Chapter 714 Is this a human being, or a monster in human skin?
Gui Lianzhi was so frightened that he completely lost his courage. He grabbed a pen and paper and wrote for more than half an hour.
There is no need for others to ask about what you know. You should tell me everything you know.
Gui Lianzhi's mouth was dry from talking, he wiped the sweat from his forehead hastily, and said with a bitter face: "Auntie, this is all I know."
"Any more than that and I really don't know anything."
Everyone knows that the Nanxun Chamber of Commerce is engaged in buying and selling business. Relying on its unique source of goods and astonishingly large transportation routes, it buys at low prices and sells at high prices, and makes money from this.
But few people know that the people in the Chamber of Commerce are involved in trading not only food, drink, clothing and other daily necessities, but also people.
Gui Lianzhi didn't even dare to sit down on the stool, and carefully distanced himself from the matter: "I heard all this from hearsay, but my family really had nothing to do with it."
"My father said that this kind of business is detrimental to one's virtue, so..."
"What does Junko Hana-onna mean?"
Sang Zhixia looked at the words written by Gui Lianzhi in confusion. She felt that she could recognize each word when it was separated, but the meaning of them together was difficult to understand.
Gui Lianzhi's face paled even more, and he whispered, "A pure child is a child born in a special year or month. From the moment they are born, they have taken nothing but their mother's milk, neither water nor rice."
"When they're three years old...their blood can be used as medicine to help prolong life and preserve youthful beauty."
Sang Zhixia scratched the light paper with her fingertips, lowered her eyes and looked at the small tear on the paper without saying a word.
Gui Lianzhi's expression became more bitter: "Hua Nv, I'm talking about a young girl."
"But compared to Junko, it can be slightly larger. It counts before menstruation. Such flower girl blood is also used in medicine."
"Some people say that if you want to have healthy offspring, you can find a child born on the same date and month as your own and raise him as a substitute. Whenever disaster strikes, you can take a piece of his flesh and blood to ward off disaster."
"Even if the medicine can't cure the disease, we can kill this substitute, and then our child will be safe."
Gui Lianzhi had heard and seen countless such things before. With a look of dejection on his face and his head hanging low, he said, "Raising a substitute to kill a puppet is very common now."
“As for Nan Yun alone, I can’t even count the number of people I know on my hands. Before…”
Tian Ying'er glanced over sharply.
Gui Lianzhi shuddered and said with a sad face, "I thought about following the trend and raising a few for my children, but my father scolded me so much that I didn't dare to think about it again."
"My dear friends, I really haven't done this. I... at most I just bought a few good-looking, skinny horses whose backgrounds I know well. But I certainly don't force women into prostitution, and I don't eat meat or drink blood. I..."
"I'm really wronged..."
Gui Lianzhi muttered a few words in frustration and dared not say another word. He silently moved towards Sang Zhixia.
Because of Tian Ying'er's current expression, it looks like she wants to drag him out and cut his flesh and bleed him.
It's very fierce.
Xu Yu reached out and pried open Sang Zhixia's clenched fingers, sliding his fingertips across her palm soothingly. "So, you're going around snatching up children whose ages match yours, and not only are you killing them yourself, you're also selling them off somewhere else?"
Gui Lianzhi's face turned pale as he shook his head frantically: "I just heard it, I really just heard it!"
"I really don't dare, my father..."
"What about that skinny horse?"
Xu Yu tutted his mouth impatiently: "You bought this skinny horse for your own enjoyment, but was it bought willingly by others?"
Gui Lianzhi's face was covered in cold sweat. After struggling for a long time, he lowered his head and said, "You don't know, these skinny horses have been raised and trained since they were young."
"I have no idea where they were before they came here, but after they arrived, their deeds and other things were all stamped with the official seal, so they could trade freely without any restrictions."
As if thinking of something, Gui Lianzhi quickly added, "But people like Qingyun and the others will also take advantage of lone women when they have the chance."
"They either drug them, or trick them into signing a contract, and then beat and kick them to force them to sign a contract. That's why I never touch people like that. I really never touch them!"
Gui Lianzhi is not very smart, but he always listens to his father.
Gui Sheng has been very cautious all his life, and he would rather not let even a drop of deadly dirty water get on him.
Under Gui Sheng's constraints, Gui Lianzhi said this with full confidence.
Just noticing the expressions of the people present, Gui Lianzhi couldn't help but feel anxious again.
Why did these people suddenly think of asking these questions?
Could it be that...
Gui Lianzhi's face changed drastically: "Could it be that your people were touched by someone without any eyes? Then..."
"No matter whose people they are, aren't they all human beings?"
Sang Zhixia scoffed, threw the crumpled paper on the table, and said lightly: "You also know that the name that came out of your mouth should be a person..."
Under the imperial power that allowed the buying and selling of people, human life could be as cheap as grass. Sang Zhixia knew this very early on.
But as far as Sang Zhixia knew, even if someone voluntarily signed a contract to sell themselves as a servant, the master who held the power of life and death could not kill them without reason, otherwise it would be a violation of the law and punishable.
Sang Zhixia has been to many places and experienced the customs and cultures of different regions.
Never seen anything like this.
Unheard of.
Sang Zhixia really didn't expect that in the eyes of these local tyrants, human life could be so worthless.
All the so-called court laws were disregarded.
Even children of a few years old were not spared.
Eating meat and drinking blood can prolong life?
Cannibalism, is this a human being, or a monster in human skin?
Does this mean that the lives of the poor are really not lives?
Sang Zhixia's face looked uglier than ever, and Tian Ying'er was so angry that she was grinding her teeth.
Xu Yu gently rubbed Sang Zhixia's wrist and said softly, "Zhizhi, it's okay."
"Isn't it just a chamber of commerce?"
"What's the point of keeping useless things?"
Gui Lianzhi shuddered violently upon hearing this. Meeting Xu Yu's gaze, he trembled so much that he could hardly stand: "You... I really..."
"You just said that several companies in the Nanxun Chamber of Commerce are involved?"
"Yes... yes, yes, the ones who do this the most are the Yang family, the Fan family, and the Wei family."
"The flower girls and skinny horses produced by the Wei family are the most famous. I heard that even the most famous courtesans in Kyoto's brothels are most likely from this family."
"and……"
"Moreover, people trained by the Wei family are also treated as gifts. There are more than ten of them in the Jiangnan Governor's Mansion, and there are also some in the backyards of officials like Qian An."
Gui Lianzhi said in a trembling voice, "Among the brothels and willow alleys in Jiangnan, the ten Wei families account for 60%. Half of the Wei family's vast wealth was built on the flesh and blood of women."
The Wei family is the last of the top three of the seven major families in the Nanxun Chamber of Commerce, but because of their style of doing things, they are quite unpopular outside and are often ridiculed and despised behind their backs.
However, the Wei family relied on an endless supply of beauties to pave the way for collusion between officials and businessmen. When it comes to their excessive publicity, they can be said to be the leader among the seven major chambers of commerce.
Xu Yu slid his fingertips across the inside of Sang Zhixia's wrist and said lightly, "Wei family?"
"very good……"
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