Water Margin: Lu Bu sits on Mount Liang

Chapter 90 People and Money

The shadows of the day are moving, the clouds are rolling and the clouds are relaxing, and the sunlight in the afternoon is a little weak, but it also makes people feel warm and comfortable.

The mountains and rivers in Liangshan and the reeds still look magnificent. Once the spring breeze passes, they lower their heads in unison, making rustling noises. There are unknown water birds floating on the water and swimming in groups, peacefully and peacefully like yesterday's battle. Never happened.

Song Jiang carried a whistle stick, and followed Zhao Neng who was holding a simple knife, and the two came to the front of the water without saying a word. Looking at the sight, Song Jiang couldn't help but smiled bitterly: "Such a big How can we go to the mountains without boats?"

Zhao Neng was also helpless, he indulged in looting and beating the people in Shijie Village yesterday, which had caused public outrage, so he didn't dare to go again, but he didn't dare to say this to Song Jiang, so he could only vaguely say: "Shicai has been on our way Forget about this problem, Brother Gongming, forgive me."

Song Jiang didn't blame him either, he thought more than Zhao Neng, after all he was Song Gongming's official document notifying all places to collect ships, thinking that there might be no more ships available nearby, but he was anxious where to find the ship to go to Liangshan?
The two were worrying about themselves, but they didn't want to hear a singing sound from the water, a boat slowly rowed out from the reeds, and a boatman on the boat was dressed in gray clothes, with a red turban on his head.

Song Jiang and Zhao Neng's heart moved, they jumped up and waved their hands and shouted: "Boatman, here! Here! Come here!"

The boatman probably heard the shouting, turned around, rowed slowly, stopped five meters away from the shore, looked at the two of them for a while, and suddenly smiled: "You two are going to go to Liangshan?"

Zhao Neng was overjoyed and was about to answer when Song Jiang grabbed him and looked the boatman up and down. Seeing that this man had a ferocious face and strong limbs, he said vigilantly: "This boatman, how did you know that the two of us were going to Liangshan?" ?”

The boatman chuckled, pointed at Zhao Neng and said, "This Dutou was let go by his elder brother just yesterday, and he came back today, what is it if he wants to go up the mountain?"

Song Jiang and Zhao Neng were shocked when they heard the words, and their expressions changed: "You are from Liangshan?"

The boatman laughed, cupped his fists and said, "Yan Luo Ruan Xiaoqi of Liangshan Huo has met both of you."

He smiled coldly at Zhao Neng again: "You and I have seen each other before, you were the one who came to our village to collect boats, and the person who sent you off yesterday was my second brother, you were blindfolded, but I saw you clearly. "

Zhao Neng blushed when he heard this, and glanced at Song Jiang with some embarrassment.

Song Jiang had already had some guesses in his mind, the expression on his face did not change at all, he just looked at the reeds to one side, as if there was something that attracted him there.

Seeing this, Zhao Neng let out a sigh of relief, looked at Ruan Xiaoqi with embarrassment, and said, "It turns out that you are the commander of Mount Liang, and it's because a villain has eyes but doesn't know Mount Tai."

Ruan Xiaoqi didn't take it seriously, and squatted on the boat, waved his hands, and said with a playful smile, "I don't have time to listen to your flattery. Come on, why are you coming back today? Do you miss the prison in Liangshan?" ?”

Zhao Neng waved his hands again and again: "No, no, the villain wants to ask when can the villain's brother Zhao De be released? What price does the villain have to pay?"

Song Jiang who was at the side also quickly said: "There are still two leaders, Zhu Dian and Lei Heng from this county. I don't know how Guizhai is willing to release them. Please tell Xiao Ke."

"Oh!" Ruan Xiaoqi nodded: "I came here for this matter, and I'm waiting here, but this matter is for my brother to decide."

As soon as Ruan Xiaoqi swung his oars, he was about to retreat.

Song Jiang hurriedly bowed to Ruan Xiaoqi and said, "In this way, there will be a hero Ruan."

Ruan Xiaoqi stopped and looked at Song Jiang: "You black-faced guy is also interesting, do you have a name?"

Song Jiang smiled lightly, cupped his hands and said, "Song Jiang, the governor of Yuncheng County, met this Liangshan hero."

Ruan Xiaoqi was startled when he heard the words: "You are the only Song Jiang? Rain Song Jiang and Song Gongming in time?"

"Don't dare, it's Xiao Ke." Song Jiang cupped his hands calmly.

Ruan Xiaoqi looked him up and down carefully, laughed, and didn't say a word, just put his paddle into the water and paddled back, and he sang out the old-fashioned tune again: "Hello hero~ that won't ya~hi~
How can a hero not read poetry and books~
I only live in that Liangshanbo~
Although born skinny~
The murderer turned out to be~
Don't kill people~ hehe~
Don't kill people~ hehe~
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh~"

Song Jiang and Zhao Neng looked at each other after listening to the minor tune, Song Jiang's mouth twitched, and he couldn't help laughing bitterly: "This thief is really interesting."

Zhao Neng also showed a shy expression, shook his head and did not speak.

……

On Liangshan, there was a sudden breeze, and the mountains and forests rustled.

Lu Bu was dressed in black and stood on a high place in a bat-patterned Sichuan brocade cloak, watching the minions driving the soldiers to carry wood, stones and other construction materials. Having these people join in really saved a lot of manpower, but it made the project easier. The progress has been accelerated a lot.

However, this still made Lu Bu a little anxious. He wished he could build the stronghold immediately so that he could develop and grow stronger. It seems that the leader of the stronghold will surpass the soldiers one day if it seems so tepid.

He was thinking about something here, and Qiao Lie and Ma Ling, two leaders in charge of the intelligence affairs of the cottage, came from a distance.

"elder brother."

"Master."

The shouts of the two awakened Lu Bu, he adjusted his facial expressions, turned around and said apologetically, "The two brothers are here, I was thinking about something just now, but I didn't notice you two coming."

Qiao Lie knew that Lu Bu was worried about the development of the cottage in the past two days, so he said first: "We are about to tell my brother a good news."

"Oh? What's the news?" Lu Bu said, and then came to his senses: "But there is a result in the surrender?"

Ma Ling smiled and said: "There are results. About half of the soldiers on this mountain are willing to join our army, and the other half...especially the sergeant who follows the man named Zhu Dian is not willing."

Lu Bu frowned when he heard that, "Then Zhu Tun and Lei Heng are willing to surrender?"

Qiao Lie shook his head and sighed: "The two of them don't want to, so Zhao De doesn't want to either, saying that he wants his brother to make the decision."

Lu Bu took two steps, with a trace of pity on his face: "If you don't want to, let's just throw them out sometime, but the group of sergeants can't let them go. If they don't surrender, just do coolies here, and we'll talk about it in half a year."

"Master, wouldn't it be a pity to let it go like this?" Ma Ling said while scratching his hair.

"Oh? What do you think?" Lu Bu asked, turning his head and looking at Ma Ling.

Ma Ling giggled: "I heard from the captives that the families of those capitals are rich, so why not take this opportunity to make a fortune."

Qiao Lie clapped his hands and said, "That's a good idea. Brother Deng Fei has always said that the cottages are too light to get in. These three people can sell for a good price."

Lu Bu was overjoyed when he heard the words, and then said with some regret: "It's a pity to let that elder brother go, otherwise we can get more money."

Qiao Lie shook his head and said, "Let Zhao Neng go to get more money, so why doesn't he try his best to redeem his brother?"

"That's right, I just don't know how to ask him for money." Lu Bu nodded, then looked at Ma Ling and said, "Zhemo wants my brother to go there again."

Ma Ling didn't care, patted his chest and said: "Such small things are on my shoulders."

"Then we need to discuss how much these people will offer." Qiao Lie suggested.

Lu Bujian looked at the two of them and asked, "Do you have any details about these people?"

Ma Ling nodded: "I asked some questions from the captives."

"The poor have a little income." Qiao Lie also took out a piece of paper full of writing, shook it and said: "Then Zhu Dong is from a wealthy family, with a lot of fertile land in his family, and there are real estate transactions in the surrounding area of ​​Yuncheng County. It should be no problem to collect five thousand guan.”

Seeing Lu Bu nodded, he continued: "Although Lei Heng is from the bottom, he has done killing cattle and gambling. There are several properties in the market, and this person also has some family assets, four thousand. It should be made together."

"Yes." Lu Bu nodded, and asked again, "What about the brothers from the Zhao family?"

Qiao Lie looked at Ma Ling and motioned him to speak.

Ma Ling scratched his head and grinned: "The brothers of the Zhao family, I found out clearly that these two are also old people in Yuncheng County. The family members of the sergeants are all tenants of his family, and the whole family, young and old, work and farm for him on weekdays. Although it’s hard to say how much money they have, it’s impossible to hide the wealth of Wanguan’s family.”

Lu Bu's eyes rolled wildly when he heard the words, and he suddenly said, "The family members of those soldiers will be brought up to the mountain as soon as possible. Firstly, it will make these people feel at ease here, and secondly, it can also help the cottage."

Qiao Lie and Ma Ling looked at each other and responded in unison.

"Then the ransom is..."

Just as Lu Bu was about to speak, he heard someone shouting from below: "Brother, brother!"

"It's Qilang, come up first." Lu Bu looked down, and saw that it was Ruan Xiaoqi, and thought to himself, didn't he go to patrol the waterside today, why did he come back?
Ruan Xiaoqi saw the greeting, ran up quickly, wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with a smile: "Brother, I was cruising by the lake, and I saw two dumb birds, and I want to go back to the capital we captured. "

The three of Lu Bu looked at each other, and suddenly burst out laughing together.

Ruan Xiaoqi looked at the three laughing, and couldn't help but patted his head and said, "Brother, what are you laughing at? But I said something wrong?"

"No, no." Lu Bu slowly withdrew his smile, patted Ruan Xiaoqi's arm and said, "The three of us were discussing with the family members of these capitals just now to ask for the ransom money. Come, I am laughing."

Ma Ling smiled and said, "It also saves me the trouble of running around."

When Ruan Xiaoqi saw that he suddenly realized, he couldn't help but also grinned, it was indeed a coincidence, and suddenly remembered something: "By the way, besides Zhao Neng who came to look for his brother, there is another extravagant figure beside the water. It is timely rain on Song Jiang."

"Song Jiang?" Lu Bu felt that the name sounded familiar, and after thinking about it for a long time, he suddenly slapped his palm: "But this little official from Yuncheng County?"

"Exactly." Ruan Xiaoqi nodded: "In the past, I have heard of this person's name all the time. This person agreed and that person said Shezhe, but when I saw him today, he was short and dark."

Qiao Lie nodded and said: "This Song Jiang has news about him. This man has some property in his family, and he is not short of money."

Lu Bu thought for a while and waved his hand: "It's okay, I only want the wealth of these three people. It's inappropriate to say that the two armies are at war and they don't kill the emissary, but he comes to redeem us but we tie him up. It's okay to say it." Not nice."

"What brother said is true." Qiao Lie echoed: "Then Pindao and Xiao Qi will go meet the two of them together, and let him wait to prepare money to redeem them."

Lu Bu had nothing to do, Ruan Xiaoqi and Qiao Lie left together, Ma Ling couldn't stay idle, and he didn't know where he was going.

Over there, Zhao Neng and Song Jiang met Qiao Lie and got a letter from Liang Shan asking for a ransom in three days.

……

Shijie Village.

"Ruan Erlang, did you go up the mountain?"

"Is what Ruan Erlang said true? Are the kings on Mount Liang really willing to return the boat to us?"

"Ruan Erlang..."

Ruan Xiaoer yelled at each other with swarthy faces, the quarrel made Tai Sui dizzy immediately, so he raised his hands and shouted: "Don't quarrel, don't quarrel, listen to me!"

The buzzing words gradually stopped, and Ruan Xiaoer looked around and saw that most of the people in the fishing village were quiet: "The boats have come back, and I will go and collect them in a while. Now Liangshan is going to expand the navy team, and I want to go up the mountain to clean up later. Follow me back to the mountain."

As soon as this remark came out, the people who were still whispering suddenly fell silent, and all the fishermen looked at each other with hesitant expressions on their faces.

"Going up the mountain? That's fallen grass."

Someone in the crowd muttered something.

"Yeah, how can this go against the government?"

"That's it."

"I don't want to fight officers and soldiers with a knife."

Then, someone chimed in and made a few timid men nod their heads involuntarily.

Ruan Xiaoer was in a hurry when he saw this, he just made a guarantee with his brother at the banquet yesterday, if he can't pull people away today, wouldn't it be embarrassing?
Just when I was about to speak, I heard a loud roar: "Fart! Why did the government treat me as a human being, how can I not fight against them?"

A kind of fisherman hurriedly looked at the speaker, but saw that the person had a square red face, two cheeks except for the green beard of Zali Zhasha, and his bright head was full of angry blood, it was a hairless crab. Now he is leaning on a wooden stick, his lips are cracked and bruised, the corners of his eyes are still bruised, and his red nose now looks bruised.

Ruan Xiaoer pushed aside the villagers in front of him and walked over, looked him up and down, his eyes widened, and he looked at his friend in disbelief: "Diao Dalang, ye...how did you look like this?"

"I was beaten by those bandits." Diao Gui first explained, and then his face was full of anger: "The gang wanted to take my mother's silver hairpin, but the second brother stopped him, and he vomited blood when he beat him. Lying in bed."

Ruan Xiaoer turned his back to the crowd, and when he didn't see these words, there was anger on the faces of the young people.

"Did you ask Lang Zhong to take a look?" Ruan Xiaoer frowned. The friendship between the two families has been going on since the last generation, and he sees the Diao family brothers as his own brothers.

Diao Gui sighed: "How can I hire a doctor with money? I just found some medicinal wine to apply."

"Let's go, let's go home and bring Erlang with me. I have the money here, so I'll go and see the Langzhong first." Ruan Xiaoer was about to pull Diao Gui away as he said that.

Unexpectedly, Diao Gui committed stubbornness, grabbed Ruan Xiaoer with his backhand, and staggered him: "Second brother, I want to go to Liangshan, will you take me with you?"

Ruan Xiaoer couldn't laugh or cry: "When will you tell me this, Erlang's injury is serious."

"You just say it's okay." Diao Gui stared, holding Ruan Xiaoer's arm tightly with one hand.

"Okay, of course." Ruan Xiaoer agreed in a hurry: "Okay, let go, and send Erlang to see the doctor first."

Only then did Diao Gui let go, without expecting a voice from behind: "Ruan Erlang, I'm going to Liangshan too."

The two looked back and saw that he was also a man from the village. The man said: "My mother-in-law's hairpin was also robbed. These beasts still want to insult her. If we didn't want to fight them desperately, something would happen to Zhemo."

"That's right, I'm also there, these pickled bastards! I'm going to Liangshan to beat them too!"

"I'm also there, and since you said so, I'm going to Liangshan too."

"Okay!" Ruan Xiaoer smiled, waved his hands and said, "Pack up your things first, and follow me later."

"Oh!"

A dozen or so strong men responded, and hurried back together to pack their things.

Ruan Xiaoer laughed, and dragged Diao Gui to his house, no matter what, with the joining of these men, he could be able to explain to his brother.

The breeze blew, and the gusts of wind carried the fishy smell of the lake into the air, and water birds fluttered their wings.

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