"The stuff in the canal was dumped by the employees from this noodle shop, pretending it was swill poured into the river. If you want to ask, ask them."
Ah Guang said coldly, "Right, don't be fooled by their current act of giving alms and doing good deeds. Lu Chai just uses little favors to win people's hearts. In fact, he keeps many assassins and dead soldiers on his payroll, often doing the dirty work for the city's nobles. Sometimes when the authorities want to catch a criminal, he would just pick a beggar from the neighborhood to take the blame."
It's not just the noodle shop, bet it gambling dens, brothels, black markets, there isn't a place he hasn't meddled in. To exaggerate a bit, in the dozen or so neighborhoods in the southwest of Changsi City, there are quite a few who have offended the Li Family, but those who dare to offend the Lu Family, heh, not one is left alive."
