Chapter 472

This development was something Xie Yang had not expected.

She only wanted to save some children, earn a little money, and occasionally step in to help when she saw injustice. She never imagined it would cause such a huge sensation.

She had no choice but to change the skin of the Robot Bodyguard.

This time, she molded a highly skilled female guard with a sword to escort the young miss south to Jiangnan.

From now on, the "Saintess of a Thousand Faces" would try her best not to appear in public.

Besides not wanting to attract too much attention and avoiding unnecessary trouble, martial arts experts also need a certain sense of mystery, right?

On the journey south, she continued to do good deeds and earn bounties, but no one associated the female guard with the previous "Saintess of a Thousand Faces."

Returning to the present, Xie Yang's bait plan succeeded once again.

Liu Hu and his group carried the chubby girl, who was sitting on the official road crying loudly because she couldn't move her short legs, onto the carriage and hurried to the "old spot."

From the outside, it looked like a prosperous Escort Agency, but in reality, the cellar in the backyard hid children they had stolen or abducted from surrounding towns, and even a few young women they had deceived.

Once they found a buyer and negotiated a price, they would secretly transport them away mixed in with the escort caravan.

To prevent these people from whispering and discussing escape plans, even after being locked in the cellar, their mouths remained stuffed with cloth, and their hands and feet were tied with thick hemp rope, keeping them at a distance from each other even when the ropes were pulled taut.

Therefore, this place, which resembled a dungeon, was deathly silent.

No one spoke, and no one cried or made a scene.

Because once they cried or made a scene, they would be beaten.

After a few beatings, even a two-year-old child knew how to be obedient.

"Hu Ge, which ones are we sending tonight?"

"Just these few."

Liu Hu used the kerosene lamp to scan the dim cellar and pointed at a few three or four-year-old boys.

Boys of this age were the easiest to sell.

"Right, and that stubborn one."

Recalling the pretty young girl his subordinates had drugged and brought in a few days ago, Liu Hu sneered:

"She won't eat or drink and would rather die than submit? Send her to the brothel tonight. The madam there isn't like me; she won't be gentle with her. Let's see how many days she can last."

His subordinates were preparing to load the carriage according to his instructions.

Liu Hu was also preparing to go out and have a drink with his brothers.

Xie Yang released the Robot Bodyguard at the right moment.

The female guard with the sword descended from the sky and scattered a handful of powerful sleeping powder toward Liu Hu and his men.

With a few "thumps," Liu Hu's side all collapsed to the ground.

As long as no one splashed water to wake them up, this sleep would last until dawn the next morning.

Xie Yang was carried by the "female guard" as they went room by room to save people.

When they reached the last room, they saw the girl Liu Hu called stubborn, head lowered, using a protruding stone edge on the wall to grind the hemp rope on her hands.

After grinding for a long time without success, she looked up in frustration and saw a woman dressed as a guard, holding a chubby little girl in her left arm and a sword in her right, who cut the lock on the door with one strike.

"Big sister! You're so brave!" the chubby girl smiled at her.

"!!!"

She was saved!

At that moment, Deng Xiaoyan could no longer hold back the tears she had suppressed for days, and they fell drop by drop.

She knelt on the ground with a thud and kowtowed three times to Xie Yang and her companion.

"Thank you, benefactors, for saving my life!"

It was indeed a life-saving grace!

If Liu Hu had really sold her to a brothel, she would rather have hit her head against a wall than submit to death.

Now, she wanted Liu Hu to bleed at the vegetable market!

It was only then that Xie Yang learned she had saved the daughter of a prefect.

Not only was the bounty money enough to make her hands soft, but the prefect's family also said they wanted to host a banquet to treat her and the "female guard."

But no matter how realistic the Robot Bodyguard was, it would be too easy to give the game away when eating or drinking.

As soon as Xie Yang received the new travel permit the prefect had helped arrange, she left a letter in the inn in the tone of the "female guard," stating that she had a task to attend to and could not stay long. She then summoned the Invisible Small Flying Saucer and fled Linzhou Fu as if escaping.

Just like that, Xie Yang saved people all along the way and earned bounties all along the way.

When she encountered mountains rich in medicinal herbs, she would control the flying saucer to enter the deep mountain areas for a few days.

She spent points to exchange for a bag of powerful insect repellent powder, which she carried in a small cloth pouch.

As long as it wasn't a fierce beast like a tiger or black bear, ordinary snakes and insects would only stay far away from her when they smelled this medicinal scent.

If she were truly unlucky enough to encounter a tiger or black bear, she would have the Robot Bodyguard throw out the powerful sleeping powder to let them take a nap.

To what extent were the deep mountains and old forests of ancient times rich in medicinal herbs?

In just three days, Xie Yang found three wild ginseng roots over a hundred years old, one of which she thought was three hundred years old and had even taken on a human shape.

There were even more that were thirty or fifty years old, so many that she didn't even look at ginseng roots under twenty years old.

In addition, there were Ganoderma, fleeceflower root, Iron-skin Dendrobium...

She also discovered a huge wild beehive.

The Robot Bodyguard, who wasn't afraid of bee stings, went out and easily harvested it.

After nightfall, Xie Yang was busy in the Small Flying Saucer until midnight, harvesting a full jar of wild honey the size of a wine jar.

During the day in town, besides buying dry rations that could last for ten days or half a month, she bought things like vegetable buns and meat buns that came with a Steamer, noodles and wontons that came with a Soup Pot, and signature dishes from restaurants and eateries.

Although the quality of the Pork in ancient meat buns was good and not fed with messy medicine, there was too much fat and not enough lean meat, which Xie Yang wasn't used to, so she specially ordered a few steamers with a ratio of two parts fat to eight parts lean, adding meat jelly to make them juicy, delicious, and not greasy.

The shopkeeper was naturally happy to oblige.

Fatty meat is quite a bit more expensive than lean meat; for the same price, since the employer requested mostly lean meat with only a tiny bit of fat, the profit he made increased. Thus, he was very honest when wrapping them, and every bun had thin skin, thick filling, and plenty of juice.

Xie Yang tasted a sample and was very satisfied, so every time she came to town after that, she would order several steamers from this bun shop.

Besides that, she wholesaled a batch of palm-sized small jars, and after portioning them out, she found a reliable Escort Agency through a background check to send a few jars to the Xie Family Third Branch.

In addition to the wild Honey, she also sent one mountain ginseng over a hundred years old, two fifty-year-old ones, ten under thirty years old, as well as a few Ganoderma, a cluster of century-old fleeceflower root, and a large bundle of high-quality, intact furs collected along the way.

Of course, she still used the name "Saintess of a Thousand Faces".

The Escort Agency in charge of transport could not have been more polite.

The rest were all stuffed by her into the limited space of the Small Flying Saucer.

During this time, the Main System was truly worn down by her and had no choice but to pay out of its own pocket to open a small permission, allowing her to store external supplies into the Main System's built-in space via the Small Flying Saucer, a medium produced by the system.

In this way, the local specialties she bought along the way, the medicinal herbs and Honey found in the deep mountains, and the food, water, and supplies purchased in town would no longer be rejected and thrown out as long as they were first put into the Small Flying Saucer and then the Small Flying Saucer was retracted into the Main System's built-in space.

This is also why every time she flew over deep mountains and old forests rich in medicinal herbs, she could not help but stop and stay for a few days.

This bug in the Main System's built-in space was equivalent to her possessing a portable space.