I am Lu Yanzhou.
Lu is a big family in our local area. Our family is large and influential, especially after my father became the governor, we can be said to be the only dominant family in Dongti Prefecture.
Dongti Prefecture is a major salt-producing area with huge profits hidden within. With just a little effort, one can obtain wealth that ordinary people cannot obtain in several lifetimes.
My father was tempted and cooperated with officials such as the Salt Transport Commissioner, and worked together with merchants who had salt permits to lie about the salt output of the salt fields, intercept part of the salt and sell it privately, thus making a lot of wealth.
I have many brothers and sisters, and no one paid any attention to me when I was first raised in the mansion. It was not until I was five years old that I started to learn martial arts and showed great talent and understanding, and gradually caught my father's attention.
My father raised me at his knees. Through the influence of him, I acquired many of his ways of doing things and my thoughts became more and more like his.
When I was thirteen years old, my father sent me to his army for training. I worked diligently, catching pirates, managing waterways, and training in the water like other sailors. A year later, I received my father's satisfied look.
I was a sharp arrow in his hand. Whenever my father was dissatisfied with someone, he would ask me to get rid of him without anyone knowing. Those who died at my hands included businessmen, students, and two prefects.
After the death of the previous two prefects, my father wanted to appoint one of his own to take over, but unexpectedly the court appointed a prefect named He.
The man surnamed He went to school in Dongti Prefecture and married the legitimate daughter of Lou, another big family in Dongti Prefecture. It is said that he also adopted a cousin who was extremely ugly.
In order to prevent his deeds from being exposed, his father had secretly brought the Lou family into the gang, but Magistrate He and his wife did not know about it and were still investigating the reasons for the decrease in salt production in Dongti Prefecture.
I asked my father if he wanted to take action.
My father shook his head and said, "Wait a little longer. The death of three prefects in a row will easily attract the attention of the imperial court. You should take people to keep an eye on Prefect He. If he doesn't understand, kill him in a year or two."
My father tried to extend an olive branch to Prefect He, but was rejected. At the same time, I intercepted a large number of his letters, most of which were sent to the capital, and a small number were sent to his mentor.
I gave all the letters I received to my father.
The father was very angry and wrote a letter to Magistrate He, telling him not to jump around, otherwise his son's life would be in danger.
His son He Wenmao was a pleasure-seeking playboy and a frequent visitor to brothels and gambling houses. In order to make Prefect He afraid to act rashly, my father asked me to take off the ring on He Wenmao's hand.
So I followed him to the brothel.
In the halls of brothels, white bodies were entangled together, low-class prostitutes were locked in the walls, and peddlers could go there to vent for only twenty copper coins.
I felt extremely disgusted, so I took He Wenmao's ring and left. After handing the ring over, I almost washed my fingers to pieces with disgust.
The father put He Wenmao's ring in an envelope and told He Zhifu that it was now his son's ring and would become his finger in the future.
As expected, Magistrate He remained quiet for several months.
But the good times did not last long. Those merchants thought they had my father as their backer, and they acted tyrannically in Dongti Prefecture, doing all kinds of bad things, leaving the common people separated from their wives and children and living in constant fear.
Magistrate He couldn't help but curse my father in the street, but I silently pressed the mute point and pushed him away.
This is not a good thing to continue. I suggested that my father keep the businessman in check, otherwise something big would happen sooner or later. My father said he would pay attention, but from his expression he didn't take it to heart at all.
I am very distressed.
Soon, something even more distressing happened. Because of a quick glance on the street, the cousin of He Zhifu fell in love with me and looked for me everywhere until we met by chance.
The cousin's name is Lou Xinlan. She is big and strong, with her facial features squeezed together by flesh. The peculiar smell on her body is a disaster for someone like me with a keen sense of smell.
I checked her information and found out that her biological father was Lou Yuxiao. Lou Yuxiao had made a small profit from selling salt some time ago. I asked him to take good care of his daughter.
Lou Yuxiao agreed very well, but I still saw Lou Xinlan from time to time. She stopped me in public and said that she liked me and wanted me to see her changes.
I was very annoyed, so I found a random excuse to get rid of her, telling her that if she wanted to change, she should change quickly, and if she didn't, she should not appear in front of me.
Lou Xinlan left with an excited look on her face, smiling as if she had some serious illness.
When my father heard that I was being harassed by an ugly woman, he said, "It's my fault. You are of marriageable age. If there is a woman you like, marry her."
I said no.
My father has many children and dozens of grandchildren, and he doesn't expect me to carry on the family line. He just asked me to pay more attention and didn't care about anything else.
I breathed a sigh of relief. What's so good about women? They are weak and only know how to cry. It would be troublesome to marry them.
In order to avoid that ugly girl Lou Xinlan, I chose to stay in the camp for training. When I came back again, I heard that He Wenmao was going to turn over a new leaf and was talking nonsense in the brothel saying that no woman was as pretty as his new concubine.
I scoffed. Beautiful women are also very ambitious. How could she become a concubine of a good-for-nothing playboy, just because he could have sex with ten women in one night?
I continued to train outside.
One day when I was suppressing pirates, I encountered a masked man wearing pirate clothes who led me to a boat and locked me up without waiting for me to react. I thought he had some tricks up his sleeve, so I waited patiently for him to come to me, wanting to know why he was plotting against me.
I waited for a long time but no one came. I knew I was being tricked. Just when I was trying to find a way out, the mechanism opened by itself.
It's totally incomprehensible!
I returned home with a gloomy face and met Lou Xinlan at the door. She ran towards me crying. I jumped over her head and made sure that even the corner of my clothes did not touch Lou Xinlan. Only then was I satisfied.
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