Chapter 217

Several days later, in a guest room on Liang Shan, Liu Tang and the others were drinking.

Bang, bang!

After several bowls of Liang Shan's specialty high-alcohol liquor went down,

Liu Tang, whose eyes were red, slammed the table in dissatisfaction, causing the side dishes and

wine cups on it to be in a mess, and the wine soaked the large table:

"Unfair, Zhang Zhaizhu Zhang is unfair!

We all came to join Liang Shan, why did that Gongsun Sheng get to be the director of that what-you-call-it Gunpowder Bureau,

while we brothers have no appointments at all?

I, Liu Tang, am a brute, so it's fine if I don't catch his eye,

but why is there no arrangement for Brother Chao Gai either?"

Bai Sheng beside him was also very dissatisfied:

"The most excessive thing is, we are all Liang Shan people, why can't we brothers walk around Liang Shan?

They even say 'Liang Shan is a restricted area, idlers are not allowed to enter,'

are we brothers some kind of idlers?"

Chao Gai on the side didn't say a word, but watching him drink cup after cup of sullen wine,

one knew his heart was not as calm as it appeared on the surface.

Think of him, Chao Gai, who possessed strength and was respected by all his Jianghu brothers as the "Pagoda-Lifting Heavenly King,"

where did he go that he wasn't respectfully called "Brother" by all the brothers?

As a result, he had become a nobody on this Liang Shan, which made it hard for him to accept.

Zhang Jie was also helpless about this:

He originally wanted to arrange Chao Gai and the others into various departments of Liang Shan,

and after systematic training, assign work according to their specialties.

As a result, Chao Gai, Liu Tang, and the others still had the old-fashioned greenwood hero mindset,

insisting on "sitting in a chair and being a leader" on this Liang Shan.

He had finally gotten Liang Shan on the right track,

how could he allow this system of chairs and mountain strongholds to be restored?

The Liang Shan that eventually perished in the original story also proved that this greenwood hero-style system

had no combat effectiveness and could not overthrow the Great Song.

Zhang Jie: My Liang Shan might objectively have mountain strongholds, but subjectively, absolutely not~

As a result, the two sides didn't reach an agreement, and it remained in a stalemate.

Zhang Jie, for the sake of Gongsun Sheng, didn't make things difficult for Chao Gai and the others, and still hosted them with good food and drink.

It was just that various confidential places on Liang Shan, such as the gunpowder factory and the casting workshop,

could not be approached by these few people who were de facto outsiders.

"Brother Liu Tang, Brother Bai Sheng, Liang Shan must have its reasons for doing this.

Moreover, Zhang Zhaizhu Zhang didn't accept our Birthday Gift as a gift,

we still have other choices, don't be so agitated."

Seeing Liu Tang and Bai Sheng's words becoming increasingly extreme, Wu Yong hurriedly smoothed things over,

to avoid making the matter too big and unable to be resolved.

They were still on Liang Shan now; if they angered Zhang Jie, I fear unspeakable things would happen!

As for the Birthday Gift, Zhang Jie was no longer the person who was worried about a few thousand strings of military funds at the beginning,

with the support of Chai Jin's daily-earning glass mirror business and other industries,

he wouldn't ruin his reputation for the sake of some Birthday Gift.

However, there was one point: Chao Gai and the others had to pay for all their food and drink.

Zhang Jie had never been accustomed to those who wanted to borrow his reputation to eat and drink for free,

at most, for the sake of Gongsun Sheng, he only charged them the cost price.

And Chao Gai and the others, who felt frustrated and unappreciated, had the Birthday Gift as support, so they had been drinking to drown their sorrows these past few days.

"Reasons, what kind of bullshit reasons?"

Liu Tang, full of resentment, snorted disdainfully.

Then he stared at Wu Yong, who was smoothing things over, with suspicious eyes:

"Professor, you wouldn't be wanting to leave us and join Zhang Jie's command alone, would you?"

Bai Sheng, who was still shifty-eyed even after drinking, also stared at Wu Yong with suspicious eyes.

These past few days, this Professor Wu had been running to that what-you-call-it military advisor Wang Lun and Chen Wenyun's place.

Who among them didn't know that Wang Lun and Chen Wenyun were the absolute confidants of Liang Shan Zhang Zhaizhu Zhang Jie?

If Wu Yong did this, and one said he didn't have any little thoughts in his heart,

even if he, Bai Sheng, thought with his thumb, it would be impossible!

Wu Yong became unhappy upon hearing this, his tone subconsciously rising a few notches as he retorted:

"Since I followed Brother Chao Gai, I have always been loyal,

how could there be any reason for me to betray my master and seek glory?

I went to find Military Advisor Wang and the others these past few days, just wanting to scout for news,

to seek a way out for us brothers!"

Wu Yong felt extremely aggrieved in his heart: although he was curious about the "Heavenly Son's Qi" that Gongsun Sheng spoke of,

and had thoughts of joining Liang Shan to achieve some merit, but heaven have mercy,

he really didn't have the thought of betraying Chao Gai and joining Zhang Jie alone!

It was still the Northern Song now, and the Great Yuan hadn't even begun to take shape,

otherwise Wu Yong would have shouted, "I am more wronged than Dou E!"

Chao Gai, who had been watching coldly, spoke slowly at this time:

"Brother Liu Tang, Brother Bai Sheng, Professor Wu is one of our own, no need to doubt him."

"Yes."

Since Chao Gai, the leader, had said so,

Liu Tang and Bai Sheng couldn't say anything more and closed their mouths.

The four of them seemed to have returned to the harmonious state before seizing the Birthday Gift,

but surface cracks are easy to mend, while the thorns in the heart are hard to pull out.

After all, some words are destined to be hard to take back once they are spoken.

When words are not spoken, a person is the master of the words;

but once words are spoken, the person is the slave of the words.

Just as there are a thousand Hamlets for a thousand readers;

the same sentence naturally has different interpretations for people standing in different positions and angles.

"Brother, we can't go on like this.

If we go on like this, I fear we will be kicked off Liang Shan in disgrace!"

After a few more bowls of sullen wine, Liu Tang said excitedly, his black face flushed red.

Bai Sheng didn't say anything this time,

but seeing his eyes darting around, one knew he was likely already eager to try.

Expecting a gentleman of the beams to be law-abiding is truly too difficult.

Wu Yong still wanted to say something, but thinking of what had just happened,

he swallowed back the words that had surged to his throat.

Having lost trust, it was useless for him to say anything more.

Bang!

"Then let's go see the bottom of that 'idlers not allowed to enter' place!"

Chao Gai, who already had fire in his heart, was provoked by this and could no longer suppress it,

slamming the wine cup in his hand heavily onto the table,

the wine in the cup splashing wildly, wetting more than half of his chest.

"Should have done this long ago!"

Liu Tang and Bai Sheng stood up excitedly.

"Let's go!"

Chao Gai led the two of them aggressively toward the back mountain of Liang Shan.

Well, because the front mountain had to host various idle forces,

Zhang Jie planned the locations of all confidential departments in the back mountain.

Wu Yong sighed and could only follow behind the three of them.

"Stop,

this is a restricted area of Liang Shan, idlers are not allowed to enter!"

As soon as they reached the passage to the back mountain, several Liang Shan soldiers on guard blocked Chao Gai and the others.

However, because Chao Gai and the others were currently guests of Liang Shan, they only gave a verbal warning.

"We sincerely came to join Liang Shan, how could we be idlers?

Quickly clear the way, otherwise beware of your Grandpa Liu Tang's fists!"

Liu Tang, who had been drinking, had a flushed face, which, combined with his messy hair,

really looked like a fierce ghost crawling out from the Nine Netherworlds.