Fan Shiyi Niang brought her two daughters to the notice wall, where Yang Yi was waiting.

Yang Yi was not surprised to see them passing by. He was familiar with the assassination business. Instead of looking for employers here and there every day, it would be better to focus on one employer and work steadily. At least it would be more stable.

"Let's go."

Seeing Yang Yi's good looks, Fan Zhen and Fan Dan did not take it seriously. Their mother had told them that the biggest taboo in their line of work was to fall in love with a man. When a woman fell in love, she would become vulnerable and would die in the end.

Therefore, their first task in learning assassination is to abstain from men.

Yang Yi didn't care about Fan Zhen and Fan Dan. They were all people walking on the edge of a knife, living one day at a time, with no tomorrow. They only lived in the present, and people who were irrelevant to them were nothing but clouds.

The suburbs of Qinzhou were quite far away, so Yang Yi rented a donkey cart. The mother and daughter of the Fan family rode in the cart, while he rode a horse and headed towards the military camp.

As for Zhao Yuanqing, the soldiers have been packed up and it’s time to deal with the matter of the official prostitutes.

She ordered people to bring out all the official prostitutes, and more than a hundred young women, as well as dozens of elderly people and children came out.

Only then did Zhao Yuanqing realize that these old people were all relatives of officials, such as mothers, mothers-in-law, and grandmothers, and that some of the children were relatives of officials, and some were born to these official prostitutes.

These official prostitutes were bullied by soldiers every day, and Sun Chou didn't care about contraception, so he let them do whatever they wanted, and many women became pregnant.

Even after getting pregnant, they cannot avoid the fate of being bullied. Some women are weak and may suffer miscarriages, and some may die within a year or two.

Some who are in good health can hold on until their children are born, and then they can grow up freely in the military camp.

Sun Chou didn't care about these things. After all, they were all descendants of official prostitutes. When they grew up, the boys would continue to be slaves and the girls would continue to be prostitutes. Their descendants would have the same fate, so they were treated like pigs and dogs.

Zhao Yuanqing patrolled the military camp and discovered that behind the big house in front, there was a row of small houses where these people lived.

The military camp cannot keep them for nothing. They help with cooking, washing clothes and cleaning every day. Some soldiers like old women and children and will take them to the red house to molest them.

Those who could not bear the humiliation would try to commit suicide, while those who still had concerns in their hearts would rely on doing some work and the sacrifices of their daughters and daughters-in-law to get some food and survive.

When these people gathered in front of Zhao Yuanqing, they all had numb expressions and stared at them blankly.

Some official prostitutes, however, flirted and flirted with Meng Jiu, hoping to win the favor of the new commander as soon as possible and gain some convenience for themselves.

This made Meng Jiu very depressed. On the one hand, she hated why they were so lowly as women, but on the other hand, she sympathized with them because they could only live like this in this cannibalistic place.

Meng Jiu turned sideways and asked Zhao Yuanqing in a low voice, "Princess, what should we do?"

"First, separate the courtesans, the captured women, and the newborns according to the roster."

"Yes."

Li Jia, the chief secretary in Meng Jiuming's military camp, brought out the list of official prostitutes and began to call out their names one by one.

The rules for the allocation of official prostitutes in the Daqing Kingdom were that after the court investigated and punished an official, it would decide the place of exile of his family members based on the severity of his crime. If the crime was serious, they would be exiled to a remote area; if the crime was minor, they would be exiled to a nearby place.

Some people can also stay in Chang'an by relying on their connections.

However, the imperial court had regulations that the families of these criminals were not allowed to be bought or sold, and they would be guilty until their death.

Qinzhou is not far from Chang'an, so it was acceptable for these official prostitutes to be diverted here. However, they did not expect to run into the beastly Sun Chou and were tortured beyond recognition. It would have been better if they were diverted farther away.

Li Jia called a name and someone came up. Zhao Yuanqing looked at them carefully.

The grandfathers and fathers of these people were once officials appointed by the imperial court, and their wives and daughters had also participated in imperial banquets. Perhaps Zhao Yuanqing had even seen them.

But it has been two lifetimes, the time interval is too long, and these women have been tortured to the point of being haggard, and Zhao Yuanqing could not recognize any of them.

She shook her head and looked up at the scorching sun hanging high in the sky. Even though she couldn't open her eyes because of the glare of the sun, Zhao Yuanqing was unwilling to look away. Only this scorching warmth could dispel the coldness of two lifetimes in her body.

So, Zhao Yuanqing didn't see that a woman in red was staring at her, her mouth opened in surprise. After a while, as if she had confirmed it, her eyes were filled with tears.

After the roll call, Li Jia reported:

There were 86 legitimate female prostitutes, all between the ages of 12 and 40. Among them were official prostitutes assigned by the court, as well as children born to official prostitutes. 35 of them died in the past three years.

In addition to female prostitutes, there were also 12 male prostitutes, who were specially used by soldiers who were interested in sexual intercourse.

Some of these male prostitutes were children born to female prostitutes, and some were grown-up little boys from criminal families.

Among the innocent people captured, there are still 39 alive, and the number of deaths has not been counted.

Relatives of official prostitutes: old women, 28 people.

Children: 12 boys and 7 girls, all under 5 years old, born in recent years.

Meng Jiu asked Zhao Yuanqing for instructions on how to deal with this. Zhao Yuanqing instructed, "Inquire clearly about the origins of the good people, compensate each of them, and send them home."

"Yes."

Meng Jiu called the barracks' accountant and asked him to withdraw some money. The accountant's name was Zhang Ke. He said in embarrassment, "Sir, we don't have that much money. The money is all with Sun Chou."

It turned out that the income of the Qinzhou military camp came from two parts: one was the money allocated by Sun Ping, and the other was the money contributed by the Qinzhou County Government, both of which were in the hands of Sun Chou.

Sun Chou was extremely greedy for money. Most of his food and drink came from the Qinzhou County Government. He only took out a small portion of it and kept the rest for himself, only giving it as a reward to some people close to him.

Zhao Yuanqing ordered his men to search Sun Chou's house, but they found nothing at first. There was no other valuable property in the house except some scattered silver coins.

Zhao Yuanqing didn't believe it at all. She walked around the house twice and set her eyes on the big earthen kang in the inner room. The winter in Qinzhou was not too cold. This kind of kang that could provide heating was only used in the north, and very few people used it here.

"Dig up this earthen kang for me!"

"Yes!"

Meng Jiu directed people to dig up the kang with shovels. Dust flew all over the room and all the adobe bricks fell to the ground.

After a while, the soldiers exclaimed, "Sir, there is gold all over here!"

After cleaning up, Zhao Yuanqing went in to see that all the bricks of the earthen kang had been moved to the side, revealing a large rectangular pit in the middle. Inside, there were neatly stacked gold bricks. It looked like there were at least 20,000 or 30,000 gold bricks.

In addition, there are two red boxes, one filled with silver ingots, and the other filled with jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, land deeds, house deeds, etc.

It turned out that Sun Chou was greedy for money and lustful, and he was also a miser who only took in money and never spent it.

In the past few years, he was reluctant to give the military funds given to him by Sun Ping to his subordinates, and hid them secretly. He also robbed them from local wealthy families, from the families of officials, and from passing merchants. In short, he would plunder the hair of anyone who passed through his hands.

After a few years of this, he accumulated a huge amount of wealth.

He died suddenly, and all the property became Zhao Yuanqing's.

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