Chapter 73 Chapter 4: It’s Not Beef, It’s Leadership

Next, Zhang Qing persuaded Wu Song to kill the two gentlemen and go to Erlong Mountain to vote for Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhiluo. But Wu Song did not accept his suggestion.He said: "The most important thing is that the elder brother looks after the younger brother with kindness. It's just one thing. Wu Song only wants to fight the tough guys in the world. These two gentlemen are just careful with me. They serve me along the way. If I harm him, the law of heaven will not allow me." .If you respect and love me, then save both of them with me, and don’t harm him.” Zhang Qingdao: "Since Dutou is so righteous, the villain will wake him up."

Zhang Qing then led Wu Song to the human flesh workshop; when he looked at it, he saw several pieces of human skin stretched on the wall, and five or seven human legs hanging from the beams.See the two gentlemen, upside down, upright on the peeling stool. This description is extremely terrifying.Zhang Qing and Sun Erniang's couple can be said to have committed a heinous crime.However, Wu Song turned a blind eye to this and did not blame it. Not only is it not strange, he also thinks that Zhang Qing and his wife are good people with principles. After rescuing the two gentlemen, Wu Song let the two gentlemen sit on top, Zhang Qing and Wu Song sat on the bottom, and Sun Erniang sat on the head.Why are the two gentlemen sitting on it?Because it is public.They are public servants, people within the system.

Either treat you as a beef, or treat you as a leader. As a leader, I will offer you a cigarette and a toast on the chair. When you are beef, you will be put on the peeling stool and cut open. The oppressed and exploited people in ancient China gave public officials two kinds of treatment, the difference lies only in the occasion. Wu Song and Zhang Qing talked about the deeds of heroes in the Jianghu, but they were murder and arson.The two gentlemen were stunned when they heard this, and just bowed down.Wu Songdao: "We are not willing to harm people who do good. You just eat wine, and when you arrive in Mengzhou tomorrow, you will thank you."

In fact, what Wu Song said was putting gold on Zhang Qing's face.Could it be that the merchants who were turned over, stripped, and made into meat stuffing in Zhang Qing's black shop were all bad people? In other words, Zhang Qing and his wife conducted an investigation before mopping them up and stripping them, and only after confirming that they were damned villains did they attack? Obviously not.Even Lu Zhishen was almost treated like yellow beef by them. What needs to be explained is that most of the so-called loyalty of the heroes in "Water Margin" is limited to the so-called "brothers".If we recognize you as a brother, we will be loyal; if we don't recognize you as a brother, there will only be bad luck—should we turn it on or turn it on, and we should peel it off or peel it off.

Before Yanshun, Wang Ying, and Zheng Tianshou on Qingfeng Mountain didn't recognize Song Jiang, they wanted to dig out his heart and liver to make hangover soup, and they were murderous.When he knew it was Song Jiang, he embraced the top chair again, accepted his head and bowed, with great loyalty. From murderous spirit to loyalty, it depends on whether you are unlucky or lucky: whether he recognizes you as a brother or not. When Han Bolong came to Liangshan, he happened to meet Song Jiang who was ill and had no time to meet him, so he waited at the hotel at the foot of the mountain.In the end, instead of waiting for Song Jiang, the evil star Li Kui came. When he disagreed with him, Li Kui pulled out an ax from his waist, looked at the front door with an axe, and hacked him to death.If you don't die, you go to Liangshan and take the top spot, that is, brothers, and you have loyalty.But he met Li Kui, who was impatient, and what he brought was murderous spirit, not righteousness.Who is to blame?It's just your bad luck.

Looking at Zhang Qing himself, it's the same: a tutuo, a big man seven or eight feet long, and Sun Erniang also turned Lai Ma over.When Zhang Qing came back, he had already taken off his four legs.These are Zhang Qing's original words. When I read the words "take off the four legs", I always felt that something was wrong. After reading it for a long time, I suddenly realized that the four legs should be called four limbs.However, all kinds of books are "four-legged", and even Jin Shengtan, who has done a lot of text polishing on "Water Margin", did not change this word.I was proud at the beginning, thinking that at this point, I finally had sharper eyes than Jin Shengtan, seeing the problems he didn't see.However, after thinking about it again, it suddenly dawned on me again: In the eyes of Zhang Qing and Sun Erniang, as long as they are not brothers like Wu Song and Lu Zhishen, all the people who come to their hotel are four-legged animals to be slaughtered by them.

On the contrary: Lu Zhishen was born obese. After passing Shizipo, Sun Erniang regarded it as yellow beef. He poured some Mongolian sweat medicine into the wine to numb it, and carried it into the human flesh workshop.Just about to start peeling and unloading the four legs, it happened that Zhang Qing came back.Seeing that his Zen stick was extraordinary, he hurriedly rescued the antidote, became a brother, and drank wine with his arm—it was an arm, not a hoof. This is luck, so there is also loyalty.If it wasn't for Zhang Qing's timely return, and for Zhang Qing's extraordinary Zen staff, making Zhang Qing think that this fat man is a good man, Lu Zhishen would have turned into a pile of stewed yellow beef.

If Zhang Qing returned earlier, Toutuo would have become Lu Zhishen; if Zhang Qing had returned later, Lu Zhishen would have become Toutuo. As for the mortal beings, of course they are not brothers, and they don't recognize so many brothers, so don't blame me for not being loyal. When Li Kui robbed the court in Jiangzhou, he chopped off the head with two axes. I don't know how many people were cut down.These people probably just sighed like Pan Jinlian: "It's unlucky to be straight."Where can I feel the loyalty of these heroes? The next day, Wu Song wanted to go, but Zhang Qing was willing to let him go, and kept him in charge for three days.Wu Song suddenly thanked Zhang Qing and his wife.

Why did Wu Song suddenly appreciate Zhang Qing and his wife?It was because he suddenly thought of his brother and sister-in-law.Just lost a brother, just killed a sister-in-law.Now, facing Zhang Qing and his wife, who are like brothers and sisters-in-law who love him deeply and righteously, how can he not feel a lot of emotion and arouse infinite pain in his heart? Why can't my elder brother be as lively and heroic as Zhang Qing in front of me? Why can't my sister-in-law be as forthright and capable as the second Niang Sun in front of me, who sings like a husband and wife? The sea of ​​people is vast, and the world of mortals is rolling. Why don't you have your own relatives, your own flesh and blood, and your own destination?

This year Wu Song was twenty-six years old and Zhang Qing was thirty-five.Zhang Qing and his wife obviously felt the pain in Wu Song's heart, so they swore Wu Song as their younger brother.Losing a brother and sister-in-law and gaining a brother-in-law is a consolation to Wu Song. Wu Song wants to do it.Zhang Qing sent the wine to the road, took out the luggage, parcels, and wrapped bags, and returned them. He also sent a dozen taels of silver to Wu Song, and sent two or three taels of silver to the two gentlemen.Wu Song gave the ten taels of silver to the two gentlemen. Wu Song's boldness is different from that of Lu Zhishen, and also different from that of Lin Chong.His boldness seems to be more thorough, but because of this, it is not enough, and it seems that there is something artificial.Like here, it seems that there is no need to do this in front of Zhang Qing and his wife.

Zhang Qing and Sun Erniang sent them out the door.Wu Song was suddenly grateful again, so he had to say goodbye in tears, and took Lu to Mengzhou. When he arrives in Mengzhou, what will Wu Song meet again?