Chapter 533: Selective Ignorance, Who Is Whitewashing?
Zhai Yuanwan didn't expect Xiao Tang to ask such a question, he was stunned when he saw it, and replied in a daze: "This ...... There are indeed some colleagues in the green forest who are good at using such methods to deter others, but there are also some heroes who just use the guise of intimidating outsiders, and they may not really be able to eat people's hearts. The younger brother only heard that the four heroes of Taihu Lake were ruthless, and he didn't know if they were really good at this, or they just put on a posture to teach others not to dare to tease. ”
Xiao Tang snorted coldly, and said: "If that Fei Bao, Di Cheng and the others are really brutal people who dig out their livers and eat with wine, Hugh said that I will never gather with such crazy people, and when they really bump into each other, they will inevitably kill that group of people with a knife!" There are countless resourceful and strong people who sit upright in the green forest, and there is no shortage of the four of them! ”
In addition to Mei Zhan looking at Xiao Tang and nodding with admiration on his face, Shi Bao, Cheng Gui, Zhai Yuan and others looked at each other, they didn't expect Xiao Tang's reaction to be so big, and their reaction to Xiao Tang's attitude was only noncommittal.
If it were Shi Bao and others, they would never do cannibalism such as eating people's hearts and livers, and they would also look down on the people in the green forest who did this. But if those people are very useful, and can help each other, it's another matter, after all, in the green forests and rivers and lakes, most of them are ruthless people who lick blood with knives and are used to playing with their lives, and it is also common for the more violent ones to stand up for power with this kind of evil behavior.
What's more, when capturing an enemy who has a deep blood feud with his brother, he cuts it off in pieces, gouges out his belly and even eats his flesh to vent his anger, which is also a common "ritual" in the rivers and lakes (for example, after Song Jiang caught Huang Wenbing, Li Kui first cut his leg with a sharp knife, and after picking the meat, he burned it on the charcoal fire in front of him. Cut a piece, burn a piece, cut the chest after cutting the meat slices, and take out the heart and liver to make a sobering soup...... Since this is a commonplace behavior in the rivers and lakes, and Xiao Renxia wants to recruit the heroes of the green forest, why does he react so much?
Xiao Tang looked at the expressions of Qing Shibao and Zhejiang Silong and others, he sighed and said: "A few brothers, you also know that I have passed through a few cottages, and the righteousness of gathering with the heroes of the green forest is to eliminate corrupt officials and bullies and do the right thing for the sky, although all the brothers who are willing to gather righteousness with me are trapped in the green forest, but they are also loyal and righteous people, and now a few cottages are good among the people, how can I allow a few mouse feces to ruin the reputation of our brothers?" ”
It seems that Wu Song, Shi Xiu, Hua Rong, Xu Guanzhong and others who were present knew that when Xiao Tang was married to people in the rivers and lakes, the moral bottom in the hearts of their righteous brothers and their own brothers, and Xiao Tang's principles of dealing with the world have never wavered.
Just like in the wilderness near the market town in Gaizhou, Rao is Xiao Tang listened to the dying of people, and Sun Yuan, who was also kind in his words, pleaded bitterly, but if he found out that Sun Erniang and Zhang Qing only moved half of the black shop and made human meat buns, Xiao Tang would never leave any mercy immediately, and he would definitely kill the two of them one by one. Later, Sun Erniang and Zhang Qing threw themselves into Xiao's mansion, and there would no longer be the creepy black shop on the cross slope of Mengzhou, and the passers-by from there would no longer become unjust souls.
In the vicinity of Jieyangling, Li Jun, a mixed river dragon who has long admired Xiao Tang's reputation, has also already moved his mind to form a righteous alliance with him, just because for Li Li, the urging judge who set up a human meat workshop, Xiao Tang is determined to kill, but Li Jun must be protected, because although the two have cooperated in Jiangzhou, in the end, Xiao Tang missed Li Jun, the one in a thousand naval generals in the green forest......
Xiao Tang also knows that capable generals may not all be moral models, and everyone has their own character flaws. For example, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, with Zhu Yuanzhang, he made great military exploits, rampant all over the world, and called Chang Yuchun a good kill and surrender in the army, but even if Xiao Tang can meet a fierce general with a more brutal temperament and the ability to match Chang Yuchun, he will be busy trying to find ways to admit him. However, there are many evil ghosts and cannibalistic murderers on the green forest road, and many people's evil deeds have reached the level of anti-society and anti-humanity, and Xiao Tang will never spare them.
Di Cheng and the other four mentioned by Zhai Yuan, as well as Zhu Gui of the dry land who lit the lamp in Liangshanbo, who turned the slices of human essence meat into rice and fried oil with fat, are also characters that Xiao Tang intends to kill and eliminate harm for the people, the strange thing is that Xiao Tang has also seen some Water Margin fans in later generations, or when discussing on the forum, there are many people who are used to criticizing Sun Erniang, Yan Shun, Li Li, Wang Yingzhi and others on the one hand, but on the other hand, they praise Taihu Sijie, Zhu Gui and other characters, and they are famous for killing murderers and bullies here. Over there, they selectively ignore the villains who are willing to eat the same kind and become brothers......
That kind of thing that is contradictory and similar to a split personality, at least Xiao Tang will never do it.
After some talking, Shi Bao, Cheng Gui, Xie Fu, Zhai Yuan, and Qiao Zheng, the Jiangnan heroes who joined under Xiao Tang, also had another layer of understanding of the principles of the new big brother in front of him, and the attitude and requirements of his own brothers. Shi Bao tilted his neck, drank the spirits in the bowl, and then said with a smile: "The heroes who are fighting in the green forests of Liangzhejiang Road, Fujian Road, and Jiangnan Road are not the only four birdmen. ”
Cheng Gui also nodded and said, "Now that I have a good time, I will think about some other heroes who have a frank track on the green forest road in the south of the Yangtze River." It's just that my brother must have heard that Fang La, the Manichaean leader in Qingxi County, Muzhou, Liangzhejiang Road, has not only developed the popularity of the cult in recent years, but also sent people everywhere to recruit heroes in the green forests of the south of the Yangtze River. ”
Xiao Tang smiled faintly, he remembered that Fang La was originally a native of Shezhou (now Shexian County, Anhui), and then moved to Wannian Town, Qingxi County, Muzhou, and among the good generals and strangers under his command who were brave and good at fighting and had their own abilities, such as Wang Yin, Deng Yuanjue, Du Wei and other characters all clearly recorded that they were people from Shezhou, since Fang La was a well-known green forest hero in Shezhou, Muzhou and other places, then these characters had to do something big, and their first choice would definitely be to defect to Fang La, and worship under the Manichaean sect. There is also the Lu Shinang, who guarded Runzhou and led the twelve gods of Jiangnan in the original book, and is also the leader of Manichaeism in history......
And among those Jiangnan heroes who would fight bloodily with the recruiting army led by Song Jiang, causing most of the one hundred and eight generals in Liangshan to lose most of them, who have never expressed their origins, or who are now like Shi Bao, Zhejiang Silong and others, it is very likely that they have not yet been recruited by Fang La?
After Xiao Tang thought for a while, his eyes suddenly lit up, and a person's name suddenly appeared in his mind. Then he asked Shi Bao, Cheng Gui, Zhai Yuan and others: "I have heard that there is a good hand in Jiangnan who is good at using bows and arrows, and the people in the rivers and lakes call Xiaoyang Youji Pang Wanchun. ”