Sending them to the leper colony? Zhao An, having lived two lifetimes, was soft-hearted and unwilling to cause any more deaths.
Had it been up to Old Ding, he would likely have had the Qian family’s women thrown into prison directly—and in all likelihood, the Qian family would have been wiped out by the end of it.
In this feudal era, the dungeons where female prisoners were held were far darker and crueler than those for men. Once inside, regardless of your original status, unless your family paid off the right people in time, you would inevitably become a plaything for the jailers, sometimes even being forced to work as a prostitute in brothels at night while serving your sentence by day. Their fates were often worse than those of girls who failed to be selected as *shouma*; they were entirely at the mercy of others.
Chapter 129