Water Margin begins as a captain in Yanggu County

Chapter 1 What? You want me to go fight a tiger?
"Captain Su, hurry up! The magistrate is going to be angry again."

There stood a man in front of him, looking at Su Wu anxiously.

Su Wu also looked over. The man was wearing a dark blue official uniform, a red scarf tied around his chest, a Fanyang hat on his head, and a not-very-long sword on his waist...

Su Wu was a little dazed. He looked around and found himself lying on a couch in a costume drama, in a slightly old house with some ancient furniture around, but nothing else.

Su Wu looked down at himself again and found that his clothes were very similar to the man in front of him. He turned around and saw a waist knife placed beside the couch...

He is dead, that is certain. To be more precise, he sacrificed himself in the fight against crime in the southwestern border area, so it can be said that he died a worthy death.

Traveling through time? This is a little uncertain, after all, it's all in the story.

Su Wu sat up from the couch and found that his buttocks were piercingly painful, and he grimaced subconsciously: "Ouch..."

The man in front of him hurried forward to help: "Captain, slow down, slow down. The beating I received yesterday, although only ten times, has already caused swelling. Fortunately, the brothers knew the severity of the blow. But if we still can't hunt the big beast on Jingyang Ridge tonight, I'm afraid the county magistrate will not be so easy to deal with tomorrow..."

Su Wu just felt that his butt was really fucking painful!
Oh, I remember now, Su Wu remembers now...

He is the chief of Yanggu County. Recently, a large tiger with white forehead in its prime suddenly appeared on Jingyang Ridge and has eaten many businessmen and travelers to and from Yanggu County.

This incident had already caused panic among the people. Jingyang Ridge was an important transportation route for nearby prefectures and counties. The prefecture government issued several urging documents, asking Yanggu County to send people to catch and kill the tiger. Yanggu County Magistrate Meng Yi naturally assigned this task to Su Wu, the head of the county government.

Su Wu also tried his best. He not only brought a dozen of his trusted yamen runners with him, but also gathered forty or fifty hunters from the surrounding area.

For about a month, we went to Jingyang Ridge every night to hunt, but we didn't catch any big insects and lost seven or eight hunters.

After failing to capture the criminal once and twice, the official documents from the provincial government became more and more severe. The county magistrate was helpless and could only urge Su Wu to capture the criminal.

As a result, the criminal was not caught for a long time and the magistrate Meng Yi was repeatedly reprimanded by his superiors. Su Wu, the head of the police force, was also beaten with a stick. Not only Su Wu was beaten with a stick, but also some yamen runners and hunters.

The others were fine. Su Wu was beaten by the county magistrate Meng Yi himself. Although the yamen runners who beat him let him off, Su Wu was still beaten pretty badly...

Su Wu suddenly remembered these things in his mind and was suddenly shocked. Did he really travel through time?

Why does this sound so familiar?

Isn’t this the story of Wu Song fighting a tiger? After three bowls of wine, Wu Song went up Jingyang Ridge. Under the influence of alcohol, he beat the tiger to death with a flurry of punches…

Then...Wu Song became the head of Yanggu County.

Thinking of this, Su Wu was shocked. It turned out that I had traveled through time and space and became the captain of Wu Song's predecessor?
This makes sense. If someone does something that you can't do, he will naturally become the boss, and you can just go wherever you want.

Isn't this unlucky?
Su Wu touched his burning butt. The pain was so real and so... painful!

This tiger is probably hard to beat, and this butt is probably going to get spanked...

"Captain, Captain..." The man in front of him looked at Su Wu in a daze and shouted twice.

"Well, I'm alive..." Su Wu answered casually. It's great to be alive.

The man in front of him was obviously Su Wu's confidant in the yamen. His name was Dong Jian and he was a yamen runner in Yanggu County.

"Don't be too anxious, Captain. We can always find a way tonight..." Dong Jian thought that his captain was just confused because of anger, so he comforted him. Su Wu also thought that he was good at shooting and fighting, and he was also professionally trained, so he was also a good fighter. But he didn't know where to start when it came to killing a tiger, especially a mature tiger that had eaten seven or eight professional hunters.

Could it be... that he really slid over?
What's more, catching a tiger is not that simple. The tiger in the mountains is not stupid. It will hide in the dark. When there are many people around, it will not show up. When someone is alone, it is easy to fall into the tiger's mouth.

Even if a large number of troops encountered it during a search, the tiger moved as fast as the wind in the mountains and could not be caught up...

How to catch this?
Speaking of which, Su Wu's butt was really wronged.

"Let's go, let's go. Don't keep the magistrate waiting anxiously..." Su Wu touched his butt and went out.

Looking at the streets of Yanggu County, with people coming and going, most of the small buildings on the street are two-story, and various shops are lined up one after another. Suddenly, I felt as if I was in another world.

As I recall, Yanggu County was also an extremely prosperous place. There was a canal passing through the county. It was a gathering place for merchants and one of the key nodes for the government to collect taxes by water. What canal?
The famous Grand Canal was built in the Sui Dynasty and has undergone several changes over the dynasties, but this canal has always been the main artery for economic communication between the north and the south. Today, with the prosperity of the Song Dynasty, this canal still plays a huge role.

However, the Song Dynasty seemed to be on the brink of national destruction. The Liao Dynasty in the north was a secondary concern. Further north of the Liao Dynasty, the Jurchens were already beginning to rise.

Without thinking too much, Su Wu walked to the county government office according to his memory.

He did not go to the court, but went directly to the back yamen. The magistrate Meng Yi was in his fifties and already looked like an old man.

This guy, you may say he is a good person, he was able to accept money from Ximen Daguanren, a famous official in Yanggu County, and he arbitrarily decided the case of Pan Jinlian killing Wu Dalang.

If you say this guy is a bad guy, after Wu Song killed someone for revenge, he was able to give a light sentence to the case, leaving Wu Song a chance to survive.

County Magistrate Meng Yi watched Su Wu come in, but he also asked first: "Ten strokes of the cane, isn't that bad?"

"Please show some mercy, magistrate. I will do my best to fulfill my duties." Su Wu also knew how to respond to this question.

Speaking of which, the title "Xianggong" originally referred specifically to high-ranking officials in the court, even prime ministers.

I don't know why, but in the Song Dynasty nowadays, the term "Xianggong" is too common. If a civil official wants to show respect, the people below him will call him "Xianggong".

Meng Yi sighed: "Alas... I don't mean to be hard on you, but my superiors are really pushing me and scolding me repeatedly. If I can't catch this big insect, I will have to retire and return home. There is nothing I can do..."

"Sir, you have your own difficulties, and we will just do our best..." Su Wu answered, his mind was already elsewhere. He just wondered when the reckless Wu Song would come to Jingyang Ridge.

"Oh... go ahead, go ahead. I hope to hear good news from you tomorrow morning. By then, no matter what benefits you want, this county will grant them to you..."

Meng Yi was obviously under a lot of pressure. If it weren't for the difference in status, his tone would have sounded like begging. He was also helpless. He couldn't just let an old Confucian scholar in his fifties go to fight the tiger himself, right?
"I'll go right away!" Su Wu bowed and went out.

Standing at the gate of the yamen, looking at the dozen trusted yamen runners in front of him, one holding a knife, another holding a fork, some carrying bows and arrows, and some holding crossbows...

It seems that they have no fighting ability, but they all have gloomy faces and only look at their own leaders.

"Captain, this big beast is too hard to catch. It hides when there are many people around, and comes out when there are few people around. We can't catch it when we encounter it. It hides during the day and comes out at night. The forest is dense, so we can't shoot it... What should we do?"

"Yes, Captain, we are not cowards who are afraid of death. We have tried our best. Many of our brothers have been injured, and seven or eight hunters have died. If this continues, it will not be a good thing..."

(End of this chapter)