Chapter 30: The Three-Pronged Stand
After Meimei ate, I paid for the meal and a month's rent, and my sister-in-law led me to see the room.
There was a faint musty smell in the room, there was a line of farm tools and groceries in it, a large wooden box was made of a table, an oil lamp was placed on it, and the bed was covered with straw, but there was no quilt, and I was slightly stunned.
"This room is usually unoccupied, so there is no bed, I'll make it for you later." The eldest sister-in-law saw the doubt in my eyes and said busily.
"No problem!" This room is a bit larger than my room in Pinghu, but because the farm tools and miscellaneous items in it take up a lot of space, this room seems very cramped.
In fact, my sister-in-law misunderstood, and I naturally wouldn't let me sleep on straw after paying for the room, so although there was no futon on the bed, I wouldn't be surprised, I was stunned because I recognized it, wasn't this room the last place where Master stayed when he died? This room looks like it has been empty for a long time, maybe because of the relationship between the dead person (or a stranger), so the eldest sister-in-law did not dare to live in this room, so it was vacant.
"By the way, what will happen to my horse at night?"
"We have a cowshed in our house, can we tie it inside?"
"Okay! I'll bring the horses in first! ”
After tying up the horses, making the bed, and tidying up, the night was already dark, and I washed and slept. Tomorrow we will start investigating, and we must be mentally refreshed.
Lying on the bed, I couldn't help but think of the way Master was lying here back then, and tears slowly fell.
Early the next morning, he led the horse and left the Sifangdu, and with the road in his memory, he found the place where the master buried his bones.
The stream has been cut off, but the green bamboo cage on the mountain pack is becoming more and more luxuriant.
Take out the incense and candle paper money that has been sold for a long time, kneel in front of the master's unraised grave, light the incense candles, and light the paper money. He prayed silently, "Master, my disciple has come to see you!" I haven't come to see you for so long, it's a disciple who is not filial, I ask Master for forgiveness! Master, I have learned a lot now, so watch from the heavens! I will definitely find out all the people who hurt you back then, and don't even think about it! Master, you wait, the disciples will definitely come down to accompany you in the near future! ”
After burning the paper money, he sat silently with the master for a while, then knelt down and kowtowed three times: "Master, the disciple can't accompany you anymore, the disciple is going to find those brothers who killed you now." In the future, disciples will definitely come to see you often...... In addition, the disciple also wants to ask you for one more thing, please be sure to bless the disciple and his sister to reunite as soon as possible. ”
Got on his horse and went upstream.
For seven days in a row, I traveled more than 100 miles upstream of the Quartet and searched for hundreds of people, but no one remembered the fight seven years ago.
I was disappointed, it seems that the group of people back then did a very secretive job, and they didn't even leak the slightest rumor. Perhaps, I only have one mountain to "visit" them. Taking this step, I can't help but be a little resistant, afraid that I will kill innocents indiscriminately, and I am also worried that I will be invincible with two fists and four hands, and I will be killed before I meet Luo Rou. But anyway, for now, it's the only way I can go.
In the evening, I returned to Sifangdu. This is the third time I've been back here in seven days. My sister-in-law and her husband no longer wonder why I disappear so often. casually ordered a small stir-fry, a few steamed buns, and sat on the small table to feel stuffy.
It doesn't matter if you don't check, a check almost scared me, this upstream is a hundred miles away, there are actually more than 30 cottages, four water villages, as many bandits as many cow hairs, how can I pull it out alone? Of course, my first target is these four water villages, Master They disappeared on the Yellow River, and the possibility of a water bandit attack is naturally greater. But even if one of these four water villages is very difficult for me to deal with, of course I will not pick up a sword and cut it as soon as I arrive at someone's territory, but these people in the green forest, the temper is naturally not very good, a word of disharmony may be copied and the knife is dry, how many people can I deal with with one person and one sword? You must know that after my investigation in the past few days, there are more than 100 people in these mountains and water villages, and the largest group has more than 1,000 minions.
I'm a little scared, but some don't. In the past seven days, I don't know who it is, but I actually picked down two cottages in a row, and none of the minions in the cottage were spared, and all of them were in different places. There are rumors on the road, this is because the cottages swallowed each other and were destroyed. But I carefully examined those corpses, and they were all killed by the same sword, that is to say, there was only one person who was killed, and this person could destroy two cottages in a row with his own strength, and he was definitely a top master.
I'd love to make friends with this fellow practitioner, and if the two of them can join forces and help each other, I think it would be a good combination. I'm also a little annoyed by this guy who has secretly helped me a lot, and if he kills the person I'm looking for, I'm afraid the clue will be broken.
After a hasty meal, it was still early, and a man came to the ferry and sat down on the stone steps.
Before the water period has passed, the water of the Yellow River is obviously much smaller, and the riverbed near the shore has been exposed, and the afterglow of the setting sun is sprinkled on the surface of the river, flooding with layers of golden light.
Almost all of these more than 30 cottages and water bandits are holding the signboards of the descendants of Liangshan, and there are thirty-three of them, excluding the two who have been destroyed recently. Here, the largest group is called Xiaoliangshan, what is the name of the owner of the village Song Sangong, this person is a disciple of the Shaolin sideline, a set of demon swordsmanship, a set of Arhat boxing has already had seventy percent of the fire, in this Luxi place, it is considered a first-class master. It is said that he also has one hundred and seven generals under him, all of whom are the reincarnations of the Heavenly Gang Evil Star, and a group of small minions, with a total number of about 700 people. Isn't Song Sangong Song Jiang? It's a pity that this kid doesn't have Song Jiang's ambition to do the right thing for heaven at all, and he does everything about adultery and plunder, which is really Luxi's first evil.
After Xiaoliang Mountain, it is the Juying League, the leader of the Juying League claims to be the twenty-fourth grandson of the leopard head Lin Chong, named Lin Zi'an, who practices all the way to flip boxing and the Lin family's marksmanship, and his subordinates have gathered more than 500 people, and they are also doing the work of fighting the family. Although his strength is not as good as Xiao Liangshan, his notoriety is almost comparable to him. These two are strong, and the terrain is extremely dangerous, and the officers and soldiers have also attacked and suppressed them before, but they have all lost their troops and returned in vain.
In third place is one of the four water villages of the Qinglong Gang, this Qinglong Village is a lot, about a thousand people, the first one is named Wu Yucheng. Of course, he didn't let himself break up with Wu Song. This Qinglongzhai is the river workers on the Yellow River organized a few years ago, they were originally their own people, but the new emperor has no way, bandits are everywhere, they are under the oppression of the government and bandits, they can't survive, but they join hands to set up the Qinglongzhai, and they generally do not rob business travelers, the largest income comes from their cargo ships, of course, their charges will be more expensive than others, but safe. In this Luxi piece, who doesn't know that Qinglongzhai is the leader of the Yellow River, there are many people in the village, and other people on their cargo ships don't dare to make up their minds, but they are also bodyguards. However, when encountering those who are unkind to the rich and corrupt the law, Qinglongzhai will not be soft. The people in Qinglong Village are all from local poor families, and they often use the income from the village to help the poor people around them, so Qinglong Village has the best reputation in this area.
It's just that although there are a large number of them, they are originally ordinary river workers, with strong identities but low martial arts, so they can only be regarded as the third largest force in this area, standing tall with Xiaoliangshan and Juying Alliance.
The number of other mountains and water villages is about 200 people, and there are no people in the village, and the strength is much weaker than these three. Some of them allied with each other, some of them were attached to the three major powers, but they also set up camp in Luxian.
Xiaoliang Mountain and Juying League stand across the river from the south and the north, and Qinglong Village is exactly in their buffer place.
Whoever looks at the three parties is not pleasing to the eye, and I don't know how many times they have fought over the years. Qinglongzhai in the middle of the three parties, the situation is extremely dangerous, once the war starts, they often have to withstand wave after wave of attacks on the south and north coasts, and their strength is the weakest of the three masters, it should have been destroyed or annexed long ago, but Qinglongzhai is very united; Moreover, the relatives and friends of the gang are all nearby, and it is not a problem to find three or two thousand prime of life among these people, so the actual gang of Qinglong Village is actually far greater than a thousand; Moreover, whenever the war is unfavorable, they retreat to the river, and Xiaoliangshan and Juyingmeng, who don't know about the water war, can't help them.
Qinglongzhai seems to be the most reasonable among these people, perhaps, the first person to visit should be them, and they are characters on the waterway, from their mouths, it should be easier to inquire about the master.
Yes, I'll go to Qinglong Village tomorrow!
I made up my mind, looked at the water of the Yellow River flowing in the distance, and went back to my room to rest.