To succeed in anything, three things are necessary: opportunity, money, and good men.

  Three days of grand mourning

  Zheng Fei could only be exhausted from responding.

  Fortunately, Zheng's memory of customs in this regard has not been lost.

  Zheng Fei didn't perform very naturally, but fortunately, he also didn't make any major mistakes.

  For this "Zheng Tuo's wife" who left the world without even seeing her once,

  Zheng Fei could only lament in his heart, "What a pity."

  At the same time that God sent Zheng Fei to cross over into Zheng Tui's body, not only did he take away Zheng Tui, but also his wife, thoroughly giving Zheng Fei a free identity.

  Zheng Fei really didn't know whether he should thank heaven or shut up.

  During this time, Lu Da, Shi Jin and Li Zhong also received the news and came to mourn.

  Zheng Fei couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart as he thought that from now on, he would never be able to see his family from his past life again.

  The sorrowful look shown in front of everyone is not entirely fake.

  It wasn't until the fourth day that they finally buried Zheng Tu's wife.

  After a few days of leisure, Zheng Fei thoroughly handed over the butcher shop to Zhang An for management, and then he mixed with Lu Da Shi and others.

  Fortunately, Zheng Tu's 26-year-old body was still quite robust

  Although he missed the best time for training, under the careful guidance of Lu Da and Shi Jin, Zheng Fei still learned a few lifesaving kung fu moves.

  In addition to this,

  Zheng Fei spent most of his time thinking about how to act in the future.

  Zheng Fei had made up his mind after several days of careful consideration.

  Since I've come to this Song Dynasty Water Margin world,

  It's absolutely not going to be a wasted trip.

  In order to win over as many of the Liangshan heroes as possible to serve under him

  To realize his ideal of saving the traditional Chinese knight-errant spirit

  Zheng Fei must engage in an invisible struggle with someone

  This person is none other than

  It's Song Jiang!

  Innumerable studies of Song Jiang by later generations have shown

  Song Jiang is a fake hero and a real scoundrel of Liangshan Marsh!

  Jin Gong even more mercilessly gave most of his contempt and disgust to Song Jiang, calling him "a man who speaks of benevolence and righteousness but does petty things", and ranked him alongside Gao Qiu, the first great villain in Water Margin, as one of the two biggest petty men in Water Margin.

  Song Jiang was called "Timely Rain" by the people in the rivers and lakes, and everyone thought he was "righteous". After going up to Liangshan, however, he couldn't stop talking about surrendering, often boasting that he was "loyal".

  But was he really loyal and righteous?

  When Chao Gai and others were arrested for the birthday case, Song Jiang, as a national civil servant, abandoned the country's law and went to inform them, what is this "loyalty" to the country?

  Song Jiang fled to Qingfeng Stockade, in order to surrender Qin Ming, ordered people to disguise themselves as Qin Ming to go down the mountain to burn, kill and loot the common people. Is this what is called "loyalty" to the country?

  After going up the mountain, he suddenly remembered that he wanted to be "loyal", and the words "surrender" were always on his lips. For him, Liangshan was just a tool for seeking wealth and glory.

  Then say "righteousness".

  Song Jiang killed Yan Poxi, after the case was exposed, in front of the county government office, Tang Niuer helped Song Jiang to get out of trouble and took the blame for him, being asked by the magistrate of Youyang County "intentionally releasing a fugitive", was sentenced to twenty blows with a heavy stick and banished five hundred miles away.

  This lifesaver Song Jiang didn't even ask about him again afterwards. Is this what they call "righteousness"?

  Is it because Tang Niu'er's status is too lowly that Song Jiang doesn't even bother to intervene?

  Looking back at Chai Ge, although it was because of Bai Sheng's inability to withstand severe torture and forced confession that the case was exposed, after joining Liangshan, he still didn't forget to devise a plan to rescue Bai Sheng. From this point of view, Chai Ge is more "righteous" than Song Jiang.

  But soon after Song Jiang was forced to go up to Liangshan, he began a series of actions to gradually set aside Chao Gai. He even fabricated the banner of "Jiutian Xuannü granting heavenly books", claiming that he was some kind of "star master", clearly excluding Chao Gai who was the leader. He also used the excuse that Jiutian Xuannü said that the heavenly book could only be seen with Tianji Xing, and took the opportunity to win over Wu Yong. Is this what they call "righteousness"?

  The truly loyal and righteous Chao Gai was driven to desperation by Song Jiang, who was full of righteousness and morality, and eventually died without willing to pass on the leadership position to Song Jiang, from which we can imagine Chao Gai's tragic and indignant mood...!

  To speak of "benevolence",

  The book says that Song Jiang "often gave out medicine and food to help the poor", such a "kind-hearted" person, how could he also do things like sending people to pretend to be Qin Ming and kill people and set fires on the mountain, slaughtering countless innocent civilians?

  How can such a "kind-hearted" person order Li Kui to chop an innocent child in half with one axe, forcing Zhu Tong, who has great kindness for Liangshan, to become a fugitive?

  How can such a "benevolent" person make a "heroic" move of blood washing the Mansion of Great Fame?

  It is not hard to see that

  Song Jiang is essentially a person who sets double standards for himself, has different attitudes towards others at different times, judges people based on their circumstances and speaks to them in a way that suits his own interests, a pragmatic opportunist.

  Zheng Fei must strive to surpass Song Jiang as much as possible and try to win over as many of the Liangshan heroes as he can for his own use!

  And the first step is to race against time.

  It was then the third year of Zhenghe, more than two years away from the day when Chao Gai and others would rescue Birthday Boy, and the grand curtain of Water Margin had not yet been formally opened.

  What can Zheng Fei do?

  No matter how I put it, I'm just a university graduate, and apart from being slightly familiar with "Water Margin" and Song history, I can honestly say that there's nothing else I have any expertise in.

  Looking at the great achievements in ancient history, there are three conditions that must be met.

  Firstly, you need to have money.

  Secondly, there must be someone

  Three must have great opportunities.

  Opportunities can't be forced.

  Talent, Zheng Fei has already locked his target on the heroes of Liangshan.

  The most troublesome and realistic thing is "money" now.

  Although Zheng had slaughtered pigs for over a decade and saved up quite a bit of silver, Zheng Fei gathered all the silver together over the past few days and counted it, totaling several thousand taels.

  But just relying on that little silver to achieve great things, even if all the pigs in the Song Dynasty were sent to Zheng Fei for slaughter, it would probably not be enough.

  Zheng Fei fell into deep distress.

  Several more days passed like this

  Zheng Fei got up early, hastily ate something, and went to find Lu Da Shi Jin to learn some new moves.

  Less than a stick of incense had passed when they arrived at Lu Da's residence, a small courtyard filled with eighteen types of weapons.

  Zheng Flew in and saw that Lu Da was sitting on a bamboo chair in the courtyard drinking tea, while Shi Jin and Li Zhong had not arrived yet.

  Zheng Fei stepped forward, clasped his fists and bowed, saying "Good morning, brother."

  "Brother, you're here! What do you want to learn today?"

  Zheng Fei thought for a moment and said, "After learning from Brother these past few days, I feel that Brother's martial arts are too vast and profound. I'm not smart, and after learning one thing, I forget another. Does Brother have any quick and effective techniques? I don't ask for much, just something to save my life in a critical moment."

  Lu Da listened, closed his eyes for a moment, suddenly opened them and said, "Hearing you say this, I actually remember having such a skill, but it's not my own skill, it was taught by an older brother when I was in the army. The way of this skill is to pretend to be weak and launch a surprise attack, which doesn't match with my usual open and powerful moves, so I've never used it before. Today, hearing you mention it, it seems quite suitable for you, brother."

  Zheng Fei was overjoyed and hastily said, "Please, brother, don't hesitate to impart your teachings."

  Ruda nodded and asked, "Do you have a dagger?"

  Zheng Fei hastily pulled out a dagger he had prepared over the past few days from his bosom and handed it to Lu Da.

  Rudana weighed it in her hand, "This weight is just right."

  Having said that, he stood up and began to teach Zheng Fei his so-called sneak attack technique.

  This sneak attack is extremely simple

  Just a few hands in continuous succession, linked together like a chain of deadly moves.

  Apart from the necessary grappling skills, there are three other key points

  One is to disguise oneself as a weak person and make it extremely believable.

  Second, one must be brave and strong-willed. Although appearing extremely weak on the surface, one's inner heart must be exceptionally strong, holding onto an unyielding determination to win, abandoning "oneself", forgetting the self, unaware of the existence of the physical body, possessing extraordinary spiritual power.

  Three essentials are decisive, opportunities usually only come once, and missing them may become a dead man. When the killing intent appears, there can't be half a point of hesitation, when it's time to take action, act immediately, any delay means failure.

  Actually, Luda is also considered half a martial arts fanatic.

  Zheng Fei's appearance gave Lu Da a direction to vent his emotions.

  Two people, one teaching with enthusiasm and the other learning with eagerness, soon entered a state of complete absorption.

  The two were enthusiastically sparring when the door suddenly swung open.

  Zheng Fei stopped and looked up to see Shi Jin and Li Zhong walking in.

  Only Shi Jin was fine, but Li Zhong's face was full of anger.

  Zheng Fei asked, "What's going on with you two brothers?"

  Shi Jin burst out laughing and glanced at Li Zhongdao, "No big deal, just a trivial matter."

  Lu Da let out a loud hum and said, "Which dog in the city of Nagasaki made you angry? Speak up, brother will help you vent!"

  Li Zhongyi saw Lu Da get angry and quickly put away his discontented expression, forcing a smile to say, "Brother, don't be angry, it's just a small matter."

  Lu Da glared at him, "Speak!"

  Li Zhong shivered, looked at Zheng Fei and then at Shi Jin who was secretly smiling, before awkwardly saying, "Cough! This morning I went to eat breakfast with Shi Jin, we ordered a few salted duck eggs to go with our congee. Clearly they were salted duck eggs, but not one bit salty. The seller and I got into an argument, he said that the price of salt is very expensive now, all the way up to 70 or 80 wen. I was so angry that I argued with him for a few sentences..."

  "Damn it!" Before he could finish, Ruda was already so angry that she laughed and scolded, pointing at Li Zhong and laughing loudly, "It's just you, this broken goods, who dares to argue with those small vendors over such a rotten matter, hahaha!"

  Shi Jin also burst out laughing, Li Zhong's face turned red with embarrassment.

  But Zheng Fei's eyes lit up instead,

  Salt!

  That's right!

  I forgot to bring salt!