The three people from Bai and Song started from Jingzhou and took the Huainan Road, passing through Luzhou and arriving at Yangzhou. It had been another ten days.
Pedestrians on Huainan Road are in a hurry, and there is an endless stream of people going to Jiangnan recently.
Among them were originally merchants, but recently there were also martial arts figures escaping from the imperial encirclement and suppression in the southwestern region of the Central Plains.
Many people disguised themselves as refugees, intending to temporarily avoid the limelight in the Jiangnan area.
I have also heard that some people are so disheartened that they plan to live an ordinary life and retire.
It can be seen that Princess Danyang's thunderous methods have played a certain role, and the high-pressure policy from the court is indeed beneficial to the lives of the people.
This also strengthened Bai Song's confidence in Zhaoan Jianghu. At least it made Bai Song feel that this was a just thing in his heart. Even if he wanted to go on a killing spree in the future, he would not feel so guilty in his heart.
At the entrance to Yangzhou, Bai Song arrived at a deserted town to stop.
Looking at the dilapidated houses washed away by the yellow sand, Bai Song stopped and dismounted.
There were very complex emotions in Bai Song's eyes, including sadness, memories, and even some self-blame.
Throughout this journey, Tian Ruoyun had never seen Bai Song's eyes look like this, and his heart felt inexplicably heavy.
Even Jiumei became curious. She had known this man for many years, but she had never seen him look like this.
"What's wrong? What's so special about this whole abandoned town?"
Bai Song did not go to the town, but led the horse and walked a hundred meters east to the edge of a cemetery.
"Everyone here is more or less involved with me."
"Is this your hometown?"
"No, I killed all the people here. The reason why this town is deserted and deserted should also be caused by me."
Jiumei was stunned for a moment, trying hard to think of possible stories that might have happened, but she couldn't figure out what exactly happened.
Tian Ruoyun, on the other hand, was very simple and went up to comfort him with some sadness: "My lord, don't be sad. Everything you did was for the orders of the court. All sins should be borne by the emperor and have nothing to do with you."
Bai Song smiled and found a very small tomb head among the dry tombs. In the yellow sand under the tombstone, Bai Song really found the plastic flower.
"Wow! There are actually flowers growing in the sand, they bloom so beautifully!" Tian Ruoyun exclaimed.
Bai Song, on the other hand, had achieved his goal. After turning around, he regained his energy and shouted: "Let's go! Yangzhou is just ahead!"
It is said that in ancient times, Jiangnan was a good place with good people, good scenery, and the best scenery.
Back then, I was only a step away from Yangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, but I didn't get to experience it. Now that I'm finally here, I shouldn't worry about old things.
It’s a beautiful job to do business and travel at the same time.
Neither woman reacted. The man was depressed and excited at times, like a child.
In a blink of an eye, the three of them had arrived at the foot of Yangzhou City.
Besides Chang'an, this was the second amazing big city Bai Song saw. It was as majestic as Chang'an City, and it was far more beautiful than Chang'an City.
When they entered the city, there was a long procession, with a large number of women tied to a cart in the middle. A group of people were watching and shouting around the cart. The girls on the cart were crying, obviously frightened.
"What is this? Kidnapping a woman in broad daylight?" Tian Ruoyun asked.
"He must be from outside." A good guy looked at him with a smile.
Bai Song nodded: "What did these women do?"
"These are all women who signed prostitution contracts and were carefully selected from various places in the Tang Dynasty and sent to Yangzhou, Suzhou and Hangzhou. The first stop was Yangzhou. When they arrived in Yangzhou city, the bosses of the major flower houses
They will come here to select people, and see whoever pays the highest price, the girl will be sold to him, and there is no guarantee that there will be an oiran who will become famous all over the world."
"I see."
The man stopped talking nonsense to Bai Song and crowded to the front to seize the opportunity to see the beauty.
Everyone knows that if you don't look at it now, if you want to see it later, it will have to be real money.
So this lively scene is simply indescribable.
Tian Ruoyun found it difficult to accept such a thing, and asked angrily: "Ms. sir, the court doesn't care about it?"
Bai Song thought for a while and said: "The laws of the Tang Dynasty should not allow this, right? But this is the south of the Yangtze River, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, and the court cannot control such a far place. If the officials here turn a blind eye, there should be
to the current situation.”
"Then my husband will arrest all the officials here! Let these girls go."
Bai Song smiled and shook his head: "Do you think letting them go is for their own good?"
Tian Ruoyun didn't understand: "Isn't it? They become men's playthings like this, what's worse?"
"These people don't know where they come from or if they have any relatives. They just let them go and don't care about anything. In the end, they end up on the streets, either starving to death or being discovered by worse people and living a life."
It would be better to die. They were bought by a brothel. At least the brothel paid for it. If you want to use them to make money, you must protect their skin. Although life is not good, it is certainly not the worst."
Tian Ruoyun couldn't refute after hearing this, she suddenly thought of herself.
Isn’t my experience the same as those of those women?
At first I thought my life had become hopeless, but if I think about it seriously, if I hadn’t met my husband-in-law or had a child, Mantuo Villa might have encountered another group of people sent by the imperial court, and then the entire Mantuo Villa would be in trouble.
If he had escaped, he would have died long ago.
"We have arrived in Yangzhou, what should we do?"
Jiumei asked.
Bai Song thought about it, his son Bai An was in Hangzhou, and he still had to travel two days to find him, but since he had already arrived in Yangzhou, he would definitely have to stop for a while.
Bai Song took out the note given by Qing Yi from Yin Yang Sword, which contained information about the major sects in the Jiangnan area.
There is a Yangzhou Gang in Yangzhou City. It is said to be a Jianghu sect, but in fact it is an underground gang in Yangzhou. It colludes with the government and controls most of the flower buildings in Yangzhou. Most of its members are former members of the Holy Lotus Sect.
It is said that the people of Yangzhou hated the Yangzhou Gang deeply but found it difficult to find any countermeasures. The Bai Song Dynasty had already regarded the Yangzhou Gang as a key target.
"Since we have encountered the matter of buying and selling women, let's observe and observe first. If possible, it might not be a bad idea to buy one."
"Ah?" Tian Ruoyun's eyes widened, and a sense of crisis arose spontaneously.
"Buy one and ask for information..." Bai Song touched his nose and explained with a dry smile, "By the way, to satisfy your overwhelming sympathy, we can't save everyone, but we can still save one."
"Huh!" Tian Ruoyun breathed a sigh of relief, and then became excited again, "Thank you, husband, I will definitely find a good family for that girl and give her a good settlement."
Bai Song thought to himself that I was going to find a good family for you. When I arrived in the south of the Yangtze River, there were more opportunities for romance. It would be inconvenient to drive with a jealous person around.