Chapter 425: Coming to Join because of His Reputation

The whole village was very lively when Mr. Wang had a son. They were happy that the master had a second generation.

When the news spread, the first person to send gifts was Zhang Lihe, the magistrate of Yanggu. He really wanted to cling to Mr. Wang. In the past year, this old man listened to the advice and started some small reforms. Now the prosperity of Yanggu County's commerce has risen sharply, and various incomes have risen sharply.

In addition, Mr. Wang's factories, as well as the most important soaps and perfumed soaps, are shipped out from here. With the purchase and shipment of goods, the commodity center of Yanggu County has also been further driven. Correspondingly, more jobs have been provided, and the population migration of surrounding counties has also been attracted. All the data are very good. This kind of leap forward is among the best in this Jingdong Road.

The plate is small, so such changes are very obvious. In the examination of officials, of course, there are all kinds of tops, plus Zhang Lihe, this old man, has made a lot of money, and he has made a lot of arrangements. Either go to a county or be promoted to a state office. The old man's smile became as big as a chrysanthemum day by day, and he didn't hesitate to call the big official dad. He hit wherever he pointed.

Those who sent gifts for newborns were just a bunch of people in Yanggu County. They were the first to know the news and build relationships. The big gifts were not sent until the full month, and everyone knew what they should know by then. The main reason was that in this era, the medical and health environment was backward, and the probability of newborns dying was not small. Only when the full month was reached, it was considered that there was a basis for survival.

Pan Jinlian, who had given birth to a child, was even more beautiful. She leaned on the couch, looking at her son who was lying beside her, swaying back and forth with his eyes open, and stammering bubbles with his mouth. Her eyes and eyebrows were full of smiles: "Sir, look, his eyes are the same as yours, he looks so proud."

Wang Yan laughed, his face was based on his eyes and eyebrows: "Well, the rest of the place is the same as your mother, this little thing will definitely be a good-looking one when he grows up."

"Not bad." Pan Jinlian squinted her eyes, raised the corners of her mouth, and smiled as bright as a flower. Her son was born good-looking, and of course she was happy as a mother. After she laughed, she looked at the big official with some displeasure: "Sir, Dahe is your son, you are not allowed to call him a little thing."

'Dahe' is the nickname that Jinlian, the mother, gave her son. A cheap name is easy to raise. After hearing Wang Yan say that her son lacked water in his life, she did not hesitate and directly made a whole river, and it had to be big, and she was not afraid of too much water.

"Yes, yes, my lady is right." Wang Yan agreed with a smile and did not argue.

"Boss, boss?"

Hearing the old housekeeper's shout outside, Wang Yan tapped the tip of his little nose, said to Jinlian, and stood up and walked out: "Uncle Fu."

Wang Fusheng took two steps forward and said: "Boss, two people came to see you. One of them is a monk, as tall as Wu Erlang, and looks much stronger than Wu Erlang. The other has a large dark blue birthmark on his face. He is quiet and looks like he has martial arts. It's hard to say who the monk is, but the one with the birthmark, the old servant looks at it, feels that it is the Green-faced Beast Yang Zhi who secretly colluded with the bandits and tried to steal the birthday gift and was wanted."

"Oh? Really? Then I have to meet them." As he spoke, Wang Yan set off and took the old housekeeper to the front hall.

As soon as I walked in, I saw a sturdy monk sitting on a chair, drinking tea from a cup helplessly. If you don't want to drink, it's meaningless. If you drink, it's boring. There is a Zen stick leaning against the wall behind. You can tell at a glance that it is this kind weapon.

The other man has a large birthmark on his face, just as the old housekeeper said. He seems to think that this is a physical defect, and his face is obviously not easy to hide, so his hair is scattered, covering a large area of ​​blue and black. His body is one size smaller, and a wide knife with a sheath is placed on the table next to him. He also drinks tea with a sad face. But his sadness is different from that of the monk, because his attention is not on the tea, but he is worried about the unknown future.

Hearing the noise, the two looked at the door together, and saw the senior official with his hands behind his back, looking at them with a smile on his face. The two quickly stood up and bowed: "Lu Zhishen, Yang Zhi, meet the senior official."

Wang Yan smiled and bowed in return, and asked the two to sit down. He also sat in the main seat, took the tea brought by the little maid, drank a sip, and then took a small gesture to take it, and then said: "I know the two of you, one is Lu Tixia, who beat up the rogues in Guanxi. In order to save Lin Chong, he offended Gao Qiu and was hunted by him. The other is the descendant of the fifth marquis Yang Linggong, who killed the rogue Niu Er in Bianjing. It was heard that he had conspired with the bandits to steal the birthday gift a while ago. He is currently being reported. Ji, you two don't find a place to hide, but come to find me, I don't know why?"

"I have heard that you are a good man and have a good reputation. My brother and I entered the Yanggu area and found..."

Lu Zhishen interrupted Yang Zhi's flattery impatiently and said loudly: "Your Excellency, I am a monk and I don't tell lies. We came here to seek shelter under your tutelage, find a job, and live a peaceful life."

Wang Yan said, "I also know my reputation in the world. Heroes like you two are shouting and killing me and want to kill my whole family. Why do you want to join my tutelage? Aren't you afraid that I will send you to build bridges and roads?"

"Heroes? Are they worthy? They are just a bunch of dirty rascals." Lu Zhishen shook his head and said, "I know that the great official can distinguish between good and evil. Those who build bridges and roads are definitely not heroes. They are just a group of people who bully the weak and fear the strong, and are lazy and cunning. They are not worthy of being compared with the two of us. I ask myself that I have never harmed innocent people, and Brother Yang has never harmed anyone. The two of us brothers were harmed by villains and current events. The great official will never send the two of us to build bridges and roads for labor without knowing right or wrong."

Lu Zhishen is rough but meticulous. Wang Yan remembered that when he was a child, he learned the text and there was a section about punching Zhen Guanxi. It described that Lu Zhishen beat Zhen Guanxi to death with three punches, and red, white, and yellow blood flowed all over the ground. Lu Zhishen said he pretended to be dead and then ran away. It indirectly describes Lu Zhishen's rough but meticulous character image...

However, the great official did not expect that Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi would take the initiative to surrender. Of course, his reputation is true. People come to him from time to time to find work. There are many capable people among them, but Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi are a little special.

The big official smiled, which was considered to be an approval of what Lu Zhishen said, and pondered: "It is no problem to take you in, but one of you offended Gao Qiu, and the other offended Cai Jing, the old bastard. You both have lawsuits, and you are easy to identify and difficult to hide. Although I am not afraid of the two thieves Cai Jing and Gao Qiu, I just rely on the hundreds of thousands of strings of money given to our Song Dynasty officials to squander every year. If I want to protect the court and arrest the criminals, it will give the two thieves a reason to attack me, which is a big trouble. I do have a good place to go, but I don’t know if you two brothers are willing to leave the Song Dynasty and go to another place to be free and easy?"

He had no reason to refuse, after all, the strength of these two people was quite strong. Needless to say, Lu Zhishen, Yang Zhi is the descendant of the Yang family generals, ranked seventeenth in Liangshan, one of the eight cavalry, and has enough combat power. After all, among the thirty-six Tiangang, except for Song Jiang, Wu Yong, Chai Jin and a few others, the others are ranked by strength. Otherwise, the 108 generals will not have credibility, and other leaders will not be convinced. With these two generals, it must be safe to lead the team.

The two looked at each other and exchanged glances. Yang Zhi said: "It doesn't matter. Yang Zhi is incompetent and can't restore the glory of his ancestors. Now he has fallen to this point. With the lawsuit, except for becoming a bandit, there is no place for Yang Zhi in the Song Dynasty. It's good to go out. Yang Zhi, thank you, sir."

Seeing his solemn bow, Wang Yan waved his hand, motioned him to sit down, and then turned to look at Master Lu on the other side.

Seeing the great official looking over, Lu Zhishen said in a deep voice: "How can I find a place to go?"

"To be honest, I am in Suzhou, Liao, which is on the other side of Dengzhou. I have some business with the Jurchens there. For convenience, I built a port there, and there is a small village. You two can go there to train the guards there and protect my port. It's very leisurely and comfortable."

"Is there wine and meat?"

Wang Yan smiled and nodded: "Enough."

"I'll go home."

"Okay!" Wang Yan said: "You two brothers have been displaced recently, and I think you have suffered a lot. So, let's eat and drink well first, and then you two have a good rest. Uncle Fu, set up a table of wine, and bring a jar of our special wine. I will drink a few glasses of wine with you two brothers and talk."

Wang Fusheng's movements were very fast, or it should be said that the chef's movements were very fast. After a while, eight dishes were placed on the table, and there was also a jar of unsealed white wine.

Lu Zhishen was a drunkard. Sitting at the table, he sniffed twice, and his eyes suddenly lit up: "Oh, good wine, good wine, hurry up, fill it up for me." As he spoke, he reached out to touch the jar.

Soon, a full bowl of wine was ready. Lu Zhishen licked his tongue, smacked his lips twice, and smiled: "Such good wine, I can't bear it, try it first, try it first, big official, brother Yang, don't blame me."

Wang Yan raised his eyebrows and motioned him to continue. Yang Zhi ignored him and took a bite of the stir-fried dishes that only a few restaurants in Tokyo had. He felt that the big official would enjoy it. While he was satisfied with the dishes, he took the wine jar and filled the small wine pot next to the big official's hand, and then he came to himself. Neither of them used bowls, only Master Lu said that drinking from a wine cup was not good for the wine. In fact, Wang Yan and Yang Zhi both knew that what he wanted to say was that drinking from a wine cup is not heroic.

Seeing that the two did not speak, Master Lu picked up the bowl and licked it with his tongue. He felt the spiciness on the tip of his tongue and the burning sensation in his throat. His eyes, which were already big, opened even wider, and his eyes were full of brilliance. He immediately swallowed it down in one gulp, like a mouse seeing oil.

Under Wang Yan's amused eyes, Master Lu was about to speak, but the alcohol that had just been swallowed exploded and suddenly surged up along the esophagus. Caught off guard, Master Lu quickly closed his mouth and let the air slowly discharge through his nose. He was holding on to the burning fire inside, and his face was flushed.

Like Wu Song, they both care about their face. The first time he came into contact with high-proof liquor, he drank half a catty directly. No matter how heroic he was, he couldn't stand it. The difference is that Wu Song drank alcohol, and he died after drinking a big bowl. Now Master Lu drank blended liquor. After all, his body was there, so there was no problem.

After a long while, Master Lu, whose face was flushed, recovered. He stroked his chest and shouted, "Good wine!" After that, he quickly ate two mouthfuls of food to calm his stomach and said, "Well... Sir, give me a wine pot and wine cup as well."

He must have been very embarrassed to say this, but his face was already red, so you couldn't see his shame.

"Is this wine worthy of you?"

Wang Yan shook his head and smiled, and asked the little maid to bring another set.

"Sir, when I go to the Liao Kingdom, can I still drink such strong liquor?"

"As much as you want."

"That's good, that's good." Lu Zhishen nodded with satisfaction.

After a few casual conversations and a few drinks, Wang Yan asked the question in his mind: "How did you two brothers meet? How did you think of looking for me?"

"Hey, it's a coincidence." Lu Zhishen told about his encounter with Zhang Qing and Sun Erniang after leaving Daxiangguo Temple: "Deng Long on that mountain didn't accept me, and I couldn't fight him alone. I was thinking about what to do at the foot of the mountain, and then Brother Yang came."

"Yes, I was on my way to Liangshan, and I entered the wine shop of Cao Zheng, the knife-wielding ghost. He said it would be better to join him at Erlong Mountain in Qingzhou. So I turned to Erlong Mountain and met Brother Lu not far from the foot of the mountain."

Lu Zhishen continued: "I and Brother Yang met again We went back to Cao Zheng's tavern to discuss countermeasures. We were going to go up the mountain to kill that bird Deng Long and occupy Erlong Mountain. As a result, a caravan passed by and they talked about the great official. Then my two brothers remembered the things that the great official had done in the rivers and lakes. After another discussion, we came to join the great official. My two brothers are quite capable, and the great official is not ignorant of right and wrong. There is no reason for him to drive us away. It is better to work for the great official than to go up the mountain and become bandits. "

Yang Zhi nodded repeatedly: "Yes, my two brothers were harmed by others and forced by current affairs. We had to wander in the rivers and lakes. If there is a place to go, who would want to go up the mountain?"

This is right. Those who have a place to go will not go up the mountain, and those who can survive will not go up the mountain.

There are only two kinds of people who go up the mountain. One is those who have no place to go and no way to make a living, such as Yang Zhi and others, who are forced by current affairs. There are also many ordinary people who cannot afford the heavy taxes of various names. If they can't survive, they will naturally change their way of life. Wang Qing, Tian Hu, Fang La, and the numerous low-level soldiers in Liangshan were mostly like this. It was just that after they went up the mountain, they robbed a few groups of people, got a few girls, and enjoyed a little bit, and then their goals changed.

The other type is the heroes who really kill people and steal their money. They don’t work, or they are lazy to work, and want to take shortcuts, so naturally they have nowhere to go, so they naturally go up the mountain and naturally gather a group of people to do evil.

Wang Yan nodded to show his understanding, raised his glass and drank with the two of them, looking at Master Lu: "I heard that Master had an intersection with Lin Chong, the spear and stick instructor of the 800,000 imperial guards, and it was because of Lin Chong that he offended Gao Qiu. Master should know that Lin Chong was in Liangshan. Why did you want to go to Erlongshan instead of Liangshan?"

Lu Zhishen sighed: "I never gossip behind people's backs, but I am in this situation today because of brother Lin Chong."

"Oh? What do you mean?"

"That day in the wild boar forest, the two yamen runners escorting Lin Chong were about to kill him. After I rescued him, I wanted to kill the two yamen runners who harmed him. It was Lin I didn't do it because Lin Chong stopped me. I wanted to save him, but he refused to leave and wanted to serve his sentence in Cangzhou Prison. I had no choice but to escort him and leave when we were close to the prison. Who would have thought that just a few days after I returned to Daxiangguo Temple, someone came to arrest me, saying that it was sent by Gao Qiu. I only then knew that it was Lin Chong who told the two yamen runners about my affairs, so I was chased. If I had killed the two yamen runners that day, there wouldn't be so many things. "

Yang Zhi looked at Lu Zhishen's appearance, and recalled the interaction with Lin Chong when he passed by Liangshan when he sold his property to make connections when the Flower and Stone Gang turned over the sea, and his eyes flickered.

Wang Yan laughed, there was no need to mention Lin Chong more, you can say he is a coward, you can say he has a bad fate, and you can say he has some unavoidable difficulties. After all, it's okay for him to fear power, not to be angry, and not to bear the consequences. But it doesn't matter what he thinks. Anyway, the result is that his wife didn't survive, and he didn't survive either. He dared not do this or that.

He shook his head and smiled, and raised his glass: "Okay, okay, let's not talk about that. Come on, let's drink."

...

Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi stayed in the Wang family mansion for another three days. Yang Zhi didn't know, and his face was drooping all day, but it was definitely three happy days for Master Lu. On the first day, he was beaten by the big official, drank wine, ate meat, and slept soundly. On the second day, he fought Wu Song, who came back from a blind date, to a draw, and then drank wine, ate meat, and slept soundly with Wu Song. On the third day, he beat the guards who were still at home, and then drank wine, ate meat, and slept soundly.

This is not the happy life of Lu Dalu Tijie in the past, but it is the happy life of Lu Zhishen now. Fight to exercise the body, eat wine and meat, sleep soundly, and continue after waking up. There was no wandering around hiding, no messy dirty things, they could eat whatever they wanted, drink whatever they wanted, fight whatever they wanted, and they were free.

On the fourth day, after three days of recuperation, the two men, who had recovered their physical condition, disguised themselves and set off with the Wang family's caravan. They were going to Dengzhou to board the ship, and then sail across the ocean to the other side to start a new life that they didn't know how to live.

During this period of time, the fate of other people was the same as before. Song Jiang killed Yan Poxi, but was harmed by Zhang Wenyuan, who told him about his secret communication with the Liangshan bandits. After a lot of trouble, he was released by Zhu Tong privately and fled to Cangzhou, Hebei to seek refuge with Chai Jin.

It's just that this time, he didn't kick Wu Song's brazier, and they will never meet in the future. Of course, words cannot be absolute. If they really met, it was on the battlefield. This time, they are opposites, not good brothers...

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