Chapter 20: The First Dart
The real walking rivers and lakes is definitely not to say that you can see it by riding a horse and sightseeing by the river and lake for a few laps, the real walking rivers and lakes must first walk yourself into the life circle of the society, and then the rivers and lakes circle, even the society has not entered it, how can it be said that you are walking the rivers and lakes?
When a few people arrived in the front yard, several executioners were loading the truck, and they also hurried over to help. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info this time is to help the world's largest medical hall Baicaolu Beijing Branch to transport five cars of medicinal materials to the Taiyuan Branch, the distance is not far and not close, take the Zhili official road out of the Niangzi Pass nearly 1,100 miles, at this time the carriage delivery speed is about 100 miles a day, if the efficiency is high, it will be able to play a round trip in almost 20 days, compared to some long darts is more than half a year, such a distance is indeed very suitable for taking newcomers to practice, so this time Qiu Dart head brought all four of them newcomers.
A total of six dart carts plus five horses formed a dart convoy, five dart carts loaded with goods, and one dart cart loaded with everyone's luggage and sundries, led by the dart head Qiu Dongming, and two dart masters, but they were two people who drank with Liu Ping'an and them last night, one surnamed Jiang and the other surnamed He. All three dart masters are on horseback, and two horses are spare to prevent damage along the way.
Each dart car has two executioners, and a total of 15 people travel.
The group quietly left the capital. The Four Seas Dart Bureau basically has to shoot darts every day, but the scale is different, some small darts can be escorted by one person, and some darts are escorted by a large team.
All the dart routes are determined by the head of the dart, but generally take the familiar route, whether it is the government or the bandit village do not need to open up the relationship, just talk directly. Like this dart Taiyuan, although in principle, Qiu Dongming, the head of the dart, can change the route at will, but the older runners know that they must take the official road of Zhili, out of Niangzi Pass through Pingding, Shouyang, Yuci and then arrive in Taiyuan.
Liu Ping'an followed an old runner surnamed Sun to sit in a dart car, and he was at the front of the dart convoy, second only to Qiu Darthead and Jiang Darthead, who led the way on horseback. The four newcomers were treated the same way, following an old runner and learning to set up a carriage by the way. At this time, the official road was actually very wide, and it was not too far from the provincial road in later generations.
During the reign of Emperor Jianwen, he vigorously developed transportation, and many official roads were built at that time. Unfortunately, the subsequent kings did not attach too much importance to road traffic, so many sections of the road were in disrepair, and the potholes were very difficult to walk.
The carriage was bumpy all the way, and it was far less comfortable than the tractors of later generations, and after sitting for a long time, I found that my whole body was sore, especially for newcomers like Liu Ping'an, who felt that I couldn't sit down anymore when I arrived the next day, and would rather half-squat on the carriage.
The old grandson next to him was smiling all the way and was very talkative. But also, people like them who sit in the carriage and run darts all year round are mostly at two extremes, either they are boring jars and ignore people, or they are talking jars and seizing every opportunity to chat.
The old grandson has been talking to Liu Ping'an since he left the capital, first asking about Liu Ping'an's family background, then Shimen, and then all kinds of miscellaneous questions, hearing that Liu Ping'an is not yet engaged, and is ready to go back to the capital to let his wife give Zhang Luo a girl.
However, this kind of chatter also has the advantage of telling people about all kinds of experiences. The first half of the old grandson's experience as a runner was also told in these chatters, and Liu Ping'an gained a lot of knowledge like listening to stories. Like what darts must have, the two common sense, three conditions, four basic skills, and six precepts are all from the mouth of the old grandson.
One of the two common senses is that Cangzhou does not shout darts. Cangzhou is a famous hometown of martial arts, after Emperor Jianwen opened the martial arts, there are more than 10 Cangzhou nationals, and many of the backbone masters of various gangs are also Cangzhou nationals. In order to show respect, the Dart Bureau Alliance stipulates that Cangzhou cannot shout darts.
The second is to know what is "evil tiger blocking the way" and "wheel pan head". Of course, the evil tiger is not really blocking the road with the tiger, but when someone puts thorns on the road, you must know that someone has come to buy the road money. If the dart picks up the thorns, it means that he refuses to pay the money to buy the road, and if he doesn't pick it, it means that he is willing to break the bank.
Of course, regardless of whether they pick it out or not, the executioners must be ready to fight at any time, that is, they will form a circle around the dart cart and show their weapons.
When Old Sun Tou said this, Liu Ping'an suddenly interjected: "Brother Sun, is the evil tiger blocking the way just like the front?"
At this time, I have walked to the foot of a small hill, although the mountain is not high, it is lush and full of woods, if there are really dozens of people in ambush inside, it is really not easy to distinguish. This section of the official road is narrow and rotten, it is not easy to walk, but there are still people in the middle of the road with a handful of thorns, which is really lacking.
Because they are all familiar roads, no one is exploring the road in front to be a scout, Qiu Dart Head and Jiang Dart Master walked at the front of the team, and He Dart Master pressed the formation behind. At this moment, seeing the evil tiger blocking the road in front of him, he quickly made a gesture in his hand, and several executioners driving the carriage skillfully gathered the dart cart together, and then all the people got off the carriage and showed their weapons to make a defensive formation.
Although Liu Ping'an and the others encountered this posture for the first time, their martial arts literacy was not bad, and they followed the old executioners around them to learn from each other, and also took down the new iron sword on their back and held it on their chests.
When walking the dart, it is reasonable to hold the dart flag high and show the name, but usually do not do it when there is no situation, it will be too public, causing some unnecessary trouble, only in case of danger to highlight the dart flag, usually only on the side of the dart car can only see the pattern words representing the name of the dart board.
Like today's situation, Jiang Dart Master quickly took out a dart flag from a dart cart and held it in his hand, shook it a few times, and then stood behind Qiu Dart's head.
At this time, the old grandson began to take the lead in shouting "Hewu", and his voice was muffled and circuitous and dragged on for a long time. Then the rest of the executioners shouted with him, and Liu Ping'an also learned decently.
When he was first in the carriage, the old grandson taught him how to shout darts and when to shout darts. He also asked Lao Sun Shouyi, why did he shout "Hewu" and not anything else?
The old grandson said: "These two words are to raise a little bit by yourself, so that the people of the world can listen." 'Hewu' is 'Lao He', and all the people in the world are called 'Lao He'. Shouting these two words is to tell the people in the rivers and lakes you meet on the road that we are 'Lao He'! And when shouting these two words to the word 'we', you must pull a long sound. ”