Chapter 51

Onstage, the host delivered an opening speech and chatted with the audience. Then the children's performances began.

The first performers were seventh graders from Horse Ridge Mountain School, boys and girls alike. Wearing heavy makeup and tight dance outfits that bared their midriffs, they moved to the music.

Zhao Yuan was in no mood to watch. She quietly studied the crowd instead. Everyone below the stage seemed absorbed in the performance, and at first glance, nothing looked amiss.

Then Zhao Yuan spotted someone near the stage on the right side of the audience taking out binoculars and studying the children.

That was how they picked the children they wanted.

The performance looked like a dance show to raise donations, but it actually gave those scum a chance to inspect the children. They examined each child onstage through binoculars. When one saw a child he wanted, he lowered the binoculars, and someone would notify the school principal. Then the next person took a turn. That way, they avoided choosing the same child and starting a dispute.

Once they had made their choices and confirmed them, the selected children would be sent to addresses the scum provided after the show, for their amusement.

In return, the school principal would receive their money.

Zhao Yuan had learned all this from her little niece's thoughts. Now she needed evidence so everyone could see those scum for what they were and rescue the children.

Sure enough, before the first performance was over, the person with the binoculars lowered them and murmured something to the person beside him. That person immediately took out a pen and wrote on a sheet of paper. The binoculars passed to someone else, who repeated the process.

The binoculars passed through four people during the first performance. When it ended, the