Asking About Longevity Chapter 461

Chapter 461 Lu Peipei

“The ancestor of the Lu family is nicknamed 'Lu Peipi'…”

 “Lu Peipei?”

Mo Hua was startled.

Qinglan nodded, "It means that he is greedy, selfish, and ruthless in exploiting the mine repairmen, as if 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 the 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 ancestor of the Lu family came to power.”

“After he came to power, he teamed up with several other families that owned 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 made various criticisms and deductions. As a result, the number of spiritual stones obtained through the mine repairs has become less and less. Gradually, it has been reduced to three points for one, and one point for one point. Finally, there is only one spirit stone every day..."

 “My life in mine repair 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 to play, so the ancestors of the Lu family wanted to build it themselves…”

 “So there was Jinhua Street.”

“Lu Peipi, the ancestor of the Lu family, was involved in everything from eating and drinking to prostitution and gambling, so Jinhua Street also had gambling houses and brothels.”

“They are just like this, relying on the spiritual stones earned by working hard in the mines, 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 open Jinhua Street to eat, drink, and gamble…”

 “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 made an idea to the mine repairman.”

“They treat the mine cultivator harshly, do not practice formations, do not remove the odor, and the mining spiritual tools are old and worn out, just to make the mine cultivator injured or die.”

“When you are injured, you need to be treated, and when you die, you need to be buried, and 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 repairs were unable to repay, they had no choice but to use their children to pay off the debt and sell them to the Lu family."

 “The boys will be slaves and servants.”

 “The girl was thrown into the brothel, dressed up, and then went...to pick 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 Jinhua Street was prosperous, but it was built on the suffering of mining repairs.

The brothel girl talks and smiles, but there are blood and tears on her face.

 The harder the mining industry is, the more luxurious Jinhua Street will be.

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

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

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

“Gradually, the Lu family became the only one in Nanyue City…”

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

Qinglan nodded and said, "I tried it, but it didn't work."

 “The former head of the family 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 in cahoots with the Lu family.”

 You will understand it through ink painting.

This head is probably the current head of Qian.

 Wear the same pants as 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 had excessive enjoyment, so evil thoughts grew up, 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 it.”

This old guy died well and lively...

Mo Hua said silently in his heart.

It would be an advantage for him if he died only after living for two hundred years.

Mo Hua thought for a while 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 is not so harsh on the mine repairman.” “If the mine repairman dies, he will also let the Lu family pay for the spiritual stone.”

“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 and treat the mine well.

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

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, "He knows the formations, but he doesn't look like someone from the Lu family, or he is sneaky, and his 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 it was suspicious. The elder of the 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 makes him suspicious?"

Qinglan asked doubtfully: "Isn't it suspicious that we are obviously familiar customers but still pretend to be unfamiliar?"

Mo Hua rolled his eyes and asked in a low voice:

 “Is Elder Su a regular customer of Baihualou?”

“Well, he used to come here often and almost made Baihua Building his home…”

The ink painting looks astonished.

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

　　It's really...people cannot be judged by their 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's life 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 did not expect that Elder Su would have such a "romantic affair".

 “Where is the child?”

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, she is beautiful, she is clever, and she is also very 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 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 are dead or alive, 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:

“Young master, please forgive me, I shouldn't have said this.”

After saying this, he said gratefully:

 “Without the young master, I probably wouldn't be able to escape from the sea of ​​misery…”

“Perhaps he is still in Baihualou, 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 are candid and her tone is 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, there is the mine.

Looking to the north, you can see the splendid Lu Family House, and at night, Jinhua Street is brightly lit and the city is full of people.

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.

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

 There is a faint cold light in the eyes of the ink painting.

 (End of this chapter)

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