Outside Suanzao Gate, Yang Zhi took the horse that Zou Run had given him and bid farewell to Zou Run.
They were surrounded by an endless stream of people. People dressed in brocade clothes and hairpins, holding various items needed for the New Year, were walking in the lively and noisy Bianliang, Tokyo, with their young and old, their wives and children in hand. Their faces were full of joy.
The emotions revealed by Yang Zhi were incompatible with those around him. During the journey, he suddenly didn't realize that when he was leaving, the feeling of reluctant attachment suddenly rose deep in his heart, which surprised Yang Zhi himself.
Yang Zhi had been brewing for a long time. There was a big green mark on his face, and even his skin and flesh could not help but tremble. He swallowed up and down his throat several times, and finally opened his mouth.
"Zouzhai... a high-ranking official, along the way, the Sa family knows that you have a beautiful heart and a strategic plan. You are a first-class talent to help the world. If you are not a good general, you are a good prime minister. It is not Yang Zhi seeking the advantage of words. , Surrendering to the green forest and grass is not a long-term solution. It is better to surrender to the DPRK..."
Zou Run still had a smile on his face. Looking at this man who was taking care of himself, he couldn't help but reach out and pat his shoulder. He did this move that was extremely inconsistent with his appearance and age as he wished and with ease.
"Zhi Envoy, it's time to stay. In the beginning, Zou never once said that he wanted to let Zhi Envoy stay in this place. Today, I would also like to ask Zhi Envoy not to open his mouth to persuade me to enter the officialdom. We have been together for several days, and we have talked freely. Now that I think about it, it can be said that Heart to heart. Being able to restrain yourself from saying this today is enough to prove that this action is not false, and this feeling is not false... This is enough."
Considering Yang Zhi's character, the fact that he was able to say the above words shows that he already regards Zou Run as a true friend, which is really valuable and cannot be bought with money. You must know that in the original work, Yang Zhi fell before the grass, but ten thousand people looked down on these reckless heroes.
Even if Lin Chong, the instructor of the 800,000-strong imperial army with outstanding martial arts skills, learned that he had fallen into the trap and became a bandit, even though he knew that Lin Chong was framed by Gao Qiu, Yang Zhi did not have the slightest sympathy. From beginning to end, there was not even a trace of face. He didn't say any comforting words, he just kept asking to go down the mountain quickly, for fear of getting even remotely related to this group of thieves.
Friendships with others are reciprocated, so Zou Run couldn't help but warn:
"With this friendship, Zou went overboard once and said some unpleasant words - Zhizhi is gone. If the result is good, everything will stop. We are also sincerely happy for Zhizhi, and you and I should do it. Forgetting each other in the world. If one day, the official career of the envoy is completely cut off, you must not bear the thought of committing suicide. At that time, whether it is Liangshan or Dengyun Mountain, it will be the east mountain for my brother to rise again. Remember it!"
After finishing speaking, he said no more and turned to leave.
In the last parting words, the address was finally changed from Zhizhi to brother. Yang Zhidun stood in the crowd, savoring it again and again, but hesitated to move.
Just when Zou Run's figure was about to disappear into an alley corner, Yang Zhi suddenly spoke.
"Master, please stay! Please turn around and speak!"
Zou Run was surprised, but he turned around and returned to Yang Zhi. Seeing no one around, the big man felt uneasy and motioned for Zou Run to come over. What he said next shocked Zou Run on the spot.
"Along the way, the Sa family heard the village leader talk about naval battles many times. Although Yang Zhi was not familiar with naval warfare, he also knew that the most important thing about naval warfare was warships. When the Sa family was escorting Hua Shi Gang in the south of the Yangtze River, they knew that there was a man His name is Meng Kang, nicknamed Yubangan, and he is from Zhending Prefecture. He was originally a shipwright, and all the large ships used to transport Hua Shi Gang were built by him."
"This man was later bullied by the Jiangnan promotion officer. He killed the promotion officer in anger and fled to a shipyard near Laizhou with a group of shipwrights. I had dealt with him when I was living in the rivers and lakes and escaping from lawsuits. Although this man was The factory owner went into hiding, but he treated him harshly. Meng Kang wanted to build a private ship and sail overseas to the Liao Kingdom. This time the village owner received Madam Lin, so he could go to Laizhou to find this hero. The army, oh no, the day when the village master’s navy will be formed will be greatly advanced.”
"Yang Zhi shouldn't have said this. I just hope that it will come out of the mouth of the Sajia family and the ears of the village owner. No one else in the world will know about it. I have to say goodbye after a long journey. Outside the jujube gate, you and I Say goodbye to you, and pray that we will never see each other on the battlefield in the future. Yang Zhi bids farewell, and take good care of it!"
There is no way to find the right way without wearing iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it. It turns out that the three heroes of Yinma River, the fiery-eyed Suanni Deng Fei, have been taken under his command, and the iron-faced Pei Xuan is also traceable. All they need to do is to wait for the police to guard the only way to Salmon Island. Only Meng Kang, an important figure who could influence Zou Run's development of maritime strategy, has been hard to find. He sent people several times to search for him, and even sent his minions to Yinmachuan in the Liao Kingdom to look for him, but he was nowhere to be seen or heard from. However, I didn’t expect this person to be hiding in Laizhou near Dengzhou!
After carefully digesting this huge good news, when Zou Run came back to his senses, Yang Zhi and his horse had already disappeared without a trace. Zou Run sighed sadly, feeling lost, but there was nothing he could do about it. I had no choice but to gather my emotions, lead the horse, and go straight to the vegetable garden of Daxiangguo Temple.
Along the way, he had to beg passers-by and ask for directions. Zou Run spoke in Dengzhou dialect, which naturally attracted countless eye-rolls from the people in Kyoto, and few people were willing to pay attention to him. But after Zou Run launched his silver bullet offensive, he immediately enjoyed spring-like service. The kind-hearted people in Kyoto held lanterns to guide him all the way to his destination.
"Black eyes, yellow gold, white silver - it seems that no matter where you go, whether now or in the future, money is always good for you. If you are really rich, you will be an uncle."
Watching the enthusiastic crowd go away, Zou Run laughed and mocked himself, then knocked on the firewood door of an adobe house next to the garden outside the vegetable garden.
Tuk-tuk-tuk...
As the rhythmic knocking on the door rang, there was a rustling sound in the house, and an oil lamp was lit. After a while, a man with disheveled clothes and a turban on one side came out, holding an oil lamp in one hand.
"Is this Zhang San, the street rat?" Zou Run asked politely.
The man looked up and down with the help of the weak light. When he saw Zou Run dressed as an official, with a bit of nobility unconsciously showing on his body, his expression immediately changed, as if he had thought of something, and he asked with a smile. road:
"Exactly, why is this official looking for me?"
Zhang San’s eyes were strange, his words were neither salty nor bland, and there was a hint of hostility.
Zou Run was not surprised. He just thought that all the gangsters in Tokyo had this kind of behavior. In addition, he came to visit presumptuously, so he did not pay attention to these details, but lowered his voice and said:
"My surname is Zou. I was visited by an old friend named Lin from Shandong. I have something to ask of you. I have a handwritten letter from that old friend here. Can I come in and talk to you?"
As Zou Run spoke, he took out a letter hidden in his arms. Under the dim light of the oil lamp, he could faintly see the word "Lin Chong" signed on the cover.
Seeing this, Zhang San's expression became extremely weird. He clamped his eyelids, frowned, and looked at Zou Run inexplicably for a long time. Just when Zou Run couldn't stand the look, Zhang San finally turned half sideways, as if he had made some kind of determination. Out of the way.
He said in a strange tone:
"Oh? Since he is the person sent by Coach Lin, please come in and talk."
"hehe……"
