Chapter 168: Twenty Years of Nightmare
A hundred years ago.
The ancestors of the Lu family started by selling Chinese medicinal materials, grew from small to large, laid a large family business, and became a well-known wealthy businessman in Tianjin.
As the saying goes, there are no more than three generations of wealth, which means that the younger generations slowly become unenterprising in a privileged environment, and eventually lose the huge family business. The Lu family has a strict family education, because the ancestors were literati before their careers, they knew books and reasoned, and their descendants did not appear too squirrel, so that the inheritance of several generations became more and more prosperous.
It can be said that Lu Chengming is an outlier of the Lu family, he does not listen to the teachings, and does not hesitate to defect from the family for the sake of a woman, but in some ways, he is extremely lucky.
At least, although he was not rich and wealthy after leaving the Lu family, his husband and wife were loving and happy, and the Lu family was not so lucky.
28 years ago, that is, about 12 years after Lu Chengming left the Lu family.
The business of the Lu family was completely in the hands of the old man and handed over to Lu Chengming's younger brother Lu Chenggong, who was also the only male in the Lu family in this generation.
At this time, the Lu family's business was all over the Beijing-Tianjin area, and one person couldn't be busy at all, and he accidentally found a young man.
This is a low-level manager who works in the Lu family, who is talented but has not been reused because of his young age and low qualifications. Lu Chenggong noticed that this young man named Luo Qing found that he was very good in all aspects after a series of investigations, so he had the intention to train him to enter the middle and senior management of Lu enterprises.
Of course, the Lu family belongs to a family enterprise, not a joint-stock system with multi-person cooperation, and even if outsiders enter the core management, it is impossible for them to have decision-making power.
In just three years, Luo Qing has been promoted from a small foreman at the bottom to the position of sales director, and has won large orders for the company many times, creating a lot of performance and profits.
In this kind of family-owned business, no matter how powerful outsiders are, at most they will get more salaries and bonuses, and it is impossible for Luo Qing to make any trouble. Until one day, Lu Chenggong's sister came over and said that she was pregnant with Luo Qing's child, and finally Luo Qing joined the Lu family and became her real own.
This generation of the Lu family has a total of three brothers and sisters, namely the eldest brother Lu Chengming, the second brother Lu Chenggong, and the third sister Lu Chengjuan.
Lu Chengming defected from the Lu family in order to join the woman he loved, so that the power of the Lu family fell into the hands of Lu Chenggong, but this is only limited to the management power, the entire Lu family directly controls more or less shares of the family business, and the number of shares in Lu Chengjuan's hands is second only to Lu Chenggong, ranking second among the originally small family members.
"Luo Qing is perfect on the surface, talented, well-behaved, polite and courteous, but he is full of ambition in his bones, and he takes advantage of his aunt's feelings for him."
Speaking of this, Lu Baiwen's face showed uncontrollable hatred, and he gritted his teeth and shouted: "He borrowed the shares held by his aunt to enter the decision-making level of the Lu family, and he was conscientious on the surface, secretly transferred the assets of the enterprise, and joined the competition to encroach on the interests of my Lu family, and put the benefits into his own pocket. ”
"So the Lu family is defeated, and you have no way to move here? Could it be that your aunt is also dealing with her own relatives with Luo Qing? Qin Yan frowned and asked.
"Before we noticed Luo Qing's small movements, my aunt was seriously injured in a car accident and became an unconscious vegetative person."
"Looks like your aunt found out...... This Luo Qing is really poisonous. Qin Yan smiled bitterly.
"It doesn't stop there!"
Lu Baiwen's eyes flashed with resentment, and he shouted: "Even if the Lu family is defeated and comes to a small town in Cangzhou from Jinmen, he still won't let us go." If we want to live, we have to find a job, but if we find any job, we will be fired within three days, and ......"
Make a clean sweep of!
The Lu family has been defeated for 20 years, and they left their hometown to come to a dilapidated town under the jurisdiction of Cangzhou, Luo Qing still does not let them go, and they have been persecuted unrelentingly for 20 consecutive years.
Through Lu Baiwen's next narration, Qin Yan knew more.
After the defeat of the Lu family twenty years ago, although the wealth and glory of the past are no longer there, at least the whole family of nearly ten people can still live together.
However, in the next 20 years, all kinds of bad luck followed, first Lu Chenggong's father, the old lady of the Lu family somehow fell seriously ill and died suddenly after suffering from the disease.
If the old lady died because of his old age, then even if he was a fool in the future, he could see that there were traces of artificiality.
Nine years ago, Lu Chenggong's wife, Lu Baiwen's mother, was run over by a tractor in front of her home.
Five years ago, Lu Baiwen's wife was wheeled to death, and there is no news of the murderer.
Three years ago, Lu Baiwen's son Lu Yong fell into the water, and although he was rescued, he became his current dementia because of the lack of oxygen for too long.
Last winter, Lu Chenggong 'accidentally ate' highly toxic vegetables, and died after rescue failed.
A huge family has experienced nightmares again and again, and to this day, except for Lu Chengming, who ran away from home that year, only Lu Baiwen and his son Lu Yong are left in the Lu family.
"These bastards trick Xiao Yong into gambling, what do you know about Xiao Yong doing this?"
Pointing to the hooligan ruffians lying all over the ground, Lu Baiwen said hatefully: "Xiao Yong owes them a lot of money, and they forced him to sign a note and mortgage this house to them!" ”
"Don't you know that Lu Yong doesn't have the capacity for personal behavior at all in this situation, and the money he owes for gambling can't be counted?" Qin Yan frowned and asked.
"But...... However, the note they asked Xiao Yong to sign was not a gambling arrears but an IOU. ”
"That's right."
Qin Yan shrugged his shoulders and sneered: "With Luo Qing's current ability, it is just a piece of cake to buy off Liu Songzhen from an official to a bandit. It's just that I'm curious, if he was just making money, and his goal was achieved twenty years ago, there was no need to go to great lengths to kill all of your Lu family, is there anything else going on here? ”
"Nope!"
"Really?"
"When my father was alive, we also thought about this problem, but it is certain that our Lu family and the beast surnamed Luo didn't know each other before."
"By the way, where's your father's piece of agarwood?"
After listening to Lu Baiwen's tragic experience of the Lu family, Qin Yan remembered that the primary purpose of his trip was to get the half of the agarwood that was divided into two in Lu Chenggong's hands.
However, seeing the current miserable situation of the Lu family, he was faintly worried: The Lu family is so poor, I'm afraid they have already sold that piece of agarwood, right?
Hearing Qin Yan's question, Lu Baiwen hesitated for a moment, and then walked into the back room silently.
Five or six minutes later, he turned back with a dirty and dilapidated wooden box and opened it in front of Qin Yan. Suddenly, the other half, which completely matched the gap of the agarwood in Qin Yan's hand, lay quietly in the wooden box, exuding a faint strange fragrance.
"This ...... Do you still keep it? ”
"My father left a last order before he died, no matter what, he couldn't sell this piece of agarwood, this is the only little thought he has of his uncle."
"You have two options now."
Qin Yan looked at Lu Baiwen seriously and said, "I will buy this piece of agarwood at the market price, and send you and your son to a safe place to ensure that Luo Qing will not be able to persecute you anymore." ”
"What about the second option?" Lu Baiwen stared at him with burning eyes, and a flash of hope flashed in the depths of his eyes.
"You use this piece of agarwood as a commission and entrust me to take back the Lu family's things."
"I choose the second option!"
"Come with me."
Qin Yan put away the piece of agarwood in the wooden box, turned around and walked outside, and when he walked, he 'accidentally' stepped on the rogue ruffian lying on the ground, and another string of bone cracks and screams sounded, and as the screams gradually disappeared, nearly ten ruffians all fainted in pain.
Just as they were about to get into the car, an old police car with a siren came speeding up from the other side of the street.
Seeing the police car, Zhen Xiaoqiang quickly shifted his gaze to Qin Yan, who had provoked those hooligans before, he had witnessed Qin Yan's terrifying strength, and now he had regarded him as the backbone.
As for Lu Baiwen, he was shocked, it is obvious that the police are not all justice, in the nightmare of the Lu family in the past 20 years, officials and bandits have all played the role of demons.
motioned to Zhen Xiaoqiang to take the father and son into the car with his eyes, and when the three of them flew into the van, the police car was already parked at the door of the broken house.
The three policemen got out of the car and couldn't help but look stunned when they saw the hooligans lying all over the ground.
The leader first looked at Qin Yan, and then shouted into the van: "Lu Baiwen! Someone reported you for a fight, get out of the car and follow me to the police station immediately! ”
"I beat people." Qin Yan said with a smile.
"You?" The policeman was stunned.
"Hooligans deserve to die, but in comparison, people in police uniforms who play hooligans - even more damned." Qin Yan was already smiling.
"You ......"
The policeman at the head faintly sensed that something was wrong, and his right hand flew to the holster on his waist, and when his fingers touched the handle of the gun, he was finally relieved.
He pulled out his pistol and pointed it at Qin Yan, and the words were already ready in his mind, but he suddenly found that the target he was aiming at had disappeared inexplicably.
With a light hand, the pistol changed hands.
Qin Yan held the muzzle of the gun in his hand, raised his arm and pulled it hard, so the handle of the steel pistol had a close contact with the fat face of the leading policeman.
The blood instantly stained the handle of the gun red, and the policeman screamed on the spot and covered his face and squatted down, because it was a small town police station, not every policeman had a gun, and the two policemen who did not have a gun changed in shock, but before they could make any moves, Qin Yan had already pounced.
Two minutes later, the three policemen were lying on the ground with their heads covered in blood and wailing, while Qin Yan got into the van and drove away.
"Mr. Qin, this is ...... Is there anything wrong? Zhen Xiaoqiang asked uncertainly.
"What do you say?"
Qin Yan took out his mobile phone and dialed a number: "Mayor Zhang, are you busy?" Scold...... I'm sorry, I have to ask you for help when I encounter something, a friend of mine has been persecuted by local officials and bandits for many years, and the matter is quite complicated, and it also involves a business figure in Jinmen......"
He has many enemies in Yanhuang, both bright and dark, and with a lot of things happening during this time, he can be regarded as a little famous.
When dealing with things, it is necessary to use conventional means as much as possible, although many things are easier to do by violent means, but it is not good if they are caught by the enemy. He didn't pay much attention to an enemy like the Jin Supreme Brokerage Company, the real enemy was the enemy from the Guwu sect and family.