It was still very cold in early spring, and the heavy snow of the previous few days had covered all the trees in the courtyard with thick snow, and the ice in the pool was still as hard as rock.

In such weather, he should have sat next to the warm stove to read books and chat, in order to survive this last severe cold, but Shang Kunyang's figure was leaping and beating in the flying snowflakes, holding a dog beating stick and concentrating on practice, he was not only extremely talented, but also a very hardworking person.

Zhao Bufan was dressed in a snow-white mink fur, standing quietly under the big tree in the distance, his eyes were fixed on the dancing Shang Kunyang, but his ears were listening to the report of the flea on the drum.

"Brother general, in short, the situation on the side of the court is roughly like this, Cai Jing and his son Cai You broke up because of the struggle for power and family affairs, and they fought very fiercely with each other, and Cai You because he knew how to welcome the holy will, not only always presented all kinds of documents, calligraphy and paintings and rare treasures, but also took the emperor out of the palace to have a private meeting with a famous prostitute named Li Shishi, encouraging His Majesty to have fun, and now it is the holy family Zhenglong, in addition, the officials headed by Dazai Zheng Juzhong are also fighting with Cai Jing for power, fighting all over the city, everyone in the court is in danger, Yang Jian, Liang Shicheng and others took the opportunity to make a lot of money, and everyone who wanted to protect themselves had to honor them, and there were even traitors such as Wang Hao and Wang An, who took advantage of the chaos to take the throne. ”

"Hey!" Zhao Bufan sighed, not knowing what to say. "What are the movements of these military forces, Tong Guan and Gao Yu?"

Shi Qian flicked the snow on the mustache, took a breath, and lowered his voice in a shyly voice: " The Jin State continued to send envoys to contact, intending to form an alliance with our Great Song Dynasty to jointly attack Liao, and also promised to return the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun to my Great Song Dynasty, the saint seemed to be moved, Tong Guan originally advocated the Northern Expedition, naturally vigorously promoted, and now he is fully responsible for negotiating with the Jin State, and each other sent envoys to each other have run several times, so he has also been lacking in skills recently, and I also heard the Imperial City Division under Zeng Kun's command said that the alliance is very complicated, and there is a lot of movement in secret, some people conspire to destroy, and they have fought several times, and the masters under Tong Guan have suffered two losses and killed many people！”

"When did you get in touch with Zeng Kun's people?" Zhao Bufan frowned.

Shi Qian rubbed his frozen hands, and said with a sneer: "Isn't this still the appearance of mixing up with the general's brother? In recent years, with the secret help of the general's brother-in-law's father-in-law, except for the time when I returned to the northern frontier, I was in Tokyo all the other days, and now I am also a person with status in Tokyo, and I have come into contact with many big people, and the general's brother also knows that my temperament is the most pleasing, what is this concubine, I am still in the brothel to help Cai You and the saint to pass the wind, at that time the saint also happily said that he will give me a name in the future!"

Looking at Shi Qian's proud and complacent appearance, Zhao Bufan was also happy, among all his cronies, only the most relaxed and pleasant time to get along with Shi Qian. "You're very clever, but you have to be careful when you play and play, you have to be careful when doing things, the errand of doing intelligence is no better than any other, and you must not be let people find out about you!"

"How is that possible, Brother General can rest assured about these things, I can watch this head on my neck closely!" Shi Qian patted his chest and said, and quickly continued: "But then again, I really encountered danger when I went south this time, but that was when I was investigating Liangshan!"

Speaking of Liangshan, Zhao Bufan also woke up and suddenly said: "Hey, you are very clever and have led me astray, didn't I ask you to take Wu Song and Yang Zhi to investigate Liangshan earlier? Why did you go to Kaifeng, Tokyo again? What you brought back was all news from the imperial court?"

As soon as these words came out, Shi Qian's face changed instantly, and he said bitterly: "Brother General doesn't know, I was also forced to be helpless, when I was ordered to rush to Liangshan with Brother Wu Song and Brother Yang Zhi, I happened to meet them going down the mountain to attack Gaotang County in Bozhou, I eavesdropped, and then I learned that they were to rescue Chai Jin's officials. It turned out that during the Luoyang Conference, Yin Tianxi, the wife and brother of Bozhou Zhizhou Gaolian, relied on the power of his brother-in-law to forcibly occupy the mansion of Chai Huangcheng in Gaotang County, and beat him out of the door.

At that time, he was on his way to participate in the Luoyang Conference, because Zhuang Ke rushed to report the news of the accident in Chai Huangcheng, so he rushed back to Gaotang County, and when he saw his uncle being killed alive, he was so angry that he ordered someone to go to Cangzhou's home to get Danshu iron coupons, and threatened to go to Beijing to sue the emperor. The general's brother also knew that Chai Daguan was originally the queen of the Great Zhou royal family, because the ancestor Shangchan gave the throne to Emperor Taizu meritorious, so he was given a Danshu iron coupon, commonly known as the gold medal for avoiding death.

This matter made a big fuss, and was soon known by Zhizhou Gao Lian, he was the brother of Gao Yu in front of the palace, and his power was naturally not small, but when he knew that his wife and brother Yin Tianxi had forcibly occupied the house of Chai Huangcheng, and even forced Chai Huangcheng to death, I am afraid that he was also a little afraid that Chai Jin would really go to sue the emperor, so he immediately asked Yin Tianxi to apologize, and said that he would return the house to the Chai family, but Chai Daguan felt that he had Danshu iron coupons in his hand, and he did not give Gao Lian face, and directly drove Yin Tianxi and his entourage out of the door.

Gao Lian was probably angry, so he thought of a poisonous plan and beat to death the entourage who followed Yin Tianxi to Chai's house during the day, and then insisted that he was seriously injured because he was beaten by Chai Daguan during the day, accusing Chai Daguan of taking care of people's lives. Because Chai Daguan did ask Zhuang Ke to beat this entourage, he couldn't say if he really died because of his injuries, so he immediately asked for an autopsy in the coffin, but Gao Lian gave him a chance to refute, and directly arrested him in prison and beat him into a trick, forcing him to confess. ”

Speaking of this in one breath, Shi Qian swallowed his saliva, and then looked at Zhao Bufan and continued: " Brother General, in fact, Chai Daguan sent two people after the accident, all the way north to find you, all the way south to find Liangshan bandits, the general's brother should know, Chai Daguan is kind and charitable, make friends, naturally indispensable people to help, but this matter is too big, he can only count on you and Liangshan bandits, but unfortunately the general's brother was in Huazhou at that time, and the people who went north naturally couldn't find you, and then there were Liangshan bandits Kou sent troops to attack Gaotang and rescue Chai Daguanren, many leaders on Liangshan have received Chai Jin's favor, this time naturally to repay the favor！”

After listening to the cause and effect, Zhao Bufan sighed and shook his head helplessly: "Back then, I told Chai Jindan that the iron coupon might not work, and he would be suspicious, and this accident happened when I went to Huazhou, he was really destined to have this catastrophe!"

Saying that, Zhao Bufan didn't sigh too much, quickly gathered his thoughts, and asked again: "How do you know so clearly, you only sent you south when I returned to northern Xinjiang!"

Shi Qian lowered his voice and said: " When I passed through Gaotang County, the Liangshan bandits were fighting with Gao Lian, I asked Brother Wu Song and Brother Yang Zhi to find a place to wait for me, and then with my ability to fly the eaves and walk the wall, I went to the prison to see the Chai officials, and explained to him why the general's brother didn't go to save him, he regretted it at the time, and said that he shouldn't have listened to your persuasion, otherwise he wouldn't have come to that point, at that time I asked him to find a way to delay, and planned to return to the north to ask for help, but I didn't think that Gaotang County was broken by the Liangshan bandits the next day, and the Chai officials were also rescued by them, and followed them to the grass！

I thought that there was no point in returning at this time, so I followed them to Liangshan immediately, because the general's brother, you had asked me to inquire about their truth, so I wandered around for a few days, found the four hotels where they were out to listen to information, and also got acquainted with Zhu Gui, who was nicknamed Dry Land Hulu, and learned a lot of information. At that time, Zhu Gui persuaded me to join the gang, and I said that I wanted to make a big deal to be the capital to devote myself to, so I got out. After that, I saw that the intelligence was almost collected, so I was ready to return to the northern Xinjiang, but I didn't think that at this time, the soldiers and horses sent by the imperial court to collect had arrived again, it turned out that Gao Yu was very angry after learning of the death of his brother Gao Lian, and sent Han Cunbao, Zhou Ang and Qiu Yue to lead 10,000 forbidden troops to crusade, with Han Cunbao as the main general, and Zhou Ang and Qiu Yue, the head of the 800,000 forbidden army in Tokyo, as the deputies!"

When Zhao Bufan heard this, his brows furrowed, his heart was full of doubts, and he couldn't help but interject: "How could it be Han Cunbao, Zhou Ang, and Qiu Yue?"

"This ......" Shi Qian was a little stunned by the question, and after a while, he simply shook his head: "Brother General, I don't know this!"

Zhao Bufan also spoke out unconsciously, knowing in his heart that he definitely didn't know either, so he immediately waved his hand again.

"Forget it, you go on!"

"Well, after that...... Huh, where did I just go?"

"You said that Han Cunbao, Zhou Ang, and Qiu Yue led 10,000 forbidden troops to Liangshan!" Zhao Bufan said angrily.

"Oh, by the way, when they called, the sentry happened to detect me and Wu Song, Yang Zhi's two elder brothers wandering around Liangshan, thinking that we were Liangshan's spies, chasing us to fight, the three of us didn't want to fight, and finally got out, but we didn't leave in a hurry, but stayed in a nearby town, planning to wait to see the results before leaving, after all, if Liangshan is breached, even if I give the information to the general's brother, it's useless!"

Shi Qian looked at Zhao Bufan with a smile, and saw that he didn't react, so he continued: "The result is like this, but it's just a wonderful wait, the methods of those leaders in Liangshan are very vicious! They fought with Han Cunbao and Zhou Ang, no one was the opponent, so frightened that the turtle retreated into the dry village, and defended with the steep terrain, and the soldiers and horses of the imperial court did not carry too many siege equipment because they came in a hurry, so they could not attack for a long time.

At that time, in order to listen to the intelligence, I asked Wu Song and Yang Zhi to return to the north first, and I went to Zhu Gui with the movements of the forbidden army, pretending to take refuge, because my brother and that brother shouted that they were very comfortable, coupled with the stealing ability of this eaves and walls, so they did not suspect it, so I followed Liangshan, so that I could find out that Liangshan was not sitting still, but did a big thing!"

"Big deal, what's the big deal?" Zhao Bufan was fascinated by what he heard and asked urgently.

Seeing that Zhao Bufan's appetite was aroused, Shi Qian was quite proud, and described vividly: "The Liangshan bandits thought hard about countermeasures after discovering that they couldn't defeat the forbidden army of the imperial court. According to Wu Yong, this Wang Huan's father died early, and he grew up in Luoyang with his uncle, although he was strong in martial arts, he was a wanderer when he was young, fell in love with a famous prostitute named He Lianlian, and spent all his money for her.

At that time, the old bustard of the brothel saw that Wang Huan's money had been squeezed out and there was no oil and water on his body, and at the same time he was afraid of his strong martial arts, so he sold He Lianlian to a general of the Western Army as a concubine. Wang Huan was helpless, and the money had been spent, so in order to get close to He Lianlian, he also went to the western Xinjiang as a soldier and joined the command of Di Yong, the son of General Di Qing, and He Lianlian often met with him secretly.

Because Wang Huan's martial arts were strong and the wars in Western Xinjiang were frequent, he was quickly promoted through meritorious service, and later Di Yong was transferred back to the court, and he was transferred to the command of the master of the Tao. Shortly thereafter, the general of the Western Army who accepted He Lianlian as a concubine violated military law and was beheaded by the seed master, Wang Huan and He Lianlian had a lover and finally became a family, and he later accumulated merit and rose to the festival degree, but he was not sent, it can be said that he rose and descended secretly, and he was idle at home for one or two decades. ”

Of course, Zhao Bufan also knows Wang Huan, but he doesn't know Wang Huan's past, let alone where Wang Huan is, at this moment, listening to Shi Qian say these romantic things, it is also very interesting, and he can't help laughing: "I didn't expect Wang Huan, a veteran, to still be a seed of infatuation, but since he was targeted by that Wu Yong in Liangshan, I'm afraid there will be no good results!"

"Brother General is really right!" Shi Qian said with a rising voice, his mustache kept shaking, and his face was squeezed together. Wu Yong said at the time that when he was young, he failed to take the imperial examination many times, so he planned to go to Nanjing Yingtianfu to ask for a famous teacher, and Wang Huan settled in Nanjing Yingtianfu after he was idle, so he learned about Wang Huan. Wu Yong felt that Wang Huan had a fatal weakness to exploit, so he offered a poisonous plan to Song Jiang.

Subsequently, Wu Yong and Song Jiang, Li Kui, Liu Tang and others went to Yingtianfu, and when he went to the Chenghuang Temple to pray for blessings, he suddenly made a ruthless move, and let the red-haired ghost Liu Tang tie her back to Liangshan, at that time I was also ordered to go with Zhu Gui to pick up Wu Yong and Liu Tang to go up the mountain, but Song Jiang and Li Kui took the remaining Liangshan heroes to stay in Yingtianfu, and also wrote a letter to the door of Wang Huan's house, forcing Wang Huan to go to Liangshan alone to save people, and when Wang Huan arrived at the foot of Liangshan, Zhu Gui followed Wu Yong's instructions, pretended to be a righteous man to approach him, and took him to the hotel to rest, while he was flustered to eat, secretly used sweat medicine to numb him, and directly tied Liangshan！

At the same time, Song Jiang and Li Kui and others were in Yingtianfu to blackmail Wang Huan's family, lying to them that Wang Huan had fallen into the grass, both soft and hard, forcing them all to follow the two back to Liangshan, and after the safe delivery, Song Jiang ordered Li Kui to take Wang Huan's only son to a nearby village, regardless of men, women and children, and kill indiscriminately.

After Wang Huan woke up, he saw that the matter had come to this point, and he really had no choice, and the life and death of his family were completely tied to Liangshan, if Liangshan was breached, his whole family would definitely be corrected on the spot, plus Song Jiang was accommodating to him in every possible way, and respected him, so he could only choose to fall into the grass in Liangshan in the end, and follow Song Jiang and others to lead the troops to fight. ”

Hearing this, even Zhao Bufan, who had gone through the wind and rain, changed color a little, and couldn't help laughing and scolding: "This Song Jiang and Wu Yong's hearts are really a little poisonous, if you can't get that, you can get this, and whoever you like will be rectified, they are really two disaster stars, whoever meets them will fall into mold for eight lifetimes, and they will be called heroes in vain!"

When Shi Qian heard this, he instantly laughed.

"That's not all, there's more to come!"