PDLP Chapter 153 How can one word describe this? (1)
Chapter 153 How can one word describe this? (1)
This was the hellish scene that Qin Luan and his companions saw when they opened the door.
There were corpses all over the ground and Lu Changqing was covered in blood.
Qin Luan ran to Lu Changqing and touched her up and down, "Xiao Rou, are you okay?"
Lu Changqing shook his head. "I'm fine. The blood on my body is from the bandits. Don't worry, mom."
Qin Luan looked at the dead bodies all over the ground, and goose bumps were about to appear on his body. "Let's leave quickly while most of these people are dead, otherwise when the soldiers come, we won't be able to leave even if we want to."
"Mom, don't worry. You and Ling Shuang can go to the temple and rest for a while. I have something else to do here."
"What could be more important than escaping?"
"Mom, go in and rest first. I still need to ask them something else."
Looking at the corpses all over the floor and the now empty hall, Qin Luan felt that the solemn Buddha in the hall seemed a little cold. She shuddered and finally chose to stay outside.
Lu Changqing walked up to Zhang San and asked, "Are there no women on your mountain?"
Zhang San answered actively: "Yes, yes, yes, they are all in the back room. My lord, do you want me to take you over to have a look?" If he had a tail, it would have been wagging by now.
"Take me to see it, and you guys can come with me."
Zhang San and his companions brought Lu Changqing and the others to the backyard of the temple, where there were two locked rooms.
Zhang San pointed at the houses and said to Lu Changqing, "To answer your Majesty, those women are locked up here. The key is in Qian San's room. How about I go over and get it for you now?"
Lu Changqing didn't even look at Zhang San and the others. He raised his knife and pointed it at a corner under the eaves and said, "You guys go over there and squat with your heads in your hands. Don't get up without my order."
"Okay, okay, I'll take them there right away." Zhang San made full use of his lackey attributes and took the lead to walk over there.
Shen Rou watched Zhang San's actions in the space and said, "This person really cherishes his life very much."
Lu Changqing said: "Even short-lived mayflies fight for every second, let alone humans."
Shen Rou said with some concern: "Do you want to keep these people alive? It would be bad if they ran down the mountain and reported to the authorities."
"Bandits dared to come to the town and rob in broad daylight. How responsible do you think the local officials here are?"
"Just in case, I think it's better to kill these people."
"I still have some use for them, so I can't kill them for now."
While talking to Shen Rou, Lu Changqing took out a piece of wire from the space and pried open the door lock.
As soon as the door opened, a sour smell of sweat mixed with the stench of excrement hit him in the face. Lu Changqing frowned and turned his face away.
Five ragged women were lying or sitting on the haystack in the house. They were startled when they saw Lu Changqing and huddled together in a corner in fear.
There were eleven women in the two rooms. After Qin Luan asked about their backgrounds, she found out that they were all girls from villages near the town.
When Qian San and his gang of beasts held knives and asked the villagers to "borrow" food and money, if someone was unable to come up with the food and money, they would just rob the people.
Yes, they didn’t rob me, they borrowed me. As for when I will pay it back, that can only be in my dreams.
Lu Changqing was amused by these shameless beasts. She thought that such a weird "borrowing policy" of borrowing grain was a strange thing made up by the government of the Republic of China. She didn't expect that the prototype of the different time and space had appeared so early.
"Who came up with the idea of borrowing food?"
Zhang San, whose face was slapped into a pig's head by Lu Changqing, trembled and stammered incoherently: "Yes, it was County Magistrate You who came up with it first."
"Are you still in contact with County Magistrate You?"
"Of course, this is the rule of the county. The village must pay County Magistrate You money every month, otherwise he will go to the state capital to find people to suppress the bandits."
"In other words, you are colluding with this crooked official, County Magistrate You?"
Zhang San immediately distanced himself from the matter, "It's not us, it's Qian San and the others."
Lu Changqing did not comment on Zhang San's words, "Does Magistrate You often borrow grain from the people in the town?"
"I'm not sure about this, but I heard Li Xiucai privately scolded County Magistrate You with Qian San and others, saying that he was a rat or a big mouse or something like that."
Lu Changqing thought about the surname You, and then searched for officials in the capital in her mind. Due to the ridiculously simple plot, she really didn't know any high-ranking official in the capital with the surname You.
"Besides your bandit den, are there any other bandit dens around this town?"
"Yes, yes, there are two more. One is on Rimu Mountain upstream, and the other is on Qiaoling Mountain thirty miles away."
Lu Changqing pinched his brows and asked, "Are they all having an affair with that You guy?"
"That should be the case. Qian San once said that the You guy said that if you want to stay with him, you have to show him respect."
Lu Changqing took out four pills of Maltesers smeared with a little coptis powder from the space and handed them to Zhang San and the others. "This is a deadly borer. I'm the only one with the antidote. You'll have to obey me. If you dare to disobey me and get caught by me, don't blame me for not warning you in advance. Once the drug takes effect, it will cause your intestines to rupture. If you don't believe me, you can try it."
"No, no, we will definitely do a good job for the king."
Facing the big knife dangling in front of him, Zhang San was the first to reach out and pick up a pill of marshmallows from Lu Changqing's palm and put it in his mouth. With a distorted face, he chewed the pill and swallowed it.
The other three also swallowed the medicine with trepidation.
Lu Changqing clapped his hands, "Very good, now the four of you go to the back of the temple and dig a big hole to bury the bodies in front. Bury them deep. If they are dug out by wild animals, I will bury you with them."
"Okay, okay, I'll take the people there right away."
After Lu Changqing arranged things here, he went to the kitchen to find Qin Luan and the others.
Several large pots in the kitchen were now boiling with hot water. The women who had been rescued were all crowded in the kitchen yard. When they saw Lu Changqing coming, they all knelt down in front of her to thank her for saving their lives.
Lu Changqing helped them up, exchanged some pleasantries before getting down to business, asking them what their plans were for the future.
Most people wanted to go home, only two people wanted to stay and follow Lu Changqing.
One person said: "I have three sisters and two brothers. Everyone in the surrounding villages knows that I was kidnapped and raped by bandits. If I go back, how will my family live in the village?"
Another person said: "My parents treated me badly since I was a child, just because I was a girl. My family still had some money, but my father pushed me out just to find wives for my brothers. What's the point of me going back to such a family?"
What surprised Lu Changqing was that none of these eleven girls thought about committing suicide, which was a good thing.
It was not their fault in the first place. It is those who hurt them who should be punished, not the victims themselves.
Lu Changqing once saw a sentence: A woman's chastity is never hidden under her skirt.
To be honest, she didn't like the word chastity because it was a word specifically coined by men to demand of women. It was too altruistic.
But she agreed with this statement. Women really don't need to have such a high concept of chastity. Men who have promiscuous sex can call themselves romantic. There is no need for women to confine themselves in the ideological shackles of chastity.