Chapter 31: The Bodyguard
Xie Xuan looked at the man who came over, clasped his fists and saluted, "Exactly." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"I am Li Da, the head of the Yangzhou branch of the Zhenhai Dart Bureau, a few days ago I received a message from the General Bureau, saying that you are going to come with us for a dart, I didn't expect to come at the right time, I will set off after lunch, you come with me first. ”
Li Da took Xie Xuan and the others to the hall, asked his subordinates to make tea for them, and then went to the courtyard to get busy. Xie Xuan walked to the door of the hall and wanted to go around, but seeing those dart masters coming and going in the courtyard, they seemed to be very busy, so he had to sit down and drink tea, chatting and waiting for noon to come.
"Xie Xuan, what kind of treasure would it be if you could let the second largest dart game on the rivers and lakes escort a dart with all its might?" asked Sima Mo.
"How do I know? It's so mysterious, it can't be the emperor's heirloom jade seal, haha" Xie Xuan quipped.
"Come on, you, the jade seal of the country is pure nonsense, but it must be a priceless treasure. Nangong Qin glanced at Xie Xuan.
While the three of them were talking, Li Da walked into the hall and said to the three of them with a smile: "Three young heroes, lunch is ready, let's hurry up and finish eating and go on the road." ”
Then, Xie Xuan and the three of them followed Li Da out of the hall, there were many people in the dart bureau, and the meals were all in the courtyard, and the dishes were not as rich as Sima Mo's house, but it was just a fried potato and a fried cabbage. Li Da knew that Sima Mo was the only heir of the Sima family in Yangzhou, and the Sima family, as the richest family in Yangzhou, had a relationship between black and white, and if he offended the Sima family, he would definitely not be able to eat and walk around. And I have long heard that this young master Sima has a perverse personality and is arrogant, for fear that he will offend this young brother by not entertaining him well. But seeing that Sima Mo didn't mind eating with everyone at all, and there were still talking and laughing, a hanging heart finally let go.
After everyone finished eating, Li Da gathered all the dart masters and executioners and prepared to hold a small meeting in the courtyard, and soon the courtyard was full of people.
Li Da looked at everyone, nodded and said: "This time we send darts more than usual, we must not make extraneous branches on the road, the sooner the darts are delivered, the more we can get a high bounty, and the prestige of our Zhenhai Dart Bureau will be greatly improved, now set off immediately!"
After speaking, a group of people ran out of the dart game, and Li Da asked Xie Xuan and the three of them to walk with him. Xie Xuan took a look at the gate of the dart game, this formation is really not small, this dart has dispatched a total of ten dart masters and ten executioners, it is estimated that there are only a few miscellaneous cooks left in the dart bureau now, those dart masters and executioners are standing in a fusiform shape, Li Da led Xie Xuan and the three of them to the middle of the fusiform formation, and shouted: "Go!"
Under an order, more than 20 people began to move together, it was very spectacular on the streets of Yangzhou, and the people around pointed their fingers, thinking that it must be a big treasure to let the Zhenhai Dart Bureau pour out of the nest to protect. Xie Xuan also wondered, why didn't he see the escort's items?
"Li Darttou, we are all our own people, I want to know where our dart car is, isn't it to escort an item?" Xie Xuan asked, and Sima Mo and Nangong Qin on the side also cast puzzled glances.
"The items escorted on this trip are not large, there is no need for the dart cart, and so many people escort the dart cart slowly, so I just carry it on my back. Li Da said.
After listening to Li Da, Xie Xuan and the three of them looked behind him, only to see a burden on his back, at first Xie Xuan thought that this was the dry food that Li Da brought out, but he didn't expect that this was the treasure to be escorted this time, and through the baggage, he could see that it was a rectangular box.
"Li Darttou, what kind of treasure is this?" asked Sima Mo.
"Haha, Young Master Sima, I can't say this for the time being, and when the dart is delivered safely, I will naturally tell you. Li Da replied.
"Also, the Zhenhai Dart Bureau has been preparing for so long, but the rivers and lakes don't know what to escort, not to say that it's right, it seems that Li Dart is still very professional!" Sima Mo nodded and said.
Everyone went out of the city in the northwest of Yangzhou City, and gradually, there were fewer pedestrians around, and they could only see the vast grassland and wooded forests, and occasionally a few wild deer and goats could make those dart masters nervous, Xie Xuan and the three thought that these people were all old dart masters who had run countless darts, why did they still have such a reaction? Just thinking about it, Li Da on the side spoke:
"The three young heroes, now we are far away from Yangzhou, the place we are going to is a small town called Huanhua Town fifty miles away, where there is a big family surnamed Bai, that is, they bought the things we want to escort this time, although our dart bureau is tight-lipped but anything can happen on the rivers and lakes, maybe there are thieves who get the news, so you should be vigilant, so as not to have thieves to rob the darts, I can't protect you." “
"Li Darttou has a heart, you just look at good things, we don't need you to worry. Sima Mo said with a smile.
After hearing this, Li Da glanced at Sima Mo in surprise, and thought to himself, What is this called? Don't worry about them, does it mean that they are stronger than himself and his subordinates? A rich kid and brother, even if he has been in the Chongyang Sect for a few months, how powerful can he be? But listening to Sima Mo's calm and unhurried tone, he doesn't feel like a lie. If he couldn't figure it out, he didn't want to, Li Da shook his head and continued to look around vigilantly while walking.
Everyone walked for more than an hour, and as Li Da expected, there were seven or eight masked people standing on the road ahead, all holding machetes in their hands. Seeing Li Da and them coming, there was no action, Xie Xuan took a closer look, and several people's legs were trembling, what is the situation?
"This... This road is... I open, this tree is me... Plant, you want to go over, put the treasure... Ahh
Xie Xuan and the dart masters stood in place and were ready to fight at any time, but they saw that the masked man was trembling and halfway through his words, and was suddenly slapped on the back of the head by another masked man next to him, and everyone was very puzzled. At this moment, I only heard the other man in black say: "Idiot! I didn't see so many people!
After saying that, a few masked people turned their heads and ran, at this time, only to hear Li Da shout, his feet flew behind the masked man who had just spoken, grabbed his neck and threw him back, the masked man was thrown in front of the formation, crawled up and knelt and begged for mercy.
Li Da slowly walked up to him, looked at him and said, "Whoever sent you here, say it and let you live!"
The man's whole body trembled violently, and he trembled and said: "Dart, don't kill me, I said! It was a Jianghu Bai Xiaosheng who said that we spent fifty taels to buy the news, saying that it was the Zhenhai Dart Bureau escorting treasures, which were worth a lot of money, so I had a bad heart." Don't kill me! I'm old and young, please let me go!"
"So, the news has spread?" Li Da continued.
"I don't know, but it should be like this, as long as you give money, everyone can get the news. It's just that he said that there are not many bodyguards, otherwise we wouldn't dare to make trouble by borrowing the courage of the two of us!" After speaking, the masked man kowtowed to Li Da vigorously.
After hearing this, Li Da was furious, and kicked the masked man hard, the man spit out a mouthful of blood and was kicked out, and then quickly got up and ran away, Li Da didn't pay attention to him, walked back into the formation and said to everyone: "You all heard, be vigilant, and be ready to fight at any time!"
The dart masters responded in unison, and then they all took out their weapons and continued on their way. But everyone didn't expect that the next road was peaceful, and there was no robber, which made Xie Xuan and the others extremely puzzled, it is said that if Li Da is really a big treasure on his back, there will definitely be outlaws coming.
In this way, everyone arrived at Huanhua Town in the evening, this town is not big, there are only seventy or eighty houses as far as the eye can see, in the middle of the town, there is a mansion that is obviously more luxurious than other houses, Li Da told Xie Xuan and the three of them, that is the destination of this bodyguard, the Bai family. Everyone accelerated towards the Bai family, and they saw that they could complete the task and get the bounty. But gradually, almost everyone noticed the anomaly in this town, that is, the whole town was extremely quiet, there was no one on the street, not even a dog barking, so they did not dare to let their guard down to avoid a dangerous situation.
After a while, everyone walked to the Bai family's mansion, Li Da stepped forward and knocked on the door, and after a while, the door was opened, and a young man looked at the people outside the door and said, "What are you doing? Why are so many people coming?"
Li Da hugged his fist to the man and said: "Li Da, the head of the Yangzhou Branch of the Xia Zhenhai Dart Bureau, has been ordered to send treasures to each other, please inform your master, the treasures must be given to him directly, and cannot be transferred by others, I hope you will forgive me." “
"It turned out to be Li Darttou, our boss has already ordered it, everyone, please come in. When the man had finished speaking, he opened the gate, and the people went in, and stood in the courtyard. And Xie Xuan and the three of them walked towards the hall of the mansion with Li Da.
When I entered the hall, I saw a man of medium stature standing in the middle, wrapped in a thick quilt covering his upper body and face, and wearing a large cotton hat on his head, revealing only a pair of eyes and a nose.
At this time, the man who opened the door on the side said: "Li Darttou, this is our family, and the person in charge has been infected with a cold disease recently, so please don't see this dress." ”
Although Li Da looked strange, he didn't think much about it when he heard the man say this, he hadn't seen the Bai family in charge, he just listened to the General Administration explain this task, so he took the treasure behind it and sent it forward.
At this moment, Xie Xuan on the side stretched out his hand and pressed on the treasure box and said, "Slow!"