Chapter 2 The lights in front of the dart game are on again
The person who came was very sensitive: "Yan Lao Dart Head can rest assured, after the dart Li signs the dart book, he will pay in a lump sum, and I have brought the silver ticket." ”
The person who came to talk about it at home all of a sudden, but it made Yan Tao very embarrassed, as if he was spending the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. But in general, it is very good to be able to give half of the dart profit first. It's not uncommon to pay all at once, it's not at all.
Although the dart game is the time to use the money. Yan Tao wanted to say something, but he didn't expect the housekeeper, who had always been cautious, to shake his head at him nonchalantly at this time, and Yan Tao held back what he wanted to say.
The butler took the dart book, looked at it carefully, and then looked at the visitor carefully, "You only said the approximate address here?" the butler asked the visitor.
"Yes, but there is another sentence at the end, or the place specified by the customer. The person explained.
"Does that mean the address may change?" asked the butler again.
"It can be understood this way. Someone replied.
"When are you leaving?" Yan Tao asked
"Is it okay to prepare for a day tomorrow and set off the day after tomorrow?" the person who came was asking Yan Tao's opinion with his eyes.
"No problem. Lei Zizhen hurriedly replied.
"Any more questions?" asked the man with a smile.
Yan Tao signaled to the housekeeper and took the lead to go out, and the housekeeper followed out tacitly.
I don't know what they discussed outside, but when they came back, the dart book had already been stamped and signed. Yan Tao handed one of them to the visitor. The person who came took out the silver ticket and handed it to the housekeeper, and after the housekeeper checked that it was correct, he nodded to Yan Tao with satisfaction.
"If it's okay, I'll go. The man stood up as he spoke, "However, my master has one more thing to trust." ”
Listening to the words of the visitor, Yan Tao's face changed slightly, thinking that this should be the key, no wonder everything came so easily? Yan Tao didn't speak, got up and listened quietly, and his heart went up and down.
The other people present also seemed to have the same feeling as Yan Tao, the hall was quiet and scary, the atmosphere was also very tense, and everyone's eyes were focused on the arrival.
"Just turn on the light in front of the door again, my master will be sad to see that the light is not on. The person who came said lightly.
Listening to the words of the visitor, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. These heartfelt words moved Yan Tao so much that he almost shed tears, and he hurriedly ordered someone to light the light in front of the door.
The lights in front of the Integrity Dart Bureau came on again, and people rushed to tell each other.
After the people left, the people in the hall did not leave, and everyone looked at this rare treasure-like dart book. I can see that there are varying degrees of confusion and incomprehension in the eyes of everyone.
In the end, except for the housekeeper, everyone's eyes looked at the housekeeper, and the eyes were clearly asking: What is going on? And Yan Tao was also in the fog, and he looked at the housekeeper Fu Sheng.
Fu Sheng looked at everyone and said to Yan Tao: "Master, didn't I tell you outside just now?
"I've paid attention, but it's only been more than ten years, will people change so much?" Yan Tao replied.
"I think this person seems to have changed his face. A particularly good and disguised dart master spoke.
"That's right. The housekeeper Fu Sheng patted his thigh and immediately agreed.
"Since it's him, why don't you see us as we really are?" Yan Tao asked puzzled.
Perhaps, sometimes, it is to make the person you want to help feel at ease, maybe there is some need and suffering, or maybe there are other reasons that we don't know. I wasn't sure, but what he said when he left dispelled my last concerns. Don't worry, the head of the house, he has no ill intentions anyway, they are really helping us anyway, and this is enough. ”
Listening to the housekeeper's words, Yan Tao nodded heavily, he stood up, as if he had completely changed people: "What if you really have something? There may be miracles in this world sometimes. Our dart game has always been above board, never harmless to people's hearts, maybe God sees us pitiful, send gods to help us, maybe it is the ancestors to protect us. Of course, this money will definitely not be easy to earn, but what if it is a sword and a sea of fire? Didn't our big housekeeper say? Let go of Yibo, yes? Let's let go of Yibo. Speaking of this, Yan Tao waved his big hand proudly, "Zizhen, go and prepare!" After speaking, Yan Tao looked at everyone present, and then said: "Everyone is also ready, this time we are going to go out together." ”
Everyone happily agreed, and got up to leave.
It is common for people to pick up and drop off people's darts for the integrity of the dart board, and generally speaking, send a few people to escort it. Like this time, because of the escort of all the members of the dart game, it has never been done in the history of the dart game. However, Yan Tao didn't dare to be careless at all, and personally inquired about all the preparations, including all the details.
After everything was ready, Yan Tao gathered all the main personnel in the hall to study the possible problems and countermeasures on the way. No one thinks it's a big deal, and since people are paying such a high price, it indicates the risk of the trip.
After agreeing on the route with Fu Sheng and Lei Zizhen, Yan Tao had already sent fast horses in advance to greet the three mountains and five mountains along the way. The dart bureau, of course, must rely on ability to eat, but also rely on connections, relying on the government and the black and white rivers and lakes along the way to give face. The so-called people outside the world, there are heavens outside the sky, no matter how big the ability is, it is inevitable to meet the nemesis. Besides, the integrity of the dart game is just a few dozen people, even if you are all highly skilled, hundreds of thousands of people around you to fight around, can you still get out of the way? The underworld has the rules of the underworld, the white road has the rules of the white way, and the dart game has the rules of the dart game.
The integrity of the dart bureau has a group of training, does not intervene in any disputes between the rivers and lakes, and does not participate in any rebel activities. Don't ask about the world, don't ask about right and wrong, just do your own dart business.
It's all the guests, no matter who they are, no matter how their money comes from. People pay money, and the dart game helps people to solve disasters and solve problems.
In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, some people suggest that they take the dark darts, that is, disguise themselves as ordinary people and send people unnoticed.
Someone suggested that the plank road should be darkened by Chencang, that is, a large team of people and horses were in the bright place all the way, making a big deal of fanfare. The other way is to concentrate on the elite and take customers to the confidential route. Considering that this trip was too far away, Yan Tao and Fu Sheng did not adopt it after repeated consideration, so they decided to concentrate on walking all the way.
In the morning, the team formed an early queue in front of the gate of the dart game.
The appointed time was about to arrive, but the victim did not show up for a long time. Just when Yan Tao was waiting a little anxiously, a small sedan chair in green cloth walked over quickly, and someone from the land followed closely that night.
The sedan chair walked to the front of the carriage and stopped, and a man with a veil covering his head with a muslin hat stepped out of the sedan chair, opened the curtain and got into the carriage directly. Judging by the light steps, he is not very old.
The entourage walked up to Yan Tao and said softly, "Can you go?"
"Do you want to accompany the guest officer?" asked Yan Tao.
Seeing the entourage nodding, Yan Tao ordered someone to lead a horse and hand it to the entourage.
Then he turned over and got on the horse, and shouted in a loud voice: "Dart!"
An apricot-yellow dart flag hunts in the wind, and the dart team is mighty.
Walking in the front is Lei Zizhen, parallel to him is his junior brother Yan Laishun, and behind him is the seventh or eighth horseman.
Yan Tao is in the center, not far from the dart car. Behind him were two carriages pulling luggage, stoves, and a long line of food, forage, and daily necessities and utensils that he needed for the long journey.
The carriage was followed by an entourage, and finally nearly a dozen horsemen were broken.
The victim's entourage had been following the cart at all times, and he spoke very little, and rarely spoke or communicated with his fellow travelers.
The dart team has always insisted on having big roads and not small roads, rushing during the day and staying overnight. Along the way, they all stay in villages and towns, and generally do not sleep in the wild.
It's been a while since I've been out of the door so far, if in the past, Yan Tao inevitably visited relatives and friends all the way, and took the opportunity to get close to the officialdom and friends in the rivers and lakes. But this time, not only Yan Tao, but also other people in the dart bureau were not allowed to go out at will, except for sending people to the market town to purchase some food.
Is it because you have always been on high alert, or maybe because of the fame of the game, or both. The dart team drove for more than ten days, but nothing happened, and nothing unusual was found.
But Yan Tao and the others still didn't dare to be careless, because they had already entered the territory of Shandong, which has always been an area where strong people and ringing horses were rampant. Moreover, after all, he is gradually moving away from his own lair, and the power of the fame of the dart game is gradually weakening.
Whether it is the underworld or the white way, after all, there is still a way, more or less can still talk about some rules of the rivers and lakes, and most of them have rules and regulations.
But what I am most afraid of is the unscrupulous, who do everything, take care of and pay attention to nothing, regardless of the means to answer the goal, and can use any three bad tricks.
If you do a vote, you will change places, the geese will not leave a voice, and the people will not leave a name, and after the end, people can neither think of nor find out who did it.
Fortunately, there are not many of these small people, and they are weak, and they generally dare not break ground on Tai Sui's head for a team of people like the Integrity Dart Bureau.
The entourage of the victim, if what Fu Sheng said was right, Yan Tao remembered that his name was Tan Wu. But since people themselves don't want to reveal it, of course Yan Tao can't break it, so he keeps calling him a guest officer.
Although the entourage had been respectfully calling himself an old slave in front of the victim, it was clear that the owner was particularly respectful to him. Once, Yan Tao actually heard the owner call him the fifth master, which to a large extent verified the butler Fu Shengdi's speculation.
Fu Sheng usually stays behind to take care of his family, and this time is no exception. As mentioned earlier, this entourage spoke little along the way and rarely communicated with anyone. But after entering the territory of Shandong, there has been a change, often going out, always seeing him from time to time with the shop or passing pedestrians or passers-by to inquire about something. The person is the entourage of the owner, although it is not in the dart, but after all, it belongs to the customer's personnel and is the owner's family. The so-called seven-rank official of the prime minister's family, what do people want to do, Yan Tao is naturally inconvenient to ask. But Zhuge has been cautious all his life, Lu Duan is not confused about major matters, and he is used to it, Yan Tao still has to pay more attention.
At this time, he was entering the mountains, and Yan Tao walked here once a few years ago. There are dozens of miles of mountain roads, and there will be no villages and towns at lunch, so it seems that the dart team has to cook by themselves. For dart walkers, this is a very common thing. Everyone knows that as a dart game must be "three will and one no", the so-called three will: the first is to build a stove. Because darts often have to pass through sparsely populated barren mountains and mountains. There is no village in front of the village, no shop in the back, and under what conditions you can generally make your own fire and cook. Secondly, I will get a haircut. Walking darts can take months or even longer, and you need to visit the green forest heroes or local giants along the way, and the clean and tidy appearance is not only to show yourself, but also to respect each other. Then there is the ability to repair shoes, and it is self-evident how important shoes are to walkers. Although you have shoes on hand and you can buy new ones along the way, there are no old fits. And one is not to wash your face. Of course, the main thing is to protect the skin of the face. Moreover, in the jargon of the dart line, washing your face means arriving home, and of course you can't wash your face on the way