The darkness of the night was lit up by the raging flames, and everyone gathered around the fire, everyone's face burned red from the scorching flames. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The cold on info's body was also completely dispelled. From time to time, sparks rise into the sky, like fireflies flying in the sky, adding a bit of mysterious beauty to this dark night.

The night wind was cold, and the reeds that were taller than a man made a rustling sound.

A tactful and ethereal, crisp and pleasant sound of bamboo flute floated in the night sky. One will be like a hundred birds chirping bustling and noisy, one will be like a mountain spring dingdong ethereal and clear, one will be like a drizzle knocking on the window lazily and whispering, and one will be like a spring breeze blowing willows slowly......

Hua Lianyue put her hands on her knees and listened quietly. Not only her, but almost all the dart masters stopped making noise, for fear that their rude words would desecrate this beautiful flute.

In the moonlight, a plain-clothed woman, with black hair and a shawl, sat sideways in front of the carriage. She half-hung her head, her eyebrows were slightly constricted, a purple bamboo flute was horizontally on her red lips, and ten slender fingers like jade danced briskly on the bamboo flute.

Hua Lianyue had to admit that Zhong Lingxiu was indeed a talented woman with both talent and appearance. Not to mention anything else, just because she used such an ordinary bamboo flute to blow such a beautiful and beautiful tune, it was enough to compare with the so-called famous ladies in the capital.

Hua Lianyue stared at her silently with her head sideways, although her flute sound was cheerful and ethereal, it made people feel happy to hear. But in the flames, she occasionally raised her eyes to glance, but her cold eyes were cold and ruthless, and even hidden cruelty!

Ding Yongan was not far from the carriage, he looked at her with an obsessive face, wanting to get close but for fear of abruptly abrupt the beauty. The anxious appearance of rubbing his hands and scratching his ears and cheeks made Hua Lianyue laugh dumbly.

At the end of the song, there was still silence around them, and everyone seemed to be immersed in the beautiful sound of the flute. Hua Lianyue quietly stood up and stepped back. Hurried through the dense tents and countless carriages, until they came to a nondescript tent. She looked around left and right, and saw that there was no one around, so she hurriedly opened the tent and got in.

A dim oil lamp burned in the tent, and Ding Dart sat on the ground, his face sinking like water, and his body exuded a fierce aura. There was also a round-faced boy of eighteen or nineteen years old standing beside him, the young man was thin and swarthy, his face was full of red bumps, his hair was also messy, his sheepskin jacket was dirty, and there was a smell of horse manure all over his body. But a pair of slender eyes are extremely dark, revealing an unruly light like a wild wolf.

"I've seen the dart!" Hua Liyue bowed to him.

"Brother Hua!" Ding Dart nodded, pointing to the young man next to him and introduced to Hua Lianyue: "This is Xiaofeng. Xiaofeng hugged her fist and saluted Hua Lianyue.

"Brother Xiaofeng!" Hua Lianyue hurriedly returned the salute. Xiao Feng grinned, but his laughter was very weird, like a fingernail scratching on an iron tool, which made people's scalp tingle and their hearts frightened.

Hua Lianyue looked at Ding Darthead suspiciously, Ding Darthead sighed slightly, and explained: "Xiaofeng is not a dart master, he is just a stable." Because he was born deaf and dumb, he was abandoned by his family since he was a child. He was seven years old when I picked him up and took him back to the game. Because he was often bullied when he was a child, he was reluctant to come into contact with the crowd, and spent his days with the horses in the dart game, and of course his riding skills were among the best in the dart game. ”

After a pause, he said again: "I want to think about it, only he is the one I absolutely trust at the moment, and only he can do this!"

Hua Lianyue nodded and said, "Since Ding Daotou believes in him, I won't say much." It's just that this trip is very dangerous, Xiaofeng he ......."

"I've made it clear to him. Ding Dart glanced sideways at Xiaofeng, and said proudly: "However, he insisted on going this way." In the end, I raised a child who never knew what fear was!"

Xiao Feng, who should have been born deaf and dumb, seemed to hear Ding Daotou's words, his eyes were shining and staring at Hua Lianyue, his chest was slapping, and there was a low beast-like grunt in his throat.

Hua Lianyue was startled, but Ding Darttou stood up, patted him on the shoulder and scolded with a smile: "Okay, okay, I don't need you to show any loyalty, as long as you can come back safely." ”

As Ding Darttou spoke, Xiao Feng stared at his lips carefully. After he finished speaking, Xiao Feng smiled again, and then nodded vigorously.

Hua Lianyue was secretly surprised, she didn't expect that this young man with a disability who was not amazing in appearance could actually read lip language, and he was really unseemly.

Half an hour later, Xiao Feng came out of Ding Darthead's tent alone. He looked around vigilantly, sniffed, wrapped his sheepskin jacket tightly, and shrunk his neck to the place where the horses and goods gathered.

"Stinky boy, where are you lazy!"

Far away, as soon as the old horse saw him, he habitually scolded: "Don't you know that there are the most wild wolves in this kind of place? I don't know that I dare to wander around honestly?

While scolding, he yawned so many times that tears came out of his eyes, and he seemed to be very sleepy and about to fall asleep at any time.

Xiao Feng, who had always been silent and allowed him to bully, suddenly glared angrily, and a beastly roar came out of his throat, grabbed the clothes on the old horse's chest, and waved a huge fist with the sound of the wind.

Although the fist did not hit the old horse in the face, it pierced a sack on the side of his head, and countless snow-white and crystalline fine salt were sprinkled out.

Although Xiao Feng was thin, he was half a head taller than the old horse. In addition, he does heavy work every day, and his tendons are as hard and powerful as iron lumps. The anger without warning at this moment really startled the old horse.

He was already a fierce and stubble person, and he was grabbed by the neck by Xiao Feng, and he couldn't break free, so he had to stare at his eyes and shout angrily: "You, what do you want to do?

Xiao Feng stared at the squirming of his lips, and when he finished speaking, he pushed him hard and spat on the ground. Then he proudly raised his chin and swaggered away.

Lao Ma has always relied on himself to be an old man in the dart game, and he is close to Ding Yongan, so he likes to bully newcomers. Especially Xiaofeng, he won't sue, and he has no relatives to rely on, and he was bullied to death.

"Stinky boy, don't leave if you have the ability. You, a dog bastard with a mother and no father, dare to act majestic in front of your master, I'm afraid you're tired of being crooked......" The old horse jumped behind Xiao Feng, foaming at the mouth and scolding endlessly. The voice of the old owl, piercing and deafening, was heard far away in the silent night.

Many dart masters were awakened in their sleep, and inevitably muttered dissatisfiedly: "This old horse, his dead nature has not changed, and he is bullying Xiaofeng again!" After muttering, he turned over and fell asleep again.

Xiaofeng strode back to his tent, and several of the stables who had been asleep were also woken up by the shouting and scolding of the old horses outside. However, in line with the principle that more is better than less, they all choose to sleep quietly.

Xiao Feng didn't care, he began to pack his clothes neatly with a gloomy face. He didn't have many things, just a few changes of clothes. Quickly packing the clothes and throwing them over his shoulders, he strode out of the tent.

A stableman who usually had a good relationship with him finally sensed that something was wrong, and hurriedly jumped up and chased after him. He pulled Xiao Feng's sleeve outside the tent, and the two stood facing each other, and he was puzzled: "Where are you going?"

Xiao Feng sighed a few times, raised his hand and pointed to the southeast, Xunyang City was in that direction. The stableman quickly understood what he meant, and couldn't help but be surprised: "Do you want to go back to Xunyang?"

Xiao Feng nodded vigorously with a firm face.

"My God, are you really stupid!" the horse boy patted his head helplessly, and then persuaded bitterly: "Seeing that there are still a few days to go to the border pass, you can't earn a copper plate when you go back at this time, and the hard work of more than a month is not in vain." ”

Xiaofeng stubbornly turned his head and didn't look at the stableman talking. But looking at his pouting, twisting his eyebrows, and clenching his hands into fists, he seemed to be in a state of extreme anger, completely like a child playing tricks.

The horse stable was also kind, he saw that Xiaofeng was still stubborn, so he had to lower his voice and persuade bitterly: "That old horse has a broken mouth, you just ignore him, why bother to get along with silver for such a villain." You're not small, and you don't have a family to help you, so you can make a lot of money on this trip. When the time comes, there will also be money to ask the matchmaker to find a daughter-in-law for you to start a family, do you really want to be a stableman in the dart game for a lifetime?"

Xiao Feng angrily pointed to the old horse in the distance and gestured, making an ugly ah-ah sound in his mouth, still looking angry.

"Alright, I've said everything you need to say, think about it yourself!" said the stable, yawning, shook his head with a wry smile, and turned back to the tent.

Xiao Feng's eyes flashed with a sharp coldness, he wiped his nose with his sleeve, and after expressing his anger to the old horse, he finally led a horse out of the wooden fence outside the dart team and quickly walked away.

The movement he made was not small, provoking the merchants stationed around the dart team to send their own men to check, for fear that some robbers would make such a move. As a result, I only saw that in the huge dart team, one person and one rider left quickly. There are also people chasing after him and shouting: "Xiaofeng, come back quickly, don't make a child's temper, no matter how big the grievance is, there will be a dart head for you to call the shots......"

No wonder there was such a big movement, it turned out that someone was throwing a tantrum. The merchants who watched the excitement looked forward to it for a long time, but they didn't see anything new, so they had to pout their lips and go back to their tents.

In the dark, someone hesitated and asked, "Are we going to chase it?"

After a moment of silence, someone said: "Forget it, let's run away! Anyway, our purpose is not people, but the goods in their hands." ”

"Hey, if it had been before, how could we have seen this thing in our eyes. It's annoying to have to work so hard now!"

"At this time and time, His Royal Highness King Baixian gave us, and our people almost all died. Even the silver money that he had finally accumulated was let him serve it to a pot. This batch of goods is a good opportunity for us to turn over, so we can only succeed and never allow failure. ”

Before dawn, someone reported the matter to Ding Darthead. Ding Darttou was furious, and specially brought the old horse over and scolded him harshly. The old horse, who had always been low-minded and pretentious, came out of the tent with a scowling eyebrow, but the resentment in his heart became more and more difficult to suppress.

As soon as the morning dawned, the dart team set out for camp. Those merchants who had followed them for a few days knew their rigorous style of conduct, so they naturally prepared early.

Among them, there were two small teams of merchants who had only followed yesterday, and the smoke in the tent had just risen, but they saw that the opposite team had already begun to move. They also hurriedly extinguished their cooking cigarettes, sorted out their packing goods, and hurriedly followed on the road.

The yellowed reeds resemble a huge carpet, and the autumn breeze blows through the green waves, revealing the colorful wildflowers hidden within. It used to be a large lake, but as the lake dried up and gradually turned into plains, you can occasionally encounter some bubbles full of dark green floating algae.

Some wild deer and wild sheep were alarmed by the dart team and quickly left timidly. They fly on all fours, bringing a bit of life to this quiet land.

The ground was wet and thick, and the carriages were extremely difficult to walk, so the speed of the dart team was much slower than before. From time to time, the wheels got stuck in the mud, so the dart masters had to work as coolies, pulling and pushing carts along the way, and they were very busy.

I finally got out of this reed field, and it was already evening. The sky was getting dark and gloomy, and it looked like it was going to rain. Ding Darttou instructed the dart team to deliberately find a higher place to set up camp. The dart masters were so tired that they didn't even want to say a word, and only did their work in silence.

Ding Darthead silently circled around the dart team a few times, and commanded everyone to firmly strengthen the tent, and the nail pile was more than twice as deep as usual. In case of heavy rain at night, the stakes will be washed away and the tent will be useless.

The temperature here at night is extremely low, and it is a barren plain. As far as the eye can see, there is not even a cave except for wild grass and big trees, and there is nowhere to avoid it. If you accidentally get wet in the rain, you will freeze to death.

In addition to the tent and those goods, the silk and silk naturally cannot be exposed to rain, and those fine salts are even more resistant to rain. After all, if the cloth is soiled, it can still be sold cheaply. And if the fine salt is drenched by the rain, it will turn into salt water and pass away completely, and you can't even cry back.

Fortunately, the people in the dart game were very experienced, and they methodically pulled out the wooden planks to block the goods around, and pulled out the tarpaulin to wrap the wagons that could not be wetted by the rain.