Water Margin: Lu Bu sits on Mount Liang

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A crisp sound burst out from between his fingers. Zhang Lin flicked the insect corpse in his hand away with disgust, rubbed his fingers on the slightly black prison uniform, and there was a look of disgust on his face that had not been washed for a long time.

"Why doesn't Mr. Lu come over here?" Reaching out to catch the bugs on his body, the former Prime Minister of the Southern Palace looked more and more impatient.

The smell in the prison was really unbearable for him, not to mention that he hadn't taken a bath for ten days or half a month. He felt that the smell on his body had gone bad. But what made him even more sad was that after sitting in this prison for a long time, he had become accustomed to this smell.

Living in a room full of orchids for a long time, one will not smell its fragrance; living in a market full of abalones for a long time, one will not smell its stench. This probably describes his situation.

"Zhang Nanfu, are you saying that the man is really my son?" Lu Yan's unconfident voice came from the side.

Zhang Lin slapped a bug to death once again. Feeling awkward in his heart, he simply stood up from the ground. Upon hearing this, he turned his head to look at the prison cell next to him, and looked at the equally embarrassed figure over there through the wooden bars: "Didn't I tell you? That guy looks so much like you, and his last name is Lu, so he might be a member of your family."

Choke, choke——

He took two steps, and the iron chain in his hand shook. "Besides, I checked the case files before I came here. This Lü Bu made his name in Nanjing Road, which is where your family is. Unfortunately, I didn't think of this at the time, and I didn't check his hometown any further. I just thought that he couldn't leave Yandi anyway."

The prison fell silent for a long time. Someone said in a low voice, "It turns out that the thief Lu is from your Lu family. If this news gets out, I wonder how your Lu family will shoulder such a heavy responsibility."

boom--

"Ah Ba, do you want to die?"

The furious young man stood up suddenly and punched the thick wooden fence, shaking off a cloud of dust.

"Come here if you dare, I will kill you like a dog!" The shaved Khitan youth was not to be outdone.

"We are all behind bars, what's there to argue about?"

The loud voice echoed in the prison. The two men who were trying to show off to each other across the prison bars looked at each other, snorted at the same time, and sat back down angrily.

Zhang Lin pressed his throbbing forehead. This was not the first time this had happened. When the two of them were captured and first entered the prison, Ah Ba had already been imprisoned here. No one knew what this man was thinking, but he had always been sarcastic and mocking them. Even if Lu Yan had a good temper, he was just a young man and naturally could not stand being bullied. He had quarreled with him several times.

boom--

The prison door slammed heavily against the wall, and the solid wood door trembled with a buzzing sound. The prison boss walked in and shouted, "What are you making noise about? The cavalry general is here!"

Then he puffed out his stomach, took out the key to the cell door, walked over to Zhang Lin and opened it: "Come out, remember to kneel before you see the general later."

He went to open Lu Yan's cell door again, gave the same instructions, and then led the two of them out. Ah Ba, who was not brought out at the back, snorted coldly, closed his eyes and leaned against the wall, wondering what he was thinking about.

Zhang Lin and Lu Yan followed the jailer out. As the sunlight shone on them, they couldn't help but feel a warmth. God knows they could only enjoy the sunlight for a cup of tea every day, and their bodies were already exhausted. Now, breathing in the fresh air and feeling the sunlight, they felt comfortable.

After walking for a while, they soon entered the central hall of the yamen. Lu Bu was sitting at the table and talking to Li Zhu, who was standing. When he heard footsteps, he looked over.

"Greetings, General of the Cavalry." x2
"Get up."

He gave a faint instruction and raised his face to look at Lu Bu, which made the former Wen Hou raise his eyebrows. This feeling, which was almost like looking into a bronze mirror, was really a bit weird, especially since the other party was wearing prison clothes and iron shackles.

"I heard that you two are trying hard to see me? But do you want to surrender?" Lu Yan glanced at Lu Bu who was speaking. The weird feeling in his heart was no weaker than his. He even had an advantage because the other party occupied the richest land in Dongjing Road. For a moment, he forgot to speak.

Zhang Lin, who was standing beside him, could only bow and say, "General, we two do have a plan, but we have something to ask the General of the Cavalry for confirmation."

"explain."

Lu Bu looked at him deeply. He could hear that the other party's surrender was conditional, but he didn't care. The Han people of Liao were suppressed by the Khitan and other foreign races everywhere, and they were also oppressed by the ancestral rule that "Han people do not participate in all military and national affairs". Now that Yelu Dezhong was defeated and fled, he couldn't think of anything the two could do to him.

Zhang Lin held his hands together and said, "Excuse me, General, are you from Xijin Prefecture?"

Lu Bu frowned: "Why are you asking this?"

"This matter is very important to the two of us. I hope the general will tell us."

Zhang Lin lowered his head, looking humble. Lu Yan beside him also seemed to have just woken up from a dream, with a look of desire in his eyes. He clasped his hands together and bowed to the ground: "I hope the general of the cavalry will solve my doubts."

Li Zhu stood at the side with narrowed eyes, one hand twirling the tip of his beard, with a thoughtful look in his eyes, no one knew what he was thinking about.

Lu Bu was somewhat helpless. The two men were courteous and sincere, but he was a soft-hearted person. Even though his temperament had changed a little in the past two years, some fundamental things had not changed. He shook his head and said, "I can't remember clearly." After a pause, he said, "I only vaguely remember that I was born in a wealthy family."

He told the truth, and the two people opposite him were surprised. They looked at each other. They never expected to get such an answer. For a moment, they were both hesitant and didn't know what to say. Lu Bu frowned impatiently: "What do you two mean? Why are you asking about this?"

Then he looked at Lu Yan, and suddenly realized something, and said with a smile: "Could it be that you two suspect that I have some connection with him?"

How can a person from the Han Dynasty compare with...

Hmm? Wait...

The smile paused, and Lu Bu frowned. Lu Yan, on the other side, cupped his hands and said, "I dare not deceive the general. I was born in the Lu family and I am now taking root in Xijin Prefecture. The general was in Tanzhou at that time, not far from his hometown, so..."

After a pause, the young man stood up straight and pointed at his face. "Besides, the General of the Cavalry and I look so similar, and we both have the surname Lu. Such coincidences are rare, so it's no wonder that I think too much. So I want to ask if the General of the Cavalry is from the same clan as me."

"If..." The young man swallowed his saliva, looked at Zhang Lin, and suddenly lowered his head: "I dare not say anything else, but my family is definitely willing to lend a helping hand to the general."

Lu Bu looked at him for a while and asked, "Why?"

Lu Yan licked his dry lips and said, "First, the current Liao emperor is incompetent and foolish. He listens to treacherous officials and rejects loyal ministers and generals. Many of the elders in my family have also suffered from this. Second,..."

He glanced at Zhang Lin, then looked across at the opposite side, and after a moment of contemplation, he said, "The imperial court is in decline, and my Lu family cannot be completely tied to it after all."

After saying that, he lowered his head. No one spoke in the room for a long time. Only Lu Bu could hear the "dong dong" sound of tapping the table with his fingers.

"Heh... the style of the nobles."

There is a voice saying. (End of this chapter)