In August, autumn is in full swing. At this moment, Gu Haotian was sitting on the boat to Shijie Village. A few days ago, Ruan Xiaoer sent a letter, saying that he had recruited 50 more water town boys, so he took Bian Xiang, Ruan Xiaoqi and 18 first-class personnel who had been trained for nearly two months to take a look. In fact, he has a strong desire to explore Shijie Village and Liangshanbo across the horizon.

The boat sailed in the water, the cool breeze was blowing, the reeds on the shore had just bloomed, and the white flower spikes were swaying happily in the lake breeze. Eighty or ninety miles of waterway, more than three hours to arrive, it is already past noon, in the soft water vapor, a small fishing village gradually clear. Under several low hillsides, in the gaps between green bamboo and reeds, in the crisscrossing water lanes, grass houses are sprinkled at will, just like a beautiful landscape pastoral.

Under the guidance of Ruan Xiaoqi, the boat docked at a high port with twists and turns, but it was a lonely island surrounded by water, with sparse bamboo forests and low eaves. saw that Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaowu were already standing on the shore to greet them.

"The petty officials have worked hard all the way."

"I've kept my two brothers waiting."

After going ashore to salute, the group sat down in a thatched hall.

"This is where the fifth brother lives, right?"

"It's a small residence, but it's very messy, and the little officials don't laugh."

"Auntie is there?" Gu Haotian remembered that the old lady of the Ruan family lived with Ruan Xiaowu.

"Busy in the kitchen over there?" Ruan Xiaowu replied.

"Take me to see me." The Ruan brothers are loyal and filial, and Koo Hao Tian also knows that details sometimes determine everything.

A few people got up and went out, and Xiao Qi shouted from afar: "Old lady, the little official came to see you." ”

"Hey," said an old woman of fifty or sixty years of age, who came out of the stove, but saw a silver-haired man, with a face full of vicissitudes, and cracked hands still stained with the juice of vegetables and vegetables.

"Auntie, you're tired." Gu Haotian stepped forward and saluted respectfully.

"Petty officials don't want to be embarrassed and torture the old body." This old man had never seen such a noble little official salute her, and he instinctively reached out to help her, but found that he still had vegetable leaves on his hands, and he froze there for a while.

Gu Haotian took the gift from Bian Xiang and put it in her hand, and took off the stained vegetable leaf. Turning around, he instructed the Ruan family brothers, "Little second brother, there is no need for my aunt to work so hard, we will just use some." Gu Haotian thought she was busy with their meals.

"My mother is used to working and can't be idle, but it's not for our food." The Ruan brothers were moved when they saw that the little officials respected the old lady so much. Ruan Xiaoer took a step forward to help the old lady hold the gift, and replied.

"Auntie is recuperating well, and I will come to see you again when I am free." With that, a few people turned around and returned to the thatched hall. Ruan Xiaoqi temporarily settled more than a dozen team members in Xiao Wu's grass house, and a few people rowed a small boat to Ruan Xiaoer's house.

Ruan Xiaoer's family lives near the water, a circle of bamboo fences encloses a small courtyard, there are several small boats outside, and a few old nets are hung on the fence. Everyone pushed Gu Hao to sit in the sky, and then sat down in turn. Looking at the big fish and meat in front of him, Gu Haotian sighed in his heart, after a trip to Heisongling, the Ruan family brothers can be regarded as going directly from poverty to well-off. When he was about to put down the chopsticks, he saw the little boy looking this way, so he got up and took him over and sat on the side, and pulled a big chicken leg and put it in his hand. Ruan Xiaoer saw that he was about to speak, but was stopped by Gu Haotian, "It's okay, no one has a small time." ”

Ruan Xiaoer felt that his nose was sour, so he didn't say anything anymore, and hurriedly beckoned everyone to drink and eat.

In the afternoon of the same day, the Ruan brothers gathered fifty young people to Ruan Xiaowu's residence. Gu Haotian inquired carefully, they were all children of peasant families or fishermen, fifteen to eighteen years old, and they looked like real people, and they were quite satisfied. It's just that there is no suitable training place and accommodation here for a while, so he took the hardship fee of 500 wen per person issued by Bian Xiang and Ruan Xiaoqi, and ordered him to report back in five days. That night, a few people had a simple meal at Ruan Xiaowu's place, and Gu Haotian and Bian Xiang went back with Xiaoqi to rest.

In the kitchen of Ruan Xiaowu's house, Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaowu were helping to clean up.

"Little Er, how do your brothers get along with that little official?"

"The old lady asked why." Xiao Er's sudden questioning of the old lady who never cared about his brother was a little strange.

"Old lady, a country woman has no knowledge, but she also has a rod and scale in her heart, if your brother wants to have a head in the future, this little official is a person who can follow, you have to make up your mind earlier."

The brothers sat by the water for a long time that night, and they both felt that it was time to give a clear word to the little official. The next day, the two brothers arrived at Xiao Qi's house early in the morning and solemnly saluted Gu Haotian and showed their hearts.

After a period of continuous investment, now that there is finally a return, Gu Haotian is overjoyed. As a water base, the importance of water talents such as the Ruan family brothers is self-evident, which is also the original intention of his great efforts to collect his heart. At that moment, they hurriedly helped up, and everyone sat down.

"The two brothers are eager to help each other, and Haotian is very happy, but there is one thing that must be said." He is not hypocritical, and directly points to the topic. The Ruan brothers knew the weight, and they also listened attentively. "Some of the events done by the Gu family, the two elder brothers also know a thing or two, and it is good to have nothing to do, but if there is wind and grass, it is a monstrous disaster, so you must be cautious. The two elder brothers are the people Haotian will rely on in the future, and I don't know if they can do it. ”

"I will do my best." The two responded in unison.

"It's that the fifth brother has to go to the casino less, otherwise he will talk nonsense when he gets to Xingtou, and everyone will suffer together." Xiao Qi interjected playfully.

"You are so short that you are exposed, if you see it in the future, you will go to the casino again, and you will cut off my legs." Ruan Xiaowu was immediately angry.

The Ruan brothers returned to their hearts, and Gu Haotian Shijie Village and his party fulfilled half of their wishes, and then brought up the matter of inspecting Liangshan, and the Ruan brothers were stunned at first, thinking that this Liangshan is a barren mountain. Gu Haotian did not hide it, the so-called employment is not suspicious, so he said some of his thoughts. Fang Jue, the brother of the Ruan family, felt that the matter was very important, and he also felt the honesty of the petty officials to them. The crowd didn't say much, took a few guards, drove a few boats and headed in the direction of Liangshan.

The so-called land of one look, trying to sail as hard as possible, even takes nearly an hour. Near noon, Liangshan, which has been praised for thousands of years, appeared in front of Gu Haotian. The two peaks in front of you are about three or five hundred meters high, but you can see that the water is deep and the beach is dangerous, the slope is steep and steep, the reeds are dense at the water's edge, and the mountain is full of ancient trees, and it is a good place to go.

Gu Haotian originally wanted to let the boat go around for a week, but the Ruan brothers said that they were afraid that they would not be able to come back after dark, so they had to give up. Gu Haotian went ashore to look, and found that the gentle slope behind this beach was the size of a football field, and he was curious, so he asked Ruan Xiaoer if there was a name here, Ruan Xiaoer replied, since then, because the sand is a little golden, the local fishermen call it Golden Beach. Gu Haotian suddenly realized in his heart that this was the golden beach.

On the beach and over the gentle slope is a canyon sandwiched between twin peaks, everyone followed the valley path to go up for about half an hour, only to feel that the horizon was wide, a large flat land appeared in front of everyone's eyes, Gu Haotian visually measured that it was about the size of four or five football fields, and thought that this was probably the mirror-like flat land that Lin Chong saw. On the north side of the flat land, there are two peaks on the road, and on the east and west sides, there are two mountain ranges, and to the south, there is a gently sloping platform, and then there is another mountain peak, about seven or eight hundred meters high.

At this time, it was already noon, and everyone simply used dry food to continue to climb. Climbing the gentle slope to the south, I found that there was another flat land in front of me, and the ground was slightly undulating, and the area was about half that of the place below. There is no way to go up again, but Gu Haotian is unwilling, he is determined to climb the main peak, only that place can see the terrain clearly, so he led everyone to finally reach the peak.

Standing on the top of the peak, Gu Haotian finally understood what it meant to climb high and take a look. Overlooking the vast water and smoke waves, the water connects to the sky; Overlooking Liangshan Mountain, several peaks are ringed, and the trees are verdant; It is indeed a place where the dragon and the crouching tiger are hidden. He looked for the memory in his heart according to the terrain he saw, the road that came up from the north should be the three passes in front of the mountain, the two flat lands on the north mountainside are about where Wanzi City and Juyi Hall are located, and the five main peaks extending out of the periphery are probably all dry villages, the most surprising thing for him is that there is a mountain valley of about four or five miles in the middle of the main peak to the south peak, the width of the place is two or three hundred meters, and the narrow place is also nearly 100 meters, he looked at it for a long time and finally understood that this should be the back mountain often mentioned in the Water Margin, that is, the resettlement place of the family. He roughly calculated, if he didn't consider the food supply, it would not be a problem for tens of thousands of people to live on this mountain.

Before they knew it, the sun had turned west, and everyone had to go down the mountain. When they arrived at the Golden Beach, Gu Haotian and the Ruan brothers took a closer look at the terrain of this place. Then he said to the Ruan brothers: "This is just the entrance to Liangshan, I intend to let the newly recruited fifty people and the eighteen people brought back by Xiao Qi camp and train here, and the escort team will send a small team to assist, and the three brothers will be in charge, and they are willing to take responsibility." ”

Although the Ruan brothers already knew some of the thoughts of the little official, they just didn't expect him to move so quickly, but they all agreed.

Gu Haotian carefully thought about some specific measures, such as regular patrols around the island, building roads up the mountain, strictly guarding against foreign forces, etc., and explained them one by one.

On the return trip, Gu Haotian leaned on the bow of the boat to release the fatigue of the day, but his heart was extremely relaxed. I secretly thought, I finally laid the first pile of Liangshan's foundation, so will it be far from his knot.