54: Chapter 54 We live in a society governed by the rule of law; buying and selling are equally punishable!

In the livestream room, countless people broke down in tears.

“I'm crying my eyes out! That snip was well done!”

“It's been so hard for this father!”

“This bunch of human traffickers really deserves to be hacked into a thousand pieces!”

Just then, a woman with disheveled hair suddenly rushed out of the main hall.

That was Zhao Laosan's wife, Liu Cuihua.

Seeing her man being arrested and her son about to be taken away, she immediately started rolling on the ground.

“They're snatching people! The police are hitting people!” Liu Cuihua slapped her thighs, wailing piteously, “Is there no law left?! That's my son! I raised him for ten years!”

“I gave him food and drink, I raised him through thick and thin, what right do you have to take him away!”

This woman had an extremely loud voice, crying and making a scene; she was a complete scoundrel.

The surrounding SWAT officers frowned, trying to pull her away.

Liu Cuihua simply hugged a SWAT officer's leg, throwing a tantrum: “You can't leave! I bought him for thirty thousand yuan! He belongs to our family!”

Hearing this, the blood pressure of the viewers in the livestream room soared.

“Does this woman have no shame?”

“She has the nerve to say that after buying him?”

“I'm so angry my hands are shaking!”

At that moment, Su Yun's cold voice came through the phone.

“Raised?”

This single word, carrying extreme mockery and chill, caused Liu Cuihua's wailing to stop abruptly.

“Liu Cuihua, you call this raising him?”

Su Yun's voice echoed through the speaker over the entire small courtyard.

“Making him sleep in a pigsty and fight with pigs for food, you call that raising?”

“Not giving him cotton clothes in the middle of winter, making him go up the mountain barefoot to gather firewood for you until his toes festered from frostbite, you call that raising?”

“Whipping him with a belt if he didn't listen, or driving needles into his nail beds, you call that raising?”

With every sentence Su Yun spoke, Liu Cuihua's face grew a shade paler.

“You... you're talking nonsense! That was discipline! If a child doesn't listen, you have to hit them!” Liu Cuihua was still being stubborn.

“Discipline?” Su Yun sneered, “Then what happened to his leg?”

A flash of panic appeared in Liu Cuihua's eyes: “That... he fell and did that himself!”

“Bullshit!”

Su Yun cursed directly.

“On that night three years ago, the child tried to run away but was caught by you.”

“Your man, Zhao Laosan, afraid he would run again, specifically found a large iron sledgehammer.”

“You, Liu Cuihua, even specifically placed a wooden board under his knee!”

“Then Zhao Laosan swung the hammer and shattered the child's left knee!”

“This is what you call falling? This is what you call raising?”

Boom!

As soon as these words were spoken, there was an uproar at the scene.

Even the SWAT officers, who were used to seeing evil, gasped at this point, their fists clenching until their knuckles cracked.

Is this something a human would do?

They were simply beasts!

The livestream room exploded completely.

“Beasts! May their entire family be wiped out!”

“Hell is empty, and the devils are among us!”

“Execution! They must be executed!”

Having her dark secrets exposed, Liu Cuihua fell onto her backside in shock, her face as white as paper, her lips trembling, unable to speak.

The officer in charge walked over with a dark expression and waved his hand: “Cuff her!”

“Suspected of human trafficking, illegal detention, and intentional assault causing serious injury! Liu Cuihua, Zhao Laosan, you two will rot in prison!”

Click!

Another pair of silver handcuffs locked Liu Cuihua up as well.

“I don't accept this! I bought him! I want my money! Give me back that thirty thousand yuan!” Liu Cuihua was still screaming like a madwoman.

“Money?” The officer sneered, “Save it to spend in hell! Take them away!”

The SWAT officers escorted these two beasts outside.

At this time, the village chief, Wang Dafu, who had been silent, suddenly led dozens of villagers to block the courtyard entrance.

“Hold on!”

Although Wang Dafu was also afraid, he knew that if he let the police take the people away so easily today, his prestige in the village would be completely ruined.

Furthermore, there were many in this village who had bought wives and children; if this precedent was set, who would be able to keep theirs in the future?

“Officer, we need to discuss this,” Wang Dafu spoke up, bracing himself. “The child was indeed bought, but it's been over ten years, there are feelings involved...”

“Besides, the law doesn't punish the masses! Our village has been like this for generations, you can't just arrest everyone in the village, can you?”

As soon as he said this, the villagers behind him also started jeering.

“Exactly! Why arrest them!”

“Leave the person here!”

“That is property we spent money on!”

This bunch of legal illiterates still felt that paying for a person made them their property.

The officer in charge looked at this ignorant and fierce group of villagers, his expression cold as ice.

He directly pulled out his service pistol from his waist and pointed it at the sky.

“The law doesn't punish the masses?” The officer's voice was loud and powerful, “I'm telling you, this is now a society ruled by law!”

“According to the Amendment to the Criminal Law, anyone who buys abducted women or children shall be held criminally responsible!”

“Buying and selling are equally guilty! Do you understand?”

“Anyone who dares to obstruct law enforcement is committing the crime of obstructing official business! We'll take you all away together!”

The officer's gaze swept over everyone present, “We will investigate exactly how many bought wives and children are in your village today! Not a single one will escape!”

These words were incredibly forceful.

Wang Dafu was so choked up he couldn't say a word.

Looking at the dark muzzle of the gun, and then at the fully armed, murderous-looking SWAT officers, the villagers who originally wanted to make trouble completely lost their nerve.

One by one, they dropped the hoes and sickles in their hands and squatted honestly on the ground.

This was the deterrent power of the state.

In the face of the law, so-called clan rules were nothing but a joke.

Wang Dafu was also pinned down.

“Wang Dafu, you come with us too,” the officer said coldly. “The young brother on that phone just said that you are the biggest human trafficking intermediary in this entire region. There's a lot to your case!”

Wang Dafu's face turned ashen, his legs went weak, and he collapsed directly onto the ground.

It was over.

Everything was over.

Just then, Li Le, who had been shrinking in Li Guohua's arms, slowly raised his head.

For the first time, there was a glimmer of light in his dull eyes.

He watched as the demon who had broken his leg was stuffed into a police car, watched as the shrew who scolded him every day was handcuffed, and watched as the once-mighty village chief was dragged away like a dead dog.

Those shadows that had once terrified him to his core were dissipating.

He turned his head and looked at Li Guohua, who was covered in blood but smiling like a fool.

Is this really Dad?

Is this the Dad who would take him home to eat braised pork?

The teenager's lips moved.

A dry sound came from his throat, as if he hadn't spoken for a long time.

“Dad...”

This call was very soft and muffled.

But to Li Guohua's ears, it sounded ten thousand times better than heavenly music.

He was stunned, looking at his son in disbelief.

“Yes! Yes! Dad's here! Dad's right here!” Li Guohua answered while burying his face in his son's neck, sobbing until his whole body shook.

In the livestream room, countless viewers cried along with them.

This was probably the most beautiful word spoken tonight.