Is this the Si family?
Is this the Shouyuan clan?
Looking at the depressed scene in the Si Mansion, Illya couldn't help but have a flash of surprise in her eyes. She felt that what she saw in front of her was completely different from what she thought in her heart.
The garden, which has not been repaired for a long time, is overgrown with weeds, and there are almost no decent plants visible. A few flowers are scattered here and there, red, orange, white, purple, bright colors, but not large-scale, let alone very beautiful.
The building in front was stained and dilapidated, and there were only a few servants coming and going in a hurry. It was clearly a sunny day, but most of the people's faces were gloomy, and there was no smile at all.
decay!
These two words appeared in the minds of Illya and Gu Tiancai almost at the same time.
The Si family, who is famous in the Sky City for teaching the art of seducing women, is actually many times more depressed than expected. Just looking at the scene in front of him, it would not be inappropriate to say that it is a poor family.
"Where is Si Yuanyuan's residence?"
Illya stopped a servant who was passing by in a hurry and asked pleasantly.
"Si Yuanyuan? Who is that?"
Unexpectedly, this person looked confused, as if he had never heard of this name before, "I haven't heard of it."
"The owner's daughter."
Illya's pretty face changed slightly, and she asked anxiously, "How come you haven't heard of it?"
"He has only been in the house for half a year."
Si Miaochang's voice suddenly sounded behind him, "Of course it's impossible to have heard about Yuanyuan."
"You can actually break free from the pressure of my soul."
Illya slowly turned around, stared into his eyes, and said word by word, "I underestimated you before."
At this moment, Si Miaochang looked pale and panting. A large amount of sweat dripped from his forehead, soaking most of his chest and clothes. There were even more wrinkles on his face, as if he had aged many years in an instant.
"I only had a hundred years left to live."
Si Miaochang smiled bitterly and said, "Just to stand up, I wasted fifty years of my life."
"I see."
A hint of surprise flashed in Gu Tiancai's eyes, "Is this the ability of the Shouyuan clan?"
"You have also seen the situation of the Si family."
Si Miaochang pointed to the servant who was stopped by Ilia for questioning. There was a bit of bitterness and helplessness in his words, "They are almost so poor that they can't even afford to eat. Naturally, they can't pay much. The people hired to work have changed one after another, and almost no one can survive two months. Someone like him who has not left for half a year is already considered rare. How could he know Yuanyuan who has been away for so many years? "
"What? If you don't shout, fight or kill?"
Gu Tiancai looked at him with a half-smile but said, "Are you trying to win Ilia's sympathy by being so miserable?"
"How can a small Si family like us get involved in the fight between Litu Coast and Goddess Mountain?"
Si Miaochang suddenly bent his legs and sat down on the ground with a plop. As if he had exhausted all his strength, he laughed self-deprecatingly, "I acted so tough before, but it was just my pride that caused me to not let you in." , now that it has been seen, there is no need to continue to pretend."
"lead the way."
A complex look flashed in Illya's eyes, her aura slowly dissipated, and she uttered two words coldly.
"Come with me."
Si Miaochang felt his whole body relax, and immediately jumped up from the ground, walking ahead without hesitation, "The rooms of the two girls Yuanyuan and Qianqian are adjacent to each other. They have remained the same over the years, and no one has ever lived in them."
Ilia and Gu Tiancai followed closely behind, turning left and right along the corridor, and soon came to two ordinary bungalows. According to Si Miaochang, it was Si Yuanyuan. Si Qianqian’s former residence.
A table, two chairs, a wooden bed, a quilt, and an old dressing table.
Is this the environment where my mother lives?
The layout of the two rooms was almost exactly the same. It could only be described as "simple", which made Ilya Qiong's nose sore, her eyes red, and she almost shed tears.
She originally thought that she had an unfortunate childhood and had a bad destiny since childhood, but now compared with Si Yuanyuan, her life in the Jinyao Palace can simply be described as happiness.
After a long time, she slowly walked out of the room, and happened to see a woman in a green skirt walking slowly past her. She had a beautiful face and a graceful figure. Her slender waist was twisting gently like a water snake, curling and graceful. The graceful appearance exudes a charming and captivating power.
The woman's charm seems to be engraved in her bones, and every move she makes seems to affect the hearts of others. Even someone of the same sex as Ilia can't help but feel her heart beat faster and her cheeks feel slightly hot when she sees her.
"You must have heard that what our family is best at is teaching women how to please men."
Si Miaochang pointed to the woman in the green dress and said, "She is one of the best gentlemen here. Without them, the Si family might have ceased to exist."
"Why?"
Illya stared at the woman in the green skirt for a long time, and suddenly her heart became angry. She gritted her teeth and said, "You have hands and feet, you can practice, you can work, why do you choose to embark on this path, even at the cost of your own life?" Your biological daughter is used as a tool and sent to a strange man’s bed?”
"Practice?"
Si Miaochang seemed to have heard the funniest joke in the world, and suddenly laughed and said, "You also have the blood of the Si family flowing in your body. How could you not know that the life span of the Shouyuan family is determined at the moment of birth? Even if you try hard to It cannot be changed even if the cultivation level is raised to the soul state. Moreover, people in our clan generally do not live to be two or three hundred years old, and their cultivation qualifications are mediocre. Someone like me who can live for more than a thousand years is already considered an outlier. With such a weak family strength, How can we gain a foothold in this city in the sky where there are so many powerful people?"
"Because of being weak."
Illya became even more angry, clenched her pink fists, and her voice unconsciously raised an octave, "Are we going to sacrifice the women in the clan? What do you men do for a living?"
"Do you know how the clan members made a living when the family was at its most depressed?"
A trace of sadness flashed in Si Miaochang's eyes, and he laughed miserably and said, "Young women work as prostitutes, and men are responsible for soliciting business for them. Even though they made such a big sacrifice, the Si family almost couldn't persist. Go down."
"you……"
Illya couldn't help but flew into a rage. Her delicate white right hand reached forward like lightning and grabbed his collar. She gritted her teeth and said, "Beast!"
"Beast? Maybe."
Si Miaochang just let her hold him and said calmly, "You were born in the palace, how do you know the hardships of the world? In this world where strength is respected, how can the weak survive if they don't sell their dignity? "
"you……"
Illya opened her lips slightly, wanting to reply, but suddenly found that she didn't know how to refute.
If I hadn't met Zhong Wen, how would my end be any better?
The humiliation she suffered when facing the Apostle of Lust in the City of Two Realms suddenly came to mind. Illya was about to get angry, but suddenly she found that she had such a little bit of empathy for the Si family's situation.
"I have been doing a lot of low-life business, but I unexpectedly discovered that many women in the clan are extremely talented at pleasing men. They are self-taught and well received by customers."
Si Miaochang continued, "So I simply changed my strategy and no longer let them die in person. Instead, as a teacher, I taught women from other major families how to win the favor of men and gain status. The effect was unexpectedly good. , once made the Si family prosperous, almost comparable to the last two of the Xiajiu Sect."
"Now that we have such a good way of doing business."
Gu Tiancai pointed at the scene in the mansion and couldn't help but interject, "Why is the Si family looking like this now?"
"That's the sad thing about not having power."
The corner of Si Miaochang's mouth twitched slightly, as if he was trying to hide his emotions, "The Si family's ability to teach women was quickly noticed by the Presbyterian Church, because the elder Qi Miao invented a kind of restriction called the mother-child seal. As long as it is penetrated into a woman's body, her descendants will obey the advice of the Presbyterian Council in the future and become a complete puppet, unable to resist anymore. If a beautiful woman is sent to the Si family for training, then she is sent out to seduce masters in various fields, and To give birth to an heir for him, it won’t take long for Goddess Mountain to bring the world into its fold without any bloodshed. It can be said that the plan is very big, and you must all know what happens next.”
Illya and Gu Tiancai's expressions suddenly turned ugly.
"Elder Qi Miao is a well-known iron rooster. He never plucks a dime and only knows how to take. The Si family has trained many women for him. He even gave away the beauties in the clan, but he received almost no decent reward. On the contrary, he had no time to do it. Take care of your own business.”
A trace of anger flashed in Si Miaochang's eyes, "If this were not the case, how could such a large family decline to such an extent?"
"As the leader of a clan, he has to sacrifice his own daughter."
Illya came back to her senses and sneered, "You deserve to be in such a bad situation!"
"sacrifice?"
Si Miao used to look at her with a strange look, "How can it be better to stay in the Si family and live in poverty while staying with those strong men who can control the wind and rain? In my opinion, it is better to send Yuanyuan to the Jinyao Empire and Qianqian to the Jinyao Empire. Jiange is all for them to live a good life with no worries about food and clothing, so why sacrifice?"
"That's nonsense!"
With a straight face, Illya retorted sharply, "Do you still have any reason to force your biological daughter Israel to serve others?"
"At this point, I have no intention of arguing with you about right or wrong."
Si Miaochang sighed, waved his hands and said, "I'm not your opponent anyway. If you want to kill or behead me, it's up to you. But can you please do me a favor for the sake of Yuanyuan and Qianqian?" "
"Don't mention their names again!"
Gu Tiancai's eyes turned cold, and he gritted his teeth and said word by word, "You don't deserve it!"
"Si has betrayed his clan members. He knows that his sin is serious and he does not ask for your forgiveness."
Si Miaochang was not angry, but just thought to himself, "But there are still many miserable people like Yuanyuan and Qianqian here. They just want to survive, so what's their fault? I wonder if Your Majesty can take these people out of the sky City, go to the Jinyao Empire to make a living?"
As soon as these words came out, Ilia couldn't help but be surprised. She fell into deep thought and didn't speak for a long time.
