There were three slave traders here, fast asleep. One of them seemed to sense something and was about to open his eyes when Mu Wanting sprinkled some sleeping pills on him, and he fell asleep again.
When she woke up again, she found herself tied up, with Mu Wanting, Shen Xinglan, and Su Yu sitting opposite her, coaxing a baby.
There are eight children here, the youngest is Qin'er, the older ones are three years old, and the oldest is eight years old.
The children happily gathered around Mu Wanting.
Su Yu was their second favorite, followed by Shen Xinglan. They were too afraid to approach him because of his cold and aloof demeanor.
Only Qin'er still lets him hold her, after all, when he was paralyzed before, he was the one who took care of Qin'er.
The slave trader frowned: "What do you want?"
Mu Wanting smiled and said, "What we do depends on your performance."
"If you behave well, we'll let you go; if you behave poorly, we might castrate you, or even kill you."
Su Yu smiled and said, "Is this something a young lady should say?"
"What should the girl say?"
Su Yu laughed and said, "We should be the ones to say that."
Then, laughing, he kicked the burly man who opened the door.
"Speak quickly, don't waste my time."
The group exchanged glances and stammered.
Mu Wanting said, "It's fine if you don't want to say."
"By the way, Mr. Su, didn't you want to learn how to skin people before? Now is the perfect opportunity, I'll teach you."
Su Yu smiled and said, "Okay."
Looking at the children, Shen Xinglan felt a pang of jealousy when she saw Mu Wanting and Su Yu working together so well. Just seeing them made her feel choked up.
Mu Wanting handed Su Yu a scalpel and pulled the screen over to block the child's view.
Then he inserted a scalpel into the strong man's fingernails.
"Usually, we start peeling from here."
The burly man's mouth had already been stuffed with a towel, and he could only whimper.
Su Yu followed suit and moved closer to another, thinner slave trader.
He was even more ruthless, directly piercing off the slave trader's fingernails. The slave trader collapsed to the ground in pain, only to be picked up by Su Yu.
"What's there to be afraid of? This is just the beginning."
Mu Wanting continued to push the scalpel forward, and Su Yu followed suit. Both of them were trembling with pain in their teeth and were so terrified that they soon wet themselves.
They had wanted to speak for a long time, but their mouths were stuffed with something, so they couldn't.
Mu Wanting only peeled off one fingernail, while Su Yu had already peeled off the skin of an entire palm without any instruction.
Mu Wanting's lips twitched.
His extraordinary talent meant he didn't need her to teach him at all.
But Mu Wanting and the others didn't stop, and the other two hurriedly said.
"We'll confess, we'll confess."
Only then did they realize that these human traffickers were selling children to families without children or to brothels.
The last three slave traders were knocked unconscious and tied up in the inn, while the third slave trader led them to find the children.
Just thinking about those missing children and how many families were broken as a result made them feel that the trip was worthwhile.
After searching all night, they finally found all the children.
The children were sent to the authorities, and their parents could take them back when they came looking for them.
There were also several children who had been sold by their parents. They didn't want to go back, and their employers treated them very badly. After Mu Wanting checked their character and found them to be of good standing, she handed them over to Song Xie and his team.
Mu Wanting's actions were unintentional, but she never expected that these children would eventually make great contributions to her and become celebrities.
Mu Wanting tested Song Xie's martial arts skills and then gave them another one hundred taels of silver.
Fang Chunliu quickly declined.
"No need, young lady, we've earned enough for the travel expenses by doing needlework."
This amount of money is a lot for ordinary people, but for Mu Wanting, it's nothing at all.
She said, "Take it. Buy a carriage for the children. You all eat well too. Don't be stingy; you're all too thin."
Fang Chunliu felt a little ashamed, but Mu Wanting smiled and said, "I didn't mean to blame you. I was just thinking that such a beauty would probably look even better if she gained some weight."
Fang Chunliu blushed at Mu Wanting's words. Mu Wanting took her pulse and found that her gynecological disease had been cured, but her spleen and stomach were still a little weak. She wrote another prescription and got a few doses of medicine for her.
The same was true for the others.
Song Ying had gained a few pounds, and seeing Mu Wanting calling her "sister" in a childish voice, Song Xie now called her "sister" quite naturally as well.
After everyone was settled, the slave traders and the people from Sushui Village were also arrested by the government, and they waited there for the officials to arrive.
Mu Wanting also stopped by to sell clothes on her way.
When the officials arrived, it was lunchtime, so everyone found an inn to stay at.
Murong Rong limped toward Mu Wanting.
"Where did they take my carriage? Have you seen it?"
Mu Wanting shook her head: "No, who knows?"
She could see the carriage clearly; it was one her mother had bought before, and even the precious items on it belonged to her mother.
She didn't know exactly how much of her mother's belongings had been embezzled by the mother and daughter, but seeing it, she knew it was impossible that it would still be left to Murong Rong.
Murong Rong pointed to the cart that Mu Wanting and the others were pushing: "Since you didn't help me get my carriage back, then let me ride in your cart."
Mu Wanting was amused by this matter-of-fact tone.
"It's not enough to pull. Figure it out yourself."
Murong Rong took a deep breath in anger. All her money was in that carriage. Now that the money was gone, how could she possibly find a way to make a living?
Throughout the journey, she relied on two guards to carry her on their backs, which made her feel uncomfortable.
With the monthly pay season fast approaching, how could they possibly stay loyal to her if she couldn't provide it?
She wanted to talk to Mu Wanting, but Mu Wanting had already started distributing information and was completely ignoring her.
This time, even the Zhao family members were involved.
Zhao Xiwu gave them some travel expenses, but the constant expenditure without any profit was not a long-term solution.
Watching them make clothes together, the eldest son's wife also became a little anxious.
Shen Linong found Mu Wanting.
"Wanting, what do you think? How about we let the women of our main branch do it too?"
Mu Wanting didn't speak, but looked at Xu Cuilan behind him.
Xu Cuilan blushed and looked away, her eyes brimming with anticipation.
Even Madam Shen sighed.
"Two characters can't be written in the same stroke. After all, we're family. It's normal to have some conflicts. Just don't hold grudges."
To be honest, between Zhang Caiyun and Xu Cuilan, Zhang Caiyun is the truly evil one, while Xu Cuilan mostly does what Zhang Caiyun says.
She had her own selfish motives, but without Zhang Caiyun's instigation, she couldn't have imagined anything.
Now that Zhang Caiyun is dead, Xu Cuilan has finally calmed down.
Besides, she needs manpower right now.
They make clothes for her, and she can earn 19 taels of silver all by herself, plus she can clean up the whole batch of fabric. Why wouldn't she do it?
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