Poor people live in poor courtyards, poor lonely buildings, and noble mansions.

This proverb speaks of an unwritten unspoken rule of the people of the Ming Empire, and it is also a true description of the architectural style of the land from the outer to the inner city.

Especially in the area controlled by the Confucian sequence gate valve, it is step by step, step by step. The steps are clear, and the threshold is strict.

The slightest violation is a suspicion of trespassing, which is enough for the guards patrolling the city to use this as an excuse to come to the door to provoke.

However, after the Zhu Ming royal family transformed the palace into a four-sided giant building, this so-called unspoken rule has undergone earth-shaking changes.

The Imperial Gatekeepers of the second class and above have abandoned the traditional flat mansions and instead piled them up layer by layer to form a three-dimensional mansion.

The area of each floor is extremely vast, with pavilions, rockeries and flowing water, and the degree of luxury is far greater than before.

In the whole province of Liaodong, the Lu family is the most noble, and it is one of the best, with layers of buildings, rising in Liaozhou, the capital of Liaodong, overlooking millions of people in the city.

And at this moment, in an elegant courtyard on the sixth floor of the Lu Mansion, a group of servants knelt outside the door, listening to the angry scolding coming from inside the house, and the low sobs caught in it.

Syllable!

Lu Siyi slapped the woman in front of him directly to the ground, pointed at the other party and scolded angrily: "Your good brother Lu Yuzhang is really bold, even I dare to calculate, I think your Lu family doesn't want to continue to mix in Liaodong!" ”

"Lu Lang, I don't know what you're talking about."

Lu Qinse's eyes were frightened, his hands tightly covered his red and swollen cheeks, and he said sadly: "Is there any misunderstanding between you and your eldest brother?" ”

"Misunderstanding?"

Lu Siyi squatted in front of the woman, grabbed her hair, and smiled with a hideous smile.

"Do you know that the dowry he prepared for you is all dirty money from those brocade guards?"

The sharp pain from the top of her head made the woman unable to move at all, and there were only tears in her blank eyes.

"Of course you idiot doesn't know. In addition to trying to conceive my Lu family's seed every day, what else can you have in your head? ”

Lu Siyi's expression was distorted, his five fingers pinched the woman's chin, crumpled several red treasure bills into a ball, and forcibly stuffed them into the other party's mouth.

"Originally, I didn't care where he got the money, as long as he could get it right. I even deliberately sent Xiuyue to him and told him some little secrets inside Lu Valve, that is, I wanted to give Lu Yuzhang, a hungry wolf, a little meat to eat, and slowly tame him into an obedient domestic dog. Otherwise, without my acquiescence, with his strange and obscene skills that can't be put on the stage, how could he play with Young Master's personal maid in the palm of his hand? ”

"But I still underestimated his madness, he not only wanted to pull me into the water, but also wanted to push the Lu family in front of him through Lu Quan and block the knife for him. Who does he think he is?! ”

Lu Siyi pushed the woman away, staring at the other party's crooked facial features with a disgusted expression: "Look at Ling's face, it's not even an original product, and any person outside who comes in looks more delicate than you." If it weren't for the Lu family, you would be worthy of letting me sleep with such an inferior product? ”

After roaring, Lu Siyi was strangely quiet again, only to see him pick up the saliva paper ball on the ground, gently smooth the folds on it, fold it into strips, and hold it between his two fingers and hand it to the woman.

"Eat it. Remember this smell, this is the trouble that your Lu family caused me. Wait until I'm done dealing with Lu Yuzhang, and then come back and slowly concoct you slut! ”

The closed door opened with a bang, and Lu Siyi didn't look back, striding forward.

Only a poor woman was left behind her, trembling all over, but biting the note and not even daring to cry.

Lu Siyi took the sedan ladder to the top floor of the ninth floor of the Lu Mansion, which was the residence of Lu Ning, the lord of the Lu family.

The luxury of the furnishings and landscaping here is far greater than the floor where Lu Siyi lives, and the winding paths are so deep that every time Lu Siyi came here in the past, he would choose to walk to show respect.

But today he didn't have this leisure and elegance, and drove directly to the other courtyard where Lu Ning lived in a ferry.

Before the car was completely stopped, Lu Siyi opened the door directly and got out of the car, and just walked into the gate of the courtyard, he saw his father-in-law.

Governor of Liaozhou, Lu Huzheng.

Among the Lu valves, the only people who can make Lu Hu Zhengcheng fearful and afraid to serve the left and right are naturally the Lu lord, the governor of Liaodong, and the Confucian three Lu Ning.

Lu Ning has just turned 60 years old this year, and since he was 16 years old when he became the magistrate of a certain county in eastern Liaodong, this lord of the Lu family has been in the sea for more than 40 years.

In the pre-Middle and Ming dynasties, this was already the age of retreating behind the scenes to enjoy old age. But in today's Ming Empire, it can still be called in the prime of life.

Even among the first-class gate valves of the Confucian order, there are very few people who can become the bull-eared ruler of a province at this age like him.

As a young upstart in the Confucian order, Lu Valve made his fortune by relying on the 'division of the world into martial arts'. Even if it weren't for that turmoil, the Lu family would now be at best an inconspicuous second-class gate valve in the eastern Liaodong region.

At that time, the 'division of martial arts in the world' had come to an end, and in addition to the Zhenyu Court, all the martial order sects in eastern Liaodong had been uprooted.

The three families of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism all want to monopolize the territory of Liaodong, but they also know very well in their hearts that no matter who makes the first move, they will immediately attract the joint suppression of the other two parties.

Just when everyone was at a stalemate, secretly disliking each other, and secretly preparing to wait for the first strike after eradicating the Zhenyu Court, this decisive battle was born out of nowhere, and the situation took a sharp turn for the worse.

Wudang, Shaolin, and a Confucian gate valve suffered heavy losses as a result, and a large number of good hands were slaughtered.

The Lu family took advantage of this gap to suddenly rise, and the Lu family, which was originally only a second-class gatekeeper, suddenly emerged as a third-order family head, forcefully expelled all competitors, and incorporated most of the Liaodong region into his command.

And Lu Ning, the second successor of the family, also has a great talent, allowing the Lu family to take root in Liaodong completely, creating the youngest first-class gate valve in the Ming Empire.

Lu Ning was dressed in a plain Yanju suit, with black hair meticulously tied to the top of his head with a Confucian crown, a straight nose, thick eyebrows, and a pair of unfathomable eyes like an abyss hidden in the sunken eye sockets.

At this moment, he gently patted Lu Huzheng's shoulder, and said with a hearty smile: "Old Lu, you don't need to worry so much, this time it's just a fight between juniors, who between you and I hasn't experienced it when you were young?" If they are really harmonious and have no ambitions, then we should really worry about whether they can take our place in the future. ”

"You have a lot of them, you can laugh it off, but I can't be ashamed."

Lu Huzheng didn't get off the donkey down the slope, but said with a look of resentment: "Lu Yuzhang, a self-righteous rebel, committed such a huge mistake behind my back this time, it is simply an unforgivable sin, I must"

"What are you going to do, it's your housework, so you don't have to report to me."

Lu Ning chuckled: "Although we are in-laws, after all, we are all heads of the family, as long as you think that it is beneficial for the Lu family to do this, then let it go, you don't need to take care of the Lu family." ”

"What you're talking about, my lord, is that I'm talking too much."

When Lu Huzheng heard this, a smile suddenly appeared in his eyes, and he turned his head sideways at Lu Siyi, who walked in, and smiled awkwardly, and said hello.

"Siyi, you're here? Then I won't bother you father and son, I'll go first. ”

Lu Siyi hummed without being salty, and replied with authority.

After Lu Huzheng's figure disappeared, Lu Siyi spoke.

"Father."

Lu Ning raised his palm to interrupt him and said, "I already know what happened. If this heel fall can make you more mature in the future, then it is worth it to fall out of a small wound. ”

Lu Siyi heard that his father did not blame himself in his words, and the heart in his throat fell back into his stomach.

"Actually, my son had long expected Lu Yuzhang's wolf ambitions, but he didn't expect him to be in chaos when he encountered a little trouble, and he was completely dazed and did so many things that embarrassed the Lu family."

"No face is worth mentioning in front of your own life." Lu Ning said lightly: "Lu Yuzhang's estimate of the group of bandits who broke out of the Japanese area is accurate, if he doesn't do this, I'm afraid he will already be a corpse by now." ”

"Those people are just relying on the fact that no one wants to waste their energy on them at the moment, which is why they are so unscrupulous, mistakenly thinking that they really have the capital to run rampant in the empire. To me, they're just a bunch of chickens and dogs. ”

Lu Siyi snorted disdainfully, "Father, then what should we do with Li Jun and the Lu family next?" ”

"What do you think should be done to make it appropriate?" Lu Ning asked with a smile.

This is the school itself.

Lu Siyi suppressed the heat in his heart, and after thinking about it for a while, he said slowly: "It stands to reason that this time Lu Yuzhang did this kind of thing, the entire Lu family should be a dead end. But at the moment, the things that the Lu family did can't be made public, after all, they are the in-laws of the Lu family, and if there is no reason to raid the whole house, I am afraid that it will make the families of other provinces in Liaodong panic and shake their minds. ”

"The death of the Lu family is small, but the stability of Liaodong is big. Therefore, the son suggested that the Lu family could be put down for the time being, and after a while, he would find a more appropriate reason to dispose of them, which would not only ensure the stability of Liaodong, but also demonstrate the justice of our Lu family. ”

Lu Siyi originally thought that his words would be regarded as old and serious from the overall situation of Liaodong, and he should be able to get a word of praise from Lu Ning.

But contrary to Lu Siyi's expectations, his father's reaction was very calm, and after just nodding, he continued to ask: "Then Lu Yuzhang won't kill either?" ”

"Lu Yuzhang wants to kill." Lu Siyi added: "But it's not for us to kill, but for Li Jun to kill!" ”

Lu Ning smiled and said, "You want to make peace with Li Jun?" ”

"Of course not, what qualifications does he have for us to make peace with him? I'm going to use Lu Yuzhang as bait to trap him in Liaodong! ”

(End of chapter)