The whole family travels through the book, the plot is broken but the characters are not

At that time, the Lu family was the most powerful and wealthy business family in Shangyang Prefecture.

The Lu family has been engaged in business for generations, and their descendants all have a talent for business.

However, the Lu family had two major weaknesses: one was that they had few descendants, and the other was that they had no talent for studying.

The Lu family has had only one male heir for nine consecutive generations, which is truly the "nine generations of single inheritance."

The Lu family has a good family tradition. No matter how big the family business is, they are not allowed to take concubines.

Fortunately, although the Lu family had few descendants, there was always a child in each generation, so there was no interruption in the generation.

By the time of Lu Youtian's generation, five years after giving birth to Lu Fugui, Yu became pregnant again.

This made Lu Youtian's parents and Lu Youtian very happy. Finally, the family line was no longer a single-line inheritance for ten generations.

This is how Lu Yanyan was born, with the anticipation of the whole family.

Lu Youtian's father, Lu Defu, was very happy. It had been ten generations since their Lu family had a baby girl.

Lu Yanyan's name was specially chosen by Lu Defu, who asked an old scholar to help him. This avoided the Lu family's naming conventions such as "Fu", "Tian" and "Fu".

After Lu Yanyan was born, Lu Defu put aside the issue of "few offspring" and began to worry about the fact that the Lu family had never produced a scholar.

So, six-year-old Lu Fugui became the target of Lu Defu's abuse.

When he was a child, Lu Fugui was a more lively kid than Lu Changan.

Lu Fugui is neither good at literature nor martial arts. His biggest hobbies are teasing his sister and using an abacus.

Most of the teachers invited by Lu Defu were driven away by Lu Fugui, and the rest were just there to get by.

A few years later, Lu Defu finally realized that this was the fate of Lu Fugui's generation.

But he didn't want to accept his fate.

Twenty years ago, Lu Defu heard that a craftsman who went to Jiyang was granted the rank of seventh-rank royal soldier by King Lin because he made a nine-repeated crossbow.

The officials of the palace were appointed by the owner of the palace himself and did not need to go through the imperial examination.

Lu Defu felt that he had found a new direction to change his career.

He put in a lot of effort and finally exchanged a high-yield grain seed from a Nanyang merchant. Even in a cold and harsh place like Jiyang, the yield was not affected.

So, Lu Defu entrusted the affairs of Shangyang Prefecture to his good friend Qin Chi, and took Lu Youtian and Lu Fugui to Jiyang to buy a small farm.

Things went smoothly, and in about three months, the crop called "ground beans" was ripe.

The head of the village led his people to dig it out and calculated that the yield per acre was more than 3,000 kilograms.

The head of the village was terrified. Under normal circumstances, a yield of three or four hundred kilograms per acre of land was considered very good.

In Jiyang, the grain yield per mu is even lower, generally only more than 100 and less than 200 kilograms. Excluding grain seeds, the output per mu is even more astonishingly low.

If this ground bean could be planted on a large scale in Jiyang, the people of Jiyang would not go hungry.

Lu Defu and Lu Youtian were also very excited. If they presented the grain to King Lin, they should also be rewarded with officials of the seventh or eighth rank.

However, both father and son were cautious.

Although they had eaten the "ground beans" obtained from people in Southeast Asia, they still had to try the ones they grew themselves.

So they and the people on the farm ate boiled ground beans for ten days.

The taste of ground beans is not bad, but it is not delicious either.

Moreover, this kind of thing is extremely filling, and Lu Fugui kept complaining after eating it.

He wanted to eat meat, even stir-fried vegetables would be fine. He really couldn't eat the soft, tasteless ground beans.

So Lu Fugui slipped away.

Lu Defu and Lu Youtian were not worried either, because the naughty kid was away from home all day when he was in Shangyang Prefecture.

Anyway, he had practiced kung fu with Qin Chi and Qin Gang, so one or two adults couldn't do anything to him.

Lu Fugui slipped out of the farm, and Lu Defu happily went to Prince Lin's mansion.

He didn't dare to fully trust the local authorities.

A grain yield of 3,000 kilograms per mu is a huge achievement for any official, and he doesn't want to arouse envy.

Lu Defu originally wanted to find the chief secretary of Prince Lin's Mansion, but when he arrived at Prince Lin's Mansion, the gate was locked and there was not even anyone guarding the gate.

After asking others, he found out that Prince Lin had returned to Luo City a few days ago.

Prince Lin stays in Luocheng for three months every year. This is the time specially set by Emperor Huiren for his beloved son.

At that time, Prince Lin had already been granted marriage by the Emperor, and this time he returned to prepare for the wedding in February of the following year.

So this year, Prince Lin set off a month earlier than last year.

Lu Defu slapped his thigh in regret, wishing he had eaten less ground beans for a few days.

He could only wait for King Lin to come back before offering seeds.

Lu Defu left with high hopes but returned disappointed. When he arrived at Zhuangzi, it was already very late.

Lu Youtian was extremely anxious. When he saw his father coming back, he quickly told him that Lu Fugui had not been home for a day.

The two men sent all the people they could to look for Lu Fugui, but they couldn't find him after searching for several days.

Lu Defu wrote a letter to Shangyang Prefecture, asking Qin Chi to bring over everyone he could.

Before the letter was sent, a group of people came to the farm and smashed it, warning them not to say things they shouldn't say, and then smashed tens of thousands of pounds of ground beans to pieces.

After this incident, Zhuangtou committed suicide.

He left a letter saying that it was all his fault for being too excited and telling outsiders that he had a grain yield of 3,000 kilograms per mu, which brought disaster.

Lu Defu was worried about his grandson who could not be found, heartbroken about the destroyed beans in the field, and concerned that his family was being targeted. He soon fell ill.

Lu Youtian took care of his father while looking for his son.

He originally thought that those people had captured his son for the ground beans, but they also destroyed all the ground beans, so it didn't seem like they were trying to take possession of them.

Lu Youtian couldn't figure out what was going on and was almost going crazy.

He used all his money and energy to find people. In addition to looking for Lu Fugui, he also wanted to find the person who caused trouble in their village.

A few days later, a man who claimed to be the Ji Yang guard and named "Wu Youren" found Lu Youtian.

Wu Youren said that the Lu family offended someone they shouldn't have offended.

Lu Youtian thought about it and realized that his family had basically stayed on the farm since they arrived in Jiyang. Who could he offend?

But the man said in a firm tone that no matter whether the Lu family did it intentionally or unintentionally, the affairs of the nobleman should not be inquired into, and he also said that Lu Fugui was a lesson.

When Lu Youtian heard him mention his son, he hurriedly asked him if he knew his son's whereabouts.

Wu Youren then asked him what price he was willing to pay to find Lu Fugui.

He also hinted that anything less than three million taels would not do.

When Lu Youtian heard this, he almost fainted.

Although the Lu family is rich, apart from the shop and goods, the actual cash flow they can mobilize is only 500,000 to 600,000 taels.

This forced me to sell the Lu family's property.

The three million taels included all of the Lu family's assets. He didn't know how Lu Youren calculated the Lu family's assets so accurately.

He wanted to bargain with Wu Youren, but was flatly rejected.

Wu Youren also said that the Lu family had offended a noble person, and it would be good enough if they could pay with money in exchange for their lives.

Lu Youtian asked again what kind of noble person he was, but Wu Youren refused to give a direct answer and only said that he was the most noble person in Jiyang.

The most noble person in Ji Yang is of course King Lin.

But Lu Youtian knew very well that his family had never had any contact with King Lin or the people around King Lin, and it was impossible for them to offend King Lin.

Moreover, Prince Lin left Jiyang the day before Lu Fugui disappeared. This person clearly intended to make them hate Prince Lin.

Seeing that he couldn't deceive Lu Youtian, Wu Youren didn't care much.

He left a message saying that if you collect enough money, you can see the living person, otherwise you can only see Lu Fugui's corpse.

The day the silver was handed to him was the day Lu Fugui returned.

Lu Youtian knew that this person's name was fake and it was probably a scam, but he didn't dare to take the risk.

Lu Fugui has been missing for almost ten days. If he can't be found, he will be in great danger.

He had no choice but to bite the bullet and add a note about selling his property to the original letter and send it off.

He thought that if he couldn't meet Lu Fugui, he wouldn't be stupid enough to give him the money.

After Lu Defu knew about this, he just shed tears and sighed. As long as the person could be rescued, they could earn more money from the Lu family's property.

After the letter was sent, Lu Youtian looked forward to Qin Chi coming with the money as soon as possible.

It takes time to sell any property.

Lu Fugui's whereabouts are unknown, and Qin Chi doesn't know when he will arrive. Lu Defu and Lu Youtian feel that every day is like a year.

However, Wu Youren would send Lu Fugui an accessory every now and then, and repeatedly promised that he would never harm Lu Fugui before seeing the silver.

This made the two of them feel that there was still hope.

On New Year's Eve, Wu Youren also brought a letter from Lü Fugui. The letter was very short, with only three words - "I'm fine"...