Chapter 102: Sitting at Night
To tell the truth, it is rare for bandits and dart masters to really "fight" on this kind of familiar dart road, and it is even more rare for such a big bloodshed to occur. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The familiar dart master knew in his heart that he couldn't go any further on this dart road, because this group of mountain bandits had killed so many people in vain, and they had already formed a mortal feud, and the gangsters would definitely catch up along the way to retaliate. It is imperative that they first return to the capital to ensure the safety of the goods.
But the brothers and sons of the Yu family are triumphant, and they are willing to agree. As a result, the dispute delayed the effort, and the dart team was locked out of the city gates that night. Unexpectedly, the bandits really caught up, and they also attacked the dart car with rockets at night, burning half of the goods.
At this point, this dart can be said to be completely "smashed". Because the dart bureau has to compensate for the damage to the goods and the failure to deliver the goods on time. And the relationship with the bandits broke like this, the dart road was naturally blocked, and then there was a business with the same dart road, no matter how big and fat, the dart game could only be handed over.
When Sun Siye learned about it, he was naturally furious, and hurriedly organized manpower to join forces with officers and soldiers to suppress the bandits. In the end, it took more than half of the month, and I don't know how much it took to pull out the village and open up the dart road again.
However, afterwards, although Sun Siye severely punished the bad dart master, he did not blame the Yu brothers too harshly. Because Sun Siye himself said that the reason for this unexpected situation was that he ignored the xenophobia of the dart masters. What's more, he mistakenly thought that the main point of wrestling was to throw people and take people, and the lethality was very limited, and even if he did it, there was a lot of room for maneuvering. didn't know that he was wrong. So the responsibility should be his, not the fault of the Yu brothers.
Why?
In fact, this is also because Yu Ye gave a detailed explanation of the origin of wrestling for Sun Siye. According to Yu Ye, the so-called "pooping household" of the Shanpu Battalion is actually derived from the name of the wrestling "Boke" (boh), which was originally a hand-to-hand combat skill tailored for the purpose of fighting on foot on the battlefield.
Specifically, the birth process of "Boke" is as follows: on the ancient battlefield, whenever a soldier faced a heavily armed enemy on foot on the battlefield, he often found that fighting the enemy with his fists and feet was tantamount to self-harm. In addition, it is not uncommon to encounter a situation where you are surrounded by heavy sieges and your head will be cut off at any time by the enemies around you. So after a bloody battle, the fighters with rich combat experience summed up the most direct and effective way of foot combat, that is, to quickly fall down the enemy, and then make up for a knife to finish off the opponent, which is also the original intention of the wrestling.
Therefore, in blindfolding, the most typical and common attack method is the technique suitable for use when holding a weapon. Most of them hit below the knee with low kicks, causing the enemy to lose their balance and fall to the ground. Such a kick and knife method is the fastest and most incoherent way to kill.
Through this conversation, Sun Siye learned the real situation, so he couldn't help but make some targeted adjustments to the Yu brothers and sons with amazing lethality.
Sun Siye's initial arrangement was like this, he temporarily did not allow the brothers and sons of the Yu family to bring any more blades, and also arranged for the brothers and sons to lead the way with a loyal old dart master, so that they could take the South Water Transport Road instead. This meaning is actually obvious, it is nothing more than the fear that the two brothers of the Yu family will kill the red eye again, so they are strictly forbidden to use the blade, and at the same time, because there are many restrictions on the waterway, most of the people along the way are confined to the boat, compared to the old dart master, it is easier to take care of the two.
However, don't look at the fact that Fourth Master Sun seems to have a lot of constraints on the brothers, but in fact, this shopkeeper is really good to the brothers and sons of the Yu family.
Because of the waterway dart boating, you can avoid the labor of riding a saddle carriage, which is recognized as a beauty difference in the dart industry. In addition, most of the areas where the water darts pass are rich lands, and there are many tax departments and gold bureaus along the route, and there are many water gates and locks, and there are officers and soldiers stationed in these places, so naturally there are few thieves infested, so the waterways are far safer than the land routes. Even if they encounter gangsters, it is basically rare to have "open robberies", and most of them are "secret robberies". As long as the dart master can strictly abide by the "three rules of the waterway" in the industry, and achieve the three rules of "waking up day and night", "people do not leave the boat", and "avoiding women", he can ensure that the road is safe and does not go wrong.
I have to say that Fourth Master Sun has indeed thought about everything. But this shrewd shopkeeper didn't expect that even this trip with the "safety dart" in hand, the two brothers of the Yu family would actually cause trouble, which made him feel troubled again.
What's going on here?
It turned out that this time, when the cargo ship arrived at a wharf along the way, the Yu brothers and sons witnessed a group of people on the shore robbing the wife and daughter of a boat family in the name of forcing debts. As a result, their sense of justice exploded, and they ignored the dissuasion of the old dart master "no one leaves the boat, and no one wants to leave the mountain", forced the boatman to dock, and took the lead to beat away the bullies who bullied men and women, and became a hero who saved others from danger.
But as a result, although this matter was not a "set" as the old dart master feared, the Yu brothers and sons also offended the local head snake, so that when the cargo ship of the dart bureau went to the next water pass, the garrison officers and soldiers who bought it off by the head snake found an excuse to detain them for a month.
Later, thanks to the old dart master, he contacted the local martial arts people who were familiar with him to come forward to help, set the plate and talk about friendship, and finally spent two charters in the best local restaurant, and put a huge scene of "reparation wine", which was considered to settle the matter and let the cargo ship be allowed to go back on the road. And as soon as he returned to the capital, the old dart master proposed to Sun Siye that he would no longer take the Yu brothers and sons to dart.
What else can Sun Siye say about this result, he can only shake his head and sigh, and tell the truth to the two brothers of the Yu family. He said that their official spirit is too heavy, and their sense of justice is too strong, and they are easy to act rashly. They are only suitable for being a chivalrous wrestler, but they are really not suitable for being a high-ranking official (the folk honorific title for a dart master) to walk darts.
Things turned out like this, and both sides felt very awkward.
The two brothers of the Yu family mainly felt that they had caused trouble to Sun Siye and caused losses to the dart game, and they wanted to find another job, but they felt too embarrassed to leave like this.
From Sun Siye's point of view, even if he wants to quit the two of them, he can't, because he has to take care of industry rules and reputation.
You must know that the dart business has the particularity of life and death, so as long as there is no loss of virtue and no bad rules, the dart master will not be fired. There has always been only a group to resign from the east, and there is no one to resign from the east. And this time, although the Yu brothers violated the rules of darts, their starting point was to be chivalrous. And the name of "Friends Dart Bureau" is the meaning of making good friends and meeting friends with martial arts. Besides, there is still the face of the middleman in this matter, if the Yu brothers and sons leave empty-handed for the sake of this matter, not only will they be too embarrassed, but they will also be laughed at by friends on the rivers and lakes.
In fact, in the heart of the shopkeeper Sun, he felt that the Yu brothers and sons were quite suitable for another business contracted by the dart bureau - to the high-ranking family nursing home. But the brothers and sons of the Yu family held their own identities and refused to enter the house to ask for peace. And as soon as he mentioned this, he was rejected by the two of them, and he didn't even leave a living word.
When things got to this point, the two sides froze here, and they were holding each other's faces, and it was difficult for anyone to open their mouths first to put forward the word "go". But there is nothing good to do with each other, and gradually, it has become so troublesome that even the east group feels uncomfortable when they meet every day.
However, fortunately, it didn't take long for the shopkeeper Sun to finally come up with another trick, that is, to let the Yu brothers and sons go to Dashilar to "sit at night".
The so-called Dashilar was not actually the name of the prosperous commercial district of the capital at the beginning. Rather, it refers to a real ironwood fence. This kind of fence first arose from the middle of the Ming Dynasty, all over the streets and alleys of the capital, and more than 1,000 were added in the inner city in the Qing Dynasty. Opening in the morning and closing at night every day is not only for the purpose of demarcation and responsibility, but also for safety.
The opening and closing of the fence in the outer city was in charge of the officers and soldiers of the South Battalion, who were originally the commander of the infantry army and the fifth battalion of the patrol and capture in the Yamen, and then handed over to the command of the Soldiers and Horses Division of the outer city. As the outer city gradually evolved into a commercial area, the nightlife was very lively, so the red lights, green wine, sheng songs and dances gradually broke through the fence of the morning and night closure system. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the official system was reformed, and the Imperial History of the Five Cities Patrol City and its subordinate institutions were abolished, and the Five Cities Lian Yong was reorganized into the patrol police, and the patrol police charter did not have the responsibility of opening and closing the fence, so the official fence was no longer managed.
The fences in the streets and alleys open in the morning and close at night, which has both advantages and disadvantages for the business community, with the advantage of strengthening public security management and the disadvantage of hindering the night market. Therefore, after the authorities gave up the right to manage the fence, the merchants of the two main commercial streets, Dashilan and Jewelry City, held a joint meeting and passed the resolution to manage the fence on their own: 1. To hire a joint venture to hire a member of the fence to be responsible for the management of the fence at the intersection; 2. The opening and closing time was changed to the opening and closing time of the theater after the theater was dispersed, and the city gate was opened after the gate was opened; 3. In case of emergency, the shops of each business could pass during the closing time; and 4. In the event of a riot, the fence would be closed day and night to ensure the safety of the street.
If you want to talk about this work, it is a unique business contracted by the Huiyou Dart Bureau. However, the remuneration paid by these companies to the dart board is actually not much, this is because their original intention is not to believe that there will really be any major changes in the city of the first good, and the real expectation of the merchants is that as long as there are a few dart masters who are responsible for opening and closing the fence every day, and then prevent the shops from "walking water" and thieves at night, they will be satisfied.
Therefore, in this way, the profit of the dart board is not high, so the number of dart masters sent to Dashilar cannot be too large. And most of them are still old and frail, or disabled by darts, and raised by the cabinet. This is equivalent to a "cold bench" inside the dart game.
However, the brothers and sons of the Yu family didn't care because they felt guilty about what happened before. The two brothers discussed it and decided that they would have to work for a full year, and wait until they repaid Sun Siye's favor before resigning. So the brothers and sons happily agreed, and since then they have been wearing swords again, patrolling the night every day, and becoming the "night sitting" people in Dashilar.
It's just that they didn't expect that the so-called "impermanence of fate" was indeed a big truth, because just when everyone thought that something big would happen, it happened.
On the twelfth day of the first month of 1912, the capital suddenly broke out the "Three Towns Mutiny" planned by Yuan Shikai.
That night, mutineers began to set fire to the city and loot it. And just after the fire broke out in the bustling Dong'an market, the rebels followed closely and ran to the front door to ransack the business district.
Fortunately, the two brothers of the Yu family heard from the footsteps of the rebels in time that the situation was wrong, and hurriedly called on the other dart masters to quickly close the fence at the street entrance. At the same time, they also drew their swords and stepped forward, relying only on two people, actually blocking dozens of rebels who rushed up one after another to try to stop the closure of the fence, so that the fence was successfully closed and the street blockade was completed. And the price paid by the Yu brothers and sons is that they are also trapped outside the fence.
The old streets were dimly lit and had a great impact on eyesight. And just after a burst of fighting shouts and random gunfire in the dark night, the reinforcements organized by the dart bureau quickly arrived. At this moment, the rebels saw that there was no hope of breaking through the fence, and they did not want to hurt more people, so they turned to other ways to find an opportunity to make a fortune.
It wasn't until the smoke cleared in the morning and the other burned neighborhoods were gradually exposed to the morning light that the dart masters and terrified merchants saw what a terrible scene was outside the sealed fence.
I saw more than 40 rebellious soldiers who had been hacked to death with knives lying down, and the blood stains almost dyed the entire street entrance ground black and purple. And in the middle of these corpses, Yu Wei's body was still standing, his back was tightly pressed against the fence, he had been shot six or seven times, and he was already dead, but his eyes were still open fiercely, and he was still holding the handle of the knife in his hand. The knife also pierced the neck of a rebel, and the two bodies were joined together by weapons.
Everyone was very excited when they saw this, and with gratitude to the benefactor who saved their lives, they hurriedly went around to find the whereabouts of Yuye.
Fortunately, Yu Ye was lucky, he was crushed under the body of a soldier, although he was also shot and was unconscious, but after all, it was not critical, and he still breathed.
The club has business dealings with foreign firms, so I know a lot of foreign doctors. After everyone pulled Yu Ye out from under the corpse, they hurriedly sent someone to send him to the foreign hospital in Dongjiaomin Lane, and finally picked up a life.