Zheng Yanfu is the first good man in Chengcheng, and he has heard for many years that there is such a person as Wang Er in the neighboring county, and his pride and courage are not lost to him, he wants to see him, but he has no chance. In recent years, Wang Er's light has suddenly dimmed a little, because Baishui has produced a new hero named Zhu Ba.

The story about Zhu Ba is widely circulated in Chengcheng Township, some people say that he is very capable of fighting, and he defeated more than 20 villagers in Xigu Village alone, some people say that he is very friendly to his brothers, and some people say that he is witty and invincible, and he defeated Chen Guanyu, the county commander of Baishui...... Later, after Zheng Yanfu went up the mountain and fell into the grass, he also heard a supplementary rumor, saying that Zhu Ba helped the remaining maids and family members of Zhang Douyao's family to protect them from the bullying of officers and soldiers.

Zheng Yanfu has always felt guilty about the maids of Zhang Douyao's family, because most of these maids are from poor families, and when he led the people to revolt, many of them were insulted and killed by his brothers, which made him feel a hurdle in his heart and couldn't get over it. After going up the hill and falling into the grass, he has been worrying about what will happen to these maids in the future? The maid who was almost insulted by his three subordinates and was saved by himself didn't know if he was safe.

When he heard that Baishui Zhu Ba protected these maids and brought them back to the Ma family, he was really relieved, and he admired Zhu Ba even more.

I didn't expect this good man I admired to be the one who has been guiding him...... He recalled how he met Zhu Ba, wasn't the group of people in Qingliangyuan at that time the same team that went from Baishui to Chengcheng?

Thinking about it this way, who else could this person in front of him be besides Zhu Ba?

"I really don't know heroes!" Zheng Yanfu bowed his head to Zhu Ba, which he learned from "Water Margin", and when the storyteller said that the heroes in "Water Margin" met, they were all like this, and they bowed head-on, expressing the meaning of serving each other as the eldest brother.

Zhu Yuanzhang helped him up, he was generally satisfied with Zheng Yanfu's statement, this person is similar to Baishui Wang Er, as long as he trains well, he can become a general and a fierce general in the future, and it is much more useful to collect such a subordinate than to collect a group of scum waste soldiers.

Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't think that Zheng Yanfu is just a rural villager who can't become a big thing, in fact, in the last life, most of the founding generals of the Ming Dynasty around him grew up from recklessness, and some of them were farmers at all and had never learned to fight, but after a few years of training, they were all monsters who were in charge of themselves. For example, Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Zhu Wenzheng, Lan Yu...... These people have never learned to march and fight, but in the long battle, they have grown into world-famous generals. Because they have the courage, perseverance, and willingness to learn, and having these three things is enough to succeed.

He was confident that as long as he spent some time cultivating, the two of Baishui Wang Er and Chengcheng Zheng Yanfu could also become such monsters.

"Brother Zhu!" Zheng Yanfu used the word "brother" to call Zhu Ba casually, and he said seriously: "This time I will definitely listen to you, go to the whole of Shaanxi for a walk, and unite heroes and heroes from all over the world to uncover the uprising together, so what should I do about this cottage?" Brothers in the village......"

"Take a few of your best friends with you!" Zhu Yuanzhang replied: "Don't give it all up." ”

"Abandon them? I...... I can't do it. ”

"Humph!" Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly and said, "Actually, it's not that you give up on them, it's that they already plan to give up on you." Do you want to make a bet with me, at the latest, the night after tomorrow, they will come under the leadership of Zhao Yu to besiege your hut, kill you, and then send you down the mountain to ask for a reward from the officers and soldiers. ”

Zheng Yanfu frowned, Zhu Yuanzhang said this sentence for the second time, he believed what Zhu Wuzhang said, because the facts have proved again and again that what Zhu Yuanzhang said will definitely come true: "Then I will go down the mountain at night and escape now?" ”

"It doesn't have to be!" Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile: "They want you to die, if you don't die, they will chase you down the mountain and chase you until you die." Just let them think you're dead so you can get out safely. When the officers and soldiers attacked the mountain during the day, they left some corpses on the mountain road, right? You go find a body of your size and go up the mountain. ”

"Fake your death and get out?" Zheng Yanfu vaguely guessed a point, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go to the mountain road and carry a corpse up......"

"Well, you remember, this is the next arrangement......" Zhu Yuanzhang ordered in a low voice......

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The next day, the officers and soldiers at the bottom of the mountain began to attack the heart again, and batch after batch of officers and soldiers shouted in unison at the bottom of the mountain: "Surrender!" ”

"Zheng Yanfu, if you come down the mountain and descend, you can be crowned a big official."

"If Zheng Yanfu refuses to surrender, other people cut off his head and come down the mountain, and he can be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver, and his wife and son will be ......"

In the midst of such voices, the people in the cottage were also divided into two factions, and continued to argue over whether to surrender or not.

Zheng Yanfu and a few of his diehards resolutely refused to go down the mountain to surrender, while Zhao Yu and his group insisted on surrendering and going down the mountain to become officials. The two sides almost moved their fists several times, but fortunately they didn't use knives, but the antagonism was already very obvious. Zheng Yanfu himself observed that there were very few people who firmly supported his refusal to surrender, less than ten, most of them were on Zhao Yu's side, and many people remained neutral and waited.

He believed what Zhu Yuanzhang said even more, not that he wanted to give up on these people, but that these people had already given up on him.

At dinner that day, the two groups also went back to their own houses to eat. Zhao Yu invited Zhu Yuanzhang and Wang Er to his dining table, only to see a large bowl of local wine, half a mountain boar, and a roe deer on the table...... It seems that he took out all the good things to entertain the envoys from the imperial court.

"Two adults, I will continue to persuade Zheng Yanfu and convince him to surrender." While eating, Zhao Yu said sullenly: "Please give me a few more days." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang sneered and said, "How many more days?" You can afford to wait, but I can't afford to wait. I think I am a dignified and upright official, how many things are waiting for me to do? How can I have time to play with you on this mountain, I will go down the mountain at dawn tomorrow at the latest. ”

"This ......" Zhao Yu hesitated: "Zheng Yanfu's head is dead, I'm afraid I won't be able to convince him in a day." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed hesitantly: "If I were you, I wouldn't convince him ......"

"Why?" Zhao Yuqi said.

Zhu Yuanzhang said in a low voice: "If you persuade Zheng Yanfu to surrender, he will be promoted to a sixth-rank hundred-household official, but you, at most, there are only seventh, eighth, and ninth grades...... If you kill him, become the leader of the cottage, and then go down the mountain to surrender, this is the official of the hundred households of the six grades. ”

"Huh?" Zhao Yu exclaimed, and only then did he realize that his persuasion of Zheng Yanfu was far less beneficial than killing Zheng Yanfu. Two drops of sweat the size of beans flowed down his cheeks in an instant, and the expression on his face began to become tangled.

"Think about it!" Zhu Yuanzhang knocked on the edge of the table with chopsticks and made a clicking sound: "Think clearly...... I don't have time to wait for you, I have to go down tomorrow morning. ”

The time to think about it didn't take long, and the tangled expression on Zhao Yu's face turned into hideous and cruel: "I understand, two adults, you just wait to see a good show, tonight I will take my brothers to attack his hut and get Zheng Yanfu's head for you." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled, shook his head and said, "It seems that I have to go down the mountain before dusk tonight...... You cottage infighting, don't hurt me, I'm a six-grade official, if you rub a little oily skin, can you afford this responsibility? ”

Zhao Yu despised Zhu Yuanzhang a little in his heart, and secretly thought: The officials of the imperial court are really afraid of death, as soon as I said that I was going to kill Zheng Yanfu tonight, this guy was so frightened that he wanted to run away...... Perhaps, if he really hurts him, the court may hold a grudge against me, so send him down the mountain.

"Then Lord Zhu will wait for my good news at the foot of the mountain!" Zhao Yu said viciously: "I will kill Zheng Yanfu tonight, and tomorrow morning, I will carry his head down the mountain to ask for surrender, and then I will ask the Lord of the Hundred Households to say a few kind words in front of Yang Hong Qianhu." ”

"Well said! Say! Zhu Yuanzhang stood up in an official tone: "Then I'll leave first." ”

He and Wang Er got up, Zhao Yu sent someone to send them to the back door of the cottage, and the sentry named Fu Wuliu who guarded the gate of the village was Zhao Yu's person, and kept saluting Zhu Yuanzhang and Wang Er. Zhao Yu also tried his best to say good things with caution.

The two went down the mountain and left the sight of everyone in the cottage, and Wang Er immediately scolded: "Zhao Yu, this bastard, is a traitor seeking glory...... I want to kill him with a knife. ”

"Ha, you don't need to kill, someone will kill it for you." Zhu Yuanzhang took Wang Er and shrunk into the grass on the side of the road: "We are waiting here, and Zheng Yanfu will also come down from this road at night......"

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That night, at the time of the third watch, there was a noisy and noisy sound on the top of the cottage, many people were shouting, and the sound of swords clashing came out, and many torches were lit up, illuminating the top of the cottage red.

After a while, the big hut in the center of the cottage caught fire, and the majestic burned, and the flames rose into the sky, reflecting the night sky in red.

Wang Erchao glanced at the top and said worriedly: "Can Zheng Yanfu escape?" ”

"Don't worry, no problem!" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "I have already arranged it with him!" He wasn't in the hut in the first place, but just got a corpse of an officer and soldier who looked like him, and sat in his clothes. He himself disguised himself as an ordinary peasant, huddled in the crowd and watched the excitement. ”

"Wouldn't that be a goof?" Wang Er was a little curious.

"No, three shifts in the middle of the night, the line of sight is not clear. I also asked Zheng Yanfu to arrange for someone to set fire to the house as soon as possible, and by the time Zhao Yu's people could enter the house, the corpse had already burned black, and they couldn't figure it out. Against a group of gangsters with insufficient brains, such a strategy is enough. ”

The two waited for a while, only to hear the sound of hurried footsteps on the mountain road, and five figures rushed down from the top of the mountain, the first one was Zheng Yanfu, and the four young men behind seemed to be his diehards.

Zhu Yuanzhang jumped out of the grass beside the road and said with a smile: "Brother Zheng Yanfu, congratulations on your freedom again!" ”