The emperor faked his death? Never mind, I will ascend the throne directly!

"This brat is trying to steal my woman, so what if I beat him?" Father Lu didn't care at all.

The young master in the carriage was so angry that his face turned red: "You! You! Just wait for me, I will give you a skin, or I will take your last name! Go!"

The servant lowered the curtain again and said to Lu Wen, "We understand your mother's intention. Sir Lu, please take care of yourself."

After saying that, he didn't give Lu Wen a chance to speak again and just walked away in a swagger.

"Bah, you little bastard who hasn't even grown all his hair yet dares to scare me, huh!" Father Lu spat in disdain and went to the toilet.

Lu Wen, with a gloomy expression, waited for his father to come back and asked him what happened. After his father finished speaking, he didn't take it to heart.

The next few days were peaceful and Lu Wen's heart gradually settled down, thinking that it was just a small scandal caused by drinking and it would be over after a while.

But who would have thought, one night, when Lu Wen was sleeping in the house, there was a "bang" sound, and the sound of something heavy falling to the ground was heard in the yard.

Then, the night watchman shouted, "What...what is this?"

Lu Wen turned over and got out of bed, pushed the door open, and saw the scene in the yard.

A sack stained with blood had been opened, and a skinless humanoid figure was curled up inside.

With a buzzing sound in his heart, Lu Wen walked over and turned the human figure over. When he saw the head, his mind went blank.

The face was intact, it was exactly his father's face!

"Dad! Dad! Dad, wake up, don't scare the child, Dad!" Lu Wen shouted in pain.

The shouting alarmed Lu's mother. She wanted to ask her son what had happened, but suddenly saw the scene in the yard. She screamed "Ah" and fainted.

After this incident, Lu Wen's mother fell seriously ill.

She always regretted that she had not persuaded Lu's father enough, which led to this fatal disaster. She also often advised her son not to think about revenge, because the other party was too powerful and they could not defeat him.

But Lu Wen couldn't listen at all at that time. His mind was full of his father covered in blood and the young man clamoring to skin his father alive.

Afterwards, he went to the brothel to investigate and found that the beating of the young man by Lu's father was not that serious.

The young man came to his house blatantly to ask for an explanation, just to provoke Lu's father to scold him, so that he would have an excuse to kill Lu's father.

Slowly closing his eyes, Lu Wen felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

Although he has become an official, he is still an ant in front of officials who are higher than him.

His status as the cousin of the Minister of Personnel was so overwhelming that he didn't even have the energy to appeal.

As a last resort, he thought of his teacher.

I wrote a letter to the teacher, saying hello and telling him about my father's situation.

A few days later, he received a reply from the teacher, telling him that he would have an interview.

Lu Wen, who was only interested in finding an answer, arranged the matters at the county government office and went to find his teacher.

No one knew what the two talked about, but after Lu Wen came back, he seemed like a different person.

He went to the young man's house to apologize solemnly, then returned to the county government office and worked hard, spending the rest of his time with his mother.

With his company, his mother felt a little better, but she was still unable to get out of bed.

Life was slowly getting back on track, and Lu Wen felt that it was too difficult for him to make a name for himself in this cannibalistic Jiangnan.

One day, Lu Wen returned home after finishing his work and went to see his mother as usual, but his mother was missing.

There was a letter on the table in the room, saying that the magistrate invited Lu's mother to come to his house for a chat.

After putting down the letter, Lu Wen rode to the home of the magistrate Zheng Yingtong.

After arriving, the doorman took him directly into the backyard, where Lord Zheng was already waiting for him.

Naturally, he didn't see his mother. Lord Zheng said that he admired Mrs. Lu's talent for raising such an outstanding son, and wanted to keep her at home for a few more days.

This is a blatant kidnapping!

But Lu Wen had no choice. The blow of his father's death had exhausted him, and his mother was now under house arrest, and he had become numb.

He knelt down before Lord Zheng and asked him to do whatever he wanted him to do.

Seeing this young man so understanding, Lord Zheng was very happy. He pulled Lu Wen up and said with a smile, "I just want to give you a promotion. Don't be so serious. A promotion is a good thing."

Standing up numbly, Lu Wen said without any emotion, "Thank you, Lord Zheng, for your kindness."

Not long after returning, Lu Wen was promoted to the governor of Zezhou.

The original prefect only said that he was seriously ill and had to return to his hometown to recuperate.

How could the prefect, who usually had good health, fall seriously ill and no one care?

Only Lu Wen, who was about to take up his new post, could sigh helplessly in his heart.

The father of an official here died suddenly, and the former prefect suddenly fell seriously ill. Even Jiangnan Prefecture couldn't get out of this news! How ridiculous!

In this way, Lu Wen was forced to join the ranks of corrupt officials in Jiangnan Prefecture.

They asked Lu Wen to help them do bad things, act as a middleman to pass on information, and forced him to participate in accepting bribes.

If Lu Wen didn't obey, she would cut his mother's hair and give it to him to scare him.

In order to keep his mother alive, he had no choice but to get involved.

I lived in such agony, and only when it was late at night and everyone was asleep would I secretly light a lamp in my bed and write down their crimes to make myself feel better.

It turned out that the former prefect also had leverage in the hands of the Tongpan. Later, he accidentally learned that the relative who was under house arrest by the Tongpan was actually dead, and he collapsed.

The magistrate felt that he was difficult to control, so he "eliminated" him.

Lu Wen shuddered at the thought. He had to stay alive and save his mother. His father had died for no reason, and he only had his mother left!

Lu Wen's voice in the room had stopped, but no one spoke, and silence filled the air.

After a long moment, Li Chengfeng threw the teacup beside him and said, "This is simply lawless!"

"These rats, how dare they!"

Zhao Sheng stepped forward and begged His Majesty to pay attention to the dragon's health.

After taking several deep breaths, Li Chengfeng barely suppressed the anger in his heart. As he walked along, and as the investigation deepened, he believed that he had a good grasp of the affairs of Jiangnan Prefecture.

He had already prepared a plan for how each official should be sentenced and punished.

Lu Wen's words today made him overturn his previous ideas. He had originally wanted to use a conciliatory policy to slowly untie the knots in the Jiangnan officialdom and straighten out those complicated relationships.

Now it seems that he was too kind.

Thinking of this, Li Chengfeng asked Lu Wen if he wanted to make amends and rescue his mother.

Lu Wen knelt down and kowtowed without thinking to express his sincerity.

Suddenly, Zhao Sheng's carrier pigeon arrived.

He took off the note tied to the pigeon's leg and handed it to Li Chengfeng to read.

It turned out to be a secret letter sent by Ji Ye, saying that the boss had gone to see his immediate superior, and that superior had gone to the Tongpan Mansion.

They discussed putting the details of the business of buying and selling official positions on hold, saying they would resume it after returning and taking control of the emperor.

Li Chengfeng was so angry that he laughed: "You still want to control me, you are so bold!"

He ordered Zhao Sheng to recall Ji Ye and not to keep an eye on the Tongpan for the time being.

With this interruption, the atmosphere in the room was no longer as heavy as before, and the king and his two ministers discussed in the room for a long time before leaving.