Siheyuan: Walking the Path of Qin Huairu

While she was lost in thought, a middle-aged woman came up behind her, also holding a child. This time Xu Hui could see clearly, because the child was lying on the woman's shoulder, sleeping soundly, with a rosy little face and a fair complexion.

In Xu Huizhen's opinion, if one wants to traffic people in broad daylight, the easiest targets are children, so she focused all her attention on this aspect.

Xu Huizhen thought for a moment and decided that she would rather kill someone by mistake than let him go. In order to get the reward, she was willing to risk it. She had to go up and test him. What if she was wrong? At most, she could apologize. As long as I wasn't embarrassed, it would be others who were embarrassed.

Thinking of this, she took out a handkerchief from her pocket and called out, "Sister, is this the handkerchief you dropped?" As she spoke, she quickly followed.

The middle-aged woman said without turning her head, "It's not mine." Instead, she walked faster.

Xu Huizhen kept asking, "How do you know it's not yours when you didn't even look at it? I clearly saw that it was you who dropped it."

The woman turned to look at Xu Huizhen and said impatiently, "Go away. I don't have time for you."

"Sister, how can you talk like that? I picked up the handkerchief for you out of kindness, but you don't appreciate my kindness."

The woman gave her a pair of sanitary ball eyes and continued walking. Xu Huizhen said for fun: "This child is so handsome, with white skin and a high nose bridge. He doesn't look like you. Is this your child?"

The woman walked very fast as if she was being chased by a dog, secretly complaining in her heart: "Today is not a good start! Why is this woman sticking to me like a dog-skin plaster? It seems that I have not revealed any flaws."

The woman quickly turned into an alley. Xu Huizhen felt that the woman was too hostile and became more suspicious. So she chased after her: "Sister, is this your child? Did you steal someone else's child?"

The woman yelled, "You lunatic, what nonsense are you talking about!" Then, feeling guilty, she ran away. Xu Huizhen chased after her, thinking to herself, "You haven't done anything wrong, why are you running away in such a hurry? Isn't this a typical case of feeling guilty? Anyway, let's try to trick her first."

So Xu Huizhen shouted loudly: "Stop, you damn human trafficker, come with me to the police station!" First put the big hat of a human trafficker on her and see how she reacts.

After hearing what Xu Huizhen said, the woman panicked. She thought she was being watched! She suddenly stopped, turned around, and threw the child in her hand to Xu Huizhen. Xu Huizhen bent down to catch the child without thinking. She couldn't bear to see such a small child fall to the ground and get hurt.

Fortunately, she had practiced martial arts in her previous life and had some basic skills. She was able to catch the child at the moment before he hit the ground. The back of her hand brushed against the ground and she felt a burning pain.

The woman was carrying the child and could not run fast, but now she threw away the burden and took the opportunity to run away, escaping for her life. This incident attracted the attention of many people around, and everyone stopped to watch and eat for free.

Xu Huizhen caught the child, steadied herself, and watched the woman running away. She thought to herself, "If I had something in my hand, I could knock him to the ground."

At this moment, she suddenly had something hard in her hand. She looked down and saw that it was a frozen fish, which should be in her space. She didn't have time to think, and reflexively threw the frozen fish in her hand towards the woman. In a flash, the fish "whooshed" and rushed towards the back of the person. It happened to hit the back of the woman's neck.

The woman was running, her body leaning forward, and when she was hit by the fish, she fell flat on her face just as Xu Huizhen had hoped. Xu Huizhen was delighted, thinking that time travelers were favored by God, and she was indeed lucky.

She quickly stepped forward and stepped on the woman's back to prevent her from getting up again. Then she called out to the people around her: "Everyone come and help, she is a human trafficker, don't let her get away!"

At this time, the onlookers hiding on the side also came to their senses. Some people quickly ran over and held the woman down. Some people shouted, "I'm going to the police station to find the police." Then they ran away like the wind. It must be said that people in this era have a high level of ideological awareness. Everyone has the responsibility to fight crime! Unlike the people of later generations who are indifferent and don't care about it.

Xu Huizhen finally found time to look at the child in her arms. The strange thing was that after all the trouble, the child didn't cry or make any noise. Xu Huizhen suspected that the child was drugged. In her opinion, human traffickers would do the same.

On the other hand, the woman on the ground had been tied up by kind people. Someone turned her over and saw that her face was in a terrible state, with blood all over it, as if a soy sauce bottle had been knocked over. She was already unconscious.

Someone said, "It was a terrible fall. He didn't die, did he?" Xu Huizhen was shocked and thought to herself, "It can't be that mean. Should I take responsibility if I beat someone to death? If the police come, can I say that the fish flew over on its own and it has nothing to do with me?"

The police came quickly, four of them at once. Xu Huizhen looked at the frozen fish lying on the ground anxiously. This was the culprit, and she didn't know whether to put the fish away and destroy the evidence.

At this time, a curious person walked over, picked up the frozen fish and handed it to the policeman: "Comrade policeman, it was this fish that seemed to have eyes. It did several forward rolls in the air, turned two corners, and finally hit the back of the bad guy's neck." The exaggerated words caused everyone to laugh.

Another person added: "That female comrade must have some kung fu skills. She was so fast, accurate and ruthless."

Xu Huizhen was a little anxious. The key point was that she was not very sure that this woman was a human trafficker! What if she caught the wrong person? So, she said weakly: "Go and see if the person is dead. Should we send her to the hospital for rescue?"

The old lady was filled with righteous indignation and said, "Why rescue them? Such human traffickers should be shot and killed. They deserve it."

The onlookers echoed, "Yes, he deserves to be beaten to death. He actually dared to steal a child. He is a wicked person."

A policeman squatted down, tried the woman's nose, and said, "She's still breathing, not dead." An old lady slapped her face roughly a few times and said, "Hey, wake up, it's dawn." The person lying on the ground woke up slowly, saw the scene in front of her, and closed her eyes in disappointment. She knew that she was doomed today.

The onlookers burst into laughter. Xu Huizhen suddenly understood that the laws of this era were not perfect, and there was no such thing as excessive self-defense, which meant that the person deserved to be beaten to death. She was too nervous just now, and her mind was not able to wrap around for a while. The premise is that she is a human trafficker. But judging from her performance, it should be close to the truth.

So, what she had to do now was to confirm it, so she asked sternly: "Tell me! Where did this child come from?" The woman was not afraid of boiling water and just kept silent.

Seeing this, the leading police officer decisively said: "Xiao Wang, take the child to the hospital and let the doctor check if the child is okay. You two take the criminal back to the police station. And this female comrade, please come back with us to the police station to make a statement. Everyone else, please disperse and find out whose child is missing and ask the family to go to the Qianmen Police Station to claim the child."