Chapter 461 Lu Skinning

"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, made all kinds of nitpicking and deductions, and the miners The spiritual stones obtained by the cultivators became less and less, gradually reduced to one and a half, one and a half, and finally only one spiritual stone a day..."

"The life of the mine cultivators became more difficult..."

"But the Lu family earned more spiritual stones."

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

"Nanyue City is desolate, and there are no places for fun, so the ancestor of the Lu family thought of building his own..."

"So there was Jinhua Street."

"Lu Bopi, that is, 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 mine cultivators in gambling houses and brothels..."

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

Mo Hua also frowned when she 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 miners."

"They treated the miners harshly, didn't build formations, didn't remove foul air, and the spiritual tools they used for mining were all old and worn out, just to get the miners injured or killed."

"If you get injured, you need to treat your injuries, and if you die, you need to bury them, and both require spiritual stones."

"If you don't have spiritual stones, you can only borrow them."

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

"After the miners were unable to repay, they could only use their children to pay off their debts and sell them to the Lu family."

"Boys became slaves and servants."

"Girls were thrown into brothels, dressed up, and went 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 and blood.

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, "We 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 again 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 guy 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 and thought for a while before saying:

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

"He's not that harsh on the mine repairers."

"If the mine repairman dies, 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 repairman's life is still hard, because it has always been hard and he is 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 repairman well.

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

Qinglan nodded, "I have met several."

"Do you think there are any particularly suspicious ones among them?"

Qinglan frowned, "What kind of suspicious ones?"

"That is..." Mo Hua thought for a while and said, "They know the formation, but they don't look like people from the Lu family, or they are sneaky, and the way they do bad things is different from others..."

Qinglan thought for a while and shook her head:

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

Then she said, "But you said 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. "The surname is Su."

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

Qinglan asked in confusion, "He's a familiar customer, but he's pretending to be unfamiliar. Isn't that suspicious?"

Mo Hua's eyes turned and he asked in a low voice:

"Is Elder Su a familiar customer of Baihua Tower?"

"Yeah, he used to come here often and almost treated Baihua Tower as his home..."

Mo Hua looked stunned.

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

It's true... You can't judge a person by his appearance.

Qinglan glanced at Mo Hua, a little entangled, hesitated for a moment, and finally lowered her voice and said:

"I'm telling you this, don't tell anyone else..."

Mo Hua nodded quickly because he was curious.

Qinglan approached Mohua and whispered:

"That elder Su used to have a good relationship with Sister Narcissus in the building, and even wanted to redeem Sister Narcissus for a time."

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

Mohua couldn't help but open his mouth wide.

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

"What about that child?"

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

"What about Narcissus?"

Qinglan sighed, "Dead."

Mohua frowned.

Qinglan felt a little regretful and sad, "Sister Shuixian was a very nice person, beautiful, clever, and gentle..."

"But later, I don't know how she died."

"Elder Su seemed to be sad for a while. I don't know what he wanted to find out, but in the end, it was left unresolved..."

"It is likely that nothing can be found."

Qinglan lowered her head, "People like us have lowly lives. If we die, we die. The Daoting Division will not care, the Lu family will not care, and the brothel owner will only feel sorry that we have lost a body that can earn spirit stones..."

"Whether we live or die, they will not care. No one in this world will care..."

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

Mo Hua also felt a little uncomfortable.

Qinglan lowered her head for a long time, and saw that Mohua also looked a little depressed. She was startled, wiped her tears, and smiled:

"Please forgive me, young master, I shouldn't say these things."

After that, he thanked again:

"Without you, I guess I can't get out of the sea of ​​suffering..."

"Maybe I'm still in Baihua Tower, forcing myself to smile, serving people with my beauty, and then I don't know when I will die..."

"Now I don't have to care about other people's eyes, and I can be self-reliant, which is better than anything else."

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

Although her eyes were red, her eyes were firm.

Mohua felt better.

After leaving the inn, Mohua walked on the street.

Looking to the south, there is the mine.

Looking to the north, there is the magnificent Lu family, and at night, the brightly lit and decadent Jinhua Street.

The miners worked hard for them, and their children were also enslaved and prostituted for their entertainment, becoming their tools to earn spiritual stones.

They also became their bargaining chips to bribe the Daoting Division and win over other forces.

There was a hint of coldness in Mo Hua's eyes.