Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 349 Everything is Fate (please subscribe!)
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Seeing that Chao Gai woke up, everyone including Li Yan surrounded him.

An Daoquan checked Chao Gaizai's body carefully, and then said: "Chao Tianwang, you have passed through the gate of hell this time. If I treat you later, your life will not be saved."

Chao Gai thanked An Daoquan, "Thank you Doctor An for saving my life."

An Daoquan said: "You should thank the governor, if the governor didn't let me come to your tent, let go of the poisonous blood and detoxify you in time, you would be dead without life, do you know what is in you The poison is the venom of the five-paced snake, one of the most poisonous in the world."

Hearing An Daoquan's words, Chao Gai's eyes flickered, and then he searched the crowd for a while.

After a while, Chao Gai said: "You all go down, I have something to say to Brother Li Yan alone."

The people in Erlong Mountain waited and looked at each other, but they still obeyed the order.

Li Yan waved to his own guards, signaling them to wait outside the tent as well.

When only Li Yan and Chao Gai were left in the account, Chao Gai said, "Brother, how could you expect me to be in such a catastrophe?"

Li Yan asked calmly: "Do you know who wanted your life?"

Chao Gai was silent for a while, and said: "Although it was dark at that time, but the moon was high, he could recognize me, so naturally I could recognize him."

Li Yan didn't answer this question, he seemed dissatisfied with Chao Gai's answer.

Chao Gai was silent for a while, and then said: "There should be few places in Shandong where there are five-step snakes, and I only know one, and this is Erlong Mountain... I have some guesses about who wants to kill me."

Seeing Chao Gai confiding in his heart, Li Yancai said: "People are very complicated. Some people have great ambitions, want to honor their ancestors and make their wives and sons, and some people want to live a stable life and don't want to put their heads on their belts every day. Not everyone wants to be the King of the Mountain for the rest of their lives. On the way I came to see you just now, several leaders of Erlong Mountain, no, it should be said, almost everyone expressed to me that they want to be with me..."

Chao Gai sighed and said nothing.

Li Yan continued: "In fact, as early as a long time ago, many people from Erlong Mountain told me in various ways that they wanted to come to my place, but I rejected them all because they are your subordinates, old brother. , I respect you as a person."

Hearing what Li Yan said, Chao Gai said, "Thank you, brother."

Li Yan continued: "Now I have hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, thousands of civil servants and military generals, and I don't think about you, brother, but I don't think about it, which doesn't mean that others don't... Actually, no one cares about it. What, the key problem is still on yourself, how do you deal with those who have lofty ambitions, who want to honor their ancestors, who want to keep their wives and sons, how to deal with those who want to live a stable life and don't want to put their heads on their belts every day People, wait... If you can handle all these well, it will be useless for anyone to worry about your position."

Speaking of this, Li Yan sighed, and said again: "It turns out, brother, you didn't handle this well...you are not a qualified boss."

Chao Gai looked pained, and said: "Don't be afraid of the sky, don't be afraid of the earth, don't be afraid of lawsuits, divide the gold and silver according to the scale, wear silk and brocade, eat wine in a urn, eat meat in large pieces, and be happy, isn't it good?"

Li Yandao: "If Erlong Mountain still only has 800 people and three or four leaders, you can be the boss anyway. Now...old brother, if you don't want what happened today to happen again, you really have to review yourself and think about it. Thinking about what to do next.”

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a few days later.

Chao Gai, who was no longer seriously ill, returned to Erlong Mountain with all the leaders of Erlong Mountain and hundreds of horse troops.

At the foot of Erlong Mountain, Song Jiang led a group of leaders left behind on Erlong Mountain to set up a wine for Chao Gai and others.

Chao Gai and the others were still hundreds of feet away, so Song Jiang led the remaining leaders to meet him and said, "Congratulations to the Heavenly King for taking down Zengtou City, and show me the prestige of Erlong Mountain!"

Chao Gai got off his horse, then looked at Song Jiang and said, "Brother Sanlang is very well informed. I didn't send anyone back to report, so you know I'm back."

Song Jiang smiled and said: "The King of Heaven doesn't know. During the period when you were not on the mountain, I sent Brother Deng Yun to open a few hotels in the nearby main road gathering points. Now this left and right things can't escape us. s eyes."

Chao Gai said: "Brother Sanlang is really thoughtful."

While saying this, Chao Gai swept over to pick up his leader one by one, and asked casually, "Why don't you see Mu Hong and Mu Chun?"

Song Jiang said differently: "Didn't the two of them go out with the king of heaven?"

Chao Gai patted himself on the forehead, and said: "Look at me, I am not old, my memory is poor, I forgot about this."

Song Jiang smiled and said: "I am no longer confused, but the king of heaven knows his destiny, so his memory is naturally no better than that of young people."

Chao Gai said with emotion: "Yes, I am over fifty, and I am no longer young."

Song Jiang also said with emotion: "Li Yan was already famous all over the world when he did not stand up. I waited for him to be more than ten or twenty years old, but I didn't have a name or success. I didn't even have a clean body. The small Erlong Mountain has wasted years, think about it, it is really useless to live for so many years."

At this moment, Chao Gai understood Song Jiang, and also understood what Li Yan said to him that day, "It may really be me who was wrong."

Song Jiangdao: "Brother, drink a bowl of Jiefeng Bar."

After speaking, Song Jiang personally poured a bowl of good wine for Chao Gai.

Li Ying, who was beside Chao Gai, touched Chao Gai unobtrusively, meaning that Chao Gai would not be allowed to drink the bowl of wine.

But Chao Gai didn't seem to understand what Li Ying meant, he took the bowl of wine and drank it down without hesitation, with indescribable generosity!
After drinking, Chao Gai took the flagon and poured two bowls of wine, and said at the same time: "I may be really old. Recently, I always think of those days when you and I used to have wine in Yuncheng. At that time, I was Baozheng and you were Yasi. , eat for one night, talk to each other, and then sleep in the same bed, now you and I have gained some fame in the Jianghu, made friends with countless heroes, but never drank like that again."

After pouring the wine, Chao Gai handed one of the bowls to Song Jiang.

Song Jiang took the wine and said: "I also want to drink wine with the king of heaven like before. However, people are in the rivers and lakes, and they can't help themselves!"

Chao Gai and Song Jiang clinked a bowl, and then both of them drank it down at the same time!

Chao Gai poured another bowl for himself and Song Jiang, and said, "If I hadn't robbed the birthday card back then, would you and I have been able to drink like that all the time?"

Song Jiangdao: "How can there be so many ifs in the world, everything is fate, so it's up to you and me to choose."

Chao Gai and Song Jiang clinked bowls again, and then drank them down at the same time.

Chao Gai and Song Jiang talked a lot and drank a lot of wine as if no one was around.

Until both of them were slightly drunk, Song Jiang shook the empty jug and jar, and said: "The wine is gone, let's go back to the mountain and continue eating, how about it?"

Chao Gai looked at the empty jug and jar, sighed, and said, "Hey, this is gone...then come here."

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(End of this chapter)