At noon, the weather did not have the slightest cool breeze, and the scorching sun scorched the earth.

Now it is the season when the grapes are ripe, and at this time, Chao Gai is eating wine with Wu Yong and Liu Tang under the grapevines in the back garden.

Seeing that the three of them were so leisurely, Song Jiang was slightly angry, but he didn't care, looked around, and said to Chao Gai with an anxious face: "Song Jiang gave up his life to save, but Baozheng and the scholar still have the heart to eat and drink here, and now that the Huangnigang incident happened, your gang of idle Baisheng was taken by the Jeju Mansion, and confessed to you and the other six people in prison, and the arrest envoy of the Jeju Mansion led a number of public officials, and came to arrest you and the other six people with the Taishi Mansion Jun Ti, fortunately, the county government happened to be on duty today, and I only said that the county was asleep, Let's teach Na He to wait for me in the tea shop across the county door, and come to report you with this Pegasus. Brother, thirty-six plans, go for the top plan. You must not be in charge, and if there is some negligence, what can you do? Don't complain that the little brother won't come to save you. ”

When the three of Chao Gai heard this, they were all shocked, and after all, they still came, so they saw Chao Gai bowing to Song Jiang and thanking him: "Today, Brother Meng Xian sacrificed his life to rescue, and the great kindness and great virtue were remembered in his heart, but there is a coming day, and he must repay him with his life." ”

Seeing this, Wu Yong and Liu Tang also bowed deeply and said, "Brother Gongming is very kind, and it is difficult to repay death." ”

Song Jiang replied to the three of them, and then He observed that he was still waiting for himself to reply at the tea shop opposite the county government at this time, and he didn't dare to delay being seen to be flawed, so he only said: "The three brothers are in a hurry to go, don't get entangled, Song Jiang will go here, the mountains and rivers will be long in the future, and there will be a goodbye day." ”

After Song Jiang finished speaking, he left, got out of the village, got on the horse, hit two or three whips, and flew to Yuncheng County.

Under the grape trellis in the backyard, Chao Gai sighed with a complicated face, and said to Wu Yong: "Professor, the matter is in danger now, but how to arrange it?" ”

Wu Yong did not hesitate when he heard this, and responded: "Fortunately, we have been prepared, now Baozheng has exchanged all the good fields in the village for cash, and the gold and jewelry shells in the birthday gang have also been hidden, Erlang, Wulang, and Qilang have also been on the Liangshan Mountain a few days ago, so I asked Baozheng to send a henchman to the Liangshan to report to the Ruan family brothers, let's also hurry up and pack some luggage, and burn the Zhuangzi with a fire before the officers and soldiers came, and go to the Liangshan on the starry night." ”

Chao Gai and Liu Tang both nodded after hearing this, these were the things that had been said a long time ago, but now they are just going on step by step.

About two or three hours later, the sky is getting dark, at night, Chao Gai and Liu Tang raised the Pu knife, Wu with a sleeve copper chain, led more than 100 Zhuang guests, is about to take advantage of the night to leave the village, then saw the torches on the road in front of the village, the three of them all secretly said: "Disaster", and then hurriedly went to the back door of the village.

After a while, I saw a wisp of fire in Chaogai Village, burning up from the middle hall, gushing black smoke all over the ground, the wind helped the fire, and the red flame flew into the air in a moment.

Half a mile away, hundreds of officers and soldiers from Yuncheng County, under the leadership of the two horse infantry army heads, hurried to Chaogaizhuang, at this time a tall man of more than seven feet, with a wide face and a square mouth, thick eyebrows and red beard, and his eyes glowing with green and faint light under the firelight, sat on horseback, and when he saw the fire in front of him, he wanted to ride his horse away.

This person is the newly appointed head of the Ma army in Yuncheng County a few months ago, because of his green eyes and skills, he was called a blue-eyed tiger by the rivers and lakes - Li Yun, who has not made any past achievements in his duties for several months, Li Yun is trying to take Chao Gai and Wu to make meritorious contributions with this group of thieves tonight, in exchange for the respect of the county.

Only the reins of the horse's head were pulled by a big hand, and he saw Lei Heng and said to Li Yun: "Li Dutou, there are two roads in this Chaojiazhuang: if we go to hit his front door, he will look at the back door and leave; Coaxed to hit his back door, he ran to the front door and left. I had to strike east and west, and when the guys messed up, it was easy to start. If Li and I are divided into two ways, the whistle is the signal, you wait for the front door to enter, see one catch one, see two catch a pair, I will intercept the back road with you. ”

Li Yun said and nodded, he was not familiar with the terrain of Dongxi Village, and at this time, Lei Heng's words were not flawed, so he said: "Lei Dutou is from this county and is familiar with various places, so according to Lei Dutou's words, a certain self-led soldier entered through the front door. ”

Li Yun carried a simple knife, led more than 200 soldiers, galloped quickly from the front door of Nachaojiazhuang, opened the door of the village together, and when they all rushed into it to see, the blazing fire shone the night sky like day, but there was no half a figure.

At the back door of Chaojiazhuang, Chao Gai and others came out in a hurry, and when they saw that there were also officers and soldiers blocking the road, they were angry and shouted: "Those who block me die, and those who avoid me live!" ”

In the shadow of the dense forest outside the back door, Lei Heng said to Chao Gai: "Bao Zhengxiu is leaving, Lei Heng has been waiting for you here for a long time." ”

Where did Chao Gai have the heart to answer him, and Liu Tang and Wu Yong sacrificed their lives to kill them; Lei Heng shook his head and let go of a way out, allowing Chao Gai and the others to escape from the encirclement.

Lei Heng skimmed the local soldiers, dragged the Pu knife in his hand and went to chase Chao Gai, only chased a few miles, Chao Gai saw this, only let Wu Yong and Liu Tang lead Zhuang Ke first, and left behind him.

Chao Gai turned around, clenched the knife in his hand, looked at Lei Heng with a wary face, and said: "Lei Dutou, but he only cares about chasing Chao Gai, now you are alone, and you have lost your life in vain." ”

looked around and saw that there was no one around, Lei Heng said: "Baozheng doesn't know the hearts of good people, but you think that only Brother Gongming alone can save you and others; The newcomer is very skilled, I made him hit your front door, I waited for you to come out and let you go, is it not that Baozheng thinks that you can get out so easily, but I don't know that a certain is not chasing you but sending you. ”

Chao Gai also came back to his senses at this time, with a look of shame, but he almost blamed his group of life-saving benefactors, and only bowed down and hugged his fists and thanked him: "I deeply feel the grace of Lei Dutou to save his life tonight, and I will repay it one day." ”

"No need to thank you, Lei Heng saved you just knowing that you are a good man, and I don't want you to lose your life, please go quickly, don't let that Li Yun catch up." Lei Heng waved his hand at Chao Gai and urged.

Chao Gai didn't say anything, turned around and left, and gradually after seeing Chao Gai's figure under the night, Lei Hengfang turned around and rushed back, only a few steps away, and then bumped into Li Yun who was chasing after him.

Since entering the front door of Chaojiazhuang, all the way through the village, but there is no half of the figure, the more Li Yun thinks about it, the more wrong it becomes, when he arrived at the back door, he heard the sergeant report that Chao Gai and others broke through the encirclement and fled, Li Yun figured everything out; That Lei Heng is to give up the main attack to himself, he is clearly familiar with the path of Chaojiazhuang, and he took the back door and wanted to let the thieves such as Chao Gai privately.

"Lei Dutou, what a deep calculation, only you let the thief go so privately, but you are not afraid of being questioned by the state capital and county government, and you will be hanged?" Li Yun looked at Lei Heng meaningfully, and said with a slight mockery in his tone.

Lei Heng looked at Li Yun, smiled under the moonlight, and said: "Lei doesn't know what Li Dutou means by this, that Chao Gai and other thieves are all capable of breaking through the encirclement, and they don't want to give their lives in vain, and they chase with knives alone, and now they are only because their fists are invincible to four hands, and they have escaped by the guys. ”

When Li Yun heard this, he smiled coldly and said, "Right and wrong, feel free in the hearts of the people, Lei Dutou should do it himself." ”

Lei Heng looked at Li Yun's back as he was angry, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and he whispered to himself: "Follow your heart, don't ask about the future!" ”

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