Chapter 149: Part-time Dart Master
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I rode all the way north without hurrying, staying at a hotel at night and hurrying during the day. Who would have thought that this horse eats a lot of food, I pondered that Han Yu once said that a horse is a thousand miles away, one food or one stone, but this horse eats a lot, and he is still grinding foreign laborers on the road, which makes me angry. So I gave it a very poetic name, foodie.
The cost of foodie is nearly 50 yuan a day, which makes me regret borrowing a horse from my senior brother. Fortunately, there are a lot of weeds, vines, and branches on the roadside, and when you rest on the roadside, you can get some food for it, and at first the foodie is picky, but then I directly threatened it if it didn't eat it, and I sold it to the donkey restaurant, and then I became more honest.
At noon on this day, on the official road in the north, the scorching sun was in the sky, and I saw that the foodies were also slowly reluctant to hurry, and there happened to be a shade in front of me, so I went to take a cooler.
There was also a group of people under the shade of the trees, which looked like a group of businessmen, and a few people from the rivers and lakes on the side, which should be the guards or bodyguards invited by this group of merchants.
Listening to those people speak, they all have Jinan accents, and I feel very cordial.
I took out the pancakes and ate some beef, and was about to untie the water bladder, but I found a hole in the water bladder, and the water in it had leaked out. Hey, I spent 30 yuan to buy a water bladder when I learned art from Mount Tai, and it took five years to finally die.
So I walked towards the caravans, and just a few steps later, the people drew their swords and looked at me with wary faces.
I have been working in the dart bureau for two years, so I naturally know these rules, and when I go out, the well water does not interfere with the river water, and now I break into the opponent's warning area, which is a provocation.
I raised the water bladder and said to the old man in Jinan dialect: Old man, after walking all the way, I will find that the water bladder is broken, dry and tight, can I borrow some water?
The man at the head said, I'm sorry for this brother, we don't have much water.
The rest of the caravan looked over to me with a worried look on their faces, and I felt that something was wrong. But when I was out of the house, it was love for others to help, and I couldn't care if I didn't help, so I retreated a little embarrassed.
At this time, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old man walked out of the caravan, holding a kettle in his hand, handed it to me, and said, "Big brother, you drink mine."
I took the kettle, took a few sips, and by the way, took a few pieces of dried beef from my bosom and stuffed it into him. Thank you, brother!
After a cross-talk between the two sides, I learned that these people were the dart masters of the Jiangnan Tongwei Dart Bureau, escorting a caravan from Jiangnan back to Jinan Mansion, and were targeted by a group of Jiangyang thieves on the way, so they were cautious all the way.
Tongwei Dart Bureau has a small reputation in Jiangnan, but it is limited to Jiangnan, and when they come to the north, especially in Shandong, gangs and heroes from all walks of life, they don't give face at all. Walking the rivers and lakes, one relies on martial arts, and the other relies on friendship. Martial arts rely on learning, friendship depends on drinking, both hands must be grasped, both hands must be hard, Jiangnan martial arts alcohol is not good, this is equivalent to cutting off an arm, this paragraph is widely spread in the rivers and lakes.
I said that I was the dart master of the Central Plains Dart Bureau, and the other party was still a little suspicious, so I took out my dart certificate and said some things about Jiang Chong, and they reluctantly believed it. The old dart head surnamed Zhang, said that our dart team has encountered some trouble, I don't want to involve you, but everyone is a peer, if you can help us complete this dart, we are willing to reward you with ten taels of silver.
I'm a little excited, ten taels of silver is my three-month salary, but I'm also afraid that I have a life to earn and no life to spend,
(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page) so he said: I can't guarantee that it will work, but if it is used, it will never be shirked.
Zhang Dart head is an old Jianghu, naturally can hear the meaning of my words, if it is a person martial arts, I can help, if it is a martial arts master, I don't have to abide by the professional ethics of the dart master, I have to slip.
Avoiding the noon sun, the caravan continued on its way, and I hung behind on a foodie not far away, and the men at the Tongwei Dart Bureau acquiesced to my approach.
I looked at the composition of the caravan, there were seven or eight taels of carriages in front, which were filled with porcelain, silk, and supplies in demand, but it was not a valuable thing, if it was in our dart game, if it was just these dart goods, the dart silver would only be fifty or sixty taels at most, but now it was a part-time salary of ten taels of silver for me, if this trip was not a dark dart, then I am afraid that the cat was on the black carriage in the middle.
The carriage was impermeable and covered by a black cloth, and no one came down along the way, and the old coachman who drove did not leave an inch. I tried to use my divine sense to probe the old man's martial arts, but I was noticed by the other party, and among these people, the highest martial arts was the old man who drove the car.
For the next two days, the caravan walked slowly, and sometimes a few dark sentinels could be seen staring at the caravan in the distance, but most of the time it was fleeting. I told Zhang Dart that someone was eyeing us.
Zhang Darttou said, they have been eyeing us seven or eight days ago, but they have not made a move for some reason, Qin Darthead, this matter is not clear to the family, and please keep it secret.
I nodded, why don't I go and help you investigate? Or grab a few tongues and inquire, now the enemy is dark and I am clear, like meat on the anvil, if you can't organize an effective counterattack, I'm afraid you will be slaughtered.
Master Zhang was a little hesitant, we didn't have many people......
I smiled, it's okay, I'll do this.
In the evening, when the inn was full, we stayed at an inn next to the official road, where I fed the foodies early and chatted with a few dart masters in the evening.
The content of the chat naturally can't avoid the Jiangnan Martial Arts Conference, especially the rise of the Demon Sect, which is even more unexpected for the entire rivers and lakes.
After a month of the martial arts conference, the rivers and lakes did not hear about the evil things of the Demon Sect, on the contrary, the Demon Sect that took over the Heaven and Earth Society and established rudder divisions in various places actually hyped up the God of Light, and even preached doctrines to the poor people, giving alms to the poor people, and the number of sects was increasing.
Of course, there is no shortage of things to be done to grab land, and there is absolutely no ambiguity in bribing the government and seizing the right to collect fees at important checkpoints, wharves, and ferries, but what are these things? Those examples of gangs fighting for their own interests have not happened one day? Although those famous and upright people do not do these things on the surface, they secretly collude with the green forests in various places, and there are not a few agreements reached in secret. If you had entered the rivers and lakes at that time, you would inevitably be indignant when you heard this kind of thing, but now it seems that it is as natural as eating and drinking water.
Drinking alcohol is taboo when we were darts, but we drank a little bit of it. At night, I exercised in my room, and the vein broke, and I wondered if I could try to get the internal force to bypass the break and forcibly open the big and small Zhoutian, but it didn't work much.
I let out my divine identification, surveyed the surrounding situation, and heard several people from the Tongwei Dart Bureau discussing countermeasures.
Immediately entered the Shandong territory, Boss Zhang, that old man refused to leave the carriage for more than half a month, the brothers behind him have been following for more than half a month, you have to have an explanation, right?
Master Zhang said: I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, I've already followed
(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page) a few brothers on the Shandong Road said hello, and when we arrived at Luomapo, we started.
When I heard it, I didn't think it was right, these people were clearly going to guard the black dart master who was stealing on the road, and I was afraid that the merchants who hired the dart were still in the dark.
In the dart business, the dart master colludes with outsiders to snatch the dart goods, which is the most serious of the dart master's prohibitive practice norms, and it is also a violation of the Ming law. Every year, the warning education organized by the Dart Bureau and Six Doors is to visit the economic prisoners in the prison of the Criminal Department, and most of the dart bureau prisoners are this kind of black dart.
I thought I could take the opportunity to make some extra money, but who would have expected such a result. Originally, it was also, where is there a pie in the sky for no reason, thinking of this, I couldn't help but be disheartened, and secretly made up my mind to leave this team early tomorrow morning.
I heard the other party: What should I do with the dart master of the Central Plains Dart Bureau?
Zhang Dart head said, this guy doesn't know the depth of martial arts, if the idea is not hard, when the time comes, they will be slaughtered together, and blame this matter on the Central Plains Dart Bureau, then they are really yellow mud and fall into the crotch of their pants, not is.
I was secretly angry in my heart, and suddenly cut off the idea of leaving, you seven or eight little bastards, Lao Tzu can pinch you to death with one hand, and actually hit the small abacus on the head of our Central Plains Dart Bureau, I want to see what you are capable of.
On the second day, I took the initiative to go to my house to chat, and the young man who gave me water asked Shishi, is Brother Qin really a dart master?
I smiled and nodded.
Then why don't you see your weapons?
Well, I can't say that I can't afford to buy weapons, so I pretended to be in a high place and couldn't bear the cold, walked the rivers and lakes, and rarely encountered enemies, so I didn't bring weapons.
I heard that the master can fly the wall and walk the wall, and he can turn over several feet at once, can you show me?
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I have a black line, you think I'm a street performer.
I couldn't stand the nagging of the stones, so I had to walk away. I asked Shi if he had ever studied martial arts? He said that since he was a child, he had been going back and forth with his family to Jiangnan to do fur business, and although he wanted to learn, he did not have the opportunity.
I patted him on the shoulder, it doesn't matter if you don't learn, as soon as you enter the rivers and lakes, you can't help yourself, it's better to do a small business at home, and life can be passed.
A fourteen or fifteen-year-old woman came over and sent dry food to the stone, the stone was a little displeased, didn't she tell you, I will eat it later, I am talking to Qin Daxia about kung fu!
The woman was reprimanded by the stone, bowed her head and did not dare to speak, and slowly retreated. Shi Man doesn't care, this is my wife, the family can marry, I don't like it very much, my father and mother are always anxious to hold their grandson.
But no, if I hadn't gone to Mount Tai to learn art, and hadn't gone to the capital after leaving school, I'm afraid I would have already married a wife and had children when I was at home.
I miss my father and mother more and more in my heart, as the saying goes, my parents are here, not far away, but I have been out since I was twelve years old, and there are only a handful of days to go home every year, and I think that this time I will go home and stay at home for a few more days, anyway, the big boss does not stipulate the time to go back.
In a short time, we entered the boundary of Shandong, and twenty miles further on was Luomapo. I looked at Zhang Dart and his party, and began to become extremely sensitive, and my eyes opened everywhere to look at the black carriage in the middle.
I rode my horse a few paces faster and came to the old man's carriage.
(End of chapter)
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