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With the help of City Lord Lu Cuilian to guide them, they quickly found the Hongxiang Tower mentioned by Zhengxin. According to Lu Cuilian, this Hongxiang House and another brothel, Wanhua House, are the best brothels in Huacheng, and the two have been competing with each other for the title of number one.

Lu Cuilian had a complicated expression when talking about this matter. Maybe she didn't like her city too much because its industry was particularly developed, but it was also called a city lord. The rights of a city lord from a foreign country were far less powerful than those from a city lord from a foreign country. The authority of a city lord from a foreign country , probably no more than a mayor. Most of her decisions are controlled by the court.

Here, whether the women are sent to brothels or ships, it is basically the decision of the court, and the final person in charge of these places is also the court. The imperial court could obtain a large amount of tax revenue from it, and designated this part of the tax revenue as part of the annual tax that Hwaseong had to pay. She couldn't fight against the court, nor could she get enough taxes from other sources to fill this area, so she could only make some rules to help these unfortunate women within her ability.

"Speaking of which, two of the prostitutes Yu Yao rescued before seemed to be girls from Hongxianglou who went out on the street." He noticed that the majestic-looking woman was silent when she saw the tragic situation in Hongxianglou. You Shuangjiang said.

The word "going out" has a different and special meaning among the prostitutes in Huacheng. It refers to a relatively special business method of brothels in Huacheng. Normally, these women can only receive customers in brothels, but if someone is willing to pay a sufficient price and the woman agrees, the customers can send someone to pick up the woman they like where they want to go and stay there for a day before sending it back. return.

In fact, this is a very risky approach for these women. If they encounter a pervert, they may be tortured or even lose their lives. Therefore, the fee to ask a girl to "go out" is very high, and you need to pay a price that can redeem her. Only if the woman who "went out" is brought back alive will the madam refund the additional price paid. Generally, the women who are willing to accept this method are those who are not worth much and are already relatively old. They no longer expect to find someone willing to redeem themselves, so they take risks to get more money to redeem themselves. But who would have thought that the two women in Hongxiang Tower would be a blessing in disguise and survive this disaster.

"I don't know which house Zhengxin is talking about..." Yang Yuyao felt helpless after seeing the layout of the scene. Before he arrived, he never expected that the houses in this neighborhood were so dense. Of course, he passed by here when he was rescuing people, but at that time he was completely focused on finding survivors and didn't pay attention to where these houses were. What he knew was that when he passed by this area at that time, there was not a single living person there. turn up.

There are so many houses, and several of them are conceptually located behind Hongxiang Building. It's a waste of time to investigate one by one. Not to mention others, Yang Yuyao himself didn't sleep all night. Now he has a headache again. He just wants to find out the truth as soon as possible. So he thought of confirming it through the remaining ghost energy. Using this method, they quickly narrowed the scope to two houses. After searching one of them to no avail, they discovered that the real mystery was actually the house next door that had been excluded.

"Special materials and formations are used here to prevent the ghost energy from leaking out." Taoist Master Mingcheng said after entering the house and inspecting it. Although he was only at the Golden Core stage, after all, his master was the most orthodox. A monk from the Tianshi Sect of the Dao Sect knows about ghosts. Even if he has not been exposed to real objects for many years, his theoretical knowledge is still quite reliable.

"That is to say, someone wanted to deliberately hide the ghost clan hidden here from the beginning." Bei Long, the elder of Cangzhu Sect, looked solemn and sad. Their sect was so small that the master, elders, and disciples were like a big family. Now, How could he not be sad after losing three disciples at once? "Could it be the evil cultivator Yang mentioned?"

"It's probably him, but we need further investigation for details." Zhu Molan agreed. The formation of this house hindered the progress of their search. Obviously, the monk who set up this place had a very high level of formation. Although Yang Yuyao was constantly erasing these formations, Yang Yuyao did not dare to erase all the formations immediately without knowing what secrets were hidden in this house.

"Yu Yao, there is a door to the basement in this room!" Li Fengzhi stuck his head out of the door and said. Seeing the door that Li Fengzhi discovered, he felt that they had thought too complicatedly. The door was on the floor and looked like it had been forced open from below, so it was somewhat damaged. Thinking of Zhengxin's description, Yang Yuyao believed that this was the result of the ghost clan's escape. So they decided to go down to the basement to find out.

Yang Yuyao gave Li Fengzhi, You Shuangjiang and Lu Cuilian some exorcism charms to protect themselves, and then the group carefully climbed down the ladder and entered the basement. They first arrived at a small room, but since the secret door here was also destroyed, they easily found a hidden staircase. Going all the way down from this step, they were led to a huge underground space comparable to an underground palace. Lu Cuilian took a breath of air. She never thought that after being the lord of Huacheng for decades, there would be such a large space hidden underground in Huacheng.

And when they lit up the space, a creepy and disgusting sight appeared in front of everyone. This huge space is filled with large and small pools, dotted in a specific pattern in this huge underground space. If it were just a pool, it wouldn't be scary, but what was in these pools was not fish or other aquatic animals, but the bodies of human babies and fetuses.

The liquid in the pool should be some kind of medicinal liquid. Although it is as transparent and colorless as water, it can prevent these things from decaying. It is obvious that such a large amount cannot be obtained at the same time. With the productivity of this world, chickens No one can collect so many in a short period of time. Some of the embryos should be from a long time ago, but even so, they have only swelled a lot in the liquid.

Although everyone who saw the group of ghosts that appeared this time had some suspicions in their minds after seeing the appearance of those ghosts, they still couldn't help but turn pale when they saw such a scene. Li Fengzhi and You Shuangjiang, who had poor tolerance, even retched uncontrollably.

"More than ten years ago, there were rumors in the city that someone was buying unwanted children at high prices," Lu Cuilian said with trembling pale lips. "I once asked someone to investigate the matter, but I only found one family that was responsible for selling a newborn girl. The baby suddenly became rich, but a buyer was never found. The family firmly believed that they sold the baby girl for the sake of the child, and that the baby girl went to a wealthy family to enjoy happiness. And with this money, their eldest son could also marry Find a good wife."

"Because the parents took the initiative to sell their children. Therefore, even if the investigation continues, there is no way to punish it, so it can only be left alone. Although since then, such a statement has never been openly reported, but if this kind of thing continues , but it was changed to a more covert method, and those babies ended up like this..." Lu Cuilian couldn't go on. Of those children who were sold as soon as they were born, even if they were raised, how many of them could actually be raised? Survive?

Yang Yuyao looked at this woman who was over fifty years old and suddenly understood her sadness. In this world, human trafficking has a very blurred and subtle criminal boundary. It must be robbed or deceived to be considered as illegal trafficking. If it is voluntary selling of one's body, or even parents' selling of children, it is allowed. Even if it doesn't matter where the people being sold come from, as long as they are successfully brought into the human market, it is not a crime to be sold by second-rate dealers.

Lu Cuilian can be regarded as the law enforcer in Huacheng. She has conscience and morality. She realizes that such a thing is wrong. She tries to stop it, but she has no way to rely on it. Even because of the superposition of multiple difficult-to-solve problems, such outrageous rules will continue for a long time. Unless there is an event that can shake the ruler's nerves, new rules will be born.

And for Lu Cuilian, she has too many red lines that cannot be crossed. As a woman, she has become the lord of a city, so many people are unhappy with her. If she is not careful, even if she has good intentions, she may He was labeled as a rebel and even implicated nine tribes.

"What are these pools used for?" You Shuangjiang didn't dare to look into the pool anymore, but couldn't help but asked curiously. However, what is more embarrassing is that everyone present can guess that this must be used for some evil magic related to the ghost clan, but no one knows what it is used for.

The era when ghosts were rampant is already very far away, and very few people know about this technique that is suspected of creating ghosts. Even if Yang Yuyao summons so many people for the purpose of brainstorming, but in the face of This was too one-sided knowledge and no one knew it, so no one answered for a while.

"Let's search around and see if there are no written records left." Feeling everyone's eyes on him, Yang Yuyao seemed to be inexplicably convinced that he knew Yang Yuyao's hair stood up, and he proposed an execution plan to divert everyone attention.

"It makes sense, but this place should have been the territory of evil cultivators, and there may be hidden dangers, so we'd better form a team to search." Taoist Priest Mingcheng added after agreeing with Yang Yuyao's suggestion. This prudent approach was recognized by everyone. So they divided into three groups and searched separately.

"Fengzhi, in your opinion, how many children can a couple give birth to?" Yang Yuyao suddenly asked Li Fengzhi, who was in the same group with him. After some discussion, the result was that the strong teamed up with the weak, and acquaintances formed a team. So Yang Yuyao and Li Fengzhi were in a group, Zhu Molan and his disciples were in a group, and then the city lord Lu Cuilian was followed by Taoist Priest Mingcheng and Cangzhu Sect Elder Bei Long, who were both at the Jindan stage. They each chose a direction and began to search carefully and carefully.

"In my impression?" Li Fengzhi, who had not expected to be asked such a question by Yang Yuyao, responded in surprise. After thinking for a while, he thought of asking Yang Yuyao's request in detail. "As long as they are born, it doesn't matter whether they can be fed or not."

"Yes, it all counts." Yang Yuyao replied.

"Well, before our town was controlled by evil cultivators, many couples in the town had children very frequently, almost one a year. Aunt Wang and the others heard that they even gave birth to fifteen, but in the end they only lived for six. One." Li Fengzhi replied after thinking carefully.

"Fifteen? A couple?!" Yang Yuyao was surprised by this data. Although there seemed to be more astonishing data in his original world, although people in this world got married very early, ordinary people's The average life span is also short, and due to the influence of living conditions and medical conditions, ordinary people usually have little fertility in their forties, and may even die.

Humans walk upright in order to free their hands, but in order to be able to walk upright, the risk of every childbirth for human women is much higher than that of other mammals. Even in Yang Yuyao's original world where medical treatment was relatively common, every time a woman gave birth, she had to go through the gate of hell. Even with a cleaner environment and more advanced medical skills, there would still be women who died in childbirth. That was the case in that world, and it goes without saying in this world. For the vast majority of women in this world, the only relatively professional person they can afford to hire during childbirth is a stable mother. However, the level of stable mothers varies, so the birth rate cannot be guaranteed.

However, it is considered good for women to be able to give birth at home. Yang Yuyao saw in his books introducing customs in various places that in some areas women who are about to give birth will be driven to places like woodsheds and cowsheds to let them fend for themselves. Seeing such customs made Yang Yuyao very angry. He felt that some places were backward and poor because of himself.

All in all, based on Yang Yuyao's understanding of the various difficulties that women in this world face when giving birth, he felt that the data Li Fengzhi mentioned was extremely incredible. Apart from what Li Fengzhi said about Aunt Wang's body being naturally suitable for childbirth, Yang Yuyao couldn't think of any other reason why the couple could give birth to so many children.

"Yes, but Aunt Wang and the others are indeed quite special. It is said that this matter is spread all over the country. Other couples in the town do not have so many children, but there are seven or eight." Li Fengzhi added, "But Yuyao, why did you think of asking this question?" Li Fengzhi felt that he had not kept up with Yang Yuyao's thinking.

"The words of Lord Lu gave me an idea. The purchase of newborn babies she mentioned may not only happen in Huacheng, but also in other surrounding places. But if that is the case, those who want to buy babies and fetuses here It’s not easy to estimate how long this place has existed based on the number.” Yang Yuyao replied.

"Hey? But aren't we looking for the reason for the existence of this place now? Don't you already know it, Yu Yao?" Li Fengzhi asked in surprise.

"I can't say that I have completely figured it out, but I have some corresponding guesses." Yang Yuyao's face hidden under the mask darkened, "This is probably related to other events." In Li Fengzhi's confused look, Yang Yuyao Then he continued, "A few months ago, a ghost clan appeared outside Xuanzhen City. After that, monks with high realms were frequently besieged and killed by the ghost clan. In each siege, an astonishing number of monks were dispatched, and almost all of them were evil. Ghosts are even ghost tribes above evil ghosts. But before that, the ghost tribe was almost completely wiped out in the world of immortality."

"And these incidents raise a question, where did so many high-level ghost clans come from? If it happened once or twice, it may be said that the ghost clans have been hiding and enduring the burden for thousands of years, and gathered together. To seek revenge. But when such incidents occur frequently not just once or twice, but multiple times, and each time a large number of ghosts are wiped out, it is difficult to explain it simply by the naturally formed gathering of ghosts. .”

"There are so many ghost tribes because there are evil cultivators who are deliberately creating ghosts... So this should be regarded as a workshop for making ghost tribes?" Li Fengzhi followed Yang Yuyao's words and thought about it. "But why would the evil cultivator do this? The ghost tribe can also cause harm to them, right? Just like the evil cultivator Yu Yao you saw before, he was killed by the ghost tribe."

"If there is indeed a connection, these evil cultivators are an organization. In this organization, the evil cultivators have different divisions of labor, and some of them should be able to control the group of ghosts. Of course, unless key evidence is found, these will always be just My guess." Yang Yuyao replied.