Chapter 100: Fighting the Tiger and Saving the Driver
The next day, Xu Zhi, Zhou Yuanzhi and other people turned north, trekked all the way, went out of Xiaoguan, crossed the Yellow River in the east, crossed Puban, and went straight to Taiyuan. Taiyuan was also known as Jinyang and Jinzhou during the Northern Dynasties, when the wax moon was about to end, the sky was cold and frozen, and there was white snow everywhere.
Zhou Yuanzhi saw that everyone was trekking all the way, his face was full of exhaustion, and he suggested to Xu Zhi: "Brother Xu, the front is Jinzhou City, I heard my father say, there is a mountain outside Jinzhou City, the mountain is steep, towering into the sky, only the Divine Sparrow can fly over this mountain, so it is called the Divine Bird Mountain, this mountain is the general altar of the Jinzhou Divine Bird Gate! The Yang Gang Master of the Sect has a very good relationship with my father, we might as well go to the Divine Bird Gate to live temporarily, and wait for the New Year, the spring is open, and it is not too late to enter Taiyuan City!"
Before Xu Zhi could answer, Xue Atan applauded repeatedly: "Miss Zhou, good idea, we haven't smelled the aroma of wine and meat for half a month, this time we must be there and talk about it for a few days!"
Before Xue Atan's words were finished, he was interrupted by the idiot: "Xue Aniu, you are so unambitious, now that we have parted ways with Huang Chao, how can we receive his favor again?"
Zhou Yuanzhi persuaded: "Don't be angry if you are stupid, listen to my sister's words, it is my father who is ashamed of everyone, and it is not the Shenque Gate that has offended everyone, we go to him, how can we say that we have received the favor of my father?"
Seeing that what Zhou Yuanzhi said was reasonable, he had no choice but to say: "Sister Zhou, the younger brother can't talk about you, but the younger brother feels that it is very inappropriate to be favored like this!"
Xu Zhi saw that He Mengjiao, An Jingsi, and Anger didn't speak, and also persuaded: "Idiot, listen to the eldest brother's words, we have been running around for a month, and now there is not much left of the entanglement around us, how can we find a place to settle down?
Everyone applauded when they heard this, and when they saw Xu Zhi talking like this, they had no choice but to agree to go to the Divine Sparrow Gate with everyone.
Xu Zhi led everyone along the rugged mountain road, stepping on knee-deep snow, into Shenque Mountain, and through the small Luo Luo in front of the cottage, he told Yang Yue. Yang Yue heard that the princess of Huangchao and the concubine Qianli were visiting, and hurriedly went down the mountain to greet him.
Yang Yue saw Xu Zhi and the others, and said with a smile on his face: "Now that the Yellow King has been proclaimed emperor in Chang'an, I want to congratulate him early in the morning, but this day is not beautiful, and it snows heavily, and the road is impassable." Fortunately, as the envoys of the Yellow King, the two distinguished guests personally drove to the Sect, which really made the Shenque Gate shine! Although they stayed on the mountain and waited for the New Year, they were willing to go to Chang'an with the two envoys to meet His Majesty the Yellow King!"
Xu Zhi explained: "Gang Master Yang misunderstood, a few of us are not the envoys of the Yellow King, we are just passing through Jinzhou and temporarily disturbing for a few days!"
Yang Yue smiled and said: "Xu Daxia is too modest, who in this world doesn't know that you are the concubine of King Huang?" After speaking, he saw that Zhou Yuanzhi and the others were a little displeased, and changed his words: "Forgive me for being confused, I almost forgot, a few of them are all private visits to Weifu, don't make a noise! Come here, arrange accommodation for a few distinguished guests, and the main sect will personally pick up and wash the dust for a few VIPs in the evening!"
Xu Zhi hurriedly replied: "Sect Leader Yang, Xu Zhi shouldn't have brought someone to disturb you, how dare you let you feast and entertain you?
Yang Yue said with a smile: "When you and my friends meet today, we should have a long drink and talk, and I am afraid that the hospitality will not be good!"
Zhou Yuanzhi saw that Xu Zhi was about to excuse herself, and persuaded: "Brother Xu, you and Gang Leader Yang have known each other in Caizhou, and they can be regarded as old friends.
Yang Yue smiled and said, "It's still Princess Yuanzhi who is refreshing!", and after speaking, he led Xu Zhi and the others into the cottage.
When night fell, Yang Yue set up a banquet in the Juxian Hall of the cottage to entertain Xu Zhi and others, and summoned the incense masters of each hall of the Shenque Gate to accompany them. Xu Zhi and others saw the table full of mountain delicacies, and saw that Yang Yue was very hospitable, toasted frequently, simply put down the etiquette, chewed and swallowed, and the meal was very sweet.
Just as everyone was looking at each other, a leader at the banquet, taking advantage of the wine, asked: "Sect Master, we don't have much grain and grass left in the mountains, why don't we take advantage of Chinese New Year's Eve to borrow some from Jinzhou City at the bottom of the mountain, so that the brothers can also have a good year?"
An Jingsi listened, dropped the wine glass, and was about to stand up and speak, Xu Zhi hurriedly glanced at him, signaling him not to be reckless.
Yang Yue didn't notice An Jingsi's displeasure, and laughed: "This sect leader has this intention, but today there was a distinguished guest visiting, and he almost forgot about it!"
Zhou Yuanzhi persuaded: "Sect Leader Yang is also from a poor background, didn't you say: The poor people are our parents and brothers, why does the sect leader still rob their property now?"
Yang Yue smiled bitterly: "If you go back to the princess, you originally just wanted to get some ill-gotten wealth to live, but our Shenque Gate is growing stronger and stronger, and how to make a living by robbing the rich and helping the poor, robbing the rich and robbing the officials, we have to go against the original intention, and it has become a common practice to ask the people for some peace money during the New Year's Festival!"
An Jingsi couldn't hold it anymore, smashed the wine glass in his hand on the ground, and shouted: "Sect Leader Yang, now you don't distinguish between good and evil, and blindly bully the people, what is the difference between that and bandits?"
He Mengjiao also said: "Brother An said well! Please also ask Sect Leader Yang to think twice, and never do anything that hurts the people again!"
Yang Yue saw that An and He suddenly became angry, and sighed helplessly at Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi: "This, this ......", and the leaders of his subordinates were also stunned, and the originally pleasant banquet became embarrassing in an instant.
It turned out that this Shenque Gate was originally a group of thieves to start, this group of thieves under the leadership of the leader Yang Yue, occupied the Shenque Mountain outside Jinzhou City, and at the beginning also played the banner of "walking for the heavens, robbing the rich and helping the poor", and later due to the famine in Hedong, a large number of hungry people joined the Shenque Gate, and the Shenque Gate people were many and powerful, and gradually had some prestige in the rivers and lakes. In order to deter the encirclement and suppression of the official army, Yang Yue took refuge in Huangchao thousands of miles away, and took the righteous army of the Central Plains as his backer.
Yang Yue's martial arts are very mediocre, but he has a unique magic skill, through the magic flute around him to hypnotize people and animals, he advertises that he has a soul dementor magic skill, and can use internal force to suck away the seven souls and six spirits of people and animals. Later, he got a few tigers out of nowhere and kept them in Shenque Mountain to protect the cottage and deter the officials and soldiers.
At this time, a Luo soldier came over and said: "General Zhu of the righteous army sent a secret letter, and asked the master to read it himself!"
Yang Yue took the letter, unfolded it, was shocked in his heart, glanced at Xu Zhi and the others in a panic, and declared that he was unwell and retired first. And all the princes departed from their table in amusement.
Zhou Yuanzhi was thoughtful, she heard that this letter was related to Zhu Wen, and she expected that the content of this letter was related to herself and Xu Zhi, and she saw that Yang Yue read the letter, his expression changed suddenly, and his behavior was abnormal, knowing that there must be something unspeakable in this letter.
Zhou Yuanzhi told everyone about her worries, and He Mengjiao smiled and said: "Sister Zhou, don't worry, let my little sister secretly spy on this bandit leader!
Zhou Yuanzhi was very happy to see He Mengjiao come forward, but seeing that she was a beautiful girl, she was a little uneasy and just wanted to stop her. Xu Zhi nodded and said, "Then it's hard Miss He! But you also have to be careful, you can't let Yang Yue notice!"
He Mengjiao smiled and said: "Brother Xu, Sister Zhou, don't worry, the little sister will live up to her mission!", after speaking, she jumped on the beam of the house and disappeared from everyone's sight.
Besides, Yang Yue retreated into the inner room, and the military advisor Zhao Hu hurriedly greeted him, Yang Yue sighed: "Military advisor, this sect has a very tricky matter that needs to be discussed with you!"
Zhao Huqi said: "The sect leader is so nervous, what is the matter!"
Yang Yue replied: "Today, General Zhu Wen Feige passed a book, and the letter said that Xu Zhi and Princess Yuanzhi secretly let go of the court to rebel against the party, instigated the people of Chang'an to rebel, and openly humiliated His Majesty King Huang in the court. The Yellow King was furious, but it was inconvenient to bear the charge of righteous extermination of his relatives, so he had to issue an order to expel Xu Zhi and his traitors from Chang'an first, and then ask the disciples of my Shenque Gate and the Spear Gate to inquire about their whereabouts.
Zhao Hu said with a smile: "Since there is the will of the Yellow King, what is the difficulty of the sect leader? We just need to act according to the wishes of the Yellow King and General Zhu, can't we? Why bother ourselves?"
Yang Yue shook his head and said: "The military advisor doesn't know, this Xu Zhi is superb in martial arts, and he is surrounded by some capable people, how can he easily obey?" Besides, when I was in Caizhou, Princess Yuan Zhi treated me well, and Xu Zhi didn't have any deep hatred with me, so I couldn't make this ruthless move for a while!"
Zhao Hu persuaded: "Sect Master, killing Xu Zhi can please King Huang and General Zhu, and in the future, King Huang will definitely give the sect leader an official and become a knight, and our Divine Bird Sect will also become famous all over the world!
Yang Yue replied: "Let's plan and plan this matter again, we must not leak the wind!" By the way, tomorrow is Chinese New Year's Eve, let's go down the mountain to Jinyang City to walk around, and by the way, bring some New Year's goods back, let the brothers have a peaceful year!"
Zhao Hu sneered: "Why don't you bring Xu Zhi and them with you, when the time comes, we will act when we see the opportunity and let them die in the hands of the officials and soldiers, wouldn't it be clean!"
Yang Yue understood Zhao Hu's intentions, and said with a smile: "Borrowing a knife to kill people, this plan is very good, I'm afraid that Xu Zhi and them don't want to go together?"
Zhao Hu said with a smile: "It depends on the sect leader's ability? If they really don't want to go along, when we return with a full load, we will give them drug and hypnotize, and then throw them into the back mountain to feed the tiger, our tiger has been hungry for several days!"
Yang Yue laughed and said, "Okay, there is still a way for the military advisor! Just do what you want!"
When the two were proud, all this was heard clearly by He Mengjiao on the roof, and He Mengjiao told Xu Zhi, Zhou Yuanzhi and others about the conspiracy of the two.
Xu Zhi said with a smile: "Why don't we come to a general plan, An Jingsi, you go to Jinyang City once tonight, and tell the officials and soldiers there that Shenque Gate is going to rob the people tomorrow, so that they can strengthen the garrison and protect the people in the city." Tomorrow, we might as well walk with Yang Yue and watch a good show!", everyone nodded yes when they heard it.
The next morning, Yang Yue invited Xu Zhi and others, and said with a smile: "Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, the princess and the horse have just arrived in Yiyi, the little brother wants to do the friendship of the landlord and invite you to visit Jinyang City under the mountain, I don't know what you think?"
Xu Zhi said with a smile: "Since Sect Leader Yang is affectionate, we are as good as the master, it is better to be respectful, and we have to bother the gang leader and the leaders again!"
Yang Yue saw that Xu Zhi was very happy and agreed, a little overjoyed, and hurriedly said modestly: "Don't bother, don't bother!
Yang Yue asked Zhao Hu to gather the two hundred Luo soldiers, and asked them to put on the mask of the evil ghost, and said with a smile: "Horses, princesses, distinguished guests, let you enjoy an incredible performance!", after speaking, he took out the magic flute in his sleeve and played it whining, and after a while, a few fierce tigers came out of the woods in the back mountain, grinning, showing sharp teeth, and roared a few times towards the sky, which shocked everyone in fear.
Xu Zhi saw that Zhou Yuanzhi and He Mengjiao were so frightened that they looked gloomy, and hurriedly pulled out the Fengming Sword and blocked in front of them. Xue Atan, Li, and Idiot took out wooden sticks and stood on both sides of Xu Zhi, protecting Zhou and He in the center, while An Jingsi stood behind, secretly preparing a few small pebbles in case of accidents.
The tigers jumped to Yang Yue's side and slowly squatted down, docile like a few big cats. Yang Yue touched the tiger's forehead, rode a tiger, and the other tigers followed Yang Yue slowly. Zhao Hu waited for Yang Yue to go far, and then led Xu Zhi and others and two hundred Luo soldiers to descend from Shenque Mountain and kill towards Jinzhou City.
Xu Zhi saw that after a drum sounded, the city gate was opened, and the guards of Jinzhou led a group of officers and soldiers and rushed out. Yang Yue sat on the tiger's back unhurriedly, took out the magic flute, and played it again, the group of tigers listened, changed their docile and lazy appearance, stretched out their front paws, shrugged their bodies, and rushed towards the officers and soldiers. When the officers and soldiers saw a group of huge tigers leading a group of evil spirits rushing towards them, they turned around and fled back into the city, forgetting to close the city gates.
Yang Yue led everyone to take advantage of the situation to rush into Jinzhou City, and every household saw a group of vicious tigers running rampant on the streets, and fled towards the outside of Jinzhou City, and suddenly the city was in chaos. Yang Yue commanded the disciples of the Shenque Sect, and when he saw the shop, he grabbed the silk cloth, jade, wine and meat, and entered the people's homes, rummaging through the boxes and cabinets everywhere, and forcibly taking chickens, ducks, and rice grains.
Xu Zhi saw that the disciples of the Shenque Sect were very fierce, and smashed and burned the belongings that could not be moved away and looted. Xu Zhi wanted to kidnap Yang Yue several times and ask him to return the looted property to the people, but he was worried that if he missed a blow, he would be devoured by the tigers, so he hesitated repeatedly in his heart and couldn't make up his mind!
At this time, from outside the city, an army of 3,000 black crows, all dressed as Shatuo people, all of them holding long lances in their hands, led by a general eight feet tall, about thirty years old, with a slight eye, riding a sweaty horse, beside him were twelve young men, all riding various kinds of war horses. The general said to the young man at the head: "Cunqing, you go and ask the people, what happened to this Jinyang City?"
The young man replied, "Yes, Father!", and after speaking, he turned over to stop a group of panicked people, and the people shouted bitterly: "Every festival, these robbers have to ride tigers and come to Jinju City to rob, and the villagers are afraid, and those who walk slowly are eaten by the tigers!"
The general laughed and said, "Don't panic, listen to the servant's words, the servant has traveled from south to north, and killed countless people, where have you seen such a miraculous thing?"
The eldest boy beside the general persuaded: "Father, we were ordered to go to Chang'an to exterminate the grass bandits, it snowed heavily a few days ago, and we have delayed a lot of travel, and now we can't delay the trip here for the sake of the people!"
The general smiled and said: "Heiyuan, you have to keep in mind that if there is a great chaos today, and the heroes are divided, only those who win the hearts of the people in the world can win the world! Although it is a big matter to recover Chang'an and welcome back the holy driver, but now the people of Jinzhou are in trouble, we must not fail to do it because of goodness!"
When the people heard this, they praised one after another: "We heard that the king of Hedong Jin is benevolent and loves the people, could it be that the general is the king of Jin?"
The general smiled and said: "It is Taiyuan Li Keyong below!", the people listened, they knelt on the ground one after another, and shouted in unison: "Our people of Jinzhou are willing to follow the King of Jin and eradicate the demons in the city together!", After speaking, he led Li Ke to kill back to Jinzhou City with his father and son, and cooperated with the defenders in the city to surround the disciples of the Shenque Gate who were looting in the city.
Yang Yue saw that he was trapped, surrounded by a black crow army armed with a long lance, and more than half of the two hundred little Luo Luo around him were killed by Li Keyong's subordinates, so he had to repeat the old trick, playing the magic flute, and inciting a few tigers to rush towards the black crow army around him. Li Ke was frightened with the sweat and blood of the BMW under the seat, hissed, and was about to flee backwards, but Li Ke was firmly holding the reins and couldn't move. The horse lifted his front legs, pouted his buttocks, and struggled desperately, and with a stumble threw Rick to the ground.
A tiger leaped forward, stretched out its front paws, pounced on Li Keyong, poked its head out, and was about to bite his throat. Li Keyong shouted: "It's not good, my life is on the loose!", and the twelve teenagers beside him jumped off the horse, but no one dared to step forward and push the tiger away.
Seeing that Li Keyong was in danger, An Jingsi hurriedly threw two stones out of his sleeve, blinded the tiger's eyes, jumped up again, rode the tiger, and struggled to hold down the roaring tiger's head with his left hand, picked up his steel-like right fist, and desperately smashed it into the tiger's head, the tiger was held down, so he had to keep raising and retreating, flicking his tail, and trying to knock An Jingsi to the ground.
An Jingsi let the tiger roar hard, and he grabbed the tiger's skin tightly. It is said that An Jingsi was born with divine power, and he punched down, which was enough for a thousand catties, and he hit it hundreds of times, and saw that blood was flowing from the corners of the tiger's eyes, mouth and nose, and he was out of breath, so he stopped.