"It's reasonable for you to think that way."
Lu Zheng didn't blame Kang Xintong. She was just a child who enjoyed her parents' love at a young age, but lost her loved ones overnight and couldn't understand her mother's pain. A child's thinking was different from an adult's. Adults could drag out an ignoble existence for a living, but a child's world was either black or white. The concept of "gray" had never existed. Lu Zheng was also a father, so he was naturally more tolerant and patient with children.
The girl clenched her fists and gritted her teeth. "Sir, do you mean that you believe her flowery words?"
She felt that her mother was ridiculous.
When her father was still alive, he let her live a life of luxury. Outsiders often envied the couple.
But what happened in the end?
Less than a day after her father's death, she climbed onto another man's bed and nestled in his arms. She was like a parasite that could only cling to men and couldn't survive without a man. She didn't care about her ex-husband's daughter at all. In order to please her current husband, she even abused the girl in every possible way. She didn't have enough to eat or wear, and she was forced to wash buckets by the stream in the dead of winter …
Rome wasn't built in a day.
Similarly, the young girl's hatred towards her mother was not something that could be accumulated in one or two days, or even one or two incidents.
Lu Zheng didn't answer and asked instead, "Do you know what a person wants in a chaotic world?"
"To live." The girl didn't understand. Lu Zheng continued, "Living is not difficult for ordinary women. If they are willing to let go of their dignity, they don't mind being humiliated like dogs, and they don't mind living a muddle-headed life. Even if they fall into the hands of alien tribes, they can still survive. But living is easy, living with dignity is difficult. No matter how you look at it, your mother is a smart woman. "
Kang Xintong still stubbornly insisted on her own opinion.
Lu Zheng also lost the mood to go back and stay up for the New Year. He stopped and took another path.
He knew that the girl was stuck in a dead end. Simple chicken soup for the soul wouldn't wake her up. The best way was to slap her in the face with facts.
"Actually, your mother is your stepfather's concubine, not his legal wife." On the way to the destination, Lu Zheng first gave the rebellious girl a heads-up to ensure that the effect would be the best. "Your stepfather was born in the wilderness. He was originally a rebel of the Red Lotus Group in Dongqing. He married a wife in the countryside of Dongqing. It's just that those rural women are like weeds. Their colors are not bright, and they are abandoned in their hometown early on. "
It was very common for a man to leave his wife behind in his hometown and look for a new lover on the outside.
Lv Zheng just wanted to tell the girl that a woman's face was indeed a weapon, but she couldn't use it as her most powerful weapon.
Men covet color, but prefer freshness.
"Did you know that your stepfather had ill intentions towards you?"
"I understand." Kang Xintong said stubbornly, "Even if that old man took advantage of me, how bad can my ending be? To me, if I can borrow this face and become that man's concubine, I can live a better life. Who wouldn't I give myself to? "
Lu Zheng's footsteps halted, he turned around and looked down at her, a mocking smile on his face.
"Then I'll let you see a ending that's ten thousand times worse than being someone's slave."
After saying this, Lv Zheng grabbed Kang Xintong and walked a few steps forward.
He had long legs and a long body, but Kang Xintong was small. She almost stumbled and fell.
Her gaze fell on his hand that was pinching her wrist. Lv Zheng didn't touch her hand directly, but through his wide sleeve.
Lv Zheng took her to the dark alley where the prostitutes gathered.
He had never been to such a place before, but he had heard of it. He had seen it from afar when he was patrolling earlier, and the situation was terrible.
Tonight was New Year's Eve. Logically speaking, every family should be celebrating the New Year, but the dark alley was still lively.
There were many low, dark doors in the alley, and women in dirty clothes leaned against the doors. Their ages ranged from seven or eight to fifty or sixty.
Most of these women were in a sorry state. Their cheeks were purplish red from the cold wind, and some of their faces were covered with poor quality makeup. Other than the stench of sweat and poor quality makeup, there was also an indescribable smell in the air. When Kang Xintong passed by one of the women's short doors, the stench was even stronger. It was like a corpse that had been left in the hot summer for seven or eight days and hadn't been cleaned up. Even a thick layer of makeup couldn't hide the rancid smell. The woman's feet were covered with straw sandals, and her exposed ankles were covered with fine white pustules.
Some of the pustules were already broken, and some were red from the woman's scratches. Kang Xintong's little face turned pale.
Lv Zheng said, "Those leaning against the short doors are the prostitutes. These are still considered good. They can serve the guests and have a hut to shelter them from the wind and rain. Some of them just roll up a tattered mat and serve the guests in places with few people. Some of them are from good families, but most of them wander from place to place because of the persecution of the Southern Barbarians. Some of them were once the cheap concubines of rich families. Because of their old looks, they were despised and abandoned. They were sold to the broker house, and the broker house sold them to the brothel. The brothel has been receiving guests for two years, and they have changed from ordinary courtesans who receive one customer a day to the prostitutes who serve the peddlers. The number of customers they receive in a day is unknown … Not to mention silver and copper, they can even give themselves to a night's rancid rice bran. "
Other than these women in the dark alley, there were naturally men who patronized them.
Kang Xintong glanced at them and found that their eyes were all on her. She immediately felt so disgusted that her hair stood on end.
She grabbed Lv Zheng's sleeves and caught up with him in small steps. Only then could she have some sense of security.
Lv Zheng was wearing brocade clothes. One look and one could tell that he wasn't a lowly person. Even if he were to linger in the brothel, he would go to a high-end and exquisite brothel to find a young and beautiful prostitute. The manservant beside him didn't dress well, but he was extremely handsome with a red face and white teeth. Such a combination didn't look like people who would linger in the brothel. For a moment, they attracted a lot of attention.
However, these hooligans didn't dare to have any ideas. Even if they did, it would depend on whether the sword on Lv Zheng's waist agreed.
Lv Zheng took Kang Xintong to walk through the dark alley. Kang Xintong came in with a puzzled face and went out with a pale face.
"You saw it all?" Lv Zheng looked at Kang Xintong's head and said calmly, "Now, what else do you want to say?"
Kang Xintong suddenly felt disgusted. She grabbed Lv Zheng's sleeves and turned her head to vomit out acid. Her mind was full of what she saw and heard just now. The house in the dark alley was very shabby. The movements inside the door couldn't be blocked by a door or a window.
Because of the light, she couldn't see what was happening inside, but just listening to the movements made her shudder.
The woman's heart-wrenching cries of pain and begging for mercy, the man's violent and heavy breathing and obscene words …
Some houses were even more terrifying.
There was only one woman in the house, but there was more than one man.
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