Beast World: From Villainess to Cub-Raising Chef novel Chapter 17

Chapter 17: Chapter 17: You Can’t Beat Me Anyway

Lu Tingyan hadn’t expected her to bring him here, to the rice shop at the foot of the mountain.

Xiao Mi was dozing off while watching the store.

When she saw Bai Su walk in with someone, her expression soured, and she immediately tried to kick them out.

Bai Su quickly stopped her. "Don’t get excited! I’m here today to help you solve a huge problem! You’ll regret it for the rest of your life if you throw me out!"

Xiao Mi grabbed a broom and went for her. "Fuck you! How dare you show your face on my turf again!"

Two minutes later.

Xiao Mi, her face swollen and bruised like a pig’s head, sat obediently in the corner, sobbing, "Bai Su, you &@#$ crazy bitch... %...#$ coming to someone else’s turf... #$%..."

The corner of Bai Su’s mouth twitched as she tossed the broom aside. "I told you not to start anything. You can’t beat me anyway..."

Xiao Mi started wailing.

Bai Su said, "Alright, stop crying. I know you’re worried about your kid. Don’t worry, didn’t I bring Major General Lu here for you?"

Hearing this, Lu Tingyan raised an eyebrow. "What exactly is going on?"

Bai Su asked Xiao Mi, "Did Wang Biao’s men come to your house with a contract for selling a child, claim you had signed it, and say they were going to take your kid unless you paid up?"

"And your son overheard this, thought you were going to sell him, and that’s why he deliberately stole rice to get back at you, right?"

Realizing Bai Su had seen through everything, Xiao Mi cried even louder. "WAAAH... #$@ that motherf... %... I’m not you! I’d never do something as despicable as selling my own child!"

"I obviously never signed that document, but they insisted I did. They’re forcing me to either pay up or hand over my child."

"I don’t have any money, and I could never bear to give up my children. This is going to be the death of me!"

Lu Tingyan quickly grasped the key point. "Then why not report it to the police?"

The corner of Bai Su’s mouth twitched as she shot him a glance. "Goes to show you’ve never spent time in the backwaters, huh?"

"What good would calling the police do? This area isn’t within Federation jurisdiction. It’s a lawless, grey zone. Even if the police came today, couldn’t those rogue Beastmen just stay indoors? They’d never get caught."

"And if they can’t be caught, the problem can’t be solved. Not unless the police posted up at her house every day to act as her personal bodyguards."

Lu Tingyan frowned slightly, a sharp glint passing through his eyes.

Bai Su said, "So you see, we’re all just victims. They forge these documents so they can brazenly snatch our children and sell them off."

"That’s how the children from my orphanage on the mountain were taken, too."

’In reality, the original owner of this body lost a gambling debt and despicably sold them herself.’

’But she wasn’t about to take the blame for the original owner’s screw-ups.’

The last time she was at the port asking a crewman about the whereabouts of the sold children, the man had been very clear.

People in the trafficking business are extremely cautious. To avoid leaving any leverage, they don’t leave behind any evidence or sign any documents whatsoever.

The entire process is handled via word of mouth. The children who are sold don’t even get a number or a name; they’re treated like cabbage, chicken, duck, or fish at the market.

That was why Bai Su could be so certain she had never signed such a thing.

Wang Biao would never have had her sign something that could be used as evidence, because if they were caught, everyone involved would be dead.

But Bai Su had only learned today that Wang Biao’s gang would forge documents like this to snatch children.

Whether these documents were real or fake was entirely up to them.

If they weren’t caught, they could use these to threaten the less-educated Beastmen in the villages down the mountain.

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