The wind disturbs the shadows of the trees by the river, and the shadow is lonely and hates the beginning.

The poor world is not up to anyone, only the right way can be a husband.

On the Xunyang River, a cloudy moon hangs high, under the stars in the sky, a canopy boat lies quietly in the dry reeds, the boat fire Zhang Heng does not know where to play money back, looking at his awning bow from a distance There is a figure sitting on the bow of the canopy, from the waist and back to feel a short knife, cautiously close to the reeds.

When I got closer, I heard a voice from the boat, "Brother, it's a certain Zhang Shun, take the short knife." ”

Zhang Heng heard the voice, saw the faces of the people on the boat clearly by the moonlight, immediately retracted the short knife back to his waist, swaggered to the boat, entered the cabin, pulled out a futon out of nowhere, wrapped it around his body three or two, lay in the cabin, and mocked Zhang Shun outside.

"Didn't you go to find that Taishan-kun to plead guilty? Why, others don't look down on you, and you come to look for someone in the middle of the night? As long as I say, people are wild geese in the sky, and we are mud on the ground, don't think about climbing high, like us and others, we are only worthy of being on the river......"

"Brother, so-and-so came to say goodbye to you."

Before Zhang Heng's words were finished, he was cut off by Zhang Shun, Zhang Shun's eyes looked into the cabin, the moonlight entered the cabin, Zhang Heng's face looked a little stunned, Zhang Shun sighed secretly, and continued.

"The little brother doesn't want to live in such a mess anymore, and he does this hurtful act every day, Brother Li Jun lifted me up and invited me to go out to make a living."

When Zhang Heng heard this, he sat up, looked at the back of his brother sitting on the bow of the boat, and said faintly: "Do you want to bring the old lady?" ”

"The old lady is with me." Zhang Shun didn't think much about it, and responded without hesitation.

The words fell, but Zhang Heng sneered, and said meaningfully: "Only your temperament, even if you make up nonsense, you treat the old lady more filial than me, how can you let the old lady go out with you to suffer from the upheaval and displacement, I think you are really valued by the Taishan Jun, and you want to take the old lady to live on his hill." ”

After hearing this, Zhang Shun turned his head, looked at his brother in a daze, and stopped talking, but heard Zhang Heng say: "You don't have to be surprised, in the morning, I saw that Taishanjun attached great importance to Li Jun, and I think he also voted for Taishanjun at this time; You don't have to worry, I Zhang Heng won't stop you, you go to climb your wealth, and I will also do my own murder and goods, in the future, we will return to the bridge, the road will return to the road, don't be involved again. ”

Looking at his brother's indifferent appearance, Zhang Shun remembered the picture of his childhood for no reason, when the old father was alive, the old mother was still healthy, and the brother took himself to fish in the Xunyang River every day, and his underwater kung fu was also slowly practiced at that time, but I don't know when the family's stable life was broken.

"Brother, let's change the way of life!" Zhang Shun looked at Zhang Heng deeply, with a hint of pleading in his words.

Hearing this, Zhang Heng hid himself in the dark place of the cabin, a faint mist appeared in his eyes, and he sighed secretly, and said: "I can't change it, Zhang Heng's hands are stained with too much blood, even the thousands of waves of the Xunyang River can't be washed clean, in the future, you will take your wife to live a good life, don't contact me again, that Taishan Jun is full of the world with the reputation of benevolence and righteousness, and the people under him are all heroes for a while, don't because of me, you have polluted your background and ruined your good future." ”

The biting river wind swept through the reeds, and the cold moonlight sprinkled on Zhang Shun's face, Zhang Shunhu had tears in his eyes, hammered heavily towards the plank, and looked up to the sky and sighed: "Why is this so!" ”

Zhang Heng took out a package from under the bowboard, threw it to Zhang Shun, and said: "This is the silver money that has been saved by killing people and stealing goods for many years, you take it, go back and tell the old lady, let her treat it as if she had never given birth to Zhang Heng's son." ”

Zhang Shun looked at the package in front of him in a daze, and the sound of the package smashing on the board of the boat made Zhang Shun know that there was a lot of money, Zhang Shun was silent for a long time, got up and bowed to Zhang Heng's heavy kneeling, picked up the package, and jumped off the boat.

Zhang Heng walked out of the cabin, looked at Zhang Shun's departing back, his eyes were deep, and he shouted to Zhang Shun's back: "Erlang, follow Taishan Jun and make a name." ”

When Zhang Shun heard this, his body froze, but he heard another sentence, "Don't turn back", Zhang Shun's throat tightened, two lines of turbid tears slipped out of the corners of his eyes, and he walked forward with his head buried in his head.

Looking at Zhang Shun's back as he gradually moved away, Zhang Heng dug out a jar of wine from under the plank, tore off the cover, poured it violently, looked at the darkness in the distance, and sang in the river breeze:

"The old man grew up by the river, and he is not afraid of lawsuits or the sky.

Last night, Huaguang came to take advantage of me and took a gold brick before leaving. ”

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In the dark place on the bank of the Xunyang River, the two figures slowly retreated, and on the way back to Li Junzhuang, Shi Qian said to Zhu Biao faintly: "Childe, I never thought that this boat Huo'er Zhang Heng would do bad things, but he was so attentive to his brother. ”

Zhu Biao bowed his head slightly when he heard this, and said: "No matter how evil people are, they also have concerns in their hearts, this Zhang Heng can be unfilial to his wife, but he only takes good care of Zhang Shun's brother, his two brothers have done all these years on the Xunyang River to kill people and oversell goods, but Zhang Shun has no blood on his hands, in addition to his conscience, He Zeng is not Zhang Heng's protection of him. ”

In the original text of the Water Margin, after Zhang Heng learned Song Jiang's identity from Li Jun's mouth on the Xunyang River, he immediately told Song Jiang about the name of his brother Zhang Shun, what is it? Because Li Jun is the top-notch figure in the Jieyang realm, and he still values Song Jiang so much, how can Zhang Heng not hold his thighs for his brothers for the first time.

Later, he made trouble in Jiangzhou, robbed the law field, fell into the grass of Liangshan, and after recruiting An, he followed the Liangshan army to fight in all directions, Zhang Heng never thought of competing with his brother Zhang Shun.

During the battle of Hangzhou, Zhang Shun was pierced by ten thousand arrows, the soul returned to the Golden Gate, and the ghost did not disperse after death, and when the city of Hangzhou was broken, he entangled Fang Tianding, and followed him to the foot of Wuyun Mountain, and just met Zhang Heng, so he attached Zhang Heng's body and killed Fang Tianding by Zhang Heng's hand; After Zhang Heng woke up, he heard that his brother had died in battle, and he fainted on the spot, and later contracted the plague and died miserably.

"Childe followed Zhang Shun to the riverside tonight, but don't worry about him?" Shi Qian spoke again.

Zhu Biao smiled and said: "In the future, they will be their own brothers, but there is nothing to worry about, but this person will be of great use in the future, but tonight I want to see how he is willing." ”

Hearing this, Shi Qian didn't ask any more, only Shi Qian himself knew that the person who could be said by his own son was one of the core figures on the regular Gangshang in the future, and the person who the previous son said was of great use was the brother Du Yan who is now stationed in Hebei Baoqian Mountain, but he didn't look at his current position as the first person in the Gangshang cavalry.

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