The famous book tour starting from the Red House

Chapter 399 Yanqing worships the mountain
Hearing Peng Qi's persuasion, Hu Yanzhuo was hesitating, when he saw a small official coming in from the yamen lobby, he bowed to the two of them, "You are polite, my lord, please meet me in the back hall."

Hu Yanzhuo and the two of them didn't suspect him, so they followed the little official. When they didn't want to pass by the backyard, a dozen government servants rushed out suddenly, and they wanted to arrest him. The two of them were frightened and angry, and immediately made a move. .

How could these yamen servants be Hu Yanzhuo's opponents? A few people were beaten to death in just a moment, and the rest rushed away when they saw that the situation was not good. What's the meaning of this thieves?"

The little official looked at the blood-stained knife in Peng Qi's hand, and trembled in fear, "General, please forgive me, don't do the villain's business, this is all ordered by the county magistrate."

Hu Yanzhuo threatened, "You tell me clearly, otherwise you will definitely be executed!"

The little official didn't dare to deceive anything, so he hurriedly recruited everything he knew, but the county magistrate saw that Yuncheng County was besieged because of Hu Yanzhuo, and was afraid of endangering his own life and future, so he wanted to send the two of them together Capture him and send him to the Liangshan army outside the city, in exchange for the opponent's retreat.

Hu Yanzhuo was humiliated by the county magistrate before, and today he heard that he wanted to harm him, how could he bear it, he immediately asked where the county magistrate was, went out and mobilized a hundred soldiers to settle accounts with the county magistrate.

Peng Qi wanted to persuade, but suddenly his heart moved, and he added fuel to the fire, "General, please don't spare this dog official. If you don't give this guy a hard time, the Ming Dynasty will definitely slander me against the court."

Hearing this, Hu Yanzhuo became even more furious. He rushed into the magistrate's mansion with his soldiers and horses, dragged him out like a dead dog, and yelled loudly, "You are the same official as me, why do you want to do this?" Such a despicable thing?"

The county magistrate decided that Hu Yanzhuo didn't dare to kill him, so he said eloquently, "You have the face to speak with the army, if you weren't for your incompetence, how could you attract Liangshan strong men?"

"You..." Hu Yanzhuo's face was flushed red, and he couldn't even speak clearly.

The county magistrate refused to let go, "If you are sensible, I will let you go. If not, you will be sued to the court and you will be punished for the crime of secretly collaborating with thieves!"

Hu Yanzhuo wanted to refute, but Peng Qi suddenly stepped forward, pointed at the county magistrate, and yelled, "You dare to sue the wicked first, it is clear that you, a dog official, colluded with the bandits, otherwise why Yuncheng County is so close to Liangshan, but it can be flat? Ann?"

After finishing speaking, he pulled out the knife from his waist and wiped Nazhi County's neck with one stroke.

Hu Yanzhuo wanted to stop him, but he was a step too late, so he had to pause and said, "Why bother to kill him? If this is the case, wouldn't it be more crimes for us, and it's hard to justify?"

Peng Qi replied, "How can you be so naive, General? Don't forget that Gao Taiwei is solely responsible for the conquest of Liangshan this time. How could he easily let us off in order to escape punishment from the officials?"

Hu Yanzhuo sighed, "Forget it, the matter has come to this, what can I say!"

On the same day, Hu Yanzhuo and Peng Qi gathered up the defeated soldiers and went to Liangshanbo.When the two arrived at the golden beach by boat, they saw Mu Xu was waiting there for a long time with Han Tao alone.

The two of them didn't dare to be negligent, they hurried forward to kneel down and bowed, Hu Yanzhuo said, "The bereaved dog has nowhere to go now, I beg the village master to take it in!"

Mu Xu helped them up with a smile, comforted them a lot, and then invited them to go to the village together.On the way, Peng Qi begged,

"Once the report of surrendering Guizhai is reported to Tokyo, the imperial court will punish our family members for crimes. I also ask the village master to show kindness and bring my family members up to the mountain so as not to be involved."

Mu Xu couldn't wait for this, so he immediately agreed, "What's the difficulty? Tomorrow, I will send someone to hurry up and fetch the family members to reunite with the three brothers."

The few people thanked them, they passed three passes while talking, entered the mountain stronghold, and came to the Juyi Hall, where the leader of the mountain had already been waiting here, Mu Xu formally introduced Hu Yanzhuo and the three of them, and ordered the people to put up a trap Banquet, clean up the dust for them.

During the banquet, everyone was pushing glasses and changing glasses, so it was very lively, when suddenly a minion came in, went straight to Xu Guanzhong, and whispered something to him.

A smile appeared on Xu Guanzhong's face, he waved his hand to signal the minion to go down, then got up and came to Mu Xu, and whispered, "Village Master, Xiaosheng has some private matters to do, let me leave first."

Mu Xu didn't think too much, and just asked casually, "Seeing the military commander's face is full of joy, I don't know what good things happened, why don't you tell me?"

Xu Guanzhong replied truthfully, "Today, a clerk from the restaurant at the foot of the mountain came to report. Little brother Yi came to visit me, so I want to meet him."

Mu Xu paused while holding the wine glass, rolled his eyes slightly, and said, "That's not right, Brother Yi and I are old acquaintances, since we came here, of course we have to be a landlord, so as not to let him laugh at me and wait for impoliteness. "

Guan Zhong was not allowed to shirk at the moment, so he called Zhu Gui over, gave him an order, and ordered him to send someone to the wine shop at the foot of the mountain, and respectfully invite Yan Qing to go up the mountain to have a talk.

Seeing this, Xu Guanzhong had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​going to see Yan Qing in person, sat down again, and waited with peace of mind.

After half an hour like this, Zhu Gui came to report that Yan Qing had arrived at the Golden Beach and was heading up the mountain.When Mu Xu heard the words, he immediately apologized to the brothers in the hall, and hurried away with Xu Guanzhong.

The two left the cottage, walked all the way down, and finally met Yan Qing on the mountainside, met each other, Mu Xu wanted to invite Yan Qing to the cottage as a guest.

Yan Qing hastily declined, "Thank you brother for your kindness, but the villain has important business to do, so he can't stay for a long time, let's gossip here for a while."

Mu Xu didn't force it, pointed to a nearby pavilion and said, "Since that's the case, let's go to Duanjin Pavilion ahead to talk."

The two of them had nothing to do, they went to Duanjin Pavilion with Mu Xu and sat down, Xu Guanzhong then asked, "Xiaoyi has never been out of Beijing, why did he come to Jeju today?"

Yan Qing explained, "Because my master is going to Qingzhou to do business, the villain will accompany him all the way. When he was passing through the capital of Jizhou, he thought that the two virtuous brothers were here, so he asked the master for leave and came to pay a special visit."

Xu Guanzhong didn't ask any further questions, he only thanked Yan Qing for his kindness, but Mu Xu suddenly asked, "Dare to ask Brother Yi, why Yuanwai went to Qingzhou?"

Yan Qing had a look of embarrassment on his face, and he clasped his fists and replied, "Brother, please forgive me, this matter concerns the privacy of my master, so I'm sorry that the villain can't tell you bluntly."

As soon as Mu Xu heard this, he immediately confirmed the conjecture in his heart, and seeing him smile calmly,
"Brother misunderstood me. The reason why I asked this question was just because I was worried about the safety of Yuanwai Lu. Now Song Jiang and others are entrenched on the Qingfeng Mountain. They are currently pulling people up the mountain to join the gang. Fame, if you let them know where it is, will they not be indifferent?"

"Ah... this?" Yan Qing looked at Xu Guanzhong, and asked in disbelief, "Then Song Gongming and Shiyu are so famous, how could they do such a thing?"

Although Xu Guanzhong didn't know why Mu Xu said this, it didn't prevent him from giving Song Jiang eye drops, and then told Yan Qing what happened to Hua Rong and Zhu Dian. Finally, he concluded,
"The owner of my family is not scaremongering. With Song Jiang and Wu Yong as people, if he knew that Yuanwai Lu was in Qingzhou, he might really be forced to go up the mountain and fall into the grass."

When Yan Qing heard that even Xu Guanzhong said the same thing, if he could sit still, he immediately got up to leave and went to remind Lu Junyi.

Seeing that Yan Qing was about to leave, Mu Xu hurriedly pulled him back and persuaded him, "Brother, don't worry, this is just my guess, and things may not be that bad."

Yan Qing smiled wryly, "Now that things are up to now, I will no longer hide the two virtuous brothers. My master came to Shandong not to do business at all, but was deceived by a prophecy of a quack warlock and went to Shandong to find a way to rescue him. .”

Hearing these words, Xu Guanzhong and Mu Xu looked at each other in dismay.The difference is that Xu Guanzhong was really surprised, while Mu Xu pretended to be, and even expressed concern,
"Brother Yi, can you tell me what the warlock looks like?"

Yan Qing replied, "The sorcerer is a middle-aged scholar in his thirties, with a white face and beard, nothing special about him, but the Daoist boy who follows him, who is big and thick, fierce, with eyes like copper bells, and extremely dark skin .”

After Mu Xu heard this, he patted his thigh without thinking, and said, "Oh, Yuanwai Lu has caught the trick this time. If what I expected is correct, then the Warlock and the Daoist are obviously Wu Yong and Li Kui in disguise. This move is probably very malicious."

(End of this chapter)