Chapter 329 1-way escort
Chapter 329 1-way escort
Song Chunlin naturally could not walk far with a group of children, so he had to temporarily rent a house in the town for the children to live in. He left enough things for the children to use for a month, including food, clothing, and coal for heating.
He has not yet figured out how to arrange these people. The oldest of the children is the young lady. However, this child has suffered insults from the dead old man and is mentally a little abnormal. She has no reaction to people, but does whatever Song Chunlin says.
These children had all been touched by the head of the Xue family. The youngest one was the easiest to deal with. The old pervert didn't have time to do anything, but he was the first to regain his childish liveliness.
Song Chunlin felt a headache when he looked at these six idiots. After much deliberation, he decided to dive into their spiritual sea and delete those unbearable memories. This task required extremely high control of mental power. Even for a high-level psychic like Song Chunlin, it would take several days to delete all the bad memories in the spiritual sea of the children bit by bit.
During this period, Song Chunlin did not forget to find a woman to take care of the children's daily life, while he himself slept day and night and drank spiritual spring water to restore his mental strength.
After staying in the town for several days, Song Chunlin finally deleted the memories of several children. After losing that memory, the children's faces no longer had that numb and desperate expression, but their descriptions of their homes were very fanciful. If Song Chunlin had not searched in their spiritual sea, he would have almost been deceived.
After only taking care of the baby for a few days, Song Chunlin began to feel despair. No wonder people in his previous life said that not everyone can be a kindergarten teacher. No matter who you are, as long as you take care of the baby, you will go crazy.
Song Chunlin originally wanted to arrange for someone to send these children home, but the children seemed to have been abducted and did not trust anyone other than Song Chunlin. Song Chunlin had to leave the children where they were and wait until he found Liu Liu's whereabouts before coming back to take them away.
In the evening, he sorted out the account books of the dental clinic and marked them on the map. Song Chunlin also took time to return to the county town, planning to rent a larger carriage.
While eating noodles at a small stall in the county town, he listened to the gossip about the Xue family from the people at the next table.
Everyone said that the Xue family had hit a wall this time. Not only was the head of the family castrated, but even the children were not spared.
An elderly man gossiped quietly with another man at the same table: "Did you hear that the one from the Xue family is dying?"
"Hasn't he been dead for a long time? After he was done that last time, he said the bleeding couldn't stop and he became crazy. I thought he was dead a long time ago."
"The Xue family is not dead yet, so they must still be alive. But they are almost dead. The old lady in their family is almost dead too."
The man sighed, "What a pity! Although the Xue family hasn't been a good family over the years, they haven't done anything bad, right? How could they be treated so cruelly? Now, can they only rely on those girls and boys to carry on the family line?"
"It's hard to say. What they did this time was too weird. The government searched their house from top to bottom several times, but they didn't find any clues. The Xue family went to the government office several times to make trouble, but they returned empty-handed."
After saying this, both of them felt a chill on their backs. They rubbed each other's arms, then looked at each other, and saw a bit of fear in each other's eyes.
Song Chunlin didn't expect that the rumors about the Xue family would evolve into this. It did have a bit of a supernatural flavor, but to ordinary people, it was indeed a bit weird.
After finishing his noodles, Song Chunlin casually threw a few copper coins on the table to pay the bill. After leaving the noodle stall, he went straight to the largest carriage company in the county and rented the largest carriage. The people who rented the carriage found it a little strange to see that he was a young man they didn't know.
"Hey, young master, are you going out alone? It is not recommended to rent such a large one if you are alone. You can just rent the most ordinary one."
The shopkeeper was quite kind. He did not raise the price just because of his young age. Instead, he gave him another option. However, Song Chunlin declined the shopkeeper's kindness.
"No need, boss, there are a few people in my family going out together, so let's rent a more spacious one so that we can sit more comfortably."
Hearing the customer say this, the shopkeeper would definitely not persuade him anymore, and he quickly processed the procedures for Song Chunlin.
Song Chunlin did not drive away immediately in his carriage, but stayed in the city until the evening and left the city before the city gates were closed.
After staying in the city for an afternoon, two more children appeared in Song Chunlin's carriage. These two children were older and were brought back directly from the pawnshop by Song Chunlin. Of course, he did not pay for them.
The two children thought that Song Chunlin was their buyer, and their eyes were filled with hatred when they looked at Song Chunlin. Song Chunlin did not explain, but gave each of them a mental hint, and the two children fell asleep.
It was already midnight when they returned to the town. Fortunately, the town was too small and had no city gates. Song Chunlin sent the person back very smoothly and then took him back to the temporary rented house.
Early the next morning after renting the car, Song Chunlin paid the old woman who had been taking care of the children, settled the rent, and continued north with the car full of children.
The two children who were rescued yesterday had confused and bewildered looks on their faces. Yesterday they thought that Song Chunlin was like those perverts and bought them to torture them. However, when he woke up and found six more children in the carriage, they became even angrier. They all thought that Song Chunlin was a human trafficker who specialized in trafficking children like them. It was the eldest female master who stopped him and returned their indentures to them.
Holding their own indentures, both of them felt a little unbelievable, but they quickly reacted.
"What's the use of getting our indentures back? We're already slaves in the eyes of the government, and there's no way we can become good citizens again..." The more the man spoke, the more frustrated he became.
After hearing this, Song Chunlin poked his head in and said, "You don't need to worry about the government affairs. I have deleted your records with the government. You just need to go back to your hometown and register again, and you can restore your household registration as a good citizen."
The two found it incredible: "How is it possible? How could the government restore slaves to good citizens for no reason?"
Song Chunlin smiled and explained to them: "Because the people who bought and sold you don't have your household registration documents, so your slave status in the government is actually invalid. If you delete it, there will be no record."
He handled the enslavement of other children in the same way. Although the slave trader had ways to collude with the government and get the government to issue documents for the slave sale, the household registration of these people was not in their hands, and the younger ones were not registered at all. In other words, all the children in this car were illegal residents in the hands of the traffickers. The household registration information was fabricated, so what practical value could it have? All they had to do was tear up the indentures, take them back to their birthplaces, and let their parents re-apply for their household registration documents, and they could be restored to freedom.
Those children were relatively young and didn't understand the twists and turns involved. The two older children behind them obviously knew something, so they were worried about whether they could get their household registration restored.
After learning that they would not become slaves, the two children decisively tore the indentures into pieces, then hugged each other and cried bitterly.
Song Chunlin felt a headache when he saw them crying. Fortunately, the two children were from the north. Song Chunlin took them on a three-day journey and returned to their hometown smoothly.
Standing on the land of their hometown, the two children were so excited that they couldn't even speak. They kept kneeling on the ground and kowtowed to Song Chunlin frantically.
"Thank you so much for saving my life."
"Thank you for saving my life."
Song Chunlin didn't want them to be grateful, so he quickly helped the man up.
"Okay, stop kowtowing, hurry up, just go back."
When the two children raised their heads, their faces were covered with tear marks. They wiped their faces and asked Song Chunlin not to leave yet. They had to ask their father and mother to come out and entertain Song Chunlin well.
However, when they returned home and told their parents what had happened, and then ran out of the village with their parents, there was no trace of the carriage.
The children were very excited on the galloping carriage. Although Song Chunlin would get carsick when riding in a carriage, he would not drive a car. After they had run for some distance, he slowly slowed down the horse.
After sending the two children away, Song Chunlin continued to walk north. Wherever he arrived, he rented a house, returned the carriage, and lived there with the children for a short period of time, and then left with the evidence he had collected.
However, the further north he went, the more anxious he became, because from the initial clues, Liu Liu was most likely sold to the north. But from the clues he collected from pawnbrokers in various places and even from some wealthy families, he came to the conclusion that Liu Liu was not in the north.
This result is completely different from his previous calculations. If Liu Liu was not sold to the north, then where would she be sold to?
Seeing that the north was becoming more and more desolate, Song Chunlin took another look at the children in the carriage and decisively decided to go back.
This time he planned the route in advance, trying to send every child back. As for those who could not be sent back... forget it, just take it one step at a time.
The journey back was not easy, as there were many detours. It took Song Chunlin twice as long to send all the children back to their homes. As for the fate of the children after they returned home, Song Chunlin could not guarantee it, but returning to one's own home was always much better than wandering outside.
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