However, after learning about Old Master Lü's arrangements, Lü Wenliang's mentality gradually became unbalanced.
Furthermore, Lü Wencai's excellence only highlighted his failure and incompetence, causing his already unbalanced mind to become even more distorted.
Whether he was instigated by someone or not, Lü Wenliang one day insisted that the old master Lü's business was all derived from his maternal grandfather's family, and that without his mother, there would be no Lü family today.
That's absolutely true, because that's just how it is in reality.
However, Lü Wenliang's demands were indeed excessive.
He believed that Old Master Lü should give most of his assets to him, not to Lü Wencai.
In his view, Lü Wencai was not even worthy of receiving the Lü family's assets.
Both sides are his flesh and blood, so how could Old Master Lü listen to him?
Moreover, the Lu family's current wealth is inseparable from the personal efforts of Old Master Lu.
In the eyes of Old Master Lü, the Lü family's business was like his third child, or even more important than a child. Naturally, he had to hand it over to his trustworthy son, otherwise he would not be able to die in peace.
So he ignored his eldest son's increasingly jealous and sinister gaze and wholeheartedly supported his second son to take over the business.
Anyway, the eldest son won't suffer any losses in the future, so let him make a fuss for now.
But Old Master Lü underestimated his son's ruthlessness.
Seeing no hope of winning the inheritance, Lü Wenliang chose revenge.
His way of taking revenge was to poison his own father.
He stubbornly believed that if Old Master Lü hadn't married Li, his mother wouldn't have died, and now all of the Lü family's property would belong to him alone.
After learning all this, Old Master Lü ultimately chose to remain silent.
After all, he had indeed wronged Jiang and her son back then.
The eldest son has become like this because of the sins he committed.
Later, Lü Wencai also learned about this matter. He went to ask Lü Wenliang for the antidote, but Lü Wenliang swallowed the entire antidote in front of him and then simply slit his own throat with a knife.
Jian Yang was utterly dumbfounded after hearing the description from the servants of the Lü residence.
Are the feuds between wealthy families really this exciting?
So whether this is a moral decline or a distortion of human nature is really hard to say.
But she's an outsider; these kinds of family feuds are none of her business.
All she needs to do now is cure Old Master Lü, then she can leave with the gold bars and live a life of luxury.
Because the poison was indeed difficult to cure, Jian Yang stayed at the Lü family's house for more than half a month.
In the end, hard work pays off. After countless trials and preparations of the medicine, whether it was good luck or Old Master Lü's fate that he was destined to die, she actually managed to prepare the antidote.
Seeing that Old Master Lü's health was improving day by day, and the continuous heavy rain finally stopped, Jian Yang decided to retire gracefully.
Upon learning of this, Lü Wencai not only gave her a large sum of money for her medical consultation, but also sent his family's caravan to escort her south.
On a fine, sunny day, Jian Yang bid farewell to the Lü family and set off with the caravan.
With caravan members following along to amuse and entertain, Jian Yang's happiness level soared.
Every day was spent in laughter and joy.
In the evening, if we were lucky, we would find an inn, and everyone would go in together for a big meal and a good rest.
If you're unlucky and happen to be in the middle of nowhere, that's fine too.
We all found a suitable place to set up camp, and life continued as usual.
After crossing the Li River, the terrain is no longer flat, turning from plains into hills and mountains. The climate also becomes increasingly humid and hot.
This also means that they have completely entered the South.
The south is plagued by insects and miasma, but this did not deter Jian Yang.
She provided each member of the caravan with a small sachet to repel insects and poisons, which they wore around their necks, and even mosquitoes no longer approached them.
Thanks to Jian Yang's medical skills, no one in the group fell ill on the journey, because whenever illness showed signs of arising, Jian Yang would nip it in the bud.
Therefore, everyone respected and liked her even more.
That night, the group traveled to a secluded valley in the deep mountains. There was no sign of human habitation for miles around, so it seemed they would have to camp in the wild again that night.
Setting up a tent is hard work, and Jian Yang couldn't do it. No one else wanted her to do it either. She felt bad about eating for free, so she volunteered to go and collect firewood from the surrounding area.
"Awooo—"
A wolf's howl pierced the night sky, startling Jian Yang so much that she dropped the firewood in her hand.
"How...how could there be wolves?" Jian Yang said, trembling.
The boy who was gathering firewood with her laughed loudly upon hearing this, "Brother Jian, there are not only wolves in the mountains, but also tigers!"
The boy's name was Ge Dong, the son of the caravan leader, and everyone usually called him Xiao Dongzi.
Upon hearing this, Jian Yang's already trembling legs became even weaker.
Those are wolves and tigers.
If humans encounter these two species in the wild, their chances of survival are virtually zero.
Ge Dong wanted to scare Jian Yang a little more, but suddenly he heard his father shouting from not far away: "You brat, hurry up and bring Doctor Jian back, we need firewood to cook!"
"They're here! They're here!"
Ge Dong had been terrified of his father since he was a child, so he quickly grabbed Jian Yang and ran back.
When they arrived at the campsite, they discovered that his father and uncles and aunts had no intention of cooking at all.
The stove wasn't built, the pots weren't brought out, and everyone held a torch, their expressions extremely solemn.
"Uncle Ge, what's wrong?" Jian Yang sensed something was amiss.
Ge Long said, "To be honest, Doctor Jian, you must have heard those wolf howls just now, but actually, they weren't howling from wolves."
Jian Yang looked on in surprise: "If it's not a wolf howling, then what's that sounding?"
“It’s a human.” Ge Long’s expression was very solemn. “I only just realized that this place is Cat God Mountain, where a notorious bandit gang is said to live. They love to rob caravans and usually use wolf howls to communicate.”
Jian Yang is heartbroken.
For a moment, I didn't know which was more terrifying, tigers and wolves or bandits.
"It can't be that unlucky, right..." Jian Yang said without any confidence.
Ge Long shook his head and said, "No matter what, I promised my master that I would protect your safety along the way. Doctor Jian, you and Xiao Dongzi should run out of the mountains first!"
“That won’t do!” Jian Yang immediately objected; she was not one to run away at the last minute.
You have to understand, she has faced scenes of thousands of troops back then, so she doesn't even care about these bandits now.
Yeah, right.
She was actually terrified.
But she also knew that she absolutely could not abandon these friends and run away for her life.
Upon hearing his father's arrangement, Ge Dong vehemently opposed it: "A real man shouldn't be afraid of death!"
As soon as he finished speaking, his father gave him a sharp rap on the head.
"Who the hell cares if you live or die? I'm sending you to protect Doctor Jian!" Ge Long roared at him.
Ge Dong felt wronged.
But they refused to budge an inch.
He muttered under his breath, "Anyway, I'm not leaving. If anyone wants to leave, let Brother Jian go by himself."
Jian Yang smiled and stepped forward, saying, "Uncle Ge, don't try to persuade me anymore. I'll think of a solution."
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