Yangzhou City is administratively divided into eight districts and four counties.

The mountainous areas south of the eight major urban areas are the most backward, and the old town of Nanshan District is the most backward place in the region.

It was built on the ancient site of the ancient Yangzhou city, and the traces of history can still be seen, such as various stone monuments, the ruins of the ancient city wall, or the dilapidated ruins, but the prosperity of the past has long disappeared in the clouds of history, and now it has become a famous slum in Yangzhou.

Now I only see dilapidated abandoned low houses, residential buildings are mainly three- or four-story old buildings, there is not a single high-rise building for dozens of miles, and unfinished buildings can be seen everywhere, the ground is cracked and overgrown with weeds, and the walls are covered with moldy moss, all of which give people a desolate and dilapidated feeling.

The old town of Yushui County is also poor and dilapidated, but there are children's voices playing in the streets and alleys.

But it's different here.

The residential vacancy rate is as high as 60 percent.

There is a serious lack of supporting facilities, and even buses are rarely opened.

As a result, most of the young people moved to live in Nanshan New District or other urban areas, and the proportion of left-behind children and empty nesters in the remaining population is quite high, and it also attracts a large number of homeless people and lawbreakers, both in terms of environment and security, which are the worst in Yangzhou.

The old area of Nanshan is quite high, you can overlook the most prosperous area of Yangzhou City, the high-rise buildings and jungles rising from the ground, the bright and prosperous charming night scene, everything is within reach and extremely far away, like a quiet painting from another world.

Bai Yan took Xiang Yun to this time, and it was already noon the next day.

Xiang Yun said with emotion: "I didn't expect that there would be such a dilapidated and backward place in Yangzhou City. ”

Bai Yan said expressionlessly: "A thousand years ago, this was the most prosperous core urban area in ancient Yangzhou, but due to the slight diversion of an earth's spiritual vein, it was gradually abandoned, and now it is full of homeless people and gangsters. ”

"The ghost city you are talking about is here?"

"That's right, but we're early, and the ghost market won't open until late in the evening. ”

Bai Yan and Xiang Yun wandered around the old area of Nanshan to a school that was too remote to recruit students and was abandoned five years ago, but was later bought and renovated, and now it has become the Nanshan Welfare Institute.

The conditions of the welfare home are average, sleeping in a large bunk, eating in a big pot of rice, the director, the teaching staff, and the cook, a total of only five people, but the adoption of nearly 100 orphans, the youngest has just learned to walk, the oldest is only about 10 years old, and the number of children between the ages of six and eight is the largest.

At this moment, the two faculty members were playing with their children inside, and when they heard the children's babbling and cheerful laughter, Bai Yan, who was peeking outside, showed a gentle smile on his face.

Xiang Yun immediately understood: "You are the great benevolent person who donated to build this Nanshan Welfare Institute!"

Bai Yan was not a modest person, so he straightened his chest without hesitation and said: "That's right, since the establishment of the Nanshan Welfare Institute, as well as all the expenses in the welfare home now, as well as the expenses for some older children to go to regular schools to receive education, all of them are borne by this thief alone." ”

Human nature is a real and complex thing.

Bai Yan, who has been a killer assassin and a liar and thief, actually spared no money at all, donated money to build a welfare home, and also undertook the expenses of the welfare home.

Nanshan Welfare Institute is only one of the welfare homes funded by Bai Yan, she has donated at least several welfare homes, and although her income is very high, her life is tight, because most of the money goes to these welfare homes.

Xiang Yun asked, "Why don't you go in?"

"Forget it, it's not convenient now, it's inconvenient for me to look like this. ”

Bai Yan glanced at the tight black leather coat on her body, as well as the various thief weapons equipped on her waist, and had to shake her head helplessly. In this welfare home, except for the old dean, no one else knows who the donor is, and even if Bai Yan sometimes goes in to play with the orphans, she is still a social volunteer.

Xiang Yun found that this girl was emotionally rich and very sensitive.

She was raised by an orphanage since she was a child and sensible, so she has a very special emotional bond with the orphanage. Although she regarded money as her life and was like a miser, she never spared no effort in supporting orphans. Although she often brags to become the strongest bandit saint in the world, she doesn't want the children she has sponsored to know her true identity.

"You said yesterday that I would do something for you, shouldn't it just cover here?" Xiang Yun remembered something and suddenly asked, if it was this matter, it shouldn't be difficult, although Xiang Yun didn't have any power by himself, it was just a matter of saying hello to Chang Kun.

"No, it's enough for me to have in this welfare home. ”

"But you're going to keep it as a thief all the time?"

"How can you look down on thieves!" Bai Yan glanced at him fiercely, "This theft and theft is my hobby, and this sponsorship and raising orphans is also my hobby, this world is too unfair, is it wrong to rob the rich and help the poor? ”

Xiang Yun is not a pedantic person, on the contrary, he is influenced by some movies and television, but he thinks that thieves who rob the rich and help the poor are very cool, "People are inherently complex, do good things and bad things together, as long as you don't cross the bottom line, I don't think there's anything to do." ”

"That's it, that's it!"

Xiang Yun looked at the children playing with eagles and catching chickens in the welfare home: "These children are very cute, and it is inevitable that people will worry about them." The whole orphanage is supported by a thief, you are a high-risk profession, you often walk by the river, how can you not get your shoes wet, if something happens, what will these children do, where should the welfare home go?"

"Dogs can't spit ivory!"

Bai Yan wanted to say that it was impossible to be caught with her own skills, but after thinking about it, she felt that it was very inappropriate to say this in front of this broom star, so she had to change her words in the end.

In fact, this is what Bai Yan has always been most worried about.

Now there are at least hundreds of orphans who need her, this is almost the limit of what Bai Yan can do, although she earns a lot of money, but except for the purchase of equipment for herself, cultivation, and the part that must be spent, the rest of the funds are invested in the operation of the welfare home.

After all, a person's ability is limited, and the financial chain of the welfare home is indeed very tight, in case one day they are caught or have an accident, the lives and snow of all orphans will be greatly affected.

But what can be done?

Bai Yan almost didn't know anything except the secret technique of stealing the door.

Even if Bai Yan has other abilities, can the speed of this money be as fast as stealing.

Bai Yan has no choice but to keep motivating himself, if he wants to keep improving his skills without being caught, and if he wants to make more money, he must continue to improve his cultivation, if he can become a real thief saint one day, not to mention stealing the entire Yangzhou City, even the treasure house of the Western Chu Palace will be stolen.

In the evening, dusk had arrived, and the old area of Nanshan was foggy.

Bai Yan calculated that the time was about the same, and immediately took Xiang Yun to the ghost market.

Before she entered the ghost market, she first found two masks for Xiang Yun and Luo Zheng to wear.

Why do you want to wear a mask? Because the place they're going to isn't a good place, so it's better not to be remembered.

Secondly, the ghost market is not something you can take if you want to go, if you want to enter the ghost market, you must first get a guarantee from a ghost city member, this mask has the logo of Bai Yan and the Dark Brotherhood, and Bai Yan will become their guarantor, only in this case will you not be stopped when you enter the ghost market.

Of course, if Xiang Yun caused something inside, Bai Yan, as the guarantor, would also be responsible.

"Hey, are you sure you're not lost, the ghost market is really in this place?"

Xiang Yun felt that he was being led by Bai Yan into one of the most secluded and dilapidated neighborhoods, and they circled around the neighborhood again and again, sometimes drilling into small paths, sometimes entering broken alleys, sometimes wearing cracks, and then passing through abandoned houses, so they became more and more together.

"If I'm not mistaken, we've been through this intersection at least four or five times. ”

"Don't talk, it's almost there. ”

Bai Yan whispered.