Chapter 49 Prisoners make trouble

"The Lu family has a fire starter?"

  "It doesn't look like a fire starter!" How

  can a fire starter be so bright?

  "The fire is dim, but the light looks as white as day..."

  The prisoners were emotional. Some of them immediately thought of the Lu family's magic that night and exclaimed: "Magic..."

  "No wonder the Lu family is not afraid of the cold! Magic!"

  "It must be magic!"

  Someone shouted: "Everyone go and ask the god to bless us!"

  "Yes! Since he is a god, why does he only bless the Lu family? Aren't we human beings?!"

  The prisoners were immediately incited and clamored to go to the Lu family to beg.

  Li Si, who was supposed to take care of the prisoners, watched this scene coldly.

  The small official next to him was a little nervous, "Why don't we go and take care of it? What if something happens..."

  Li Si sneered, "I'm afraid it's not big enough."

  As long as the two sides fight, he doesn't even need to take a knife, and the good things will naturally come to his hands.

  "But the boss..."

  "What are you afraid of? What can that coward Du Hangwu do to us? Don't forget that we are all from the same village!"

  Li Si was fearless, and he was sure that Du Hangwu would not dare to do anything to him. Otherwise, how would he explain to his relatives in the village in the future?

  At this time, the prisoners on the side, after finding that the officials next to them did not care, left the team and rushed to the front of the Lu family, blocking their way, "Lord Lu! Please save us, it's so cold, everyone is almost frozen to death!"

  An old man cried out, "You are the Lord, how can you bear to see us suffer."

  Song and others were frightened, and Xu held her daughter in her arms, looking at them blankly.

  The Lu clan members immediately followed Lu Xingyao to protect everyone in front, trying to force these people to retreat. "My grandfather has long lost his official position. We, the Lu family, cannot afford to be called the elders!"

  Lu Zhou said with a gloomy face, "If you feel cold, you should go find the officials. It's useless to find us. We are freezing too. Do you want us to give you the clothes on our bodies?"

  As he spoke, he glanced at the officials not far away, holding their knives and ignoring them. It was obvious that they would not care about this matter.

  A woman was pushed to the front with a child in her arms, shivering with cold, "Sir, please be kind. I can freeze, but my child can't! Please save my child. I kowtow to you!"

  As she said that, she actually knelt on the ground and kowtowed heavily to Lu Qing and others, her forehead was red, swollen and bleeding. The Lu family wanted to help her get up, but the woman was trembling all over, tears streaming down her face and refused to get up.

  Lu Qing wanted to go to the front to take a closer look, but Gu Xingzhao stopped him, "Don't go over."

  Lu Qing was puzzled: Why?

  Gu Xingzhao looked at the people who came over coldly, "Those officials have been staring at you for a long time. Now they ignore these troublemakers. They must want to see you quarrel so that they can reap the benefits."

  "The child in the woman's arms is dead. It looks like at least two days. It must have been pushed out. It's all for you."

  Letting the women and children kneel in front is to be sure that Lu Qing can't bear it. If he really goes over at this time, he will be hung up high and can't get down.

  Lu Qing tightly grasped the crutches, his face was ugly, how dare these people use children and women like this!

  Gu Xingzhao sighed. It was not easy for women in ancient times, not to mention that they are still in exile now. They are all criminals. If they are like the women of the Lu family, they will be protected by someone.

  Some of those who have no family to protect them will take the initiative to seek officials for support in order to survive, but not all officials are interested in this. The remaining women and children will either starve to death or be forced to commit themselves to others, and in the end, they will live a life worse than death.     The saddest thing is that even though they have family members by their side, they are treated as a plot to exchange for food and clothing by their family members, just like the woman in front of them, who pleads with the Lu family while glancing at the men over there.

  She sympathizes with these people, but she can't save everyone, and not everyone is worth saving.

  Lu Qing looked sad, and he was very tormented when he saw this scene but couldn't get out of it.

  Sensing his emotions, Gu Xingzhao comforted him, "Du Hangwu is ahead, and he will definitely come over when he hears the noise, so just bear with it."

  Lu Qing: I understand what the ancestors meant.

  Now they can only protect themselves and can't take care of others.

  It's only because Princess Shunyu is alone and the Liu family is sensible that they can help them a little, but these people in front of them are in a mess, and helping them will only cause endless troubles.

  Because of the connivance of Li Si and others, these people made a complete fuss, so that the Lu family was forced to stop in the middle and couldn't move forward.

  The crying and shouting became louder and louder, and it seemed that if the Lu family didn't help, they would stay here and not leave.

  Soon, knowing the movement behind the team, Du Hangwu walked over with a big knife. Seeing a group of prisoners surrounding the Lu family crying and making trouble, his face was as cold as frost. "What are you making trouble for!"

  Lu Xingyao spoke first, "Sir, it's not that we want to make trouble, it's really these people who suddenly blocked us and asked us to take off our clothes and give them to them!"

  Du Hangwu's face was gloomy. The people in charge of guarding this team were Li Si and his men.

  It seemed that he didn't listen to what he just said.

  He grabbed the collar of one of the troublemakers and threw him to the ground, kicking him with his feet, each time without mercy. The

  man was beaten black and blue and curled up on the ground begging for mercy. The other troublemakers didn't dare to cry anymore, and huddled behind one or two, fearing to be beaten.

  But there were still some who were not afraid of trouble and shouted in the back, "Sir! The people of the Lu family are not afraid of the cold, they must have some good things given by the gods!"

  "Why do they have it and we have to endure the cold?"

  This caused the other prisoners to be dissatisfied with the Lu family, "Yes! We are all leaving together, what kind of reason is that."

  "It must be that the Lu family embezzled it!"

  "That's right! They must give it out!"

  The Lu family was so angry that their faces turned red. Why should they give the things given by their ancestors to these people?

  They gave it to the Liu family because Liu Yushi died for advising the Lu family, and gave it to Princess Shunyu because they went to the imperial prison to deliver medicine to the old man.

  These people just want it when they open their mouths, so shameless!

  The Lu family only hated that they had been too obedient and read too many books in their lives. Now they could only spit out a word of insulting their father when they wanted to scold him.

  The emotions of these prisoners reached the peak, and they also incited the emotions of those around them. Gu Xingzhao looked at Du Hangwu, wanting to see how he was going to solve it.

  Before Du Hangwu could speak, Li Si came running over with a knife in his hand, pretending to be out of breath, "Boss! I'll tell them, I'll tell them."

  Du Hangwu looked at Li Si's performance coldly.

  Li Si drew out the knife from his waist and shouted at the troublemakers, "What are you making trouble for! You dare to ask for the things of the Lu family?!"

  "You all have hands and feet, waiting for the Lu family to give you alms, are you useless?!"