Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaowu looked at Du Jia urgently but found that they didn't recognize it, Ruan Xiaoqi briefly explained Du Jia's origin and reason for coming here, and the two of them understood, after laughing, they also sat down and began to eat and drink, the two of them were already hungry, and they chewed unceremoniously.

Du Jia asked casually: "Where did the second brother and the fifth brother go before?" ”

Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaowu glanced at each other, hesitated, and did not answer immediately, Ruan Xiaoqi said impatiently: "Two elder brothers, although Jia Ge'er is young, he is a real hero, what is there to hide, it is not a heroic act, but it doesn't hurt to say anything." ”

Ruan Xiaoer was also a little embarrassed when his younger brother said it, so he told the matter as it was, it turned out that as Du Jia guessed, they were persuaded by Wu Yong to help Chao Gai outwit the Birth Gang, and the two of them sent Wu Yong away, and then agreed to go to Chao Gai Village to meet in a few days.

Of course, Du Jia did not remind the other party that in the future, he must pay attention to Bai Sheng's arrest after being discovered - now he has not seen Chao Gai and others, and to some extent, if they were not discovered by the government, they would not have gone to Liangshan, and there would be no follow-up, and he faintly felt that it was best not to condescendingly change all kinds of things as an outsider who was familiar with the development of the plot of the Water Margin, otherwise it would cause a lot of unnecessary trouble, and it would be bad to be completely out of his control at that time.

After everyone chatted for a while, Du Jia said: "Xiaosheng has long heard of the reputation of the three Ruan brothers, and today I see that it is really worthy of the reputation, and I am very relieved to live in my life. Tomorrow we will get up and go our own way, anyway, the rivers and lakes are far away, the mountains and rivers do not turn, and there will always be a day to meet again. ”

The three brothers of the Ruan family felt the pride in Du Jia's words, and they all readily agreed, so they asked the owner to prepare another twenty catties of raw and cooked beef, a jar of treasured old wine, and two roast chickens, and found a guy to help carry them to Ruan Xiaoer's house.

It turned out that only Ruan Xiaoer got married among the three brothers of the Ruan family, and then his wife cleaned up the wine and meat neatly - Du Jia specially asked his sister-in-law to bring a copy to the Ruan family's wife to eat together, as a modern educated person, his status as a woman is by no means like the old men of this era, he spends every day drinking but never cares whether his wife and mother don't even have a hot meal, his behavior suddenly made Ruan Xiaoer's wife have a good impression of him, and thanked him repeatedly.

Because Du Jia has already paid a full three taels of snowflake silver this time, so the wine brought by the store is not the ordinary old wine drunk before, but the treasured aging, the taste is excellent and the stamina is also great, Du Jia can no longer drink like before, he is not drunk, and during the banquet, he intends to let the three brothers of the Ruan family confide in their hearts, the atmosphere is naturally very good, he got drunk after coming and going, and fell asleep directly on the table.

Ruan Xiaoer shouted "Jia Ge'er" a few times, but after seeing that Du Jia ignored it completely, he gave the two brothers a look, and the three of them walked out of the house gently.

As soon as Ruan Xiaoqi went out, he said dissatisfiedly: "Second brother, fifth brother, why do you deliberately get drunk with Brother Jia'er?" Although he is inexperienced in the first time, he is a real hero, and he is bold and righteous, isn't it shameful for us to play this little trick? ”

Ruan Xiaoer's face was also very ashamed: "I didn't expect this Jia Ge'er to meet us in Pingshui, and trust us so much, and he fell drunk directly to us - it seems that I think too much, but Chao Tianwang and Mr. Wu have a lot of stakes here, and I'm really a little worried that the news will leak out." ”

Ruan Xiaowu also helped: "Qilang, don't be angry, aren't we just testing him, there is no malice, now what do you say?" We have already promised Mr. Wu that he is going to join the gang, and we can't quit halfway, won't it make the heroes laugh at it even more, saying that our brother is a person who has no faith in his word. ”

Ruan Xiaoqi deserved to be a living Yama, and said anxiously: "Jia Ge'er first did our village a great favor, and then kindly invited us to go up the mountain - the words are also extremely respectful, and we also calculate with him, this makes me unhappy no matter what, what face will I have to see him in the future?" No, this will not work. ”

After the three brothers argued, Ruan Xiaowu came out to play a round and said: "Second brother, seventh brother, don't quarrel first, I don't think it's better to go like this, this Mr. Wu is naturally going to go, and Jia Ge'er is a good man, and he is sincere to us, and it is not easy to refuse, why don't I go to Chao Tianwang's side with you, and the seventh brother will go to the mountain to help Jia Ge'er and them on our behalf, so it can be regarded as a way out, isn't it the best of both worlds?" ”

Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaoqi felt justified when they heard it, so they returned to the house, and they didn't say anything all night, and after everyone woke up the next day, Ruan Xiaoqi told Du Jia about it, Du Jia couldn't help but be overjoyed, this thing that was thought to be hopeless turned around again, it was like losing a thousand yuan and finally picking up five hundred.

Especially willing to go is his favorite Ruan Xiaoqi, this kind of straightforward and bold man doesn't need to spend much effort to get along, if you are good to him, he will naturally be good to you.

The four of them were happy when the matter was decided, and after buying wine and food and drinking for a day, Ruan Xiaoqi rowed with Du Jia to Shuibo Liangshan, and Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaowu went straight to Chaojiazhuang, before leaving, Du Jia also quietly left a full twenty liang of silver to Ruan Xiaoer's wife, so that she could live a good life and take care of the old lady, the second sister-in-law of the Ruan family was naturally grateful, and Ruan Xiaoqi was secretly convinced in his eyes, and felt that this Du Jia was a benevolent and righteous person, worthy of his own follow.

Before going up the mountain, Du Jia also asked Ruan Xiaoqi to help him salvage the cangding, and when he drank yesterday, he also learned the origin of the name of the three Ruan brothers, it turned out that the three brothers did not take a big name back then, once Ruan's father fell ill, and found Lang Zhong to see and prescribe a few pieces of medicine, but the medicine must be used with the scales of a small gray catfish called 'drill in the mud', and the bigger the fish, the better.

This kind of mud is drilled in the water, but the nature is very cunning, the slightest wind and grass will slip away, not to mention, but also like to drill into the deepest mud, almost impossible to catch by fishing or using the traditional way of nets, so in the market is not at all how much money can be bought, can only rely on the water to touch the water people.

At that time, it was the cold winter of the number nine, and the three brothers of the Ruan family went out quietly after listening to Lao Langzhong's words, and they all came back wet at night, and everyone brought a mud drill back, and the one on the scale said that the boss brought back two taels, the second one was five taels, and the seventh one was seven taels.

Lao Langzhong was amazed and very happy, so he used the seven taels of fish to make medicine and took the other two fish away as a consultation and medicine fee, Ruan's father recovered soon after taking the medicine, he sighed and simply gave the three sons a big name, just the same weight as the mud they caught, this is the name of Ruan Xiaoer, Ruan Xiaowu and Ruan Xiaoqi, which can also be seen that although Ruan Xiaoqi is the third, but the water is the best.