Chapter 16: Darts and Darts
"Alas~ It's really my daughter's age, I can't control it if I want to!"
The vicissitudes of life are powerful and powerful, and his loose hair looks a little exotic, and at this time he is wearing a thin shirt for practice, and his face is a little anxious.
"Big boss, I'll introduce you to someone. Meng Zhuang pulled Hua Luo and introduced him to the big man, "This old brother's name is Hua Xiaoluo, and he wants to join our dart game, how about you take a look?"
It turned out that this vicissitudes of life was Qu Qingsong, and when he heard that Hua Luo was going to join the dart game, he looked up and down, "This little brother Hua Gui Geng?"
When asked about age, Hua Luo this time would not be as embarrassed as when Master Lin asked.
"Back to the big family, the younger brother is twenty-four this year, and his family lives in a border city in Shaoshan Country. β
The big boss Qu Qingsong touched his chin, "Can you walk through the dart?"
It's another question, and before he could answer, Meng Zhuang came directly to answer, "This little brother is quite clever and has a good physique." β
Qu Qingsong glanced at this Meng dart master, he understood what it meant, he hadn't walked the dart, but he wanted to eat raw melons and eggs, this kind of person is not nothing, there are many of them. Generally those who feel that they have a little skill and want to see the world.
Darts have to have a good relationship with the people on the road, so now darts really encounter a small number of robbers, and the threat is often beasts in the mountains and forests, as well as high costs such as entering the city to pass the customs. Either the road is closed due to war, and more manpower is required to trek through mountains and rivers when detouring.
And this time the task is not heavy, and it is not very far, and it is okay to ask for a person who lifts heavy objects, so just now his daughter also asked to go with him, and the two quarreled.
"Okay, but you're a first-time dart, and you don't know anything, so you don't get paid much. Qu Qingsong thought for a moment, "If you reach the end and feel that you are not suitable, we can also fire you at any time." β
"How, are you sure you want to join our game?"
These conditions are not exactly what Hua Luo wants, so he agreed without hesitation, received a set of ordinary leather armor, and signed and drew a pledge at the butler's office.
Hearing that he would not be able to leave until tomorrow, Meng Zhuang arranged a shop for Hua Luo, and four or five people crowded together. When a few darts saw the newcomer, they couldn't help but ask a few more questions, and Hua Luo replied casually, these people are all from all over Haitian, and everyone doesn't know what about that border city.
And the next day, if you have to go a long way, you naturally have to nourish your spirits, and you almost fell asleep when you got to know each other.
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As soon as the sky was bright, Meng Zhuang woke up everyone, simply finished breakfast, began to load, put seals on the dart car, and then burned incense and worshiped heaven and earth.
"Hego~"
Out of the door, the deputy dart head who led the horse tore out his throat and shouted, and the originally silent city gate suddenly echoed.
Generally, only the dart head and the dart master rode horses, while the dart riders rode in horse-drawn carriages. Hua Luo sat on the edge of the carriage, shocked and didn't know what he was shouting for.
"This is a bright dart, also called a brand" Zhang Haoshan was closer to Hua Luo, saw his shocked expression, and explained to him with a smile, "It's to tell friends on the rivers and lakes that we are walking darts." β
Hua Luo thought that it might be the custom of this industry, and some merchant ships and cargo ships in the interstellar industry would also greet each other and ask for good luck. I don't know if it's the same.
At the end of the team was another dart master, who struck the gong and counted as a response. The dart cart is officially on the road.
Whenever you approach a forest or a corner intersection, you will shout like that. People like Hua Luo, who have never seen the world, think it's very novel.
In the evening, the dart team has to stop to rest, not walking at night is the experience passed down from many years of walking the rivers and lakes, everyone unpacked their bags, ready to eat and rest, but the noise in the team has attracted everyone's attention.
"Didn't I tell you not to follow!" Qu Qingsong was accusing a person, and the big guy took a closer look, drinking~ It was the daughter of the big boss, dressed as a man, and sneaked into the team halfway.
"That's the daughter of our big boss, Qu Yi'er!" Zhang Haoshan explained to Hua Luo, "If you don't come, it's really possible that the big boss will let her follow." β
This Qu Yi'er was the girl who met Hua Luo yesterday afternoon, she didn't quarrel with his father, but went straight to Hua Luo's side, pointed at Hua Luo, and asked angrily, "Why can this guy who doesn't know anything dart with you, and I can't?"
Looking at it closely, Qu Yi'er is about sixteen or seventeen years old, not tall, and with Hua Luo's height of eight meters, Qu Yi'er is probably on his chest.
He has a ponytail, a melon seed face, and big eyes that are very playful. It's not quite like her father. It's just that this temperament is sometimes the same.
Hua Luo wondered, why did he still get involved with himself, "Miss, don't get me wrong, I still know a little." β
With that Zhang Haoshan muttering on the side for an afternoon, Hua Luo really knows how to make a little fur.
"Hmph, what will you do?" Qu Yi'er found out that this newcomer dared to talk back, and suddenly became angry and lost her temper, "Do you know the black words on the road? Do you know the etiquette when you go out? If you encounter a brutal mountain bandit, do you know how to deal with it?"
This series of rhetorical questions really held Hua Luo back, thinking about why the girls here are so spicy.
The surrounding dart masters and darts all burst into laughter, Qu Qingsong was a little embarrassed, and wanted to stop talking, but the wind and grass on the side disturbed him.
Several dart masters looked at each other, and pressed their hands on the weapon with a straight face. Qu Qingsong even protected Qu Yi'er behind him.
The dart riders kept the dart cart in the middle and looked around.
"It's convenient for the heroes on the road to come down and move to the mountain?" the deputy dart head shouted a black word at the dense forest, which means (friends don't get busy for the time being, come over and drink some wine)
Seeing that no one answered, the bodyguard shouted again, "The rice bowl left by Master Zu, you can eat it all your friends, brothers, I will eat a line, and please Haojie stay this line, let the brothers pass!"
This is a black word, Hua Luo can't understand it, there is no sound around, and it is also very depressing, doesn't it mean that no one will come to rob the dart, this is just out of the door? Thinking about it, he also took the long-handled broadsword from the carriage and used it as self-defense.
Qu Qingsong also frowned, it had only been a long time since he left the city, and he met an unknown bandit, and he didn't know which territory it was, so he got off the horse and asked tentatively.
"In the Xia Qingsong Dart Bureau, Qu Qingsong, dare to ask where the heroes are!"
I don't know if I've heard the name of this dart game, but this time there is a response, and a question came from the dense forest on the left, "What kind of items are you carrying in that box?"
It sounded like people were talking out of tune, like mud trouser legs that had left home halfway, and everyone's hanging hearts were slightly lowered.
The deputy dart head laughed, "What should I do, a little snail egg (pearl) on the camel in the car, a few pieces of coral stone, not worth the money." β
"Leave a few bowls of pulp and go over. "This group of roadblockers is quite angry! The dart master summed up with each other for a while, and decided not to fight them.
Leaving some wine and meat, and not going to rest here for the night, he checked the horses and goods, shouted "Thank you!" and continued on his way.
"I know what this snail egg is?" Hua Luo muttered to himself in the corner of the carriage.
"That's it!" Qu Yi'er held a small pearl between her fingers and shook it in front of Hua Luo, "My name is Qu Yi'er, I'm sorry just now, I'm angry with you!"
Seeing that the beautiful girl had introduced herself, Hua Luo couldn't be polite, "I'm Hua Xiaoluo, what happened just now." β
"My father didn't let me go out with him, so I secretly ran out, just now I was afraid that he would drive me back, so I pointed at you and said that you are also a raw melon...... Newcomer!" Qu Yi'er almost blurted out the melon egg, and as she spoke, she lifted the pearl and wanted to give it to Hua Luo.
Hua Luo naturally didn't get angry with this little girl, took the pearl and looked at it, and returned it to Qu Yi'er, "I'm just a raw melon egg, I'm not angry." β
"Really, that's great......"
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Qu Qingsong looked at the two people who had an active relationship, and also sighed, he, the head of the dart, is a father and a mother, and his daughter is uneasy when she grows up.
This newcomer is younger than his subordinates, and it is better to have a common topic with her, and it is unrealistic to drive her back now when she met a group of bandits from mud legs on the road just now, so it is okay to follow this dart trip.
It was a long way from the wave of bandits just now, and the group put down their bags again, prepared to rest, ate something briefly, explained the good things, and then distributed the people who changed shifts at night, and after a while, the camp let out a snoring and snoring sound.
Hua Luo was a little envious of these people who licked blood from the knife edge, and they could still sleep calmly in a tense and unfamiliar environment, and he was often awakened by the roar of some wild beasts and mosquitoes when he was sleeping alone in the wild.
Putting aside distracting thoughts, the two people who patrolled the guard stood in a corner of the camp, Hua Luo was not too worried, and took out the "Guide to the Immortal Dao" from his arms and began to read it.
The first page was a blank sheet of paper, and Hua Luo couldn't help frowning in the light of the flickering campfire, and when he turned another page, the book was a third of the way out.
This one, minus the cover, is only three pages? so thick? Hua Luo looked at the book, which could only be covered by a thumb horizontally, and fell into deep thought.
Turning the blank page and coming to the next page, there is finally a word, just what is written on it......
The Tao is the way, the very way, the name is famous, the name is not the name.
Nothing, the beginning of heaven and earth, and yes, the mother of all things.
Therefore, there is always nothing, and there is always a desire to view its εΎΌ (jiΓ o).
These two have the same name and the same name, and they are the same mysteries.
Mysterious and mysterious, the door of all wonders.
Hua Luo glanced at a source marked below, which was written in the Tao Te Ching.
The Tao Te Ching, Hua Luo has heard of, is written by a Chinese ancestor a long time ago.
But this book, which is only a few pages long, is completely beyond the scope of his imagination for so-called cultivation.
If you can become an immortal with this Tao Te Ching, then I am afraid that the ancestors of the earth will not be what they are now.
Hua Luo turned the second page again, and the left hand side was just a standing human body vein map, while the right hand page seemed to be extraordinary.