The famous book tour starting from the Red House

Chapter 355
It is said that Song Jiang asked Chao Gai and his party to invite him to the cottage for entertainment. During the meeting, he was inevitably asked why he came to Qingzhou, so Song Jiang had no choice but to tell the story of Yan Poxi who killed him.

When Chao Gai heard about this, he immediately asked Song Jiang to join the group and take the top spot.How could Song Jiang agree to it? He politely declined Chao Gai's kindness on the grounds of his father at home.

Chao Gai knew that Song Jiang was benevolent and filial, so he couldn't persuade him anymore, so he moved the conversation elsewhere, and offered Song Jiang wine with the leaders from time to time.As a result, Song Jiang was inevitably overwhelmed with alcohol, and soon he made a confession, and asked the little guy to lead him to clean his hands.

When returning after cleaning his hands, Song Jiang passed by a house, and suddenly heard a woman crying inside. He immediately remembered the woman who was captured by Deng Long at the foot of the mountain, so he asked that guy about it, and only heard him say,
"The woman inside is that woman. I even heard that she is Mrs. Zhizhai of Qingfeng Village."

Song Jiang was shocked when he heard the words, and thought, "Since I'm Huarong's wife, I have to save him."

Now Song Jiang returned to the banquet full of thoughts, exchanged glasses with everyone for a while, and when Deng Long toasted him, he said without losing the opportunity, "Brother Deng, Xiao Ke has something to ask, and I hope you will do it."

As soon as this remark came out, the wine table was suddenly quiet, Deng Long felt strange, but still said in a big way, "What does brother say, as long as the villain can do it, he will do anything, why do you need a word?"

Song Jiang picked up the wine glass, offered a toast to Deng Long, and said, "Thank you brother for your kindness, then Xiao Ke will be blunt. I hope brother can release the woman captured today. She is my old friend's wife."

When Deng Long heard this, he immediately thought of the beauty of the woman, and felt a little reluctant, but the words had already been spoken, like water being poured out, he really didn't know how to refuse.

Chao Gai didn't like Deng Long's behavior at all, but usually he was too scruples to reprimand him, so when he saw Song Jiang open his mouth this time, he took the opportunity to persuade him,

"My dear brother, although we become bandits, we only plunder those rich and heartless people and bully women who are powerless. After all, it is not the actions of heroes. If such behavior is spread in the world, I am afraid that it will make all heroes laugh. What's more, this woman is also the old wife of Gongming Xiandi, so she can't be rude."

First Song Jiang interceded, and then Chao Gai said. Although Deng Long was full of displeasure, he still ordered the woman to be brought and released in front of Song Jiang.

When the woman was brought, Song Jiang immediately stepped forward to inquire. Unexpectedly, he found out that he had made a big oolong. This woman had nothing to do with Huarong at all, but the wife of Liu Gao, Wen Zhizhai of Qingfeng Village.

According to common sense, Song Jiang shouldn't bother with this matter at this time, the woman should be returned to Deng Long, or the woman should be executed to silence her.But Song Jiang actually said in front of the woman that he was Huarong's friend in Wuzhizhai, and for Huarong's sake, he wanted to let her go.

Song Jiang's behavior made almost everyone present secretly praise him, thinking that he is a loyal man.Of course, there are exceptions. That person is Wu Yong, and he feels that Song Jiang's move has a lot of meaning.

Why Wu Yong thinks this way is actually very simple.Because Song Jiang is an old Jianghu, he will not be unclear. Once the woman returns, if she speaks more, then Huarong will be labeled as a collusion with thieves.

Wu Yong was the best at trying to figure out people's hearts and conspiracies, so he understood Song Jiang's thoughts after just a little calculation, which made his eyes shine, and he became even more enthusiastic about Song Jiang.

Song Jiang lived in Qingfeng Mountain like this for another two days. On the third day, he used the excuse of making an appointment with Huarong in advance, and under the escort of Chao Gai and others, he left Qingfeng Mountain and went to Qingfeng Village.

After arriving at Qingfengzhai, Hua Rong was overjoyed to see Song Jiang. First, he solemnly invited Song Jiang to his home, and then ordered his family to come to visit him. Finally, he personally moved Song Jiang's luggage to the guest room.In such a busy schedule, compared with when Mu Xu came here, he was even more enthusiastic.

After all the chores were done, Hua Rong invited Song Jiang to the banquet again. At this time, he had time to ask,

"In the past two years, my younger brother has sent six or seven letters to Songjiazhuang. I wanted to ask my brother to come again, but my elder brother refused on the grounds that he was busy with business. I don't know if he came here suddenly today without notifying my younger brother. I'm sorry. Go to Qingzhou to welcome brother!"

Song Jiang sighed, and told how he saved Chao Gai and his gang, how he met Mu Xu and Chai Jin, how Yan Shi threatened him, and how he killed him with a single knife, and at the end he smiled and told him Said about saving Liu Gao's family.

Unexpectedly, Hua Rong frowned immediately after hearing this, and complained in his mouth, "What did brother do to save that woman, just to teach someone to humiliate this bitch, and kill her by the way!"

Song Jiang said, "It's a mischief again. I heard that the woman is the wife of my virtuous brother's colleague, so I rescued her from the tiger's mouth because of my virtuous brother's face. Why do you say that?"

Hua Rong explained, "Brother, you don't know, that woman is the new lady Liu Gao from Wenzhi Village. This couple is not a good person. Since they came to Qingfeng Village, they have often bullied the townspeople and searched for their fat and anointing. Brother Why save her."

After drinking a glass of wine, Song Jiang persuaded Hua Rong, "Your brother is on a mission. Since ancient times, it has been said that enemies should be resolved rather than tied. He and you are colleagues and officials, and they have a lot of communication on weekdays. Besides, he is a well-educated person. Why don't you Admonish him? Although he has made some mistakes, you can hide the evil and promote the good. Brother, don’t be so shallow.”

In terms of words, Hua Rong is no match for Song Jiang, with only three or five words, Hua Rong is convinced, thinking that Song Jiang is thinking of him, and he is very grateful.

After another two glasses of wine, Hua Rong remembered that Song Jiang had just mentioned Mu Xu, so he smiled, "My little brother is still thinking about going to Yuncheng County in the future to introduce the brother of the Mu family to my brother, but I don't want you two to get acquainted first. .”

Song Jiang wondered, "Qingfengzhai is some distance away from Liangshan, how did my virtuous brother know Brother Namu?"

Hua Rong then told about Mu Xu's passing through Qingfeng Mountain and rescued the female family members of his subordinates, and praised him,
"Brother Mu's family is heroic, heroic and invincible. Just because he couldn't understand Wang Ying's group, who killed innocent people and insulted good women, he single-handedly picked up the entire Qingfeng Mountain in a fit of anger."

Seeing that Hua Rong respected Mu Xu so much, Song Jiang followed Hua Rong's words, "Brother Mu is indeed a rare hero in this world. He led people to do justice for the heavens in Liangshanbo, and never harmed the people nearby. People are very admirable."

That day, when he was full of wine and food, Song Jiang stayed at Huarong Mansion. Hua Rong ordered his family to greet Song Jiang every day, and even allocated money to accompany his subordinates. In the temple, it is fun to walk around.

After more than ten days like this, it coincided with the temple fair on the third day of March, and Hua Rong personally accompanied Song Jiang to have fun. It might as well be that the enemy's road is narrow, and was being seen by Mrs. Liu Gao, who immediately slandered Liu Gao and arrested Song Jiang. , was beaten severely, and was escorted to the state as a bandit.

When Hua Rong found out how he was willing to accept this, he led someone to snatch Song Jiang back. Song Jiang knew that it was not suitable to stay here for a long time, so he bid farewell in a hurry and wanted to flee elsewhere.It's fine if he doesn't leave, but this departure is falling into Liu Gao's scheme.

It turned out that Liu Gao had figured out that Song Jiang didn't dare to live in Huarong's mansion anymore, so he had people guard the main way out of Qingzhou, and Song Jiang was caught right away.

Then Liu Gao secretly detained Song Jiang, and then sent an official document to Murong Yanda, the prefect of Qingzhou, accusing Hua Rong of fornicating with the bandits.Murong Yanda had read the official document and did not dare to be negligent, so he ordered Huang Xin to fetch Hua Rong.

That Huang Xin claimed to be the town of Sanshan, although there is a suspicion of boasting, but he is not an idler, he rushed to Qingfengzhai at night to discuss the countermeasures with Liu Gao.

The next day, Huang Xin used the pretext of mediating the conflict between Hua Rong and Liu Gao to trick Hua Rong into going to Liu Gao for a drink. Hua Rong didn't know what it was, so he happily went to the appointment with two entourages.When he got there, he asked his followers to wait outside the door, and he entered Liu Gao's mansion alone. As one can imagine, he was surrounded by dozens of soldiers who had been ambushed in advance, and they were tightly bound.

Huarong refused to accept it at first, saying that he would sue the state to appeal. It was not until he saw Song Jiang who was beaten to pieces, that he knew that something was wrong, so he had to be arrested with his arms tied.

At this point, it should have been similar to the original book, except that the people who saved Song Jiang and the others changed from Wang Ying's group to Chao Gai's group, but something happened unexpectedly.

It turned out that when Huarong's followers saw their master was captured, they rushed back to report the news. Huarong's wife, Cui Shi, was just a woman, so how could they pay attention?Hua Baoyan didn't want to, but said, "Did sister-in-law forget about brother Mu's family, he and brother are inseparable, and will be able to rescue brother safely!"

That Hua Baoyan was in her youthful age, ever since she met Mu Xu, she has been thinking about it all the time, and often took out the jade ornaments Mu Xu gave her to play with, and today when she heard about her brother's accident, she naturally thought of Mu Xu.

At that moment, Hua Baoyan gave the jade ornaments to Hua Rong's cronies, and asked him to ride a fast horse and rush to Liangshanbo for rescue.

(End of this chapter)