As Lü Tu was about to mount his horse and leave after leaving the Commandant's residence, Wang Shoucheng politely stopped him: "Commander Lü, it is fate that we met. Would you do me the honor of visiting my humble abode for a chat?"
"OK!"
Wang Shoucheng's smile froze for half a second. He quickly ordered the servants beside him to go back and prepare, then boarded the carriage: "Captain Lü, please!"
On the way to the Wang family, Lü Tu instructed Liu Hu, "We're here to cause trouble today. Tell the brothers to follow my lead."
Liu Hu chuckled and said, "Understood, brother!"
Upon arriving at the Wang family's residence, many of the family members, young and old, came out to greet him at the door, but Lü Tu hesitated to go inside.
Wang Shoucheng asked curiously, "Brother Lü, the banquet is ready, please come in."
Lu Tu said loudly, "Why is Miss Wang Miaoling not here?"
Upon hearing this, Wang Shoucheng's eyelids twitched. He had thought that Lu Tu had already accepted the change of ownership of the Wang family, but he did not expect that he would ask again. Was it not obvious enough that Yun Tian had made his point in the Commandant's mansion earlier?
Lu Tu looked at the servants in the crowd, as if searching for something.
Suddenly, at the very back of the crowd, he saw a familiar face. He waved to the person and said, "Lin San, come here!"
The Wang family members turned around in surprise and suspicion, only to see a servant wearing a crooked hat, looking shifty and hunching his neck. They wondered if this guy was a spy sent by Lu Tu.
"Lord Lü, I'm here." Lin San saw that Lü Tu was staring at him and knew he couldn't hide, so he had no choice but to come out.
Lu Tu looked at Lin San: "Where is your young lady? Why hasn't she come out?"
Lin San's eyes darted between the Wang family members and Lü Tu. After a moment's thought, he suddenly burst into tears: "Lord Lü, you must judge for my young lady! My old lady just passed away, and she was driven out of the Wang family by these uncles and elders!"
They won't even let my young lady take her dowry. She's still living in a thatched hut outside the west side of the city, without even a thick quilt!
Lin San's acting was superb; he cried so sorrowfully that he vividly portrayed the emotions of a loyal servant protecting his master.
His tone was also very inflammatory, and Lu Tu noticed out of the corner of his eye that many of the women watching were secretly wiping away tears.
Upon hearing this, Lü Tu took a deep breath, helped Lin San up, and secretly gave him a wink.
After getting up, Lin San went to the neighbors and continued his performance: "These people not only seized the young lady's property and dowry, but they even refused to let the old lady's body be buried in the ancestral grave. Don't you think this is going too far?"
Lu Tu frowned as he listened. This guy was certainly expressing himself emotionally, but these matters were far from being considered tampering. Lu Tu and Wang Miaoling were not related, so how could he interfere in someone else's family affairs? It seemed that Lu Tu hadn't understood Lu Tu's gaze earlier.
He coughed deliberately: "What other outrageous things have they done? Tell us all, let the neighbors judge. I refuse to believe that this lawless Wuchuan City can tolerate such scoundrels!"
Lin San then suddenly realized: "Sir, I have something to report!"
"explain!"
Lin San had always been a servant of Madam Wang. After Wang Miaoling was driven away, he suffered greatly in the Wang family. Now that they had already broken off relations, he might as well expose everything at once.
He pointed at Wang Shoucheng standing on the steps and said, "Wang Shoucheng, as a member of a collateral branch of the Wang family and the son of the eldest young lady's second uncle, actually colluded with the White Lotus Sect thieves in secret!"
"What!?"
"No way?"
"Whoa!"
Wang Shoucheng's expression changed drastically: "What the hell are you talking about? Believe me or not, I'll use family law to beat your mouth to a pulp!" As he spoke, he invited the servants around him to grab Lin San.
While the servants were still standing there hesitating, Liu Hu held a knife to Wang Shoucheng's neck.
The cold blade sent chills down Wang Shoucheng's spine, and he knelt down with a thud, looking at Lü Tu and crying, "Brother Lü, I'm innocent!"
Liu Hu shouted, "The White Lotus bandits killed over a hundred of my border soldiers, and their hatred for my Wuchuan border troops is irreconcilable! How dare you collude with the White Lotus Sect? I'll kill you!"
With that, he raised his knife and brought it down, and a head rolled off.
This scene happened so fast that not only the Wang family and their servants, but even the onlookers didn't have time to react.
To be honest, Liu Hu's move was completely unexpected by Lü Tu. He looked at Liu Hu gratefully, while Liu Hu nodded with a resolute gaze, everything understood without words.
It seems that Liu Hu has made progress; he's at least much stronger than his brother mentally.
He must have realized that the reason Lu Tu had been delaying his actions for so long was because he hadn't found a good excuse to act, and also because he had concerns about Yun Tian's side.
If Liu Hu were to do this, it would be far better than Lü Tu taking direct action. To be so decisive at such a young age, Liu Hu's future is limitless.
Lu Tu had made up his mind that even if Yun Tian made trouble because of this, he would protect Liu Hu no matter what and would never allow him to be persecuted.
"Good! Well done! Colluding with the White Lotus rebels means he's joined the White Lotus Cult!"
Only then did the Wang family members react, retreating in terror. Among them, Wang Shoucheng's father, Wang Zhengtai, pointed a trembling finger at Lü Tu: "You...you dare to kill my son in the street?"
Lu Tu leaned close to Lin San and said in a voice only the two of them could hear, "Even if you're making it up, you have to give me some evidence. Don't give up!"
Lin San nodded and said in a low voice, "Understood."
Lu Tu stepped forward, his expression righteous and awe-inspiring: "That scoundrel Xu Jing, he was the one who led the Wang family there that day. And he still claims he wasn't colluding with the White Lotus Sect? Do you really think I'm here representing only myself?"
Upon hearing this, Wang Zhengtai's pupils contracted sharply. Only after Lu Tu's reminder did he realize why Yun Tian hadn't sent anyone to resolve the situation even after so long.
Could it be that they've been used and then discarded? Yun Tian's real purpose isn't to get them to hand over a portion of the Wang family's assets, but to take them all?
"Very well! You all covet my Wang family, and you'll always find a pretext to frame me! Since you killed my son today, why don't you just kill the entire Wang family?"
Lu Tu said sternly, "Do you think I wouldn't dare? Liu Hu, what crime is it to collude with the White Lotus Sect?"
"According to the laws of my Great Yu Dynasty, he shall be executed in the autumn!"
Lu Tu nodded: "Then what are we waiting for? Escort them to the prefect of Wuchuan and lock them in the death row!"
Thirty guards, wielding long swords, stepped forward to confront the one hundred servants blocking their way.
At this moment, Lin San spoke up: "Brothers, we are just servants in the Wang family. We have never been involved in colluding with the White Lotus Sect. If you still dare to oppose the border army, then you will truly be sentenced to death!"
The servants thought about it and agreed. With such a small monthly salary, why risk their lives?
Seeing that Lü Tu also intended to let them go, all the servants made way, and some even kicked Wang Shouxiao in the buttocks, sending him down the steps, where he fell and was bleeding from the head.
Liu Hu and his men quickly bound the men of the Wang family tightly. Just as they were about to escort them away, a domineering female voice came from afar: "Who dares to act recklessly in Wuchuan City? I think you're courting death!"
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