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Chapter 20 The present world report

Zhu Yu was now trapped in the crowd and was involuntarily moving towards the Lu family mansion. Fortunately, Lu Qing stood behind her, with his arms protecting her on both sides without leaving any trace, preventing her from being pushed by the people around her.

As soon as I entered the gate, I was hit by an indescribable smell that was not very pleasant.

Zhu Yu frowned. Some people around him also complained that there might be dead cats or dogs in the house. Why was it so smelly?

The Lu family's retainers and servants huddled aside in panic, seemingly untroubled by the stench.

With so many people pouring into Lu's house, it soon became a mess. Some people rushed in directly to look for gold and silver, while others simply took away vases, jade and other things.

At first, the servants of the Lu family tried to stop them, but later they couldn't stop them anymore. The manager could only come out and beg for mercy, saying that the master asked him to tell everyone that they could take the things but not to scare the women in the back house or hurt anyone.

Soon the Lu family became a mess.

The Lu family hid in a side courtyard, and all the guards were guarding there, fearing that someone would rush in and hurt anyone. No one cared about the rest.

Seeing that the originally grand and elegant courtyard was soon turned into a mess, people could not find the antique vases and other previous decorations, and they had to move the mahogany furniture to leave. In short, they must not return empty-handed.

Some of these people at least had a written deed in their hands, while others went in empty-handed to move things, and no one asked any questions.

Zhu Yu felt that he could do nothing in such a chaos, so he signaled Lu Qing to go out. The two of them returned to the front yard while the Lu family's house was in chaos. At this time, there was no servant of the Lu family in the front yard. They were probably all hiding.

People were running in from outside the door one after another. Zhu Yu recognized the servant who had just been sent out by the steward. He was hiding behind the pillar at the door and didn't even dare to enter the door.

Zhu Yu hurried over. When the servant saw someone coming towards him, he was so scared that he stepped back repeatedly, fearing that the other party would cause trouble for him.

How could Zhu Yu give him such an opportunity? He caught up with him in a few steps, grabbed him, and pulled him back behind a large pillar.

"Didn't you go to report to the authorities? Where are the officials?" she asked the servant in a low voice.

The servant was only a 13 or 14-year-old boy. He was scared to death, but when he heard Zhu Yu's words, it didn't seem like she was here to cause trouble. When he saw that she looked kind, he felt a little relieved. He said aggrievedly, "I went there, but I couldn't even get into the government office. No one paid any attention to me!

My hands were swollen from knocking on the door. The yamen runners inside said that the magistrate was very busy and had no time to care about my family's affairs. They told me to get out immediately and that if I made any more noise outside, they would beat me with a stick.

I had no choice but to come back, and I didn’t know how to explain it to the manager.”

Zhu Yu felt sorry for the child as he was trembling with fear. Although his master's family had been domineering in Qingshui County before, the boy looked pale and thin, with old and short clothes. He didn't look like someone who was treated well by his master on weekdays, but now he was implicated.

She took out a snack she had just brought and stuffed it into the child's hand: "Find a quiet place and eat the snack. When most people here have dispersed, come back and say that you have been begging outside the county government office!"

The servant took the snack and sniffed it blankly, tears almost welling up in his eyes: "Thank you, kind man! I haven't had a full meal in several days!"

"Why is that?" Zhu Yu, who had wanted to let him go, pulled the servant back upon hearing this. "The Lu family won't give you food?"

"That's not the case," the servant said, grateful for Zhu Yu's help. He answered all the questions. "Although I usually just do rough work in the backyard, my master hasn't been short of food. It's just that the food at home lately... is really hard to swallow, worse than pig food..."

As he was speaking, he suddenly noticed another person rushing over and felt a little scared. Zhu Yu simply stopped asking and let go of his hand. He watched the child run away with snacks in his hands.

People outside are still running into the Lu family mansion. It is hard to tell whether most of them are actually in debt to the Lu family or are just taking advantage of the situation to rob them.

Zhu Yu looked at the two thick doors that no longer served any purpose, and for a moment he didn't know what to feel.

Beside the Lu family mansion, there were some ordinary people who did not dare to get close. They did not want to go into the Lu family, but they did not want to leave either, so they just stood outside and watched the fun.

Zhu Yu and Lu Qing walked around and returned to the crowd that was just watching the fun but not grabbing things, listening to the people around them talking.

"If you ask me, the ones who suffer the most are the servants of the Lu family! Look at them, they are not well dressed and they don't eat well. On weekdays, it is Mr. Lu and his family who have the glory. Now that they are in trouble, these servants have to suffer with them!" A short and stocky young man who looked like a round winter melon sighed.

His friend who was as thin as a bamboo pole beside him seemed a little confused: "But my uncle was once called home by the Lu family to be measured and have new clothes made for him.

He said that the Lu family was incredibly frugal. Not only did the servants wear ordinary clothes, but even the masters themselves were reluctant to buy expensive fabrics. It didn't seem like they were only mistreating their servants.

"That's easy, you're just a miser who hides all the dirty money he earns!" The short and fat man looked down on the Lu family and spat with disdain.

"You don't know," a middle-aged man put his head between the two of them and whispered, "The Lu family is not stingy, they just spend all their money elsewhere!
You only know that Master Lu is making money outside, but you don't know that there is a bottomless pit in their family, Master Lu, right? "

"What do you mean?" Upon hearing this, the two of them became excited and asked quickly, "Could it be that Mr. Lu is addicted to elixirs?
I heard that someone lost all his wealth and became neither human nor ghost because of this..."

"Oh! No wonder we never see that Mr. Lu show up..."

"That's not the case," the middle-aged man quickly waved his hands, "Don't talk nonsense!

The second master of the Lu family is not someone who is obsessed with elixirs!
He was a scholar who was almost a bookworm. He wanted to pass the imperial examinations with all his heart, but he failed every time.

He had originally wanted to give up on the exam, guessing that his brother had become rich and was thinking of donating a fortune to him. I heard that he had been trying to get him a scholarship in the past two years, and I didn't know if he had made any progress, but he had definitely spent a lot of money.

Who could have imagined that the money for the bribe had been spent, the fame had not been donated, the life and death of Mr. Lu was uncertain, and something had happened to the Lu family winery!
This Mr. Lu is really unlucky. He probably has no hope of turning things around in this life!"

"How do you know this?"

"That's because the academy has been buying charcoal from me. I often go there to deliver charcoal, and over time, I've heard a lot."

After hearing this, Shorty and Bamboo Pole showed expressions of gloating: "So, you can't make money by doing something bad. God is watching! Isn't this called retribution in this life? It's what you deserve!"

(End of this chapter)