Chapter 125 The Marquis’s Cruelty
Mu Xingci stared coldly at the blood-stained figure at his feet. "Lu Ke, your plan was very successful. My child is gone, and she and I have broken off relations. I have been harmed so badly by you. Have you ever thought about your fate? No, I should say the fate of your entire family?"
Lu Ke listened to the man's self-proclaimed name in agony, and his heart was even more panicked: "You... who are you?"
"Marquis Weiyuan Mu Xingci!" Mu Xingci told him bluntly, and Lu Ke's face turned even paler after hearing it.
"How...how is this possible?"
"The way I do things is not something a small merchant like you can understand. Lu Ke, I'm telling you the truth. Yun Wansheng is not a widow, and she doesn't have a deceased husband. When she was in the southwest, she was always my woman.
Just because she didn't want to be my concubine, I let her go, hoping she could live the life she wanted. I didn't expect that you would scheme against the woman I cared so much about.
It's not enough for your Lu family to make a fortune from her innovations, but you're actually thinking of taking all her wealth into your own pockets. You Lu family are really greedy." Mu Xingci finished speaking, and kicked him a few more times in frustration.
"Marquis... Marquis, I did everything by myself. It has nothing to do with my parents. You can... whatever you want, just come to me. Don't bring any harm to my family." Lu Ke lay on the ground, breathing slightly.
"The disaster won't affect my family? Does that mean my child died in vain?" Mu Xingci stepped hard on his fingers and said fiercely.
"Ah!" Lu Ke couldn't help but scream, but then he endured it, trying not to make himself too embarrassed in front of this man.
"My Lord... My Lord, if you want to punish my Lu family and confiscate our property to pay for the army, just say so directly. Why bother to find such a shameful excuse?
If that woman was of noble status, how could you let her go like this? Anyway, you just look down on her status. Even if she had your child and you wanted to recognize it, your Hou Mansion would not acknowledge it.
Now that woman's child is gone, doesn't this play into your hands? Why do you still have to pretend to be affectionate? Do you really think others don't know that the reason you do this is to plunder my Lu family's property to satisfy your ambitions, so that you can show off your achievements in front of that woman later?
Lord, when it comes to greed, I am not as greedy as you." Lu Ke knew that the Lord would not let the Lu family go easily, so he stopped begging for mercy.
"You are truly a narrow-minded person. How dare a scoundrel like you be compared with me?
Your Lu family is indeed a wealthy family in Qizhou City, but no matter how rich your family is, in my eyes it is just a drop in the ocean and not worth mentioning at all.
Lu Ke, you are wrong about one thing. In other families, a woman of low status who has a child outside is indeed not worthy of entering someone else's family.
But we, the Marquis of Weiyuan, are different from those noble families. Don't forget, our Mu family is a family of military generals, and we like to have a large family with many servants and children and grandchildren.
Therefore, our Mu family has had a family rule since the establishment of the ancestral hall, that is, the descendants of the Mu family are not allowed to stay outside, and the biological mother can enter the house with her son. It can also be said that the mother's status depends on her son.
You said you caused me to lose my first child, how can I let you go? I wish I could tear you into pieces right now." Mu Xingci kicked him a few more times in hatred.
Lu Ke never expected that this would happen, but when he thought about it, he laughed crazily: "It seems that Yun Wansheng really didn't want to be your concubine. She must have aborted the child herself. This completely broke the relationship between you two. Otherwise, you wouldn't be so angry that you raided our Lu family overnight."
Mu Xingci stared at him with murderous cold eyes: "You guessed right about this. I was happy that she was pregnant with my child at this time, so that she could stay with me. I didn't expect that having this child would be the beginning of our breakup.
Therefore, the two of us are in this situation because of you. Even if you die ten thousand times, it will not offset my wrath."
"My Lord, she is such a capable woman, how many businessmen would not want to win her over? Besides, she is still so young. Wouldn't it be the best of both worlds if I could make her my woman?" Lu Keyan angrily said to the man in front of him, laughing even more wantonly and crazily.
Mu Xingci stared at him with icy eyes: "Lu Ke, you really have beautiful thoughts, so you will die miserably.
Come, chop him up and feed him to the dogs. Expel the entire Lu family from Qizhou City and forbid them from doing business for the rest of their lives. Those who violate this will be punished with multiple crimes and executed immediately."
Upon hearing this, the Lu family, young and old, kowtowed and begged for mercy. Lu Ke's parents even pleaded for their son, wanting the family wealth to spare him. Mu Xingci watched them plead for mercy with a cold eye, unmoved.
Lu Ke's face was in a panic at this time: "My Lord, although you are the Marquis General, you have no right to expel my family. They have done nothing wrong."
"Lu Ke, aren't you a very smart person? Don't you know that in the face of absolute strength, let alone driving away dozens of people, no one would dare to say anything even if I killed them. It is already very merciful that I did not kill all of your Lu family." Mu Xingci said with a contemptuous smile.
"You...!" There was despair and regret in Lu Ke's eyes.
It's really not worth it to put myself and the Lu family in this situation just to plot against a woman, but it's too late to regret it now.
That night, some families were broken up, some slept peacefully, some were heartbroken and unable to sleep, and some stayed awake all night.
After one night, the news of the Lu family's failure spread like wildfire. The government sealed off all the Lu family's shops and workshops, big and small, overnight and confiscated their money. Even the Boyang shop was not spared.
If anyone asked, the government would simply reply that the Lu family was collaborating with the enemy and committing treason, thus dispelling everyone's doubts. No one knew why this happened.
Yun Wansheng, who was recuperating at home, had no idea what was happening outside. Qingling had just served her breakfast when Jiang Liang's voice came in.
"Boss, the owner of the Boyang shop came to see you and said that the shop and workshop were sealed by the government."
Yun Wansheng's expression changed when she heard this, and she suddenly sat up from the bed: "What's going on?"
"I don't know the details, you should ask Shopkeeper Liu!"
"Let him in quickly." Yun Wansheng quickly dressed and put on makeup.
When he dressed neatly and arrived at the main hall, he saw Shopkeeper Liu already waiting inside. "Shopkeeper Liu, what happened? Why did the government seal off our workshop and shop?"
"Boss, something terrible has happened. Not only have our shops and workshops been shut down, but the Lu family is in even worse trouble. I heard that last night, Marquis Weiyuan brought a thousand soldiers to raid the Lu family's house. The eldest son of the Lu family was chopped up on the spot and fed to the dogs. The rest of the Lu family was expelled from Qizhou City, forbidding them from doing business for the rest of their lives.
All of the Lu family's property has been confiscated, and this morning all the shops and workshops under the Lu family's name were also sealed off." Shopkeeper Liu said with a look of regret.
After hearing what he said, Yun Wansheng was stunned: "How...how could this happen?"
After coming back to her senses, she asked in disbelief, "Do you know why Marquis Weiyuan confiscated the Lu family?" She vaguely felt that this matter was related to her.
"They said they discovered that the eldest son of the Lu family had colluded with the enemy and committed treason, so they executed him as a warning to others."
Yun Wansheng's eyes were filled with anger when she heard this: "Mu Xingci! How could he act so cruelly?"
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