Lu Weng

A creditor of the Tang Clan. The Lu Trading Company is modestly sized in the Shu region, and has done business with the Shangguan Family.

The Tang Clan mortgaged the Outer Fort and the Righteous Field to him. At first he meant to open an inn at the Outer Fort, but business was dismal; later he tried raising horses, which failed just the same, and in the end he simply rented it out and left it alone. The Righteous Field is no good farmland either: without pesticide it is hard to deal with pests, and only the Tang Clan could handle it.

Notes

• The image is a shared portrait for merchants.
• If, before meeting the , Zhao Huo remembers that he burned the calligraphy and paintings and has low Morality, there is a good show to watch when Lu Weng comes looking for them.
• In his youth he received kindness from a Tang Clan Senior, and when the Tang Clan faces dire straits he gives both money and effort.
• Many times he has acted as middleman for the Tang Clan, selling off old properties.
• For years he has been troubled by a chronic illness, and hiring famous doctors with gold was useless, simply because he is too rich. cured it offhand, only to smash the unscrupulous doctors' iron rice bowl, and at the same time prescribed a potent medicine that causes diarrhea.
• He has a young son of about twenty. The son has already pledged to grow old together with a woman of the Flower Moon Tower, and loudly declared that he would buy her freedom and marry her properly, which everyone knows. Yet Lu Weng still set his sights on the , meaning to use his birthday banquet to bring her and his son closer, but Zhao Huo stopped him.
• Because the Beggar Sect and Songshan fell into a dispute stirred up by Chao He, he seeks the Tang Clan's help.
• Zhao Huo spreads a rumor that he is fond of men, to intimidate Nangong Ji.