Phi-Fic Chapter 403 Qian Laiye and Lu Yunshu
Chapter 403 Qian Laiye and Lu Yunshu
Qian Lai was also quite satisfied with their performance. However, in his opinion, although these two apprentices had good abilities, their development ceiling was not high. It would be beyond their ability to let them manage such a large industry as Yipin Guo.
Compared with these two disciples, Qian Lai also prefers his young disciple Lu Yunshu to inherit Yipintang.
Qian Laiye and Lu Yunshu first met at a meeting with Liu Zhao, the richest man in Yunzhou. At that time, Lu Yunshu sat below Liu Zhao as Liu Zhao's grandson, looking elegant and dignified.
At that time, Qian Lai also felt that this person could surpass the younger generations of the Liu family. He was favored by Liu Zhao and was personally brought up to be trained. He must have his outstanding qualities. However, that was all. He did not think about any interactions they would have in the future.
When they met for the second time, Lu Yunshu no longer had the high spirits he had when they first met. Instead, he fell in a pool of blood, as if he would die in the next second.
Qian Laiye, who was passing by, rescued the man, applied medicine and bandaged him. After the man woke up and asked questions carefully, Qian Laiye finally knew the whole story.
Less than half a year after meeting Qian Laiye, Old Man Liu Zhaoliu fell seriously ill. His condition recurred repeatedly and never got better.
Old Master Liu had only one daughter who died young, and he had no other children. Seeing that Old Master Liu was in a bad condition, the Liu family's collateral relatives began to make moves, intending to take away all of Old Master Liu's property after he died.
Their biggest competitor in seizing the Liu family's assets is Liu Zhao's only grandson, Lu Yunshu.
In order to get rid of Lu Yunshu, the Liu family's side branch contacted Lu Yunshu's stepmother, and took action against Lu Yunshu as soon as Grandpa Liu passed away.
Although Lu Yunshu had been on guard, he was outnumbered and eventually fell into the trap. After finally escaping, he encountered several waves of assassinations.
The guards that Grandpa Liu left for Lu Yunshu fought to the death, which allowed Lu Yunshu to escape and have a chance to be rescued by Qian Laiye.
Although Qian Lai sympathized with Lu Yunshu's miserable life, he had no intention of getting involved in this mess.
He asked Lu Yunshu to recuperate in a house under his name. After his injuries were healed, Qian Lai gave him a bag of silver and let him go out to make a living on his own.
After a brief hesitation, Lu Yunshu took the silver, kowtowed three times to Qian Lai, and left with the silver.
Qian Lai also didn't know where Lu Yunshu was going, but he had been secretly asking people to pay attention to the movements of Lu Yunshu's biological father, Prefect Lu, and the Liu Zhao clan.
As a result, not long after, the people Qian Laiye sent out to inquire about the news brought back the news that "Zhu Xie has targeted Prefect Lu and provided the court with various evidences that Prefect Lu bribed superiors, practiced favoritism and corruption. After verification, the court found that the facts were true, so Prefect Lu was dismissed and investigated. His family was also thrown into prison. Soon this family will be exiled to the bitter and cold northwest to end their lives."
As soon as Qian Lai heard the news, he knew that it must be Lu Yunshu who was behind it, because Zhu Xie was still wearing the guise of the eldest princess, staying in the eldest princess's mansion, diligently handling official business.
Because Magistrate Lu's original wife and her only son had passed away, the Liu family was not affected too much by this incident. But how could Lu Yunshu let them go?
Not long after, Qian Lai received the news that "the members of the Yunzhou Liu family, blinded by greed, intended to seize Liu Zhao's property and poisoned the seriously ill Yunzhou richest man Liu Zhao."
During his lifetime, Liu Zhao was the richest man in Yunzhou and a well-known philanthropist. He did many good deeds and many people benefited from his kindness, many of whom became successful and flourished in the business or government circles.
When those people learned that their benefactor did not die of illness but was poisoned by Liu's own family, they were furious and began to attack the Liu family. They soon uncovered various criminal facts and evidence of the Liu family.
As members of the Liu family were thrown into prison one by one, there were fewer and fewer people in charge of the Liu family. Their peers took advantage of the fact that the Liu family's industry was leaderless and swooped in, quickly dividing up the market share of the Liu family's industry.
The huge Liu clan never recovered from this.
After Qian Lai knew about this, he secretly felt that Lu Yunshu was not steady enough.
Although the people of the Liu family deserved their punishment, Lu Yunshu was too hasty in doing things. Although such revenge was satisfying, it cost Old Man Liu a lifetime of hard work. It was a result of hurting the enemy by a thousand and hurting oneself by eight hundred, which was not worth it.
If he were in Lu Yunshu's position, he would also choose to retaliate against the Liu family, but at the same time, he would also find ways to take control of the assets left by Grandpa Liu.
However, the information that was obtained was only what outsiders could see. Mr. Liu was such a shrewd man that he might have left a backup plan for himself and his grandson.
Maybe all this is just a way of escaping, and what he lost is only Liu Zhaoming's superficial industry. Although it will cause some damage, it will not hurt the foundation. The real wealth and connections have long been quietly transferred to Lu Yunshu.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain how Lu Yunshu, alone, could collect so much evidence in a short period of time and send his own father and his family into exile.
The more Qian Lai thought about it, the more he felt that this was the truth of the matter. Although doing so was somewhat risky, once it was accomplished, he would be able to protect his only grandson after his death, and would not have to worry about his, Liu Zhao's, property being coveted by others. This approach was in line with Qian Lai's personal impression of Old Man Liu Zhao.
Thinking of this, Qian Lai couldn't help but shook his head. After all, all this was just his personal guess. He had no way of knowing the truth, and it had nothing to do with him. The matter had basically come to an end at this point, and there was no need for him to continue paying attention to it.
Therefore, Qian Lai also withdrew his spies who were gathering information in Yunzhou and continued to focus on the development of his own industry.
Unexpectedly, half a month later, Lu Yunshu sent a visiting card to Qian Laiye's residence. Qian Laiye didn't know why Lu Yunshu came to see him at this time, but he still made time to meet him.
After the meeting, Lu Yunshu stated his purpose directly: he wanted to take Qian Laiye as his master and learn how to do business from him.
Qian Lai was also very puzzled by his behavior, but after careful consideration, he rejected Lu Yunshu's request.
In Qian Lai's opinion, Lu Yunshu's experience is too complicated, and it is still unknown what kind of personality changes these things will bring to him. He wants to take in apprentices and let them inherit the industries he has created in the future, but Lu Yunshu is an unstable factor, and the risk of taking him in is uncontrollable.