Water Margin: Lu Bu sits on Mount Liang

Chapter 29
There are seven to eight hundred people in Li Mian's cottage. The village is built on the mountain. Three walls are in the shape of "L", and the other three sides are surrounded by mountains, which become a natural barrier. There are archery towers every 800 steps on the wall. There are two minions standing guard at each station. Now that the cold wind is blowing everywhere, none of the guards are in shape, and they all hide behind the wooden boards to avoid the wind.

Shen Ji staggered and followed the guide into the cottage, touched his deflated stomach, and couldn't help but said: "Brother, I can't stand the hunger, let me eat first if there is anything to eat."

"Yes, yes." The man was easy to talk, he nodded and led him into the back hall, and took out some sauced meat and cooking cakes from the kitchen: "Seeing how hungry you are, Zhemo can't wait to start the fire. Eat some soon."

"Ai ai." Seeing the meal, Shen Ji saw the green light in his eyes, and quickly stood up to pick it up. He didn't care about the dirty hands, reached out and took a bite of the pancake, and thanked him while chewing: "Thank you very much." ,Well……"

"Hey, slow down, here, here is the water." The man saw that Shen Ji choked on the pancakes by eating too fast, and quickly poured him a bowl of water.

Gumbling--

"Hmm~ thank you." Shen Ji snatched the bowl, took a sip of water down the esophagus, thanked him and continued to eat.

The man continued to pass the water, and said softly for a long time: "Oh... really."

Then he said loudly: "What's inside, you eat first, I'll go find the leader."

Seeing that Shen Ji didn't have time to use his chopsticks, buried his head in his rice bowl and grabbed the meat with his hands, the man couldn't help turning around with a disgusted expression.

"Yeah." Shen Ji didn't lift his head, he just stuffed the food into the mouth, and he didn't care to be courteous at all.

Tread-tap-

Just when Shen Ji ate up the sauced meat and stuffed two biscuits into his belly, a strong, but not tall man with a dark face opened the door and walked in quickly.

"Uncle!" Shen Ji opened his mouth and called out when he saw the person coming, and then sprayed a mouthful of cake crumbs all over the floor.

Li Mian's forward movement faltered, and he stopped abruptly on the spot, looking up and down at Shen Ji with astonishment: "Why did you make it like this?"

Shen Ji swallowed the food in two mouthfuls, and knelt down on the ground, wanting to cry but couldn't cry, so he simply kowtowed on the ground and said, "The Shen family...is in trouble!"

"Ah?! What are you talking about?" Li Mian blinked twice, then turned pale with shock, stepped forward and pulled Shen Ji up, his blood red eyes said: "What happened to the Shen family? What happened?" ?talk!"

Shen Ji looked at Li Mian's eyes that wanted to eat people, and felt a little scared in his heart. He didn't care about his little thoughts, and hurriedly said: "It's E Quanzhong, and E Quanzhong threw himself into Baishi Mountain and led them to kill Uncle The whole family, and ransacked the Shenjiazhuang."

Li Mian grabbed Shen Ji's collar and suddenly mentioned to himself: "Where are Wang Dashou and Li Zongtang in the village? Where are they? Aren't they all quite capable?"

"Li... When Li Zongtang was chasing E Quanzhong, he was killed by the E Quanzhong bandit in cooperation with the Baishan bandit." Shen Ji swallowed and said, "Wang Dashou ran away, E Quanzhong and Baishishan He disappeared the day the thieves came to fight, and I couldn't stop it alone, so I managed to kill two thieves and escape."

"Hey!" Li Mian pushed Shen Ji to the ground, gritted his teeth and said, "E-Quan-Zhong!"

Then he strode to the door, and said to the man who was probing his head: "Call me everyone, I want to wash Baishi Mountain with blood."

The man promised to go quickly.

Li Mian glanced back at Shen Ji, then turned to the other person and said, "Take him to have a wash, and after the wash, take him to the Juyi hall."

"Yes." The man replied, and led Shen Ji down.

After a short time, Shen Ji, who hastily washed up, was led by his minions to the Juyi Hall.

At this time, it was nearly dusk, and torches were lit in the Juyi Hall. A huge brazier was placed in the center of the hall, and it was burning blazingly, making the room as warm as spring.

Facing the huge righteous characters on the wall at the door, Li Mian was sitting under the copybook, standing on a stool and looking at Shen Ji with one hand on the armrest.

Sitting on both sides were six big men, all of them with tiger backs and wolf waists, and their bodies were muscular. When they saw Shen Ji coming in, they turned their heads to look at each of them, and forced a smile on their faces.

"Come on, brothers." Li Mian pointed at Shen Ji on the main seat, and said, "This is my nephew——Shen Ji, who hasn't walked the rivers and lakes yet, and came to join me today."

Then pointing to a strong man with a beard on the left side, he said, "This is Uncle Dong Cheng. A Wind Splashing Knife weighs thirty catties. It looks like a gangster killing someone for fun. He was nicknamed Fengdu Ghost."

He pointed to the man with a pimple on his face and said, "This is your Uncle Samohai, who is proficient in a nine-ringed truncated machete. He is known as General Destroyer."

"That's your Uncle Deng Yun, who is good at wielding a long spear, nicknamed Sangmen Spear."

"The father and son over there are heroes who have just entered the village. Your uncle Liu Guang is known as invincible with two swords. Your two elder brothers, Liu Qi is good at using a pair of golden maces, and Liu Lin is also good at using swords. How close are you to them? .”

Shen Ji hurriedly greeted them one by one.

Only Liu Guang and his two sons seemed to be smiling reluctantly.

"Okay, we all know each other now." Li Mian stood up, walked quickly to the brazier, stretched out his hand to warm it, and tilted his head to look at everyone: "It's good to rest tonight, tomorrow morning Send troops to Baishi Mountain, and let those scumbags know what a green forest is!"

"Brother, don't worry, he will be killed."

"Don't worry, brother, I will do my best."

Everyone stood up and patted their chests to respond. Shen Ji glanced at Liu Guang and his son who stood up but had no expression on their faces.

In the early morning of the next day, Li Mian set up soldiers and horses in the cottage, leaving only 150 people guarding the village, and the rest of them all set off to Baishi Mountain to find people who were unlucky.

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To the south, Zhending Mansion.

Qiao Lie left the lodging place early in the morning to look for the acquaintance. Ma Lingzhe was tired from the journey and couldn't get up. He slept until the sun was three poles before waking up. When he got up, he couldn't see Qiao Lie. He lowered his tongue and licked his lips, then went to wash and go out.

The inn does provide meals, but Ma Ling was watching the street yesterday, seeing the shop every day made his heart itch, so he decided to come out to find food.

After walking a few steps, I saw a soup cake shop (noodles, called soup cakes in the Song Dynasty). Although it was Sichu, there were still people eating hot soup cakes there.About sixteen or seventeen years old, a slender, well-looking lady was greeting guests there, and Ma Ling couldn't help being interested. Seeing that the cover with the word "soup cake" written on her side was clean, smelling the fragrance in the air, Go right now.

"Miss, here's a good bowl of soup and cakes, warm it up and have more soup." Ma Ling sat down and yelled at the lady.

"Okay, wait a minute, guest officer." The young lady agreed, greeted quickly, and brought out a big bowl from the back kitchen after a while.

A bowl of hot soup cakes is poured with juice, topped with a spoonful of lard, and then put two slices of green vegetables, a few slices of large slices of boiled crispy stewed pork, and a small plate of mashed garlic.Dip the meat in the minced garlic, and eat it with a sigh of relief, a rush of heat rises from the stomach and spreads all over the body, which is so warm and exciting.

"Miss, pay the bill." Ma Ling wiped his mouth, said hello, and at the same time reached into his pocket to take out the money, and handed it to the woman in front of him: "The soup cakes of Ye's family are very delicious, and the master's craftsmanship is hard to come by."

"I'm so sorry, it's my elder brother who made the soup cakes, he will be happy to hear that." The lady said with a shy smile.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Ma Linggong cupped his hands in apology.

The good thing next to him smiled and said: "Miss Zhou is not married yet, and she has no head of the family yet."

Ma Ling also said with a smile: "I don't know who is so lucky."

Madam Zhou blushed and yelled at the man fiercely: "Sun Da Pao Zhan, eat your soup cakes, even eating can't stop your mouth."

After hearing this, Sun Dapao hurriedly took two mouthfuls of soup cakes, signaling that he could not speak anymore.

Ma Ling looked at them and smiled cheerfully, and didn't stay any longer, so he went out of the store and continued shopping, buying some gadgets from time to time, remembering that Lu Bu loved reading, he asked someone to find him in the bookstore, and bought a few This history book was wrapped in paper, tied with a straw rope, and continued to wander aimlessly with it in my hand.

It wasn't until after noon that Wei Shichu returned to the inn, only to find that Qiao Lie had also returned.

"Qiao...Brother Daoqing is back." Ma Ling closed the door and walked over.

"Well, brother Ma Ling, this is..." Qiao Lie looked at him curiously, then glanced at the paper bag in his hand.

"This is the book I bought for my brother. I think he always reads the book with his hands in his hands recently, saying that he should learn from history and learn more about being a hero. That's right. I just bought these." Ma Ling smiled and read the book. Put it on the table: "Is things going well?"

Qiao Lie nodded: "It's already been negotiated. It's 280 yuan per bill. It's a bit expensive, but now no one is willing to sell it. It's a blessing to be able to buy it."

Ma Ling was speechless: "280 pieces, how many do we want to buy?"

"The acquaintance can raise up to ten Taoists at most, and the poor ones will ask for all of them." Qiao Lie waved his hands, acting proudly.

"Hey, three thousand coins." Ma Ling whispered: "Zhe Mo is faster than grabbing."

Qiao Lie pursed his lips and sighed: "Why don't you say that the imperial court made money? In the past, I heard that the Western Army was unable to pay the salary, and they used the bills instead of money. Let the Western Army find their own way to sell it. The money sold will be used as military expenses, and the imperial court will not take any money."

"Yes, brother Daoqing said it before." Ma Ling recalled the past: "In these years, hey, even soldiers can't afford food?"

"I don't know about the Liao Dynasty, but the Song Dynasty..." Qiao Lie sneered and hummed twice: "There are almost no soldiers who don't eat soldiers' blood. Zhemo is better off with the Western Army."

Ma Ling didn't know what to say for a moment.

Qiao Lie got up and said, "Don't think about it, it has nothing to do with us. It will take three or four days for that person to get ready. We can't relax in these two days."

"Good job, I just strolled outside for a while and didn't enjoy myself enough." Ma Ling was restless, and stood up excitedly upon hearing this.

"Is there anything to do outside, my brother will take you to the brothel to open up the world." Qiao Lie smiled generously, reached out and hooked Ma Ling's shoulders, and was about to go outside.

"Wait...wait, Brother Daoqing, how can you be a Taoist priest?" Ma Ling's face burned when he heard this, how could he, a pure and innocent junior brother, hear such words, he stood still and shook his head.

Qiao Lie smirked, pointing to his clothes: "Look, brother, I'm wearing Taoist robes? I'm a hero in the world now, not a bull-nosed monk. Besides, the brothel is an elegant place. It's a wonderful place. Don't use your picky clothes." mind wandering."

Then he said with all his strength: "Let's go, can brother harm you?"

In fact, Ma Ling was also itchy in his heart, just standing there just wanted to be reserved, and then followed Qiao Lie out of the room with a half-pushed half-push, heading towards the brothel with curiosity and anticipation.

(End of this chapter)