When I was just reborn, I was sold for 300 yuan.

It is now the end of 1979, and many people have started small businesses, especially near the railway station, where there are many snack stalls.

"Give me a bowl of jiangshui noodles." Su Qing planned to try the local specialty jiangshui noodles.

"Okay, wait a moment, girl." A man in his forties who sold noodles responded to Su Qing with a smile.

There were many people buying Jiangshui noodles, but Su Qing was not in a hurry. After all, it was already afternoon when she got off the train today, and the buses to Maqu County were probably gone. She planned to stay in Lan City for one night and take a bus to Maqu County tomorrow.

"My daughter, my daughter."

Su Qing was waiting for the noodles when suddenly a woman in her thirties rushed over from the side, took Su Qing's hand and called her daughter.

Su Qing couldn't help but raise her eyebrows when she saw this. Are the human traffickers targeting her?

However, seeing that the woman was acting crazy and her eyes were a little cloudy, Su Qing was not very sure. The woman didn't say anything else, but just pulled Su Qing's arm and kept calling her daughter.

Before Su Qing could say anything, the uncle making the noodles sighed and said to the woman, "Mother Lotus, this is not your daughter. You have recognized the wrong person."

Su Qing didn't rush to get rid of the woman, she just asked, "Uncle, what's going on?"

Su Qing could see that the woman seemed a little out of her mind.

Before the uncle selling rice noodles could speak, a haggard middle-aged man hurried over, supported the middle-aged woman and said, "Afen, this is not our daughter. You have recognized the wrong person."

Having said that, the middle-aged man hurriedly apologized to Su Qing.

The middle-aged woman was confused when she heard this. She looked at Su Qing's face carefully and her face suddenly darkened: "Yes, it's not a lotus. Lotus is not that white."

As she spoke, the middle-aged woman let go of Su Qing's arm and cried again: "My lotus, where is my lotus?"

"Let's look for a while longer, we will definitely find the lotus." The middle-aged woman's crying made the middle-aged man's eyes red, and he said hurriedly.

"Can you find the lotus?" asked the middle-aged woman confusedly.

"Yes, of course." The middle-aged man nodded quickly.

"Let's go and find the lotus." The middle-aged woman pulled the middle-aged man and was about to leave.

The middle-aged man looked at Su Qing apologetically: "My dear comrade, I'm sorry. I'm really sorry."

"It's okay." Su Qing shook her head. She couldn't say a word of blame to the parents who lost their daughter.

After the middle-aged couple left, the uncle selling noodles sighed, "Ah, what a pitiful person he is."

"What's going on?" The people around were also very curious and asked hurriedly.

"Hey, the daughter of this couple disappeared two years ago. She was probably abducted by human traffickers. Although they reported it to the police, they have never found her. This woman couldn't stand it and went a little crazy. When she saw a younger girl, she rushed over and called her daughter. Hey, this human trafficker is also very hateful. It's a sin." The uncle selling rice noodles sighed and shook his head. He served a bowl of rice noodles and handed it to Su Qing: "Little comrade, this is the rice noodles you asked for."

Su Qing took the noodles and thanked the uncle.

People around were talking a lot.

"Human traffickers are really despicable. They are harming people. They are so evil."

"There are no good human traffickers. They are all so bad that their soles are swollen. A few years ago, a child in my hometown was abducted by human traffickers. His grandmother was so worried that she fell ill and died. She has not been found yet."

"Oh, what a sin."

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For a time, discussions about human traffickers were everywhere. Everyone was filled with righteous indignation and blamed the traffickers.

Su Qing looked at the direction where the middle-aged couple left and sighed softly. In this day and age, there is no surveillance and information is not circulated, especially in areas like the northwest. The situation is even worse. In such a situation, it is very difficult to find a person who has been abducted, and most of the abducted people are abducted into the mountains, which makes it even more difficult to find them.

After eating noodles, Su Qing found a guesthouse. She had some blank letters of introduction on her, which were given to her by Zhao Youcai when she was in Lihua Village. Now they came in handy.

After asking the front desk clerk at the guesthouse about the bus station to Maqu County and chatting with them for a while, Su Qing stayed in the guesthouse for one night and rushed to the bus station early the next morning.

There is only one bus to Maqu County a day, which leaves at 8:30 in the morning. When Su Qing arrived at the bus station, it was just 8 o'clock and the bus had not left yet. She bought the ticket and found a place to sit down and study the map in her hand. This map was drawn by herself after consulting the girl at the front desk of the guesthouse yesterday. Although it was rather rough, the girl's hometown was Maqu County and she was quite familiar with Maqu County. This allowed Su Qing to have some understanding of the situation around Maqu County.

Especially Xiqing Mountain, the little girl’s hometown is in the village at the foot of Xiqing Mountain, what a coincidence.

"Little girl, you are going to Maqu County too, to visit relatives?" Su Qing was looking at the map in her hand when suddenly a woman next to her spoke to her with a smile.

Su Qing simply hummed and didn't say anything.

Seeing Su Qing's cold reaction, the middle-aged woman was not discouraged and smiled and said, "Oh, what a coincidence, I also went to Maqu County. You don't look like people from our northwest. Look at your delicate skin and fair skin, unlike us, who are exposed to the sun all day and have their faces tanned into charcoal."

Su Qing glanced at the middle-aged woman indifferently, said nothing, and continued to look down at her map.

Seeing that Su Qing still ignored her, the middle-aged woman couldn't help but look a little unhappy. Coincidentally, there was a little girl sitting next to her. She curled her lips slightly at Su Qing, then went to talk to the little girl with a smile.

The little girl was probably shy and felt embarrassed to ignore someone talking to her, so she whispered a few words to the middle-aged woman.

Su Qing looked at the map. Although the two people spoke softly, she could still hear them clearly, especially when the middle-aged woman asked the girl's name. The girl actually said it directly, which made Su Qing frown slightly.

Just at this moment the conductor announced that the bus to Maqu County was open for ticket checking and boarding, so she got up and got on the bus, finding a seat by the window and sat down.

After a while, the middle-aged woman and the little girl also got on the bus. The middle-aged woman sat directly next to the little girl, just in front of Su Qing's left.

The two chatted idly, and after a while, Su Qing heard that the middle-aged woman had asked almost all the questions about the little girl.

Seeing this, Su Qing couldn't help but frowned slightly and some doubts arose in her heart.