[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-simultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m":3,"chapter-simultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m-simultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m-chapter-19":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Simultaneously Transmigrated: My Cheat Skill Is Myself",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2315274,4528,"Chapter 19: Meeting Wu Song","simultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m-chapter-19",19,"\u003Cp>\"Greetings, Magistrate.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie and Li the Scholar both bowed to Magistrate Wen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hah! Li brother and young Zhang need not be so formal.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wen Bin replied with a cheerful smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In truth, both Zhang Jie and Li the Scholar held modest status in Yanggu County.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li the Scholar need not be mentioned, but Zhang Jie’s father, Master Zhang, though not as wealthy as Master Ximen,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was still among the most respectable households in Yanggu County.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention Zhang Jie himself, a rising prodigy in the imperial examinations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though Wen Bin looked down on Master Zhang’s wealth,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>for a wealthy man without power was, to him as County Magistrate, merely a fat sheep awaiting slaughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Zhang Jie’s talent in the examinations made him impossible to ignore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In our Great Song, where the Emperor and the scholar-officials share the realm, ten thousand taels of gold mean less than half the worth of scholarly merit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, only those named aloud beyond the Eastern Hua Gate are true heroes!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Given Zhang Jie’s performance, he would likely serve alongside him in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, there was no need to offend this future colleague over minor formalities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If only Wen Bin had a daughter,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he would gladly marry her to Zhang Jie to bind this rising star to his family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is this the Tiger-Slaying Hero?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li the Scholar stared at Wu Song beside Wen Bin, his eyes gleaming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In all his years, though he had traveled across several provinces,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he had never seen such a mighty man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Like a heavenly demon-subduing lord, truly a terrestrial Tai Sui god.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li the Scholar sighed repeatedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From afar in the crowd, he had already felt Wu Song stood out like a crane among chickens;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>now that he was close, he felt Wu Song could wrestle rhinos and buffalo,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>match the ancient monster Wu Lai in bravery against bears and tigers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie smiled slightly, for he knew that Master Shi Nai’an,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>in his Water Margin, had depicted Wu Song, Brother Wu, as towering and majestic,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>eyes piercing like cold stars, eyebrows dark as freshly brushed lacquer,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>broad chest radiating a might no thousand men could withstand,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>voice bold and soaring, bearing ambition that pierced the clouds,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>heart fierce and daring, like a lion of heaven descending from the clouds,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>bones strong and sinews taut, like a yaoxi beast seated upon a throne.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder it was one of the Four Great Classical Novels—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Master Shi Nai’an’s pen truly was unmatched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie admitted: I have no culture, just one word—Wocao—rules the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had Wu Song not possessed such an extraordinary physique,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie would have thought he’d slain Gong Baiwan, the tiger that nearly got solo-killed by boneless beef, the disgrace of the tiger world!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Other tigers were majestic and fierce; Gong Baiwan was stupid and dull, afraid of buckets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Other tigers carried divine aura; Gong Baiwan carried brain damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tiger King: You’ve submitted to humans, traitor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gong Baiwan: You dare call me that? Have you ever eaten Orange Chicken, jungle bumpkin?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes Zhang Jie even suspected that, as a child,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gong Baiwan had been touched by Nan Gong Wenya, the one who made anyone she touched stupid…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Greetings, Master Li.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Song bowed respectfully to Li the Scholar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Young Master.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Song turned to Zhang Jie beside Li the Scholar, his expression suddenly stirred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh? Wu the Strong and young Zhang are old acquaintances?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Curious, Wen Bin stroked his beard and asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Without the Young Master, Wu Song would not be who he is today.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Song spoke, then bowed deeply to Zhang Jie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’ve returned! Good, good!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie’s expression was equally moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of all characters in Water Margin, the ones he admired most were the Flower Monk Lu Zhishen and the Pilgrim Wu Er.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Flower Monk aside, Wu Song was nearly a perfect man!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was resolute and brave: barehandedly killing a fierce tiger on Jingyang Ridge,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>ridding the people of harm, displaying extraordinary courage and strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was fearless in vengeance: avenging his elder brother Wu Dalang by slaying Pan Jinlian and Ximen Qing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even when facing official injustice, he chose violence to counter violence, unyielding and firm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was righteous and hated evil, aiding the weak and poor, upholding justice:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he loathed injustice and wickedness, drunkenly beating Jiang Men Shen in Mengzhou to help Shi En reclaim Kuaihuolin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He upheld principles: rejecting his sister-in-law Pan Jinlian’s seduction, holding fast to moral boundaries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was clever and composed: after being framed at Feiyunpu, he responded wisely, killed the constables, and escaped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was decisive and strategic: to avenge Feiyunpu,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he stormed alone into Zhang Du Jian’s mansion, slaughtered all his enemies, and stained the Mandarin Duck Pavilion with blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was unbound by trivialities, bold and unrestrained, unafraid of power:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he gathered with Lu Zhishen and others to form a brotherhood on Erlong Mountain, settling grudges with freedom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lived openly: on Liangshan Marsh, he sought no fame or fortune, focused solely on chivalry and justice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was loyal and righteous, faithful to his brothers: after swearing brotherhood with Song Jiang,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he never abandoned him, always supporting Song Jiang even on Liangshan Marsh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was loyal to the point of death: willing to die for a friend, as when he helped Shi En reclaim Kuaihuolin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Song was truly a hero—resolute and brave, righteous and stern,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>clever and composed, bold and free-spirited, loyal and righteous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since Zhang Jie learned his world was Water Margin, he had sought to befriend Wu Song.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though he himself aimed for the imperial examinations and Wu Song offered him little practical help,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie still deliberately traveled to Qinghe County\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>to meet the young Wu Song and Wu Dalang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nothing else—just as time-travelers to Journey to the West must visit the Five Finger Mountain\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>to meet the Monkey King, he came to meet his childhood idol.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the time, Wu Dalang, orphaned and alone, struggled to raise Wu Song; Zhang Jie gave much aid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Wu Dalang refused charity—he wouldn’t eat alms, or he wouldn’t need to sell steamed buns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sadly, years ago, the young and impulsive Wu Song, as in the original tale,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>got drunk in Qinghe County and quarreled with a local clerk (a minor official),\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>in a rage struck him down, believing him dead,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>fled to Chai Jin’s estate to evade capture, and thus Zhang Jie lost contact with Wu Song.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This year, Wu Song felt years had passed since the incident,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and with longing for his brother Wu Dalang, he set out to return to Qinghe County.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, while passing Jingyang Ridge, he drank eighteen bowls of wine,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>pressed on through the night, encountered a great tiger, killed it barehanded, and was hailed as the Tiger-Slaying Hero, paraded through the streets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though Zhang Jie had never witnessed Wu Song slay the tiger himself,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he knew every detail of it:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Song first used his agility to dodge the tiger’s three deadly moves—“pounce, swipe, tail-slash”—striking first to break its spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the tiger roared and dug a pit with its claws,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he pressed its mouth into the pit, freed his right hand, and struck with fists like iron hammers,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>using all his strength until the tiger died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, Zhang Jie had not only read the Water Margin book, but also watched the CCTV television adaptation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this Water Margin world, Zhang Jie could call himself, like Huang Sanjia of A River of Snow and a Sword,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a \"book-turner.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like Huang Sanjia and Huang Longshi, he calls himself a book-turner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie: Thank you for the surge in spiritual power after reincarnation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, his ordinary past-life self would never have recalled these memories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Second Brother Wu, look who’s over there?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie smiled and pointed in a direction toward Wu Song.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Song turned to where Zhang Jie pointed and saw the man approaching—his father figure, the one he had longed for day and night: Wu Dalang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Overcome with emotion, Wu Song could no longer contain his longing and hurried forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Second Boy!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Dalang also spotted Wu Song and scrambled forward on his short legs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Second Boy!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two brothers, reunited after long separation, embraced and wept bitterly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master, I have not failed you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Zhong, slightly out of breath, arrived at Zhang Jie’s side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Uncle Zhong, you’ve worked hard.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie comforted the old steward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ever since he learned a tiger-slaying hero had come to Yanggu County, he knew it was Wu Song returning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he sent his steward Zhang Zhong to fetch Wu Dalang, who was still peddling steamed buns door-to-door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Li Xiucai, watching the two brothers weeping in each other’s arms,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>wore a strange expression. He stepped to Zhang Jie’s side and asked softly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Renjie, are these two truly brothers?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, he knew Wu Dalang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Dalang made superb steamed buns—using the same ingredients,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>he could make them smell richer and taste softer than anyone else’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ever since he ate one of Wu Dalang’s buns, he bought them every few days to soothe his stomach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even County Magistrate Wen and others had perked up their ears—they were simply too curious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Song, tall, imposing, powerfully built, and heroically fierce,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and Wu Dalang, short, ugly, no better than a three-inch nail on a tree bark,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>shared not a single resemblance beyond both being human—how could they possibly be brothers?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There must be gossip here—something like “the neighbor Wang.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wu Dalang and Wu Song are full brothers, born of the same mother.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Jie said seriously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s strange.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xiucai’s face was full of confusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Wu Song and Wu Dalang were full brothers, then given Wu Song’s height,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the elder brother should not be so short and so unimpressive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wu Dalang and Wu Song’s parents died early; Wu Dalang raised Wu Song himself.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Li Xiucai’s confusion, Zhang Jie explained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I see.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xiucai and County Magistrate Wen and others understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They say the eldest brother is like a father—Wu Dalang must have saved the best food for his younger brother,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>given him all the good things, and at just over ten years old, he had to feed both himself and his brother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To endure such hardship, anyone would grow stunted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who had held a poor first impression of Wu Dalang now revised their view:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A dwarf who raised his brother to such towering height—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>clearly, Wu Dalang was a man of deep loyalty and affection.\u003C\u002Fp>",1743,"2026-06-20T14:22:35.989Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","9a78f9589523d1f82002f7cbece3916df85de070799e294a7639518278fce4ad","simultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m-chapter-20","simultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m-chapter-18",601,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsimultaneously-transmigrated-my-cheat-skill-is-m-cover.jpg"]