Water Margin: Lu Bu sits on Mount Liang

Chapter 138 A Changed Fate?
"You are Yang Zhi from Tianbo Mansion?"

"I heard that you want to restore the glory of the Yang family? How can it be realized by escorting Shigang? Let's go to Jeju. After that, the state capital will wipe out a group of thieves. You go to help them, and then I will recommend it to Xiang Cai. You, when the time comes, I recommend you to lead an army in Hebei."

"You don't have to worry about the escort. The officer will send a letter to the Taiwei. With the reputation of the Taiwei in front of the official's house, it will not be a problem to transfer another person here. It's just that you have to go north immediately when the person comes."

"Very well, I want the head of a strong man named Du Po. If you don't have one, you don't have to come back."

"Work hard, I can't lose you!"

What Zhu Xi said was revolving in their minds, and the two of them naturally talked a lot, but these few sentences left the deepest impression on them.

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Yang Zhi re-sealed the knife oil used for maintenance, held the precious knife in front of his eyes and watched it carefully. After years of holding, swinging and maintaining the knife, he knew every part of the knife well, but he still liked to hold the knife Look, it seems to be looking at the glory of the ancestors.

At this time, feeling the cold air from the blade, there was a slight tingling sensation on the skin, and his eyes were slightly hardened.

Yang family!Du Fu...

Yang Zhi slashed out with a knife, and the cold light passed through the middle of the candle. Then he put the knife back into its sheath, picked up the bottle of knife oil and put it in the package beside him, got up and left.

A little later, a ship sailed upstream.

bang——

The violent slam of the door seemed to shake the house, and then the candle suddenly broke, and the upper part fell to the ground, rolling all the way to the dark corner.

……

In Mengdong season, the autumn wind blows, the temperature drops sharply, the green leaves are dyed yellow, the maple leaves are painted with red, the ears of rice are bent under the weight of gold, and some fruits fall from the trees and crack, overflowing a burst of intoxicating fruit. fragrant.

Recently, the literati and poets in Suzhou are very busy. They call for friends, find a restaurant, and order two or three rice wines. While drinking with friends, they taste the fat and yellow crabs. .

That is when Yang Zhi set off, ten transport ships filled with strange mountains and rocks set sail. The ships in the waterway had long been warned not to travel today, otherwise the government would punish them, so the transport ships carried the resentment of the people along the coast Eyes, along the waterway all the way to the north.

Traveling by boat is boring. Although the wind has doubled the speed of the boat in recent days, the envoys still feel uncomfortable. Perhaps when they came, they were ordered by the emperor, but they could get together Chatting and farting, the mind is slow.When I returned, I had to be escorted by the boat, and my nerves were so tense that I couldn't breathe for a while. After a long time, no one talked to me, so I was very depressed.

"The envoy of Beijing, we have entered the Yellow River, and the wind has picked up. It looks like it will rain soon. Do you want to furl the sails?"

The howling wind blows from time to time, the low pressure in the air makes people feel depressed, and there is not a single water bird in the sky. The thick clouds seem to change the sun and the moon in advance, and the dark river against the background always makes people feel uneasy.

Jingchao's bearded face looked even more sloppy after a few days of neglect. Hearing this, he looked up at the sky and said, "Reap the sails, you just follow the rules."

The sailor took the order and didn't dare to delay, so he hurriedly passed the order. The ten ships in the next line all furled their sails, tied up the sundries on the ship, and put down the bumpers on both sides of the ship. The torrential rain poured down from the sky, and the bean-sized raindrops hit the deck with a crackling sound, which made people think that they would smash through the wooden boards and destroy the ship. However, the situation was not as dangerous as the waves. The river is like a plaything, being sent up into the air by the big waves and then falling down, it seems that it will be swallowed at any time.

It’s also unlucky for Jingchao. There are a few sailors on his ship who are sailing for the first time. It is said that these people should not work on the deck. The matter was urgent, and everyone forgot about these birdmen for a while.

These few people have learned how to knot the knot not long ago, although it looks intact, the knot is actually very loose.

The ship where Jingchao was on was blown by the wind and the waves were beating. It first broke up the ropes tied with sundries, and a series of objects flew out in the waves, slammed into the side of the ship, smashed on the building, and then were caught by the waves. Being caught in the water, the only fatal thing is that some wooden barrels were hit and shattered, and half of the wooden barrels were somehow thrown by the wind and waves and hit the ropes tied with the sails. The knot was torn apart, and then the sail was blown up in the wind and waves.

And Jingchao's boat turned over in a panic...

The weather was calm, the raging wind and waves seemed to have completed their mission after overturning the ship, and it calmed down after a while. After the men who fell into the water escaped from the sunken ship, they were rescued by their counterparts on the other transport ships.

The rescued men and women thanked everyone and Lord Long for their love, but Jing Chao looked at the river with ashen face and remained silent for a long time.

……

In Jeju, a man named Huang An walked into his house, a maid came to take his coat, and waited for him to change his clothes and leave.

"The officials are going to hunt down that Liangshan thief?"

Mrs. Huang came in, served a bowl of hot soup for her husband to drink, then took out candied fruit and put it on the table, and sat beside her.

Huang An Daqi: "How did you know?"

Mrs. Huang picked up a candied fruit with her hand: "Today, the second lady of the long room came over and said that the family wants you to sweep Liangshan."

"Oh... I must go." Suddenly, Huang An picked up a candied fruit and chewed it in his mouth: "I don't want to hide it from you, my family has put pressure on Zhizhou recently, but I don't know that Zhizhou is also planning to collect it. "

Mrs. Huang wondered: "Why is this so? Mr. Zhizhou has always been famous for his carelessness, why is he so interested in Liangshan?"

Huang An raised his foot to step on the chair, and put his arms on his knees: "It's also Liangshan who committed suicide. There were too many looters a while ago, even the team of the Zhizhou family was robbed. I heard that many people died. Therefore, Zhizhou was furious, saying that Liangshan must be beautiful."

Mrs. Huang suddenly realized: "In this way, he asked for it himself, but did anyone say when he went to the expedition?"

Huang An touched the short beard on his chin with his hand, made a burst of noise, and said in his mouth: "It's not an exact date, only that this time we will cooperate with Yunzhou to fight."

"This is strange. Why did the two states send troops at the same time?"

"Hey~" Huang An put his feet down, leaned towards his wife and said, "Do you know that this Liangshan has somehow offended the one from Suzhou? Therefore, I agreed to let me lead the army, and the sergeants in the state were also at my disposal. Yunzhou probably also accepted the letter from that person, so the merger of the two states is almost a foregone conclusion, only relying on the relationship of the family , but the leader of the coalition forces is your official and me."

"Ah! In this way, you have much more power in your hands." Mrs. Huang excitedly thumped Huang An's arm.

"That's right." Huang An also had a happy expression on his face: "Later, when the military power of Yunzhou is also handed over to me, our family will be the most famous figure in this Jezhou."

Mrs. Huang's eyes lit up: "The military power may have been in your hands all the time?"

"How is it possible?" Huang An shook his head, "I have to return Liangshan after it was destroyed, but at least I also led the soldiers from the two states to fight, and this qualification is not available to everyone."

"Hey~ I thought I could show off outside." Mrs. Huang put her hands on the table a little discouraged, and then she remembered something and regained her spirits: "This time you can bring more money back."

Huang An looked distressed: "This... the coalition forces of the two states have many eyes, I'm afraid..."

"As the leader of the coalition forces, it is inconvenient for you to do some tricks? I have heard that there is a lot of money and food in this state. Anyway, you wait for the coalition forces to be several times more than the thieves. It is not a problem to deduct a little."

Seeing that Huang An was still a little hesitant, the woman immediately stood up and pinched her waist with one hand in the shape of a teapot: "Did you hear what I said? Marry a man, marry a man, dress and eat! The expenses outside the house are very high. If you If you can’t get your money back, wouldn’t you be nothing more than a waste? I hate that I was blind and married you, a chaotic fool. If I had known today, my old lady should have..."

"Okay, okay, okay." Huang An raised his hands high, and said in a hurry: "It's up to you, everything is up to you, I'll get some food and grass back to sell, is this feasible?"

Then the woman laughed again: "I know that officials are the most capable, and some small things will not trouble you. When you get money, how about I allow you to take a concubine?"

"Is this true?" Huang An's eyes lit up.

Mrs. Huang squinted her eyes and smiled: "How can there be a fake? I am a slave who doesn't count?"

"Oh, my wife, you are really my good wife, Huang An!"

The man danced excitedly, he didn't see his wife secretly gritted her teeth and stared at him after hearing this.

……

Autumn is high and fresh.

On a farmhouse tens of miles away from Licheng, Qizhou, a dead body with a stick fell in front of the courtyard gate. Scarlet and glaring liquid flowed all over the ground. Going in, the dead bodies dressed as servants were spread out, and bloodstains were scattered all over the place. courtyard.A woman's suppressed cry came from down the corridor. A dozen men, women and children hung their heads tremblingly, and their blood-stained shoes appeared in sight.

In front, a tall man with a plain knife stood there, the blade in his hand was still dripping with blood, it was obvious that he had killed many people just now: "We just came here to borrow some food, and we didn't intend to kill people. Those who yell to be beaten and yelled to kill, the people in this place are honest when they die, you can’t think about them, they are all raised by their biological parents, why are you ordered to come here and fight like this?”

Seeing that everyone was silent, Song Wan curled his lips and continued: "Your family is the most vicious family in a hundred miles around, lending money at high interest rates, forcing your husband into prostitution if you can't pay back the money, and beating and killing tenants at will, it's really high. The emperor is far away and doesn't take human life seriously, and now we Liangshan heroes are here to punish you and other big villains, and fight for the lives of those poor people who are oppressed by you."

This former little transparency seemed to have confidence with its back against Liangshan, but now it is full of eloquence when it comes to criticizing people. The landlords here are just obediently obedient, not daring to retaliate in the slightest.

Most of the family's gold, silver and copper coins were searched out, and they were piled up in the yard to take up most of the empty space. A dozen or so minions moved the wooden boxes they didn't know where to find, and they were holding money into the boxes with their accomplices. put in.

In the distance, in front of a rockery and flowers, E Quanzhong was handing a piece of cooking cake to a boy in tattered clothes opposite. The boy swallowed at the cake, but dared not reach out to take it.

And there was a couple standing behind the boy, they were holding each other's hands, their four eyes were worriedly looking at the child in front of them, probably, they were his parents.

"Eat." Two cold words popped out of the horse-faced man's mouth, and then regardless of the boy's struggle, he insisted on stuffing the biscuit into his hand.

"It's also sensible." Li Yu walked over with a big axe in hand, and couldn't help feeling a little emotional when he saw the child running back to his parents, holding up the cooking cakes for his parents to eat.

"My brother said that some farmers are needed to cultivate the land..."

E Quanzhong replied, watching the parents shake their heads with a smile on their faces, and pushed the cake back to the boy, and then the boy ate it sweetly, grinning from time to time.

"Then plunder all the tenants here. At that time, it's time to plant the land and cultivate the land, and those who can serve as soldiers will serve as soldiers."

He tilted his head, Liangshan's current structure is somewhat deformed, so in recent days, Lu Bu and others have once again focused their attention on these bullies and evil gentry, just for the sake of long-term planning, they have made a strategy of not eating grass beside the nest .

"That's exactly the reason." E Quanzhong pulled a smile on his cold face, scaring the couple in the distance and quickly retreating with their son.

"What are the two brothers talking about here?"

Lu Bu's voice came from behind, and E Quanzhong and Yan Jiao hurriedly turned their heads, and saw their village master walking towards here surrounded by several guards.

"Brother." "Brother."

The two men gave a salute, and Lu Bu waved his hand: "Mo Duo Li."

Looking around, seeing that everything was going on in an orderly manner, he ordered casually: "You two lead people to gather the tenants here."

The two big men responded immediately, turned and went out.

The sun was setting, and at the beginning of Shen Shi, everyone in Liangshan had already packed all the money, goods, food and grass, and drove a group of poor tenants together, dressed as a scholar, watching the gentle and elegant Liu Min walk up to the high place, looked around at the people below, and said: "We are heroes from Liangshan, and we are here to punish this evil old man, and we don't want to kill innocent people."

Seeing a group of tenants heaved a sigh of relief, he continued: "Now Liangshan is also recruiting tenants to plant land, and we only take one and a half buckets of grain per mu of land. If anyone wants to, stand to the left."

Stretch out your hand and point to the left: "I, Liangshan, have provided rations for those who are willing to farm. You only need to pay back half of the food you grow in the coming year."

There was a lot of commotion below, some people were worried, some people were moved, Liu Min saw everything in his eyes, and said calmly: "Whoever is willing to go, stand up, and each person can receive a bucket of rice and grain, and thirty copper coins."

All the tenants talked louder, and after a long while, a man finally came out and asked through gritted teeth, "Is this true?"

Liu Min was overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "It's true, you are all watching here, how can I deceive you? Besides, what is there for me to deceive you?"

"That's true."

"It seems that what Liang Shan said is true."

"It's just that it's farming for the King of the Mountain, which..."

The man nodded when he heard the words, turned his head and pulled out his wife and children to the left. It was the family that had taken E Quanzhong's cakes before.

Seeing this, Liu Min was overjoyed, and quickly ordered the nearby soldiers to bring rice, grain and copper coins.

As soon as the rest of the tenants saw the "real money" and looked at each other, they immediately went to the left one after another. Someone registered them and distributed money and food without mentioning it.

As the sun slanted westward, dozens of fully loaded boats headed south.

(End of this chapter)