Lan Yue turned her head and looked at the woman she met on the way to relieve herself-Ye Peiwen. I only heard her complain to the disciples of the Eagle Claw Gate: "When my sister is really uneasy, I go out to take these two younger brothers, one is cowardly and cowardly, and she follows you step by step, like a girl." One of them ran around stupidly, worrying about the dead!" he couldn't help but pull Lan Yue to a distant corner and sit down.

There are twenty or thirty seats scattered in the corner, each with a different nameplate, what "Zhenyuan Dart Bureau", "Wuwei Dart Bureau" and so on, Ye Peiwen's seat is impressively inserted with the words "Dragon and Phoenix Dart Bureau". Ye Peiwen saw Lan Yue looking at the name on the sign, and hurriedly explained: "Not long after my brother and I were born, my father opened this dart game, probably looking forward to us becoming a dragon and a phoenix, so I took such a local name." Saying that, he arranged for Lan Yue to sit next to Ye Xiuwu, and Ye Xiuwu saw that it was Lan Yue coming, although he was surprised, he was very happy.

Ye Peiwen took out a piece of corn from his baggage, wiped it with his hand, and broke it in half, half of it was given to Ye Xiuwu, and the other half was handed to Lan Yue. Blue Moon said she wasn't hungry. Ye Peiwen divided the two large-brimmed straw hats among the two, and complained: "Everything is expensive here, a straw hat actually costs five yuan, and the most expensive one at home is only two yuan." ”

At this time, the red sun is at the head, the weather is hot, and everyone around is trying to shade the sun. Lan Yue saw that Ye Peiwen himself had nothing to shade the sun, so she wanted to refuse, but after thinking about it, the wide brim of the hat could cover her face, so she accepted it, and saw that there were four big characters written in black ink on the straw hat, "Loyalty Alliance", and said: "Maybe it's expensive on these four words." ”

Ye Peiwen was happy again when she saw Lan Yue put on the straw hat she had given. asked: "Brother, are you coming to the Alliance Conference for the first time, are you here to do business or to find someone?" ”

Ye Peiwen thought that Lan Yue was joking, so he said: "In the early years, there were always some underworld elements in this alliance meeting, spying on intelligence, and sometimes waiting for an opportunity to cause some sabotage. There are also fugitives caught by the government who have stumbled into it by mistake. Therefore, the investigation has been very strict in recent years, but the alliance has done a lot of work, and there are often some irrelevant people mixed in, which often causes misunderstandings. At last year's conference, there was a young scholar who was about the same as you, I don't know which tendon was wrong, and he mixed in to see what martial arts was like, so he could go back and write a book, but he was arrested by the conference and tortured, and the man couldn't bear it, and he died on the spot!

Lan Yue asked curiously, "Does the government care about such an abuse of lynching?"

Ye Peiwen said: "This is martial arts, as long as you don't rebel, what does the government care about you?" Fortunately, we are people in the white road, although we accidentally hurt a good person, just pay a few taels of silver." ”

Later, he lowered his voice and said: "Besides, some people are originally from official families, for example, those disciples of Tiefeng of Eagle Claw Gate today, their own duty is to catch heads and officials at the gates of the various yamen in Jiangnan, and if they really arrest you, you don't have to reason." ”

Blue Moon pointed to some of the larger seats with tents in front of her and asked, "Why do those people have big seats and tents for shade?"

Ye Peiwen said: "In order to facilitate management, the alliance is divided into different categories and different levels. That's pretty fair, and our seats are free. ”

Lan Yue looked at Ye Peiwen's satisfied appearance, sighed secretly in her heart, and at the same time asked the question she wanted to ask the most: "What do you do when you come here every year with time and effort?"

Ye Peiwen smiled: "It seems that you are really not from the martial arts. In addition to announcing some major events of the alliance at the annual conference, for us to open the dart bureau, we use the membership fee voucher we have paid in the league branch to come to the conference to get the dart quota of my dart bureau this year. ”

Lan Yue listened interestingly, so she smiled and encouraged her to continue, it turned out that the dart game in the alliance was divided into three classes, and the amount of darts that could be walked at each level and the membership fees paid were different, in the same way, other martial arts halls, nursing homes, and even other gangs would be divided into several classes, which would not only be convenient to manage, but also avoid vicious competition within the alliance and increase the income of the alliance, Lan Yue thought to herself, it was really a talent who could come up with this way to manage the alliance.

"Is the rank eternal and unchanging?" asked Blue Moon curiously again.

"This is something that the alliance has long thought of, in order to maintain the martial spirit, the alliance will evaluate the members every year and re-approve the ranks. Of course, you can also directly challenge members who are higher than you, defeat the opponent and replace them directly. Ye Peiwen patiently explained.

Lan Yue glanced at the weapon that Ye Peiwen was carrying, and asked, "Are you here this time to take the exam or directly challenge anyone?" After listening to Ye Peiwen's introduction, Lan Yue was immediately very interested, and sighed secretly: "No wonder the eldest brother used to persuade me to go out and see more, it was really 'better to read ten thousand books than to travel ten thousand miles'!"

Ye Peiwen smiled bitterly: "When my father was here, my family's dart game was still first-class, but now, if others don't come to bully our sister and brother, they will burn high incense! The words are quite bitter, and the sourness at the center is self-evident. In the past, Lan Yue didn't care about these trivial matters and the other party's feelings at all, but since experiencing the great changes in the family, Lan Yue can also understand Ye Peiwen's inner feelings.

As he was talking, a group of people walked over from the spacious seats in the distance in front of them, and when they passed by the other seats, everyone stood up and greeted each other, but the person at the head ignored it and went straight to Ye Peiwen's seat.

Ye Xiuwu stood up nervously, blocked in front of his sister, his white face turned red at the moment, and said to Ye Peiwen: "Sister, they are here again!"

Ye Peiwen obviously expected this, and seemed helpless, but in order to comfort his younger brother, he patted his back with his hand and said, "It's okay, it's okay!"

The group of seven or eight people was dressed in strong suits, with a strong body, all with a face full of flesh, with fierce eyes, and they were not good at first glance, and the person who was the leader was about thirty years old, with five short figures, but the fleshy fat face was matched with a pair of small thin eyes, and what was even more remarkable was that there was a thick black mole on the chin, and there was actually a small handful of white hair on the black mole. Unlike the others, this man was not wearing a strong suit, but was covered in silk and satin, and each of his two fat hands wore three large gold rings.

I saw him walk closer, show two gold teeth, unfold a disgusting smile, and said, "It's only been a few days, and Xiuwu has grown taller and whiter." After saying that, he wanted to pinch Ye Xiuwu's cheek with his hand.

Ye Peiwen hurriedly pulled Xiu Wu behind him, and said with a smile: "Yo, second master, you are here, please sit down!" said and let go of the seat. When the second master saw Ye Peiwen's slender and plump figure, he smiled even more obscenely, and said, "Xiaowen, do you miss your second brother?

Ye Peiwen twisted his thin waist and dodged lightly. The "second master's" gaze fell on Lan Yue's face, and he suddenly showed an alert expression.