Water Margin people

Chapter 24 Meeting in Peach Blossom Village

"Brother, as soon as you ask me this, I know that you are not from the Guanxi Fifth Road! You are not even from the Northwest Road,"

Seeing that there were no guests in the inn, the shopkeeper simply spoke up.

"The five Guanxi Routes rely on the Western Army to deal with Xixia. But if there are too many victories, it is not easy to ask the emperor for military expenses. After all, Xixia is easy to fight, so the military expenses will not be much. The Tong Privy Envoy often makes the Western Army pretend to be defeated. Use this to ask the emperor for military expenses."

The shopkeeper said in a low voice, this matter is well known in Guanxi Fifth Road, Zhending Mansion is close to Guanxi Fifth Road, and the north often goes to war with the Liao people, so they are very clear about this.

But even so, so what?To suppress Xixia, you can only rely on the Western Army. Even the emperor just turned a blind eye, as long as he guards the Guanxi Fifth Road, he doesn't care about it.

"This really opened my eyes. Tong Ha is greedy enough. He is in charge of the Privy Council, and he still plays this kind of trick to cheat money."

Sun Lei sneered, the Privy Council was the highest military institution in the Song Dynasty, and Tong Ha's control of the Privy Council was equivalent to being in charge of the world's soldiers and horses, and his power was even higher than that of Gao Qiu, the commander-in-chief. The Privy Council directly governs the world's soldiers and horses, and such high-ranking officials still have to use this kind of tricks, which shows that they are not so clever.

While speaking, the old woman had finished washing, was helped out, and changed into a set of old clothes. This time, she looked at her and found that she was indeed not like an old woman from a peasant family. Although her face was weathered, her skin was not like that of a peasant woman who worked in the field all year round. So dark.

"Da Lang, Da Lang, go and save my son!"

The old lady handed the whistle stick tightly in her hand to Sun Lei, and repeated that sentence.

Sun Lei had a headache for a while, so he could only comfort him first, let the old woman rest first, and take her to find her son tomorrow.

In the next few days, Sun Lei took the old lady around the Zhending Mansion, trying to see if he could find the old lady's relatives.

After searching for a few days but not seeing anyone who knew the old woman, Sun Lei had no choice but to give up. Now there were only two roads before him, one was to leave directly, and he was doing his best, and the other was to take the old woman to Taiyuan Mansion and Yan'an Where to look for her relatives, but seeing that the old lady fled all the way to Zhending Mansion and no one found her, the chances are not great.

After making up his mind for a long time, Sun Lei still couldn't bear his heart. The series of luck he experienced during time travel can be regarded as an eye-opener, and he will do good deeds to the end.

I have also stayed in Zhending Mansion for a long time. Sun Lei packed up and planned to go to Yan'an Mansion to try his luck. The old woman is too weak to ride a horse, and riding a horse is too ostentatious. Although this is the north, most of the horses are People in the government and the military don't have horses that ordinary people can have.

Fortunately, there is also a means of transportation. Sun Lei bought a donkey for the old woman to ride. He carried the whistle stick and led the donkey by himself. It was like going west to learn scriptures.

After leaving Zhending Mansion, before going west, you have to go south for a while. The road to the west is sparsely populated, and there are even fewer places to stay. It shows the desolation in the west.

The more anxious and urgent the more the situation continued. Sun Lei finally understood what it meant to be a lazy donkey. After driving for a few days, the donkey suddenly went on strike at noon one day and stood on the road, unwilling to leave. Seeing that the donkey wanted to be lazy, Sun Lei whipped the donkey severely with the whip in his hand. step back.

"Stubborn donkey, if you don't leave, I'll kill you today and eat donkey meat on fire at night!"

Sun Lei took the long ear of the stubborn donkey with one hand and twisted it fiercely, but the stubborn donkey just barked and remained still.

From the stalemate at noon until the sun was setting, the stubborn donkey finally succumbed, hunched over the old woman, and was led by Sun Lei to move on.

This delayed the trip for half a day, and the sun was setting. Sun Lei knew that he would not be able to catch up with Sutou. He would not be able to find a place to stay. He would be fine if he slept in the wild, but the old woman might not be able to bear it. If it was a cold or something , I have even more headaches.

Leading the donkey, I walked forward for about ten miles. I saw a small river stretching out from the chaotic mountains, a stone bridge appeared in front of me, and a small mountain surrounded by dense forests. There seemed to be a mansion. Stay overnight.

Before I got closer, I realized that it was a large family, and the courtyard was not small. More than a dozen servants were still hanging red hydrangeas and red lanterns at the door, as if they were going to hold a happy event.

"It's better to catch up well, just to have a wedding wine!"

When Sun Lei saw that the family was going to have a wedding, he thought to himself that he was lucky, that he could eat ready-made food today.

"What are you doing at my farm?"

Seeing that Sun Lei was dressed as a knight, the dealer at the door blocked the door nervously.

"Grandmother and I went to the wrong place. There was a family in Guizhuang around this time. I wanted to come to stay for one night and trouble Guizhuang. There will be room money tomorrow."

Sun Lei pointed to the old woman on the donkey and said to the farmers.

"Why are you so unlucky? There is nothing good in the first place. A rude and unreasonable monk has just arrived, and now a pair of grandparents and grandchildren passing by are disgusting. Hurry up, hurry up, lest I wait to be served by sticks and see the King of Hades! .”

A farmer looked at Sun Lei angrily and said, he saw that Sun Lei was young, the old woman was old, and there were so many of them, so he was naturally rude.

"Hehe, you have a bad temper, let me show you how powerful the young master is with the stick!"

Sun Lei's face turned cold. Today, he was so angry with the stubborn donkey that he had no place to vent his anger. He begged for a place in a good voice, but was pointed at his nose by a farmer and scolded. He swung his whistle and rushed to the door. Beat those dealers before.

"The thieves came early, and they have a Zen stick!"

Sun Lei was swinging his whistle, when he suddenly heard a familiar voice from the village, it was Master Lu whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

"Master Lu?"

Sun Lei looked at the courtyard and called out.

Lu Zhishen, who was rushing out of the inner hall with his Zen staff, heard the cry, and his strength instantly lost seven to eight points. He also recognized the voice, it was Sun Lei.

"Brother, the Sa family has found you!"

When Lu Zhishen saw Sun Lei, he laughed so hard that he wanted to give him a bear hug.

"Master Lu, you are not practicing meditation and reciting Buddha's name at Wutai Mountain, why did you come here?"

Seeing this, Sun Lei got short and avoided Lu Zhishen's bear hug, and asked strangely, shouldn't this great monk be on Mount Wutai.

"Brother, don't mention those things. After you left, it was really boring to spend time in the temple. You simply went down the mountain to eat wine. Who knew that the shops in the town didn't sell wine and meat with me. You know, I think it was not the day when our brothers went down the mountain." Having a good time eating and drinking, he offended the Sajia, broke a few tables and chairs, and was about to smash the shop, when the guy honestly brought up the wine and meat, and the serving was dishonest. Did the Sajia ever short him money? Don't you even buy Sajia?"

"Waiting back to the mountain is even more excessive. The gate guards the gate to prevent the Sa's family from entering, and even asks Qi and his gang to beat the Sa's family with bamboo grates. How could the Sa's family bear this anger? They opened the mountain gate and walked in. There was a humming at the door, and a Haha stared at the Sajia again, smashed it to pieces, and the head temple, the prison temple, and the capital temple brought a lot of monks to beat the Sajia, and the Sajia's nature beat them to the bum!"

Lu Zhi patted his chest in a deep breath, and the "bang bang" sounded continuously.

(End of this chapter)