Water Margin: You dog official, you still say you don’t know martial arts?

Chapter 703 Tong Guan: Grand Master, Hello! [3 more]

After Mei Zhan came in, he naturally processed the truth artistically before telling Cai Jing and Tong Guan:

“Blah blah blah…

"I would rather die than surrender. The rebel admired my loyalty and let me go!"

Mei Zhan winked at Xu Jing: Did I say something wrong?

Xu Jing nodded slightly: Beautiful!
Mei Zhan breathed a sigh of relief: Passed!
At the same time, Tong Guan winked at Cai Jing: Are they the only two?
Cai Jing nodded slightly: It’s just them two!
Tong Guan squinted his eyes and said: Please!

Cai Jing turned his face away:

It's good enough that I help you with your problem, but you want me to be the bad guy for you?
Tong Guan had no choice but to frown:
"Xu Jing, Mei Zhan, you two did a great job!"

Xu Jingmei and Zhan were both stunned: "Prime Minister, what have we done?"

"Our army of 130,000 men should be as powerful as a mountain and can easily crush Liangshanpo!

“Why did we return in such a disastrous defeat?”

Tong Guan's face was gloomy, and he shouted sternly:
"I just realized now that you two were colluding with the Liangshan rebels!

"You and the Liangshan rebels are working together from the inside and outside. How can our army not be defeated?"

What?
Xu Jingmei couldn't believe her ears:

"The Prime Minister is innocent!"

Xu Jing shouted, "Prime Minister, we are not from Shandong, and we have no acquaintance with the Liangshan rebels!"

Mei Zhan also shouted: "We don't even know the Liangshan rebels, how could we collude with them?"

Xu Jingmei and Zhan said in unison: "Please let the Prime Minister take a closer look!"

"You don't need to remind me, I will find out clearly!"

Tong Guan snorted coldly and flicked his sleeves:
"Someone, tie up these two traitors!"

Rebellious?

Xu Jingmei was stunned: Does this define us?
Following Tong Guan's shout, several guards rushed up like wolves and tigers and held Xu Jingmei down.

Lin Chong also encountered this situation in the original novel.

It’s not that they don’t have the ability to resist, but that they dare not resist.

Or perhaps they had illusions about the imperial court, thinking that it would not wrongly accuse a good person, so they gave up resisting.

But Xu Jingmei and Lin Chong are different. They are both bandits who were recruited.

Xu Jing originally worked as a security teacher in Guojiazhuang, Zezhou.

His wife was favored by Zhang Zhizhou, the governor of Zezhou, who conspired with the owner of Guo Manor to take possession of Xu Jing's wife.

Xu Jing's wife refused and committed suicide.

Zhang Zhizhou took his anger out on Xu Jing and ordered the owner of Guo Manor to falsely accuse Xu Jing of colluding with bandits. He arrested Xu Jing and wanted to sentence him to death.

At that time, Wen Huanzhang was the chief clerk in Zezhou. He admired Xu Jing's character and martial arts, so he negotiated and changed his sentence to exile.

During his exile, Xu Jing was rescued by his good friend Li Congji.

After escaping, he returned to Zezhou, killed Zhang Zhizhou and the entire family of Guo Zhuangzhu, and became a bandit.

Meizhan is from Suzhou and his family is a weaving merchant.

Zheng Sanxing, the brother-in-law of Wang Zhizhou of Suzhou, was a major weaving tycoon in Huainan. He relied on Wang Zhizhou to bully and dominate the market.

Only the Mei family refused to give in.

So Zheng Sanxing colluded with the weaving supervisor Liu Yongxing to slander the Mei family for selling inferior tribute cloth as good quality ones, and confiscated the Mei family for the crime of deceiving the emperor.

Men were exiled and women were enslaved.

When Mei Zhan was in exile, he learned that his wife had committed suicide. In anger, he killed the official and became a bandit in Wuyi Mountain.

Later, after being recruited, Mei Zhan ordered his officers and soldiers to disguise themselves as bandits and destroy the Wang, Zheng and Liu families.

Both of them knew what kind of conduct the official had, and both of them had killed officials with their own hands.

So they did not have the same illusions as Lin Chong, and they realized at that time that Tong Guan wanted them to take the blame.

They can't carry such a big pot at all!
So Xu Jingmei looked at each other and resisted at the same time.

Xu Jing is a good fighter, and Mei Zhan is known to be brave enough to defeat ten thousand men!
In no time, Xu Jing and Mei Zhan defeated several Yu Hou.

Xu Jing grabbed a knife and tried to kill his way out.

"Wait!"

Mei Zhan called him and grabbed Tong Guan by the collar.

Tong Guan was dumbfounded at the time. He was shocked, angry and afraid and reminded Mei Zhan: "Killing an official is against the law!"

"Ah!"

Mei Zhan sneered, strangled Tong Guan's neck with his left arm, and pointed his sword at Cai Jing with his right hand.

Cai Jing hurriedly took two steps back:
"I didn't say anything. I have nothing to do with this matter!"

"Every wrong has its perpetrator and every debt has its creditor!
"Tong Guan threw dirty water on us, we will only hold him responsible!"

Mei Zhan held Tong Guan hostage and warned Cai Jing sternly:
"If the Grand Master has nothing to do with this matter, tell them to get lost!"

"Go away!"

Cai Jing shouted without hesitation to the guards, family generals, and servants who rushed in:
"Get out of here, everyone! Let these two heroes get out!"

Tong Guan’s eyes widened: Grand Master, you are so awesome!
So Xu Jing and Mei Zhan took Tong Guan hostage and left the Grand Tutor's Mansion unhindered.

But it was impossible to walk fast while holding Tong Guan hostage.

Tong Guan howled like a ghost and kicked the ground with his feet in a desperate struggle.

Tong Guan's actions, coupled with the knives in the hands of Xu Jing and Mei Zhan, immediately caused chaos on the street.

"Scatter people..."

A peddler walking around the streets saw this and immediately let out a deafening scream.

This scream was like a clarion call to charge, and men, women, and children on the street were all running around in panic!
In this chaos, Xu Jing and Mei Zhan couldn't move any faster...

How to do?
Xu Jing looked at Mei Zhan, who was very depressed:

what can I do? I'm desperate too!

Looking back, he saw a carriage parked on the side of the road, and Mei Zhan was holding Tong Guan hostage.

He threw Tong Guan onto the cart, climbed on himself, and called out to Xu Jing:

"What are you still standing there for? Drive the car!"

Right!

Xu Jing quickly rushed to the shaft of the carriage and started driving it.

Fortunately, he used to be a security guard and had learned how to drive a horse-drawn carriage in a few days.

Although we got on the carriage, it was difficult to move because the streets were so chaotic.

The result was that Xu Jing was surrounded by countless imperial guards on the street before he could even reach the city gate while driving his carriage.

"Let us go!"

Mei Zhan pressed Tong Guan's head against the carriage window, put a knife on Tong Guan's neck, and shouted:

"Otherwise the Prime Minister will die first!"

"Wait!"

Tong Guan tried hard to give way to the blade and negotiated with Mei Zhan:

"I'll let you go, and you'll let me go too, how about that?"

Mei Zhan: “Deal!”

Tong Guan: "A gentleman's word?"

Mei Zhan: "It's hard to catch up with him!"

Tong Guan shouted to the imperial guards outside:
"Get out of here! Let them go!"

With Tong Guan as the pioneer, the imperial guards were forced to give up a narrow path.

Xu Jing drove the carriage towards the city gate amid the malicious gazes of thousands of soldiers and horses.

Being stared at by pairs of eyes full of hostility, not to mention Xu Jing, even Mei Zhan felt under tremendous pressure.

Suddenly, a rope flew out from the crowd!
There was a slipknot tied in front of the rope, like a lasso, and it hit Xu Jing's neck right on target!

Xu Jing was caught off guard and dragged out of the car!

When Mei Zhan heard the noise, he subconsciously turned his head to look, and suddenly a golden spear stabbed at him from the crowd!
Mei Zhan instinctively tilted his head to avoid it, but unexpectedly there was a sickle-like hook on the golden spear!

The shiny big hook just hooked Mei Zhan's neck!

The gunman smiled at Mei Zhan:
"Don't move, your head will fall off!"

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