Me and my Jianghu Tavern

"Don't worry, I'll be fine." Zhang Ming said.

Jiang Rou said with embarrassment: "No, what I mean is, the shopkeeper just don't make things difficult for my father."

Zhang Ming raised his eyebrows and said, "What can I do to your father?"

"The shopkeeper's promise is enough."

"alright."

Jiang Rou poured a glass of wine for Zhang Ming, raised her glass and said, "Thank you, shopkeeper, Jiang Rou!"

Zhang Ming naturally picked up the wine glass, clinked a glass, and finished.

"Is there anything else?" Zhang Ming asked.

After thinking about it, Jiang Rou seemed to have nothing to do, so she said, "It's all right."

Zhang Ming got up and left. When he walked to the counter, he saw the figure sitting outside the door. Speaking of which, this person was still very well-behaved.

Almost every time Jiang Rou came, there would be such a figure sitting at the door.

After a while, the drinkers in the tavern seemed to get used to it.

But no one asked why the old man sat at the door of the tavern but didn't come in.

Sensing the gaze behind him, Uncle Zhang turned his head and looked over. Seeing that it was the shopkeeper, he turned his head after just a glance.

Zhang Ming withdrew his gaze. To him, the old man was nothing to be pitiful for. This was what he should have done. Maybe he didn't feel disgusted either. After all, Zhang Ming didn't kill him either.

This is a promise kept by a former Jianghu man.

Chapter 104: The Green Forest Hero

When Liu Jiangnan walked into Xu's mansion, the servant hurriedly invited him.

All the way, he was invited to Xu Sanwen's study room, knocked on the door and entered, only to see Xu Sanwen in front of the desk writing big characters with a thick brush.

The flamboyant and the phoenix dance, all in one go.

——Heaven rewards hard work.

Calligraphy reflects a person's spirit. Xu Sanwen's calligraphy is not as good as some masters, but he has blazed his own path, which is rare.

Xu Sanwen raised his head to look at Liu Jiangnan, and said with a smile, "Scholar Liu, what do you think of the word old man?"

Liu Jiangnan cupped his hands and said, "Mr. Xu, the students don't understand calligraphy, so I don't want to judge."

Xu Sanwen put down the pen in his hand, sighed and said: "Your accomplishments in the Four Books and Five Classics are much higher than others. God rewards hard work, and you are the most diligent one."

"But you are not the most intelligent person. The things written in the book only tell you the laws of the world, but they don't teach you how to behave in the world. If you want to enter an official career in the future, this will not work."

"Thank you Xu Gong for teaching, Jiangnan understands." Liu Jiangnan bowed and saluted.

He naturally knew what Xu Sanwen meant, which was nothing more than the darkness of the officialdom. After being admitted to Jinshi, he would rush to Chang'an, and that was the beginning of everything.

"It's good that you understand." Xu Sanwen didn't say anything more, and asked instead: "You came to me because of the story about the Magpie Bridge Immortal?"

Liu Jiangnan nodded, and said, "The student found the Jianghu Tavern outside the city, but he didn't see the person who wrote the lyrics, or... the tavern's manager refused to admit it."

Xu Sanwen waved his hand and said: "Let's talk about this matter later, the old man was indeed a little annoyed that day, but in retrospect, I think it's nothing. The person who wrote the lyrics didn't care about fame and wealth, but wanted to promote the tavern. Compared with those people... ...is much better."

"I'll go to that tavern with you some other day."

.........

In the past few days, many people have come to the tavern one after another, most of them have heard the wind.

Most of them are scholars and students. When they came up, they asked Zhang Ming who made the Queqiao Fairy.

Zhang Ming didn't even say a word to them, and he couldn't take it anymore, so he threw them out. Sometimes Gongsun Yu and others would help them.

In short, there is a lot of trouble, but it's not a big deal.

In addition to some poor scholars, there are also a few wealthy sons. People in Jianghu are rare, there are one or two, but there are very few people who can drink wine in taverns.

After coming and going, there were a few more regular customers in the tavern.

Zhang Ming put the wine on the table, and then went back to the counter.

There were originally six tables in the tavern, but four were seated today.

There were three people sitting on the first table to the right of the door, Pei Yuan who was frightened by Xiao Qi at the beginning, Wan Chunhui and the other one was Si Kongming.

Si Kongming came to the tavern a few days ago, and happened to meet Pei Yuan and the two, who were already acquaintances, so they invited them together, almost every day at this time to come to the tavern for drinks.

The people at the other table were not from rich families. Those two people looked similar, dressed plainly, and both carried swords behind their backs. They were not considered Jianghu people, but they had some martial arts skills.

Normally, they would stand by the official road not far away, and would stop them when they saw the rich family's convoy passing by. The two brothers said they were robbing the rich and helping the poor, but in fact they were just two robbers.

The eldest is called Shi Da, and the second is called Shi Er, which shows how random the name is.

The other two tables are old people from the tavern, they are nothing more than Gu Qingshan, Gongsun Yu and others, who come almost every day.

Although there is no restriction on monkey wine, the few people are still used to the atmosphere of drinking in the tavern, eating peanuts, gathering together to talk about the latest interesting things, so that they can be called drinking.

Seeing that Zhang Ming brought two jugs of wine to Brother Shitou, Gu Qingshan was a little surprised and said, "Why are you two willing to order two jugs of wine today?"

Shi Da turned his head and said with a smile: "Today I robbed a big one."

"I said so." Gu Qingshan smiled.

Brother Stone would come to the tavern every few days, so he naturally knew Gu Qingshan.

They also knew Gongsun Yu, they almost robbed Gongsun Yu's carriage last time.

Gu Qingshan didn't look down on the identities of the two robbers, but just found it very interesting. It is said that these two people robbed the rich and helped the poor, but they didn't see it with their own eyes.

Gongsun Yu looked at the two and said, "Whose family did the two brothers rob today?"

Shi Er looked at Gongsun Yu, and explained: "I don't know, the manager saw that we are green forest heroes, so he took out his money bag and gave it to a certain family. The money bag was full, and there were at least a hundred taels. Not much, I took 50 taels and returned the rest to the steward."

Song Shusheng was a little surprised when he heard this, so he said: "The rest are going back? Are you two brothers afraid of being remembered as robbers?"

"That's right, if it were me, I wouldn't even give him back a fart." Wu Manzi said.

Shi Da waved his hands and explained: "Hey, our two brothers are stealing from the rich and helping the poor, not robbers. If the person in charge often does good deeds, and the two of us take more money, wouldn't we be punished by God?"

Shi Er also nodded and said: "Yes, isn't there a saying, keep a line in life, so we can meet each other in the future."

"Pfft." Jiang Rou laughed when she heard this, and said, "Are you trying to rob him again?"

Shi Dashi and Shi Er looked at each other and said in unison: "It's not impossible."

"Hahaha……"

There was bursts of laughter in the tavern, because the two strange robbers, oh, that's not right, it should be about robbing the rich and giving to the poor.

Pei Yuan and the others also joined in, and several tables gathered together, drinking and chatting together.

Xiong Wanwan was a little curious, so she looked at Brother Stone and asked, "By the way, how long have you two been robbers?"

"It's robbing the rich and helping the poor." Shi Da corrected.

Xiong Wanwan couldn't laugh or cry, "Okay, let's treat you as robbing the rich and helping the poor."

Shi Er said: "It's been a long time. We only came here recently. We were all outside Qingzhou City before. It sounds helpless. When we were in Qingzhou City, it was okay at the beginning, but we were too aggrieved later."

"Has he never been cleaned up?" Song Shusheng asked.

Shi Da took a sip of his wine and said, "Yes, last time the government came to several police officers, all of whom are experts. If our two brothers hadn't got the news in advance, they might all have gone to prison."

Xiong Wanwan understood, and continued to ask: "Then you are still very good, why do you want to be robbers?"

The stone brothers looked at each other, and then explained.

"The two of us lost our parents when we were young. We grew up in the stockade. Later, the stockade was raided by officers and soldiers. Our two brothers escaped by luck. When we were young, we wanted to practice our skills and become green forests. He is a good man, after escaping, he practiced martial arts for a few years, and then he started a business of robbing the rich and helping the poor outside Qingzhou City."

"Then you have robbed a lot of money over the years, right?"

"Not much, most of them are given to beggars in the city."

Chapter 105: The Aggrieved Double Thief

Once upon a time, there were two bandits outside Qingzhou City. Their martial arts were not very good, but their lightness kung fu was excellent. They robbed passing caravans. They were all wealthy families.

People in Qingzhou City called these two stone thieves, and ordinary people would take a detour when they saw them when they went out of the city.

Some rich merchants recruited many Jianghu people to catch these two people, but they failed to catch up with them. Later, this matter spread to the Yamen, and there were more than a dozen arresters on the same day trying to catch these two robbers.

Unexpectedly, these two robbers were not stupid, they had known the news long ago, and ran away in a short time.

It was only later that I found out that during those few days, the stone thieves were wandering around in Qingzhou city, and they didn't run away at all.

Several times in a row, they failed to catch these two people. Later, the people in the yamen thought of a way to find a well-known master in the world to catch these two people.

The people were invited, but... the two stone thieves ran away again.

The invited master waited in Qingzhou for more than a month, but the stone thieves did not show up. The Jianghu people follow a free and easy way. The Jianghu master invited by the yamen is a ranger, and he was impatient after waiting for a month, so he left up.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the ranger left, the stone thieves appeared.

No matter what time it was, these two robbers would know the news as soon as possible, so they ran away early, and returned to continue to be robbers as soon as the limelight passed.

Until the end, the yamen had no choice but to tell the people in the commercial firm to be careful when going out of the city, or to bring less silver.

The Stone Pirates also set foot outside Qingzhou City.

Of course, there is also a reason for luck. If you meet a real master of the rivers and lakes, the triangular kung fu of the two of them will definitely be no match.

Besides, there is another interesting thing.

Most of the money stolen by the stone thieves was scattered, either to beggars in the city, or to poor families outside the city. Many people have received the favor of this place.

This approach makes many people wonder, is a robber still a robber if he does this?

Just like what these two people said, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor.

Later, the people in Qingzhou city also knew about these things. When rich merchants left the city, they would bring a smaller purse with them. If they encountered the stone thieves, they would not run away.

The two stone thieves looked around, and finally only collected half of the silver and let them go.

More and more wealthy businessmen passing by did this, until later, the stone double thieves were not frequent, perhaps because they thought it was boring.

After coming and going, the two robbers outside Qingzhou City gradually faded out of everyone's sight.

One day, Shi Er was throwing stones boredly, and suddenly asked, "Brother, are we still heroes of the forest?"

"It's a fart." Shi Da cursed.

"Then... let's change places."

Ever since, the two robbers came to Jian'an City.

Speaking of it now, it's an interesting thing.

The two robbers were so aggrieved that they looked like a toll collector, and they didn't look like robbers at all.

.........

Gu Qingshan couldn't laugh or cry after listening to Brother Stone's narration, "So this is how you came to Jian'an City?"

"That's right, we two brothers are going to be heroes of the forest. When we were in Qingzhou, we looked a bit like heroes of the forest." Stone said.

Gongsun Yu also didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said: "It's a helpless thing to be a bandit for your sake."

"We are stealing from the rich and giving to the poor." Brother Stone said in unison.

Pei Yuan frowned, and said: "But you two brothers are also very lucky. If you really meet some masters, you two really can't run away."

Shi Er shook his head and said, "It's not like that, unless it's someone from outside, we two brothers almost know all the people from the rivers and lakes in Qingzhou City."

Gongsun Yu became curious when he heard this, so he asked, "How did you know each other?"

"It's simple. Before we were heroes in the forest, our two brothers loved to fight. In Qingzhou City, everyone with some martial arts skills fought with our two brothers. After the fight, we invited them to drink, so we got to know each other. "Shi Da explained.

"You two..." Gu Qingshan didn't know what to say.

Sikong Ming sat on the side, and became interested for a while, so he said: "So that's how you got all the news?"

Shi Er nodded and said: "Basically, Bai Xiaosheng in Qingzhou City who knows some martial arts has also fought with both of us. Although I didn't win the fight, we still know each other. If there is anything, we will be notified. .”