Xianxia version of Water Margin

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Before going to Liangshan, Cao Zhengzhen never expected that Jiang Hongfei would be so optimistic about him, a butcher of livestock, and actually let him become the orthodox leader of an infantry army like Lu Zhishen and Yan Shude.

You know, Lu Zhishen and Yan Shude are both Qi Practitioners ranked among the top five in Shuibo Liangshan in terms of combat power, but Cao Zheng's combat power is not even in the top ten. Looking at individual combat power alone, Cao Zheng is not even as good as him. Deputy Jiao Ting.

But Jiang Hongfei still defied all opinions and led Cao Zheng.

This made Cao Zheng extremely grateful to Jiang Hongfei for his kindness. At the same time, Cao Zheng had been looking for opportunities to prove himself.

Now, Jiang Hongfei asked Cao Zheng to lead the Bu San Army to capture Erlong Mountain.

Cao Zheng knew that this was Jiang Hongfei's opportunity to prove himself.

After personally exploring the foot of Erlong Mountain in Qingzhou, Cao Zheng found out that there was an ancient temple on Erlong Mountain, called Baozhu Temple. The mountain had been surrounding the temple since birth, and there was only one road leading to it. Now the original abbot of the temple, Deng The dragon returned to secular life and grew his hair, and the rest of the monks followed suit and became his followers. Four to five hundred people gathered together to rob homes and houses.

That Deng Long, with the sixth spirit root of change attribute, is good at transforming into a golden-eyed tiger. His strength is not very strong, but Erlong Mountain is easy to defend but difficult to attack, but it is difficult to attack by force.

When inquiring about the news, Cao Zheng noticed that there was a small hotel at the foot of Erlong Mountain. Thieves from Erlong Mountain often came to this hotel to eat.

Cao Zheng took advantage of this plan and went to the restaurant and said that he had lost all his money when he came to Qingzhou to do business and wanted to be a waiter in his shop.

Unexpectedly, the store owner saw that Cao Zheng was good-looking and came from Tokyo. He had seen the world and insisted on recruiting Cao Zheng as his son-in-law. He also said that as long as Cao Zheng was willing, he would give the hotel to Cao Zheng.

Cao Zheng met the store owner's daughter. Although she was not very beautiful, she looked very virtuous. She had a younger brother and was also an honest person.

The store owner was in very bad health and almost ran out of oil. Perhaps he was afraid that after his death, no one would take care of his children, so he thought of recruiting Cao Zhengzheng as his son-in-law.

Cao Zhengzheng was worried that he could not win the trust of the thieves on Erlong Mountain, so he resolutely became the son-in-law of the store owner.

Four days after the wedding, the owner passed away and Cao Zheng successfully took over the hotel.

Within a few days, almost all the thieves on Erlong Mountain knew Cao Zheng, the new boss.

Cao Zheng also found out all the truth about Erlong Mountain through his interactions with the thieves on Erlong Mountain.

At this point, Cao Zheng officially made a plan to take Erlong Mountain.

A few days later, Cao Zheng asked Jiao Ting to go up the mountain to join the group.

Seeing Jiao Ting's fierce expression, Deng Long asked Jiao Ting that his strengthened attribute spiritual roots and externalized attribute spiritual roots had reached seven, and his ancestral sumo wrestling skills were very good. He was afraid that Jiao Ting would take away his position as the leader of the village, so he He refused and Jiao Ting went up the mountain to join the gang.

Jiao Ting followed what Cao Zheng had taught him in advance and ran away on the spot, furious with Deng Long.

Deng Long and Jiao Ting fought for more than 20 times, with no outcome in sight. Jiao Ting, who was unwilling to fight, fled down the mountain.

Next, Cao Zheng took a dozen of his carefully selected qi-refining masters from Bu Sanjun, and together with his wife and brother, escorted Jiao Ting up Erlong Mountain.

After seeing Deng Long, Jiao Ting suddenly broke away from the live rope and killed the unsuspecting Deng Long with his bare hands at close range.

Cao Zheng immediately fired the signal cannon, and Bu Sanjun, who had been ambushing for a long time at the foot of the mountain, immediately attacked Erlong Mountain.

Deng Long was usually jealous of talents, mean and ungrateful, and was very unpopular.

When the bandits on Erlong Mountain saw that Deng Long was killed and so many troops came from the other side, how could they not know that Erlong Mountain could not be saved, so they surrendered one after another.

After Cao Zheng and Jiao Ting captured Erlong Mountain without bloodshed, they immediately reported the victory back to Shuibo Liangshan.

After learning about the achievements of Cao Zheng and Jiao Ting, Jiang Hongfei said to his surroundings: "How is Cao Zheng's victory in seizing the Pearl Temple different from Han Xin's Mu Yadu Army? A general should not only be loyal and brave, but also be smart. It should be noted that when attacking with troops, The second is planning, the second is attacking friends, the second is attacking troops, and the third is attacking the city..."

Jiang Hongfei asked Lin Chong's weak apprentice Cao Zheng to take charge of the first army. Although no one said anything, it was hard to guarantee that some people would question Jiang Hongfei's decision.

Now, Cao Zheng has proved that Jiang Hongfei was not wrong with a real victory. Those who were waiting to see Cao Zheng's joke, or even Jiang Hongfei's joke, all stopped thinking like this.

Jiang Hongfei immediately ordered the appointment of Cao Zheng as the leader of the Erlongshan Branch. Cao Zheng's small hotel was handed over to Zhu Gui and Zhu Fu. Shuibo Liangshan's tentacles officially entered Qingzhou and looked for opportunities in Qingzhou, and even Yizhou, Weizhou, Mizhou, Laizhou, Dengzhou and other states have further grown...

After handling official duties, Jiang Hongfei went to the back mountain to practice for a while. It was not until dark that Jiang Hongfei returned to his residence.

As soon as Jiang Hongfei came back, Pan Jinlian greeted him enthusiastically and greeted Jiang Hongfei.

Before coming back with Jiang Hongfei, Pan Jinlian really didn't expect that Jiang Hongfei had so many women.

That day, Pan Jinlian, who was eager to get rid of Zhang Dahu's entanglement, was a little hasty and did not ask Jiang Hongfei to take her away and give her a title, whether to make her a wife, a concubine, or a maid.

At that time, all Pan Jinlian could think about was that as long as Jiang Hongfei was willing to take her away, no matter what Jiang Hongfei asked her to do, it would never be worse than being a concubine to Zhang Dahu or marrying Wu Dalang.

So Pan Jinlian eloped with Jiang Hongfei without hesitation.

After leaving Qinghe County with Jiang Hongfei, Jiang Hongfei was still very good to Pan Jinlian. He took good care of Pan Jinlian all the way and did not do anything inappropriate to Pan Jinlian. He gave Pan Jinlian full respect.

Originally, Pan Jinlian thought this was a good thing, indicating that Jiang Hongfei was a gentleman and would not take advantage of others' danger.

Unexpectedly, before arriving at Shuibo Liangshan, Pan Jinlian only arrived at Dongxi Village and saw the dignified, beautiful and lady-like Gao Liang and Chen Liqing, who was too beautiful to be ordinary.

Although Jiang Hongfei told Chao Gai at that time that Gao Liang and Chen Liqing were just his confidantes and not his women, the three of them did not do such things.

But in this era, the emphasis is on three obediences and four virtues. How can a woman casually follow a man who is not her man to go in and out and be together all the time?

Therefore, Pan Jinlian could tell at a glance that Gao Liang and Chen Liqing would be Jiang Hongfei's women sooner or later.

Especially when Pan Jinlian saw that Jiang Hongfei flirted with Gao Liang and Chen Liqing from time to time, but Gao Liang and Chen Liqing refused Jiang Hongfei's teasing without justice.

The key point is that unlike Gao Liang and Chen Liqing who have not really become Jiang Hongfei's women, Jiang Hongfei still has three real concubines. One of them is not inferior to Chen Liqing in appearance and figure, and the other two are not inferior to Pan Jinlian. .

Moreover, Pan Jinlian discovered through insinuations that all of Jiang Hongfei's women had higher backgrounds than her. She was the only one who was a maid who served people, and almost all the others came from wealthy families.

This gave Pan Jinlian a deep sense of crisis.

The only thing that made Pan Jinlian happy was that Jiang Hongfei did not treat Pan Jinlian as a maid.

——The use of Pan Jinlian is similar to that of Jiang Hongfei's concubines, which shows that Jiang Hongfei is still prepared to accept Pan Jinlian as his concubine.

But there is still a big gap between preparing to accept it and actually accepting it.

Let's put it this way, Jiang Hongfei didn't sleep with Pan Jinlian for a day, and didn't give Pan Jinlian a clear identity. Pan Jinlian, who was helpless, felt uneasy.

At this time, Pan Jinlian couldn't help but regret a little. If she had known that Jiang Hongfei's family was in this situation, she would have used other methods to directly become Jiang Hongfei's woman on the way back from Qinghe County. Then she would not have to worry about an unknown person like she does now. Carefully, it slipped into the middle of the maids such as osmanthus, mint, bergamot, and roses.

If she really falls into the wave of women who are maids, then she, Pan Jinlian, will at best become a common-room girl, and will not be able to become one of the mistresses of the family.

So Pan Jinlian has been looking for opportunities recently to confirm her identity as one of the mistresses of this family...

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