The famous book tour starting from the Red House

Chapter 351
Song Jiang regretted saving Chao Gai and his gang at this time, and finally persuaded Liu Tang through his good words, leaving only a letter and a gold bar.

Originally, Song Jiang wanted to ask about Chao Gai's whereabouts, but he was afraid of the presence of Mu Xu and others, so naturally he couldn't ask this question.Who would have thought that Mu Xu would do the job without him asking, just listen to him ask,

"Brother Liu, I heard that you are now living in Qingfeng Mountain, but is it true?"

Liu Tang is a real person, he doesn't understand those twists and turns, so he replied when he heard the words,
"When I robbed the birthday card, I was chased by the government and had nowhere to go, so I had to find a place to lay grass. Speaking of which, I have to thank my brother. If my brother hadn't picked Qingfeng Mountain, I really didn't know where I was going. .”

Mu Xu shook his head and laughed, "One drink and one peck, it's God's will, how can it be a word of thanks. However, some of you don't think so."

Liu Tang was puzzled, "What do you mean by brother's words?"

Mu Xu snorted coldly, "Do you know that the imperial army is going to attack Liangshan soon, and the reason is that someone hijacked the birth plan and put it on our heads. If you don't believe me, brother, you can ask Song Yasi."

Liu Tang looked at Song Jiang, Song Jiang had no choice but to stop talking with Chai Jin, nodded awkwardly, and said, "Brother Mu is right, we saw the official document at the yamen today, it is true."

Hearing that even Song Jiang said that, Liu Tang's face flushed as bright as his hair, he got up excitedly and said, "I can assure you, brother Chao Gai did not do this matter. If there are false words, I would rather die." Under ten thousand knives!"

Mu Xu lowered his hand, motioned Liu Tang to sit down, and said, "I know that King Chao Tian did not do this, and I know who did it!" Then, without waiting for Liu Tang to say anything else , suddenly said,

"Brothers come to see Song Yasi this time, who is it?"

As soon as this remark came out, not to mention Liu Tang, even Song Jiang frowned and looked at Mu Xu, not knowing why he asked this question.

Although Liu Tang didn't understand what Mu Xu meant, he still replied, "Of course it's Brother Chao Gai's idea."

But Mu Xu shook his head and said, "You didn't understand me, I'm asking you, who suggested to Chao Tianwang to send brothers here?"

Liu Tang thought about it for a while, and said uncertainly, "It seems to be Wu Xuexue." After he finished speaking, he saw Mu Xu's face showing such an expression, Chai Jin and the others were also thinking about each other, but Song Jiang's face was even darker. up.

"What do you guys mean?"

Seeing that Liu Tang was still unaware, Chai Jin couldn't help but reminded, "The person surnamed Wu sent you here out of uneasiness and good intentions to kill Song Yasi. Just think about it, brother, you have red hair and your features are so obvious, if you If one doesn’t notice, people can see through Xingzang, even if Song Yasi has eight mouths, he can’t tell clearly.”

Liu Tang wanted to refute, but he thought about it carefully, "Yes, Mr. Gongsun on the mountain, which one is better than me, why did you send me here?"

Thinking of this, Liu Tang had no choice but to believe Mu Xu's words, he hesitated, "Wu Xuexue has no grievances with Brother Gongming, why do you want to kill him?"

Song Jiang smiled wryly and said, "Yes, I'm ashamed to say that, Xiao Ke has only heard of Wu Xuexue's name, but has never met him, and I don't know where he offended him, to hurt Xiao Ke like this?"

For a while, everyone couldn't figure out this problem, only the old god Mu Xu was there.Song Jiang was sitting facing Mu Xu, and accidentally noticed that Mu Xu's expression was different from others, so he sincerely asked for advice, "Brother Mu knows the reason, please let me know!"

Facing everyone's probing eyes, Mu Xu unexpectedly asked Liu Tang a question first, "Brother Liu, besides seeing Yasi Song, do you also want to see other people here?"

Liu Tang hesitated for a moment, but still replied, "The villain is still going to see Zhu Dian and Lei Heng."

Mu Xu nodded his head clearly, and explained to everyone, "Then Wu Yong did this, it's actually very simple, just to destroy the innocence of Song Yasi and the others."

"What! Why did he do this?" Song Jiang was furious immediately. You must know that he has no thoughts at the moment, and all he thinks about is how to make progress in the officialdom.Hearing at this moment that someone wanted him to serve the country with nowhere to go, how could he sit still?
Mu Xu stared at Song Jiang, and said seriously, "It's for you to wait for the three of you to go to Qingfeng Mountain to join the group when you have nowhere to go. In this way, you can expand the strength of Qingfeng Mountain. Especially you, you are very famous in the green forest. Da, if you join, it will attract more heroes to join us."

Song Jiang wanted to refute, but after thinking about it again and again, he realized that there was really no other explanation except this possibility.

After hearing Mu Xu's words, everyone didn't know what to say.After a long time, Ruan Xiaoqi sighed, "Before our three brothers went up the mountain, we had a lot of contacts with Xuejiao Wu. I always regarded him as an upright man, but I didn't expect him to be so vicious!"

Liu Tang cursed even more, "That villain who repays kindness and revenge, thanks to me I still treat him as my brother, he is really blind, when I go back to the mountain, I must make it clear to Brother Chao that I will never forgive him then. "

Hearing Liu Tang's words, Mu Xu said, "Although I have never met that Wu Yong, I think that guy must be a sinister and vicious person, otherwise he would not have done such a thing, let alone cause trouble. Put the hijacking of the birthday card on me, Liangshan Botou."

Wu Yong's thoughts were exposed by Mu Xu, making everyone despise him, especially Liu Tang, who was most indignant.Seeing Liu Tang's performance, the corners of Mu Xu's mouth turned up slightly, and he was very satisfied, and finally he didn't waste his efforts.

To put it bluntly, Mu Xu said so much today, not to clear up Song Jiang's confusion.His real intentions are twofold, that is, to separate Chao Gai and Wu Yong first, and then to further provoke the relationship between Chao Gai and Song Jiang.

Someone may ask, what does this have to do with Song Jiang?In fact, it has a lot to do with it, because Mu Xu understands that if there is no external interference, Song Jiang will still take the road of falling grass after all.

Don't look at Song Jiang's desire to eat Wu Yong at this moment, but when he really joins Chao Gai's gang, he will hook up with Wu Yong soon.

The reason is very realistic, as mentioned above, that is, Song Jiang and Wu Yong have the same ambitions.The real purpose of the two of them becoming bandits was never to occupy the mountain and become king, but to attract the attention of the Song Dynasty court, and finally seek to recruit security and change their official status for themselves.

This is not Mu Xu's nonsense, but a precedent. Take the top ten Jiedu envoys who have appeared in the Water Margin as an example. Most of them are bandits who were recruited.

In the final analysis, the source still lies with the Song court.Due to the involuntary land annexation in the Song Dynasty, many people had no way out, so they had no choice but to stand up and take risks, choosing to become bandits.

Therefore, in order to save trouble and not kill so many people, the Song Dynasty chose to recruit these people and incorporated them into the Central Forbidden Army or the local Xiang Army.This is why the Song Dynasty currently has millions of local troops and [-] forbidden troops, and it is also an important reason for the low combat power of the Song Army.

Back to the beginning, if Chao Gai had a rift with Wu Yong today, he would definitely guard against Song Jiang when Song Jiang and Wu Yong got close in the future.At that time, if Song Jiang thought about it again, as in the original book, he would easily evacuate Chao Gai, and then usurp his position as the leader. It would not be so smooth sailing.

When Mu Xu promised Chai to come to see Song Jiang earlier, he was still full of reluctance, but he didn't expect that it was such a coincidence that he happened to meet Liu Tang to give Song Jiang a gift, which was really an unexpected joy.

After Mu Xu finished talking about Wu Yong's conspiracy, everyone scolded for a while, then changed the topic to other places, and began to change glasses. After nearly two hours of drinking, they came out of the restaurant.

When he got out of the restaurant, Liu Tang knew that he was about to get into a catastrophe today, so he didn't dare to stay for long, he confessed his crimes with several people, and hurried away.

Seeing that Liu Tang could be considered gone, Song Jiang dropped a stone from his heart, and said with a smile, "Seeing the two noble brothers today, Song Jiang is very happy in his heart, and he will inevitably drink too much wine for a while, and his mouth is dry at this time, why don't you go?" How about a cup of tea at the Qianjie Teahouse?"

Mu Xu and Chai Jin naturally agreed, and the group turned out of the alley and followed Song Jiang to the teahouse. As soon as they reached the street, a woman suddenly stopped the crowd and asked Song Jiang for help.

The old woman called herself Yan Po, and according to her, the three of them came to Tokyo to sing for a living. Yesterday, Mr. Yan died of a sudden illness. She heard about Song Jiang's reputation for helping those in need, so she came here to ask for help.

Song Jiang heard about this, gave the old woman a coffin, and rewarded her with ten taels of silver, and wanted to send her away, but Mu Xu, who wanted to watch from the sidelines, stopped the old woman.

(End of this chapter)