Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 16

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Without making Deng Fei and Meng Kang curious for too long, Li Yan cupped his hands and said, "I'm Li Yan, I've seen two brothers."

Hearing the name in Li Yan's newspaper, Deng Fei and Meng Kang were startled for a while, and soon Meng Kang was very excited and said to Deng Fei: "Brother, this hero is the Supreme Treasure who walks the way of the sky in the water and Liangshan?"

Deng Fei suddenly realized, and then he bowed to the ground and said: "Excuse me, is the hero the supreme treasure who walks in the water and Liangshan?"

Ruan Xiaoqi responded for Li Yan as usual: "It's my brother!"

Deng Fei hurriedly threw down the iron chain and stepped forward, saying with great enthusiasm: "I only hear about my brother's name on weekdays. I don't want to meet my respected face here today, so I invite my brother to go up to the mountain for a gathering!"

Although the three masters of Yinmachuan are not high in martial arts, they are indeed heroes of loyalty, especially Pei Xuan, the boss with a strong face.

Pei Xuan was born in Liuan Kongmu, he is very good at swordsmanship, he is honest and smart, and he is not willing to let things go. He is one of the most lacking talents in Li Yan, who lacks good officials.

Moreover, Pei Xuan is not in love with power. Dai Zong casually made a move for Chao Gai and Song Jiang, and he took Deng Fei, Meng Kang and all his belongings to Liangshan, and then dutifully became a man who had no real power but only maintained superficial judicial fairness. Military and political department.

Deng Fei is a man of loyalty, not in love with power, and aboveboard. After he and Meng Kang rescued Pei Xuan, because Pei Xuan was the oldest, he gave up the position of the leader of Yinmachuan Village to Pei Xuan, and beat Zhujiazhuang three times. At that time, Deng Fei, Ma Lin, Ou Peng, and Wang Ying served as the vanguard, and rescued Ou Peng who was injured and fell off the horse in the scuffle. In the end, he was also tripped by a tripping horse, and was captured by Zhujiazhuang. During the conquest of Fang La, Suo Chao chased the guard Shi Bao, but was killed by Shi Bao with a meteor hammer. Cut into two paragraphs, Deng Fei first took the initiative to give way to Pei Xuan, and after he went to Liangshan, he saved people in battle many times, and finally died in saving people. Throughout Deng Fei's life, he deserves the word "hero". Deng Fei's only blemish is that there is a sentence in the hymn that "eats a lot of human flesh and has red eyes". Human Devil King", but throughout the book, there is no record of him eating human flesh.

Meng Kang is also a man of temperament. The most rare thing is that he not only has superb shipbuilding skills, but also is good at amphibious warfare. He is a very rare talent.

These three are the most ideal horses.

Therefore, Li Yan did not shirk, and said with a smile: "Then we will bother the two brothers."

At this time, Deng Fei thought of something and said: "Brother, wait a minute, I will introduce a good man to my brother."

After finishing speaking, Deng Fei invited the obese prisoner over, and said: "This is an elder brother I met on this Zhixi ground not long ago. His surname is Pei and his name is Xuan. His ancestor is from Jingzhao Prefecture. He was born in the Sixth Case Kongmu of this government. He is very good at swords and pens. He is honest and smart, and he is not willing to let things go. Everyone in this office calls him an iron face. He can also wield a gun, wield a sword, and wield a knife. In addition to the arrival of a corrupt magistrate, the imperial court will find trouble and assassinate him on Salmon Island. That Salmon Island is a hell on earth. If Brother Pei Xuan goes there, he must be close to death. If he doesn’t pass by me, I will go to save him. How can I let him go when I live here?"

Li Yan cupped his hands at Pei Xuan, and said: "I have admired brother Pei Xuan for a long time, I wish I could see you sooner!"

Pei Xuan hesitated for a moment, then cupped his hands and said: "The Supreme Treasure benefits one side, great kindness!"

Li Yan could understand Pei Xuan. At this time, Pei Xuan should not be mentally prepared to become a bandit.

This is normal, after all, Pei Xuan's identity is different from others, he is an extremely upright Kongmu of the sixth case, and Li Yan and others are all serious crimes in his eyes.

Not only did Li Yan not feel displeased with this, on the contrary he was secretly happy, which showed that Pei Xuan had not lost his loyalty.

At that moment, Deng Fei asked the little guy to lead the horse, and invited Li Yan, Ruan Xiaoqi, Wu Song, Guang Hui, Shan Shiqi, Zhu Jing, and Pei Xuan to get on the horse and run to the village.

When they arrived at the Shanzhai, Deng Fei invited Li Yan and others to enter the Juyi Hall. After everyone gave a speech, he humbly let Li Yan sit in front of him, followed by Pei Xuan, Ruan Xiaoqi, Wu Song, Guang Hui, Shan Shiqi, Zhu Jing, and Deng Fei. Fei, Mengkang, nine heroes, the host and guest treated each other, sat down for a banquet, and drank and boasted that day.

While everyone was drinking, Ruan Xiaoqi said at the banquet that Li Yan recruited talents, got to know heroes from all over the world, treated people with kindness, had a good relationship, generously donated money, and many benefits.All the leaders worked together, Liangshan Po is so majestic for [-] miles, Wanzi City and Liaoerwa in the middle, there is a vast mist all around, and there are many soldiers and horses, so why worry about the officers and soldiers coming.

Deng Fei patted his thigh and said: "Little brother and Meng Kangxian also have a hundred men and horses in the village, and seven or eight cars in their wealth, food and fodder are not counted. If my brother does not abandon his lowliness, he is willing to listen to his orders and serve him. I don't know how to respect him." How?"

Li Yan was overjoyed and said: "I will live up to the two virtuous brothers!"

Everyone rejoices!

When the wine was half drunk, I moved to the Duanjin Pavilion on the back mountain to see the scenery of Yinmachuan and eat wine.

But see:

Looking at the vast wild water, there are faint green hills around.How many old trees reflect the remnant clouds, and how many colorful clouds float far away from Xiu.The deserted fields are lonely, and there should be no young children looking after cattle; the ancient crossing is desolate, so you have to laugh at people and drink horses.The strongman had no choice but to install the Zhaizha, but the hero should spread the banner.

Li Yan looked at the mountain scenery of Yinma River, and applauded: "The mountains and rivers are really beautiful. How did the two of you get this?"

Deng Fei said: "It used to be a few young men who were not able to make a living here, and then the two of us came and took this place."

Everyone laughed.

The nine heroes got drunk.

Pei Xuan suddenly got up and danced his sword to help the wine!

Seeing that Pei Xuan had something on his mind, Li Yan toasted Pei Xuan a bowl of wine alone, and then said: "There is nothing wrong with you insisting on being honest, it's just that you have the wrong partner. If you believe in me, I will definitely work together with you to create a bright world! "

I don't know if Pei Xuan, who was already drunk at the time, remembered Li Yan's drunken words.

In short, after sending off Li Yan and others to the foot of the mountain to say goodbye the next day, Pei Xuan went back to the village with Deng Fei and Meng Kang to pack up and set off.

A few days later, Pei Xuan, Deng Fei, and Meng Kang took Li Yan's handwritten letter and all their belongings and went south to Jeju Prefecture to vote in Liangshan pretending to be an officer.

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After leaving Yinmachuan, Li Yan and his party continued northward to Jizhou.

At this time, Jizhou was actually in the territory of Liao Kingdom.

Zhu Jing gave the border guards ten taels of silver, and Li Yan and his party left the Northern Song Dynasty smoothly.

When they arrived in Liao Kingdom, Zhu Jing only gave five taels of silver, and Li Yan and his party entered the territory of Liao Kingdom in such a grandiose manner.

It can be seen from this that the Northern Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom, especially the Liao Kingdom, have been rotten to the bone. No wonder the country will perish in a few years!

Because it borders the Northern Song Dynasty, Jizhou's customs are very similar to the Northern Song Dynasty.

Entering Jizhou City, just walking to a street, Li Yan and his party saw a group of drums playing in the distance, and a procession of welcoming relatives came in front of them.

Sitting on the leading white horse was a good-looking bridegroom—the man had two eyebrows drawn into his temples, phoenix eyes upturned, light yellow skin, and a few thin mustaches.

Listen to what people around you say:

"Who is this person? How big is the pomp?"

"You don't know? That person's ancestor is from Henan, surnamed Yang, surnamed Xiong, because he came to Jizhou with an uncle and elder brother to be the magistrate, and he was exiled here. A new prefect came after him, but he recognized him, so he joined him as a second magistrate. He was imprisoned in the hospital and also acted as the executioner of the city Cao. Because he is good at martial arts and has a yellowish complexion, people call him a diseased Guan Suo Yang Xiong."

"Then he married a daughter from the He family?"

"The daughter of the Pan butcher in the west of the city, the woman was born on July [-]th, so she was called Qiaoyun in small characters. She first married an official from Jizhou, and she was called Wang Yasi. She died not long ago. Marry Yang Xiong late."

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Li Yan, who was listening to people talking about Li Xiong and Pan Qiaoyun, didn't notice it at all, no, to be precise, they didn't notice it at all, and they didn't know when there was a bright-eyed spirit in their group. skinny guy...

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PS: There is a big bug in Water Margin, which is Jizhou. At this time, Jizhou was actually under the rule of the Liao Kingdom. In this way, Yang Xiong was a prisoner in Jizhou, which is a unique official position in the Northern Song Dynasty. It doesn't make sense. Here I will weaken the border defense of both sides, and explain it on the grounds of bordering the Northern Song Dynasty. I hope everyone will not be too serious.

(End of this chapter)