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In order to expand their power,
This timely help came naturally.
Then I remembered what I had done in Yuncheng.
The two captains who had known him for a long time
Zhu Tong, the Bearded Gentleman, and Lei Heng, the Winged Tiger.
Song Jiang was eager to have his two old acquaintances come to Qingfeng Mountain to help him.
But he also knew in his heart that...
Zhu Tong, the handsome bearded man, came from a wealthy family.
Although they can't be considered extremely wealthy,
However, they were considered extremely wealthy.
Naturally, they wouldn't easily become outlaws.
Although Lei Heng, the winged tiger, was greedy for money...
But he has an elderly mother to support at home.
Lei Heng was also a filial son.
Naturally, he wouldn't abandon his elderly mother.
Go become a robber!
Song Jiang thought for a long time,
I don't know how to get these two friends to join my cause.
So he went to consult the wise man.
Wu Yong truly lives up to his reputation as a bandit leader.
After a little thought,
He already had an idea in mind.
This fellow made Song Jiang write two thank-you letters to Zhu Tong and Lei Heng.
They found another hundred taels of gold.
Then Song Jiang sent his closest brother, Song Qing (Iron Fan), with the letter and gold.
He secretly rushed back to Yuncheng.
He gave the letter and the gold to the Bearded Man and the Winged Tiger respectively.
When delivering the letter,
Song Qing followed Song Jiang's private instructions.
Specifically when there were other people around them,
Open the glittering gold.
He also casually let slip the name of Qingfeng Mountain!
These two, Zhu Tong and Lei Heng,
I just assumed it was an accident caused by the iron fan.
They didn't pay much attention to it.
Zhu Tong, because of his wealthy family background,
Good at managing a household
The letter and gold sent from Qingfeng Village were seen by the servants at home.
But for a time,
No one reported them to the county government.
Lei Heng, on the other hand, encountered trouble.
This winged tiger is a filial son.
Because my mother has been bedridden for many years,
He has never married.
But he is, after all, an adult male.
Nature always needs a place to vent its anger.
And so it came naturally.
Lei Heng then became involved with a prostitute in Yunzhou Prefecture.
And on that day,
When Song Qing came to deliver the letter and gold and silver to him,
But it just so happened that the prostitute saw it.
This prostitute loved money.
Upon seeing the glittering gold,
I couldn't take my eyes off it immediately.
After Song Qing left,
This prostitute then became obsessed with Song Qing.
They insisted on taking a share of the hundred taels of gold!
If you were to call someone else generous,
Perhaps they'll just give the money to their lover.
But this winged tiger, Lei Heng, was a miser.
He was naturally reluctant to share this gold with his lover, a prostitute.
All they wanted was to bring the gold home.
Give it to my mother to keep.
In preparation for when I take a wife in the future.
That prostitute was quite clever.
Seeing that Lei Heng refused to share the gold,
She then became soft and gentle.
He only said he didn't want anything.
All I want to do is stay by the side of the winged tiger.
After all this,
Lei Heng was not only spoiled to the point of being completely drunk,
I almost forgot that this prostitute already knew about what happened at Qingfeng Mountain.
And taking advantage of his drunkenness
The prostitute immediately ran to the county government office.
He reported to the county magistrate that Lei Heng had connections with the bandits of Qingfeng Mountain.
The newly arrived magistrate of Yuncheng County,
It was all because of the Liangshan incident.
I was seething with anger.
Upon hearing that he was the head constable of the county government,
It's unbelievable that he has a private relationship with the bandits of Qingfeng Mountain.
He was immediately enraged!
He immediately sent for the handsome Zhu Tong, the bearded gentleman.
Let him personally lead the men to capture Lei Heng...
Chapter 604 Zhu Tongyi Releases the Winged Tiger
When the handsome bearded man heard the county magistrate mention Qingfeng Mountain,
He immediately became alert.
Upon learning that it was Lei Heng's affair that had been exposed,
He was reported by a prostitute in a brothel.
In Zhu Tong's heart,
He immediately launched into a tirade against Lei Heng.
After he received his orders from the county magistrate,
He led a group of yamen runners to the brothel.
When capturing the winged tiger,
Seeing that Lei Heng was trapped in the brothel by the crowd...
The bearded man recalled his long-standing friendship with Lei Heng, having worked together for many years.
And what if Lei Heng is arrested?
It's inevitable that I'll be implicated.
So he simply found an opportunity,
Let Lei Heng go!
After Zhu Tong released the winged tiger,
He then hurriedly ran home.
He took his elderly mother to Qingfeng Mountain to seek refuge with Song Jiang.
To put it another way, the matter originally ended here.
That's it, it's over.
But no one expected this.
Within two days,
Then a clerk from the county government went to the magistrate of Yuncheng County.
Not only did it expose Zhu Tong's secret release of Lei Heng,
He also told the county magistrate that the Bearded Gentleman had received the letter and gold from Qingfeng Mountain.
It turned out that this constable had a prior relationship with a servant in Zhu Tong's household.
After learning from him that the Bearded Gentleman had also received gold,
And then he happened to see Zhu Tong secretly releasing Lei Heng.
The constable's heart skipped a beat.
Lei Heng had already run away.
If Zhu Tong is driven away again,
He might even be able to become a high-ranking officer.
So he went to see the county magistrate.
Only then did the new magistrate of Yuncheng understand.
Why did Song Jiang run away first?