By the time the drinking lasted until midnight, the minions up and down Erlong Mountain were all satiated.
At this time, Shi Jin and all the brothers stood up. Shi Jin faced the crowd, raised the last bowl of wine toward the bright moon and said: "From tonight on, all brothers are no longer bandits, no longer bandits." Road tyrants, but the Huazhou soldiers have suddenly emerged. The old history is about to pass, and a new page will be written by your own hands." Shi Jin said this, and shouted proudly: "Creation of the world,,,"
"Creation of the world,,," the brothers in Erlongshan shouted in unison, and then drank their last bowl of wine together.
"Let's hit the road," Lu Zhishen shouted, and as he spoke, he smashed the wine bowl in his hand to the ground.
Then all the Erlong Mountain gangsters smashed the wine bowls in their hands to the ground. With a ping-pong-pang-pong sound, the ground was suddenly covered with debris from the wine bowls. Then, under the leadership of their respective leaders, the gangsters , started taking action according to the previously assigned tasks.
Shi Jin invited pens and ink, wrote several letters, and summoned the leaders who were disguised to transport supplies. Each of them sent an explanation and said: "These things were carefully hidden along the way. If you arrive in Huazhou first, you will Give this letter to a man named Zhu Wu in person, and someone will naturally entertain you at that time." After that, Shi Jin wrote two more copies, and asked Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi to take them with them respectively, and said: "Now this is the boundary We made such a fuss at the meeting, and we don’t know what kind of accident we might encounter on the way. If everyone gets separated, we can rely on these letters to meet in Huazhou." After that, the leaders each put the "letters of introduction" on their clothes. In the mezzanine, they quickly went down to settle their respective people.
In less than a stick of incense, groups of well-dressed "caravans" and "escort agencies" came down the mountain in batches with carts of "goods"; and then came a pair of officers and soldiers with distinct knives and forks. Leave the cottage quickly.
When a large number of the gangsters from Erlong Mountain evacuated the cottage, Yang Zhi stood in front of the Juyi Hall and took one last look at the cottage he had devoted so much effort to. He was silent for a long time and could not speak.
"Why are you still watching?" Lu Zhishen came up and patted Yang Zhi on the shoulder and said, "To attack the city and seize the territory, a city will be indispensable in the future."
"Brother Yang, I am a man with ambitions between heaven and earth. I will bring millions of soldiers to fight back in the future. Don't say that Erlong Mountain will not fall into the hands of others. Even the entire Qingzhou belongs to you, Brother Yang." Shi Jin said at this time , also stood behind Yang Zhi to comfort him.
"Brother, that's well said." Yang Zhi took a deep breath and said, "Brothers, get started."
After giving the order, the hundreds of minions holding torches standing behind them strode forward, setting fires in front and back of Erlong Mountain. Within a moment, Erlong Mountain Village was suddenly enveloped in rolling fires. In the middle, the flames dyed Erlong Mountain red, dyed the sky of Erlong Mountain red, and also dyed the eyes of Yang Zhi and others red.
"Brothers, let's go," Lu Zhishen shouted, and they all got on their horses and came down from Erlong Mountain.
The gate of Erlong Mountain was set on fire. Seeing that everything was really reduced to nothing, the brothers also wanted to say goodbye.
Wu Song took Shi Jin's hand and said, "Xian brother, please take care of yourself along the way. When Brother Fool has finished this journey, he will definitely come to you and help you."
"Brother, you are in danger this time. Brother, I can't go with you. I feel really guilty." As he said this, Shi Jin took a piece of gold from his arms and said, "Brother, you have the right to carry these with you. When you go to prison, It is inevitable that the city must be managed, so that it can be relaxed and happy."
Wu Song looked at the gold, then pushed it back and said: "Who is my brother? He beat the tigers as drunk as he was drunk on Jingyang Gang, and he never took out the silver to beg for his life. This time he went to the prison city. Those who How can a bird be as strong as a big insect with an eye-catching white forehead? How can the gold and silver you gave to my brother fall into the hands of those dog officials and waste everything in vain? I won’t give it to him, and I won’t give him a penny.”
After hearing this, Shi Jin persuaded: "It's fine for me to say this, but at that time, I can't do it. As the saying goes: 'When people are under the eaves, they have to bow their heads.' So my brother would have stabbed the guy over with a knife." , or you have to follow other people's rules, but you don't know how much care is needed in the prison, otherwise you will suffer endless hardships. Take the rules set by Emperor Taizu as an example, all newly arrived troops must be beaten first A hundred killing sticks, if you give him money, you can find an excuse to escape. If you are not "sensible", you will anger the dog officer. At that time, the boards will definitely fall thicker than raindrops, and you will be beaten to pieces. No, my brother took these gold and silver and sorted them up and down, so he wouldn't have to suffer all this."
"Xian brother, I understand your intention, but what you said is wrong." Wu Song clenched his fist and slammed his chest and said, "Who is my brother? His body is so iron-clad, Mo It is said that a hundred-killing stick is a thousand-killing stick. My brother also personally learned the lesson. If one of them does not have enough strength to hit the real spot, my brother will tell him to hit him hard. Anyway, I cannot give them half of this silver."
Shi Jin saw that Wu Song was in an extremely upright mood and couldn't persuade him at the moment, so he gave Wu Song some broken silver to take with him, treating it as wine money on the road. After pushing it several times, Wu Song finally accepted it. However, Wu Song was so temperamental. , Shi Jinyu thought that he would definitely suffer a big loss, so while Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi were saying goodbye to him, he pulled Zhang Qing away a few steps, took out the gold again, and secretly ordered: "Brother, Brother Wu My temperament is too straight, I'm afraid I will suffer hardships this time. As a brother, I can rest assured. However, I have a heavy responsibility and I really can't spare my time. I bother you, brother, to go there in person. You can take this gold. Take care of things secretly, don't let him suffer in prison. When he settles down in prison, you can come back to Qingzhou. Don't close your shop for the time being. The news on the ground depends on you. If there is any disturbance, send someone to report it to us. When Brother Wu comes out, you and others will come together, and I will go out three hundred miles from Guo to greet him."
"This matter will be taken care of by me, brother, don't worry," Zhang Qing said, taking the bag of gold, carefully putting it in his arms, and putting it away carefully.
Just after everything was explained clearly and it was time for the final parting, the brothers said goodbye. Shi Jin and the other two watched Zhang Qingwu gallop away until they could no longer see them. Then they got on their horses and headed towards the brigade. "Officers and soldiers" gave chase.
Before the leaderless group of dragons in Qingzhou could figure out what to do next, Yang Zhi, Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi ran wildly all night and led the "Qingzhou soldiers" all the way to the border of Yunzhou. Crossing the border, the "Qingzhou soldiers" relied on the flag of Qingzhou and passed smoothly without any difficulties. When it was about three days ago, Shi Jin and others took the "Qingzhou soldiers" to Yuncheng County. Come up to earth.
Shi Jin looked at the word "Yuncheng" engraved on the boundary monument, and couldn't help but think of his elder brother Song Gongming. On that day, Qingzhou and his party would have been saved thanks to his elder brother. Otherwise, not only would they not be able to save Bai Sheng, the rat in the day, let alone do that. Easily killing the Qingzhou magistrate with a sword, of course he would not have learned about the Qingzhou soldiers' ambush at Erlong Mountain, and there would not be such a happy gathering of brothers as today. However, that night Shi Jin was under siege by all the officers and soldiers. , the situation was urgent, and after killing the prefect, he had to protect Bai Sheng and leave, without taking care of Song Jiang. Although he had already planned an escape route for Song Jiang before, and knew that Song Jiang would not be in any danger for his life, Shi Jin still felt in his heart There is an indescribable concern.
Shi Jin galloped for only a mile or two, and the more he thought about it, especially when he thought that it would not be a good thing for the watery Yan Poxi to be by Song Jiang's side. And once he left for Huazhou this time, how could he come back? Knowing what year and month it was, the more Shi Jin thought about it, the tighter his heart tightened. At that moment, he suddenly pulled the reins and stopped the horse.
"What's wrong?" Yang Zhi watched Shi Jin reining in the horse, and then he also pulled it. With a swish, the simple knife in Yang Zhi's hand was halfway out, and his eyes looked around, thinking that Shi Jin Jin noticed some danger that they were not aware of.
"Nothing..." Shi Jin calmed down, then raised his eyes, looked at Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi and said: "The two brothers will go ahead with their troops. From here, we will go around Yuncheng County and not far from Liangshan River. Okay, when you get to the edge of the water and you see a hotel, go and find a man named Handi Khulu Zhugui. Then you say that I brought you here, and he will arrange for you to go up the mountain. When you get to the mountain, the two of you will My brother went to look for Chao Gai, the King of Pagodas, and told him that he would naturally give out half of the birth plan. You can also take it with you separately. When the time comes, rest for a night. If I go back to the mountain, we will go together. If I can't come back before dawn, Wu Yong, the military adviser of the village, Zhi Duoxing, will definitely come up with a proper marching method so that everyone can reach Huazhou safely. Here, take this, and they will know that it is me, Shi Jin," Shi Jin said After saying that, he took off a baggage from his body and handed it to Lu Zhishen. Although the baggage was not a valuable thing, it was brought by Shi Jin when he packed gold and silver and went down to Liangshan to visit Song Jiang. Chao Gai packed it himself, so he naturally recognized it. .
Lu Zhishen took it, but he was a little confused and asked: "Brother, why do you say this? Could it be that you don't want to go to the mountain?"
"Brother, I'll excuse you for the time being. When I was passing by Yuncheng County, I remembered that I still had some important things to do. Otherwise, my departure would not be practical," Shi Jin said and started to leave.
Yang Zhi quickly said: "In this case, you can bring a few people to disguise yourself and go with you. It's not very peaceful right now. What will happen if something goes wrong?"
"What brother said is that I almost forgot about this in my hurry. Brother, just lend me some clothes. Brother, I won't bring them with you. It will save you worry and trouble if you go alone," Shi Jin said and asked Yang Zhi I begged for a clean set of clothes, took off my military armor, pretended to be a young man who came to visit relatives in Yuncheng County, said goodbye to the two brothers, and then rode towards Yuncheng County like a flying fireball.