The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

However, after thinking about it for many days, Shui Rong, king of Beijing County, finally figured it out, called Zhong Heng, and promised to let him go to Luzhou.Zhong Heng was very happy and grateful, bowing down again and again.Shui Rong changed the subject and said with a smile: "You are not young anymore, it's time to marry a wife."

Zhong Heng blushed and said, "Uncle is in charge of this matter."

Shui Rong thought for a while, and said: "Since you are serving as a military officer in Luzhou, you can't do it without manpower. You can take a few brothers with you."

Zhong Heng was overjoyed: "My lord, are you serious?"

Shui Rong sighed: "You have worked for Xiao Wang for many years, but Xiao Wang has never thought about your lifelong event. It is Xiao Wang's fault. If brothers have the same peace of mind as you, let them follow you."

Zhong Heng hurriedly bowed to express his gratitude, and said: "If the prince wants to send troops overseas, it is better to go to the countries of South Seas such as Cochin and Siam. Anyway, the prince has a navy. Now all the kings want to go to Dongying to make a fortune, why bother to fight with them?" ?”

Shui Rong wondered: "Why are they all going to Dongying? Didn't King Chen and King Wu Huo Sheng catch them all, how much can they have left? Why don't they go to Korea?"

Zhong Heng said: "One is that the Japanese pirates have harassed our territory and killed our people for hundreds of years. It is quite legitimate to attack Dongpu; There are three silver mines in Japan. It’s just that most of those silver mines have been mined for hundreds of years, and there are not many left. In fact, even if all the silver mines are taken away, someone still needs to dig them? The prince went straight to Jiaozhi and Siam to open the treasury Isn’t it good?” Jia Cong casually said about the silver mine on the way from Ezhou to Luzhou that day, and he remembered it.

Shui Rong was shocked and said: "You have such insight! I underestimated you." Nai sighed again, "That's right, it's been many years..." He suddenly laughed.

Zhong Heng asked inexplicably: "Why is the prince laughing?"

Shui Rong smiled and said: "In the past, Cong'er used to say a few witty words." There was a piece of precious osmanthus cake placed in front of me. I never cherished it very much. I didn't regret it until it fell to the ground. this.'"

Zhong Heng couldn't help laughing and said: "My subordinates have also heard that it's not osmanthus cake, but mung bean soup. Why did God give him another chance, and he just said three words to the kitchen, put less sugar."

Shui Rong said: "I just thought of this. Once a rare general was placed in front of me. I never cherished it. I regretted it until he resigned."

Zhong Heng lowered his head and said: "This subordinate has owed the prince a great favor, and he will definitely repay it in the future."

Shui Rong shook his head and said, "Don't worry about it." He sighed again, and waved him away.Zhong Heng saluted again and withdrew.

The next day, Zhong Heng got up and rushed back to the cottage, and told all the brothers that he had found his uncle and wanted to go to Luzhou to live a stable life, and everyone was very reluctant.Zhong Heng said: "The prince intends to send troops overseas. If the brothers fight the enemy bravely, they will surely achieve great success." He also asked if anyone would like to go to Luzhou with him.A dozen or so brothers who used to follow that leader Zhao and had a close relationship with him in recent years stood up and said they were willing to join him; on the contrary, the ones he took in from Pingan Prefecture in the early years looked at each other for a long time, and no one was willing to follow him. Walk.Zhong Heng sighed softly, bid farewell to everyone, and led a dozen brothers to stand up.

All the way to Luzhou, I went to the inn to ask, Zhong Wei had already bought a shop and moved away.Zhong Heng and others rushed to the teahouse.When I got to the back, I saw that Zhong Wei was teaching Kung Fu to King Xiaolu.Although the prince is short and his moves are somewhat chaotic, he is very attentive, Zhong Heng is quite relieved to see it.Suddenly King Lu saw him, and rushed over with a loud "Aw".Zhong Heng smiled and hugged the little disciple in his arms, full of joy.There is no need to elaborate on the reunion of uncles and nephews.

After a few days, someone came to report that a group of bandits had recently arrived outside Luzhou City, and they robbed two granaries and many wealthy households in a row, but fortunately they did not hurt anyone.King Lu ordered Du Dequ to appease the bandits.Du Dequ was not happy that they had opened so many schools in the city, but they only asked for the soldiers' salary and refused to leave.Zeng Wei had no choice but to negotiate with Lu Wang and others to transfer some money to him from other places.The King of Lu was unhappy, and complained to Zhong Heng angrily: "I hate that Du Dequ the most! It's not easy to train soldiers, and I only think about calculating money all day long." Zhong Heng just pretended not to hear, and ordered him to learn martial arts. .King Lu had no choice but to pout his lips and stride his horse, but luckily he did it fairly steadily.

After King Lu finished school, Zhong Heng returned to the teahouse and said to Zhong Wei: "Uncle, they are just bandits, why don't you lead me to have a look?"

Zhong Wei immediately understood what he meant, and said with a light smile, "Forget it, my arms and legs are not old yet."

The two uncles and nephews tidied up a little, and the two rode out of the city, and rushed all the way to the place where the bandits were entrenched, and reached the foot of the mountain when the sun was setting.With Zhong Wei's ability, it is not difficult for him to go up the mountain alone to kill the bandit leader; because he took his nephew today, he had to teach him a few tricks, so it took some effort.Fortunately, Zhong Heng has also been a bandit for many years, so it's easy to move around.And Zhong Heng is very familiar with banditry, so he found the bandit's den easily.

It was already winter, it was getting dark very early, and there was a bright moon hanging in the sky.Bandit dens are nothing more than random tents.Zhong Wei looked up and praised: "There are three talents in line! This bandit leader is a capable person. If he can be subdued, it's better not to kill him."

Zhong Heng looked at it, and said with a smile: "We usually have such an formation when we march outside the village. Is this the formation of three talents?"

Zhong Wei's heart was filled with compassion, and he said after a while: "You don't know the art of war! But you can form a formation of three talents. It can be seen that the talent is not inferior to others. I will teach you the formations commonly used in the army from tomorrow on." Zhong Heng pursed his lips in response "yes".

The two of them sneaked around the two patrolling bandits and sneaked behind, first looked at the tent.Zhong Wei praised again: "What a tent!" Nai listened carefully, but there was no voice inside, and two people stood guard at the front, and said with a smile, "Where to put money." There are neatly stacked boxes inside, obviously moved out of someone else's warehouse.

Zhong Heng glanced at it, feeling weird, so he glanced a few more times.Zhong Wei asked: "Can you see what's wrong?"

Zhong Heng said: "These boxes are not in piles. How can ordinary Bandit loot things be arranged so neatly? It seems to be placed in a warehouse."

Zhong Wei said: "Or is the king of this family thoughtful?"

"That shouldn't be higher than the lower one." Zhong Heng opened some tent openings made by his uncle to let in more moonlight, and said, "And why are the boxes in each stack of the same shape? Could it be that the bandits robbed Is the property still divided according to the family where it came from?"

Zhong Wei said: "You have been in the bandits for many years, you are always robbing merchants, and you rarely communicate with others. There is also a kind of bandits that several gangsters form a gang to commit crimes, and when dividing the spoils, it depends on which one is which gang. of."

Nai approached the tent door quietly, and there were two bandits guarding the door gossiping.Zhong Heng didn't even see how his uncle made a move, the two of them had already fallen down, and secretly clicked their tongues in their hearts, feeling somewhat joyful.The two left the tent, Zhong Wei said: "Take these two people to interrogate later."

Zhong Heng nodded, looked down, and was stunned: "Ding Laosi!" Then looked at the other one beside him, "Wang Zhuzi! Why are they?"

Zhong Wei frowned: "You know?"

Zhong Heng said: "It's my former subordinate." After thinking for a moment, he walked lightly to another tent and recognized him at a glance.Turning around and telling Zhong Wei, "They are all mine."

Zhong Wei thought for a moment, then smiled and said: "I roughly understand why the tent just now looks like a warehouse."

Then he turned around and woke up the two bandits.The two of them opened their eyes in a daze, and they were overjoyed: "Lord Zhong! You're here!"

Zhong Heng looked at them and asked, "What's going on?"

The two of them didn't answer, and shouted: "The hour leader is here——the hour leader is here—" There was a huge commotion, and countless bandits came out of the tents, shouting, "Where is the hour leader— —”

Not long after, a short fat man hurried over, clasped his fists to Zhong Heng and said, "I was thinking about going to find the leader in the next few days, but you always came first!"

Zhong Heng vaguely had some thoughts in his mind, and asked angrily: "Quickly tell me! What's going on?"

The short fat man smiled and invited him to go to the big tent in front with all the bandits, and poured two bowls of hot water for their uncle and nephew before starting from the beginning.

These people were not Shui Rong's subordinates, but ordinary bandits in Ping'an Prefecture.Back then, leader Zhao wanted to rob Rongguo Mansion and Ping'an Prefecture to send the birthday gifts to Jia Taijun's Gao family in Chang'an, so he ordered Zhong Heng to subdue them, and then ordered Zhong Heng to lead them to besiege the birthday gift convoy first, and then lead others to rescue , so that Gao Ying, who was escorting the birthday gift, would be negligent in taking precautions, and then take advantage of the night to rob.Not wanting Zhong Heng to have other ideas, the group of teenagers in Rongguo Mansion are not easy.Afterwards, these bandits followed Zhong Heng in the water solution.Because Shui Rong's original soldiers were all decent soldiers of the imperial court, he somewhat looked down on this group of serious bandits, and he never stayed on the same mountain with Shui Rong's people.Although they were all led by Zhong Heng, the people on both sides did not communicate much.

About a month ago, Ge Qiao, the owner of Panlong Village, suddenly went to their village, and told the brothers early on that Zhong Heng might not be able to be a bandit anymore because of his family.Everyone was shocked, and immediately worried that the newly replaced chieftain would look down on them, and all the luggage and property would favor those people.

Ge Qiao then said: "I only say this, and you only listen to it. The lord of Luzhou, King Lu, is young, and his soldiers and horses are all in the hands of Du Dequ, the appeasement envoy. Du Dequ is greedy and doesn't listen to King Lu very much. Brothers all know that Zhong Tou Ling has superb skills. As the saying goes, being pregnant is like being pregnant. As long as you have it, you will be noticed sooner or later. Zhong Tou Ling was under the rule of King Lu, and sooner or later he was regarded as a great sage and invited to be a military officer. It's just that if he is capable, but he has no official position, no credit, and no subordinates, he will be bullied by Du Dequ." The brothers looked at each other in blank dismay.He then laughed and said, "If you miss the leader of the hour, you might as well move to Luzhou, rob some wealthy households, and then contact the leader of the hour, let him ride up the mountain alone to recruit hundreds of bandits, and show them off in front of the King of Lu and the people of Luzhou." A face. In this way, he has credit and subordinates, but he still has no official position and no future? You follow him and become a court officer and soldier, and you secretly change your clothes and resume your old jobs in your spare time, wouldn’t it be good?”

When everyone heard this, they all said it was a good idea.It's just that they are still water-soluble people on the surface.So at that moment Zhong Wei asked who was interested in coming to Luzhou with him, but no one said a word; in fact, they all made up their minds secretly, as soon as Zhong Wei left, they set up camp and set up camp all the way to Luzhou, and acted according to plan.

When the Rongguo Mansion invited Zhong Heng to see his uncle, it was Liu Xianglian of Panlong Mountain who made the connection.Others don't know, but Zhong Heng naturally knows that Panlong Mountain has something to do with Rongguo Mansion, and this matter is obviously the idea of ​​the Jia family brothers.Can't help laughing: "I owe him another favor!" Nai looked at everyone, "Are you really willing to follow me?"

All the brothers were overjoyed and shouted in unison: "Yes! Follow the bell!"

"Okay." Zhong Heng said, "Since everyone is willing to follow the surname Zhong, I will not let you down!"

"Follow the leader of the hour—follow the leader of the hour—" The cheers rang out, and the old birds on the mountain fluttered into the air.Zhong Wei nodded secretly, feeling extremely proud.

In the early morning of the next day, the uncle and nephew of the Zhong family led a large group of bandits and returned to Luzhou City in a mighty manner, carrying many property that the bandits robbed in Luzhou.The whole city is like boiling oil!Everyone on the street is discussing: the hero Zhong who taught the Lu Wang Qiansui martial arts and the boss Zhong from the Yuezhi Tea House are both rare heroes in this world!The two rode together, broke into the bandit's den at night, and fought against more than 700 bandits.The bandits first fought with wheels, and then swarmed up, and all of them were beaten to the ground!These bandits were subdued by them!Now the king of Lu has issued an order to recruit these bandits into the king's personal guard battalion, and he ordered the hero Zhong Heng to lead the battalion as the captain of Zhongxian.He also ordered all the wealthy households who had been thieves to come to Luwang Mansion to collect the robbed property, and return many of the original items.Those rich families who had suffered were all so happy that they burst into tears, and they all claimed that the two Zhong heroes were gods who came to save the suffering.

Such a hero, none of them has a daughter-in-law! !Especially Lieutenant Xiao Zhong, who is young, strong in martial arts, and handsome, commanding King Lu's personal guard battalion, and also King Lu's martial master!There is no need to calculate the future, everyone knows it.Who among the big girls in the city doesn't want to marry him?In just three days, two thresholds of Yuezhi Tea House were broken!It's all done by matchmakers.

Zhong Wei was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.I don't care about the business of the tea house, and I only see various matchmakers, look at various portraits, and choose my nephew and daughter-in-law carefully every day.It's just that the two of them are a little strange.One family used to be the Imperial Academy of the Central Academy of Beijing. Due to the great change in the imperial court and depression in their hearts, they brought their whole family to Luzhou recently; the other family was a wealthy businessman from Yangzhou.It's not that the girls from these two families are not good, Zhong Wei just thinks that they don't need to marry Zhong Heng.No matter how heroic Zhong Heng is, he is just a martial artist, and he can't reach the top.

He then sent a pigeon to the capital and asked Shi Li to investigate the two families.I didn't want Shi Li to do things very quickly, and it didn't take long for a pigeon to send a message: that Hanlin is from the Prince of Beijing County, Shui Rong, and Lord Shui Rong once saved the lives of his whole family, and he entered the Hanlin Academy through Shui Rong.The rich businessman is the brother-in-law of Lu Wang's uncle Zeng Ting.Zhong Wei didn't say a word when he saw it, he just showed the letter to Zhong Heng.

Zhong Heng was shocked: "Prince Beijing! Why is he trying to marry me?"

"My nephew is a general. He didn't investigate before, but he only realized it after he had allowed you to leave the village. He felt very sorry and wanted to win you over." Zhong Wei said with a sneer, "Before Mr. Cong left He also told me that there are five daughters in Zeng's family, all of them are used to win others over. If they want to marry their daughters to you, I'd better not agree. Both of us are honest people, so we can't plot against their family. Who knows The family is not willing to give our family their own girl."

Zhong Heng was silent for a moment, then slowly shook his head and sighed.