The Four Demons Rise

Because Song Jiang, the court clerk of Yun City, was as close to Chao Gai as brothers of the heart.

Seeing that they meant to arrest Chao Gai, he first stalled He Tao, then spurred his horse at full gallop to East Creek Village to deliver the warning.

After receiving the money, the three Ruan brothers returned to Stone Tablet Village on their own. Bai Sheng had already been thrown into prison.

The rest were all at Chao Gai's estate.

At that moment, he was drinking beneath the grape arbor in the rear courtyard with Wu Yong, Gongsun Sheng, and Liu Tang.

Upon receiving Song Jiang's warning, Chao Gai discussed matters with Wu Yong and Gongsun Sheng, then gathered the estate hands and packed up the gold, silver, and valuables.

They set the estate ablaze, then headed straight for Stone Tablet Village.

There, they killed the pursuing He Tao and his company of soldiers, used gold and silver to hire Zhu Gui, and had him lead everyone directly up Mount Liang.

After more than a year of restructuring, Mount Liang had already taken on a rather impressive air.

Besides the main stronghold on the mountain, they had also established a water fort at Golden Sand Beach.

Seeing so many people come to join them, Wang Lun was delighted and led them into the Hall of Gathering Righteousness in the main stockade.

They slaughtered two yellow oxen, ten sheep, and five pigs, beating drums and sounding gongs as they laid out a grand feast.

Wang Lun had originally been quite pleased to see people of standing arrive.

Yet when he heard that Chao Gai and the others had killed many government soldiers, bandit catchers, and patrol inspectors, while letting He Tao go, and saw that heroes like the three Ruan brothers