Chapter 64: Really Kidnapped

**Grandma only remembered Tang Ailian's feat of winning fights against all the village kids when she put down half of her worries, selling beans on one side and waiting for Tang Ailian on the other.

What Grandma didn't expect was that at this moment, Tang Ailian had indeed encountered human traffickers.

Tang Ailian wanted to leave home, and she had to sell various daily necessities. However, there was a problem. Would people be surprised if a four or five-year-old child went to buy things? Would they sell things to her? Would they not try to snatch them from her?

She thought about it for a long time and finally decided to use an illusion technique from witchcraft. In reality, it was a form of telepathic interference that changed the way others saw her.

This was just a minor spell, so Tang Ailian practiced it in the space inside the toilet for a long time before she felt confident enough to use it.

First, she went to the counter for washing products. "Please give me ten bars of soap."

The girl with glasses who was selling soap didn't seem to find it strange at all. She simply placed ten bars of soap on the counter, and Tang Ailian paid for them. Even when she left with the soap, the girl with glasses didn't react abnormally in the slightest.

Oh yes, success.

Next, Tang Ailian bought a lot of clothes, more than ten sets for each season, in various sizes. Then came the food, all bought in the free market. At this time, the free market wasn't as strict as it would later become, so she bought quite a bit of rice, flour, noodles, and other items for cooking. Naturally, she also needed pots for cooking, as well as plenty of snacks like biscuits and candy. These didn't require coupons.

She also bought a hammock, blankets, and other items. Whatever she could think of, she bought and tossed into her medicine well space.

Fortunately, she had the medicine well space, so she could store all these things inside. She ran into the narrow alleyway again and again, throwing things into the space whenever there was no one around.

After buying a lot of things, Tang Ailian had spent just over a thousand yuan. However, she thought about the fact that she might not have the opportunity to leave the mountains once she entered, and there would be no way to withdraw money inside. So, she thought about going to the bank to withdraw some cash.

This time, she appeared as a tall and strong middle-aged man with a sack, withdrawing five thousand yuan and opening a bank book in her mother's name, depositing another ten thousand yuan. So, she had a balance of one hundred and six thousand yuan in her bank book.

At this time, you could open a bank book without needing an ID, and there weren't even ID cards at that time.

When she withdrew the money, she remembered that she still owed Old Bai a thousand-year-old ginseng root and decided to make a phone call at the post office.

Old Bai personally answered the phone call.

"Tang Ailian, my young friend, you finally remembered me, huh? So, did you get the ginseng root?" he asked.

"I got it. I told my master, and he gave me some, but they're not a thousand years old, just a few hundred years. Do you still want them?" In reality, she did have some thousand-year-old ginseng roots, but she dared not take them out. Anyone would be suspicious of where so many thousand-year-old ginseng roots came from.

"Yes, yes, of course!" Old Bai replied happily. He didn't doubt Tang Ailian not having a thousand-year-old ginseng root. After all, a thousand-year-old ginseng root wasn't as common as a radish, and it was impossible to have so many of them.

"Alright, do you want to bring cash?" Tang Ailian thought about the trouble of getting cash and suddenly wanted some.

She had thought about offering to ride in his car and go together, but she decided to wait for him to arrive instead.

After calculating the things she had bought, Tang Ailian felt that she was almost done. She was about to return to the bean stall when she suddenly remembered that she had just left like this, leaving the stall to Grandma. Grandma must be unhappy, right? So why not buy her something to eat and make amends. She knew that Grandma would never willingly buy food for herself. Even if she got hungry, she would endure it until she finished selling her goods and returned home.

Moreover, she suddenly remembered that she had placed a cooked corn in the medicine well space last time, added a barrier to prevent the heat from escaping. When she took it out a few days later, it was still hot. So, she thought about buying some steamed buns and storing them in the medicine well space. If she wanted to eat, she could. Therefore, she ran towards the food shop.

However, just as she was about to reach the food shop's entrance, she heard someone shout, "Where did you run off to, girl? Your mother has been looking for you." She looked up and saw a woman in her thirties yelling at her.

She was stunned for a moment and replied, "I'm not your daughter. You've got the wrong person."

"You naughty child, I just scolded you a bit, and you don't even recognize your mother anymore." The woman reached out to pat Tang Ailian's head.

The woman's performance was very convincing. To outsiders, it seemed like a mother scolding her child who had run away from home and was found by her mother, causing her to beat her daughter in frustration. Therefore, no one suspected that this woman wasn't Tang Ailian's mother.

Before the woman's hand could land on her, Tang Ailian smelled a faint medicinal odor in the air, and her heart skipped a beat. This woman had drugs on her!

Thanks to her memories as a witch doctor from a past life, Tang Ailian's sense of smell had become much more sensitive. Although the drug's scent was faint, she could easily detect it. It was a drug that could temporarily cloud a person's mind. If she got hit with it, it would affect her consciousness, and she would be taken away without realizing it.

This woman had a problem!

Tang Ailian suddenly remembered a major event that had happened around this time in her past life.

At this time in her past life, there was a human trafficking gang that had abducted more than a hundred children, intending to sell them by the seaside. It was said that they used highly effective methods to abduct the children. Even intelligent children would obediently follow them without realizing it.

Later, this human trafficking gang was exposed. In reality, their methods weren't particularly sophisticated; they simply used hallucinogenic drugs. When they targeted a child, they would stay close to them, talk to them, and secretly place a drug in their mouth. When they talked, they would exhale a hallucinogenic gas that would make the child drowsy and compliant, allowing them to be taken away.

There was also another method called "Pa Hua Zi," where the trafficker had a drug concealed in the palm

 of their hand. When they saw a child they wanted to abduct, they would pat the child's Baihui acupoint, making the child become drowsy and obedient, allowing them to be taken away.

In her past life, these human traffickers were very cautious. If it weren't for them revealing their tracks in the Red Lotus Community and the fact that one of the abducted children had an extraordinary background, they might not have been caught so easily. It was said that the relative of one of the victims immediately launched a massive search throughout the county and mobilized the community to report any leads. That's how they managed to capture the human traffickers.

Tang Ailian knew about this because of a boy with a tragic background who was also among the abducted children. Later, this boy became a business elite and served as the CEO of a major corporation, which ranked among the Fortune Global 500.

His name was Xi Bufan, and he wrote about this incident in his memoirs.

(End of this chapter)