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Chapter 51 At First Glance
For the next five days, Li Wencai finally lived a comfortable life.

No one was starving him anymore. Apart from not being able to leave the yard, he could even walk out of his bedroom and get some fresh air.

For three meals a day, the Li family's chef would prepare delicious meals for him in different ways, and even have a pot of wine with one meal every day.

Li Wencai was a little anxious on the first day, fearing that he would have a full meal but not the next. It was not until he had eaten three meals a day that he finally felt at ease.

In the next few days, this guy lived more and more comfortably in the small yard. It was said that not only did he eat well and sleep well every day, but when there was plenty of sunshine during the day, he would even move a rocking chair to the yard to bask in the sun!

After hearing this, Zhu Yu could only shake his head and sigh.

This Li Wencai can cause harm to a region and oppress the people, but he is destined not to become a great villain.

The reason is simple. This guy's wisdom is not enough to support his courage to do evil.

Even the farmers in the village knew that at the end of the year, they had to feed the pigs to be slaughtered good meals for a few days and then add some fat at the last minute.

After this guy committed so many big mistakes, just because Lu Qing said he would give him a chance and let him go, and then provide him with good food and drink, he actually enjoyed it calmly without thinking too much, as if he felt that he could solve the current troubles by "making amends" and get through it safely.

However, this also aroused another question in Zhu Yu's mind.

"Even if it's dark under the lamp, can it really be so blindingly dark?" She couldn't help but ask while playing chess with Lu Qing, "I originally thought Li Wencai was cunning, lazy, greedy, and treacherous, but looking at his posture now, he at least lacks the word 'cunning'.

If I were his superior, I would rather not accept any gold, silver, or beautiful women than allow such a stupid and brainless person to work for me."

"Then have you never thought of a possibility?" Lu Qing casually picked up a chess piece, scanned the chessboard, and placed it on an empty space, "What the other party needs is to place a bad piece here.

We know clearly that he is immoral, incompetent and useless, but we need people like him to block the way and create chaos.

Those who are used to muddy the waters are naturally discarded pawns after use. Anyone with a bit of common sense would not want to play such a role.

What he said was true. Zhu Yu thought about it and felt that it made sense.

"You told Li Wencai before that if he was willing to do as you said, you could let him go. Do you mean that?" Zhu Yu asked again.

At this moment, not only were there runners from the Runzhou government office guarding outside the side courtyard, but there were also the two brothers Fu Wen and Fu Lu standing outside the door, and their words made people feel much more at ease.

"We're talking privately, so there's no need to be so polite." Lu Qing smiled nonchalantly. "Li Wencai's crime deserves to be torn into pieces by five horses. My promise to let him go doesn't seem to affect the overall situation, so you can take it seriously."

Zhu Yu was stunned. He hadn't expected that the "let one go" he mentioned was actually one of the horses in "Five Horses Dismembering a Body"...

Although she didn't think Lu Qing would really let Li Wencai go based on what she had witnessed recently, she still didn't know how to react when she heard such an answer.

Lu Qing didn't care about these things. He placed another piece and looked at the chessboard with satisfaction: "I win this game."

Zhu Yu quickly turned his attention back to the chessboard and found that the white pieces held by Lu Qing were scattered all over the board, and no matter how you looked at it, they were not as many as his own black pieces.

Lu Qing pointed at her black pieces and said, "I've surrounded them here. If they run out of energy, no matter how many more there are, they'll all be dead."

As she spoke, she stretched out her slender fingers and picked out the black pieces one by one, then pointed to the other side: "The same goes for these." Zhu Yu realized that when Lu Qing was playing chess just now, each move seemed very random and erratic, and there was no sign of any method at all. She didn't expect that before she knew it, the white pieces had quietly surrounded and killed many of her black pieces.

As Lu Qing picked up the dead pieces on the chessboard one by one, the number of black pieces left on the board became fewer and fewer, while the number of white pieces increased.

"Pay more attention to your chess game next time," Lu Qing said provocatively, raising an eyebrow at Zhu Yu. "If you only focus on what's in front of you, you won't be able to take into account the overall situation."

Zhu Yu knew she was inferior to her opponent and accepted the defeat with conviction. However, she didn't want to play a second game either, so she quickly helped put away the chess pieces. "How many more days are we going to spend here?"

"Don't be impatient. We have to wait until the time is right." Lu Qing looked around. "How about another round of pot-shooting?"

For the first time, Zhu Yu felt that having fun could be quite tiring.

Finally, another day passed, and as soon as Zhu Yu got up early in the morning, Fu Lu sent a bamboo tube to her to see.

There was a piece of paper in the bamboo tube, with only four words on it - "Everything is ready."

Zhu Yu felt refreshed when he saw these four words and quickly asked the talisman, "So where are we going now? What are we going to do?"

Fu Lu could also tell that Zhu Yu was very happy, but his smile was a little embarrassed.

"Chief Secretary..." He smiled awkwardly and touched his neck, "My Lord said that you should wait here and that we will hand him over to you for trial after the murderer is apprehended.

The Lord also said that you should be patient. If we mobilize a large force, we will only alert the enemy and ruin all our efforts. So, I can only ask you to bear with it for a while."

Zhu Yu sighed.

She didn't want to be "wronged", but she couldn't refute Lu Qing's arrangement, so she could only nod her head resignedly: "Okay, you guys go, I'll wait here."

"My lord, you said that I was too eye-catching, so you asked me to stay with you." There was a hint of bitterness on Fu Lu's face.

It was estimated that everyone else had already left by now. In addition to the talisman, two yamen runners from Runzhou Prefecture were left guarding outside the side courtyard.

Fu Lu was bored and felt uncomfortable all over. He couldn't find anything to do, so he just started practicing boxing in the yard.

His fist was not much smaller than Zhu Yu's face. Every move he made was full of power and fierceness. Wherever his fist reached, it even brought up a gust of wind.

After finishing a set of punches, his breathing was only a little faster than before. Feeling unsatisfied, he simply picked up a stone block in the yard and started tossing and tumbling it until the hair on his forehead was wet with sweat. Only then did he put the stone block back to its original place with satisfaction and sat down on the stone steps.

Zhu Yu was also extremely bored, so he simply moved a stool and sat by the door to watch Fu Lu practice. When he saw him swinging a stone block weighing over a hundred pounds all over the sky, he couldn't help but shout "good job", which made Fu Lu's dark face turn red.

"I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, Chief Secretary!" He stopped, grinned, and felt a little embarrassed.

"Don't laugh, don't laugh. This is the first time I've seen such great strength and such amazing kung fu!" Zhu Yu has never been one to hold back on praise, so he said this to him sincerely and gave him a thumbs up.

"What are you talking about, Chief Secretary? I just have brute force. When you see my master's kung fu skills, you will look down on me!" Fu Lu waved his hands hurriedly. It didn't seem like he was being modest, but he thought so from the bottom of his heart.

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(End of this chapter)