Do you have the strength to force me to join the Liangshan bandits?

Chapter 321 Making the Real Culprit Pay in Blood! [2 Updates]

Cai Fu was not surprised to see Pang Qiuxia.

There were only two women in Jiangnan who were connected to him: Pang Qiuxia and Fang Jinzhi.

However, he had never met Fang Jinzhi, and Fang Jinzhi probably didn't have the ability to travel from Jiangnan to Shandong alone.

So this young lady is most likely Pang Qiuxia.

"Brother Cai Fu!"

Pang Qiuxia knelt down as soon as she saw Cai Fu, pleading with tears in her eyes:
"Please, please save my brother!"

"Girl, what's wrong with you...?"

Cai Fu quickly helped Pang Qiuxia up; he and Pang Qiuxia were comrades-in-arms.

In his memory, Pang Qiuxia was a beautiful and charming woman with bright eyes and white teeth.

But at this moment, Pang Qiuxia was disheveled, her face was ashen, her clothes were tattered, and she looked travel-worn...

Even if you said she was Cai Fudu, a scavenger, you would believe it!

After helping Pang Qiuxia up, Cai Fu took off his cloak and wrapped it around the ragged Pang Qiuxia.

"Girl, what happened?"

“Brother Cai Fu…”

Pang Qiuxia's tears fell like beads from a broken string:

"My brother didn't kill the Holy Duke..."

Really?

Upon hearing that someone from Jiangnan had arrived, Cai Fu immediately thought of this possibility, never expecting that Fang La had actually died.

Cai Fu asked curiously, "What does my father-in-law's death have to do with your brother?"

Pang Qiuxia then recounted the events of that day to Cai Fu in detail…

"A hundred paces, an arrow that hits the willow leaf; a single arrow that kills the throat?"

Cai Fu frowned: Fang Tianding is wrong. In Jiangnan, Pang Wanchun may not be the only one who can do it.

The world of Water Margin has many skilled archers, not just Pang Wanchun from Jiangnan and Hua Rong from Liangshan.

However, Hua Rong and Pang Wanchun's performances were so dazzling that they overshadowed the other sharpshooters.

For example, Yang Zhi, the "Blue-Faced Beast".

In Daming Prefecture, Yang Zhi competed with Zhou Jin in archery and horsemanship. He first demonstrated catching arrows with his bare hands, and then demonstrated hitting any target he pointed at.

Yang Zhi thought to himself, "If I shoot him in the back of the heart, it will surely kill him. He and I have no grudge against each other, so I'll just shoot him in a non-vital spot."

Then Yang Zhi shot Zhou Jin in the left shoulder with an arrow.

In the original novel, Yang Zhi's archery skills are described as "the bow is drawn as full as a full moon, and the arrow flies like a shooting star!"
For example, Sun Li, nicknamed "Sick Yuchi," also had a contest of archery and horsemanship with the Liao general Kou Zhenyuan.

Kou Zhenyuan fled, and Sun Li shot an arrow at Kou Zhenyuan's back. Kou Zhenyuan heard the bowstring twang and performed a feat of catching the arrow with his bare hands, returning it to Sun Li.

Sun Li pretended to be hit by an arrow, luring Kou Zhenyuan over, and then killed Kou Zhenyuan with a whip.

Sun Li and Kou Zhenyuan are both considered excellent archers.

For example, Xuan Zan, nicknamed "Ugly Prince Consort," was recruited by the Prince's Palace to be his son-in-law because he won against the barbarian general with a series of arrows.

The princess found him ugly and died with resentment in her heart.

Although he didn't have any famous archery contests, the fact that the Prince's Mansion overlooked his appearance and recruited him as a prince consort shows that he must have real skills.

Take, for example, the "prodigal son" Yan Qing, who, as a beginner in archery, shot geese into the sky and never missed.

In a short while, they shot down more than a dozen wild geese, much to the astonishment of the generals.

Song Jiang asked him, and Yan Qing, feigning arrogance, replied:
"I was just learning archery when I saw a flock of geese flying overhead, but I didn't intend to shoot them."

"Unexpectedly, every arrow hit its mark, but it accidentally shot more than a dozen geese."

For example, the Liao general Tianshan Yong was nicknamed "A Little Oil".

During the battle, Zhang Qing attempted to ambush the Liao general with flying stones, but was instead shot in the throat by an arrow from Tianshan Yong!
If it weren't for An Daoquan, Zhang Qing might have died at this point.

Even in Jiangnan, there are hidden talents, such as Gao Keli, one of the "Twelve Gods of Jiangnan".

During the battle with Liangshan Marsh, Gao Keli shot an arrow into Han Tao's face, causing Han Tao to fall off his horse...

So here's the question: Gao Keli could shoot Han Tao on the battlefield, but not Fang La on the other side of Qingxi?
Therefore, Fang La's death was certainly not as simple as Fang Tianding thought. It was fortunate that Fang Jie came to Liangshan, otherwise he would have been inevitably drawn into the conflict.

After all, Fang La's assassination and Fang Hou's fall into the well after his illness happened one after the other. Did Fang Tianding really have no suspicions at all?

Fang La's death was no small matter, so Cai Fu immediately summoned Fang Jie and Shi Bao and had Pang Qiuxia repeat the story.

"uncle--"

Fang Jie's vision went black, and he fainted.

"Holy Duke"

Shi Bao, with tears streaming down his face, bowed to the south.

"Brother Pang was most likely framed..."

When Cai Fu saw that Fang Jie had fainted, he had no choice but to make a promise to Pang Qiuxia:
"I will travel to the south of the Yangtze River today!"

"We must find out the cause of my father-in-law's death and make the real culprit pay with their blood!"

"eye for eye!"

Fang Jie fainted quickly but woke up just as quickly. As soon as Lu Zhishen removed the basin, Fang Jie wiped his face and got up.

Shi Bao stood up with tears streaming down his face, took the meteor hammer from his waist and smashed it hard against the general's pillar!
"boom!"

He even broke a general's pillar as thick as a wine jar!

Shi Bao gritted his teeth and said, "The one who kills the Holy Duke should be like this pillar!"

"it is good!"

Cai Fu frowned, and an idea came to him:

"Brother Jie, Baozi, and Sister Pang, you go first."

At this point, Cai Fu put his arm around Fang Jie's shoulder, whispered a few words of advice in his ear, and then continued:

"I'll arrange things at the counterfeit site and then I'll be there."

Fang Jie understood immediately. He was already extremely anxious, so he immediately went to Jiangnan with Shi Bao and Pang Qiuxia.

"Second brother, strategist, after I leave, Liangshan will be in your hands."

Cai Fu solemnly entrusted the matter to Lu Junyi and Wen Huanzhang.

Cai Fu originally wanted Lu Zhishen to stay behind, but Lu Zhishen insisted on going.

Moreover, Lu Zhishen had been to Jiangnan once, so it wouldn't make sense for Cai Fu not to take him along.

Cai Fu had no choice but to leave Lu Junyi behind and tell Lu Zhishen not to go to Hangzhou.

As the second son, Lu Junyi had no choice but to take on the heavy responsibility.

Cai Fu then instructed Han Shizhong: "Sixth Brother, your health has almost fully recovered."

"You assist your second brother; if he makes any inappropriate decisions..."

Cai Fu didn't say it explicitly, but Lu Junyi's ability as a head coach was worlds apart from Han Shizhong's.

However, there was nothing they could do. Han Shizhong lacked the qualifications, while Lu Junyi's prestige at Liangshan was second only to Cai Fu.

Han Shizhong: "I understand!"

Everything was arranged. Cai Fu led Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, Yang Zhi, Yang Zaixing, Sun Li, Xie Zhen, Xie Bao, and Zhang Shun—a total of nine leaders on nine fast horses—and galloped off towards Jiangnan…

……

"Ugh--"

As Fang Tianding rode on his horse, tears welled up in his eyes as he thought of his father's death.

Although Fang La was dead and the throne was his, this could not lessen the grief of the young man who lost his father.

Because he did not grow up in the palace, Fang La devoted a lot of effort to his son.

The father-son relationship between him and Fang La certainly cannot be described as "the most ruthless are those in the imperial family".

This is evident from the fact that Fang La appointed him to be stationed in Hangzhou, equipped him with the "Four Marshals" and "Twenty-Four Generals," and stationed more than 100,000 troops in Hangzhou.

Fang Tianding also cared about his father.

He asked Cai Fu, who knew his father might not live much longer, but he didn't expect Fang La to die so soon...

(End of this chapter)