All the way, Little Taotie was indignant.
Little Taotie had experienced the pain of an empty stomach, naturally knowing how uncomfortable hunger was. Seeing the three-to-four-year-old girl, she recalled her life in the mountains, feeling stifled and anxious.
"Meeting you is their fortune." Hua Jinyan sincerely marveled.
No one could imagine the fate of these children had they not encountered Little Taotie—they might be sold off by the middle-aged woman or locked in a guesthouse and starved to death because no one wanted them...
Little Taotie muttered: "Why do people sell people? I don’t understand it at all."
"Where there is demand, there is trade."
"Was that young couple unable to have children? Just like the parents in the mountains, they wanted to buy a child?"
"Maybe."
"But the parents in the mountains eventually had a child..." Little Taotie lowered her eyes.
Hua Jinyan reached out and tightly held Little Taotie’s hand: "Everything is in the past."
Little Taotie lifted her head and managed a small smile: "Yeah, it’s all in the past."
"Your smile doesn’t look good like this."
"Humph." Little Taotie turned her face away: "Then don’t look."
Though she turned her face away, she did not let go of Hua Jinyan’s hand.
Hua Jinyan lightly tugged at her hand.
Little Taotie huffed twice: "What is it?"
"In the future, I’ll be researching chip implants. Perhaps we could implant chips in every newborn to prevent them from getting lost or abducted."
"Would it harm their bodies?"
"I don’t know. It’s still in the experimental phase."
"Why did you think of doing this research?"
Hua Jinyan looked deeply at her: "Because you don’t want children to be trafficked or separated from their parents."
Little Taotie’s face flushed, she pursed her lips: "I never told you, how do you know?"
"Because I understand you."
"You’re just like a roundworm!" Little Taotie huffed twice, yet her mouth couldn’t help but turn upwards, her dimples deepened, and her eyes curved.
Little Taotie and Hua Jinyan bought some porridge and corn; those children had been hungry for too long, and they couldn’t eat overly greasy food, so only bland food to temporarily fill their stomachs.
When returning to the guesthouse with the porridge, the two of them were blocked from moving forward.
Little Taotie looked up, feeling that these two people were somewhat familiar.
Hua Jinyan, on the other hand, recognized the people.
They were two instructors from the base, teaching kids about fifteen or sixteen years of age.