Chapter 58: Hard laborers and secret prostitutes! Escape!

"Besides the supreme status of the leader, the status of the hall master was already very high."

"Like the blade-man team responsible for passing the message just now, each hall had about ten teams."

"They were all experts at using blades and could be said to have extraordinary skills."

"The task of the blade-man team, besides maintaining order and enforcing rules, had a very important item: preventing escape."

"Those who escaped were naturally the gold-panning hard laborers I mentioned earlier."

"The hard laborers were attracted by the countless gold nuggets in the Jinshajiang River."

"Everyone thought that enduring hardship here was just a very short period of time."

"After a year or so, they could take a large amount of gold nuggets, leave this place, and say goodbye to suffering."

"Return to their hometown to build a house, buy two acres of land, then marry and have children, and live without worries from then on!"

"But these hard laborers only realized after coming here that there was indeed gold everywhere; as long as you were diligent, you could pan a small pocketful in a day."

"But was this gold yours? It all belonged to the Gelao Society!"

"Under the bright blades of the blade-men, the hard laborers didn't dare to hide even a little bit of gold."

"They even had to take off their underwear to be checked; only then would they pass for the day."

"But human wisdom is always extraordinary; there were always some people who could slowly hide some gold under such strict checks."

"As the years passed, when the gold accumulated to a certain amount, these people began to plan their escape."

"The task of the blade-men was to catch these people who were carrying gold and escaping!"

At this time, the audience at Sanqing Garden was a bit confused.

Wasn't it about Hei Bei Lao Liu returning in victory?

Why talk about the gold-panning hard laborers again?

Could it be that Hei Bei Lao Liu was sent out to chase the escaping hard laborers?

But is this something a person who won the gold mining rights for the entire stretch of the river for the gang should do?

Zhang Lin saw the audience's confusion and smiled.

He said to the audience below: "Everyone, listening to a story naturally requires listening to the whole thing; this story, too, needs groundwork to be complete."

"I spent my breath talking about the gold-panning workers to tell you all that an important character is about to appear."

"I just said that some hard laborers would hide gold, but being able to hide it doesn't mean being able to take it away."

"Why? Because life in the shanties was too miserable."

"Besides work, the only entertainment activities were gambling, prostitution, and smoking opium."

"The Gelao Society knew too well how to trap these hard laborers by the Jinshajiang River forever."

"As for these three things—gambling, prostitution, and drugs—once you get involved, it's hard to break free."

"So, in these dozens of miles of shanties, besides hard laborers, there were also a large number of prostitutes."

"The prostitutes here were not the beautiful maidens from the brothels."

"They had to receive a dozen guests almost every day; they were all secret prostitutes who couldn't be brought into the light."

At this moment, anyone who remembered Hei Bei Lao Liu's conduct in Old Changsha felt a stir in their hearts.

Hei Bei Lao Liu depended on an old prostitute in Old Changsha.

Could this old prostitute have been brought out from the Jinshajiang River?

But Zhang Lin just said that the prostitutes by the Jinshajiang River were all secret prostitutes.

Such an identity, to match Hei Bei Lao Liu, is really...

Not presentable...

If Hei Bei Lao Liu really went to Old Changsha for such a prostitute, that would simply be a stain on the whole story!

It's not that a blade master and a prostitute can't have a story.

On the contrary, a combination of a blade master and a prostitute can give a story a lot of room for imagination.

But if the heroine is a secret prostitute, that wouldn't be very wonderful.

While the audience was worried, they were even more curious about the appearance of the woman about to emerge.

Only Huo Laotai in the second-floor box was surprised.

Because she was certain that the old prostitute was definitely not from the Jinshajiang River.

She was a native of Old Changsha!

Therefore, the woman who had a story with Hei Bei Lao Liu by the Jinshajiang River back then was definitely not simple!

"After the blade-man team finished passing the good news, they left this shanty and headed to the next gathering place."

"And inside one of the shanties in this gathering place, a woman was dressing up."

"There were a few candles lit in the shanty, and on a table, there was a mirror one foot square."

"The mercury on the back of the mirror had peeled off quite a bit, so the face reflected on the mirror surface also looked a bit incomplete."

"But even so, one could see that the face in the mirror was extremely pretty."

"Even though the candlelight in the shanty wasn't bright, the woman's pair of bright eyes were enough to make up for the lack of light."

"Such a pair of clear, bright, large eyes could be felt for their liveliness even in the darkness."

"And the pair of hands touching her cheeks in the mirror had skin as white as jade and also looked very moving."

"Such hands, at a glance, were not for doing rough work, so you all should know what her identity was."

"Just as the woman was in a daze, suddenly there was a light knocking sound on the door."

"The woman instantly tensed up and asked who it was outside."

"The person outside quickly said: 'It's me, open the door!'"

"Hearing this familiar voice, the woman stood up and opened the door to let him in." ===== CHAPTER 59 =====