Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 13
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He knew that Li Yan was a righteous bandit who did justice for the heavens.

He owes Li Yan the karma of saving his life.

Therefore, under Ruan Xiaoqi's persuasion, Guanghui became Li Yan's personal follower, escorting Li Yan to the north with Wu Song and Ruan Xiaoqi.

The group walked for more than ten days and arrived in Cangzhou.

Although Li Yan replaced Wang Lun as the master of Shuibo Liangshan, Wang Lun still got the initial start-up capital of Shuibo Liangshan from Chai Jin.

In other words, Chai Jin is still the benefactor of Shuibo Liangshan.

In addition, Chai Jin is extremely influential in the Jianghu. If he makes friends with Chai Jin, it will greatly increase Li Yan's reputation.

Therefore, as soon as they entered the border of Cangzhou, Li Yan took Ruan Xiaoqi and others straight to Chai Jin's Zhuangzi, preparing to meet Chai Jin.

When passing by the market, Li Yan actually wanted to buy some gifts for Chai Jin!

But when I think about it, Chai Jin is the descendant of Chai Shizong of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Since Chen Qiao abdicated, Zhao Kuangyin gave his family an iron certificate of oath. Although the development is not bad, he robbed the birthday card, and got a lot of money from Zhang Qing and Sun Erniang, but compared with Chai Jin, a big local tyrant, he is probably no different from a beggar!

Ask Ruan Xiaoqi, Wu Song and Guanghui.

Ruan Xiaoqi said: "When good men meet, they talk about congeniality. If you don't do anything with gifts, it will destroy the loyalty of my brother and Mr. Chai!"

Guanghui said: "Walking in the rivers and lakes of the Sa family, I have heard a lot that this Chai Daguan and that Shandong timely rain gear are extravagant people who help the poor and help the poor and donate money. I think they are not people who can give money."

Wu Song also said: "I also heard a lot that these two are heroes who donate money and help the poor. My brother and the two of them are like-minded people. I think they can be sympathetic to each other without gifts."

Seeing that Ruan Xiaoqi, Guanghui, and Wu Song all said so, Li Yan stopped being entangled, and just bought some more common gifts, and asked the five sentries to mention them—the value of gifts is one thing, whether to buy them or not It's another matter, it's a matter of attitude.

After walking for three or two miles, I saw a big stone bridge.

After crossing the bridge, it is a flat road. I have seen the manor house in the shade of green willows.

There is a stream in all directions, and there are big weeping poplar trees on both banks, and there is a powder wall in the shade of the trees.

Turn around and come to the front of the villa. When you look at it, what a big villa!
But see:

The gate meets the ecliptic, and the mountain meets the blue dragon.Thousands of peach blossoms bloom in Wuling River, and thousands of trees bloom in Jingu Garden.In the Juxian Hall, there are rare flowers in four seasons; in front of the Baihui Hall, there is a beautiful scene in Changchun during the eighth festival.The hall hangs a gold medal, and the family has an affidavit of iron coupons.The vermilion tiles and green tiles set off the nine-level hall; the painted pillars and carved beams are really Sanwei Abode.It is not the honorary family of the current dynasty, but also the family of the previous emperors.

After walking for more than half a mile, two embarrassed and frowning big men came to meet them.

The two big men are eight feet tall, with broad arms and a round waist. One of them has two nine-turned lion cinnabar eyebrows, such as the temples, a pair of ring eyes, and the soap and white are distinct; Iron, with a wide mouth and cracked cheeks, and a stubble of beard.

Seeing the extraordinary looks of the two, Li Yan cupped his hands and said, "You two brothers, please stay!"

The two big men saw Li Yan's extraordinary bearing, and saw that there were many envoys around Li Yan, so they returned the courtesy and said: "Your official invites you."

Li Yan asked: "Excuse me, are the two brothers the farmer of Chai Daguan?"

The big man with cinnabar eyebrows said angrily: "We two are not so lucky!"

The big man with yellow hair didn't want the big man with cinnabar eyebrows to hate Chai Jin. After all, Li Yan and others seemed to be going to Chai Jin's village, so he said, "Officer Chai is not at home, and the teacher in his village..."

After thinking about it, the big man with yellow hair didn't say what he wanted to say.

Although the big man with yellow hair didn't say anything, Li Yan, who had rich experience, guessed that it was probably because the King of Hades liked to see the little ghost.

Li Yandao: "The two brothers must have something to ask for to see Mr. Chai. I wonder if you can tell me?"

The big man with cinnabar eyebrows hesitated for a moment, and then said: "The two of us lost our money, and I wanted to ask Mr. Chai for help, but I didn't want to think about Mr. Hong in his village... Let's go, it's a villain who talks behind the scenes. way!"

Hearing the words "Hong Jiaotou", Li Yan immediately remembered that Hong Jiaotong, who was defeated by Lin Chong in Chai Jinzhuang, said inwardly, "In this way, Lin Chong should not have been assigned to Cangzhou, otherwise this Hong Jiaotong He should have left Chai Jin's village out of shame."

Li Yan turned to Ruan Xiaoqi and said, "Bring a big silver ingot."

He took a large silver ingot of 50 taels from Ruan Xiaoqi, and then Li Yan handed the big silver to the two big men, saying: "Walking on the rivers and lakes, everyone will inevitably have a downturn, and you two should not think too little." .”

Looking at the big silver in his hand, and thinking about the humiliation he had just received before Chai entered the village, the impoverished man with cinnabar eyebrows burst into tears, and then bowed to the ground, saying: "Brother Gao Yi, younger brother is ashamed! My surname is Shanmingshi Strange, he was originally a son of a wealthy family in Qinzhou. His name is Zhu Jing, and he is my long-standing friend. I escaped from Qinzhou because of murder and fear of crime. Zhu Jing never gave up and stayed with me. To help the poor and the needy, I wanted to cast myself in his village, but Mr. Hong in his village would regard the two of us as lures for wine and money, and ridicule the two of us. Teacher Hong must look good!"

When he heard that these two big men were Shan Shiqi and Zhu Jing, Li Yan was startled for a moment, and then overjoyed!
Who is Shanshiqi?
He was one of Tian Hu's five tiger generals, the general guarding Huguan, and he fought with Lin Chong for more than fifty fights regardless of the outcome. Lin Chong applauded him.

Who is Zhu Jing?

He was the general who defeated Zhang Qing in more than 20 rounds (he was later dismounted by Zhang Qing with flying stones).

Knowing that it was these two good generals, Li Yan, who was thirsty for talents, immediately said: "It turns out that they are two brothers, I'm Li Yan."

Zhu Jing reacted for a while, and then quickly clasped his fists in salute and said, "Is it the Supreme Treasure that Shuibo Liangshan walks on behalf of the sky?"

Ruan Xiaoqi and You Rong said: "It's my elder brother!"

Shan Shiqi was overjoyed and said: "The words of the villagers are indeed true, brother is really a hero with loyalty!"

Seeing that Shan Shiqi and Zhu Jing seem to be in the same league, Ruan Xiaoqi said: "You two are also good men who stand up to the sky, why don't you go up the mountain with us to gather righteousness now!"

Li Yan also said: "We want to go to Erxian Mountain in Jizhou, and then return to Liangshanpo. If the two brothers are fine, why not go with us."

Zhu Jing looked at Shan Shiqi, and it was obvious that he wanted Shan Shiqi to make up his mind.

This is also normal, although Shan Shiqi said that Zhu Jing was his long-standing friend, and the martial arts of the two were almost the same, but Zhu Jing was the farmer of Shan Shiqi's family and had lived and ate at Shan Shiqi's family for many years. After being convicted of murder, other dealers ran away and scattered, and some dealers even took away Shan Shiqi's family wealth. Only Zhu Jing didn't take any money, and then worked hard to find Shan Shiqi, and he never left Shan Shiqi. Don't give up.

In other words, although the two are called friends, they are actually master and servant. Zhu Jing naturally wants to follow the example of a mountain scholar.

Shan Shiqi bowed to the ground, and then said: "To be honest, the two of us just discussed going to Weisheng to join Tianhu, but now that my brother is helping the poor and helping the poor, and donating righteousness and wealth, the two of us should join the gang and follow my brother to do justice for the sky!"

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(End of this chapter)