My Father in Law is Lu Bu

Lu Bu almost cannot hold his rage in front of these noble families. They are dominating 80% of Lujiang’s total wealth, their land amounted to ten thousand mu, but all of them are acting toward Lu Bu as if they are poor people. If they cannot eat until they are full and truly gave their own provisions to common people, then in this nation, there will be no one who starved to death.

Lu Bu quickly took a deep breath, he is truly afraid that he will be overcome by his emotion and cut down these people “So, Bu is very sorry now for forcing all of you to support Bu. Bu really did not know about all of your predicaments. Furthermore, these foods that are presented now, it is too extravagant. Bu did not know how many flesh and blood were sacrificed for the banquet tonight!”

“Yes! These foods are worth of one and a half year for my family to eat!”

“Yes, General Lu! We cannot be too extravagant! Eating until full is already a big blessing!!!” Those clan heads talked while looking at Lu Bu. At the surface they seem to be respectful but inside, they are sneering toward him.

All of them thought “You want us to donate food to you right?! OK, we donate to you, we give you 20-shi of grain and provisions. It’s not that we don’t want to donate, but instead we are also “poor”. We even told you that these meal is very extravagant even for us!!!”

“Servants, please remove these extravagant dishes! This time, the nation is still suffering, we should not be too extravagant and wasteful. Eating these foods meant eating the flesh and blood of common people, this act can be smitten by the gods! Send simple meals!” Lu Bu’s mouth is sneering and thought “Nice acting, eh? I will follow your train of thoughts now!!!”

All of extravagant dishes are quickly taken away and changed into simple meals. With all meals changed into Jiu Cai dishes, all of clan head brow wrinkled very much.

TL: Jiu Cai: vegetable that was eaten only by poor people http://cafenilson.com/wp-content/youchoyfresh.jpg

Three vegetables soup, one meat dish and two vegetable dishes. The vegetable are picked from wild herbs from the wilderness. The meat dish is only a few slices of meat added with wild mushrooms mixed into the dish. At that meat, it still had pig’s hair on it.

This is to let those haughty clan heads who are “starving” right now, to fill their belly.

And as for the rice, it is brown rice. White rice is very difficult to find. So brown rice is mixed with bran, chestnut shell and even small stones.

Those clan head currently swallowing their saliva over and over again. These bowl of foods also had burnt insect on it, they began to wonder, is this human food?

“What is wrong? Is not everybody hungry?!”Lu Bu picked up his chopsticks quickly and started to eat. Those clan heads are truly disgusted with this food and now they are truly stunned because this food is actually eaten by Lu Bu with a guzzle.

None of those clan heads are touching their chopsticks. Lu Bu’s heart is sneering toward them and said “I am truly sorry, our army’s grain and provisions are already insufficient. I am truly moved with your heart and want to give all of you some financial aid also, but unfortunately, our army was also stricken by poverty in this time of war. Therefore I can only serve all of you plain food. I beg that all of you can be understanding with my situation!”

Lu Bu wanted to borrow grain and provisions from these noble clans, but these nobles actually rejected him politely and even treated him like a beggar, saying that their family’s grain stock has been diminished. So Lu Bu just played with them, he showed them his army’s rations in order to keep their pace.

Lu Bu said it in a very sympathizing tone, but he actually was just sneering toward those poor pretenders.

“We understood!” Said those poor pretenders while disgusted trying to digest the food.

Lu Bu then said ”This food is really delicious, All of you cannot eat this well at home right?! See, we also provided you with meat!!!” But none of those head clans took their meal and then Lu Bu ordered those food to be picked by female servants and started to stand to propose a toast.

“Come, let’s drink, this drink is for you all of Lujiang noble clans. Without all of you, Lujiang will be nothing. Bu and my Bing Province Heavy Cavalry respect all of you one cup!” Lu Bu propose a toast toward all of clan heads.