Water Margin: Lu Bu sits on Mount Liang

Chapter 222 Mind

The clouds moved with the wind, and after the shadows passed, people who were illuminated by the bright sun could not open their eyes. In the woods on both sides, Xia Chan was screaming desperately, and the hot smell seemed to be smelt.

The long transfer team was walking on the road, and the shirtless men wore a sweat towel around their necks. It was just soaked in sweat for a long time, as if it was fished out of the water, and the wetness smelled of sweat and acid .

"Take a rest, hide in the woods for a while, and continue on your way when the evening is cool!"

Several knights galloped past, yelling loudly, many of them wiped the sweat from their foreheads and threw it on the ground, and the little wet marks quickly faded and evaporated in the sun.

"This damn weather, it's so cold in winter and so hot in summer, it doesn't give people a chance to survive anyway." The rough Huan Qi sat down next to the scholar, handed him a water bag and said, "Professor, drink some water."

"Thank you."

Shi Gugong took it with a sullen face, raised his neck and took a big gulp. The cool water has been warmed by the sun, but it still quenches his thirst in this weather.

Gumbling--

After filling another half of the bag in one breath, Shi Gugong let out a hiccup in an unimpressive manner, and in a blink of an eye saw Huan Qi took out another water bag to drink, took back what he wanted to return, and leaned back with his eyes closed. on the tree trunk.

"A certain subordinate is short of people. There are two options: one, you come and help me; two, die here. Which one do you... choose?"

"It's a wise move. If you die, you will lose everything. Follow me back to the cottage first, and wait for someone to see what you are suitable for."

"Certificate of honor? A certain person is not a bandit. Why would he want a certificate of honor? It's a useless move. Yu Cheng, take him down and find a room for him."

The words from the past few days were circling in my mind, and the face with closed eyes pursed its lips for a moment, isn't it a bandit?This group of people marching and fighting is really not like bandits, maybe they will follow the old road of ten knots?

Then... Xiao Ke also has a chance...

He opened his eyes and glanced to the side. Although the resting soldiers were not wearing armor due to the hot weather, they did not let the soldiers move two feet away from their sides. If something happened, they would be able to react immediately. Not to fight unarmed.

Turning his head to look at the vigilant expression of the sentinel, Shi Gugong closed his eyes again.

Let's live here for the time being, when the government comes to suppress him and wait for the secret message...

That's not right, this group of strong men can fight so well, if you don't help them, the trouble will become big at that time, and in exchange for an official skin, it is much better than that guy wandering around...

But if he was labeled as a thief, would it arouse Shangguan's suspicion?

Or does it mean that when the village master earns his way to Jiedushi, his identity is still working under him?
well!In the end, I have to go to Liangshan to see it with my own eyes, so that I can decide how to act...

Something was going on in his mind, and the literati who had chosen to surrender his life not long ago narrowed his eyes drowsily.

……

At the same time, in a village near Yizhou, in a simple farmyard.

Under the bright sunshine, the low air pressure hovered in the courtyard. Even though the dishes on the table were of excellent color and aroma, it was impossible to put down chopsticks for a while.

bang——

The glamorous girl in filial piety took out the wine jar and put it on the table with difficulty. The man with a dark face stood up quickly: "Niece Xian is too polite. You can just call me for such a heavy object. How can you work and move it yourself?"

"What are you talking about? Uncle traveled thousands of miles to report the letter. The mother and daughter of the slave family have nothing to repay. They can only prepare some drinks and dishes. This is considered poor hospitality. How can you dare to work for uncle?" A plate of sauce was brought to the side. The fleshy middle-aged woman was also wearing sackcloth and filial piety, talking to the man with red eyes while sitting down beside her.

"What my mother said is that little things can't express my niece's heart in case." As the saying goes, if you want to be pretty and filial, even if a man is not tempted, his heart beats hard because of the girl's appearance.

But the girl who spoke had a well-proportioned figure, an oval face, a pair of slender black eyebrows, bright eyes that seemed to be rippling with a pool of autumn water, a delicate nose, smooth pink cheeks, red lips that were rosy and shiny, All the excellent facial features are perfectly assembled on a pure and refined dimple.

Now because of the news of the death of my father and brother, I have a sad look on my face, I really feel pity for him, I wish I could hold him in my arms and comfort him.

The man calmed down, read his friend's name silently, quickly moved his eyes away, and lowered his eyes to look at the dishes in front of him: "I am ashamed to say that I should have come to inform my sister-in-law and niece earlier, but unfortunately my younger brother was injured by someone and will be taken care of." For a while, your mother and daughter moved again, but they couldn’t find them for a while, so they prayed for forgiveness.”

"How dare you blame uncle, the official has offended someone and had to move, so I should have informed you."

The mother and daughter over there lowered their heads in sadness at the same time, but the girl was stronger after all, she raised her head and said: "Yesterday, my mother and daughter were too sad to hear the bad news. I have to ask my uncle about something. I don't know how my father and brother died?"

The man's face was a little unnatural, and he said twice: "I don't know exactly how he died, but there are rumors in the world that Brother Liu was forced to join the gang by the thief Li Mian when he was traveling in Hebei. In a big defeat, I was killed on the spot, and Brother Liu and the three were killed in the rebellion, and when they are found..."

The man kept his mouth shut, but the two women, one big and one small, understood what he said, they might die in a terrible way, the two of them couldn't help feeling sad, and Liu's tears flowed out again.

"I don't know who we are fighting with, but I hope my uncle will let me know." Yingying bowed down, with a sad look on her elegant face, and a pair of cut pupils sent out her plea.

The man's head was almost lowered to the plate, and he thought to himself that Brother Liu's dignified appearance could give birth to a daughter like a fairy, it was really unreasonable, glanced at the widow who was wiping away tears, nodded in his heart, and found the root cause.

"Uncle?" Seeing that the other party bowed his head and said nothing, the girl couldn't help feeling a little anxious, and couldn't help urging: "Please tell uncle."

The man suddenly came back to his senses, glanced at the girl inexplicably, and shook his head: "Some things are not as good as you know, ignorance is bliss..."

"Uncle!" The girl stood up stubbornly, then knocked her head on the ground: "Please tell uncle!"

The corner of his mouth twitched, and he glanced hesitantly at the widow Mrs. Liu, seeing that the other party was also looking at him with longing, his face struggled for a moment, and he sighed: "Forget it, niece Xian, get up, I said it is , but you have to act as if you didn’t hear it later, it’s also for the good of your mother and daughter, you know?”

"Understood." The girl smiled purely and charmingly, as if agreeing.

The man stared at her for a while, and then said: "A few days ago, the Yizhou Mansion was captured by someone, will you know later?"

"I know, it was Liang Shan who did it. Uncle means to say..." The story of the breach of the state capital has long been spread, and the girl knew it, but now that the man mentioned it, she had a sense of foreboding.

"Li Mian had a conflict with this group of people in Hebei and was eliminated." After the man finished speaking, he glanced at Liu Shi who was there in a daze, then stared at the girl and said, "My niece, don't worry, this Liangshan If you pierced the sky, you will definitely be wiped out by the court next time, just wait and see."

"Uncle is worrying too much." Smiles piled up on his face, and the man who looked at him felt that it was fake and uncomfortable. Yingying continued: "Both slaves and mothers are weak women, how can they have such serious thoughts?" , I have to watch the government's actions from the sidelines."

"...It's better to be like this." The man who took a deep breath didn't see any abnormality, so he nodded his head in agreement.

"Come on, uncle, let's eat."

Over there, Mrs. Liu saw that the atmosphere was a bit too heavy, so she hurriedly greeted them. For a while, there was only the sound of chewing in the yard.

The sky gradually entered the west, and the cool wind blew away the sultry air. Amidst the polite voices of the mother and daughter, the man who felt that he should avoid suspicion picked up his whistle stick and walked out of the yard, and walked quickly towards the distance.

After returning to the house, Mrs. Liu sat on the bed and wept secretly. The girl leaned on the door and watched the red sunset in the sky. After a while, she walked in, sat next to Mrs. Liu, and held out her hand Said: "Mother, I want to visit Yunzhou."

"What are you going to do?" Mrs. Liu turned pale with shock, and turned her tear-stained face to her daughter: "How do you get to the place like a devil's cave over there? Didn't your uncle also say that the imperial court will conquer Liangshan soon, so stay at home and wait." Is it not good?"

"Mother!" The girl shook the woman's hand in an instant: "Daughters are numerous, and I am not without someone to turn to. Didn't my father find a relative for me when he was alive? My daughter knows that the man is in Qingzhou at this time." , I will go to Qingzhou first to find someone to accompany me."

Mrs. Liu really loves her daughter. Seeing her daughter's expression is firm, she has to leave. She nodded after thinking for a while and said, "Forget it, mother will go with you. There will be a caretaker for our mother on the way. When we reach the border of in-laws, mother will take the lead." Go talk, lest people look down on you."

"Mother~" The girl leaned her head on Mrs. Liu's shoulder, hugged the woman tightly, looked aside, her eyes were dark, she didn't know what she was thinking.

……

Unlike the heat in Shandong, Ruzhou in the hinterland of the Central Plains in the distance is covered with cloudy clouds. The rainwater keeps pouring down, converging on the eaves to form water curtains and hanging down, falling to the ground and splashing into droplets.

The windows of the wooden house under the eaves were wide open, and a little rainwater fell into the house, bringing waves of tides, but the two people sitting opposite each other in the house didn't care, still grabbing the cooked chicken leg with one hand, and biting it with the other. Holding a large bowl of wine and pouring it into his mouth.

Both of them are tall and burly people. If you look closely, the person on the left has a dark face, and Zha Lizasha has a beard protruding outward. There is a neatly trimmed short beard on the distinct face.

At this time, Niu Gao was chewing the chicken, and said: "Brother Zheng, you have nowhere to use your strength to set up a yard in this place where the birds don't shit."

"You know a lot." The sallow-faced man spat out his bones and drank the wine in one gulp: "This place is far away from the hustle and bustle, and you won't see those annoying idiots. Instead, it can make you feel at ease, otherwise you can look at that guy all day long." Greedy and ruthless officials can't help but kill them sooner or later."

"Brother, why don't you go back to the mountain with my old cow, and clean up this filthy atmosphere together." Niu Gao gritted his teeth, chewed up the bones, sucked back and forth, and spit out the clean bone dregs: "Anyway, you don't like it either. Zhao Guan's house."

The man squinted at him, reached out and took the wine jar and poured it himself: "Come on, if you didn't see you with your old lady and wife, you, a strong thief, would have been sent to the government."

"Yes yes yes! Thanks to brother Zheng's deep friendship, he didn't tie me up when I entered your house by mistake." The two of them probably talked too much, Niu Gao didn't blush when he heard it, but just nodded his head. I went to get the roast chicken, tore off a piece, looked at the opposite side and said: "But you can really bear it? Your house has also been surrounded by those fools, right? The old aunt is crying blind because of this eye, you Are you really not angry?"

bang——

The man on the opposite side didn't say a word, he just put the bowl heavily on the table, and glared at him. Seeing that he didn't take it seriously, he turned his head and looked out the window sullenly.

Niu Gao didn't continue to speak immediately, he ate a few mouthfuls of chicken, drank the wine in the bowl, and then said slowly: "Brother Zheng, your ancestors did their best for the imperial court, but people didn't treat you as their own. Otherwise, how could you go to this bird land to live and hide in peace, let me say, since the imperial court doesn't treat you as a human being, they just turned him into a mother."

"Fart, I...I..." The sallow face was stained with a layer of red, and the thick finger pointed at himself and shook a few times, but he couldn't continue.

"Don't worry, don't worry, drink and drink." Seeing him like this, Niu Gao quickly poured wine into his bowl, muttering: "I understand that good people in this world can't survive, and I have nothing. Anyone who walks on the road is in danger of being run over to death by a horse, I didn't kill the person, but he was pressed on my head, who do you think I provoked?"

The wine jar was put on the ground, and he picked up the wine bowl and touched the bowl on the opposite table. When the man surnamed Zheng glanced at it, he continued: "Since you don't want me to live, I want to live Come here to show them, don’t you want to kill me? I’ll kill them first, is there something wrong?”

Looking at the other side who was still silent, Niu Gao drank the wine in the bowl and looked at the other side with a red face: "Kill people and set fire to the golden belt, build bridges and pave roads without corpses. The old aunt is chanting Buddha and cooking porridge to help the poor on weekdays." Yes, but how?"

"Stop talking..."

Niu Gao pointed at him: "Isn't all the land in Ruzhou owned by the government? Does the government have any concerns about your ancestors?"

"Stop talking..." The man with his head down clenched his fists.

"In the end, do you still want to say thank you to God, and then continue to think of people working hard to reproduce the glory of your ancestors?"

"I said, stop talking!"

bang bang——

The wine bowl was thrown to the ground, and the fragments of porcelain splashed out. The burly man stood there, looking at Niu Gao with red eyes: "I, Zheng Huai, am a descendant of King Runan."

"Do you still remember the imperial court?" Niu Gao sat there, straightened his neck and looked at the strong man standing there.

After a moment of stalemate, Zheng Huai sat down again, staring blankly at the shapeless grilled chicken on the table in front of him. After a while, he looked up and said, "Tell me about your Liangshan and Lu Bu."

Niu Gao smiled.

　PS:

　　Zheng Huai, a character in "The Complete Biography of Yue Yue", a descendant of Zheng En, the king of Runan, is good at using an iron rod as thick as a bowl, and has high martial arts skills.Let's do something second (●ˇˇ●)
　　
　
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