Chapter 1204: Rescue the Lu Family, and the World Wakes Up
Summer goes and winter comes, and in the blink of an eye, two springs and autumns have passed.

It was just after the Double Ninth Festival.

After Su Mingzhe received a letter from the county magistrate, he immediately sent someone to find his elder brother.

The two brothers kept suppressing bandits everywhere and had cleared the mountains, rivers and streams of the entire Pei County.

Su Mingzhe has accumulated military merits and is now a duke, ranking seventh among the Qin nobles.

Su Da was a little behind, and now his title was "doctor", ranking fifth among the Qin nobles.

According to their current titles, the two brothers own a total of 16 hectares of land, 16 residential plots, and an annual salary of 650 dan.

With such a huge fortune, the two brothers built a "Juxian Manor" to collect abandoned children from the public and educate and train them on a daily basis.

Nowadays, the whole Pei County, and even the whole Sichuan County, knows the name of the 'Su brothers'.

Even if the scope is expanded a little, travelers from Qi, Chu and Jin often come to visit because of their hearing of the name.

Not long after.

Su Da came and laughed as soon as he entered the door:

"Second brother, you asked me to come here in the middle of the day. Do you want to drink or go and kill those guys in Lei Ze Lake?"

"Brother, shut up!"

Su Mingzhe looked at his elder brother, whose temper had changed drastically, patted his forehead, and then said:
"Today we are not going to fight, but to pick someone up in Dang County!"

When Su Da heard that it was not about suppressing bandits, he immediately lost interest. He sat down with great determination, picked up the wine on the table, raised his head, drank it all, and then asked:
"What do you want to pick up?"

Su Mingzhe handed the letter sent by County Magistrate Cao to Su Da and said:

"The letter from County Magistrate Cao asks us to help pick up a friend in Shanfu, Dang County, who is called 'Lü Gong' by the locals. This Lü Gong has a good reputation and is also a famous and romantic person in the local area."

Su Da asked again:
"When and how many people are going?"

Although Shanfu County belonged to Dang County and Pei County belonged to Sichuan County, in fact the two counties were adjacent to each other, and the county towns were only two hundred miles apart.

If you travel by horse, you can arrive in one day.

"Let's go right away. I'll take Wushang and Zhou Bo with me."

Su Mingzhe explained his plan and then warned:
"Brother, Shanfu is not far away. He will be back in three to five days at most, or two to three days at least. You stay at home and watch over those boys. Make sure they don't slack off. When I come back, I will check on their learning progress!"

It is now the ninth year of the First Emperor's reign, and there are only three or four years left until Zulong's death.

In order to cope with the upcoming chaos, Su Mingzhe took the adopted boys with him every day, training in the hottest days of summer and the coldest days of winter, and never slacked off.

"Don't worry, second brother, those little brats can't go to heaven!"

Had lunch.

Su Mingzhe set out with his two retainers, Cao Wushang and Zhou Bo, first crossing the Sishui River and then riding towards Shanfu County.

Zhou Bo was originally a craftsman who made a living by playing the flute and singing elegies at funerals.

Last year, he was won over by Su Mingzhe, and together with Cao Wushang, he was brainwashed to become Su Mingzhe's diehard fans and became a servant of the Su family.

Under Su Mingzhe's training, both of them now have the combat capability to defeat a hundred people.

Night falls.

The three of them rushed to the place.

He ordered Zhou Bo to guard the horses, and Su Mingzhe took Cao Wushang and climbed into the city using a grappling hook.

Soon, the two arrived at the gate of Lu's mansion.

At this moment, the Lu Mansion was in chaos. Faced with the sudden visitor, no one was there to receive him.

In desperation, Su Mingzhe stopped a few people and asked them, only to find out that the Lu family had offended the powerful people in the county, and the two Lu family members, father and son, had fled from four city gates early this morning.

Cao Wushang felt embarrassed when he heard this:

"Master, the Lu family has already escaped. Are we just going back like this?"

"Didn't you hear what they said? The Lu family fled from four city gates." Su Mingzhe reminded:

"We came from the east. Did you see a single person along the way?"

Cao Wushang was not stupid, and he immediately guessed the reason:
"Master, what you mean is that the Lu family didn't escape at all, but were captured?"

Su Mingzhe nodded silently:

"I also hope they escaped, but we have to go to the county government office to investigate first!"

Su Mingzhe couldn't think of anyone other than the local county magistrate who could monitor the Lu family's actions and arrest people quickly.

Soon, the two men arrived at the county government office.

The county government office of Daqin also faces north and south, and is located in the most central location of the avenue in the middle of the county town, making it particularly easy to find.

The prison cells where prisoners are held are just to the west of the county government office.

Because this is the direction of the White Tiger, it is the best place to suppress evil spirits.

The two men broke into the cell and knocked four jailers to the ground with three punches and two kicks.

Cao Wushang grabbed a man by the collar and asked fiercely:
"Where did you hold the Lu family members?"

The jailers were beaten to the point of breaking bones and tendons, and they dared not to be stubborn. They pointed at a man who was tied to the torture device and said:
"Sir, the person who is tied up is Lu Ze, a member of the Lu family."

Su Mingzhe looked up at the tied man, who was about thirty years old. He had been whipped more than a dozen times, and his skin was torn and bloody.

Su Mingzhe quickly took out a bottle of pills from his arms, took a bowl of water, dissolved the pills and fed them to the man.

The pills that Su Mingzhe made himself are naturally very effective.

Lu Ze drank the potion and woke up after a few breaths. When he raised his head, he cursed with a heavy breath:
"You bastards, even if you kill me, I won't tell you where my father is!"

"Good man!"

Cao Wushang took out the dagger from his waist, swung it a few times, and cut the rope that bound Lu Ze. Then he laughed and said:
"Mr. Lu, my master has been ordered to take your family to Pei County..."

Cao Wushang helped Su Mingzhe explain it again.

After hearing this, Lu Ze was initially confused and skeptical.

When Su Mingzhe took out the letter from Magistrate Cao, Lu Ze hurriedly said:

"My benefactor, my sister Lü Xu has also been captured by them and is now being sent to Dang County! Please help quickly and rescue her!"

"There's no rush. Let's get you out first!"

When Su Mingzhe heard that Lu Ze's sister Lu Su had been captured, he thought it was the famous Lu Zhi or Lu Shi. He did not dare to delay any longer and hurriedly carried Lu Ze with Cao Wushang and fled out of the city.

After meeting up with Zhou Bo, Su Mingzhe asked Cao Wushang and Zhou Bo to escort the injured Lu Ze back to Pei County, while he rode towards Dang County to rescue Lu Su.

at the same time.

On the way from Shanfu to Dang County, a group of officials in black robes were whipping a man in black.

I don’t know how long the fight lasted.

The leader of the officials then raised his hand and said:
"Stop it, or you'll kill me!"

An official still felt somewhat resentful and said:
"Captain, this guy killed three of our brothers. Even if we can't kill him, let us brothers break off one of his arms to vent our anger, right?"

The captain glared at his subordinate, and when he saw that it was his brother-in-law, he said helplessly:

"This kid's father is the famous Lu Gong Lu Shuping. Lu Shuping offended the county governor's relatives. Even if we want to deal with this kid, it can only be decided by the county governor. If we accidentally kill him, then the county governor will have nowhere to vent his anger and take it out on us. What should we do?"

The captain's brother-in-law said indifferently:
"Captain, you are too cautious. Didn't we capture Lü Shuping's daughter, Lü Su? She is extremely beautiful. If we offer such a beautiful woman to him, how could the county governor still cause trouble for us?"

Seeing his brother-in-law talking nonsense, the captain had to wake him up:
"It is because of Lu Xu's beauty that I dare not let you do anything too extreme!"

"What do you think? If Lu Shuping becomes the father-in-law of the county magistrate, and the county magistrate lets bygones be bygones and lets the Lu family go, and the Lu family wants to bring up old scores and cause trouble for us, who can we turn to for justice?"

After hearing what the captain said, the officers immediately began to feel scared.

(End of this chapter)