Chapter 257: Success is life, failure is death
The customs of Handan are not much different from those of Xianyang. As the New Year approaches, every household has prepared New Year's goods in advance, and everyone has put down their work and enjoyed a rare leisure time in the year.
Yi Ren stood at the door of the treasury in the mansion, counting the decorations and food that he had to use during the Chinese New Year. These things were sent by Lu Buwei earlier. Thanks to him, otherwise, with his current status as the host family, it would be difficult to prepare all these things for a good New Year.
For Lu Buwei, Yiren was more grateful. It is easy to add icing on the cake, but it is difficult to provide timely help. The huge gap in life before and after has already made Yiren very uncomfortable. Coupled with Zhao Mu's bullying, their situation is even more unbearable. Yiren is in a rebellious period, and the excessive secretion of hormones makes him extremely want to change his life, but it is limited to his own strength. Under the protection of Xia Ji, he just barely protects himself. Everyone in the hostage knows that this is not a long time
After a long time, Xia Ji wandered around Zhao Mu, but was actually playing with fire. If he was not careful, Xia Ji would be watched by Zhao Mu. When he was at that time, the handle was in Zhao Mu's hands, and the hostage would be completely passive. Xia Ji could only become Zhao Mu's plaything. As for Yi Ren, he would never want to return to Qin again. Even if no one stopped him, he would not dare to go back. If King Zhao knew that his woman was defiled, even if this woman was not favored by him, he would still kill people.
At such an awkward node, Lu Buwei appeared in Yiren's life like a savior. With the support of his strong financial resources, the life of the Proton Mansion has obviously improved a lot, and Lu Buwei's position in Yiren's heart is getting higher and higher.
But what Yiren didn't know was that everything Lu Buwei did was purposeful.
A while ago, Lu Buwei received a news that made him very excited. Ying Guang led his army to break Puyang. Ji Chong vowed to resist and surrender. Finally, he was trapped in the palace of the Guard and knew that the situation was hopeless. He was powerless to turn the world back. The crazy Ji Chong gathered the new and old Guard Kings and the concubines in the harem to Jiyun Hall, and a fire burned everything into nothingness.
When Ying Guang and others broke through the palace and rushed to the front of the palace, the raging fire had already burned half of the sky red, thick smoke rolled up, and the palace was burning and crackling, and the cry of despair came from time to time. The sound seemed to come from the Nine Netherworld Realm. It made people feel cold.
“Hahahahahaha”
Ji Chong's laughter suddenly covered up all the worries. In his eyes, all of this belongs to his own. Since he is unable to control them, let's take them with him.
The fire was not extinguished until the next day. Except for a few ruins that had not been burned out, the blazing flames wiped away all traces, as if they had never appeared before.
Lu Buwei knelt in his own courtyard. On the table in front were densely packed with tablets of his ancestors, and the tablets in the middle of the bottom were much larger than the surroundings. It was made of good sandalwood, carved with clouds and water patterns, and a row of small characters were written in gold lacquer in the middle.
After worshiping, Lu Buwei carefully took off his father's spiritual card, hugged it tightly in his arms, and sat on the ground with his body tilted. The old uncle Lu next to him hurried forward to help him up, but saw Lu Buwei waved his hand and sat on the ground, muttering to himself. He didn't know what he was saying.
"Father, you have worked hard all your life to protect my Lu clan with the power of Wei Ling, but you don't want people to change. It's easy to endure hardships, but it's difficult to share wealth. Our Lu clan's wealth is earned by hard work. Why do we have to contribute free of charge to the business in the end? In the end, we will not only pay the family fortune, but also pay the lives of the clan members."
"I don't plan to follow your old path. Although Brother Ying destroyed Weiguo and occupied a large territory, if I go back, he will definitely not treat me badly, and will even strongly support me, the Lu family, but all this is very similar to my father back then, Qin's country is strong and its ambition to unify the world has not changed. Weiguo is not the opponent of Qin, so even if I return to Weiguo, I will eventually be unable to escape the fate of the country's destruction."
"Father, God is still favored by our Lu family. I followed your instructions and came to Zhao State. Do you know who I met? I deliberately showed it. Since you let me come here, you must have known that, yes, I met Qin Yiren. He lived a very bad life in the Yiren of the Proton Mansion, and even the ordinary people. Do you know how I gained his trust? The food is the kind of food that is slightly better than feeding animals. When I visited him for the first time, I brought a truck of food like that. Do you know that he was so excited that he was so excited that he couldn't say a word. That truck of food was not worth half a pile of copper coins. It was so simple to gain his trust."
"Father, don't laugh. You don't know that the Julu Marquis Zhao Mu fell in love with Yiren's mother and wanted to give her face. He insisted on letting others throw themselves into her arms. Later, when he saw that he was tough, he used his power to suppress others. The grain shop in Handan City dared to sell grain to the host family. I also took risks, but fortunately, Xia Ji was quite skilled, which led to a ease of relationship between the two parties. Zhao Mu had no time to pay attention to me, an ant."
"The early layout has been unfolded. Next, I will further gain the trust of Yiren and tie him firmly to my Lu family's chariot. When that time comes, I will find a way to send him back to Xianyang and seize the position of the king. As for my Lu family, I will be a prime minister who is less than one person and more than ten thousand people. If he is obedient, I will protect him from the immortal ancestral hall of Ying clan. If I don't listen, hum, then don't blame me for not talking about the past relationship. If I replace it, then I, Lu Buwei, unify the universe and establish the empire of the world."
Uncle Lu, who was standing in the distance, saw Lu Buwei crying and laughing while holding the head of the family, thinking that he was telling his pain. In the few months of coming to Handan, Lu Buwei wandered among the powerful and powerful every day just to avenge the people of the Lu clan who died unjustly. Now that the great revenge is finally avenged, how can he not make him happy? In the eyes of Uncle Lu, Lu Buwei is always a child.
In fact, with the skills of Uncle Lu, as long as he gets closer, he can hear everything Lu Buwei said, and he can find in time that this gentle young man has been blinded by the desire for power. He chose the fastest path, but he bet on everything he has.
Success means life, failure means death, that's all. To be continued.
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Chapter completed!