Careerist in Qin Dynasty

Chapter 118 Secret
The terrain around Daliang City is open and the hydrological conditions are excellent.

In addition to being not far from the Yellow River, there are not only natural waterways such as Jishui, Yingshui, Danshui, and Jushui, but also natural lakes such as Putianze, Pengze, and Muze, which are very suitable for the development of agriculture.

In the past, King Hui of Wei used these waterways to build large-scale water conservancy projects many times, and painstakingly managed the water network outside Daliang City, making the capital's water and land transportation extremely convenient and with a large population.

Lu Wei and Ziwu had been in Wei for some time, and they were still about three to five days away from their destination.

When they stopped for a meal and rest in a small inn, the waiter suddenly brought several plates of food and wine that did not belong to them.

"We didn't order these things, did we?"

Ziwu held the hilt of the sword at his waist with his right hand and looked at the waiter calmly.

"Two knights, these were sent here at the request of the guests at that table, and they have already been paid for."

The waiter smiled broadly and pointed to the table at the end of the hall: "You two, please take your time."

After saying that, he left to do other things.Lu Wei and Ziwu looked at the waiter before leaving and pointed:

There were three people at the table, and the gentle young man sitting facing them kept staring at the two of them. When he saw them looking over, the young man waved and said hello in a friendly way.

Lu Wei glanced at his clothes and smiled in response.

"Lord, is he also a brother from our farm family?"

Ziwu looked away and asked.

Lu Wei lowered his head and took a bite of fish: "No, I don't know him either. He's a stranger."

"Oh~" Ziwu stared in the direction of the man again, and found that he did not look over again, but was chatting with the people at the same table, smiling happily.

"There is nothing to be courteous about. There are so many people in this inn, why does he want to make friends with us?"

The lobby of the inn was indeed full of people, and at a rough count there were nearly twenty tables of various types of wandering merchants.

"You don't just want to make friends with us." Lu Wei chuckled nonchalantly: "Look at the waiter."

As he spoke, Ziwu turned around and found that the waiter brought the same dish to the table of the two new rangers who came in.

Such behavior reminded Lu Wei of what Lu Qing did when he first met Lu Qing.However, something different is that Lu Qing's purpose at that time was to deepen his reputation in his hometown and try to make friends with passing rangers to eliminate Zhuang Jia, the thief of Zhuangshan.

As for the young man who spends a lot of money in this inn, judging from his clothes, he must be a visitor from out of town. Such behavior will not help him stabilize his reputation. Unless he is famous himself.

Or maybe he just has a lot of money and makes some random good connections.
"Interesting, since he does this, he definitely doesn't mind if I go and make friends with him."

Ziwu put down his chopsticks, and after receiving a nod from the master of the hall, he stood up and went to the young man's table.

In Lu Wei's sight, Ziwu was invited by the young man to sit down. Besides him, one of the two rangers who had just come in also stood up and walked over to sit down and test it too.

A table of three became five.

The surrounding drinkers didn't feel strange. Everyone just glanced at it casually and continued to do their own thing.

While Hall Master Lu was eating, he recovered his mind and considered the opportunity for him to act in Daliang.

The Xinling Temple cannot be escaped in the city, and the Armored Gate cannot be escaped in the city.Although Zuimenglou remained in Daliang after its merger with Tantai in Daliang last year, according to Situ Wanli's news, the person in charge, Hua Ying, tried to build another address for Zuimenglou in Puyang City on the Wei border.

Ready to move at any time.

It's not far from Daze Mountain.

"I stayed in Zhao State for a long time. Lu Ni and the others and Mei Sanniang who came from Daze Mountain should have met in the city."

"Just leave it to Mei Sanniang to dissuade the disciples of the Armored Sect from joining the farm. The current leader of the Armored Sect, Dianqing, is a person who misses old friendships. Even if he discovers Mei Sanniang's behavior, he will not hurt her."

"Zhang Er and Chen Yu have been roaming back and forth between Wei and Chu these years. I wrote to them at the end of last year. They must have been waiting for me in Xinling Temple for a long time. I can wait until I enter the city to accommodate them. Do it first.”

"As for Zuimenglou, my goal is to have half of the say. This will allow the snow girl to compete with the flower shadow girl. It will not be difficult to choose a Gonggongtang agent from the Dantai Dancer."

"Also counting the time, Xiaomeng, the future head of the Taoist Tianzong, has been born for about two years at this time. She also has rare natural white hair. Using this information, asking the disciples to look for it may provide some information."

"Determine Xiaomeng's location first, so that when Qin attacks Wei in the future, if I rescue her, she will owe me the favor of saving her life!"

"Finally, among the local ranger talents in Wei, let's find out if there is any wanderer like Ziwu. I'll accept them together!"

"After taking away all the resources that can be taken away from Daliang City, the leader of this hall will go south to Chu."

After analyzing what he wanted to do in Wei, Ziwu also came back to test:
"The other party's name is Xu Wang. He used to be from Wei, but now he is from Qin."

"The purpose of his trip was to visit his homeland and talk about his father's last wish when he was a child. By the way, he would marry a Liang Wei girl. According to him, this was another one of his father's last wishes."

"The family wealth is not very large, but he doesn't realize that these yellow and white things are rare, so he spends money generously in the Wei Kingdom without asking for anything in return." After reporting the young man's information, Ziwu lowered his head and ate for a while. The identity of the other party was too ordinary. No, it's not worth his trouble.

And Lu Wei recited the name 'Xu Wang' twice, but he really had no impression in his mind. At most, he was somewhat familiar with this 'Xu' surname. It seemed that he had killed someone with the surname Xu?
The other person is not a character in the original work, and I don’t know if he is a historical figure, but in any case, since this Xu Wang is rich and behaves differently from ordinary people, he can be befriended.

As for how much friendship he deserves from the hall master, it depends on whether the other party behaves in the future.

After eating, Lu Wei and Ziwu continued on their way. They led the horses for a walk and chatted about sword skills for a while. When they were ready to mount their horses and gallop, Xu Wang from the inn happened to follow them:
"Are you two brothers going to Daliang? How about we go together?"

With a smile on his face, he cupped his fists at the two of them in a polite manner.

"Meeting each other means we are destined, of course."

Ziwu remained silent, and Lu Wei agreed immediately. He was about to observe Xu Wang again: the other party did not ask to go with him because he happened to have the same destination as him. There must be some other reason.

As for what the real reason is, since he wants to go with him, it will definitely be exposed at some point.

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In Daliang City, there is a spacious courtyard.

Lu Ni, Xue Nu, and Mei Sanniang stood outside the field, watching Xiao Yan'er execute the basic sword moves meticulously.

What they rented was a larger loft, belonging to the armored door industry.It was Mei Sanniang who personally negotiated with the disciple in charge of the matter in the Armored Sect and obtained it at a more reasonable price.

When Mei Sanniang learned in Daze Mountain that Hall Master Lu wanted to accept the disciples of the Armored Sect into the farmhouse, she did not make an immediate decision.Instead, he frowned and pondered for several days, and finally learned that Qin State was gathering troops in Nanyang, and finally made up his mind.

She was already unwilling to serve for the bastard King Wei, and it would be even more sad to have her fellow disciples die for the bastard King Wei!
After hurriedly arriving in Daliang, she waited in the city for a month before meeting up with Lu Nixue Nu.

Mei Sanniang is straightforward and very responsible for her duties, so both Lu Ni and Xue Nu can get along well with her.

And her level of care and responsibility towards Xiao Yan'er was no less than that of Xue Nu from the beginning, and she won the recognition of both girls.

Since Hall Master Lu didn't know when he would arrive, they focused entirely on Xiao Yan'er these days.Lu Ni was no stranger to Daliang City, and she was the only one among the three women who knew the real reason why Lu Wei let Ji Yan come to Daliang City.

But she was very careful not to inform any outsiders of the news, nor did she contact the disciples of Xinling Temple privately. After all, she killed the man with her own hands.
This news is currently secret, but the Luowang organization knows it!At the critical moment in the future, Luo Wang will definitely expose the true cause of Xinlingjun's death.

However, she is not worried about this, because these Xinlingjun disciples will have already entered the farmhouse by then, and they will really die if they have any other ideas in the master's hands.

"Huh", Xiao Yan'er finished her sword dance on the court, picked up the scabbard on the ground and inserted the Frightened Salamander Sword, put it on the sword stand aside with her toes, then trotted to the side of the court and let Mei Sanniang wet her hands with her. Silk wiped away the sweat on his forehead:
"Thank you, Miss Mei."

"Mom, Sister Xue Nu, I'm going back to my room to practice my internal skills."

After saying that, Ji Yan jumped up and ran away.

Mei Sanniang, who put away the wet wipes, couldn't help but sigh: "Ayan is so sensible at such a young age, and he will definitely do great things in the future."

Snow Girl laughed and hugged Lu Ni's arm: "It's all because of Sister Lu Ni's good teaching~"

"." Lu Ni curled up his lips and smiled lightly, but in his mind he remembered the conversation he had with his daughter on the first night he came to Daliang:
"Mother, is my father a big shot in Wei State?"

"Brother, the hall master, has always been very tolerant towards me. It must be that there is something important in Ayan that he has taken a liking to, right?"

"I have been protected in Luqiu Pavilion of Yan State since I can remember. This year everyone in the pavilion has evacuated to other places. But the hall master brother asked Sister Xue Nu and my mother to take me to Daliang of Wei State because of Daliang Zhong'a Can words create value for him?”

"Mother, can you tell Ayan some truth?"

"The hall master's brother is so powerful. If Ayan doesn't know anything, he can only be cautious in front of him, fearing to make the hall master's brother angry and implicate his mother."

"Mother."

My daughter is really smart, even a little too smart.

But in this world, if these people are too smart and don’t have enough protection, they may not survive long!
The master needs his daughter's identity to win the followers of Wei and some of the people's hearts, but as his power increases, the importance of these things to the master continues to decrease.
Once the threat posed by some of his daughter's actions outweighs her value, he no longer has the ability to protect her.
"Ayan, your father is Lord Xinling."

After much thought, Lu Ni chose to tell part of the truth to Xiao Yan'er that night.

She understood that she was not considered smart and could only serve as a thug for Hall Master Lu. At most, she could take on some of the Snow Maiden's responsibilities when the Snow Maiden was away and the master needed her, but her value only ended there.

As for the daughter, according to the master's plan, she was raised at the deputy level.Only if she is good enough can she survive even when she is gone.
Six-year-old Xiao Yan'er returned to the room and closed the door expressionlessly.Then she didn't practice her internal skills as she said. Instead, regardless of her sore muscles, she moved a chair, stepped on it and took down a scroll of bamboo slips from the top of the wardrobe:

"Jun Xinling died of illness in the seventh year of King Jingmin of Wei, that is."

Ji Yan calculated for a second: "Seven years ago? One year before I was born?"

"My mother still hides secrets and won't tell me."

(End of this chapter)