My younger brother Lü Fengxian

Chapter 59 Human Heart (Thanks to Ang Yangxin for the reward, I will add another chapter~)

"In that case, my dear nephew, please take care of the arrangements. Just be sure to take care of your health and don't overwork yourself."

"Don't forget that my nephew and my daughter will be getting married in a month!"

Zhang Shang sighed and could only let Lu Yi go. He just reminded him at the end not to forget that he would be a groom in a month.

"Lu Yi will return as scheduled!" When Lu Yi heard this, Zhang Wan'er's voice and smile flashed through his mind, and his heart was moved.

"Brother-in-law, this is the brocade robe that my sister knitted for you overnight. She told me to tell you that early spring is the coldest time of the year, so you should take care of yourself and don't catch a cold!"

Zhang Liao came up to Lu Yi holding an exquisite and luxurious brocade robe and spoke like a little adult, shaking his head in a way that made people laugh.

"Got it. Please convey my gratitude to Wan'er." Lu Yi pinched Zhang Liao's little face and took the brocade robe from him.

The brocade robe was soft and made of thick material. It felt warm to the touch, and Lu Yi felt even warmer in his heart.

"Hmm?" Lu Yi frowned at the sudden bright red at the collar of the brocade robe. He immediately recognized that it was the color of human blood, and his heart ached: "This little girl must have pricked her finger in a hurry to make the brocade robe overnight."

It is the most difficult to accept the favor of a beautiful woman. Today, Lu Yi finally understood the meaning of this sentence.

"Wan'er treated me like this, am I still a man if I don't take action?"

"Have it!"

Lu Yi was moved and immediately thought of Zhang Wan'er's good idea.

"In ancient times, a mother valued her son the most! And among sons, the eldest son was the most valuable!"

"I must work harder to be the first to get her pregnant to repay her for her kindness to me!"

At this moment, Lu Yi swore in his heart that one month later, he would do his best to repay Zhang Wan'er and would not let her down!
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Three days later, in the outskirts of Jiuyuan County, the atmosphere in the humble room of the Lu family was solemn.

Six newly made spirit tablets are placed on the solemn spirit platform in the center of the lobby.

Six expensive and exquisite coffins were laid out one after another. The young men lying inside looked pale and bloodless, but they looked peaceful and calm, without any signs of decay. This showed the superb skills of the coffin collector, who made the last journey of these warriors who unfortunately died in battle very dignified.

"My son, I worked so hard to raise you, but now I have to die before you. How can I live in this world if you leave me alone?"

"Husband! Husband! Why are you so cruel to leave me and our two children behind? Please teach me how a woman can raise our children..."

"Father, father, why are you lying in this big box without saying a word? Are you angry with Nannan? Nannan will never make you angry again. Father, please open your eyes..."

A sad mood permeated the lobby.

Everyone was infected by the grief of the bereaved family members, and everyone had a heavy look on their face.

"I am the head of the caravan. The dead cannot be resurrected. Please accept my condolences..."

"These warriors are all brave warriors who fought against the barbarians without retreating. Without their sacrifice, the rest of us would not be able to defeat the barbarians' raids. These warriors are all good men of Bingzhou!"

"Although I cannot bring these warriors back to life, I must give them a grand funeral, so that they can live bravely and die with dignity!"

Lu Yi stepped forward and helped the crying old woman who had collapsed on the ground up, his tone heavy.

"Master shopkeeper, Bingzhou is close to the frontier, and many people join the caravan to make a living outside the frontier. However, when other caravan shopkeepers encounter this situation, most of them abandon the dead in the wilderness to be eaten by wolves. It is a great favor to be able to bring the bodies of the dead back to their homeland. Not only do you spend a lot of money to provide pensions, but you also want to support the elderly and raise orphans. Now you have even arranged such a grand spirit platform for my son. My son died for you in battle, which is a worthy death!"

"That's right, Master Shopkeeper, you have done enough for us. Although I am just a woman, I know the rules of propriety. A gentleman will die for his friend. You have been so kind to my late husband. If he were in the afterlife, he would definitely not regret dying for you!"

The ancients attached great importance to etiquette and law. There is also a saying that etiquette does not extend to common people, and punishment does not extend to officials.

As soon as Lu Yi returned to Jiuyuan, he fulfilled his promise made outside the Great Wall. Not only did he immediately take the relatives of the dead in his home and publicly distribute a pension of 10,000 coins to them, he also spent a large sum of money to purchase expensive coffins, set up a solemn and dignified spirit platform, and find the best undertaker to prepare their remains.

These dead and their survivors are the people living at the bottom of this era, the common people who are ignored by everyone, the few cold lines of words on the household registration books, and the transparent people forgotten by history.

They live with hunger and struggle with poverty all day long, and their biggest dream is to live a life with enough food and without feeling the cold for a few days.

In the time and space before Lu Yi traveled through time, Maslow, a famous psychologist in history, once divided human needs into five levels, namely physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, respect needs, and self-actualization needs.

Generally speaking, only when low-level needs are met will humans have higher-level needs.

You can't expect a person from the lower class who doesn't have enough food to eat and who has to carry on in poverty, hunger and cold all day long to sacrifice his life for the person in a higher position who always provides him with a peaceful life.

but!

It is this group of people who clearly have not even met the most basic physiological and safety needs, but are grateful to Lu Yi for his insignificant efforts and a somewhat deliberate performance.

Just because for the first time they felt respected, valued and needed by their superiors.

Gao Shun, Hao Meng, Hou Cheng and other heroes who returned to their homeland alive watched this scene with complicated expressions.

Some of them just watched in silence without saying a word.

Some people snorted in their hearts, disdainful of Lu Yi's hypocritical performance.

Some people also don't understand why Lu Yi would waste so much energy and money on these people who obviously have no value anymore.

But no matter what their own thoughts were, most people were moved by Lu Yi's courtesy to the wise and humble, and believed that such a person was a wise leader worthy of their service.

But if they were asked to exchange identities with Lu Yi, they would definitely not do what Lu Yi did. Some of them were even too lazy to perform.

Even most of them are the same lower-class people as these bereaved families.

The reason for this is nothing more than three simple words - not cost-effective.

These survivors were nothing but orphans, widows, the elderly, the weak and the disabled. It was already a favor for Lu Yi to feed them and keep them well fed. Why did he take so much trouble to treat them with such courtesy?

But Lu Yi, who came from the future more than a thousand years later, could see figures similar to these people in the shadows cast by the brilliant and dazzling light of history.

They were the remnants of the six kingdoms who were forced to survive by the harsh Qin laws, and were standing beside King Zhang Chu, who shouted, "Are there any kings, princes, generals, or ministers of different races?"

Behind the great and virtuous teacher who shouted that Heaven was dead and that Yellow Heaven should be enthroned were hundreds of thousands of hungry people in rags, with deep hatred on their faces, who were bent on destroying their own country.

Behind Chishiro, who claimed to be able to predict the general trend of the world, there were countless people who sang the song of "Never Die in Liaodong" one after another, and would rather raise the banner of rebellion and be implicated with their entire clan than die in vain for their monarch's dream of a prosperous age. They should have been as docile and obedient as a flock of sheep.

These people may seem insignificant and perhaps not worth mentioning, but there are countless of them behind every major historical event.

Perhaps without their existence, those lights that should have been brilliant and dazzling would become dim and return to ordinary.

Therefore, Lu Yi could understand how beneficial, precious and cost-effective what he was doing was.

All because of what he exchanged for.

It's called human heart...

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