After crossing over, the demon king rolled in my arms and acted like a spoiled child

The woman shook her head: "I also bought her from someone else. I heard that she has been passed on several times. I don't know where her home is."

This woman must be telling the truth. Human trafficking is everywhere these days, and it is normal for people to change hands midway.

Bai Jiyue stepped forward and held the woman's arm, twisted it and pushed it, and the woman's arm, which was originally unable to move, immediately became movable.

"Go away," she said to the woman.

The woman said angrily: "My lady, I bought this child for 200 coins. You can't take it away by force!"

"You beat her up like this, and I haven't asked you for medical expenses yet. Why do you want another two hundred coins?"

Bai Jiyue said this and waved the dagger in his hand.

The woman shrank back and dared not say a word. She could only cover the wound on her shoulder and quickly went into the woods on the side of the road.

Bai Jiyue held the child in one hand, grabbed the reins with the other and climbed onto the horse, saying to Ming Yuan, "You go by yourself. I'll take the child back to settle him down first, and then go to Village Six."

Ming Yuan frowned slightly, feeling a little unhappy.

Originally, he and the girl could have been alone together for a while, but who knew that a child would come out and abruptly interrupt their time together.

"There is a village ahead. We can just find a family to drop it off," he said.

Bai Jiyue shook her head solemnly: "How can that be possible? There are many bad guys in the Dark Stone Wasteland. What if I find a bad one and let her fall into the tiger's mouth again? I have to personally take care of her."

She looked into the distance and said in a leisurely voice: "When I saw this child, I thought of a child I saved before. His name was A Yuan. I don't know how he is doing now..."

Mingyuan's heart suddenly felt sweet and warm, and love was overflowing.

His girl has such deep feelings for him that she still misses him now!

His mood suddenly improved. He stretched out his arms to embrace the child in Bai Jiyue's arms: "I'll hold the child and take you back to Village Six."

Bai Jiyue was holding the child in one hand and riding the horse with the other, which was not stable after all.

He wished that Bai Jiyue, who was holding the child, could sit in his arms, but he also knew that with his girl's temper, it would be impossible for her to sit in his arms, so he had to hold the child.

Bai Jiyue didn't give him any advice: "Do you think I'm not good enough?"

"Of course not." Ming Yuan quickly defended.

Bai Jiyue glared at him: "Aren't you going to track down the thieves? Why don't you go? If you delay the best time, I don't know how much effort you will have to put in later."

Ming Yuan said sullenly: "Then be careful."

"I'm not so unable to ride a horse just because I'm holding a child!" Bai Jiyue said loudly, turned the horse's head, kicked the horse's belly and galloped away.

Mingyuan kept looking at her until her heroic figure disappeared from his sight, then he rode away.

Bai Jiyue took the child back to the county town, first found a private clinic, had the child's injuries checked and got some medicine, and then took the child back home.

The child hasn't woken up yet, perhaps because he was under too much mental stress before.

She left the child in the care of Yan Niang and rode back to Village Liu.

She visited many villagers in the Sixth Village, and they all said that the hidden stones nearby were becoming less and less, and more and more difficult to dig.

This is how natural resources are. The more you dig, the less there is. If you keep digging, it’s inevitable that they will eventually run out.

Bai Jiyue thought that maybe he should discuss it with the prefect and report to the emperor to reduce Anshi's tasks slightly.

The human race is the lowest race on the Qinglan Continent. Their country has always needed to pay dark stones as tribute to the craftsmen. These dark stones from the Dark Stone Wasteland are actually useless to the human race, so they all have to be paid to the craftsmen.

Bai Jiyue felt that this level was too unfair. If the emperor had any courage, he should talk to the craftsmen about the issue of equality.

Just as she was about to return from Village Six, she ran into Ming Yuan again.

He found the thief hiding in the Sixth Village, tied him up, and sent several young men from the Sixth Village with good cultivation to escort him to the county town.

The two men traveled together, riding back on horseback in the twilight along the official road.

There was no conversation along the way, but for Ming Yuan, he was very satisfied to be able to travel side by side with Bai Jiyue.

When Bai Jiyue returned home, it was already dark. She went into her mother's room first to see the rescued little girl.

After knocking on the door and entering the room, I saw the little girl sitting on the bed. She had two little pigtails and looked very pretty and cute.

Bai Jiyue was stunned for a moment, and could hardly believe her eyes: "Princess Qingyue, why are you here!"

Qingyue was also startled when she saw Bai Jiyue, then she jumped off the bed and ran into Bai Jiyue's arms: "Sister!"

Bai Jiyue held Qingyue's face and looked at it again and again, then looked at Yan Niang.

Could it be that Qingyue was the little girl she rescued? She wasn't sure.

Yan Niang saw her confusion and nodded, "She woke up in the afternoon, had dinner, and gave her a good bath. I didn't expect she was such a fair and lovely little girl!"

Bai Jiyue suddenly hugged Qingyue tightly in his arms, feeling aches in his heart.

Even she didn't recognize Qingyue's dirty and miserable appearance in the afternoon. What kind of torture had this noble and innocent princess suffered!

Qingyue also hugged Bai Jiyue tightly, and after a while, Bai Jiyue felt the clothes in his arms were wet.

She held Qingyue and sat down beside the bed, gently wiping away the tears on her face: "Qingyue, can you tell me what happened? How did you end up in the Dark Stone Wasteland?"

Qingyue nodded heavily: "After my sister left, Qingyue was bored in the palace, so she always wanted to go out to play. Qingyue wanted to visit the Dark Stone Wasteland. Later, Qingyue found a way to hide in the cart that transported vegetables every day in the palace, and sneaked out of the palace--"

"How did you get out of the palace without anyone helping you?" Bai Jiyue felt something was suspicious.

Qingyue was only a four-year-old child. How could she hide in the vegetable cart without being discovered? How could she know the movement trajectory and time of the vegetable cart every day?

Sure enough, Qingyue shook her head and said, "Someone helped me. I was from the Shaoyao Gang and I just came to serve you. Her brother is in charge of the vegetable cart. She talked to her brother and then arranged for someone with martial arts skills to accompany me to the Dark Stone Wasteland."

"Why would she help you? Doesn't she know that if she helps the princess escape and is discovered, she will die?" Bai Jiyue couldn't help but ask.

Qingyue nodded: "She was unwilling at first, but I kept begging her and gave her a lot of good things. I also told her that if she was found out, I would say it was my own idea and would never implicate her. Only then did she reluctantly agree."

She showed an innocent and grateful expression: "Sister Shaoyao is so nice to me. She is a good person."

Bai Jiyue didn't say anything. The child was naive, but she was not. And Shaoyao was even less likely to be so naive. There must be something fishy here.

She asked Qingyue: "Is Shaoyao the new palace maid?"

"Yes, it was given to me by my mother.

Bai Jiyue stopped talking.

If the Queen had tacitly approved this, Shaoyao's boldness would be understandable.

"Go on, tell me, after you left the palace, was there anyone protecting you?" Bai Jiyue asked again.

Qingyue nodded: "Yes, Shaoyao's brother really found me a man with good martial arts skills, rented a carriage, and took me to the Dark Stone Wasteland. But after leaving the capital, one day, we encountered bandits. The man was killed in order to protect me, and I fell into the river while escaping."