Yuncheng is a small place, and most of it is also close to Shuibo Liangshan, and when the flood season comes, it often floods the lakeshore and cannot be cultivated. Most of the city's commerce relied on water transportation, that is, the transportation of goods through the Guangji Canal. It is not even as prosperous as the town of Hecai upstream.

It can be said that the small Yuncheng is not worth the pressure of 500 officers and soldiers at all.

Song Jiang carefully checked the contents of the letter, as well as the official seal, the Bing Cao Division from Guangji Military Prefecture. This is a normal official document, but what is abnormal is that the army crossing the border is not the Yongji army, but the tiger battalion. He didn't know at all, when did the Guangji Army have an additional Tiger Battalion?

The more he pondered about it, the more wrong it became, and he suddenly thought of a person, Chao Baozheng.

Chao Gai is the Baozheng of Dongxi Village, that is, the village chief's share. But Chao Gai has a great reputation in Yuncheng and even the entire Jingdong Lianglu. I think of the official documents that I used to exchange in the past, and there was an official document asking Jeju to cooperate in investigating the robbery of the Daimyo's Mansion. Song Jiang guessed that Chao Gai might have taken in someone who shouldn't have taken him in.

In the territory of Yuncheng, only Chao Gai has such extensive communication.

First, his fame is indeed great, and both the green forest and the government have heard of him; Second, his character of righteousness and squandering money makes him not too wary of anyone. Not only did they not, but they would do their best to help. It is very strange that such a character lives in the countryside and is just a rich family.

In contrast, Song Jiang's current reputation has not left Songjia Village at all.

The name of filial piety Hei Saburo is only Hei Saburo.

The word filial piety is impossible to talk about.

Thinking of Chao Gai, Song Jiang began to ponder in his heart, if he can't study, I'm afraid that there is no hope of being an official in this life. I thought that I could play a big knife and have the ability to read, so I should be an all-round talent in civil and military affairs. Unexpectedly, in the end, he was reduced to a scribe who could not be a scholar, and he was bullied by Zhang Wenyuan, who came only two months earlier than him, and the evil anger in his heart was difficult to get rid of.

Even if he is a scribe, he can see that without the support of big households and the help of friends in the rivers and lakes, I am afraid it will be difficult to get ahead.

Song Jiang thought about it for a while and decided to go to Dongxi Village.

He put the official document in the placket of his shirt, hurriedly extinguished the oil lamp, and went out.

When he went out of the city, he was also shouted by Zhu Tong, who also worked with the yamen: "San Lang, why are you in such a hurry to get out of the city?" ”

"It turned out to be Brother Zhu, the younger brother forgot the time in the yamen for a while, and he didn't expect it to be dark when he went out. No, I was about to go home to report my father's safety. ”

Song Jiang casually made up a reason, although Zhu Tong is good, it is better not to let people know what he does.

Zhu Tong didn't care, but after taking a look at the sky, it was a full moon, and the moonlight was very bright, so he didn't have to worry about getting lost by walking at night. However, when traveling at night, safety is also an issue. Untied the waist knife and handed it to Song Jiangdao: "The filial piety of the virtuous brother is admirable, and he is in a hurry late at night, and there is no weapon to defend himself, and it will be difficult to deal with a beast." I'll take this knife with me, and I'll return it to me. ”

"Thank you, Brother Zhu, and say goodbye."

"Don't delay."

Zhu Tong smiled calmly and waved his hand at Song Jiang. But Lei Heng next to him rolled his eyes, and then he doubted: "Weird, really weird." Songjiazhuang didn't go out of the city from the south gate! ”

Zhu Tong smiled: "Don't you allow him to tell him about something inconvenient to say?" ”

"My brother was kind enough to give him a weapon to defend himself, but he deliberately coaxed his brother, why didn't he see my brother angry?"

"It's all folks. Although Gongming has been studying before, he has also worked hard, and he is also a member of my generation. Speaking of which, Zhu Tong stopped talking, they were all martial artists.

Zhu Tong is the head of the Yuncheng horsemen, and Lei Heng is the head of the infantry.

In fact, it is just a militia, and the total number of soldiers under their training does not exceed thirty. Not to mention Yuncheng County, Yishui County also has it. When I first fought the tigers, I also dispatched the horse army and the infantry army, and I looked very scary, and I didn't know that I thought there were thousands of troops. In fact, it is already good to have about 20 people, and there are not enough decent weapons, which are not as good as stragglers.

said it was the head of the capital, but it was actually the head of the team.

It is the same as the third class of officials, but the difference is that they are all good people. Most of the people who caught the fast in the government were ordinary people who made small mistakes, and they were criminals who did not need to be sentenced heavily. The status is slightly higher than that of the government officials, but not as good as the scribes in the county government.

Lei Heng stared at the direction Song Jiang left, the night was thick, and he couldn't see Song Jiang's back for a long time.

He just felt strange, and suddenly seemed to have a clear heart in his heart, and asked Zhu Tong: "The direction that Gongming went to just now seems to be going to Dongxi Village." ”

"Dongxi Village?"

Zhu Tong frowned slightly, he was familiar with Dongxi Village, of course, not because they often go, but because there was a person in this place who was very special, and his reputation in Yuncheng County was greater than that of the county commander.

But he likes to make friends in the rivers and lakes, and the people on the rivers and lakes are good and bad.

In general, there are many bad ones and few good ones.

Zhu Tong of the villagers naturally hopes that Chao Gai will be good, let alone make friends with bandits, and it will be difficult for them to be friends when the time comes. Liu Tang was very eyeless before, and everyone knew what they knew, so they had to pierce it and make everyone's faces dull.

However, Zhu Tong has never liked to guess other people's secrets, so he smiled: "Brother Lei, I'm tired now, so I invite my brother to drink a bowl of water and wine to drive away the cold." ”

"What's so embarrassing?"

Lei Heng said that he was embarrassed, but his legs and feet stepped away towards the wine store. His family is not as wealthy as Zhu Tong, and at the same time he is greedy for money, so he naturally refuses to break the bank, but if he eats people, he will never feel embarrassed.

Let's talk about Song Jiang.

Carrying a waist knife, he walked for more than ten miles, hungry and hungry.

Holding on to the tree on the side of the road, he rested for a while, gritted his teeth and hurried again.

Finally, before dawn, I rushed to Dongxi Village.

The dogs at the entrance of the village barked, and one after the other barked, as loud and heroic as the one on the other side. However, the village was still immersed in sleep, and no one had the heart to go out to check.

Only Mr. Wu, the private school at the head of the village, was used, and when he opened the far door and rubbed his eyes to see that it was Song Jiang, he was also surprised. At this time, Song Jiang was thirsty and tired, scooped a scoop of cold water on the edge of the water tank, and drank it with a bang, but he didn't drink two sips, but he seemed to be aroused, and shivered.

"Brother Gongming, why is this?"

Song Jiang exhaled, gritted his teeth and said, "Something happened." ”

As he spoke, he took out the paperwork in his shirt and showed it to Wu Yong. He wasn't worried, Wu Yong, like him, was a loser. Don't think that what the descendants of the Wu family said is true, what Wu used to participate in the imperial examination, and almost became the champion, because he was disrespectful to Cai Jing, he was canceled from his fame. This kind of nonsense means that his descendants have put gold on the face of his ancestors.

The champion is not something that the prime minister can decide, but a talent that will be selected after the emperor personally assesses it.

And the reality is that Wu Yong is just Mr. Meng Tong.

Basically, the same level as Yan Fuzi in Yishui County, may be slightly stronger than Yan Fuzi, but it is not much stronger. After all, Master Yan and Confucius have the same surname, but the difference in knowledge is 108,000 miles.

Song Jiang and Wu Yong were scholars from the same county, and Pingli often met. Level...... Wu used to be taller. But Wu Yong was very poor and had no money to go to the academy to study, so he could only work behind closed doors in the countryside, so that he couldn't pass the test. In the Great Song Dynasty, it was not difficult for people who were good at studying to be admitted to the academy, as long as they entered the academy with knowledge, the imperial court would give them a subsidy. At the beginning, Fan Zhongyan was admitted to the academy, and relied on the subsidy of rice and grain from the imperial court to persevere on the road to the imperial examination.

Wu Yong, who couldn't study, could only work as a private school teacher in the countryside.

Pingli taught a few Mengtong, and he didn't get much restraint. Fortunately, there is a neighbor who is righteous and squanders money, Chao Gai. often helped her, so that he was saved from the hardship of food and clothing.

Wu Yongkan carefully read the official document, and calmly looked at Song Jiang and asked, "Gongming, what does this mean?" ”

"Brother Xian doesn't know?"

Song Jiang was slightly stunned, in his opinion, Wu Yong and Chao Gai were brothers who wore a pair of pants. How could he not care about this matter, could it be that what he had guessed before was just a false alarm, and Chao Gai had nothing to do with the robbery. Or, the robbers hidden in Chao Gai Zhuangzi hid well and did not let Chao Gai find out the clues.

But how did he know that Wu Yong was holding on to panic, he was Chao Gai's cronies, how could he not know what Chao Gai had done recently?

Especially the people with strange backgrounds in Zhuangzi show that Chao Gai has done a big thing recently. But Wu Yong didn't know Song Jiang's intention, did he want to come to him to defraud the newspaper, and then go back to the county to ask for credit?

Or are you really worried about Chao Gai?

Moreover, Chao Gai is not in Zhuangzi at all.

Even if Song Jiang wanted to see people, Wu Yong didn't dare to let them meet.

Song Jiang originally wanted to leave, but he swallowed a mouthful of saliva against the rice porridge cooked by Wu on the stove, he had not been stained with water and rice all night, and he was already hungry, so he pretended to be curious: "This rice porridge is going to be paste, right?" ”

Wu laughed heartily: "It's just for Gongming's stomach." As he spoke, he brought the rice porridge to the table, and Song Jiang didn't feel too hot to his mouth, so he even sucked it and pulled it into his mouth.

After a pot of rice porridge, Song Jiang finally felt alive, warm and comfortable. left, but Wu Yong deliberately stopped Zhuangzi who did not let Song Jiang go to Chao Gai. Song Jiang was suspicious, and said unhappily: "Brother Wu, why are you stopping the little brother?" ”

"Gongming, Brother Chao Gai is not in Zhuangzi." In desperation, Wu used to spit out the truth.

Song Jiang said angrily: "Brother Wu, it's this time, when do you still want to hide the foolish brother?" This matter is important, it is a matter of life, you Pingli and Chao Bao are upright, why are you so ignorant? ”

Wu Yong smiled bitterly: "It's not that the younger brother doesn't want to tell me, but that Brother Chao Gai went to Shilipo." ”

"What are you going to do in those ruined places?" Song Jiang was puzzled, Shilipo is not a bazaar, let alone a noisy place, there is not even a tree on the top of the slope, it is quite desolate, and it is not a stupid act to go to Shilipo in the middle of the night?

Wu Yong had no choice but to tell the truth: "Maybe it's to get rich?" ”

"Why don't you go?" Song Jiang was curious, he understood the word fortune, and he also felt that Chao Gai was bold and reckless, and dared to do the business of killing people and selling goods, and his heart suddenly became vigilant, I am afraid that he will not be able to have too deep contacts with these people in the future.

"I'm looking after the house!"

Wu Yong is also very helpless! Before Gongsun Sheng came, he was Zhiduoxing who shook the fan, but when that demon path came, he took his place. Who does this make him go to?

However, he was going to report the news, and after Song Jiang left, he was going to report to Chao Gai.

Song Jiang pondered for a while, and there was a way to send the Buddha to the west, so he simply said: "You can't tell the official documents in the yamen, go together!" It also fulfilled the friendship of friends. ”

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