N-A-A Chapter 462 Selling People
Chapter 462 Selling People
Minister Guo's already gloomy face was now even more cloudy, as if water could drip out of it. He suddenly stood up, put his hands behind his back, and began to pace slowly in the room.
Li Baiyang and Xu Changping on the side didn't dare to breathe. They both held their breath and even their breathing was deliberately light, for fear of making the slightest sound to disturb Guo Bu who was in deep thought.
As time passed, the whole room became as quiet as death, with only the rhythmic echo of Minister Guo's footsteps on the ground.
After a long time, Minister Guo finally stopped. He narrowed his eyes slightly, stared at Li Boyang with a sharp gaze, and said seriously: "This may not be impossible, otherwise how could you be poisoned?"
Hearing this, Li Baiyang's eyes couldn't help but flash with a trace of confusion and bewilderment.
Just as he was about to open his mouth to explain, Xu Changping interrupted and said, "Minister Guo, in my opinion, I don't think Comrade Li was poisoned in retaliation for the scrap steel he just mentioned."
At this point, Xu Changping paused for a moment, turned his head and glanced at Li Baiyang, then continued, "I had contact with the poison he was poisoned with before. It was the one I brought back from Suzhou to pick up Comrade Guo and reported to you. It was in the hospital's file folder."
"What!" Upon hearing this, Guo Bu was immediately surprised and even stopped involuntarily. He looked at Xu Changping in disbelief and said, "Xiao Li went there to investigate this time. On the surface, he was investigating the black market boss. How did those guys know his identity?"
Minister Guo turned to Li Boyang and asked, "Xiao Li, after all this time, what do you know about the black market leader?"
Li Boyang sorted out his thoughts and replied, "The black market leader goes by the alias Zhang San. It is said that he has many thugs in Suzhou, and he is very cunning. This time I raided the entire black market but didn't catch anyone, not even one person who had contact with him."
Speaking of the black market, Li Boyang spoke with a serious face and an urgent and serious tone: "And Minister, what I want to say is that when I investigated the black market in depth, I found that they were blatantly trafficking in human beings!"
When the black market was mentioned, Li Baiyang became angry.
Because he was fully engaged in investigating the black market, Li Baiyang had no time to take care of matters related to the steel in the scrap factory.
After all, the steel issue was very serious, and he had no one he could trust around him, so he was too busy to handle everything in Suzhou.
"Selling people?" Minister Guo's eyes widened in shock. The veins on his forehead bulged instantly, as if they would explode at any time.
"What era is this? There are still such audacious people who dare to openly trample on the dignity of the law! It's simply lawless!" Minister Guo was shocked and furious by the news.
Li Boyang looked at Minister Guo and quickly said, "Actually, strictly speaking, it can't be simply called 'selling people'.
The specific situation is like this. There are some people in the black market who specialize in matchmaking for stupid girls with intellectual disabilities, under the pretext of helping them find marriages.
At first, I didn't pay too much attention to this matter and just thought it was an isolated phenomenon.
However, as my investigation into the black market deepened, I discovered that there were an astonishing number of stupid girls in the black market.
What's worse, there was an old lady who sold eight silly girls at once!"
At this point, Li Baiyang couldn't help but raise his head and look straight at Guo Bu. Even though he was already furious when he learned about this matter before, the anger in his heart was still difficult to calm down when it was mentioned again.
After a brief pause, Li Boyang took a deep breath and continued, "After discovering this situation, I immediately went to the local police station to report it. But who knew..."
Having said this, Li Baiyang paused again.
Seeing Li Baiyang stop, Minister Guo's eyes widened instantly, his face flushed red, and he shouted angrily: "Who knows what, tell me quickly!! " Obviously, he had associated Li Baiyang's words with human trafficking.
In that place called Suzhou, so many lawless and unforgivable things happened!
What is going on? Does the local mayor know nothing about this, or is he simply doing nothing?
The more Minister Guo thought about it, the angrier he became. Although these matters were not under his jurisdiction, it did not stop him from being angry.
Li Boyang, who was standing by, saw this and closed his eyes and said directly, "Minister, the local police station said that if I want to intervene in this matter, I must first find a way to properly place those stupid women. Otherwise, their families will not give in and will bring these stupid girls to cause trouble."
The local police station has intervened, but those silly girls simply can't explain their own affairs, and those who sell them still use the excuse of giving a dowry.
After hearing this, Minister Guo's expression became even gloomier. He frowned and paced back and forth in the room in dissatisfaction.
But he had no other choice but to say that when the silly girl didn't say anything, the people behind the scenes avoided all risks.
After a while, he stopped, sat back on the sofa, picked up a cup of cold tea, and took a big gulp, as if he wanted to swallow the anger in his heart.
After putting down the teacup, he looked at Li Boyang and said, "Then tell me, how did you solve this problem? It's impossible that you have been busy for so long and have no results at all!"
At this moment, Xu Changping, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke up: "Minister Guo, I...I suspect that those so-called silly girls were actually poisoned just like Comrade Guo."
Li Baiyang turned his head to look at Xu Changping, then turned to Minister Guo again and said in a serious tone:
"Minister, after our preliminary investigation, those girls were indeed poisoned, but we don't know whether it was the same poison that Sister Xiaohui was poisoned with. When we wiped out the stronghold of those kidnappers, we didn't find any poison."
After saying these words, he paused for a moment, and then continued: "At that time, because the police station didn't care about this matter, I had no choice but to find the person in charge in Suzhou.
Fortunately, with their strong support and the active assistance of the local public security department, we were able to successfully capture the hateful gang in one fell swoop!"
When mentioning public security personnel, Li Baiyang's thoughts suddenly drifted to the kind of tea with a strange fragrance that he had drunk before.
He seemed to have suddenly remembered something important and quickly said:
"Oh, yes! Speaking of that tea with a strange fragrance, it was secretly replaced by someone else when I was working with the local police on a case."
Speaking of tea, Xu Changping also had a lot of questions in his mind. He immediately asked:
"I remember you said just now that there was no tea among the gifts you brought back. Can you now think carefully about how the tea got mixed in?"
Facing Xu Changping's questions, Li Baiyang smiled bitterly and shook his head, answering helplessly:
"Alas, I really can't remember the answer to this question. I took a night bus when I came back. It was pitch dark all the way, with almost no light.
Even if someone slipped something into my luggage when I wasn’t paying attention, I wouldn’t be able to detect it at all.”