Water Margin: Lu Bu sits on Mount Liang

Chapter 309 Meng Xia, an outsider

In the fourth year of Zhenghe, in Mengxia and Guichou, the sun was trying its best to shine, and the cloudless sky was as clear as water for thousands of miles.

By the riverside, the rolling waves were surging, making a swishing sound as they gently hit the shore. Some of them bumped into empty boats before reaching the shore, causing a sway, but because the cables were tied to the simple pier, You can never leave this place. Beyond the pier is a clean yard with two dilapidated wooden houses.

The hurried doctor was led into the room by Zhang Shun. After staying for about an hour, he came out wiping the sweat from his forehead and said, "The patient's injury is severe. Thanks to his strong physique, which is different from ordinary people, otherwise he would be... …”

Looking at the Zhang brothers with unkind expressions, the doctor who spoke without restraint swallowed his words, thought for a moment, took out a pen and paper, and wrote a prescription on the outside: "This is a prescription for nourishing blood and qi. Treat patients with it." Use after you wake up."

Zhang Shun frowned and looked into the room: "Then when will he wake up?"

"It's hard to say." The doctor's expression remained unchanged, he raised his hand to touch his beard, looked into the room and said softly: "I have given him medicine for the knife wound and removed the rotten flesh. When he will wake up... it depends on his luck. "

"Look at fate? Isn't this just letting him carry it on his own? What's the use of you like this?"

Hearing this, Zhang Heng's eyebrows twisted, his triangular eyes widened, and he couldn't help but take a step forward. The doctor saw that his face was ferocious and couldn't help but take a step back.

Zhang Shun hurriedly stepped forward to stop his brother, fearing that he would get angry and punch him, making the doctor lie down for ten days and a half. He was eating whole grains. Who was not feeling well yet, and things would become tense after that? Who dares to come?

He immediately raised his hand and said seriously: "Please give me a helping hand."

"If you don't want to help..." A look of embarrassment flashed across the doctor's face, and then he sighed and said, "That's all, I'll prescribe some more prescriptions for strengthening the foundation and cultivating the body. If you can get ginseng, get him some ginseng." Soup."

While chattering, the doctor wrote another prescription to the two of them, and then said goodbye and left.

The Zhang brothers breathed a sigh of relief and walked into the room. The pungent smell of medicine instantly filled their noses. In the back room, Li Jun's rosy face was already pale. He was wrapped in white cloth and was lying on the bed. Sitting beside him was Li Jun. Qiao Niang turned her back to the door and looked like she was wiping away tears. My mother hugged the fisherman girl and comforted her from time to time.

Hearing the sound, he seemed to have wiped his face quickly. He stood up and turned around. Sure enough, there were tears on his face and his eyes were red. But at this time, he looked at the Zhang brothers as if nothing happened, and suddenly knelt down and said : "Thank you two heroes for your help, otherwise the master might..."

"No, no, no, get up." Zhang Shun wanted to help her, but he didn't dare to touch her. He scratched his head and ears anxiously, so he had to look at my mother for help. The old woman also understood her son, so she stepped forward and pulled Qiao Niang up. : "Daughter, get up. Don't say thank you. We are all acquaintances. How can we not save you in the face of death?"

Zhang Heng was a little impatient at home. He looked at the people and said, "Just wait here. I'll go find Boss Li and ask him to pick up Brother Jun."

"Boss Li is..." Qiao Niang frowned and looked at the man from the Zhang family who was speaking.

"Brother Jun's uncle is also a first-class hero on the Xunyang River."

Qiao Niang nodded thoughtfully, turned to look at the man with his eyes closed on the boat, and breathed a sigh of relief. No matter what your name is or what you do, I only recognize you as this person.

……

In Jiayin, Li Fu who took Li Jun back was furious. Several dissatisfied local heroes on the ground in Jieyang spread a few gossips to Li Fu's ears. There was no place to spread the anger, but Long Ju immediately took Zhu Xiao with him. Ba and Tongwei and Tongmeng took the person away.

Bingchen, Bao Daoyi and Zheng Biao, who had rested for three days in Xiaogushan, led people down the mountain. Relying on Ma Xiong's brother's power in the government, they claimed that a female believer had been raped by the bullies in the town. Later, with the cooperation of Ma Xiong and his brother, Bingchen beat her. After entering, he easily subdued several nearby villages, and then the teachings of Manichaeism began to spread.

On the two days of Wuwu and Jiwei, under the cover of the Ma Xiong brothers, Deng Biao led the training soldiers into the ground of Jieyang Town, wounded Mu Chun, and fought with Mu Hong for a long time without deciding the outcome. The tenants also suffered a lot of injuries. They were so angry that they patrolled the town all day long with red eyes and a sword on their backs, injuring several innocent people.

In Gengshen, Li Fu and Zhu Xiaoba, who had been guarding the Xunyang River, clashed with believers who came to preach Manichaeism. Some men were lost in the contact between the two sides. Zheng Biao and Zhang Kui, who led the team, were no match for Li Fu. I had to retreat and make other plans.The young Naohai Longju already guessed that the recent troubles were caused by outsiders caused by Zhang Kui, and he was extremely angry.

In Xinyou, the Liangshan fleet officially entered the Xunyang River, and Du Lisan got off the ship with his scouts.

……

In the Mengxia season, you can already feel a bit of heat. The sky is shining on people, making it somewhat sultry. On the banks of the Xunyang River, fishermen wearing coarse cloth shirts did not go fishing in the river. They were carrying harpoons and simple knives everywhere. While patrolling and walking, everyone would have red eyes. When they saw someone they were unfamiliar with, they would stare at them until they bowed their heads uncomfortably and walked away.

In the dense forest, the shade of the trees blocked the sun and cast only a light and shadow the size of a copper coin on the ground. A group of men in simple clothes sat around and talked in a hurry.

"How come this place is so ghostly..."

"Young woman, I asked about the situation. I moved my legs and feet, and four or five fishermen looked over with knives. Their expressions made me want to come up and chop them down."

"I am the same, mother. I just asked a question and was scolded out of the village. I have never been so aggrieved."

"The Chai family still wants to take the salt line here, are they all stunned?"

The muttering words reached Du Lisan's ears. The man looked at the expressions on the faces of his subordinates and frowned: "Don't talk about it anymore. No matter what happened, we should ask clearly, otherwise we will support you and me. What’s the use?”

"But Commander, this place is really evil. It's not that the brothers don't want to do things, it's that this place is exclusive and cannot do anything."

Someone yelled, which resonated with everyone around them, and they all nodded in agreement.

"Okay, shut up!" Du Lisan raised his hand, and everyone around him immediately stopped talking and looked at the leader with small eyes.

"I know the situation." The gangster who took a look around, pinched his chin and rubbed it slowly, snorted: "Despite this, do I have to go back now and tell the leader that we were scolded by a group of fishermen to get out, and we didn't find out anything? I'll go and find out on my own, maybe I'll get something?"

The scouts under his command looked at each other, and then shook their heads wildly. If this was really the case, this capable commander would kill someone without the village leader having to say anything, and then kill himself to apologize.

"Go and check, it's definitely unusual to be so exclusive here." Putting his hands on the ground, Du Lisan stood up: "If you can't find anything here, go somewhere else." He glanced at the position of the sun in the sky: "We haven't arrived yet. Come back here at noon or before You time, and disperse!"

As soon as the voice came out, a group of ordinary-looking men stood up, walked out of the woods, and hurriedly ran along the road. Du Lisan stood on the road with a frown on his face, looked around, and then walked away.

He also walked quickly, but he was not in the right moment. He saw a place to go in the distance, thought about it, and walked into the city gate. He saw that the place was densely populated. People were coming and going in the well market, but they all looked worried and looked at each other from time to time. Looking around, his steps were also hurried.What the hell is this?
Du Lisan muttered in his heart, stretched out his hand to pull down his clothes, took a look, and saw a tea shed not far away. He felt a little thirsty after walking such a long distance, so he walked over and was immediately greeted by a tea doctor: "Guest, Sorry, the store is full, please go elsewhere."

Du Lisan's eyes widened, and he pointed at the half-occupied seat: "You guys are probably blind. You told me that there are so many empty seats." He grabbed Dr. Cha's collar and said, "But you look down on me?" He reached out and took out a piece of broken silver and held it in front of his eyes: "I have money! I won't eat your money in vain!"

Dr. Cha tried hard twice but couldn't get away, so he had no choice but to say: "It's not just a villain who doesn't do business, it's because he was ordered by the big man not to receive strangers."

Du Lisan narrowed his eyes and couldn't even see his eyes. He said, "Someone gave me an order? What do you mean?"

"This... you should leave quickly. The shop can't afford to offend people, and it really can't serve you." Dr. Tea just shook his head.

After lowering his head and thinking for a moment, Du Lisan let go of Dr. Tea's clothes to see if someone was paying attention to them. He pulled the person aside and blocked his sight with his body: "I can also leave here, but you have to tell me what happened, otherwise I will There is no place to vent this anger."

Looking at what he wanted to say, he pulled the man's hand over, pressed the pieces of silver into his palm, and said, "If you can say it, this is yours."

Dr. Tea suddenly clenched his fist and looked around vigilantly. Seeing that no one was paying attention, several tea guests turned their faces and talked to themselves when they saw that there was no fight. Then they relaxed and said softly: : "I don't know. A few days ago, some outsiders came here and had a dispute with the elder brother and the younger brother of the Mu family in the town. The younger brother was injured by the outsiders because the older man ordered the shops here not to sell anything to outsiders. He He has a bad temper and hurts people at every turn, how can we dare to disobey him?"

outsider?

Du Lisan's eyes lit up and he asked casually: "No one can treat him? Does the Yamen not care?"

At this time, Dr. Cha also felt like he was looking for someone to complain to. He shook his head and sighed: "How to treat him? Beat him, but he can't beat him. If he scolds him, he will beat him up. When he goes to the yamen, he will only call the person away at the yamen gate, and then let him go. When I came out, I was still beaten by him, alas!"

"Then..." Du Lisan looked at him and asked, "Who are those outsiders? Why did they conflict with him?"

Dr. Tea was even more excited when he heard this. He first looked at the others, then came closer and said, "I told Yun that others don't know about this matter, but I am the one who knows the inside story..."

Then he raised his head and looked around: "A few days ago, some believers from other places came to preach the doctrine near Jieyang, but they claimed that the believers were forcibly occupied and beat many bullies to death, and then opened a dojo here to preach the doctrine. My family One of my cousins ​​has joined the church."

Du Lisan had some guesses in his mind and said directly: "Then they want to expand their followers, so they come to the town to develop and conflict with that big man?"

"What's wrong?" Dr. Tea slapped his thigh and said excitedly: "If it weren't for this, my place would have been full of people in the past, but look at it, only half of it is filled with tea... Alas, when will it end?"

Du Lisan had no intention of listening to this man's complaint, and his eyes were thoughtful: "Did those fishing villages along the river also have conflicts with these missionaries?"

Dr. Tea nodded fiercely, with a little excitement in his low voice: "Not only that, I heard that many people died. Ouch! There was a river of blood and a mountain of corpses."

"Oh..." Du Lisan straightened up and made a sound of realization. He thought for a moment and then asked: "Hey, doctor, you are so well-informed, have you ever heard of a person named Li Fu?"

"Li Fu? But Boss Li? What do you want to do with him?" Dr. Tea's eyes were a little curious.

Du Lisan thought for a while, but did not dare to speak directly: "I don't know if it's Boss Li, but my boss said that he has a business to discuss with him. Oh, I heard that he has a nickname before, what is his name..." He scratched his head: "Sea dragon colt?"

"Hai Longju." Dr. Cha corrected him, and then looked at Du Lisan: "How can you succeed when you come out to discuss business and still can't remember things?"

Du Lisan smiled: "My boss takes care of me."

"Good luck!" Dr. Cha patted him on the shoulder, and then shook his head: "Unfortunately, people like Boss Li are not accessible to people like me. I only heard that he lived by the river, and that he also had properties and houses on Jieyang Ridge. The rest were just I don’t know anymore.”

The scout commander pretended to sigh, then he thanked him, turned around and raised his legs to leave.

Suddenly I heard a shout: "Da Lang is out."

Suddenly there was a panic in the market. When Du Lisan heard this, he rolled his eyes and looked at the street and alley. He hurriedly walked over and pressed his body against the wall with only his head exposed and looking out.

I saw a fair-faced, burly young man walking down the street carrying a whistle stick. Behind him were a dozen bankers who were also carrying sticks. When they saw someone blocking the way, they immediately kicked him. Falling to the ground, a timid vendor quickly rolled up his stall, took the package and ran away. The entire market was gone in less than a stick of incense, leaving only a few mismatched shoes on the street. On the surface.

So overbearing...

Du Lisan touched his chin. He had never done this before when the leader of his family went out. This man only showed up and the street was cleared in an instant. No wonder Dr. Cha was so afraid of this man just now.

After another look, he didn't want to go out and show off, so he retreated into the darkness, then turned around and walked away in a hurry.

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On the bank of Xunyang River, there is a fishing village.

Zhu Xiaoba's strong figure walked through the village. Several big men he saw nearby raised their hands to say hello to him. This man waved in response and walked into a spacious wooden house without stopping.

"Master, our people from other villages came to report that there was an outsider probing outside the village. It might be Zhang Kuina again."

Li Fu frowned, gestured to his apprentice, pointed to the inner room, and then walked out with his hands behind his back, and Zhu Xiaoba quickly followed.

The old man in front stood still in the courtyard: "Brother Jun hasn't woken up yet, so don't disturb him."

Zhu Xiaoba glanced in worriedly: "Is... Brother Jun okay?"

"Fortunately, there are ginseng hanging there." Li Fu shook his head, then looked over and narrowed his eyes: "You mean... an outsider?"

(End of this chapter)