One of the two most vicious trades in this world was Body Mutilation for Begging.
Body Mutilation for Begging meant breaking a person's limbs, preferably twisting them into bizarre shapes.
So that anyone who saw them would feel pity.
Every day, the organizers would place such people in crowded areas and make them beg.
At night, they would take them away. Whoever failed to bring in enough money would be denied food or even beaten.
These people tortured beyond recognition were all abducted children, or unwanted orphans who had been stolen away.
They did not treat them as human at all. Every night when they took them away, they tossed them into the carts as if they were cargo.
Worse still, they would even turn people into animals.
The other most vicious trade in the world was Turtle Crawling Women.
These people deceived ignorant commoners in the name of ghosts and gods. Not only did they swindle the commoners out of all their money, they also tricked them into losing their homes and families.
Mr. Hong had once spoken of it.
Once Turtle Crawling Women heard that the wife of some impoverished family was pregnant, they would set their sights on that family.
They would take the Purple River Carriage from the pregnant woman's belly—the placenta.
The Purple River Carriage was a miracle medicine for infertility and was also said to prolong life. When the young madams of wealthy households could not bear children, they were willing to spend a fortune to buy it.
At that moment, the Witch Doctor who had deceived Zhang Xiaoyu was committing her crime in another village.
The Witch Doctor used the same spiel she had used on Zhang Xiaoyu to deceive the master of that household.
The man said, "As long as mother