Do you have the strength to force me to join the Liangshan bandits?

Chapter 73: Lu Zhishen: I must take care of it! [Additional Extra]

When Lu Zhishen once again came to the vegetable garden behind the retreat building outside the Suanzao Gate, he was filled with a thousand emotions and sighs.

"I used to be in charge of the vegetable garden here, and there were twenty or thirty ruffians and poor people who came to cause trouble for me..."

Lu Zhishen looks back at Wu Song, Shi Jin, and Shi Qian:

"I kicked the leader one by one and sent him down into the manure pit...

"Later I found out they were all very easy to get along with, buying food and drinks for me every day...

"One day, I was drinking with them again when a crow started croaking outside the door, disturbing our mood.

"It turned out that there was a new crow's nest on a green poplar tree.

"I took advantage of my drunken stupor and pulled out the tree..."

Wu Song understood him, and Shi Jin also understood him. Only Shi Qian didn't know whether it was true or not, so he just smiled and said nothing.

At this point Lu Zhishen fell silent, and spoke again after a while:
"That damned Gao Qiu ordered the temple elders not to let me hang around, and he also sent people to arrest me.

"It was those ruffians who tipped off the gang, and we didn't fall into that guy's hands.

"I set fire to the house in the vegetable garden and fled into the world.

"Neither east nor west..."

Shi Qian finally couldn't help but interrupt:

"Did Master Lu let something slip?
"Why did Gao Qiu want to capture the Master just because he pulled out a poplar tree?"

It turned out that Shi Qian came to Liangshan later and was not familiar with Lu Zhishen and Lin Chong, so he didn't know the story.

Lu Zhishen shook his head and didn't want to say more.

One of the beggars who were basking in the sun on the roadside came over and said:

"Master, is your surname Lu?"

Lu Zhishen took a closer look at the beggar. He had unkempt hair and ragged clothes, but he vaguely recognized him as an old friend.

"I am this person, who are you?"

"Master, wuwu——"

The beggar immediately fell to the ground, weeping bitterly, and waved to the group of beggars:
"Master is back! Come and meet him!"

Then the group of disheveled and ragged beggars crawled over and knelt down to worship Lu Zhishen.

After careful identification, Lu Zhishen recognized that the beggar who came to ask him questions at the beginning was Zhang San, the "street rat".

And this group of disheveled and ragged beggars were exactly the same ruffians who used to hang out with him.

It turns out that Lu Zhishen had not grown a big beard when he was in Daxiangguo Temple, but now his face is covered with a big beard.

So Zhang San, Li Si and others did not dare to come forward and recognize each other.

"Get up! Get up!"

Lu Zhishen hurriedly helped Zhang San, Li Si and the others up:
"It's been a long time since we last met. Why do you look like this?"

Zhang San said with tears in his eyes:

"After Master left, General Gao ordered the Kaifeng Prefecture to arrest us all and jail us. They beat us every day and interrogated us about Master's whereabouts...

"Five or six of our brothers couldn't stand the beatings and died in prison...

"After we were released, seven or eight of our brothers who didn't make it passed away...

"There are only a dozen of us brothers left. Kaifeng Prefecture won't allow us to make a living, so we have no choice but to beg for a living here..."

"Roar--"

Lu Zhishen was enraged, he raised his head to the sky and howled, picked up his water-milled iron Zen staff and went to look for the palace commander's residence.

"Brother, wait a minute!"

Wu Song and Shi Jin hurriedly hugged him. Shi Qian couldn't get a hand, so he had to hug Lu Zhishen's thigh!

Wu Song advised, "Brother, don't be impatient!

"We are here on orders from Brother Song Gongming to inquire about the news of Mr. Chai!
"Firstly, I haven't heard anything about Mr. Chai yet, so I'm afraid I might have missed Brother Song Gongming's order!
"Secondly, Tokyo is at the foot of the emperor, where countless elite soldiers and generals are stationed, and the palace commander's mansion is also heavily guarded!
"We only have a few of us. If we were to go and seek revenge on Gao Qiu, we'd probably be captured by the government troops before we even see him!"

Shi Jin agreed: "Wu Erge is right!"

……

"What a mess!"

In the Kaifeng prison, Chai Jin was so angry when he heard Lu Zhishen say this that he slapped his thigh:
"They're just a bunch of scoundrels who got scared by you. Do you really treat them as brothers?"

"What are you talking about, sir?"

Lu Zhishen's eyes widened:
"Back when I went to help that fellow Lin Chong fight Gao Yanei, they all went too!

"That Gao Qiu sent people to arrest me, but it was they who tipped me off that saved me from imprisonment...

"Why can't I treat them as brothers?"

"The great official made a slip of the tongue. Brother, please don't get angry for the sake of Brother Song Gongming."

Wu Song had no choice but to come out to smooth things over.

Although he also disagreed with Chai Jin's words, he had to give face to Song Jiang, and secondly he owed Chai Jin a favor.

Chai Jin knew that Lu Zhishen was a rough man, so he didn't argue with him, but just asked what happened afterwards.

Lu Zhishen was so angry that he didn't want to talk, so Wu Song told Chai Jin what happened next.

……

A private room on the second floor of a restaurant.

Zhang San, Li Si and other beggars hadn't had a good meal for a long time, so they wolfed down the food in no time.

"Eat slowly, your stomach won't be able to handle it if you eat too fast."

While persuading them, Lu Zhishen asked:
"Do you still remember that my family has a...

"Back then, a woman was molested by Gao Yanei, and I brought you to rescue her...

"Does anyone know how that woman is doing now?"

Li Si was gnawing on a roast chicken angrily when he freed his mouth to say, "I know that General Gao forced that woman to marry Gao Yanei!
"Gao Yanei brings a group of idlers to harass that lady at her doorstep every day!
"Sometimes he'd kick the door, sometimes he'd shout, sometimes he'd climb the wall, sometimes he'd gossip about that woman to the neighbors...

"No one in the lady's family dared to go out. As soon as the door was opened, Gao Yanei and his idlers tried to squeeze in!

"That lady's father, Coach Zhang, was originally the coach of the Imperial Guards. He only managed to hold on for half a year with the help of his old friends!

"Half a year later, the woman, unable to bear it any longer and unwilling to submit, hanged herself at home!

"Master Zhang, having lost his son, was heartbroken and unable to seek revenge. He died of grief and anger a few months later..."

"brute!"

Lu Zhishen was furious and furious:

"It is unjust that Gao Qiu and his son forced two people to death within the same family!
"That fellow Lin Chong is even more of a coward!

"He has already gone to Liangshan, why didn't he come to pick up his wife?
"How can he be worthy of his wife if he is so heartless and disloyal?"

……

"Wait!"

Chai Jin couldn't help but interrupt when he heard this:
“Lin Chong’s wife died, and he didn’t care!

"Why is Master Lu so angry?"

Judging from his own experience, Chai Jin looked at Lu Zhishen with a somewhat strange look in his eyes.

At that time, Lu Zhishen was anxious: "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Master, please don't misunderstand!"

Chai Jin didn't want to argue with the rough guy, so he just said:

“There are so many injustices in the world that the Master cannot handle them all!
"If you can't even protect yourself, why worry about other people's affairs?"

Lu Zhishen's eyes widened, and he said in a deep voice:

“There are so many unfair things in the world, I really can’t handle them all!
"But if you run into me, I will definitely take care of it!
"If Gao Yanei runs into me, I'll beat him with three hundred sticks before I can reason with him!"

Blow when there is nothing to do!
Chai Jin shook his head and looked at Wu Song: "What happened next?"

Wu Song: "Later..."

……

"No—let me go—"

A woman's scream was heard outside the window.

When Lu Zhishen heard this, he frowned and looked down through the window.

I saw a group of idle men surrounding a girl selling flowers on the street.

The girl looked no more than thirteen or fourteen years old. Although she wore a straw hat and a cloth skirt, she was pretty and pitiful, a typical beautiful girl from a small family.

A young man with a snake-like head and rat-like eyes came forward with a smile and hugged the girl, not allowing her to leave.

The crowd of onlookers gathered in three layers, pointing and whispering, but no one was willing to lend a hand.

Although they had not seen each other for many years, Lu Zhishen still recognized at a glance that the young man with a snake head and rat eyes was Gao Yanei!

Just when he was filled with anger, Lu Zhishen picked up the wine jar and drank a gulp of it!
Then he aimed at Gao Yanei downstairs and smashed the wine jar down with a "whoosh"!
"Oh!"

Coincidentally, the flower-selling girl just happened to push Gao Yanei away.

Gao Yanei took a step back, and the wine jar didn't hit him, but smashed to pieces on the ground, which served as a warning to Gao Yanei...

Gao Yanei looked up at the sky and saw a fat monk with a big beard, who was like a god, descending from the sky!

"Mom——"

Gao Yanei didn't recognize Lu Zhishen at first, and thought that he had done too many bad things and the golden arhat had come to take him away!

A hanger-on nearby, called "Lujintou", pushed Gao Yanei away in a hurry.

If it weren't for the donkey tendon pushing him, Lu Zhishen's Zen stick would have blown Gao Yanei's entire head off!
It was because of the push from this donkey that half of Gao Yanei's head was beaten into a bloody mess!
Gao Yanei fell to the ground, his head and face covered in blood, his eyes tightly closed, unconscious...

Lu Zhishen turned to leave, but the group of idlers surrounded him and grabbed him with all their hands and feet.
“Don’t go!

"You killed Gao Yanei, come with us to see the officials!"

Lu Zhishen lost his temper and yelled:
"Go away!"

He simply swung up his 62-jin (180-pound) water-milled iron staff and knocked down two hangers-on in one blow.

"Whoohoo-"

Wu Song, Shi Jin and Shi Qian also jumped down from the building one after another.

Wu Song started to show off his pair of swords, killing one person with one strike!
Shi Jin swung his broadsword and chopped down anyone he saw!
Shi Qian pulled out a small knife and silently finished off the opponent.

There were about a dozen idlers in that group. How could they withstand the killing spree by Lu Zhishen, Wu Song and others?

Only one Donkey Jintou escaped, and the others were all knocked down by Lu Zhishen, Wu Song and others in the blink of an eye.

However, the street was already packed with people, so it was not easy for them to leave.

As luck would have it, a general leading a battalion of imperial guards happened to pass by and ran into them.

"Bah!"

The general, wearing silver armor and a red robe, holding a golden axe and riding a fire dragon horse, looked like a giant spirit descending to earth.
"I am the Deputy Instructor of the 800,000 Imperial Guards, Commander of the Right Right Guards, and General of Chariots and Cavalry. I am Zhou Ang!

"How dare you, a traitor, run wild in Tokyo? If you have any sense, surrender!"

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"

Lu Zhishen pushed with his big hand, and the people around him fell to the ground, but they were all ordinary people and it was difficult to do anything to them.

If they were in the midst of thousands of troops, brave generals like Lu Zhishen and Wu Song would just have to fight their way out!

But they are kindhearted and loyal by nature, and they just can't bring themselves to kill innocent people...

So the situation that even Li Kui could easily break trapped them all here!

The streets were full of people blocking the way, and Lu Zhishen, Wu Song and the others were unable to make their way out and were bitten by Zhou Ang...

Because I love Lu Zhishen and Wu Song, I couldn't help but write this story in detail. In the next chapter, the perspective returns to Liangshanpo, and the story of Cai Daowang continues.

(End of this chapter)