Ripe Town 繁城之下 Episode 10

Lu Zhong found Lu Zhi and actually started to speak. When he was a child, Lu Zhong's voice was indeed soaked, but he recovered soon after. Lu Zhong found that being mute was a good way to survive. Others didn't know that he couldn't speak, so they had no defense. In his heart, Lu Zhong simply continued to treat himself as a mute. After revealing all of Lu Yuanbao's plans, Lu Zhi was flattered by Lu Zhong's frankness, but he did not have the strength to resist, so he could only let it go.

Lu Zhong said that killing Lu Zhi was Lu Yuanbao's plan, not his own intention. It turned out that Lu Zhong planned to take Lu Zhi back first, and then find an opportunity to cooperate with Lu Zhi on a big deal.

Lu Zhong also told Lu Zhi everything about Lu Yuanbao's family history. A few years ago, a group of them were engaged in robbing homes, killing people and selling goods. Lu Yuanbao was the leader. He never left the victims alive. The last time they robbed an official who had retired and returned to his hometown, Lu Yuanbao was ready to stop. He didn't want to distribute his property to the dozen brothers who followed him, so he ordered Lu Zhong to silence them all while they were drunk. After doing all this, Lu Yuanbao and Lu Zhong took a large amount of property to Qing County to commit suicide. Because of this, Lu Yuanbao was ridiculed by Zhao Youren for being a single family.

Lu Zhi immediately understood what Lu Zhong meant and asked if it was difficult to kill Lu Yuanbao. Lu Zhong said that the difficulty was that killing people did not require a knife and taking money without a lawsuit. The best way was to let Lu Yuanbao die without any mystery. , and then Lu Zhi, as his adopted son, inherited the Lu family's property.

After returning to Ying County, Lu Zhi was arranged to live in the simplest room, but he didn't care about it at all. Chen Wang and Zhang Guiliu Shiqi, who had received Lu Zhi's favor, all surrounded Lu Zhi. Lu Zhi simply Tell the three people the plan to kill Lu Yuanbao and divide the family property equally. The four of them immediately formed a blood alliance and became brothers.

Lu Zhi and Zhang Gui first found Mrs. Wang and took out Qiao Gou'er's skull which Mrs. Wang had buried in the yard. Knowing that it could not be concealed, Mrs. Wang told the story of killing Qiao Gou'er.

Qiao Gou'er stole a pen from him, which was not a big deal at first. When Master Wang found out, he scolded him and asked Qiao Gou'er to return the pen. The matter was over, but Qiao Gou'er wanted to give the pen to Xiao Baozi. , he asked Master Wang to give him a good beating, and then not to take the pen back. Master Wang didn’t know Qiao Gouer’s intention, and thought that Qiao Gouer wanted to take advantage of it, so he satirized Qiao Gouer for not having the discipline of his parents, so he poked him After hurting the child who grew up in a brothel, Qiao Gou'er started to fight back, and the two began to struggle. Mrs. Wang hit Qiao Gou'er on the head with a ruler. After a while, she found that Qiao Gou'er stopped moving, and only then did she realize that she had lost her hand. , there were traces of a ruler on Qiao Gou'er's neck. In order to avoid suspicion, Mrs. Wang simply cut off her head and buried it in the yard.

This incident became the basis for Lu Zhi's blackmail. Master Wang cared about reputation the most and said that as long as Lu Zhi didn't report it, he could do anything.

Long before Lu Zhi was ridiculed by Lu Yuan, he handed over the list of Cheng Zhiyi's petty thefts to Chen Wang. His original intention was to let Chen Wang take the list and threaten Cheng Zhiyi to use some money to help pay off his gambling debts, but it happened to be at that time that Chen Wang There was no shortage of money, so he deliberately set aside a hand and asked Cheng Zhiyi to sign the list in case of future emergencies.

Chen Wang found Cheng Zhiyi and ordered Lu Yuanbao to prescribe some medicine, which caused Lu Yuanbao's health to deteriorate. These chips were not enough. Chen Wang found Cheng Zhiyi again and asked Cheng Zhiyi to betroth his daughter to him. Cheng Zhiyi came from a medical family and saw that Li didn't look down on a servant like Chen Wang at all, and the two couldn't reach an agreement after discussing it. When Chen Wang was about to leave, he suddenly saw Leng Wuji standing at the door.

Leng Wuji heard the conversation between the two and immediately understood the reason, but did not ask too much. Cheng Zhiyi guessed that Leng Wuji must have mastered his crime. If Chen Wang added more fuel and jealousy, it would be difficult for him to stand up, so he was helpless. He wrote down the marriage contract between Chen Wang and his daughter.

After Lu Zhong learned about it, he blamed Lu Zhi for being careless. Leng Wuji should not have heard about it. Now that it has become a fact, he can only continue to act.

With the stolen list and a marriage contract, Lu Zhi had completely grasped Cheng Zhiyi's lifeline, so he asked Cheng Zhiyi to increase the dosage of Lu Yuanbao's medicine. There was a prescription in the pharmacy when he took the medicine. In order to avoid being seen out, Cheng Zhiyi specially prescribed two One prescription was given to Chen Wang and the other to Lu Yuanbao. If given to either of them individually, they would have a therapeutic effect. If the two pills were combined, they would have the opposite effect.

Under the coercion of Lu Zhi, Master Wang imitated Lu Yuanbao's handwriting and wrote a suicide note. Cheng Zhiyi gave the prescription to Lu Zhong. Lu Zhi's four sworn brothers stopped communicating with each other. They only waited for the day when Lu Yuanbao died, and they shared the property equally. .

Lu Zhi was still working as a coolie in the Lu family. One day when he was cleaning the gate, a carriage suddenly stopped at the door. A middle-aged man got out, claiming to be Lu Yuanbao's brother Lu Jinxin. As he spoke, he called his son Lu down from the carriage. No worries, he signaled that he had arrived at his uncle's house. Lu Zhi was shocked when he saw the two people in front of him.