Lord: Start with a book of Water Margin

Chapter 334: Seizing the Birthday Gift

When the soldiers saw this, they could no longer move: "Captain, please allow us to buy a drink to quench our thirst."

The two guards pointed at a big tree and said with a sneer, "Tixia Yang, isn't that the mark left by Deputy General Zhou in front? It's safe here. There is no danger of the strong man you mentioned." After saying that, without waiting for Yang Zhi to speak, the two leaders went into the store first.

When the soldiers saw this, they all looked at Yang Zhi.

Yang Zhi's face turned pale, but he still waved his hand and asked the soldiers to go into the store to rest. He turned around and complained to Xie Duguan: "This Zhou Jin is so ignorant. He didn't go to the village to rest, but rested in this wild hotel."

Manager Xie, leaning on his wooden stick, said: "Maybe Deputy General Zhou thinks the most dangerous place is the safest place." After saying that, he ignored Yang Zhi and walked towards the hotel.

Yang Zhi sighed and followed him in.

In the restaurant, the two Yu Hou had already started drinking, and Xie Duguan had also sat at the table.

The soldiers sat at the three big seats, with their burdens at their feet. Yang Zhi saw that the two Yu Hou and Xie Duguan had drunk wine, and he was also very thirsty, so he said to Song Qing, who was pretending to be the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, give each of these guys three bowls of good wine to quench their thirst."

Song Qing responded and said to Lai Yonger, who was pretending to be a wine measuring doctor, "Go and get some good wine."

Lai Yong'er responded, and soon, he poured down a triangle of wine, which was not hot, and asked three waiters to pour the wine. Each of them was given a bowl, and without waiting for Yang Zhi to say anything, they drank it all in one gulp.

"Doctor, go get some more wine."

Here, Yu Hou Kuang Li called out, "Shopkeeper, how come I don't have a good bottle of wine?"

After hearing this, Song Qing came over and apologized: "It is indeed my fault. This wine is for my two brothers. Doctor, please change the wine for them."

After hearing this, Lai Yong'er hurried to get some wine.

First, three large glasses of wine were served, and everyone drank them in two sips. The three waiters hurried to get the wine.

At this time, a man came in carrying an empty shoulder pole and said, "Boss, give me a load of wine."

Song Qing saw it and asked, "Da Lang, have you sold all the load?"

The big man said, "In this weather, the wine will naturally sell quickly. I will go to Anle Village in front to sell another load later."

Seeing this, Kuang Li said with a hint of meaning: "Some people are always making alarmist statements."

Yang Zhi was upset and didn't respond.

Soon, the wine of the third mate came up first. Kuang Li shouted, "Why, the wine that came first came last? What's the logic?"

Lai Yonger came up with a glass of wine to apologize, and quickly poured wine for Yang Zhi and the other three. On the three large seats, three waiters also poured wine quickly.

Suddenly, a quarrel arose, attracting everyone to look at the counter. It turned out that Song Qing, who was dressed as the shopkeeper, scolded: "Zhao Dalang, how did you mix two iron coins into the wine money? I spared you last time." The man called Zhao Dalang bowed and saluted: "Shopkeeper, it's all my fault that I was not careful enough and let the farmer who bought the wine fool me. Today's business was good, and I was busy grinding the wine, but I didn't realize that the damn tenant fooled me. Next time I catch him, I will beat him up all the way."

As he spoke, he took out two copper coins and replaced the iron coins.

Song Qing scolded again, and Zhao Dalang smiled, picked up his load and walked out.

Passing by these seats, a few soldiers joked with him. Zhao Dalang was not angry, but smiled and walked away. Everyone watched a play and then picked up the wine and drank it slowly.

Kuang Li raised his bowl and clinked it with the two old stewards. The three of them raised their bowls and drank it in one gulp. Yang Zhi saw that the three of them ignored him, so he ignored them and drank it in one gulp.

Putting down the bowl, Yang Zhi shouted, "Boss, I don't want the wine anymore. If you have any food, bring some up. Cut up a dozen pounds of meat and I'll pay you back as soon as I get it."

"We still have some top-quality beef, as well as pheasants and rabbits sent by hunters. When we need snacks, we also have big steamed buns."

Yang Zhi said, "If you want meat, bring beef. Here's a chicken. And just bring the steamed buns. Let us have enough to eat."

After saying this, he felt dizzy and tried to open his eyes to look. He saw the soldiers disguised as waiters looking at each other and then collapsed to the ground.

The wine doctor pointed at Yang Zhi and said, "That's right! That's right!"

After that, he laughed and said, "It's done."

"Children, come and fold the treasures." He said, and went outside to lower the high wine flag. Soon, including the man who had just left, thirty or fifty people rushed in, loaded the twenty-one loads of gold and pearls into the cart, covered them up, and shouted, "Let's go."

The man carrying the load shouted, "Slow down." He turned the broadsword in his hand and stabbed at the soldiers who were teasing him. In a short while, he stabbed twelve or thirteen people to death.

The shopkeeper shouted, "Brother, why are you killing people at random? Let's go." Then he dragged the man away.

The murderer was none other than Huangfu Xiong [Fei Lian]. The one pretending to be the shopkeeper was Song Qing [Iron Fan] and the wine doctor Lai Yong'er [Ghost Seer]. Needless to say, that was it.

The people who came in later were led by [Mao Tou Xing] Kong Ming and [Tiger Fighting General] Li Zhong. The two were lying in ambush on the side, ready to rush in and fight if anything went wrong.

The wine served to the two Yu Hous at the beginning was newly brewed and pale in color, but the wine served at the end was good wine with color. The first two rounds were good wines without drugs. At the end, the wine was served to the soldiers first, and when everyone let down their guard, [Fei Lian] Huangfu Xiong deliberately mixed iron coins in, which attracted Song Qing's reprimand. During this time, the wine with knockout drugs was poured into the bowls, and when everyone finished watching the show, they drank the wine together, so that they could attack together. This was the strategy. Even in the two villages in front of Huangnigang, someone deliberately mentioned this hotel, just to dispel everyone's doubts. That strategy was advocated by Lai Yonger, and this was called "stealing the birthday gift by wits".

Let’s not talk about Song Qing and his group, who robbed the birthday gift and went east.

However, in a valley 20 to 30 miles away from Huangnigang, there was also a group of soldiers who were planning to rob the birthday gift. The leader was called [Golden Haired Hound] Shi Wei, another was called [Poison Fire Dragon] Yang Lie, and one was called [Life-Snatching General] Deng Tianbao. The three of them and a man called [Iron Spear] Wang Dashou, four heroes gathered 3000 to 5000 people and settled in Yanshan.

It turned out that the four heroes of Yanshan had long coveted the birthday gift, and three of them had come here last year. In order to get the birthday gift, [Poison Fire Dragon] Yang Lie had been alone here for more than half a year, and when Song Qing and his group came, they had already been discovered by [Poison Fire Dragon] Yang Lie. Only [Iron Spear] Wang Dashou was left to guard the mountain stronghold, and the other three led seventy or eighty minions to ambush on one side, just waiting for Song Qing's group to pass by, and then they would act as a trick to take advantage of the situation.

The secret of this group of people was something that even Shi Qian and Duan Jingzhu had never discovered.

(End of this chapter)