Chapter 190: Cao Ze's First Encounter with Hu Sanniang

Luan Tingyu strode out of Zhujiazhuang, and the anger in his heart was slightly suppressed.

"I've made a fool of myself for my two brothers."

Cao Jie pointed to Zhu Family Manor behind him and consoled him, "You can only know a person's face but not his heart. I didn't expect that the three heroes of the Zhu Family would be such bastards. It's not too late for you to see their true colors today, brother."

"Yes! Fortunately, my two brothers came to look for me, Luan Tingyu. If it weren't for what happened today, I would still be in the dark. Teaching martial arts to those ruthless people, hehe... If it were based on my temper when I was young, I would not stop until I took away the martial arts they learned from me."

"Anger is harmful to the body. Those people's behavior will cause disaster sooner or later..."

At this time, a burst of hurried horse hoof sounds came from behind.

When he turned around, he saw a big man riding a horse towards him, holding Luan Tingyu's spear and hammer.

"Shut up!"

The big man who looked 70% similar to Zhu Hu and Zhu Biao jumped off his horse, clasped his fists and said, "Teacher, please stay."

"Zhu Long, why are you chasing me?"

Zhu Long clasped his fists and said, "Teacher, I'm here to apologize on behalf of my two younger brothers."

Luan Tingyu sneered: "Haha! I, Luan Tingyu, can't bear it. Can't I leave your Zhujiazhuang as a free man?"

"I'm not asking you to go back, I just want you to take my weapon away..."

"It's not necessary."

Luan Tingyu shouted, "I have not taken a single cent from your Zhu family. I am leaving today with Brother Cao Jie and Wu Song, the Subduing Tiger Arhat, as witnesses that I am incorruptible and have not taken a single cent from your Zhu family. Zhu Long, please go back!"

"This……"

Zhu Long had a bitter face and looked depressed.

He wanted to persuade him again, but found a few people coming from not far away. They were Liu Tang, Zhu Tong and Lei Heng who were waiting outside the village.

The horse galloped over, and Liu Tang, with a fierce look on his face, shouted: "Brother, but this Zhu Family Manor is making things difficult for you..."

It’s fine if it’s just the one who asked the question.

The man who didn't speak, had a long beard, a face as red as a jujube, and looked like Yun Chang reborn, with his hand holding a huge saber, made Zhu Long feel terrified.

Zhu Tong narrowed his eyes slightly, holding the knife in one hand, as if he was ready to kill someone if they disagreed with him.

"hiss!"

Zhu Long clasped his fists, mounted his horse, turned around and left, not daring to stay for a moment.

"Come, let me introduce them to you. This is Luan Tingyu, the Iron Rod, this is Liu Tang, the Red-haired Ghost, this is Zhu Tong, the Bearded Man, and this is Lei Heng, the Winged Tiger. The three of you will soon follow Wu Erlang to take up the post of the head of the Xuanyi Army. You should have a good exchange of ideas..."

Everyone left Zhujiazhuang laughing and joking, and Luan Tingyu's depression was slightly relieved.

At this time, a group of big men were seen riding down from the opposite hill. The first one had a white face and no beard, a wasp waist and a monkey back. He was handsome and had a bit of bravery.

"Oh! It's Teacher Luan. Where are you going? All of you heroes have extraordinary looks. I am Hu Cheng from Hujiazhuang. I am honored!"

"Hu Cheng, I am no longer a teacher at Zhujiazhuang. I am about to leave with my brothers. You are going to Zhujiazhuang, right?"

"Why is this? Why do you want to leave suddenly?"

Luan Tingyu spoke briefly and ignored the man.

But Hu Cheng rolled his eyes and took the initiative to approach, saying with a smile: "This Zhu Family Village is looking down on people. Teacher Luan and all the brothers should come to my Hu Family Village as guests."

"Your sister is going to marry into Zhu Family Manor and invite me to be her guest. Aren't you afraid of angering the three heroes of the Zhu Family?"

"One is one and two is two. I, Hu Cheng, admire Mr. Luan as a person and his martial arts. Please come back to the manor as a guest. What does it have to do with Zhujia Manor?"

The Zhu family, the Li family, and the Hu family, the three manors formed an alliance to protect each other and act in unison. But in fact, the three manors are also competitors. The closer they are, the more uneven their interests are, and conflicts will naturally arise. How did the Zhu family become the most powerful? Naturally, they bullied the surrounding manors, accumulating little by little.

"Ha ha!"

Cao Jie smiled and said, "Since you are invited by a good man, let's go to Hujia Village and chat."

I didn't take the initiative to go there! It was you, my brother-in-law, who took the initiative to invite me!

"Since my brother wants to go, then we will go for a walk..."

Seeing that everyone was listening to this handsome man, Hu Cheng clasped his fists and asked, "May I ask your name, sir?"

"Yuncheng Cao Jie!"

"Ah!" Hu Cheng's eyes widened: "But Yanggu Medicine King Cao Jie is here in person?"

Cao Jie took over Ximen Qing's ancestral herbal medicine shop. After a year of operation, he also gained the false title of "Yanggu Medicine King".

However, this reputation only remains in one place and cannot increase the experience points of [Medicine King] by much.

Cao Jie nodded in agreement and introduced his brothers.

"My little 'Flying Tiger' Hu Cheng, I'm honored to meet Brother Cao, I'm honored to meet Subduing Tiger Arhat, and I'm honored to meet all the brothers!"

"Flying Tiger?"

Wu Song looked at Hu Cheng seriously, until Hu Cheng felt a chill in his heart.

This "Flying Tiger" Hu Cheng, Hu Sanniang's elder brother, actually has some strength.

When the ghost-faced Du Xing in the book first met Yang Xiong and Shi Xiu, he introduced Hujia Village and said: "The Hujia Village in the west. The owner of the village, Hu Taigong, has a son named Hu Cheng, the Flying Tiger, who is also very capable. But the most heroic daughter is Hu Sanniang, who is called Yizhangqing. She wields two sun and moon swords and is very capable on horseback."

Later, Zhujiazhuang was breached by Liangshan, and Hu Cheng captured Zhu Biao alive and prepared to send him to Liangshan. Unexpectedly, Li Kui did not care about anything and after chopping Zhu Biao with an axe, he also wanted to kill Hu Cheng.

The book ends with the following statement: Hu Cheng saw that the situation was not good, so he fled on horseback, abandoned his family and fled to Yan'an Prefecture. Later, he became an officer in the Zhongxing period.

To be more specific, more than ten years later, he and Yue Fei served as commanders together to resist the Jin army in Jiankang.

It is said that Hu Cheng led Cao Jie and his party to Hujia Village, and soon they arrived in front of Hujia Village.

The farm was well-organized and surrounded by fertile land.

Seeing a group of people riding horses approaching from afar, the people of Hujia Village did not dare to be careless.

Shandong has been home to many bandits since ancient times, so it's never wrong to be cautious.

A few gongs and drums sounded, and a female general rode out from the village on horseback. When she got closer, she found that it was her brother Hu Cheng, and then she put down the two swords in her hands.

"Didn't my brother go to Zhu Family Manor? How come he came back so soon?"

Reining her horse, the female general spoke in a clear voice and looked heroic, a true female hero.

There is a poem praising it:

The golden hairpin on the cicada's temples is pressed twice, and the phoenix shoes and precious stirrups are stepped on diagonally. The chain armor is lined with red gauze, and the embroidered ribbon is stretched across the waist. The frost knife chopped down the heroes indiscriminately, and the jade fiber captured the fierce generals alive. Naturally beautiful begonia flowers, Yi Zhang Qing should be the first to take action.

"Sanniang, we met Teacher Luan and other heroes on the way. We brought them back to the farm to entertain them."

Hu Cheng said excitedly: "Look here, who is this hero?"

"who?"

Hu Sanniang looked around and her eyes fell on Wu Song. She had heard of Wu Song, the "Subduing Tiger Arhat", for a long time.

After taking a few glances, it turned from Wu Song to Cao Ze...

(End of this chapter)