Walker Wu Song, the fourteenth place in the Liangshan Row of Shuibo, the leader of the Liangshan Infantry Army, strong and unyielding in martial arts, once killed a white-fronted tiger with empty hands, and is a figure with a lot of pen and ink in the Water Margin.

Xu Zizhen has loved Water Margin since he was a child, and one of the most admired is Wu Song, and it can even be said that his current temper and personality are more or less influenced by the characters in this novel.

Wu Song frowned, he could feel that Xu Zizhen was really excited, and he didn't have any bad intentions towards him, he pondered for a moment and smiled faintly: "You have good eyesight." ”

Xu Zizhen saw that he admitted it, and he was even more excited and didn't know what to do, he didn't know where to put it with both hands, he would lift it up and put it down for a while, his face was full of smirks.

When Wu Song saw him like this, he couldn't help but smile dumbly, patted him on the shoulder and said, "I'll leave now, he'll see you again one day." ”

Xu Zizhen suddenly came back to his senses: "Second brother, do you really want to leave?" I haven't mastered this knife yet......"

Wu Song smiled: "Haven't you written it all down?" The rest only needs to be honed on the battlefield, and this knife will be given to you. After saying that, he waved his hand and strode away, never looking back.

Xu Zizhen was in a hurry and shouted: "Second brother, seeing that the Jin Kingdom is about to fight, will you not go out of the mountain again?" ”

Wu Song's footsteps stopped, and he said lightly: "The Song Dynasty is corrupt, I'm just a reckless man, what does it affect if I can't get out of the mountain?" ”

Xu Zizhen was speechless, watching Wu Song drift away and finally disappear into the distance.

Wu Song's last sentence was very straightforward, the court is so rotten, what's the use of me, a grass-headed commoner? Fighting a war is playing with the enemy, but behind the scenes, you have to guard against the nonsense of those corrupt officials and even the mediocre emperor, even the brave and invincible second brother Wu Songwu is disheartened and has no fighting spirit.

Before drinking a jar of wine, Xu Zizhen only felt interested, sitting alone on the top of the mountain watching the white clouds change, holding Wu Song's knife tightly in his hand, and did not return to the cellar until dark.

During this time, his injuries had almost healed, including the knife wound that fell during the previous fight with Hu Sihai and the arrow wound, from here to Lanzhou Mansion almost diagonally through most of the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty, the distance was extremely long, he thought about it for a night and decided to leave the next day.

Suzhou City is not going back, Xu Zizhen said goodbye to the bitter persuasion of Uncle Cheng, left a letter to ask him to hand it over, the letter is to Hao Donglai of Taihu Lake Water Village, told him where he went, and inquired about the situation of He Liangliang, he was very worried that He Liangliang helped him escape that day.

As for the others, he can't contact them for the time being, the Duan Chen brothers are afraid that they have already returned to Dali, and it is impossible for Liuli to return to the Red Sleeve Move, and Master Jingde and Li Sheng in Chongyuan Temple don't need to contact each other, they have nothing to do with this matter on the surface, and they can't be involved, and as for Mo Li'er, even if she wants to find her, she has nowhere to find her.

Cheng Bo saw that he couldn't keep him, so he had no choice but to let him go, before leaving, he led a donkey to come, the right to travel, it was difficult to buy a good horse in the south of the Yangtze River, Xu Zizhen still had the gold and silver given by Wang Manfu and Hu Qing, just wait for the Yellow River to find a horse market to change a horse.

Xu Zizhen didn't know how to go to the northwest, anyway, it was always right to go to the northwest, he said goodbye to Cheng Bo, wearing a set of coarse cloth clothes, wearing a big hat to cover his bald head, a burden behind his back, the knife that Wu Song gave him was hidden in it, and he rode a donkey to the west.

Now that he is dressed like a villager rushing to the market, coupled with the fact that he deliberately only walks the country road, he safely avoided Kong Qilin's comprehensive search and arrived at Jiangning Mansion at the junction of Jiangnan East Road and Huainan West Road in two days.

Jiangning Mansion is the Nanjing of later generations, the capital of Jiangsu Province, in the Northern Song Dynasty is also a very rich big city in the south of the Yangtze River, Xu Zizhen has not yet entered the city gate, you can see the city wall from afar, stretching endlessly, the city gate is crowded, in and out is very lively.

There are several notices posted on the wall at the city gate, among which there is a portrait of Xu Zizhen, but the city defense soldiers here don't seem to care about this, just carefully check the passing crowd, and there are some deceptions that can be deducted, Xu Zizhen pinched a piece of loose silver in his hand, and when it was his turn, he stuffed the silver into the hands of the guards, and easily mixed into the city.

Jiangning Mansion is also known as Jinling, is the ancient capital of several dynasties in Chinese history, such as the Three Kingdoms when the Wu State was built here, the high-rise buildings in the city are lined up one after another, the street is bustling and lively, Xu Zizhen looked at it for a while, but then thought of another thing: when the Jin Kingdom forced the Huiqin Erzong to take away, the Northern Song Dynasty became the Southern Song Dynasty, and then the Jiangning Mansion also became a major city in the north to the Jin Kingdom.

Xu Zizhen sighed for a moment, then went to find an inn, he had thought very clearly, from the south of the Yangtze River to the northwest is far away, if you just take the land route, the time is too long, and it is too hard, only take the waterway, from Nanjing into the Yangtze River, all the way west, to Jiangling Mansion to get off the boat, and then change to the land route through the southwest of Beijing Road, that is, later Hubei Province, go straight to the northwest.

Although this is more troublesome, it can save more than half of the land route, and Jiangning Mansion often has large merchant ships westward, most of this flat-bottomed wooden ships are built like a castle in the water, stable and fast, and these businesses sometimes in order to avoid water bandits, they will also recruit some people with good skills to escort the boat, Xu Zizhen is the idea of fighting, borrowing a boat, and being able to eat together, what's wrong? Escort the boat? Where are there so many water bandits and bandits in this world?

This inn is not very high-end, the location is relatively partial, Xu Zizhen is still wanted by the East Route Army, such a small inn is just what he wants, he asked for a room, took a piece of broken silver to Xiao Er, and inquired about the westward journey of the merchant ship, Xiao Er saw the silver and naturally became enthusiastic, and said in a Jiangning official dialect for a long time, Xu Zizhen didn't understand a word.

Jiangning's official dialect with half Jiangnan accent and half Jiangbei accent is the most difficult to understand, and the little second child himself was embarrassed, so he simply said to the shopkeeper and personally took Xu Zizhen to the dock.

Jiangning wharf is crowded, full of carriages and carts coming and going, the innkeeper is familiar with Xu Zizhen around to a shore, where there is a rather luxurious merchant ship parked early, there is no mark on the hull, and it is not very conspicuous in the pile of ships in this wharf.

The owner of the ship is a middle-aged man who is nearly forty years old, and he seems to be very familiar with the little er, listening to the little er's simple meaning, he turned his head to look at Xu Zizhen, looked up and down, and didn't ask much, and said directly: "The small merchant ship usually does not have the blind thief to attack, but the strong man does not need to work hard, but this reward is also ...... I wonder if a strong man is willing? ”

Xu Zizhen smiled: "I'm just trying to take a convenient boat with a tailwind, I'm already very grateful that you don't charge me money, but I don't know where your boat is?" ”

The owner of the ship said, "Kuizhou." ”