Water Margin: Lu Bu sits on Mount Liang

The sun flickered between the clouds, the reeds in the water swayed in the wind, and circles of water rippled. In the sparkling water waves, fish could be faintly seen swimming.

As usual, Zhu Gui and his waiters moved the table out, and after several people had breakfast, Han Di Hulu began to calculate how much he had spent yesterday.

Many people came to his shop, and the rules on the mountain were stricter when they came. This man didn't have time to taste the taste of seeking wealth and death. Instead, he worked conscientiously as the eyes and ears of the mountain. When he met the heroes who came to invest, he could still do it. The following guide. It's just that the weather has been hot recently, and the number of traveling merchant fleets has decreased a lot. The numbers on the books made the hotel owner grit his teeth.

"Shopkeeper, shopkeeper, we have a customer." The waiter outside walked in slowly, shouting with a dull face.

"Why does it look like this??" Zhu Gui glanced at him and knew from his expression: "I guess he's not very good at it. Let me guess... I probably had another bowl of herbal tea and some snacks, and sat there until the sun turned to the west. Walk."

"You have to guess, it's not just that there is no money or water." The waiter curled his lips and said: "A Taoist priest who is on the way, Zhemo wants to ask us to change the vegetarian diet. It's already hot, and he is busy all day long, and there is not much reward, and here is a beggar. There’s still a lot to go in.”

"You really think of yourself as a shop assistant." Zhu Gui smiled and scolded: "Okay, there are a few brothers on the mountain who are Taoist priests. Stop talking and go prepare some vegetarian meals and make some cooking cakes and ask people to take them with you when you leave. that is."

The guy shrugged his shoulders: "Isn't it a shop assistant? I've been working here all day long, and I've forgotten the art of killing."

"Go, go, you said you were fat and you started breathing." Zhu Gui stretched out his hand as if to chase someone away: "What kind of killing skills? You only killed people by accident in your hometown. Where can you get any skills?"

"Shopkeeper, don't expose it."

The waiter replied with a smile and ran to the back to make fast food and prepare dry food as instructed. Zhu Gui smiled and shook his head, lowering his head to write and do calculations.

Not long after, there was a sound of footsteps outside. Zhu Gui stopped writing and looked up. The door became dark, and a tall and sturdy Taoist walked in. His Taoist robes were cleanly washed, with a blue cloth bag on his shoulders and a handful on his back. Sword with pine pattern, beard and eyebrows.

Han Di suddenly frowned, this man didn't look like a serious Taoist, but his body looked a bit like a gangster.

Don't come here to climb mountains...

Zhu Gui muttered to himself. The Taoist over there came in and looked around the room. He looked at him and said, "The store has invited me. I am a little thirsty along the way. Is there any good wine?"

Instead of herbal tea, I want wine. Tsk, he looks more and more like a gangster!

Thinking in his mind, Zhu Gui smiled sincerely: "Yes, Taoist priest, sit down casually, do you want something to eat?"

The Taoist priest came in, put the bag on the table, untied the Songwen Sword and put it aside, lifted up the Taoist robe and sat down, put his hand on the edge of the sword, and said: "Please serve some meat and vegetables. I was in a hurry today and didn't eat anything." Breakfast is just the right thing to fill your stomach."

"Yes, yes." Zhu Gui was stunned for a moment, and agreed directly without saying anything. Seeing that the waiter heard the commotion and looked over from the kitchen, he shouted: "Bring some white meat up, and then make a plate with dipping sauce. In addition, I will serve some vegetarian food to the Taoist priest and a pot of wine from the town."

"Hey, I know."

The waiter responded and soon brought the meat and vegetables to the table. He also took some cold water to cool down the wine and filled it up before going down. He stood next to Zhu Gui and whispered, "Shopkeeper, can this Taoist priest pay the bill?"

Zhu Gui glanced at him and put his face to his ear. The waiter quickly pricked up his ears and heard his shopkeeper say two words: "Guess-"

Guy: "..."

Zhu Gui glanced at the Taoist priest and said, "I'm not a worm in his belly, so I don't know if he will pay the bill."

The two of them bit their ears. The man, perhaps feeling bored, turned to look at Zhu Gui behind the counter and said, "Staff, drinking alone is too boring. How about we come over and have a drink together?"

Zhu Gui quickly shook his head: "Whatever it takes, the guests can use it for themselves."

"Come on, come on, there are so many people and it's so lively." The Taoist wiped his mouth with his hand and stretched out his hand to pull the stool aside a little: "I'm a poor Taoist."

Zhu Gui glared at the man, who quickly raised his head, turned around and walked back to the back.

Looking at the Taoist who was filling the jug with wine, Zhu Gui thought for a moment, took a small jar of new wine from the counter, and took a porcelain bowl and sat across from the Taoist: "Taoist, you can try this, it tastes spicy. Too much, I don’t know whether to drink or not.”

"Just pour it." The Taoist picked up the wine glass, looked at the porcelain bowl opposite, put down the glass and said, "You don't sincerely invite poor Taoist to drink."

"Why did the Taoist say that?"

"Why do you use a big one and a small one?"

Zhu Gui laughed: "It turns out to be Xidi, Taoist Master, wait a moment."

As he spoke, he stood up and took a coarse porcelain bowl, filled it with wine and handed it to the Taoist. The Taoist held the bowl and gestured, then drank it all in one breath and smashed it in his mouth: "It's interesting, but it's not as good as the shochu in the north." some."

"The Taoist master originally came from the north. I wonder where he practiced Taoism?" The shopkeeper opposite also took a sip of wine and looked at the people in front of him.

"Pindao comes from Zixu Temple in Erxian Mountain." The Taoist wiped the wine stains from his mouth and grinned: "The store owner shouldn't test it. I don't know if Guishan Qiao Daoqing is on the mountain. Pindao has something to do with him."

Zhu Gui stopped his hand, raised his head and said with a smile: "What is the Taoist priest talking about? I don't understand."

"The store should stop pretending, it's an old wine shop at the entrance of Lijia Road." The Taoist stretched out his hand to pick up the wine jar, poured the wine by himself and said: "Who on Jianghu Road doesn't know that this is Liangshan's business, otherwise he can Open on the left?"

Zhu Gui also looked at the Taoist and straightened up: "Who is the Taoist looking after and why are you here?"

At the side leading to the backyard, the waiter and the cook looked inside with knives in their hands.

"Gongsun Sheng of the Second Immortal Mountain, a poor man." He swallowed the wine in the bowl and looked sideways. The cloud dragon didn't show any fear at all: "I came here to ask Qiao Daoqing about something." He put down the wine bowl and looked at the dry land in front of him. law. Zhu Gui squinted his eyes and looked at the opposite person for a long time, and then said: "I'm sorry to say that the Taoist priest is not a person who comes to throw himself into the mountain..." The other person nodded and continued: "In this case, please wait a moment, the Taoist priest, but I need to ask. Get off the mountain."

Gongsun Sheng didn't take it seriously and just nodded.

At that moment, Zhu Gui summoned his waiter and asked him to go to the mountain to report the news. He was chatting with Gongsun Sheng there. The Ruyunlong was a man who traveled all over the country and was well-informed. Zhu Gui had opened a shop for a long time and had many contacts with the three religions and nine streams. The two of them chatted quite speculatively.

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The wind from the mountain carried the lake vapor through the treetops. Amidst the sound of the water, a small boat stopped at the water village. When the messenger got off the boat, a thin-faced young man came over.

"Leader Feng." The waiter saw the person coming and said respectfully, "Why is it that Xie is here in person?"

"Everything is fine. In the past two days, people have been going up the mountain from time to time. I'm keeping watch at the water village to avoid having to go to my place to look for me." Feng Sheng looked at the man in surprise and stretched his neck to see that there were only boatmen on the boat behind him. Minion: "Why are you the only one today? Don't tell me that you have to join two gangs."

"What a joke." The waiter smiled and said, "There is a Taoist priest in the store who said he is an old acquaintance of Military Master Qiao. He wants to inquire about something. Our shopkeeper asked me to go up the mountain and ask if I want to see him."

Feng Sheng's eyes were surprised: "Hey, are you looking for Military Advisor Qiao? Could it be that he is a fellow disciple? That's all. The Military Advisor is either at Youshi Mansion or at my brother's place. Just go and find him yourself."

The waiter responded and hurriedly ran towards the mountain. First he went to the Youshi Mansion and was told that he had gone to the back mountain with Lu Bu. I couldn't help but look up at the sky, and saw that although there were clouds, it didn't look like it was going to rain. I couldn't help but scratch my hair, secretly thinking something strange, and ran two steps faster.

It didn't take long before I turned around the woods and saw Lu Bu's tall and majestic body from a distance. He was surrounded by the commanders of the cavalry and infantry and several stewards of the firearms room. Everyone was also looking at a dark cylindrical iron lump. After turning around, there was something embedded in a large rock not far away on the left.

"I've met the village master, military advisor, and all the commanders." He ran forward and hurriedly joined everyone in the ceremony. He bowed to Qiao Lie and said, "There is a Taoist at the bottom of the mountain who says he is Gongsun Sheng from Zixu Temple in Erxian Mountain. I came to see Military Commander Qiao to inquire about something, and the shopkeeper asked me to come up and ask if he had seen me."

"Erxian Mountain?! Gongsun Sheng?!" The corners of Qiao Lie's mouth suddenly turned down, and his face became a little ugly. The man in the spotlight waved his arm: "Who can bear to see him, really think that he is a big shot... huh? Wait? wait!"

As he spoke, the Demon King seemed to think of something and suddenly stopped: "Gongsun Sheng? But he has a beard and a square mouth?"

The guy nodded repeatedly: "Yes, exactly."

Qiao Lie turned to look at Lu Bu who was looking at him curiously and said, "Brother, this person should be one of the people who recently robbed the birthday card. The spies from Yuncheng County have a letter to report, saying that it was posted this morning. There are some new official documents for sea arrests, and there is a person named Gongsun Sheng on them, and his appearance is recorded on them, so he must be the guy at the foot of the mountain."

Lu Bu raised his brows, glanced at the smiling Li Zhu, and said to Qiao Lie, "Oh? Robbed the birthday card? Who gave it to you? How to get it?"

Qiao Lie nodded: "It is said that Liang Shijie, who was left behind in Daming Mansion, donated one hundred thousand gold and silver jewels to the traitor Cai Jing, but was robbed on the way." He glanced at Li Zhu and said, "It's just the sweat medicine used by that group. It cannot be taken by force."

"Oh, there are quite a lot of tricks." Lu Bu lost interest and looked at Qiao Lie's embarrassed expression. He knew that the two of them probably had some beef, so he said, "Brother, you can watch it. If you have a beef with that person, you might as well Send someone down to capture him and take him up the mountain to deal with him."

Qiao Lie shook his head: "It's not a big deal. It's just that when the poor Taoist wanted to join his master, he was..." After hesitating for a while, he didn't finish his sentence. He sighed for a while: "Well, let him come up. Some things should be done." Ask clearly, otherwise you will always have a knot in your mind."

The waiter responded and trotted down the mountain. Seeing Gongsun Sheng and Zhu Gui drinking and chatting, he couldn't help but said: "Taoist, you are at ease, let me run away."

Gongsun Sheng glanced at him, and the old god said: "I want to go up by myself, but you won't let me."

Zhu Gui glared at the waiter: "What nonsense? What did the military advisor say?"

"The military advisor asked him to come up."

Zhu Gui nodded, and immediately asked Gongsun Sheng to go behind and get on the boat. The sound of water was rowing, and the sun was already in the west. By the time it reached the place, the rose color of the setting sun in the west dyed the water into blood.

Gongsun Sheng followed the village soldiers who led the way up, and couldn't help but gasp for air. In the past, he always heard how tyrannical Liangshan was, but he didn't see it today, but today he knew that this place was really a good place to trap people. The spirit of the soldiers is also unmatched by ordinary sergeants. Secretly, no wonder he is so famous.

As he went up, there were already people holding torches and pine oil to light up the bonfire. Soon he arrived at a spacious house with the words "Youshi Mansion" hanging on the plaque outside.

"Go in, the military advisor is waiting for you in the lobby inside." Look at the sword on his back: "You need to take off your sword when you enter, and you will return it when you come out."

Gongsun Sheng nodded and reached out to take off the pine-patterned sword from his back. He did not ask anyone to lead the way. He stepped in. Unexpectedly, the courtyard was extremely simple. There was a pine tree planted at a distance in the courtyard. The wing room was now lit with candlelight, and there was only a road paved with bluestone in the middle, leading directly to the main house. The door was open at this time, and the lights were brightly lit inside, making it look like a hall.

The entering cloud dragon touched his chin, and thought it was the middle room in the secret passage. He stepped all the way in, and when he was about to turn his head and take a look, he heard a voice in his ears: "Take care!"

Without thinking, Gongsun Sheng quickly bent his arms to block his head. With a bang, his arm was hit hard. As he stepped back, he felt someone kicked him in the waist and abdomen. He suddenly stumbled to the side. , in the peripheral vision, there was a dark shadow approaching fiercely, and a fist suddenly appeared in the line of sight. Suddenly, I felt pain in my eyes. Several gold stars were flying randomly in my eyes, and I couldn't help but sit on the ground.

"Wait a minute, is this how Liangshan treats guests?" Gongsun Sheng covered one eye and waved his hand toward the figure: "Aren't you afraid of being laughed at if the news spreads?"

"Bah -" someone spat in the ear: "Don't take everything too seriously. I beat you because Pindao swore to you the day he came down from Erxian Mountain that when he saw you in Zixu Temple in the future, he would give you a good beating first. "

"Are you Qiao Daoqing?" Gongsun Sheng grinned and tried to open his other eye to see. There was a young Taoist standing over there, wearing a black Taoist robe embroidered with yellow gossip. He couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Hey, fellow Taoist, you can Are you feeling angry?"

Qiao Lie curled his lips, then turned around and cupped his hands to the side: "I made my brother laugh. I have a demon in my heart. I won't be happy if I don't give him this blow."

Only then did Gongsun Sheng realize that there was someone else in the room. He quickly looked to the side with one eye open and saw a tall and majestic young man sitting on the left side of the room. After thinking about Qiao Lie's words, he couldn't help but secretly thought, it seems that this person He is the Lord of Liangshan.

He quickly got up, closed one eye and opened his other eyes, and said, "Zixu Guan Gongsun Sheng has met Brother Lu Bu, please forgive me for coming here rashly."

"It doesn't matter." Lu Bu looked at the two Taoist priests over there in a funny way: "You can just wait and deal with it yourself." (End of Chapter)