Groggily mentioning the Chinese Army Council Hall temporarily renovated by the Daxiong Treasure Palace, Zhu Jiu glanced at the knife and axe hands left and right, and had a bottom in his heart, knelt on the ground without saying a word, and only waited for Li Mao to finish his rambling words and then signed.

Li Mao saw Zhu Jiu bring it, got up from his seat, walked to Zhu Jiu's side, and asked, "You gathered a crowd to rebel, and the evidence of the crime is conclusive, can you be guilty now?" Zhu Jiu said lazily: "Zhu Jiu didn't dare to rebel, but in the year of the famine, there was no food to eat, no drink to drink, and to eat bullies and beatings, there was nowhere to stay, so he had to fall into the grass as a last resort. ”

Li Mao said: "In the year of the famine, I don't want to pursue you if you fall into the grass, but it is a serious crime for you to gather a crowd to resist the officials and soldiers." Speaking of this, Li Mao paused. Zhu Jiu said impatiently: "If the general spares me and does not die, I will be repaid for being a cow and a horse." Qingmo, who was standing on the side, heard Zhu Jiu's impatience, and knew that he mistakenly thought that he would definitely die, and he couldn't even raise his spirits to say forgiveness, if he wasn't afraid that Li Mao would embarrass him before he died, he was afraid that he would have had a seizure long ago. Li Mao saw Zhu Jiu in the council room, to give him a chance to atone for his crimes, if this guy said something unpleasant in front of everyone to collide with Li Mao, but it would be a bad thing, thinking of this Qingmo hurriedly coughed.

Zhu Jiu didn't pay attention to begging for death at the moment, but Li Mao listened to it sincerely, he knew what Qingmo was worried about, so he stopped going around the corner: "The Pei family brothers have been captured by me, and his military horses have also been swept away by me, and now only Pei Renqu has escaped back to Dapu Mountain." I'll give you a chance to redeem your merits, if you can persuade Guo Liang of Guojiazhuang to surrender, it will be a great achievement, and I can spare you from dying. ”

Zhu Jiu's stunned mouth couldn't close, and he kowtowed for a while and said, "Please show the general, if Guo Liang is willing to return to the official mansion, can he be exempted from the death penalty?" ”

"If you surrender sincerely, you can redeem your merits."

After receiving Li Mao's affirmative reply, Zhu Jiuda was overjoyed, and then kowtowed: "I am willing to go." ”

Guo Liang and Zhu Jiu have nothing to do with each other, and the two gradually became acquainted with each other after they rose up together, the Pei family brothers were the strongest among the five forces, but they were defeated in one day, Guo Liang's few guns were not as good as Zhu Jiu, and what could they do, sooner or later it would be a defeat and be killed. Now Zhu Jiu has appeared to persuade him to surrender, and the chance of success is very high. Qingmo was overjoyed, thanked Li Mao, and trotted all the way to report the good news to Zhuxiang.

I went out too quickly and almost bumped into Zhang Shui who was going inside, Zhang Shui led a pair of twin sisters to go inside, the two little girls were about four or five years old, with a pair of big black eyes on their delicate faces, very cute. Qingmo squatted down, pinched the little sister's face, and asked Zhang Xuan: "The two little babies you picked up?" ”

Zhang Xuan snorted Qingmo, handed over the two little girls to the guards and brought them into the main hall, and then said proudly: "Yao Jinghua, Yao Cuihua, a native of Yaojiazhuang, his parents died in a war famine, and his aunt took advantage of his uncle's absence to sell them to human teeth, I saw that he was pitiful and brought them back, and I want to ask Brother Mao to take them in as righteous daughters, what do you think of this idea?" ”

Qingmo pursed his lips and said: "This idea is not good, Brother Mao is young, and it is not that he can't give birth to children, if you give him these two live treasures, wouldn't it be ridiculous that people are incompetent." ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Ah, I don't have this thought. ”

Qingmo smiled: "I know you are kind, Brother Mao may not care, but over there, ah, haha." Qingmo said that it was facing the southeast, and Zhang Xuan knew that he was talking about Su Qing, so he hesitated for a while.

Qingmo patted Zhang Shuan's shoulder and said with a smile: "Since you like it, keep it for yourself." ”

After that, he walked away, leaving Zhang Xuan alone and muttered: "I have no wife at home, and a little girl can't take care of it, so add two more and that won't mess up." ”

Li Mao liked the two sisters in his heart, but he also knew that if he accepted the little sisters of the Yao family as his daughter, he was afraid that Su Qing would not say that he would be unhappy, so he would hesitate a little. The two little girls also saw some clues, their big black eyes were overflowing with tears, and at this moment, Mao Taigong, who was sharpening his knife shirtless under the corridor of the main hall, stopped his hand and said in a muffled voice: "Everyone has brought, but you don't want it, it hurts people's hearts, you don't want it, I want it!" The sound was like thunder, and the two little girls who were bluffing were stunned. Looking at his vicious appearance again, the two little girls opened their mouths and cried.

"Don't cry." Lao Er suddenly became angry, and lost his temper at the little sisters and said: "Lao Tzu raised you two to the age of sixteen, and it is up to you whether you will become a sister-in-law or marry in the future. Okay, stop kneeling, get up, ahhh ”

Under Zhang Xuan's prodding, the two sisters knelt down and bowed to Mrs. Mao, eating and drinking, the two hurriedly got up, trembling all over, and they didn't dare to look directly at Lao Er.

Li Mao regretted that he didn't rush to bring the two little girls over, and when he saw Lao Er like this, he said to Zhang Xuan: "Now that the war is not over, it is inconvenient to take them with you, so you can send someone to your wife to take care of." "How did Mrs. Mao treat the sisters of the Yao family, Zhang Xuan saw it in his eyes, and he had already held back a fire in his heart, so as soon as Li Mao ordered him, he immediately took the sisters away, and when he went out, Zhang Xuan thought that if Su Qing could take a fancy to the two girls, he was afraid that Mrs. Mao would want to get it back, and he had to think of a way to help the two little guys. Mao Taigong saw the two little guys timidly snuggling up to Zhang Xuan, not angry but laughing, laughing and touching the face of the sisters, but pulled out two short knives from his waist and stuffed them into his hands one by one, and said: "This is Lao Tzu's meeting gift to you, in the future, Lao Tzu will not be in front of you to bully the two of you, just pull out the knife and stab it." ”

Zhang Xuan chanted Amitabha, afraid that he would do something out of the ordinary again, so he quickly took away the Yao sisters.

After Pei Renqu fled back to Tai Po Mountain, he gathered the old troops and had 1,500 soldiers, but they were all old, weak, sick and disabled, and there was no general who commanded the army, the weapons were not complete, and the grain and grass were not enough. When the news of Pei Renyong and Pei Renjing's brothers being captured came, there was a lot of mourning on Daxiao Pu Mountain, and there was no fighting spirit from top to bottom.

Pei Renqu was exhausted, he wanted to let go, and he was afraid that he was sorry for Pei Renyong and Pei Renjing, and he wanted to manage it, but he was really powerless. The two brothers hugged their heads and cried, Pei Renyong said: "The official army is powerful, and it is impossible to carry it hard, it is better to pretend to be obedient, first avoid the limelight, if he does not keep his promise, then turn against his mother." Pei Renqu was relieved when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "I listen to my brother." ”

The two of them convened all the leaders to discuss, and some of the leaders of Tie Li had a slight question, Pei Renyong pointed his nose and scolded: "In the year of the great famine, the displaced people rose everywhere, and my generation was forced to form a village to protect itself. Before the words fell, a strong man with a double hammer grabbed in front of Tie Li, not allowing for points, the double hammer slammed Tie Li's head into a pulp, and Pei Renqu shot down Tie Li's brother Li Jiu with an arrow.

The leaders were shocked, Pei Renqu chopped off Li Jiu's head, and shouted to the leaders: "Don't panic, I will bring his brother's head to join the official army, not only can we save my wife, maybe I can also be an official." Seeing that the Pei family was on the left and right, everyone didn't dare to disobey, and said in unison: "I am willing to listen to my brother's arrangement." Pei Renyong asked people to take wine and drink with everyone, and immediately ordered to pack up and go down the mountain to surrender to Li Mao, Pei Renqu led his soldiers to set fire everywhere, and burned the cottage clean in a moment.

Pei Renqu also persuaded Pei Renyong to attack Guojiazhuang at night and capture Guo Liang for the merit of promotion, Pei Renyong said: "I am forced to return to the official government, how can I bear to harm people again." Pei Ren channel: "My brother is not willing to make merit with him, and he should also persuade him to surrender, how is his family better than ours, how many days can he carry it, and then the jade will be burned, won't it cause innocent villagers and neighbors to suffer?" ”

Pei Renyong thought it was reasonable, so he ordered the old and weak to camp on the spot, selected 800 strong and strong people to go to Guojiazhuang, and wrote a letter in his hand, and Pei Renqu took a step forward to persuade him to surrender, and came to salute first and then soldier.

Guo Liang learned that Li Mao had completely annihilated the Pei family army in the first battle of Ye Shuodu, and captured the Pei brothers and Zhu Jiu before the battle. Hearing Zhu Jiuyan's words, as long as he returned to the official army, he could avoid death, Guo Liang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, left Zhu Jiu eat and drink well in the village, and slowly took his words, Zhu Jiu noticed it, and said angrily: "When did I Zhu Jiu deceive my brother, if you don't believe it, you can send someone to Xiaopu Mountain to ask to see if the Pei family brothers are still there." Guo Liang hurriedly made amends, and said Zhu Jiu: "Let me settle a few friends on the road and follow my brother to see Li Maohua." ”

Guo Liangzu was an official, his father was a county official, because of the secret contacts with the people in the rivers and lakes and went to work, Guo Liangzi inherited his father's business and had many contacts with the characters on the rivers and lakes, and after the incident, he was widely recruited from the rivers and lakes.

Zhu Jiu did not doubt stay in Guojiazhuang temporarily. Guo conscience knew that there was no good fruit to eat in the confrontation with Li Mao, but he was worried that he had a few murders on his back, and he was afraid that Li Mao would settle accounts after the autumn, and he was a little undecided, he discussed with several brothers to prepare to abandon the family business and wander the rivers and lakes, and the discussion was unsuccessful Suddenly heard of Pei Renqu's visit, and hurriedly accessed, Pei Renqu sent Pei Renyong's letter, and said in a non-yin and non-yang manner: "My brother has defected to Li Maohua today, and he is here to be a lobbyist for him, if my brother is determined to fight against the official army to the end, it is better to kill me and sacrifice my head to sacrifice morale." Guo Liang didn't dare to say that at this moment, someone reported that a large number of people were found on the bank of the Xiaodu River, fifteen miles away from Guojiazhuang.

Guo Liang hurriedly fell to the ground to plead guilty, and Pei Renqu hurriedly helped: "My brother killed Pei Renqu." He sighed again: "Ye Shuodu battled, and the three thousand athletes were wiped out in less than an hour, and Li Maohua was really a famous general." My brother was impressed by his bearing, so he turned his heart into obedience, and now he has a word first, as long as he does not use the army, he sincerely submits to the past, and he is not to blame for the past. ”

Guo Liang was overjoyed and said: "I have a few friends in the village, and when I settle them, I will go with my brother to surrender." Pei Renqu secretly sneered: "No wonder outsiders call him Guo Fool, he is really stupid, he tied up these miscellaneous pieces of rivers and lakes to sacrifice, isn't it a great achievement, and I am afraid that there is no promotion level?" But he said: "It is advisable to delay rather than delay, and if you drag, there will be changes." ”