At that moment, the old woman told the truth of the matter, it turned out that the family was from Tokyo, not here, and there were three relatives. The husband Yan Gong has a daughter-in-law. His Yan Pingping used to be a good singer, and since he was a child, he taught his daughter-in-law to sing all kinds of tricks. He was eighteen years old, and he was quite colorful. The three of them came to Shandong to defect to an official, so they lived in Yuncheng County. I don't want people here to be unhappy and entertaining, so they can't live, and they have the right to live in a secluded alley behind this county. Yesterday, his father-in-law died of the epidemic due to the disaster, and this Yan Po had no money to send it, so she had no reason to do anything, so she had to sell herself on this street to bury her father.

Song Jiang, who was behind Zhu Tong, heard this, and also came over, pulled the straw off the girl's head, helped her up, took out fifty silver carts from his arms, and sent them to Yan Po's hands, saying: "I still have some silver here, so your mother and daughter will take it to bury Yan Gong, and the rest of the money will be used to find an errand to live."

"Benefactor!" Where had Yan Po seen so much silver? I didn't know what to do at the moment, so I knelt down on the ground with Yan Poxi towards Song Jiang, and kowtowed vigorously to thank you.

Where did Song Jiang let them kneel, and hurriedly helped Yan Po's mother and son at the moment, and then left after a few words of comfort, the Yan family's mother and daughter took the silver and went home, bought a thin-skinned coffin and buried Yan Gong in the ground.

Song Jiang also did a lot of such things, so he didn't take it to heart, and early the next morning, Song Jiang was just about to go out when he saw a matchmaker walk in.

"Yo, Song Oshiji, I congratulate you." As soon as the matchmaker saw Song Jiang, before Song Jiang could speak, the matchmaker walked over with a smile.

Song Jiang was a little puzzled, so he asked, "Oh? Where does the joy come from? ”

"Does Song Abssi still remember the mother and daughter of the Yan family yesterday? That Yan Po intended to marry her daughter to Abshi, so she asked the old woman and me to come and tell Abshi, isn't this a joy for you. The matchmaker walked over and said with a smile on her face.

Yesterday, the mother and daughter of the Yan family were buried by Yan Gong, and the mother and daughter returned home with the idea of marrying their daughter to Song Jiang, but they didn't know if Song Jiang had married a wife.

"We don't see a woman anywhere under Song Zhisi in Yuncheng County, and he once had a lady?" When they came to the matchmaker's house, the two of them said a few polite words and asked.

The matchmaker didn't know what Yan Po meant, so she replied casually: "I only heard that Song Zhisi's family lives in Songjia Village, but I have never seen him say that he has a wife." In this county, he is a priest, but he is a guest. He is often seen scattering coffin bait and is very willing to help the poor. I'm afraid that there is no lady. ”

Hearing the matchmaker's words, Yan Po was overjoyed in her heart, and immediately said what she thought in her heart: "My daughter looks good and can sing songs. Save all kinds of jokes; When he was a child in Tokyo, he only went to the inn to string people, and that one didn't love him! A few of the upper hall officials asked me how many times I had been in the room, but I refused. It's just that my two children have no one to support them, so I don't have a room with him. I don't want to suffer him now! I went to Xie Song Abbot the day before yesterday and saw that there was no lady in his place; Therefore, you and I said to Song Absi: When he wants to beg for someone, I am willing to give him a pity, and yesterday I lost Song Absil's relief, and I have nothing to repay him, and I will be a relative to him, and if it is done, your silver will be indispensable. ”

The matchmaker responded to it, and this is what happened to Song Jiang's family today, Song Jiang disagreed with it at first, but what kind of person is the matchmaker, she eats with one mouth, and the dead can also say that she is alive, and Song Jiang agreed, and there is no big deal at the moment, everything is simple, and he asked for a house on the first floor in the west lane of the county, bought some guys, and settled Yan Po and the two of them to live there. In less than half a month, Yan Po was dressed up with beads and emeralds all over her body. After a few more days, even the woman had some head-to-face clothes. The mother-in-law who is raised cherishes abundant food and clothing! At the beginning, Song Jiang rested with his wife every night, and gradually came slowly.

On this day, Song Jiang still came out of the house as usual and prepared to go to work in the county office, and as soon as he walked to the door of the county office, he saw Zhu Tong and Lei Heng walking over, Lei Heng looked happy, and when he saw Song Jiang, he walked over quickly, and said to Song Jiang: "Brother, good news, the official document from the top says that the army of the imperial court will pass by our Yuncheng County in the future, and the county will be ready to greet it, and then I can go to see Han Cunbao."

Song Jiang was also overjoyed when he heard it, and he didn't have the heart to work at the moment, so he and Lei Heng and Zhu Tong found a place to discuss countermeasures.

The next day, Shi Wenbin, the magistrate of Yuncheng County, led the officials of the Yamen to greet him early, but Han Cunbao led the army straight to Liangshan, and he had no intention of entering Yuncheng County, so Shi Wenbin had no choice but to give up.

Let's say that Han Cunbao led the army all the way to march, and after passing the territory of Yuncheng County, he arrived at Liangshan, came to Liangshan Shuibo, and found a place with favorable terrain for the army to set up camp.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Han Cunbao, Cheng Ziming and Hu Chun were discussing the countermeasures to break the thief, when a small colonel walked in from outside the tent, saluted the three people, and then said: "Report to the marshal, there are three people from outside the camp, saying that they are defecting to the marshal to exterminate Shuibo Liangshan together."

"Did they say who it was?" Han Cunbao asked as soon as he heard this.

"Nope." The Colonel replied.

Han Cunbao twisted his beard and thought for a while before saying, "Go and invite them in."

The little colonel took the order to go out, and after the little colonel left, Hu Chun said: "Dashuai, could it be a thief sent by the Liangshan thieves, in case there is fraud in this."

Han Cunbao nodded and said: "Ben Shuai is also worried about this, I will invite them in first, and after asking them about their details, I will come here from afar, and if I am not familiar with the place, I will just find a few people who are familiar with this place to guide us."

As soon as Song Jiang walked into the handsome tent, Song Jiang and Lei Heng saw Han Cunbao sitting behind the handsome case, and immediately knelt on one knee, clasped his fists and said: "Song Jiang, the head of Yuncheng County, Zhu Tong Lei Heng visited the handsome man."

"Three of you, please." Han Cunbao waved his hand to let them get up, and then asked, "You and the other three were originally sent from Yuncheng County, why did you come to my military camp?"

"Back to the marshal, I heard that the marshal led the heavenly soldiers to conquer Shuibo Liangshan, that Liangshan has a natural barrier of 800 miles of water, and most of the thieves in Liangshan are extremely vicious, and there were two guns to join Dong Ping a while ago, I am afraid that the marshal will suffer the loss of the thief, so I came to defect and help the marshal exterminate the Liangshan bandits."

Cheng Ziming listened to it next to him, as if he remembered something, and immediately asked: "When the last general was in Tokyo, I often heard that there was a charge in Yuncheng County, Shandong, named Song Jiang and Song Gongming, known as timely rain, and he was righteous and squandered money, but someone came to him, no matter what his identity, he warmly accepted and chased him all day long, and he was not tired of it at all; If you want to get up, you will do your best to support it. It can be called a squander! When asked for money, he did not shirk it; And it's easy to do, and it's difficult to solve disputes every time, but it's just a matter of people's lives. Usually scatter coffin bait, help the poor, save people's urgency, help people's difficulties, isn't it the timely rain Song Jiang? ”

"Xiao Ke is the Song Jiang that the general said, and his name is not enough to worry about." Song Jiang said humbly, and then did not forget to introduce the two people behind him, and said: "These two are also good men, and the long-haired one is Zhu Tong, known as the beautiful bearded man; The short-bearded one is Lei Heng, nicknamed the winged tiger, and the two are strong martial arts heroes, so they come together to help the handsome. ”