Chapter 69: Song Jiang’s Distress at Xiaobie Mountain II
At the moment, Song Jiang was drinking with Hua Rong in the village. It was a festive day. The sun was shining brightly and the breeze was blowing.
Before and after Hua Rong arrived at Sipai, he mounted his horse and went to the public camp to order hundreds of sergeants. In the evening, he went to the town to suppress the pressure. He also ordered many soldiers to go around and guard the gate. Before the time of registration, he returned to the village to invite Song Jiang. After eating some snacks from Qingfeng Village and chatting for a while, Song Jiang said to Hua Rong, "I heard that the market here is putting on lanterns tonight, and I want to go and have a look."
Hua Rong replied: "I originally wanted to accompany my brother, but I am on duty and cannot go with me in person. Tonight, my brother and the two or three people at home have lost their money and went to watch the lights and find some fun." Look, I’ll be back early, my little brother is hosting a family banquet at home and leaving three jars of wine to celebrate the festival.”
Song Jiang smiled and said: "It's best." After saying that, Huarong recruited a few clever people to wait in front of the hall. At this time, the sky was getting late, and the bright moon was shining in the east, as bright as white jade.
Song Jiang and the Hua Rong family walked slowly along with two or three people, walking casually on the streets of Qingfeng Village. When they arrived at the lantern viewing place in Qingfeng Village, they saw lamp sheds set up in front of every house and lanterns hung. , there are many stories painted on the lanterns, there are also ribbon-cut flying white peony lanterns with hibiscus and lotus flowers, and there are many strange lights that Song Jiang has never seen before. Accompanied by four or five people, Song Jiang arrives in front of the Dawang Temple. This is the breeze. The most prosperous area with lanterns in the village is also the liveliest place in Qingfeng Village. Song Jiang was dazzled by it, and his joy was beyond words. Ever since the Yan Poxi incident happened, Song Jiang had never been so happy. He was in such a good mood. Next, Song Jiang took a look in front of Aoshan Mountain, but he didn't feel tired. He still walked southward in a meandering way. He couldn't get past five or seven hundred steps. He saw bright lights in front of him and a group of people gathered around a large walled courtyard.
I saw that there were huge crowds of people and it was very lively. Wherever the gong sounded, there was an overwhelming cheer.
When Song Jiang looked at it, he saw that they were dancing "Bao Lao" in a group. However, Song Jiang was short and standing behind the people and was blocked by the figure in front. He could not see anything, but the person accompanying him could not see anything. Recognizing the leader of the social fire team, he separated the crowd and invited Song Jiang to go to the front to see. The one who danced "Bao Lao" and had a body that was as powerful as a village, and there were all kinds of funny things mixed in. Song Jiang couldn't help but laugh when he saw it. I laughed, but I didn’t expect that inside the walled courtyard, Liu Zhizhai’s couple and several women were watching.
When the woman in Liu Zhi Village heard Song Jiang's laughter, her heart suddenly trembled. She looked for the voice, and her eyes naturally fell on the black short Song Jiang. The wife in Liu Zhi Village looked at the two carefully under the lamp. Looking at Song Jiang's smile, I felt so familiar. I felt like I had seen it somewhere before. I thought about it for a while and suddenly remembered something. I recognized Song Jiang immediately and quickly pointed to my husband and said: "Oh, that smiling short black man is the leader of the thieves who kidnapped me at Qingfeng Mountain the day before yesterday."
When Liu Zhizhai heard the word "thief", he couldn't help being shocked. He immediately summoned six or seven people to follow him and quietly called to catch the laughing short black man. Although Song Jiang looked at the "Bao Lao" dancer, he However, from the corner of his eye, he also noticed the abnormal behavior of the people sitting at the main table over there, and those people who quickly passed through the crowd attracted Song Jiang's attention. Song Jiang looked at these people. Everyone was coming in his direction, and he suddenly felt that something was wrong. When he looked at the people at the main table, they were all staring at him. Song Jiang felt that there was definitely something evil inside, and he felt even worse. At that moment, Song Jiang turned around and walked away. He could not get past more than ten houses, but was caught up by all the soldiers. Song Jiang was lucky and felt that there were flowers and flowers covering Qingfeng Village. Fighting with these officers and soldiers was really hurtful, and he didn't do anything at the moment. No matter how hard he struggled, he was caught by the crowd, and they took Song Jiang to the village, tied him up with four hemp ropes, and took him to the front of the hall. When the three people saw that Song Jiang had been captured, they ran back to report to Hua Rong.
Let's say that Liu Zhizhai was sitting in the hall and called Song Jiang to come. The crowd gathered around Song Jiang and knelt down in front of the hall. Liu Zhizhai shouted: "You are a Qingfeng Mountain robber. How dare you come to see the lights without permission? Today What's the point of being captured?"
Song Jiang told: "I am Zhang San, a guest from Yuncheng County. I am an old friend of Huazhi Village. I have been here for many days and I have never robbed Qingfeng Mountain."
At this time, Liu Zhizhai's wife came out from behind the screen, pointed at Song Jiang with her fingers and shouted loudly: "You nigga, you didn't even open your dog eyes to see where this is. Do you remember to ask me to call you 'big king'?" ' time,"
Song Jiang frowned slightly and said: "The woman is here. Didn't the villain say to the woman at that time: 'The villain is a businessman in Yuncheng County, and he was also kidnapped here. He can't go down the mountain.'" Why did the woman remember those by mistake?"
After hearing this, Liu Zhizhai sneered and said: "Since you are a businessman in Yuncheng County and were kidnapped there, how can you come down the mountain alive today and come to my place to look at the lights unscathed?"
The woman didn't wait for Song Jiang to speak, and then said: "When you were on the mountain, you were sitting on the middle chair and asked me to call you the king. You were so majestic. How can you talk like this now?"
Song Jiang secretly felt cruel in his heart, gritted his teeth, and said with restraint, "This woman doesn't even remember that I tried my best to save you from the mountain, so why did you turn me into a thief today? How can you repay kindness with hatred like this?"
After hearing this, the woman became furious, pointed at Song Jiang and cursed: "How can you recruit such a scoundrel if you don't fight him?"
Liu Zhizhai also nodded and said, "That's right." He shouted, "You and I will set up this guy with you, and we will serve you like water and fire sticks." After Liu Zhizhai said this, he came up and dragged Song Jiang to the ground, with the government officials on both sides. He swung the water and fire stick and hit Song Jiang hard twenty or thirty times in a row until his skin was torn and his blood was flowing out.
Liu Zhizhai saw that Song Jiang couldn't stand it any longer, so he waved his hand and shouted: "Go to the iron locks and lock him up tightly for me. A prison car will be brought tomorrow and he will be sentenced to be a 'Yuncheng Tiger'. Zhang Sanjie went to the state." Go inside,"
The words were divided into two parts, but the person accompanying Song Jiang rushed back to report to Hua Rong. Hua Rong was shocked when he heard this. He quickly wrote a letter and sent two capable people to go to Liu Zhizhai to fetch Song Jiang back and follow him personally. After receiving the letter, he hurried to the gate of Liuzhi Village and handed over the greeting card. The sergeant at the gate quickly went in with three steps and two steps to report: "Huazhi Village sent someone to write a letter in front of the door."
Liu Gao called the visitor to the hall, and the relative presented the book. Liu Gao opened the cover and read: Hua Rong bowed to brother Liao in front of the Prime Minister's seat: All my relatives, Zhang Liu, came from Jeju recently. Because of looking at the lights, I mistakenly violated the respect of the authority. I will forgive you if I beg for mercy.
After Liu Gao read it, he couldn't help being furious. He slammed the table, tore the book into pieces, and cursed: "Hua Rong is rude. Although he is a reckless man, he is also an official of the imperial court. How can he interact with him?" The strong thieves are all the same, but now they are here to hide it from me. This thief has recruited Zhang San from Yuncheng County, but he is not a good person. How do you write it as Jeju Liu Zhang? How did you deceive me like this? You write his surname is Liu , but he has the same surname as me, so I let him go because he was so angry." After scolding him, he immediately gave orders and pushed the person who wrote the letter out.
The follower was driven out of the village gate and returned in a hurry to report to Hua Rong. After hearing this, Hua Rong sighed, stamped his foot fiercely, and shouted: "Brother, please prepare my horse quickly." ,"
Hua Rong was fully clothed, tied up his bow and arrows, mounted his horse with a spear, and led thirty or fifty soldiers, all dragging their guns and clubs, and rushed straight to Liu Gao's stronghold.
When the gatekeepers at Liu Gao Village saw Hua Rong and dared to stop him, they were all frightened when they saw Hua Rong's aggressive momentum. They fled in all directions as soon as something happened. Hua Rong galloped straight to the hall. In front of the hall, Hua Rong got off his horse, holding a spear in his hand, and the thirty or fifty people who followed him were also placed in front of the hall. Hua Rong opened his mouth and shouted loudly: "Please come out and speak to Liu Zhizhai,"
Liu Gao was frightened to death when he heard this. He was a man with no knowledge of history and no ability to restrain a chicken. He usually only listened to what his wife did. Now, Liu Gao's wife was also frightened out of her courage. For a moment, she had no courage. Now that Liu Gao had made up his mind, he even dared not let out a fart with his tail between his legs. He was afraid that Hua Rong was a military attache and huddled in the backyard room, and would not dare to come out to see each other.
Seeing that Liu Gao didn't come out, Hua Rong waited for a while, but there was still no sign. Knowing that this guy was cowarded, he immediately ordered people to search for people in the side rooms on both sides.
The thirty or fifty soldiers received the order and went to search together. It didn't take long to find Song Jiang from the ear room under the corridor. At this moment, Song Jiang was hung high on the beam with hemp ropes and locked with iron ropes. Beaten until the skin and flesh were ripped open.
Several soldiers under Hua Rong quickly held Song Jiang up. They wielded their knives and carefully cut the ropes, cut off the iron locks, and rescued Song Jiang.
Hua Rong felt very uncomfortable seeing Song Jiang's injuries all over his body, and immediately asked the sergeant to send him home first.
Hua Rong got on his horse, held a long gun in his hand, rode the horse to the entrance of the hall, and shouted loudly towards the backyard: "Liu Zhizhai, since you can't retreat, I won't make it difficult for you, but you have to stand up immediately Listen to me with those dog ears of yours. Even if you are a Zhizhai, so what? Look at how cowardly you are, how can you do anything to me, Hua Rong, I usually treat you as a Zhizhai Look, that's a gift for you. Don't be so ignorant, and really put yourself on a high pedestal, so arrogant. You'd better be careful when doing things in the future, otherwise you can't fucking tell who is the boss here, but But then again, who doesn't have any relatives, so what do you mean? How come you caught one of my cousins at home and forced him to become a thief? You beat him hard, but It’s a good thing that you don’t take me, Hua Rong, seriously.” After saying this, Hua Rong paused and said, “It’s getting late today, so just stay inside. I’m not going to finish telling you this, but I’ll come back to argue with you tomorrow. I'll give you one night to think about how you can give me an answer tomorrow," Hua Rong said, and with a wave of his hand, he led everyone back to the village to have a look at Song Jiang.