Water Margin: Lu Bu sits on Mount Liang

Chapter 266 Cooperation
"This is Mr. Li Daguan."

Li Zhu, who was smiling, helped the unconscious Hu Sanniang sit on a chair. He stood up and walked to Xiao Haili and said softly: "This man is a gentleman from a nearby village. He has two or three thousand people in his hands." With a signal, he reluctantly got up from the ground. Hu Cheng stumbled and ran to his sister's side: "This 'uncle' is the same, he is a young man from another village."

"Then I'll rob him." Xiao Haili's eyes gleamed when he heard this, and he turned around to leave. Behind him, Li Assistant pulled him and opened his narrowed eyes slightly: "Don't always fight and kill, first of all Let me persuade him to persuade both of them."

"How else can I persuade him? We can't let the two of them donate their family wealth?" Xiao Haili also lowered his voice as he glanced at the nervous Li Ying.

"I have some thoughts on this." Li Zhu let go of his hand and walked towards the door: "Let's watch him wait here for me to come back."

"Brother Li, where are you going?" Yuan Lang's voice sounded.

"Be back soon." The voice came and gradually faded away.

Xiao Haili touched his bald head and curled his lips: "Hey, these scholars are most annoyed by this treacherous way of speaking. It's so unpleasant."

He turned his face and looked at Du Xing, who was sitting on the chair and Li Yingtong was slowly coming over. Then he looked at Hu Cheng, who was patting Hu Sanniang's face and shouting "Little sister——". He stretched out his hand and nodded at a few people: "Don't cause trouble for yourself. Wait here."

"Little sister—Sanniang—"

Hu Cheng ignored him and continued to pat Hu Sanniang's face. Li Ying and Du Xing looked at each other and nodded helplessly.

"That's right." The Khitan man turned around and pointed to the next soldier: "Go to the back and look for any wine." The soldier agreed and turned around to go out. Xiao Haili looked at Yuan Lang and the others and laughed: "Come on. Come, our brothers haven’t gotten close to each other yet, let’s have some wine together later, and I’ll tell you that the number of cavalry on the mountain is increasing, and I’ve been asking my brother to add two more people.”

Yuan Lang and others looked at each other and said with a smile: "That's a good relationship. My brothers and I have been hearing about Commander Xiao's name for a while. I will ask for more advice soon."

The bald man was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly led a few people out of the hall first, standing in the courtyard and staring at the front hall. During the conversation, the straightforward temperaments of the few people were quite similar, and the conversation was quite congenial.

After leaving the house, Li Zhu walked back along the road. The sounds of fighting could be heard sporadically along the way, but more of them were the cries of people before they died. The smell of blood floated in his nose, and from time to time a gust of wind blew by, refreshing. The breath reentered the lungs, and the burning house made a crackling sound. At a certain moment, it collapsed with a bang. Gradually, the smell of burnt flesh came out, which was extremely unpleasant.

"Li Yingxiong."

The village soldiers who had seen Li Zhu take action passed by and greeted him respectfully. Li Zhu smiled and nodded in response. When he turned to look around, a dozen figures turned around the intersection with torches and headed this way, surrounded by guards on all sides. Suddenly, the figure walking in the middle was covered with a scarlet cloak. Under the firelight, the animal-faced armor with a swallowing head shone coldly. There was a red sheath ring-headed sword on his waist. As he looked around, he had an extraordinary momentum.

"I've met my brother." Mr. Jin Jian stood still and bowed his hands.

"I didn't expect Brother Li to be here, how could he come around? But you won the bet?" Lu Bu stopped walking and looked at this person with interest. He should be the first to take the city wall so quickly today.

"It makes my brother laugh. I'm just having some fun with a few brothers." He touched his beard with his hand and gently twisted it. Li Zhu took the time to glare at Teng Kan and continued: "I caught four people in the Zhu family's yard." A man and a woman are looking for a general order from my brother to make things easier."

Lu Bu pointed forward with his extended hand, indicating that he was walking away and said, "Who is he? And why?"

"There are two other villages nearby. I learned before that there are more than [-] people in those two villages together, and there is also a lot of money and food. The most important thing is that most of the people in those two villages are on the trade route. If you can turn up to the mountain for My brother’s use should be a big help.”

The forward figure's eyes lit up slightly, and he looked sideways: "How to turn to the mountain?"

"Put the knife to his neck and see if he dares to die."

Later, Teng Kan shouted something, and Lu Bu smiled. Li Zhu stopped twirling his beard and looked at Teng Kan with a stiff smile on his face: "If you keep talking, let's go to the school field to practice alone."

Teng Kan immediately shrank his head and muttered: "If you don't tell me, I won't tell you. Who are you trying to scare..." Seeing Li Assistant's eyes widening, he quickly straightened his face: "Brother, I'll go ahead to clear the way first, so as to avoid any trouble." Come and disturb me if you open your eyes."

Seeing Lu Bu nodding, he quickly ran forward, as if he was chasing a bad wolf, and disappeared in an instant.

"This fool..." Li Zhu shook his head and apologized to Lu Bu: "I made my brother laugh. Although this guy is not very smart, he still has a good heart."

"A pure heart." The tall figure said with a smile in his eyes: "I really like Teng Erlang."

"It's his blessing to be valued by my brother." He said, looking at the dark clouds in the sky: "What I just said...I remember my brother told me on the road that Qingzhou's military commander Yun Tianbiao will be here soon. Come to conquer."

"Yes, spring will come soon."

Li Zhuzhong narrowed his eyes again and moved the hand that was twirling his beard: "I heard that there is another person named Yunlong in this village, who is the only son of Yun Tianbiao..."

Under the flickering firelight, his face was a little uncertain: "I don't know what this person's temperament is, but if he receives the broken pieces from his only son, he will surely react. If he is angry and raises troops to arrive early..."

"It's easy to break. Even if he has to abide by Song Ting's date of dispatching troops, he can't help but feel sad when he thinks about it. But what does this have to do with the people of the two villages..." The moment he asked, his brows raised, and the tall figure also reacted. Come over, "So that's it...just how to ensure that he doesn't have to work hard when he goes to the mountain?"

"My younger brother already has a way to control Na Hucheng, but I need my brother's cooperation later. As for Li Ying... At first glance, this person looks strong, but in conversation, he feels that he is a smooth person, and he does not have a temperament that can easily break up with others. And he is very loyal to his servants. I will give him a few sticks first, and when I go up the mountain, someone else will come forward to give him some sweet dates. I will keep an eye on his family and separate his master and servant at the same time. This will also work. , if there is another opportunity in the future, I may try my best."

"Hmm... That's okay." Lu Bu lowered his head to think for a moment, then turned to look at Li Assistant: "Then you will be solely responsible for this matter. Whoever is needed can be transferred directly."

After a pause, he untied the Huanshou knife from his waist and handed it to the other side: "This knife is a portable weapon of a certain person. It can be used as a token. You can report it to a certain person after you finish it."

Li Zhu was overjoyed and quickly inserted the Jade Snow Sword into his belt and took the sword with both hands: "Don't worry, brother, I will definitely live up to my trust."

He stood up straight and looked at the figure wearing a scarlet cloak: "The younger brother goes first and goes to get the body."

"No need to go to such trouble, Yu Cheng."

After waving his hand and turning his head and shouting, the young guard stepped forward and stood beside Lu Bu with a phoenix-headed ax in hand, bowing and obeying the order.

"Call a few people to get the body of Yunlong, and then follow Mr. Li Zhu."

"Yes." In response, he turned his head and motioned to the guards at the rear to turn around, and someone immediately ran out.

Li Assistant smiled and stroked his beard: "Thank you, brother."

……

The night gradually became darker, and layers of clouds covered the sky, hiding the moonlight.

The killing in the manor has come to an end. A bonfire was lit in the Zhu family courtyard. The evergreen pine trees swayed in the light of the fire. The flames waxed and waned in the cold wind. The shadows cast by the trees were from time to time accompanied by patrols. The figures overlap and look weird.

The night that was supposed to be quiet was agitated by people patrolling with weapons. At a certain moment, a fierce fight broke out in the room in the side courtyard. In less than a stick of incense, it calmed down again. With two sounds of metal entering the flesh, There was a sound, and after a few breaths, the door opened with a bang.

"In that case, I'll take my leave first." Li Zhu opened the door and stood there with a ring knife in his hand and said, "By the way, if you two feel uncomfortable with this room, you can feel free to change rooms."

He tilted his head back, and a sincere smile appeared on his kind face: "It's a cold winter night, please take care of yourself." Then he stepped across the threshold, and the figure carrying two swords entered the place where the light and shadow were swaying, and several villages Soldiers followed behind carrying a headless corpse, and someone behind them was carrying Yunlong's Liuyang leader.

In the house, a lone lamp lit up the room. The tables and chairs in the house were broken and in a mess. The dim light shone on Li Ying and Du Xing. Both the master and the servant looked a little embarrassed. The cheeks of the man nicknamed Ghost Face were red. The primer looks very similar to the width of Lu Bu's red scabbard, and the clothes on his body have a few more shoe prints, and the size is exactly the size of Li Assistant's feet.

Li Ying was relatively better, but his clothes were messy, he was covering one shoulder with cold sweat, and he didn't dare to put down one foot. When Du Xing saw Li Zhu and others walking away, he quickly picked up a chair and stepped forward. Helped Li Ying to sit down: "Dongren, these guys are too sinister, why don't we secretly..."

Stretch out your hand and point to the door.

"...It's already too late, what else can we do." Li Ying smiled bitterly, rubbed his knees, and grinned in pain: "Although I don't want to admit it, Zhujiazhuang does have more people than our Zhuangzi, and the city walls are not built as well. It must be much more solid. If you don't agree to wait for him to go up the mountain, you and I will die immediately here, and the whole village of old and young will also die without a burial place."

After a pause, he looked at the hand that had just beheaded him with a knife: "...it's just as vicious as his reputation."

"Isn't it said that Liangshan behaves benevolently and righteously? But it's different today..." Du Xing frowned and looked outside, shaking his head: "It's still the Zhu family who caused the trouble. Without this family, nothing would have happened."

"That's all, there's nothing much to say at this point." He put his hand on the armrest, stood up and sat back down: "Help me up first and change places."

"Hey." Du Xing came over quickly, helped Li Ying get up, and limped out of the house. Under the guidance of the Liangshan village soldiers, he entered a clean side room and helped Li Ying lie down before going out to find the guard on duty. The soldier went to ask for the wound medicine, expecting to be refused. However, he did not expect that the man led him to the front hall. A man he had not seen during the day was in the hall. There were two iron swords on the table beside him. Hearing that it was medicine for bruises, he gave him a bottle without saying a word, and then asked the soldiers to help him boil some hot soup to take with him. When he returned to his room, he was sent a brazier to keep him warm. The master and the servant felt a little less depressed.

……

In the main room, dozens of candles as thick as arms were lit and inserted into the candlesticks, illuminating every detail of the house. Two copper basins contained fine charcoal. The charcoal bodies flickered and flickered, emitting heat, but there was not much smoke. Gas comes out.

Hu Sanniang sat nervously on the wooden chair, clasping her hands together, straightening her long legs and not knowing how to place them. She looked at the door from time to time and bit her lip.

When they came in just now, the man named Li Zhu made it clear that they did not want to do more killings. However, Zhujiazhuang's provocation to Liangshan could not be just picked up and put down. Although the Li family and the Hu family were coerced, , but it is a fact that people died in Liangshan. The Li and Hu families were determined to be expelled because of this. Li Ying was now willing to raise his family to the mountain for preservation, leaving only the Hu family. Where to go is in his own hands.

Beiqi bit her red lips gently and glanced at the door again.

That's all, I hope that Lu Bu is a handsome and tall man as the rumors say. If he is a short and dark man...

The worst case scenario is to turn out all the lights.

Thinking like this, I heard the soft crackling sound of the candlelight from time to time, my eyelids were a little heavy, and my head was dozing off little by little. The girl who couldn't hold it anymore held her cheeks with her hands and closed them gently. Eye.

At midnight, the sound of footsteps sounded in the yard. Someone climbed up the steps and opened the door. For a moment, the warm breath of the room hit his face, making Lu Bu breathe a sigh of relief.

He reached out to untie his cloak and threw it casually on a wooden chair aside. Looking at the bright lights in the front hall, Lu Bu tilted his head. Li Assistant said that the affairs of the Hu family needed his brother's cooperation, but he didn't say what it was. Afterwards, the Zhu family's seizure inventory was an eye-opener. I never thought that a country squire could accumulate so much food and money. It was really unexpected.

He extinguished the candles on the table and walked inside.

I hope I didn't miss anything about the Hu family. If that doesn't work, I'll just go to the Hu family.

Thinking in his mind, he was stunned when he opened the curtain and stepped into the back room. The beautiful girl over there was sleeping soundly on the table.

The stunned man unexpectedly remembered what happened to Wu Li, and Li Zhu's smiling face and Xiao Haili's bald head flashed in his mind.

These two guys...

His thick eyebrows were raised, and he looked at Hu Sanniang with tiger eyes. Is this what Li Zhu asked for help?If you sacrifice a daughter, you will sacrifice a daughter, making it mysterious.

Perhaps because Lu Bu blocked the light, or perhaps because she sensed the presence of someone else in the room, Hu Sanniang suddenly woke up and faced the man in front of her.

"You...who are you?" As he spoke, his sleepy head seemed to wake up a little. He quickly stood up and raised his hands: "How dare you face Brother Lu Bu in front of me? The little girl Hu Sanniang is here to serve you."

"..."

Lu Bu looked Hu Sanniang up and down, opened his mouth, and waved his hand: "Don't be busy now, I don't like to be close to women during war."

"Yes."

The tense shoulders of the woman opposite relaxed slightly, and she listened to the man say: "It's late at night, go to bed first, and we'll talk about it tomorrow if you have anything to do."

The relaxed shoulders became tense again, and the whole night was uneventful.

(End of this chapter)