Yue Buqun nodded and frowned, “Could she be from the Demon Cult?”

Jiang Ning said: “According to my speculation and the contents of these letters, she should be the Saint of the Demon Cult.”

“what?”

Yue Buqun’s eyes narrowed with a serious expression. He took the letters from Jiang Ning and began to read them.

After a while.

“Humph!”

Yue Buqun snorted coldly, his expression grim.

“This demon cult witch is so bold that she dares to appear in front of me.”

At this point, Yue Buqun looked at Jiang Ning and asked, “Did you find her when you went there?”

“No, I’m afraid it has disappeared long ago.”

Jiang Ning shook his head.

Neither he nor Yue Buqun had expected that Ren Yingying would actually appear in Xiangyang City, nor had they expected that the evil cult monster would dare to appear in front of them.

At first, Jiang Ning just thought that the maid was a little strange and didn’t think of her as a member of the evil cult.

Yue Buqun showed a hint of helplessness when he heard this.

They made such a big commotion in that brothel street that the evil woman must have run far away.

Since the person had already run away, Yue Buqun no longer thought about her. He looked at the banknotes in Jiang Ning’s hand and asked, “Did you also find these from the Iron Palm Sect?”

Jiang Ning nodded: “These are banknotes and house deeds, which add up to about 50,000 taels.”

Fifty thousand taels?

Upon hearing this, Yue Buqun paused for a moment, his heartbeat quickened, and his eyes fixed on the banknote in Jiang Ning’s hand.

These fifty thousand taels will be enough for his Huashan Sect to use for a long time, and Yue Buqun will not have to worry about the livelihood of the sect for a long time.

After adjusting his breathing, Yue Buqun suppressed his emotions and asked in a seemingly calm tone: “What are your plans for these silver coins?”

Jiang Ning didn’t think much about it. He already had an idea in his mind. He said, “I want to distribute the silver to those women who were forced to work in brothels and whose families were broken up. As for the house deeds, I will check which ones were taken away by the Iron Palm Sect. After checking, I will return them to the victims. If there is any silver left, I will use it to treat the women who have contracted internal diseases. As for the rest, I want to build another village at the foot of Huashan Mountain to take in those who can’t survive and some orphans.”

Yue Buqun’s originally excited heart gradually calmed down with Jiang Ning’s words.

Although there were quite a few women in those brothels, Yue Buqun had his disciples search those brothels before leaving, and they found a lot of silver. His original idea was to divide the silver among the women, but he did not expect that tens of thousands of taels of silver were also found in Jiangning.

According to Jiang Ning’s plan, even if all the money was distributed to the victimized women, there would still be a lot left.

Yue Buqun thought that if the remaining money was used in the Huashan Sect, the sect’s expenses would be greatly alleviated, but he did not expect Jiang Ning to have this idea.

But after thinking about Jiang Ning’s idea, Yue Buqun also felt that it was feasible.

“Ah.”

Yue Buqun could not help but nod his head and said, “You are very thoughtful. I am very pleased.”

Hearing his words, Jiang Ning knew that Yue Buqun had agreed.

Jiang Ning was not unaware of the financial difficulties within his sect, but every piece of silver and land deed in his hand was stained with blood and tears. He could not use them, and neither could the Huashan Sect.

After chatting with Yue Buqun about some issues regarding the practice of Xiantian Gong, Jiang Ning went downstairs and found that the group of people were still there.

When these people were about to kneel down to him again, they were stopped by Jiang Ning.

“What are your plans?”

Jiang Ning asked as he looked at these women who had just escaped from the sea of ​​suffering.

Upon hearing this, some of the women responded that they planned to go home, while those who were already homeless looked confused.

After listening to their words, Jiang Ning told the women his plans.

In this era, these women are already not clean in the eyes of the world. If they are allowed to continue staying in Xiangyang, they will probably live under the prejudice and gossip of others in the future.

Language is a knife that can kill.

Instead of doing this, it is better to leave Xiangyang and live somewhere else. Jiang Ning is planning to build a village at the foot of Mount Hua. Needless to say, some of these women have families. Some of them may not be willing to leave Xiangyang, and those who are left alone can return to Shaanxi with the Huashan Sect and start their lives anew.

Of course, these are all voluntary and Jiang Ning does not force them.

After hearing Jiang Ning’s words, those helpless women burst into tears again and couldn’t help but kneel down to Jiang Ning again, but were stopped.

After telling them about his plan, Jiang Ning asked them to think about it for themselves and then walked out of the inn.

At this time, the maids and the dozen or so disciples of the Iron Master were still under guard.

“Where are Master’s Wife and Senior Brother?”

When Jiang Ning came back, he didn’t see Linghu Chong, Yue Lingshan, Ning Zhongze and the others. He didn’t know where they went.

The Huashan disciple who was guarding the entrance to the inn replied, “Master’s Wife and Senior Brother have gone to clean up the other illegal businesses of the Iron Palm Sect.”

The Iron Palm Sect has been running businesses in Xiangyang City for a long time and its business is not limited to Brothel Street.

After hearing the complaints from some Xiangyang residents, Ning Zhongze’s temper flared up, and he took Linghu Chong and the others to get rid of the harm.

Jiang Ning nodded and asked, “Have any officials come over?”

The Huashan disciple shook his head: “No, I have never seen it.”

Jiang Ning raised his eyebrows when he heard this.

Their behavior tonight can be considered a large-scale fight, and the government hasn’t intervened?

Jiang Ning couldn’t help but shook his head.

Jiang Ning turned his head and looked at these people. He also wanted to check which of them deserved to die and which were innocent.

Tonight is a sleepless night.

……

The next morning, Jiang Ning finally finished the work.

Among those he brought back from the Iron Palm Sect, it was found after investigation that the dozen or so Iron Palm Sect members all deserved to die, and not one of them was innocent.

Jiang Ning was not surprised by this. After all, it was difficult to find gold in a dung pile. He was well prepared and said that before just to avoid any eventuality.

As he expected, there was basically no problem with the group of maids. They were just servants and had never participated in harming the people.

So Jiang Ning took out some of the silver he had seized, paid them their wages and let them go, while the dozen or so Iron Palm Sect members were killed directly.

Chapter 57: Every bright and beautiful surface has dark corners

Ning Zhongze and Linghu Chong finally returned after being busy all night.

When they left, they took most of the disciples with them, and when they came back, they all looked somewhat tired.

“Little Junior Brother, you don’t know.”

As soon as Linghu Chong saw Jiang Ning from a distance, he started yelling.

“I ran around most of Xiangyang City last night. This Iron Chief Sect deserves to die. Not only did they run a pawn shop where nine out of ten were sold out, but they also set up a casino and an underground bank to lend money to people.”

Jiang Ning asked curiously, “Release the horses?”

He knew that nine out of thirteen would return, but he didn’t know what it meant to let the horse go.

“It means lending money to others.”

Ning Zhongze’s face turned pale as he said, “They opened casinos and cheated gamblers out of their belongings. Then they asked them to borrow money from underground banks. Gamblers borrowed ten taels of silver, but only received seven taels. When they returned, they had to pay back sixteen taels. The total term was fourteen days. They asked them to sign a promissory note. If they couldn’t pay it back by the time the term came, they would use the house deeds as collateral. If they didn’t even have the house deeds, they would ask them to use their wives and daughters as collateral. Those wives and daughters who were mortgaged were then sent to brothels by them.”

“They were like this, drinking blood and eating flesh, sucking marrow out of bones, and countless people were killed and their families destroyed.”

When Ning Zhongze said this, his eyes seemed to be spitting fire.

Jiang Ning opened his mouth to speak several times, but finally shook his head.

Gamblers do not deserve sympathy, but their families, wives and daughters are very pitiful.

These gamblers are hateful, but those who set up the game deserve to die even more.

“Master’s wife and all the senior brothers and sisters have been busy outside all night and have worked hard. Go back and rest for a while.”

Jiang Ning said as he looked at the tiredness on their faces.

“Alright.”

Ning Zhongze nodded. They had run across most of Xiangyang City last night and really needed to rest.

After responding to Jiang Ning, Ning Zhongze returned to his room. Linghu Chong sighed, “I came here to have fun, but I didn’t expect something like this to happen. Who would have thought that such a prosperous Xiangyang would have such dirty things going on in secret?”

Linghu Chong had a look of pity on his face.

After hearing this, Jiang Ning smiled and said, “Any bright and beautiful surface will always have dark corners that cannot be seen in the light, and other places are no exception.”

Just like Xi’an Prefecture, the glorious ancient capital of the Six Dynasties is now infested with a group of blood-sucking insects.

Linghu Chong went in, shaking his head. Not long after, Du Lanyin came out of the inn. When he saw Jiang Ning, he was surprised and asked, “Junior brother, didn’t you sleep all night?”

Most of the disciples who went out last night were male disciples, while Du Lanyin and several female disciples stayed in the inn to help appease the prostitutes and their families who followed them to the inn. It was already late at night when Jiang Ning came back, and they could no longer hold on and went to rest.

“Good morning, senior sister.”

Jiang Ning smiled and nodded.

After the fight in Brothel Street, and the raid on the house with Huashan disciples, Jiang Ning had not slept all night after returning. Even though he was young and strong, he still had dark circles under his eyes.

Du Lanyin felt distressed when she heard this and said, “Then you should go and have a rest. Senior Sister Qiaojun and I have already had a rest. We will take care of anything later.”

“it is good.”

Jiang Ning nodded. He was originally preparing to take a rest. After hearing Du Lanyin’s words, he did not hesitate. He said sorry to trouble senior sister and went back to his room to rest.

As soon as he returned to the room, Jiang Ning’s tense mind suddenly relaxed and he felt sleepy. He glanced at the sword still on the table and fell on the bed. He thought about the breathing method of Xiantian Gong in his mind, and after adjusting his breathing, he fell into a deep sleep soon. His chest rose and fell steadily, and his breathing moved in a strange rhythm.

An hour later.

Jiang Ning woke up after only two hours of sleep.

It’s not that he didn’t want to continue sleeping, but the noise downstairs woke him up.

Jiang Ning frowned and listened carefully, and found that some relatives of the victims had come to the inn with their wives and daughters to express their gratitude to the Huashan Sect. Many ordinary people also came to join in the fun, and when there were too many people, it was as noisy as a vegetable market.

Jiang Ning didn’t care about it after realizing this and was about to go to bed, but he was stunned the next second.