Chapter 36 Section Thirteen

"Oh, so you haven't seen each other since then?" I asked. Lu Zhong shook his head with a smirk: "No, it's a coincidence that I met him very soon. Moreover, the meeting place was beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Although that meeting ruined my good business, but , I will never owe him any more. I am most afraid of owing others in my life, otherwise I will be restless for the rest of my life. I promise in the name of the Queen Mother of the West." I was very surprised: "How did we meet?" "I'm quite embarrassed to say it. Forget it, it's the same sentence. If you listen to me and want to tell me to leave, you can tell me right away, and I will leave right away, and I won't make a fool of myself. I promise in the name of Queen Mother Xi." He opened his big mouth, looking a little embarrassed.

I said, "You still don't trust me. As I said, you are my benefactor, and my rules of conduct are that I would rather die than betray my benefactor." He said: "Okay. In fact, it's mainly because I am too embarrassed. How I met him again, I have to start after I said goodbye to him. That day I rode back to the stockade on the Taihang Mountains. The brothers who stayed in the cottage saw that I came back with wounds, and all the other comrades were killed. They immediately became furious and vowed to wipe out Ma Wengyi’s house. So we made a plan, picked a day, sharpened the knife, and fed the horses , more than forty brothers dispatched in full force, and galloped towards Shiyi County in the afternoon. However, the plan was suddenly disrupted on the way. We heard from spies that Ma Weng, who was also a stingy man in Xiping Township, Shiyi County, went to Jingxing temporarily that day, saying that it was There was a mountain road collapse in Jingxing. The magistrate of Shiyi County sent Ma Wengyi to assist the magistrate of Shangai County to clear the road. I wanted to change the plan and choose another day, but my brothers suggested that the place is not far from Jingxing, so I can go to Jingxing to kill If we lose Ma Wengyi, we might be able to take the opportunity to hijack the county magistrate of Shangai. I thought that in Ma Weng’s family that day, if it weren’t for the help of the county officials, those house slaves of Ma Wengyi might not be able to do anything to us. So I also aroused my heart Furious, he followed their advice and rode his horse to Jingxing Valley."

Hearing this, I was a little overwhelmed with thoughts. I didn't expect Lu Zhong's previous life to be so thrilling. I began to think that he took the road of fussing to the Taihang Mountains only because of helplessness. I didn't expect that there were more than forty people under him. Dare to blatantly attack the magistrate of the county.I thought to myself, it is indeed a big problem for me to take him in. Although the imperial court has recently granted amnesty, according to the usual practice, the leader of a group of bandits is not included in the amnesty.If he hadn't changed his name to Sun Meng at that time, he might not have dared to rewrite his name at this time.However, although I am a little panicked now, I will never betray him. I just want to find a way to settle him so that he will not repeat the same mistakes in the future.

He glanced at me and said, "Brother Wan, are you listening to me?" I hastened to say, "Of course, it's thrilling." "You are really not afraid that I will implicate you. After all, I used to be the leader of a group of bandits and even killed the chief officials of the court." He was a little skeptical. I smiled wryly, and patted him on the shoulder: "Brother, those things are in the past. You listen to me in the future, don't do those things again, and you must never mention them to anyone. Now that I have money, I can let For the rest of your life, you will have no worries about food and clothing, even rich clothes and fine food."

He scratched his head habitually: "Actually, why do I want to be a gang of robbers? I really can't make it through. I have worked in the iron officer for more than 20 years. I eat rough wheat rice every day, and my face is scorched by molten iron. I'm a pockmark, I can't even get a wife, and I'm often insulted by the little official just like that. If the little official didn't hold my head down that day and told me to eat mud, I wouldn't be able to hold back. Brother Wan, what do you say , although our group of people are born with low life, but after all, we are human beings, can we be beaten and scolded casually? Aren't they officials shouting "the benevolent loves others" every day? Why don't they treat us as human beings? ?”

My nose is a bit sore, I have endured such a hard life, a hard life without dignity, I looked at his pitted and pockmarked face, and patted his shoulder again, not knowing what to say. He said: "Brother Wan, don't worry, I won't cause you any trouble. As long as I have a stable meal, I will follow the rules. I promise in the name of Queen Mother Xi." He paused and added: "Originally I was Born to be humble, I never imagined being compared with those princes and generals." "You're not a bitch, you'll get better soon. It's all in your life." I said, blowing my nose again, and then said, "Now go on and tell me about Chen Tang."

"Okay, we ran all the way, and soon entered Jingxing. After running for a while, we saw some county magistrates directing the people to clear the passage. My brothers saw those people in red clothes, they were extremely jealous, and immediately shouted. , shot and killed more than a dozen. I hurriedly ordered to stop and asked them to look for Ma Wengyi, but I caught a county magistrate and asked him, saying that he was still there just now, and I didn’t know where he had gone. Angry and hated, I searched around and found a pavilion on the hillside called Jingyan Pavilion. I wondered if the old Zhuzi would hide in Jingyan Pavilion, so I led my brothers to attack the pavilion. In the courtyard Here, I heard the voice of an enemy. This man is Wang Lihan, another petty official who bullied me in the past. Two years later, he was actually transferred here to be the head of the pavilion. I couldn’t hold back immediately , shot him in the back of the heart with an arrow, and then led his brothers to rush in, and saw two officials wearing green ribbons in the hall."

"Wearing a green ribbon?" I couldn't help interrupting him, "There are actually two high officials with two thousand stones in that pavilion? That's not Ma Wengyi?" "Yes, there is no Ma Wengyi inside." He said, "When they saw me go in, one of them was trembling with fright, and the other had no beard, and he wore a blue ribbon on the left and right sides of his body." "That's right, that's Zhang Hou. He is serving as a lieutenant, so he naturally wears double ribbons." I blurted out. "Well, I later found out that it was Zhang Bo, but he was quite calm. He dared to ask me where I was and what I wanted to do? I asked him where Ma Wengyi was? His face was blank. I knew Ma Wengyi was not there, so I was a little disappointed." , but seeing these two high-ranking officials with two thousand shi, I feel a little relieved, because they must have a lot of money, and this time I can just snatch some and spend it."

"So I told them right away, asking them to pay for their lives quickly. Unexpectedly, at this moment, a man suddenly babbled, which made me very unhappy. I heard that he was reassuring his wife not to be afraid, and he stammered. Yes, but this stutterer is very well dressed, obviously he is the grandson of a rich family, but his talent is very average. In addition to the stuttering problem, his face is also very unpleasant, especially the chin, which seems to be for the convenience of people climbing Yes, he volunteered to protrude forward. But when I saw his wife, I was surprised. The woman really looked like a flower, very beautiful. I suddenly had a desire in my heart to snatch her back Be a wife." When Lu Zhong said this, he smiled a little embarrassedly.

I said: "It doesn't matter, when you see a beautiful woman, all men have the same thoughts as you." Lu Zhongdao: "Actually, I have a good impression of that stutterer, because he is very good to his wife. I like a man who is good to his wife. A wife is hard to come by. But I was really fascinated by his wife, so I forced him to give it to me. , I can leave some money for him so that he can buy another beautiful woman by himself. He refused and begged me on his knees. Because he didn't look scared in front of me, and I didn't know why, and suddenly I was moved to kill him. And more importantly, before this expedition, I had a divination, and the hexagram said , my knife must see blood before it can come back, otherwise it will be very difficult in the future. So I wanted to use the blood of this Hou to sacrifice the knife. Brother Wan, I didn't know that eunuch-like Zhang Hou and Zhang Hou at that time. You turned out to be a good friend, otherwise I would rather have a bad future than kill him."

"Those who don't know are not to blame. Of course, this Zhang Hou is indeed very good... By the way, how did he escape from your knife?" I asked. "I ordered him to put his head on the chopping board and let me cut it off obediently. He complied. When I was about to cut the knife, I suddenly heard a shout from outside, saying that he was willing to take the knife on Zhanghou's behalf." "Oh, is that person Chen Tang?" I couldn't help interrupting him.