Chapter 49: The True and False Hostages of Mouliangshan (2)

From a distance, the green mountains are stacked with green, and the winding path is like a white snake curling up, twisting and turning, from this end of the mountain to the other end.

Yesterday's rain washed the trail, the mountain village lit up the curling smoke, the sound of the cow came from afar, and a few dogs barked faintly, in this vast world, indicating the existence of life.

A welcoming pine in front of him, with lush branches and leaves, pavilions like covers, a flat stone under the tree, Lu Junyi walked under the tree, turned around and looked back at the way he came, as if looking back on half of his life:

He is a dignified nine-foot body, worthy of heaven and earth, worthy of his parents, wives and servants, full of enthusiasm, often thinking about loyalty to the country, fighting righteousness and squandering wealth in his life, making virtuous and virtuous people, and his fame is spread far and wide throughout Hebei, but he didn't expect that because of an anti-poem "A partial boat in the reed flowers, Junjie Russia swims from here; The righteous man carried a three-foot sword, but when he did, he had to behead the head of the rebellious minister", and caused his wife to be separated and almost lost his life......

"If you do the opposite, you must behead the rebellious ministers...... Lu Junyi looked up to the sky and sighed, then shook his head and smiled bitterly, suddenly laughed again, rested for a while, and continued to walk towards the road ahead—because he already knew that his road had not yet come to an end.

I saw a mountain pavilion in the distance, and there was a young man in Tsing Yi who was looking around with a pergola in his hand, and he happened to see Lu Junyi, and shouted with joy: "Master!!" Run down the road.

"Xiao Yi!" Lu Junyi was overjoyed, stepped forward to hold Yan Qing's hands, his eyes instantly became hot, someone wrote anti-poems to harm him, and someone had an affair with his wife, but only this person has always been loyal and never abandoned.

"Master!!" Yan Qing was overjoyed, and she couldn't imagine that the owner who had not been rescued by a group of people who had tried their best would actually appear by himself, which was really a great thing.

Yan Qing walked to the front to lead the way, and while shushing and asking if Lu Junyi had suffered in the escort, he told him that Yang Xiong, Wang Ying, Hu Sanniang, Shi Xiu, Zhang Qing and others were all in front of the temple, and said that he originally wanted to find out if there were any officials and soldiers looking for him, but he didn't expect to find the master.

The master and servant were happy to reunite, talking and laughing, walking for more than half an hour, and finally saw a ruined temple not far away, a few big trees in front of the broken temple, and a few archers were hidden in the leaves, and the broken temple was hidden on the verdant mountainside, which was not easy to find.

The broken temple has a main hall, two side halls, two front and one back, and even symmetry. In front of the main hall, there is an incense copper tripod, which has grown patina on all sides, with a layer of green hazy color; Two discarded Buddha statues fell sideways behind the incense tripod and broke into four or five sections, one Maitreya Buddha statue had half of its left face dropped, revealing the granite texture, and the other had been broken, and it was impossible to see what Buddha statue was.

At the door of the main hall, a horizontal plaque of "Pudu World" was rotten on one side, but I don't know if this plaque was originally written as "Pudu World", when I entered the temple gate, I saw Yang Xiong, Wang Ying, Hu Sanniang, Zhang Qing, Shi Xiu and others, and twenty or thirty soldiers squatting around the hall to drink, when they saw Lu Junyi, Yang Xiong and others were greatly surprised, and they all came forward to him and arched their hands, shouting "brother", "Brother Lu Junyi", "Brother actually came back by himself, great! ”

The gold layer of the Buddha statue in the hall was stolen away, revealing the stone layer eroded by wind and frost, and the Bodhisattvas on the throne lost their demeanor, their eyes were empty, and they lost their majesty; Several large beams and columns are written in couplets from top to bottom, and they are full of dust, so they can't see the words clearly, and they can't see what is written, only the words "Hong" and "Mi"; On the incense god platform, from left to right write sentences such as "if I smell", "should be immeasurable", "get rid of all beings" and other sentences, the calligraphy is exquisite, and the vulgarity is forgotten.

Under a Buddha statue, Dong Cheng, a third-grade officer wearing a purple official uniform, was tied by ropes at this time, his long-winged hat had been taken off and inserted into the head of the soul-chasing gun, and the owner of the gun, the bantam tiger Wang Ying, was playing in circles with a smile on this hat.

Hu Sanniang asked why he didn't see Tie Niu, everyone replied that they didn't know, forgive him and ran back to Liangshan alone, this big official in front of him was not captured by him, he was naturally unhappy, so he wouldn't follow everyone all the way, everyone felt that Tie Niu was such a fool, and no one thought that he had arrived at the underworld.

After entering the hall, Lu Junyi, Yang Xiong and others whispered: There is something important to discuss, so they invited all the soldiers and soldiers out, and asked Dong Cheng to take Dong Cheng to the west side hall, and then several people gathered together.

There were only six people left in the hall, including Yan Qing and Yang Xiong, and Lu Junyi said: "The government will come to exchange hostages with us tonight, but they don't know that I have already met with you, so we might as well plan ......" According to Song Ting's instructions, this and so, and so, and so and so, I told these six people as they were.

"Good strategy!!" The crowd shouted.

Although Yan Qing had doubts in her heart, she had no choice but to do what her master ordered, so it was inconvenient to ask more.

The crowd divided up and prepared.

In the evening, when the sky was dark, a large group of officers and soldiers with torches poured in, and the long procession was like a fire dragon, and the number was enough to be hundreds.

"Hugh is leaving, Liangshan thieves!" With the shouting of Deputy General Gan Hong, the officers and soldiers had already surrounded the perimeter of the broken temple. The archers are at the forefront, bending their bows and arrows, ready to attack; The pikemen followed, spear in hand, slowly approaching.

A large group of officers and men in large felt hats held torches in their left hands, and drew straight knives with rings in their right hands, and the blades of the knives shone with dazzling silver light in the night.

Sou! Whoosh! Several cold arrows were shot out of the bushes, and several officers and soldiers fell in response to the arrows.

"There's a thief in the tree!!" Hearing the movement, the officers and soldiers and archers all aimed at the leaves of the trees, only to hear the buzzing and humming, the feather arrows were shot out of the strings, and all the Liangshan soldiers hiding in the trees were hit by arrows and fell from mid-air, and those who did not fall to their deaths were all hacked to death by the officers and soldiers.

After clearing the Liangshan soldiers on the trees, the officers and soldiers carefully checked the surroundings, and slowly approached the two side halls of the ruined temple, at this time, an official at the back of the team rode to the front, but it was the prefect Wu Kui.

Wu Kui got off the horse, supported by two officers and soldiers, the mountain road was rugged, even if he was riding a horse, it was really bumpy, and his waist and hips shook and ached.

Deputy General Gan Hong stepped forward to clasp his fists and speak, and after a few simple words, Wu Kui waved his hand and shouted, "Escort Lu Junyi over!"

The officers and soldiers escorted one person forward, his hair was scattered, his face could not be seen clearly, but he was tall, but he was "Liu Blind".

"The people in Liangshan inside listen to me! Hurry up and let Master Dong go, spare you from death! Gan Hong shouted in a thick voice.

At this time, Yang Xiong, Yan Qing, Wang Ying, Hu Sanniang, Zhang Qing and others in the main hall of the broken temple walked out of the palace door with torches, and under the bright light and shadow, Wang Ying and Hu Sanniang were holding a person wearing a purple robe, wearing a three-grade long-winged hat, and a goldfish bag hanging from his waist, Hu Sanniang put the sun and moon double knife against the man's throat, and said coldly: "Let your people take a hundred steps back first, otherwise I will kill this dog official!!"

Wu Kui and Gan Hong saw that Master Dong was in their hands, and after looking at each other, they nodded, and Gan Hong raised his hand and shouted, "Take a hundred steps back!"

While the officers and soldiers retreated, sixty black-clothed crossbowmen secretly advanced in the dark, stopping at a distance of fifty paces from the two side halls. Wu Kui and Gan Hong looked at each other, and Gan Hong shouted: "Liangshan's! Hurry up and let us go of Master Dong, and return you Lu Junyi! ”

"Less nonsense! I send it by horse!! Hu Sanniang shouted, and Wang Yingnu sang with her husband, and also shouted: "Yes! Sent by horse! ”

"It's not fair, you don't have horses!" Ganhon shouted roughly.

The two sides discussed for a while, muttering, and couldn't hear what they were discussing, and after a while, someone on the other side of Liangshan shouted: "Then let them come by themselves!"

"Good!" The government agreed.

At this time, it was pitch black all around, except for the light of the torches, there was no other light, and when the two sides agreed to release people at the same time, Gan Hong whispered in the ear of the crossbow captain: "Wait for Lord Dong to come over, shoot the people of Liangshan to death with arrows!" The crossbow captain nodded secretly.

On Liangshan's side, Yan Qing, Yang Xiong, Wang Ying, Hu Sanniang, Zhang Qing and other five people also secretly looked at each other, but only Lu Junyi and Shi Xiu were missing.

"Let's start releasing people!"

"Let go!"

Both sides were released at the same time.

On the side of the official mansion, a figure with loose hair walked towards the incense copper tripod in front of the main hall; On Liangshan's side, an official wearing an official uniform and a long-winged hat also walked towards Gan Hong and the others on the periphery of the hall step by step.

"When Lord Dong is still ten steps away from this, shoot ......an arrow," Gan Hong exchanged heads with the crossbow captain. The crossbow captain nodded.

At this time, officials wearing official uniforms and hats approached closer and closer.

Forty steps......

Thirty steps......

Twenty Steps......

Ten steps.

"Master Dong is here, archery!" Gan Hong waved his hand decisively and drank coldly in a low voice.

"Shoot me to death with all the arrows in Liangshan!!" The captain of the crossbow roared, and the officers and soldiers a hundred paces away behind also rushed up, "Kill! The shouts shook the sky.

Woohoo! The crossbow arrows flew all over the sky, the door frame of the main hall of the broken temple rang bells, and the crossbow arrows flew out, but no one could hear the arrows answered, and Gan Hongzheng was puzzled......

Suddenly, there was an uproar, and the "Lord Dong", who was wearing an official uniform and a long-winged hat, suddenly burst open with an official uniform, and the man rushed over with a pair of colorful goose feather knives, shouting: "Your grandfather Shixiu is here!"

"Not good!" Gan Hong was shocked, drew his sword and fought with Shi Xiu, and shouted: "Quickly protect the prefect and withdraw first!"

A large group of officers and soldiers in felt hats surged over, hugging the prefect Wu Kui and retreating.

"Where's Lord Dong?" Wu Kui was also shocked.

originally wanted to exchange the fake "Lu Junyi" for Master Dong.

Unexpectedly, the people of Liangshan were unpredictable, and they also exchanged the fake "Lord Dong", and also used Shi Xiu to pretend to be Lord Dong!

This...... How is this possible!

Shi Xiu and Gan Hong fought only ten moves, and hurriedly feigned defeat and fled to the east side of the hall, at this time Yan Qing and others from the west side hall came out, Wang Ying and Hu Sanniang escorted a person wearing the costume of a Liangshan soldier to pick up the path and escape.

"Hugh is going to shoot the arrows! That's Lord Dong!! ”

At this time, Yang Xiong and Zhang Qing of the east side hall also escorted a person wearing the uniform of a Liangshan soldier to flee to the mountainside.

"This ...... Which side is Lord Dong? ”

The crossbow captain was stunned and at a loss.

Gan Hong reacted immediately and shouted: "We have fallen for someone else's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain!" Neither of these two is Lord Dong, shoot me to death with random arrows!! ”

Suddenly, arrows rained down, Liangshan soldiers shot a lot of deaths, Wang Ying, Hu Sanniang, Shi Xiu and others had already fled.