Chapter 20 The Heroes of the Past and the Righteous Warriors of the Qi Kingdom

It is said that this Zhu Shen was originally a member of the Linzi clan of Qi State, and he was Ren Xia when he was young and a hero of Qi State.

Living in Linzi as a civilian, fighting for righteousness, fighting grievances, and helping the old and weak. He is also extremely filial, and many people admire him. has a small reputation in Linzi, knows the dignitaries and nobles of Qi State, and knows the name of Zhu Shen.

The Luan clan, the minister of Qi, has a clan of people who bully others and are famous scoundrels in Linzi. Afraid of the hard and the soft, he specializes in invading the common people. Zhu Shen heard about this bad deed and wanted to find a lesson. Zhu Shen's neighbors knew the origin of this splash, and hurriedly persuaded Zhu Shen not to provoke him, saying that he was a member of the Luan clan, a powerful member of the Qi State, and he couldn't be provoked.

Zhu Shen listened to the advice of his neighbors and did not go to find the splasher. Who knew that this puffy person learned that Zhu Shen wanted to teach himself a lesson, and was persuaded by his neighbors. was furious, so he took advantage of Zhu Shen's outing, brought people to come, first seized Zhu Shen's friend's property, and saw that Zhu Shen's friend's daughter was beautiful, and wanted to forcibly accept her as a concubine.

Zhu Shen's friends went to comment, but they were injured by the party henchmen who instigated him, robbed his daughter to go, and wanted to use force, but his daughter had no choice but to escape from the bridge and commit suicide. Zhu Shen's friends informed the government, but there were ministers of the Luan family in the government who protected them, and the evildoers could not be convicted, but only returned the stolen land.

The Luan clan was not punished in the slightest, but intensified, and came to bully Zhu Shen's neighbor again, beating him to the point that his nose was blue and his face was swollen. Hate said: "Let you know how good I am!" ”

When Zhu Shen went home and heard what was going on, he was furious, his eyes were torn, and he said to his neighbors: "I will avenge you!" ”

One day, when he saw Na Splash and other people on the street, Zhu Shen stepped forward and scolded: "Splash thief! Do you know who I am? I'm Zhu Shen! Why did you bully my neighbor and force her daughter to death? I'm going to make you a break today! ”

The splash was taken aback when he heard this, but he was not timid, and laughed angrily: "I was looking for you, but this time you came by yourself!" Then he shouted to all the henchmen: "Break his leg for me!" ”

Zhu Shen was furious, and then pulled out the saber on his waist, and swung a knife over the neck of the splashed skin, and the splashed skin was caught off guard, and then fell to the ground with the knife, and the blood splashed three feet.

Zhu Shen saw that he had killed the splash, so he hurried back to his home, and said to his neighbor: "I killed the splash skin today, and the Qi country is categorically uninhabitable." His relative is the minister of the Luan clan of Qi State, if he knew that I killed other people, he would definitely not be able to tolerate me. And this matter also has something to do with you, you can't live here anymore, and now you take your wife to escape away from disaster to avoid disaster, and I will also leave the country of Qi. ”

The neighbor was very grateful, and immediately packed up, abandoned the property, and fled from Linzi with his wife overnight.

Zhu Shen still has an old mother, so he entrusted his old mother to relatives in the suburbs to take care of him overnight. After the arrangements were made, they went out of the city to meet the neighbor couple. The neighbor couple invited Zhu Shen to join his relatives and deceased in Beicheng, and Zhu Shen said: "The three of us are not allowed to go together." Respect the brothers and their wives and look to the north of the city, don't worry about me, I have my own arrangements. ”

The neighbor had no choice but to give half of the coil to Zhu Shen, and Zhu Shen only received one-tenth of it, and the three of them said goodbye outside Linzi City at the crossroads.

Zhu Shen waited for the neighbor couple to go far away, and then set off, and wrote on a big tree on the side of the road on the outskirts of the city: Whoever kills the Luan clan, Linzi Zhu Shen also!

Then he hurriedly turned south and threw himself into the Song Kingdom.

When the soldiers went to arrest them, Zhu Shen and others had fled, and the sergeants went out of the city to chase them, chasing them in the suburbs, and saw the inscription on the big tree beside the road, knowing that it was Zhu Shen, the hero of Qi State, so they split up to hunt Zhu Shen, Zhu Shen hid in the grass and escaped the pursuit.

The minister of the Luan clan hated Zhu Shen deeply, but he couldn't be arrested for a while. went to Zhu Shen's relative's house to threaten him, wanting to take his old mother, but the relative came forward and said: "The murderer Zhu Shenye, who killed someone, is no longer the son of the old mother, what does it have to do with his old mother?" "The law of Qi is that children do not offend their parents because they have committed murder and violated the law. The minister of the Luan clan couldn't do it, so he offered a reward of 100 gold to buy Zhu Shen's head.

Zhu Shen lived in the Song Kingdom for more than a year, and his mother was critically ill, and his relatives sent people to report it. Zhu Shen cried: "The unfilial son is ashamed of his mother!" So he sneaked back to Linzi in Qi in the starry night, saw the last time the old mother, and the old mother saw Zhu Shen, and then returned to the sky.

Zhu Shen cried bitterly, did not eat for three days, and kept filial piety for his mother.

At this time, the news of Zhu Shen's return to Qi had already been learned by the Eagle Dog, the minister of the Luan clan of Qi, and the minister of the Luan clan sent more than ten private soldiers to capture Zhu Shen.

When Zhu Shen heard about it, he handed over all the wealth he had brought to his relatives and asked his relatives to help deal with the aftermath. He fled through the back door of his relative's house on horseback, and five or six soldiers chased after him on horseback and intercepted Zhu Shen on the way.

Zhu Shen said: "Whoever stands in my way, I will open the killing ring!" ”

The soldiers did not retreat, and wanted to capture Zhu Shen alive, but the soldiers surrounded Zhu Shen with weapons in their hands, and prepared to tie them with iron chains.

Zhu Shen has always practiced martial arts, and has courage, good at using iron awls, when he saw the iron chain thrown, he flashed, dodged the iron chain, and threw out more than 20 catties of iron hammer in his sleeve, and immediately fought and killed one of them. The rest retreated in horror.

Zhu Shen held the iron cone in his hand and said: "If you are embarrassed again, take this person as an example!" When the soldiers saw the cold light shining on the big iron cone, they were afraid to move forward. Zhu Shen took the opportunity to flee on horseback, and galloped all the way to the Song Kingdom without stopping all night.

Returned to the residence of the Song State, rested for a day, feared that the enemy would chase him, so he went south to the Chu State overnight, for several days, galloped to the edge of the Yangtze River, entangled to the end, hungry, thirsty and tired, wandering by the river, not knowing where to go.

In the wilderness by the river, there was no one around, and Zhu Shen was tired and hungry, so he grazing his horses by the river and lying in the grass to rest a little.

Less leaning, a fisherman returned from fishing, held the boat ashore by the river, saw that there were horses grazing by the river, so he came to check, saw that there was a person in the grass who was sleeping, the fisherman watched and stared at Zhu Shen for a long time, sighed slightly, Zhu Shen suddenly woke up, saw a fisherman in front, was taken aback, and hurriedly took the iron cone in his sleeve. The fisherman sighed again, and then said to Zhu Shen: "The appearance of the visitor officer is like a person who has died at the end of the world. ”

Zhu Shen said: "Who are you?" Hugh is babbling! ”

The fisherman said: "The old man has passed the sixtieth year in recent years, and he also walked in the rivers and lakes in his early years, and he was heroic. The appearance of today's guest official is similar to that of the old man. And the guest officer rode to the riverside, frightened and depressed, and the old man guessed that most of the guest officers were outlaws. ”

Zhu Shen saw the fisherman's strange appearance, and he was secretly surprised in his heart. And he looked around, and there was no difference. Seeing that the fisherman was sincere and not a treacherous person, he hurriedly thanked him, told him about the past, and asked his father to guide him, and the fisherman learned what happened, and saw that Zhu Shen was a Qi person, so he said to Zhu Shen: "Now the two kingdoms of Qi and Chu are making friends with two countries, if you go to the Chu country, once you are known to the Qi country, you will inevitably be captured by the Chu people and sent to the Qi country, so you will not be able to avoid disaster." And the State of Wei is the enemy of the State of Qi, you can go to the State of Wei, hide your name, and hide your body, you can avoid this disaster. ”

Zhu Shen thanked the fisherman, and the fisherman saw that Zhu Shen's face was weak, and when he asked, he realized that he had not eaten or eaten for several days, so the fisherman pointed to a thatched hut in the distance and said to Zhu Shen: "Follow the old decay, go back to the shelter for a while, and eat and drink." Zhu Shen was hungry and thirsty, so he followed the fisherman to the hut. The fisherman killed and washed a carp in the basket and cooked it for Zhu Shen, and steamed a bowl of rice and rice. Zhu Shen had a full meal, and felt that the fish soup was extremely delicious, and he had never tasted it in his life. The fisherman took out some silver coins and gave them to Zhu Shen as a way to go to Wei.

Zhu Shen was very grateful, and then bowed down to the fisherman and said: "The old man's kindness is tantamount to saving his life, thank you again another day!" ”

The fisherman laughed and said: "The old man looks at your appearance, and he knows that you are a chivalrous and righteous person, and now you are so embarrassed that if you are arrested by the government, you will hurt a hero in the world!" The old decay is not for other things, but only for the righteousness of heroes. That's why he gave the righteous a piece of fish soup to help the righteous get out of this misfortune. Then he told Zhu Shen to go on the road as soon as possible and look at the Liang of Wei.

Zhu Shen bowed and thanked him again, then listened to the fisherman's words, rode north, and traveled to the front to the Wei capital Liang, and there was nothing to do along the way. After arriving in Daliang, he changed his name to Jiang Jia and lived in seclusion in the northern suburbs of Daliang City, slaughtering dogs and pigs for a living.

Daliang City hides the dragon and crouching tiger, the heroic style prevails, Zhu Shen came here, and he was really respected and respected. When Hou Ying had a sister, her father was critically ill, because Hou Huan's family was poor, her sister wanted to sell it to the government as a slave in exchange for money to save her father. When Zhu Shen heard about it, he handed over all the money accumulated from slaughtering dogs and selling pigs to Hou Huan's family, so that he could treat his father, and Hou Huan's family was greatly moved, and Hou Huan and Zhu Shen became brothers.

Hou Huan's father was treated with the assistance of Zhu Shen, and was able to continue his life, but he finally fell seriously ill and died half a year later, Zhu Shen paid for the burial, and his sister repaid Zhu Shen's generosity and help, and also admired Zhu Shen's chivalrous spirit, so he committed himself to marry Zhu Shen. So Zhu Shen and Hou Huan became in-laws again.

Zhu Shen saw that although Hou Huan was young, he was also a person who valued righteousness very much, so he told Hou Huan about his true identity, Hou Huan heard about it, and admired Zhu Shen even more, Zhu Shen has been in Daliang City for more than ten years.

Hou Huan's sister married Zhu Shen, and gave birth to a son for Zhu Shen the following year, because he was born in Hai, so he was named Zhu Hai, at this time Fang was young, less than ten years old.

And Zhu Shen slaughtered dogs and pigs to make a living, supported his family, and did justice and squandering money in peacetime, so he was only a civilian, and his family was slightly better than Hou Huan's. And the family of my sister and nephew needs to be raised by my sister-in-law. Although I am a doorman and I don't have much money, I can still support my mother. "Hou Huan's monthly salary, half of it is used to support her mother, and she only keeps half for herself. Angelica soup is a very expensive dish, ordinary people can't afford to eat, and Hou Huan will sell two tripod soup for his mother every month.