Famine and exile: I brought the Spirit Spring to save the entire Marquis's mansion.

The entire mountainside was reduced to ruins, and hundreds of soldiers and a group of civilians rushed into the back of the mountain.

The back mountain is a closed valley, and many houses have been built in the valley.

The neat and tidy house, with its white gauze fluttering, resembled the sanctity and beauty of a goddess ascending to heaven.

However, in front of the house, there was a group of women in white dresses and men in disheveled clothes.

"goddess?"

"Divine Servant?"

"How could so many goddesses and divine servants be hidden here? No, didn't they all ascend to heaven?"

"Men? And where did these men come from?!"

Moreover, the so-called goddess attendants were in a daze, with sorrowful expressions, and had no trace of the demeanor of immortals.

There were many indecent marks on her neck, it looked more like...

In an instant, all respect for the gods and goddesses vanished.

What on earth is going on?!

"Mother, Mother, have you come to save your daughter?" A woman with disheveled hair ran out crying.

"You, you..." The woman's face turned deathly pale, her eyes wide open as if she had seen a ghost.

Another woman ran out and reunited with her family.

But their families were more shocked than heartbroken.

As more and more people recognized each other, the common people finally learned what had happened.

There are no goddesses ascending to heaven. They've all been trapped here for the past few years, becoming the captives of those monks!

The women here come from Xihua City and neighboring cities, while the men are wealthy merchants from all over who spend a lot of money to come here and sleep with the so-called goddesses!

This place is clearly a filthy den of iniquity!

"Damn Liaofan! Damn Mingshui Temple!" the woman screamed shrilly, filled with anger and frustration, pounding her chest, unsure whether she hated the monk or herself.

Then, in a fit of anger, she yelled at her daughter, "Why didn't you run away? Why didn't you escape!"

"They can't escape. Those who are disobedient and try to run away will all be fed to the giant python."

The woman cried and said, "The goddesses are better off; they only have to serve those wealthy merchants. The divine servants have to serve those warrior monks every night, so they die the most."

Mingshui Temple is always bustling with worshippers, and everyone who enters the temple must put their palms together in respect and bow to each monk.

These most loyal believers go there every day to donate money, burn incense, and kowtow.

So, during the day, she would worship and give money to those monks, feeding them until they were fat and strong, so that they could take advantage of her daughter.

I'm so disgusted!

"I'm going to kill you all, kill you all!"

The woman drew a kitchen knife from her waist and slashed at the men.

"Stop! Our lord still wants to interrogate these people."

The woman was stopped by the soldiers, and she suddenly knelt down and burst into tears.

The same was true for the other people; their anger and shame reached their peak.

But all the monks had been killed, and they had nowhere to vent their anger.

Oh, no, there's also Liao Fan!

"Kill Fan! Kill Fan!"

"Don't kill me, don't kill me..." Liao Fan tried to run away in fright, but was kicked into the crowd by a soldier.

Although Liaofan was the abbot, he was only responsible for fooling the people; everything here was handled by that senior brother.

Therefore, Liaofan can rest now.

"You promised you wouldn't kill me!" Liao Fan opened his mouth in vain, but no sound came out.

The soldier gave a mocking smile and didn't bother to talk to him.

The Lord said he wouldn't kill, but he didn't say the people couldn't kill!

Liao Fan was chopped into mincemeat.

But the people are still not satisfied!

We're going to burn down the Buddhist temple again.

"Father, take your daughter with you!"

"Mother, I want to go home! Don't go!"

Because they were to be detained for questioning, they could not leave for the time being. The women were all in tears, anxiously trying to grab their parents' hands.

However, the parents who had just been crying hesitated.

"Xiaoju, Dad will go avenge you first, and then come back to pick you up later."

"Dad, just wait a moment, it'll be quick, very quick. Don't leave your daughter here, I'm scared!"

The woman held onto her father's hand tightly.

The man, who had just turned forty, finally lost his patience and shook off her hand as if he were throwing away a pile of garbage.

"Xiaoju, don't go home. Your sister is currently engaged to a wealthy young man. Going back will ruin everything."

If you're sensible, leave Xihua City on your own. Consider it your father's fault.

The woman stayed there.

"Father, I've been waiting for you to come and save me day and night."

She still remembers that she was about to get engaged to her childhood sweetheart, the boy next door.

But her father fell ill and needed a lot of money, so she cruelly refused her neighbor's brother and went to participate in the selection of a priestess.

Her family was now considered a family of deities, and they received a bag of food from the temple, but more importantly, they received respect and assistance from others.

Judging from Dad's clothes now, the family is well-off and can easily support her.

But her father didn't want her anymore.

"Oh, my daughter, it's all fate! Why did you have to participate in the selection of divine servants? If you had married Tong Huai, your life would have been so much better. He's a wealthy man now!"

It's all for you, Dad!

"Since you can't go home anyway, if you have nowhere to go, just find a nunnery to go into. It's already like this!"

The man turned and left, looking impatient, as if he was afraid his daughter would cling to him.

The soldiers looked at the woman with pity.

How could there be such parents...

However, they all underestimated human nature.

The other goddess servant families followed suit and all abandoned their daughters and left.

“Daughter, you will face a lot of gossip if you go back. It would be better to go to a nunnery for peace and quiet.”

"Daughter, your brother is getting engaged. If you go back, people will gossip about us."

“Daughter, you can only blame yourself. If you had any backbone, you should have killed yourself on the first day and died innocent. That way, your father would have given you a grand burial.”

“Daughter, I want to take you back, but I can’t make that decision…”

They have all sorts of reasons and all sorts of helplessness.

How proud they were of these daughters back then, how disgusted and repulsed they are now.

In the end, only a dozen or so parents remained.

"Did we say something wrong? Shouldn't we have said it..." Xiaoju hugged herself, her thin gauze dress making her tremble, her face pale.

“Even if I don’t tell them, they’ll find out for themselves. I thought my mother would only feel sorry for me…” another woman said.

"Where are you going?"

"Where are you going?"

Their eyes were blank and lifeless.

I've survived so many days and nights, and I've kept hoping in my heart.

Today, they thought they were saved.

But it turned out... his death was imminent.

"He should have died then and there!"

"To die innocently."

"And you can also have a good reputation."

Or, let's just die together.

What kind of nunnery is this? It might just be another pit of fire.

"Why should they die! Why shouldn't it be those who sent you to the temple who die!" A weak yet resolute voice rang out.

A woman, wrapped up tightly and needing assistance to walk, emerged from the room.

Do you really think that people are so stupid that they can't see through the falsehood?

It's all just driven by profit!