The black night envelops everything in the world, but there is always a little light that can shine through it.

In the room that showed light, Liude was facing seven strong men to teach him face to face.

"Prepare at once sixty great green mules, thirty thousand pounds of mercury, and a hundred and twenty jars of mercury, and a hundred and twenty wooden boxes of jars. Also, prepare more straw to protect the jar from breakage. Everything will be ready by tomorrow night. Be careful with confidentiality. He instructed four of them. The four of them were about to go down, but Liude called them to stop them again, adding, "Prepare another three hundred catties of gunpowder and ten catties of leads." He took out a piece of paper from his sleeve, handed it to the four big men, and said, "This is the recipe for the five poisonous mist of Jiangnan Paijiao. This kind of poisonous mist dispensing is easy to find, the antidote is hard to find, and the onset is extremely fast, comparable to the seven-step broken intestine scatter. I have prepared the antidote, you only need to prepare the poison for me according to the prescription, and the quantity is clearly written above. These things must be prepared by noon tomorrow, and there must be no mistakes. Only then did the four men receive the order.

He then instructed the other two big men: "Prepare sixty large green mules as you have just done, and the goods we are going to escort this time will be transported by these mules in one hundred and twenty wooden boxes." You also need to prepare more than 100 pieces of porcelain, small ones, including some Song Dynasty official porcelain, all of which are placed in wooden boxes, on top of our goods. Prepare some straw for porcelain. All of the above must be prepared at the Tianwei Dart Bureau before tomorrow night. I have already repaired a book, and you handed it over to Tianwei's Chen Dangjia, and it is very clear. The two men were commanded to go down and prepare.

Liude handed a letter to the last big man and said, "This letter is given to Guan Tianzuo, the thunderbolt fire god who specializes in gunpowder. I'm going to see him here tomorrow afternoon. After saying these words, he sat down in the armchair, picked up the teacup on the table, and gently lifted the floating tea leaves with the lid of the tea bowl.

The man didn't move, he opened his mouth to say something but didn't make a sound.

Liude covered the tea bowl and said, "He will give the old man this face." ”

The man did not move, but opened his mouth, and said, "But his house is more than four hundred miles from here." ”

Liude put down the teacup and said, "It's only eight hundred miles back and forth." You have six hours, go and fetch him. ”

Qiao Yisheng has long stopped taking care of the daily affairs of the dart game, and all matters are decided by Liude alone. Qiao Yisheng is a brother, and everyone up and down the dart game is in awe of this housekeeper.

The man didn't dare to say anything more, and hurried down.

Only then did he pick up the teacup and take a sip of tea. There was already a man standing outside the door.

"Come in. ”

An outsider came in and said, "The ladies have returned from Hangzhou." ”

"Young Master Yuyan with them?"

Young Master Yuyan went to go back, leaving only the sword boy to carry a message. These messages were all passed on by the Hangzhou branch flying pigeon. ”

"You immediately notify the branches of the Qiao Family Dart Bureau along the way, and be sure to do a good job of protecting the two young ladies. Then he added, "There are two horses in the old stable. Don't move, don't move, you can take the other green ink horse. You pick another horse to ride to Hangzhou. Find the sword boy and let him ride the green ink horse back quickly. Passing by the semicolon of our dart board, you change horses there. ”

After Liude finished speaking, he said to himself, "He must have heard something." If so, I'm afraid this dart has been exposed. If he were here today, he would definitely refuse Chizuru's troublesome errand in person. His detachment from the affairs of the rivers and lakes is very similar to the demeanor of a senior I know. But for the sake of the master, he will definitely make a move this time, not to mention that he is the only one who can help us now. ”

After the man went down, Chi Ming, the "Mountain Knife" Chi Ming, the "Shocking Stick" Pan Jin, and the "Dragon and Tiger Claw" Zhao Kun, who had followed Qiao Yisheng to create the dart game, also came to Liude's room-

The next night, it was still this room, and it was still Liude and the first seven big men.

After listening to the report of the seven people, Liude nodded and said, "Jianbo, you stay." The rest of you, remember what I just said, go down and get some rest, and hurry tomorrow morning. ”

Now, only Liude and the young man called "Jianbo" are left in the room.

Liude stood up, walked into Jianbo, looked at him quietly, looked at him from head to toe twice, and then said, "I have a task for you." ”

Jian Bo is the leader of the younger generation of the Qiao family's dart bureau, he heard yesterday that there were two guests in the dart bureau, and now it seems that there is a very tricky dart silver that needs to be escorted. But he didn't know the details. Now that Yude is the only one to leave him, Jianbo knows that it has something to do with this dart silver. He straightened his chest and nodded vigorously.

Seeing Jianbo's firmness, his eyes suddenly dimmed, and he seemed to have lost his strength all of a sudden: "Tomorrow, you escort a dart, and sixty big green mules to transport 30,000 catties of mercury to Kaifeng." ”

"Huh?" Jian Bo paused for a moment, "Mercury, Kaifeng?"

"There are still three hundred catties of gunpowder...... "Liude seems to have suddenly aged very much, and every word he says seems to have used all his strength, "The thunderbolt fire god has made gunpowder into a very powerful explosive, and has also added five poisons. I'll send you more people, so you can resist it for a while in case of emergency. ”

Jian Bo also guessed something, and asked, "What if you can't resist it?"

The unspeakable pain on Liude's weather-beaten face was even more difficult to hide: "I'll tell you the general mechanism of explosives, you can turn off the engine when the time comes......" After speaking, Liude sat weakly on the chair, holding the armrests with both hands and barely supporting his upper body.

Jian Bo immediately understood, he knelt in front of Liude at once, and slowly kowtowed three times.

He closed his eyes and waved his hand slowly. Jian Bo stood up and was about to leave, when he suddenly noticed someone outside the door. He quickly blew out the candle and slammed his palms out the door.

The door "banged" open, and the outsiders defused Jianbo's attack. Jian Bo was stunned, and when he was about to attack again, he saw that it was Qiao Yisheng by the moonlight, and hurriedly regained his momentum, bowed his head and said, "Master......"

Qiao Yisheng waved his hand and said, "You go down first." ”

Jianbo took the order.

Seeing that Qiao Yisheng was coming, Yu De got up and re-lit the candle. Qiao Yisheng took a step forward, grabbed his hand, and said, "I set up a table in the back garden pavilion to enjoy the moon, come with me, come with me." ”-

In the bright moon, in the back garden, and in the small pavilion, there were only two old brothers, Qiao Yisheng and Liude, and their eyes were shining with each other.

"You shouldn't have lied it to me. ”

"It was the master who asked me to arrange it myself. ”

"I have heard what you say. Why is it arranged this way. ”

"For the sake of the master, and for the sake of being able to successfully complete this escort. This will attract the attention of the enemy and buy time for the master. If you have a good chance, you can even inflict heavy damage on your enemies. ”

"It's the way to end together. ”

"There's only one way. ”

"I don't agree with you doing that. ”

"The arrow is on the line, and it has to be sent. ”

"Have you considered how Kenwave feels?"

"Only he can get the job done. ”

"But, Yan Jianbo is your only son!"

“……”

Then came the silence, the silence of the night, the pain of silence-

The morning fog wet the stone road in front of Qiao's mansion, and a dart team set out on the journey. The team consisted of sixty large green mules, each flanked by a dart master on horseback. There is also a dart master, with a red silk scarf on his head, dressed neatly, holding a half-moon-shaped long knife, and a blood-colored war horse in his crotch, walking proudly in front.

At this time, there were still few pedestrians on the official road, the dart team was in a hurry, the dart masters rarely talked to each other, and the flags of the dart board were rolled up and placed on horseback, and they were not publicized.

After leaving the city, the leading dart master no longer walks in front of the line, but walks in the middle of the procession, looking around vigilantly and taking care of the whole team.

The size of the team of sixty mules is not small, but the dart masters are well trained and the team moves in a very orderly manner.

In the blink of an eye, it was almost noon, and the dart team did not rest, so the dart master ate some dry food brought with him and continued to walk.

It will take four to five days to get to Kaifeng, even if it is non-stop day and night, and they know that they are in a hurry, not to mention that the current speed is not slow. Vigilance and safety on the road are top priorities.

At night, the dart team stays in the big car shop, where there are many merchants, although there are many people, but the dart masters like this. If it's sparsely populated, it's dangerous.

The dart masters formed a circle with the heads of the big green mules facing the periphery and did not unload the goods. The dart master kept vigil in three shifts, and those who took turns to rest also slept in a place not far from the mules and horses. The forage for the mules and horses was also prepared in advance. The dart masters asked for some food and drink in the store, but they did not eat it, and still ate their own dry food and water.

The dart master with a red ribbon on his head did not show his face, but lay on a haystack in a circle of mules and looked at the night sky. A large dark cloud hung over him, and there was no moon or stars.

The sound of broken footsteps caught his attention. The big car shop was still noisy and messy at this time, and this footsteps were not only imperceptible to ordinary people, but even the dart masters outside the big green mule were not aware of it. But the dart master, who was always on guard, became alert, and he got up and walked out of the circle formed by the mules, when a dart master came over and asked, "Jianbo, what is the matter?"

This dart master with a red ribbon on his head is Yan Jianbo. He said, "It's nothing, I'll go up there and have a look." With that, he didn't hold a long sword, but only a saber, and walked to the south of the big car shop.

There are very few people around this big car shop, and at this time, it seems that only this big car shop has lights and voices within a radius of several miles. Jian Bo quickly walked to a place where the lights of the big car shop could not shine, and quickly melted into darkness.

He could detect by the sound he heard that a master was passing near the cart shop. He wasn't sure if the other party was coming for his team, so he decided not to alarm everyone and go on patrol alone.

Further on is the woods, tonight in the open area for the night, tomorrow to use the daytime through the woods, this is Kenami's plan. This forest is not small, and the road is not easy to walk, and it will feel like time is tight tomorrow when you walk through this forest before dark. Jian Bo just brought a sword, which was very light, and flashed into the forest at once.

Unable to see the moonlight and walking in the woods in the dark, Jian Bo focused his thoughts on the string of footsteps. Gradually, I couldn't hear the noise of the big car shop, and only the sound of night owls cooing in the trees was in my ears.

The front gradually revealed the firelight, orange-yellow, through the gaps between the leaves. Jian Bo slowed down and quietly approached. Through the gap, Kenbo saw that in the middle of the woods was a large clearing, without trees, empty.

The light was emitted by a bonfire in the middle of the clearing, and two strange people stood around the fire. The two men were dressed in jet-black robes. One is eight feet tall, but he is still a Luo pot, I don't know how tall he would be if he wasn't hunchbacked. The other was only about five feet tall, stocky and stocky. The tall Luo Guo had a horse face, his face looked sallow and sallow under the firelight, his expression was very gloomy, his eyes were small, but two cold lights shot out. The short and fat one had his back to Jian Bo's direction at first, and only then did he turn around, and Jian Bo saw his face. Humpty Dumpty has a round face, but is very pale. It felt like Humpty Dumpty was smiling all the time, his eyes were squinting, his mouth was big, and the corners of his mouth were always grinning upwards.

Humpty Dumpty pulls out a handful of powder from his pocket and throws it at the fire. With a "whoosh", the flames suddenly swelled several feet high, and the orange-red flames suddenly turned green and then purple. Ma Yan Luo took out a small bottle from his bosom and poured a little liquid into the fire. The purple flames of the sauce immediately made a "swish" sound and turned blood-red.

Jian Bo's mouth opened wide when he saw these surprises, he vaguely guessed the identities of these two strange people, but he prayed in his heart that his guess was wrong.

Humpty Dumpty, seeing that the flames had turned red, took out two wooden signs, and struck them again and again. Ma Yan Luo Guo took out a small black flag with red borders and shook it weakly.

Jian Bo said in his heart, "It's not good", he really guessed correctly, and hurriedly turned around and wanted to leave, but suddenly his shoulder was held down by a hand stretched out behind him.