The arm is strong and the bow is accurate, and the body is light and the horse is like flying. Bend two lying silkworm eyebrows, Feng Zhuluan Xiang's children. The battle armor wears willow leaves, and the black scarf obliquely wears flower branches. often follow the treasure to serve Danqi, and Xu Ning, the god hand, is not right.
----- "Water Margin"
However, it was said that Hu Yanzhuo used a chain of horse formations and defeated the Liangshan military horses. Song Jiang hurriedly sent Shi Qian, Tang Long, and Le He to ask Xu Ning to go up the mountain to help. After Xu Ning went up the mountain, he selected a group of strong elite soldiers, set up a hook and sickle gun battalion, practiced marksmanship day and night, and taught the infantry how to hide in the forest and grass, and how to use the hook and sickle gun to defeat the enemy.
Song Jiang sighed that although there was a hook and sickle, there was no suitable place to set up an ambush, and Xu Ning said that he observed that the area on the west side of Liangshan Mountain was lush with vegetation and was a good place to set up an ambush. After hearing this, Song Jiang agreed, and immediately ordered Liu Tang and Xu Ning to go down the mountain together to survey the terrain.
Liu Tang and Xu Ning carefully observed the terrain along the way. Suddenly, Liu Tang found that there were traces of soldiers and horses passing nearby. Xu Ning immediately went over to check, only to see a horse's hoof prints hidden in the grass, obviously Hu Yanzhuo's sentinel had just left.
Liu Tang couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Fortunately, I didn't meet them, and I would be caught off guard in case of encounter." Xu Ning said: "Hu Yanzhuo should be busy celebrating now, judging from the traces, their men and horses should only be about 100 horses." As soon as Xu Ning's words fell, he suddenly saw a ragged man rushing out of the woods, followed by several big men. The big men cursed in their mouths, obviously chasing after the person in front of them.
The man was only concerned about running for his life, not noticing Xu Ning and Liu Tang, stumbling behind Xu Ning's horse and sitting directly on the ground. The big men were about to get this person, but they saw Xu Ning and Liu Tang riding horses, dressed extraordinarily, they knew that there were often people and horses in Liangshan here, so they stopped, and bowed to Xu Ning for the leader of the big man and said: "The leader has worked hard." ”
Xu Ning saw that these people were dressed like local gentry and domestic servants, so he asked them why they were chasing after the man. The big man replied, "Tell the chief, that man has borrowed two hundred taels of silver from our master, and the deadline for repayment has long been reached, but he has been delaying the repayment, and he has only taken a few taels of silver and wants to get away with it." Although the master was lenient, he could not tolerate this kind of behavior, so he asked him to pay back the money within a time limit. But he wants to run away and pay his debts!"
The ragged man hurriedly crawled to Xu Ning's horse and explained: "The leader is aware that the villain didn't want to escape, but he couldn't stand the beating, so he hid for a while, and didn't want to pay the bill." Xu Ning looked at this person, and saw that although he was in rags, he looked like a down-and-out scholar, so he asked, "Since you are so poor, why do you borrow so much silver?" The man replied: "The villain did not borrow so much, but only borrowed twenty taels for the old lady to see a doctor." At that time, He Guanren said that it was one cent of profit, but who knew that when the housekeeper collected the account, one point became three points, and the profit rolled every month. The villain couldn't afford it, so he had to pawn and sell Bo Tian, and now there are only two thatched huts left. ”
Xu Ning was silent after hearing this, and Liu Tang turned to the big men and asked, "Is there anything wrong with what he just said?"
The big men hurriedly arched their hands and said, "The villain doesn't dare to lie. It is true that his wife is sick, but the money he borrowed is not used for treatment, but because he is addicted to gambling. The neighbors had long been reluctant to lend him money, and the officials of my family, out of kindness, saw that his wife was seriously ill, so they lent him twenty taels to ask for a doctor. He didn't go to the doctor, but took the money and went to the casino, and by the time we found him, the twenty taels of silver had already been lost. My family officials gave him another twenty taels, and the result was still the same. ”
The down-and-out scholar suddenly trembled, and retorted angrily: "You are talking nonsense, He Guanren didn't give me any more money at all!"
Xu Ning calmly observed the changes in the expressions of these two people, and found that Dahan was not angry when he was interrupted, but continued:
"My family officials borrowed money from him twice, and they made it clear that if he really used the money on his wife, even if he couldn't repay the debt, no one would force him, but if he wasted the money on the casino, he would have to recover it with interest. That's why we were ordered to collect the debt. ”
Xu Ning smiled after hearing this: "It seems that your family is really a person who persuades people to be kind." ”
Dahan nodded his head again and again, but Liu Tang was suspicious, and said to Xu Ning in a low voice: "The words of the people on both sides are not right, someone must be lying, brother should not be gullible." ”
Xu Ning responded in a low voice: "Brother is right, they may all have something to hide." But we cannot sit idly by and put debtors at risk. ”
The leader of the big man bowed respectfully and said, "Chief, if you have nothing else to do, the villain will take this person back to report to He Guanren." ”
Xu Ning frowned and asked, "What is the surname of the official of your family, and who is his name?" Dahan bowed and said: "The official of my family is surnamed He, named Tao, who was originally an observer of Jeju, and later resigned and returned to his hometown, and now lives in Dongping Village, which is ten miles away from here. ”
Liu Tang listened to it and said with a smile: "I said, it turned out to be He Observation of the arrest of Shengchengang back then." He said it unintentionally, but when several big men heard it, they looked embarrassed. Xu Ning saw that their faces were different, and he didn't understand the reason, so Liu Tang explained: "Back then, Brother Chao Gai, Wu Junshi, Gongsun Daochang, and the Ruan brothers intercepted Cai Jing's birthday, and the Jeju prefect sent He Tao to arrest him. Unexpectedly, He Tao was caught by the Ruan brothers and his ears were cut off. ”
Xu Ning had a plan in his heart, so he said to several big men: "You go back first, I have an old relationship with your master, let He Tao come to me in person, I have something to say to him." The big man said with a sad face: "This is a family matter of the son, and I don't dare to bother the leader." ”
Xu Ning said angrily: "You only tell He Tao that Xu Ning is here, he doesn't dare not come!"
Liu Tang looked at the down-and-out scholar, and Xu Ning found an excellent hiding place in the forest. There are strange rocks and depressions, and the barren grass is hidden, which is a good place to hide soldiers. Liu Tang asked Xu Ning to wait for He Tao in the same place, he immediately returned to the camp and told Song Jiang about the situation, Song Jiang was overjoyed, so he ordered him to take dozens of minions to hide the crossbow and arrow mechanism in the forest.
After everything was arranged, Liu Tang and Xu Ning found a stone on the side of the road and sat down, the scholar had exhausted himself at this time, his face returned to normal, and Xu Ning asked him his name and family history. The scholar said that his surname was Xun, Gaozu was the famous strategist Xun Yu during the Three Kingdoms, his grandfather used to be a petty official, he studied since he was a child, hoping to make a name for himself in the imperial examination, but then his family background fell, and he also broke off the idea of studying.
Xu Ning sighed and said: "People are poor, you are also a family of scholars, you have fallen to such a point, how much silver have you borrowed from He Tao? Have you ever gambled? Have you ever taken care of the old lady? Tell me one by one, if you hide it, I will hand you over to He Tao to dispose of." ”
Xun said: "I do have something to hide, first of all, it is true that I borrowed money to see my mother, and it is also true that the He family increased the borrowed money by three points." The gambling was because the He family instigated me to go to his casino to win money to pay off the debt, and when I lost, he lent it to me again, so that I owed more and more money. ”
Xu Ning listened to the scolding and said: "What an observation, he is so black-hearted! It turns out that this person is not like this." ”
刘唐问道：“兄长，您也识得何涛？”
Xu Ning said: "When I was young, I went to Yuncheng with my father, and I had a brief intersection with the He family at that time. Although He Tao is older than me, his martial arts are not as good as mine. The old lady of the He family begged my father many times to take He Tao as an apprentice and teach him some martial arts. My father had to agree because of his feelings, so my father was He Tao's enlightenment master, and we were brothers. It's just that later he conquered Liangshan, but I didn't know, and I didn't hear about his ear being cut off, maybe he was afraid of ruining his reputation and refused to tell the public. (To be continued)