The terroir of Jinzhou in the Dayao states, if you take people as a metaphor, it is a rough man with muscles and muscles, although it does not have the gentle and beautiful beauty of Jiangzhou and other fish and rice towns, but it is a state with the most Ding when the emperors of all dynasties fought in the Quartet to recruit troops. In the past 100 years, there have been more than 60 large and small wars, and the average number of swords and soldiers has to be used once a year or so, and each time there are thousands of people at least 1,000 people, and tens of thousands of people at most.

In the villages and towns of Jinzhou, often men from one village and one town went to join the army, and they were organized under the command of a general, and they were all wiped out after a defeat, which was the situation of every village and town in white clothes, and it was not uncommon in Jinzhou, and the young people of every household wore black cloth on their arms when they came to the spring outing.

Every year of the war, in addition to the more food darts and silver darts that help the Dayao court escort the military rations and silver, there are also letter darts, and the soldiers on the battlefield spend a hundred copper plates, and hand over a short letter to the dart master of the Wu and Dart Bureau to send to the relatives in their hometown, and buy a rest assured that in the year of the war, it is quite a cost-effective price.

But after all, these are just some bits and pieces of business, Wu and the dart bureau really depends on the livelihood, or those who have important things to need bodyguards of the official eunuch rich family, Wu and the dart bureau abide by the rules left by the ancestor Zhang Wuhe, although the bodyguard draws silver will not be less than eleven, the loss of the bodyguard goods according to the price of double the compensation, in today's dart line has been regarded as the only one, and then look at other dart bureaus, the silver money is less than half of the Wu and dart bureau, many customers who are greedy for small profits will also abandon Wu and the dart bureau to use other houses, and so on in the future the goods lost the silver money and did not make up for the big loss, then I remembered the benefits of the Wu and the dart board。

And plant willow trees on both sides of the road in the round city, once it comes to summer, there are green willows in the shade for people to enjoy the shade, there are several ancient willows that two people hug together in the territory of Wu and the dart bureau, according to legend, it is still planted by the hand of the ancestor Zhang Wuhe, it has been hundreds of years ago, it is still lush and lush every year, although it is covered by ice and snow at present, it will still grow in the coming year, and it will not be reduced in previous years.

Fengtang crossed the alley, like a baby howling and crying, blowing on the window paper of a side room in the courtyard of Wuhe Dart Bureau, the sound of rustling was endless, the person who was wrapped in a thin quilt and lying on the warm kang in the house turned over, and was made to fall asleep by this sound, and woke up, there was only one kang in the house, there were a few oil candles on the kang, the door curtain was heavy, it was still blown by the wind, and from time to time there was a cold wind leaking into the house, so that the person who woke up couldn't help but beat a spirit, and almost missed the oil candle on the small table.

Wei Changpan lifted the thin quilt on his body and prepared to go to the ground, supporting the wall with one hand to prepare for a soft fall, but he was pleasantly surprised to find that this time the drunkenness was not as uncomfortable as the previous two times, and he couldn't walk for a long time, but his body seemed to be more relaxed, and the impurities in his bones seemed to have been washed away by this wine. A few days ago, I drank old Gu Gu Shengyang's bad wine to keep out the cold, and he got drunk after accidentally pouring two more sips, and he vomited twice, and he couldn't lift the knife like a soft-footed shrimp when he woke up, and his headache seemed to be cracking.

This pot of wine, I don't know how many wine bags I can exchange for Lao Gu.

The room was silent, and there was no one inside, and it seemed that the kang had been specially built for him. Wei Changpan didn't know how many hours he had been drunk, and there was no light source in the dim surroundings, only the light of the sporadic lights penetrated through the oily paper of the pasted window. By this light, he barely touched the cotton shoe on the ground and put it on his foot, then pulled the heavy curtain on the door and walked out.

The martial arts hall of Zhangjia in Tongqishan County is exactly the same as Zhou Dangdang's, and there are some weapons for performing martial arts in the courtyard of Wuhe Dart Bureau, which are covered with oilcloth at the moment, and a little snowflake falls from the sky swaying and leisurely, and is blown by the wind between heaven and earth, and then it turns over countless heels before it is planted on the ground in embarrassment, and in an instant it is gathered by people who sweep the snow with huge bamboo branches and brooms to a place on the edge of the compound, and it is piled into a white and gray hill.

"Wake up, the wind is blowing so hard outside, you sleep sweetly on the ondol. ”

Wrapped in a heavy cotton coat and sheepskin, the bloated man who looked like a zongzi threw aside the bamboo branch broom, walked towards Wei Changpan, who was shivering in the cold wind, took off the felt hat on his head and put it on his head: "Jinzhou is not as good as Jiangzhou, and if you don't take care of your head when you come out of the house in winter, the iron-beaten man can be infected with the wind cold." ”

Feeling the warmth from the felt hat, Wei Changpan saw that Xiao Gu Gu Sheng was bareheaded, and he was a little embarrassed to wear this hat, but the latter didn't care, "Our size is grown in Jinzhou, but we are used to wearing this thing, it doesn't matter if you wear it or not, but Brother Wei, although the martial arts realm is much higher than ours, this point can't be careless." ”

If you want to push back such kindness, it will inevitably change the original taste, Wei Changpan will no longer say much, but silently write it down in his heart.

"Anyway, you are also a serious dart master, what did you do wrong?" Seeing that Gu Sheng picked up the bamboo branch broom and swept the floor with a bitter face, he asked, "This snow is not very heavy, and there is no need to sprinkle and sweep it all the time." ”

"You know one thing, you don't know the other. ”

The person who was also holding a bamboo broom next to him straightened his waist, coughed twice and said: "A few of us are not considered to be the registered dart masters of Wuhe Dart Bureau, but we are dead but we have two darts with us, and most of them have some forks on the road, otherwise the dart master of the Dart Bureau, even if it is the third class, where can I do this hard work?"

These few would-be dart masters, either on the bodyguard road more than the right and wrong, or in the joints of the human relationship is not very smart, this is the head of the dart forced to sweep the courtyard here for half a year before they can go out to follow the dart, those first bodyguards will go out of the pool or too incorrigible, no matter which dart head nephew you are, two taels of silver per person, roll out of the dart game, it is useless for the king of heaven to intercede.

"Xiao Gu dart for the first time, and the anger is still a little stronger, but the temper is suppressed, and there is nothing wrong with it. The man next to him thumped his legs, looking depressed, "Unlike me, I'm almost thirty years old, and I haven't been able to become a dart master yet, and this executioner is still an executioner when he is in his thirties..."

"At the moment, there are so many single darts in the dart game, and each dart head has no intention of using more people. Gu Sheng's eyes also dimmed, and he reached out and patted the man's shoulder, "But the dart I was on this time lost a lot of manpower, maybe my father and Zhang Dart will have to retreat, brother, you don't have a chance..."

Half an hour later, Gu Sheng and Wei Changpan walked side by side in a corridor in the compound of Wuhe Dart Bureau, Jinzhou was already dark in winter, and the courtyard had to be lit when it was only when it was Youyou, and it was almost the middle of the day when he arrived at the courtyard of Wuhe Dart Bureau, he was drunk and slept until this hour, it was the time to eat this meal at night, Gu Sheng was punished for sweeping the compound after returning to the dart game, and he was just free, so he led Wei Changpan to the room, and then he talked with Wei Changpan about some gossip.

"There are a lot of people in the dart game, and we went late, so maybe we haven't eaten yet, but we're just back today, and we should have good food." ”

"Who is the guy in front?"

Gu Sheng sneezed fiercely and rubbed his red nose with his hands, "His father is an old dart master in the dart game, he died on the dart road, and he is considered to be the one who sacrificed his life for the dart game. ”

Somewhat unbelievable, he opened his mouth and asked: "That person doesn't look like an unreasonable person, why did he fight with the people in the dart game several times?"

"When he was sent and bullied by those old senior dart masters, he also joked about his father, saying that he died fighting for the dart game, but it was a good way to listen to the face, saying that he was not a little careful to stumble and fall when he got up at night, and he fell to death, and he was found the next morning, and his body was stiff. Gu Sheng sighed with emotion, "I don't know if it's true or not, it's just that I can't bear it anymore, and his martial arts realm is low, so he used the knife, but fortunately he didn't cause a lawsuit..."

"Don't talk about this, we are now mud Pusa crossing the river itself is difficult to protect, my old man and Zhang Darthead were dragged to the head of the dart, after all, there are not so many brothers, taking on private work, can be hidden for a while, can not hide for a lifetime, it depends on how the old man and the dart head decide. ”

Gu Sheng turned his head, Wei Changpan was still using a white cloth to roll into a rope in front of him to hang the ebony box, inside was a little ash left by the young dart master Zou Yongan, this ebony box was not light, it has been carried on his body these days, and after getting used to it, it seems that it is not a little heavy, the rope made of white cloth is already gray and black in color, stained with greasy dust, the box is wiped several times a day, no matter what he does, it is protected on his chest, it is still smooth and clean, and there is no trace of bumps on the box.

Seeing this ebony box, Gu Sheng hesitated for a long time before he twisted his mouth.

"When do you want to go to his house? I know a little bit about the situation of the Zou family, an old lady and a little sister, are selling tea, soup, porridge and cakes in the north of the city, a few days ago his old lady broke her foot, or the money subsidized in our dart bureau, if you say so, I'm afraid of the old man...."

"How else can I say it? With a calm face, Wei Changpan said, "You go to the room first, I'll go to his house, you show me the way first." ”

When Gu Sheng heard this, he saw that the persuasion was bound to be impossible, so he stomped his feet, gritted his teeth and said: "That's it, it's a big deal to accompany Brother Wei to you this experience, the doctor in the dart game is my father's old acquaintance, you are waiting here, in case the old man has three longs and two shorts, it is good to treat in time." ”

"Then you don't have to go in, I'll just go myself, this is what I owe him, and I can only pay it back. ”

If you win the favor of others, you should remember it for a thousand years, not to mention how to repay the kindness of a life.