Qingqing and the God of Wealth were staying in the Women's Kingdom. Every day, Qingqing would go to Laifu Restaurant to find Yang Xue.
At first, Yang Xue was very busy and didn't have the time to seriously figure out why Sun Wukong didn't dare to appear in front of her again.
However, even so, Yang Xue had no intention of cooking to earn money. She simply quit her job as a cook with Boss Hua, received five taels of silver, and went out for a stroll on the street.
She was in a very bad mood and wanted to try her luck. Her cultivation had not improved recently, and she needed to seize the time to prevent the Bodhisattvas from the Western Paradise from showing up again.
In the dead of night, she came to the outskirts of the city. There were not many people on the road.
The few strangers she met were all riding horses or driving carriages in a hurry on their night journeys.
Yang Xue was dressed in black, looking rather plain, no longer wearing those brightly - colored and boldly - designed clothes.
She dressed like this just to avoid scaring Sun Wukong if he appeared again.
Walking on the rugged mountain road, Yang Xue faintly heard a child crying.
She followed the sound and found a woman sitting against a tree, reluctantly parting from a child about three years old.
Yang Xue frowned and watched. Was this woman going to abandon her own child?
"Mother, please don't die. Don't leave me... Wuwu... Mother, don't leave me. Don't die..."
She had misjudged the woman. It turned out that the woman was in life - threatening danger.
Yang Xue gently flew onto the treetop where they were. The woman didn't seem to be terminally ill.
"Xiaoshan, it's not that mother doesn't want you. It's just that mother... mother is sick and will infect you." The woman pried the child's tightly - clutching hands off her, coughed weakly twice, and said, "Tomorrow you'll go with me into the city. The uncle we met during the day will find a good family for you. They'll adopt you."
The world is full of strange things.
Yang Xue detected that the woman was in good health. Moreover, from her behavior, she was not poor or down - and - out. She simply didn't want the child anymore.
"Mother, I don't want to go to a rich family. Please don't leave." The child cried loudly on the woman's body. "That uncle is a bad guy. He wants to take me to another country and make me a maid... Wuwu, mother, I don't want to go."
Yang Xue squatted on the tree, extremely angry and wanted to teach this woman a lesson.
But after thinking carefully, it was neither reasonable nor appropriate for her to intervene at this moment. What if her speculation was wrong?
Anyway, she couldn't sleep when she got back. So, she decided to stay and find out what was going on.
Later, she finally understood that this woman didn't want to stay in the Women's Kingdom anymore. After the child cried himself to sleep in her arms, she handed the child to a human trafficker waiting not far away and sold the child for ten taels of silver!
"Crunch!" Yang Xue was so angry that she snapped a tree branch, almost alarming the human trafficker.
As soon as she handed the child to the human trafficker, the woman got into the carriage waiting in the woods.
The coachman was a man, clearly not from the Women's Kingdom.
They were eloping!
Yang Xue suddenly understood a bit. Like other women in the Women's Kingdom, this woman had drunk the water from the Mother - Child River and given birth to a child. But unfortunately, when the child was three years old, she met a man who wanted to take her home to live with him.
The man didn't want the woman's previous child and didn't allow her to take the child with her.
Yang Xue followed the woman's carriage and heard their conversation, then she understood the whole story.
The poor child had been taken away by the human trafficker, going in the opposite direction outside the Women's Kingdom. There were many girls in the carriage who were either sold or kidnapped from the Women's Kingdom. They would be sold to other places, either to be maids, or to fall into prostitution. Those with better luck would be bought as child brides...
Yang Xue turned back and blocked the human trafficker's convoy!
The horse neighed. Frightened by Yang Xue who suddenly appeared in front of it from the sky, it stopped, raising its front legs high!
"Ah! What's going on?"
"Who's there!" The coachman was very vigilant. In the dark, he squinted hard, trying to see what had frightened the horse!
"Your grandma!" Yang Xue stood on the horse's back and used a little trick to make a strong light shine behind her.
"Ghost!" The coachman was so scared that he fell off the carriage.
"Where's the ghost? Don't talk nonsense!" A coachman got out of a carriage behind, and a man raised his long knife, glaring at Yang Xue and saying, "We've met a good - for - nothing do - gooder. Grab your weapons! It's a woman. It's a good deal that comes to our door. Catch her and we can sell her for a good price!"
"You've got a lot of nerve!" Yang Xue took out the golden whip given to her by the God of Wealth and whipped it out hard. "Break for me!"
"Ow!"
"Slash!"
"My arm!"
The two men holding the knives had their arms cut off directly. The arms that fell on the ground still tightly held the long knives and twitched due to the rapid loss of blood!
Yang Xue curled her lips into a smile. The killing intent in the corners of her eyes was mixed with wildness. "Let all the children on the carriage go, and I'll spare your lives."
"Spare me,女侠. It's none of my business." A man took the opportunity to kneel on the ground with a thud. "I'm just a coachman. Spare me."
"Fine, get out of here!" Yang Xue tilted her head, indicating for him to leave.
"Thank you,女侠!" The man staggered up from the ground and ran away quickly to escape.
The remaining two men were not going to give up like this.
"My arm... Ah!" They had both had one of their arms cut off. Furious, they shouted, "Stinky woman, give your life!"
"You're asking for death! Since you're like this, don't blame me for being merciless." Yang Xue whipped out her whip again without mercy.
Before the two men could throw out their long swords, they watched in horror as their bodies suddenly turned into powder!
She had given them a chance to live, but they didn't cherish it!
Human trafficking deserved death!
Looking at the two fully - loaded carriages, Yang Xue didn't know whether the Women's Kingdom was a blessed land or a place of sorrow for women.
Just like the woman before, although the child was her own, when she met a strange man, she still cruelly abandoned her own flesh and blood.
And these children were all girls. For the human traffickers, the Women's Kingdom was a place to make money.
She unhitched the carriages. There were a total of twenty - three children on the carriages. Half of them had been abducted.
Three of them had even been bought directly from their mothers.
The others had been resold from others. They were all too scared to breathe loudly and huddled in the carriages, trembling and unwilling to get off.
"I'll send you back. Those who can go home on your own go home. Those who don't know where your home is, stay for now." Yang Xue suddenly felt a bit lost. She didn't know how to settle these children.
"Wuwu, mother... Where's mother..." Xiaoshan, who was awakened by the commotion just now, cried the loudest.
"She was very sick and passed away." Looking at the child crying with snot and tears running down her face, Yang Xue finally couldn't bear to let her know that she had been sold by her mother.
"Wow!" She cried even louder.
Just then, Yang Xue's eyes suddenly lit up. A tall and familiar figure appeared in front of her.