Asking about longevity

"The ancestor of the Lu family, his nickname is 'Lu Peipi'..."

"Lu Peipei?"

Mo Hua was startled.

Qinglan nodded, "It means that he is greedy, selfish, and ruthless in exploiting the mining repairmen. It's like he has been peeled off a layer of skin."

Qinglan sighed, "This is what my parents... told me before they were alive..."

"At that time, I was still young and only listened to stories, not knowing the sadness in them..."

"It is said that the Lu family was just an ordinary family hundreds of years ago, occupying a few mines, with moderate power and a place in Nanyue City. However, there are several families more powerful than the Lu family, and the Lu family is nothing. …”

"Until the Lu family ancestor comes to power."

"After he came to power, he teamed up with several other families who owned the mines to formulate a spiritual contract to advance and retreat together, and jointly lowered the remuneration for mine repairmen."

"It used to be one five-cent spiritual stone every day..."

"The Lu family has established rules, and with all kinds of nitpicks and deductions, the number of spiritual stones obtained by the mine repairmen has become less and less. Gradually, it has been reduced to one three points, one point, and finally there is only one spiritual stone every day..."

"The life of mine repairmen has become even more difficult..."

"But the Lu family earns even more spiritual stones."

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

"Nanyue City is desolate and there is no place for fun. The ancestor of the Lu family wanted to build it himself..."

“So there was Jinhua Street.”

"Lu Peipi, the ancestor of the Lu family, is involved in everything from eating and drinking to prostitution and gambling, so Jinhua Street has everything from gambling houses to brothels."

"They just rely on the spiritual stones earned by working as a mine repairman and squandering them in gambling houses and brothels..."

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

Mo Hua also frowned upon hearing this.

Qinglan calmed down, eyes red, and continued:

"It's easy to eat, drink, and gamble when you open Jinhua Street..."

"But to open a brothel, there is a shortage of girls."

"It is impossible for the women of the family to do such a thing. They will not go to a brothel to sell themselves, at least not openly."

"The Lu family gave their idea to the mine repairman."

"They treat the mine cultivator harshly, do not cultivate formations, do not remove the odor, and the mining spiritual weapons are old and worn out, just to make the mine cultivator injured or die."

"If you are injured, you need to be treated. If you die, you need to be buried. You need spiritual stones."

"If you don't have a spiritual stone, you can only borrow it."

"The Lu family used loan sharking to make the mine repairman owe a large sum of spiritual stones."

"After the mine repairman was unable to repay the debt, he had no choice but to use his children to pay off the debt and sell it to the Lu family."

"Boys will be slaves and boys."

"The girl is thrown into the brothel, dressed up, and then... picks up the guests..."

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

Mo Hua also felt a little sad.

He did not expect that the prosperity of Jinhua Street was built on the suffering of mine repairs.

The brothel girl was smiling and smiling, but her face was shedding blood and tears.

The harder it is to repair the mines, the more luxurious Jinhua Street becomes.

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

Qinglan nodded, then shook her head, "In the beginning, the Lu family did it together with several other families..."

"But the other families are not as capable as the Lu family, and their methods are not as ruthless as theirs. Gradually, they are either annexed, or they have no choice but to sell the mines to the Lu family and leave for other cities..."

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

Mo Hua frowned and said, "Did the Lu family violate Taoist laws by doing this? Didn't Tao Tingsi ever take care of it?"

Qinglan nodded and said, "I tried, but it's useless."

"The former boss hated evil as much as he hated his enemies, but he couldn't defeat the Lu family at all."

"The Lu family bribed their connections and transferred him away."

"The later boss was just pretending at first, but after visiting the Lu family's brothel for a few days and collecting a few boxes of spiritual stones, he became colluding with the Lu family."

Mo Hua then understood.

This boss is probably the current boss Qian.

Wear a pair of pants with the Lu family.

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

Qinglan nodded and said happily: "Dead!"

"It is said that he did too many evil things and enjoyed himself too much, so he developed evil thoughts, something went wrong during his cultivation, and he died after living for more than two hundred years."

"On the day of his death, the mine repairmen spent all their meal money to buy firecrackers and set them off all day long..."

"The Lu family can't stop him."

This old guy died well and lively...

Mo Hua said silently in his heart.

But it would be an advantage for him to die after living for two hundred years.

Mo Hua thought for a moment and then said: "The ancestor of the Lu family has died. Is the successor the head of the family the current Lu Chengyun?"

"Yeah." Qinglan nodded.

"Is Lu Chengyun bad?" Mo Hua asked.

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

"Just so-so, not that great, but compared to other people in the Lu family, he can be considered a 'good person'."

"He's not that harsh on mine repairmen."

"If the mine cultivator dies, he will also ask the Lu family to pay for the spiritual stones."

"Many things are not as extreme as the ancestors of the Lu family."

"Although life as a mine repairman is still hard, because it has always been hard and he is used to it, no one scolds him."

"Unlike the ancestors of the Lu family..."

Mo Hua nodded slightly.

This is similar to his impression.

Lu Chengyun is gentle and gentle, but scheming. He takes the interests of the Lu family as the criterion, acts steadily and will not go too far, but he cannot give up the interests of the family mine to treat the mine repairmen 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 while and said, "I know how to form, 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, "My surname is Su."

Mo Hua asked curiously: "What makes him suspicious?"

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 glanced 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 also 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 finally 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 this, 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, and at night, the Jinhua Street is brightly lit and the people are intoxicated.

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.