Chapter 461 Lu Peeling

"The ancestor of the Lu family, nicknamed 'Lu Peeling'..."

"Lu Peeling?"

Mo Hua was startled.

Qing Lan nodded, "It means he is greedy, selfish, and exploits the miners cruelly, like peeling a layer of skin."

Qing Lan sighed, "This is what my parents... told me before they died..."

"At that time, I was still young and just listened to it as a story, not knowing the sadness in it..."

"It is said that the Lu family was just an ordinary family hundreds of years ago, occupying several mines, with a strong power. It had a place in Nanyue City, but there were several families with greater power than the Lu family, and the Lu family was nothing..."

"Until the ancestor of the Lu family came to power."

"After he came to power, he joined forces with several other families that owned mines to formulate spiritual contracts, advance and retreat together, and jointly lower the remuneration of miners."

"Originally it was one five-cent spiritual stone per day..."

"The Lu family set the rules, found faults and deducted money in various ways, The spiritual stones that the miners got were getting less and less, gradually reduced to one and a half, one and a half, and finally only one spiritual stone a day..."

"The miners had a harder life..."

"But the Lu family earned more spiritual stones."

"After earning spiritual stones, they wanted to eat, drink and have fun."

"Nanyue City is desolate, with no places to have fun, so the ancestor of the Lu family thought of building his own..."

"So there was Jinhua Street."

"Lu Bopi, the ancestor of the Lu family, was involved in eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, so there were gambling houses and brothels in Jinhua Street."

"They just spent the spiritual stones earned by the miners in gambling houses and brothels..."

When Qinglan thought of her parents, who worked hard but were still starved to death, she shed tears and her fingers turned white.

Mo Hua also frowned when he heard it.

Qinglan calmed down, and continued with red eyes:

"Opening Jinhua Street, eating, drinking, gambling are all easy..."

"But opening a brothel, you need girls."

"The women of the family can't do such things. They won't sell themselves in brothels, at least not openly."

"The Lu family set their sights on the mine repairmen."

"They treat the mine repairmen harshly, don't repair the formation, don't remove the foul air, and the spiritual tools used for mining are all old and worn, just to make the mine repairmen injured or die."

"Injured to treat injuries, dead to bury, all need spiritual stones."

"Without spiritual stones, you can only borrow."

"The Lu family lends money at high interest rates, making the mine repairmen owe a large amount of spiritual stones."

"After the mine repairmen are unable to repay, they can only use their children to pay off the debt and sell them to the Lu family."

"Boys become slaves and servants."

"Girls are thrown into brothels, dressed up, and go... to receive customers..."

Qinglan was a little embarrassed to speak, and tears flowed from the corners of her eyes again.

Mo Hua felt a little sad when he heard this.

He didn't expect that the prosperity of Jinhua Street was built on the suffering of the miners.

The brothel girl was talking and laughing, but her face was filled with tears.

The harder the miners worked, the more luxurious Jinhua Street became.

Mo Hua asked again: "Do other families do these things?"

Qing Lan nodded, then shook her head, "At the beginning, the Lu family did it together with several other families..."

"But the other families were not as ruthless as the Lu family, and their methods were not as cruel as theirs. Gradually, they were either annexed or had to sell their mines to the Lu family and move away..."

"Gradually, the Lu family became the only one in Nanyue City..."

Mo Hua frowned and said: "The Lu family violated the law of Taoism by doing this, didn't the Dao Tingsi ever intervene?"

Qing Lan nodded and said: "It intervened, but it was useless."

"The previous director hated evil, but he couldn't fight the Lu family at all."

"The Lu family bribed people and transferred him away."

"The later director pretended to do it at first, but later he visited the Lu family brothel for a few days, collected a few boxes of spirit stones, and then colluded with the Lu family."

Mo Hua understood.

This director is probably the current director Qian.

Wearing the same pants as the Lu family.

Mo Hua remembered something and asked, "Is the ancestor of the Lu family dead?"

Qing Lan nodded and said with some satisfaction, "Dead!"

"It is said that he did too many evil things and enjoyed himself too much, so evil thoughts grew, and something went wrong during his cultivation. He died at the age of more than 200 years."

"On the day of his death, the miners used the money for meals to buy firecrackers and set them off all day long..."

"The Lu family couldn't stop him."

This old man died well and died in a lively way...

Mo Hua said silently in his heart.

But he died at the age of 200, which was a bargain for him.

Mo Hua thought for a while and said, "The ancestor of the Lu family is dead. Is the successor to the head of the family the current Lu Chengyun?"

"Yes." Qing Lan nodded.

"Is Lu Chengyun a bad person?" Mo Hua asked.

Qinglan frowned, thought for a while, and then said:

"It's just so-so, not that good, but compared to other people in the Lu family, he can be considered a 'good man'."

"He is not so harsh on the mine cultivators."

"If the mine cultivators die, he will also ask the Lu family to compensate for the spirit stones."

"Many things are not as excessive as the Lu family ancestor."

"Although the mine cultivators still have a hard life, because they have always been hard and are used to it, no one scolds him."

"Unlike the Lu family ancestor..."

Mo Hua nodded slightly.

This is similar to his impression.

Lu Chengyun is gentle and elegant, but he is scheming. He takes the interests of the Lu family as the criterion and acts steadily. He will not go too far, but it is impossible for him to abandon the interests of the family mine to treat the mine cultivators well.

Mo Hua asked again: "Sister Qinglan, have you met the elder of the Lu family in Baihua Tower?"

Qinglan nodded, "I've seen a few."

"Do you think any of them are particularly suspicious?"

Qinglan frowned, "What kind of suspicious thing is this?"

"It's just..." Mo Hua thought for a moment and said, "I know how to use formations, but I don't look like someone from the Lu family, or I'm sneaky, and my way of doing bad things is different from others..."

Qinglan thought for a while, shook her head and said:

"I don't know about this. I've only seen it from a distance and haven't had much contact with it."

Then she added, "But you said he was suspicious. The elder of Nanyue Sect who brought you here last time was actually quite suspicious..."

Mo Hua was stunned, "Nanyue Sect? Elder Su?"

"Yeah." Qinglan nodded and said, "My surname is Su."

Mo Hua asked curiously: "What's suspicious about him?"

Qinglan asked doubtfully: "Isn't it very suspicious to pretend to be unfamiliar even though we are obviously familiar customers?"

Mo Hua rolled his eyes and asked softly:

"Is Elder Su a regular customer of Baihua Building?"

"Well, he used to come here often and almost made Baihua Building his home..."

Mo Hua looked stunned.

He guessed that Elder Su was familiar with him, but he didn't expect that Elder Su was so familiar...

It's true...you can't tell a person by his appearance.

Qinglan looked at the ink painting, a little confused, hesitated for a moment, and finally lowered her voice and said:

"I'm telling you this, but you must never tell anyone else..."

Mo Hua was curious and nodded quickly.

Qinglan approached the ink painting and whispered:

"That Elder Su once had a very good relationship with Sister Narcissus in the building. He even wanted to redeem Sister Narcissus for a time."

"Later I heard that Sister Narcissus... was pregnant with Elder Su's child..."

Mo Hua couldn't help but open his mouth.

He didn't expect that Elder Su would have such a "romantic affair".

"Where's the kid?"

Qinglan shook her head, "I don't know."

"What about Narcissus?"

Qinglan sighed, "Dead."

Mo Hua frowned.

Qinglan felt a little regretful and sad, "Sister Narcissus is a very nice person, beautiful, clever, and gentle to others..."

"But then, somehow, the person died."

"Elder Su seemed to have been sad about this for a while. He didn't know what he wanted to investigate, but in the end he just let it go..."

"There is a high probability that it cannot be found."

Qinglan lowered her head, "For people like us, our lives are low. If we die, we will die. Dao Tingsi won't care, the Lu family doesn't care, and the Madam will only regret that we don't have a body that can earn spiritual stones." …”

"They won't care whether we live or die, and no one in this world will care..."

Qinglan's voice became lower and lower, and her expression became very lonely.

Mo Hua also felt a little uncomfortable.

Qinglan lowered her head. After a long time, she saw that Mo Hua's expression was also a little depressed. Then she was startled, wiped her tears and said with a smile:

"Forgive me, young master, I shouldn't have said this."

After saying that, he said gratefully:

"Without the young master, I probably wouldn't be able to escape the sea of ​​misery..."

"Maybe he is still in Baihua Tower, forcing a smile and serving people with sex, and then he died unknowingly one day..."

"Now I don't have to care about other people's opinions and can earn my own living, which is better than anything else."

Qinglan's eyes were frank and her tone was sincere.

Although his eyes were red, his gaze was very firm.

Mo Hua felt better.

After leaving the inn, Mo Hua walked on the street.

Looking to the south is the mine.

Looking to the north, you can see the splendid Lu Family House, and at night, the Jinhua Street is brightly lit and the people are reveling in their wealth.

The mine cultivators are working hard for them, and the children of the mine cultivators have to be slaves and prostitutes for their entertainment and become tools for them to earn spiritual stones.

It also became a bargaining chip for them to bribe Daotingsi and win over other forces.

There was a faint cold light in Mo Hua's eyes.