Chapter 44: The Heroes of Liangshan

  I think I should stay in the pawnshop for a few more days, 2 million yuan, although I've already paid it back, but this is not a small amount of money. Old Hao asked me so casually at that time, how much trust he had in me, a mixed-up person. If I continue to be so lazy, I would be too sorry for Old Hao.

  As for the 300 side, the school building has a lazy person helping me watch it. The lazy person is now loyal to me, under his supervision, this time's foundation digging is almost as hard as seeing magma. The lazy person patted his chest and told me: Brother Qiang, rest assured, even if God plays with the earth like a yo-yo, our house will be stuck on the city wall like chewing gum.

  Because of this earthquake, building materials merchants and construction teams all became unwanted children, and it was precisely because of this that I used less than 3 million to build a school with a considerable scale.

  The next day, when I was bored and staying in the pawnshop, what I thought about most was still the salary that Tian Ting promised to give me. At this time, Li Shishi came back from buying things outside, with a pale-faced person following behind her. After Li Shishi entered the door, she greeted me and went upstairs happily, as if she hadn't noticed the person behind her at all.

  This pale face wore a coarse linen garment that was out of sync with the times, walking with his hands hanging down and his shoulders swaying. After following Li Shishi in, he stared at me blankly, this time I really got a bit hairy, this thing looked more like a zombie!

  "I shouted loudly: 'Jing Ke, come down quickly.' I thought that Jing Ke was a former assassin after all, and the murderous aura on his body might be able to subdue this ghost. It took Jing Ke half a day to come down, and Bai Lian and I were frozen in place, not daring to move or even turn our heads. I stammered: 'Jing Ke, can you see him?'"

  Jing Ke covered his ear with the radio and said vaguely: "Who?"

  All the goosebumps on my body came out, and I trembled with a quivering voice, asking Bai Lian: "What do you want to do?"

  White face and stiff legs, swaying body whispered: "I'm hungry..."

  I glanced at the ashtray and casually said to him: "Tell me your birth date, I'll burn some paper money for you."

  Bai Lian quickly snatched the ashtray and held it out in front of me, saying with a sly tone: "Give me some food...". Meaning that if I didn't give him any, he would beat me up.

  What should I give him? Heart? Liver? Appendix is possible to give, but that requires surgery. I thought of excuses while moving backwards.

  Jing Ke couldn't bear it anymore and said: "Just give him some food."

  "You speak so easily, what can I... Can you see him?"

  Jing Ke said with a sullen face: "Don't you know this guy? He's the son of Old Zhao, people say we look alike." Er Bai suddenly ran downstairs and hugged Zhao Bai's face, asking me: "Do you think we really look alike?"

  It wasn't until later that I found out this was Old Zhao's idiot son, who had just been brought back from the mental hospital a few days ago. Looking at these two idiots in front of me, Jing Ke still looked like a robust young man, except for his eyes which seemed a bit off, but he was still a real man. In response to Jing Ke's question, I told him: "You're more handsome than him, but your temperament isn't as good as his."

  I grabbed a handful of letter cookies and sent Zhao Bai's face away, thinking it was lucky that he didn't smash me with the ashtray or else I would have been smashed for nothing.

  I'm a bit hallucinating now, always thinking I've opened my heavenly eye, seeing people walking straight and suspecting they're ghosts. I keep pointing at pedestrians and asking the 5-person group if they can see them, and after getting affirmative answers from all of them, I'm starting to lose hope too.

  Later, I thought about what Liu Lao Liu said, a month is probably a month in heaven, one day in heaven is one year on earth. According to the current small month calculation of the heavenly court, 30 years later, I will be 57, just the age when Xiao Qiang is old and can still eat, but has become a nagging old man who annoys everyone he meets. After opening his heavenly eye, he can only sing "Often Come Home to Visit" and wait for his children and grandchildren to give him brain white gold. As Ah Tu Bo said in "The Rich Man 6", it's a miserable fall.

  This afternoon, I was bored and playing Minesweeper when suddenly a QQ message popped up. Someone had applied to be my friend on QQ. I only have about ten friends on QQ and I'm always invisible, so it's impossible for someone I know to find me through this channel. Usually the people who try to add me are either salespeople or practitioners of Falun Gong. I clicked "decline" with the reason: "Don't know you!"

  In just a few seconds, the other party sent another application, which read: Let's video first!

  What? How can this not make me think of * and video mm, maybe it's some kind of trick to open up the market for porn sites?

  After I clicked agree, the ID called Xiaoliu jumped into my friends list, and then the other party eagerly sent over a video request. I glanced around sneakily and accepted it.

  The window shook for a moment, and I saw that the other person was in a noisy internet cafe, with people wearing yellow vests constantly coming and going. I knew it wasn't what I thought it was. Then the camera slowly panned over to reveal Liu Lao Liu's dirty face with a thousand wrinkles and his sly smile, blowing smoke and waving at the camera. His sleazy look would make for a great QQ emoticon, and its download count wouldn't be any less than Realplay or Thunder.

  I was tongue-tied for half a day and subconsciously typed out an "F" word.

  Liu Lao Liu bowed his head and typed: "Guess where I am?" This old guy actually types faster than me.

  I said: "Aren't you in Tieling?"

  Liu Lao Liu looked up and laughed loudly, but since the audio wasn't on, his laughter was very silent. Then he took the camera in hand and slowly walked around the entire internet cafe, finally stopping at a wall that had a large banner hanging from it: "Hainan Certain Certain Internet Cafe Kart Racing Competition..."

  Hainan? This old guy was in Tieling yesterday, and today he's actually run off to Hainan!

  "How can you be so fast and fly over?"

  "Yes."

  "Isn't it that you can't use magic?"

  "Civil Aviation Administration of China"

  ……

  I saw people dressed in a flashy way walking by the edge of the lens, and vaguely visible outside the internet cafe were tall and straight coconut trees and a pure beach. How much does this internet cafe cost per hour? It was only then that I remembered to ask Liu Liuxi: "What did you go there for?"

  "I just sent off those 54 good men from Liangshan, actually they arrived a few days earlier than the 300-strong Yue Family Army, and have been playing in Hainan."

  I was shocked: "Who received them? Didn't they cause trouble in Hainan?"

  Liu Laoliu said with a smirk, "Am I as foolish as you? Before they arrived, I had already briefed them on the general situation. Although the Yue Family Army was nominally here before them, in reality, the Liangshan heroes had been playing in Hainan for several days by the time they arrived. Lu Junyi is a man who knows how to adapt and didn't make things difficult for us. These few days of touring Hainan were something we all agreed to give to the heroes."

  I cautiously asked: "Where did you send them?"

  Liu Lao Liu rushed towards the camera with a sly smile: "Tomorrow at 12 noon, go to the train station to pick up the good guys."

  However, he is now a bit too scared to intimidate me. I can be considered as someone who has been through thick and thin. I have resolved the conflicts between Weng Zhonghua and Jing Erzhai, maintained peace with Liu Xiang, rescued Jin Shao Yan, and just two nights ago, I led 300 soldiers on a long-distance raid. These 54 good men are relatively easy to handle in terms of political complexity and numbers. They have also received some modern education, so they won't think that I keep many underlings or believe that starting a car is the function of a horse whip.

  "I asked him: 'Who are all the people coming? Give me a rough list.'"

  Liu Lao Liu was very strange, I didn't even spit blood, he said: "Who do you want to see?"

  "Wu Song, Hua He Shang, Gong Sun Sheng, Yan Qing..."

  Liu Lao Liu replied, "Alas, none of the people you want to see are here. These men were not only extremely brave but also highly intelligent, and as soon as they arrived at Liangshan, they all went their separate ways. They lived out their lives and died a natural death. Although the mistake with the name list had little to do with how they died, these few most capable people lived another 30 or 40 years. By that time, Judge Bao's wine had already worn off."

  My heart suddenly turned cold, and even Wu Song and Hua He Shang did not exceed my expectations. Although these two people are not ranked high in Liangshan, I have always insisted that the skills of these two people are the strongest, and they are also the most lovable. These two people didn't come, and I felt very disappointed.

  Liu Lao Liu seemed to know what I was thinking and said, "Don't worry about it. Coming here for a year isn't necessarily a good thing either. This time, the ones with some real skills are Lin Chong, Yang Zhi, and Li Kui."

  Well, Lu Junyi, Lin Chong, Yang Zhi and a group of mud-stirring masters have all arrived. Li Kui is isolated and cannot make a sound, no wonder they can't surpass the Yue Family Army.

  The more I listened, the more depressed I felt, and I didn't want to deal with these people anymore. Later, when I heard that Hua San Niang was single, my spirits lifted a bit, and I also wanted Wu Yong to calculate some accounts for me, so I agreed to go pick up the train tomorrow.

  There's another problem with going to pick up the car, which is that these people definitely won't be dressed like they are in the movies, and they don't know me either. Although 54 people are a relatively eye-catching group, it's easy to get mixed up with a large tourist group. I think it would be safer for me to make a sign and hold it up. I went to the house where Qin Shi Huang and Xiang Yu live now, and pulled out a box that had been used to package a refrigerator from under Qin Shi Huang's bed. Then I found a marker pen, and just as I was about to write, I suddenly thought that they might not be able to recognize my handwriting. Although they have cultured people like Wu Yong and Zhu Wu, being able to read simplified characters is one problem, and even if they can read them, whether they can recognize my handwriting is another problem.

  Later I thought, hey, isn't Li Shishi one of their people, and also chatted with Song Jiang, and finally followed Yan Qing to roam the rivers and lakes, although it's unknown whether it's true or false.

  I called Li Shishi over and told her, "Write a few words for me: 'Welcome the 54 heroes of Liangshan'." After explaining the situation to her, Li Shishi smiled and said, "I think writing '54' is unnecessary. They won't produce more or fewer just because you don't write it."

  "Are you receiving 'The Heroes of Mount Liang'?"

  "No need to write the suffix either."

  "You write it then." I handed her the pen.

  Li Shishi held her brush with a gentle grip, one hand behind her back, as she drew on the paper.

  She was writing, and I suddenly thought of something and said to her: "Cousin, you've been here for quite some time now, don't you roughly understand the situation?"

  "Now it's 2007 AD, over 900 years since the Song Huizong era, followed by the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and then the Republic..."

  I said with embarrassment: "You know better than I do - can you compile a textbook based on your experience?"

  "Textbook?"

  "It's like a book similar to 'Three Character Classic', teaching others to recite, you also know what my brother does, so many people have come and I'm all confused, just write a book that can make them understand, for example, the first chapter is called 'Who am I', the second chapter is called 'Where is this place', the third chapter is called 'What was I doing on this day in history'...and so on."

  Li Shishi quickly understood what I meant and chuckled: "You don't want them to think you're a god, do you?"

  The sign was quickly written, and Li Shishi just drew a few big circles for me, then threw the pen into my arms and said, "You do the filling in yourself."

  I concentrated on drawing the sign, but saw that Li Shishi was still unwilling to leave, looking at the two words "Liagnshan" on the sign wanting to speak but hesitating. I sighed and said: "This time... no Yanqing."

  Li Shishi was dazed and lost, with a faint smile.

  After drawing the sign, it looks very good, with four elegant and refined traditional Chinese characters on it: "Liáng Shān Hǎo Hàn".

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  Carelessly reminded, aren't Wu Song and the others really coming?

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