In the next few days, Ah Xiu gradually adapted to the environment of the dart game, and with the help of Cui Sanping, he quickly integrated into the circle of the executioners, practicing martial arts during the day, doing odd jobs, and he was quite comfortable.

The members of the dart board who went home on vacation came back one after another, and after contact, everyone had a good impression of this young man who didn't talk much. During this period, Lin Xuewu came to see Ah Xiu twice, and when he saw that Ah Xiu was doing well, he left with a few words of advice.

At night, when Ah Xiu was lying alone in bed, the scene of seeing Luo Xuerou that day always flashed in his mind from time to time, and every time he thought of this, he felt a little flustered, and then fell asleep in a daze.

On this morning, Cui Sanping found Ah Xiu in a hurry and took him to the dart board meeting room, saying that the chief dart head had a task to order.

When the two came to the dart board meeting hall, there were already a lot of people fighting in the hall, the chief dart head Huang Yichen sat on the Taishi chair in the middle, and the three dart heads and the dart masters stood in front in two rows, and the executioners were in the last position.

Ah Xiu saw that Lin Xuewu was also standing in the ranks of the dart masters, but he didn't find himself, so he observed from a distance and didn't come forward to say hello.

The closest to Mr. Huang was a middle-aged man, not tall and very thin, but his eyes were shining and he was very energetic.

Ah Xiu asked Cui Sanping in a low voice, "Third brother, who is the closest to Master Huang?"

"That's the boss of the three darts I told you, Wang Duwu. Cui Sanping replied.

Ah Xiu nodded in understanding.

I only heard Cui Sanping continue: "The two behind Wang Duwu are also dart heads, Shi Xingang and Han Zhisheng, these are the first to follow Mr. Huang's dart head to run a dart game. ”

As soon as Cui Sanping's words fell, he heard Mr. Huang ask, "Wang Darthead, have all the people arrived?"

Wang Duwu turned his head and counted the number of people, and said to Huang Yichen: "All the deputy dart masters and above have arrived, and as for the executioner, it seems that all the executioners have come." ”

"Well, the others don't have to wait", Huang Yichen nodded, and then raised his voice again: "Let everyone gather in the conference hall today to announce something. At the end of last year, our Huwei Dart Bureau and the Lingxiang Chamber of Commerce reached an agreement, and the goods sent to other cities by the three cities of Lingxiang in the future will be escorted by our Huwei Dart Bureau. The morning after tomorrow, the branch of Shangling City will have a batch of goods to be sent to Hengyang City, although the price of the goods is not high, but this is our first cooperation with the Lingxiang Chamber of Commerce, so everyone is more attentive and cheers up. ”

Hearing this, there was a commotion among the people below, and they didn't know what to discuss.

Huang Yichen glanced around, coughed clearly, quieted everyone down, and then said, "Wang Darttou, who do you think should be arranged for this mission?"

Wang Duwu pondered for a moment and said: "If it is only calculated according to the value of this batch of goods, we can lead a team to escort it with a dart master, but this time it is the first dart we have pressed for the Lingxiang Chamber of Commerce, and there must be no mistakes, I think the head of the dart should personally lead the team to show a serious attitude towards their Chamber of Commerce." ”

Mr. Huang pondered for a moment and said: "I originally thought the same way, but a few days ago I took on a big task to escort an important person, and the other party didn't need us to send many people, but asked me to escort it personally, so I had to go." ”

"Then let me lead the escort. Wang Duwu is a big dart head, and he has won Huang Yichen's trust, so he said so at the moment.

"No", Huang Yichen shook his head slightly and said: "When I am not in the dart game, you still have to take care of many things, if the two of us go out, I can't rest assured that the dart game will not be relieved." In this way, Shi Darthead, Lin Dartmaster, Xue Dartmaster, this mission will be escorted by the three of you. ”

Shi Xingang heard the words and said: "Don't worry, Mr. Dart, our Shangling is less than five hundred miles away from Hengyang City, we have already traveled this line, and it is expected that nothing will go wrong." ”

Huang Yichen nodded and said, "Well, this is not bad, but be careful in everything, these years are not very peaceful." Huang Yichen seemed to suddenly remember something, and turned his head to Lin Xuewu and whispered: "Xuewu, what's the name of your relative?"

"Ah Xiu. Lin Xuewu was stunned for a moment and replied.

Huang Yichen said: "Okay, bring him with you, let him be more familiar with it." ”

Lin Xuewu knew that this was the chief dart master's intention to exercise Ah Xiu, and he would be promoted in the future, so he hurriedly nodded and agreed.

After the meeting was dismissed, Ah Xiu felt that this meeting seemed to be a dart master or above who had the right to speak, and a runner like himself couldn't interject at all, and he didn't know if there was a need to participate in the meeting in the future.

As soon as he returned to the room, Lin Xuewu came, informed Ah Xiu to let him prepare, and followed the team on the road the day after tomorrow, and left after a few words.

I didn't say anything for a day, and after dinner, Ah Xiu practiced the knife, and he was idle and bored in the house, so he asked Lin Xuewu to get a few books and learn more about things.

On the morning of the third day, Ah Xiu cleaned up neatly, followed the team of the dart bureau with Cui Sanping to the Shangling Chamber of Commerce to pick up the goods, and then went out of the city through the south gate and walked along the avenue to Hengyang City.

There were ten carriages of goods this time, but it was said that it was not a very valuable thing, and it was the Chamber of Commerce's own people who drove the car, led by a big fat man in his thirties. On the side of the dart game, Shi Xingang is the leader, supplemented by Lin Xuewu and Xue Dart, and there are four deputy dart masters and eight executioners below.

Because Ah Xiu is a newcomer, he didn't know much about darts for the first time, so Lin Xuewu asked him to follow on the side, and several other executioners took turns to carry the banner embroidered with the words "Huwei Dart Bureau".

When Cui Sanping had nothing to do, he walked beside Ah Xiu, told him some rules of darts, said that he should treat each other politely, salute first and then soldier, and told him what kind of shop he couldn't live in, and his weapons couldn't leave his body, etc., Ah Xiu secretly wrote it down.

Everyone Xiaoxing stayed at night, about more than 200 miles, but Ah Xiu didn't even see a thief, just wanted to tell Cui Sanping that this dart is very simple, I heard Shi Xingang shouted "stop" in front of him, Ah Xiu looked up, and saw Shi Dart head raising his hand to signal everyone not to go first.

The fat man who led the team at the Chamber of Commerce was startled by Shi Xingang's voice, and hurriedly asked, "Shi Darttou, who are you?"

I saw Shi Xingang's eyebrows frowning, and he said in a deep voice: "Shopkeeper Wu, this place is called Hungry Tiger Ridge, there is a cottage on the collar, and the owner of the big village is surnamed Wan, and he is a strong man." ”

"Strongman?" The big fat man Wu shopkeeper knew that the strongman meant that the robber meant, and he was a little scared, but he forced himself to calm down and said: "Shi Darttou, do you mean that this group of strongmen wants to rob us of our goods?"

"That's not it, our dart bureau has already got acquainted with the master of Wanzhai earlier, and every time he walks this road, he will give face to him, but ......" Shi Xingang hesitated.

"But what?" asked the shopkeeper Wu.

Shi Xingang said slowly: "Just now our executioner shouted in front, if the other party heard it, he would definitely react, and he would shout back twice, but our people shouted for so long without a response, let alone a single figure, I think it's a little strange." ”

"I see. The shopkeeper Wu breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "What should I do, this is not simple, I think it is the owner of the ten thousand villages who have moved and is no longer here." ”

Shi Xingang couldn't think of any other explanation, so he had to say: "Maybe, let's hurry up a few steps, there is an inn in front, we should be able to arrive before dark, and when we are done, we will go back to report to the chief dart head and then go to Baishan to have a look." ”

The brigade continued to move forward, and in the evening, it really saw an inn in front of it. Ah Xiu looked through the already faint sunlight, but saw that this place was near the mountains on one side, and there were woods not far away, and there was an inn standing in the center on the side of the avenue not far away, which looked very old, but the scale was not small.

"Third brother, can this inn have business in such a deserted place?" asked Cui Sanping on the side.

"This is the official road, usually I can't see anyone, in fact, the past merchants and dart bureaus have to pass through here, and this place is dozens of miles before and after this inn, everyone walks here and it is generally dark, you can only eat and live here, and you can make a lot of money. ”

"Why do I think it's a little strange?" said Ashu suddenly.

"What's strange?" Cui Sanping was stunned.

"You see, it's going to be dark at once, and you can't see it clearly from the outside, but you see how there is no light in the room. Ah Xiu pointed to the window of the inn from afar and said.

"Hey, that's true. Cui Sanping looked at some of the dilapidated windows of the inn, and the window paper was broken in some places, and when it was blown by the wind, the broken window paper swayed from side to side.

"I said, Ah Xiu, why am I not feeling a little embarrassed?" Cui Sanping asked by rubbing his eyes.

"I don't know, let's see what the head of the dart does. "Ashu said.

"Yes, yes, they're all old rivers and lakes. Cui Sanping said.

When the convoy stopped in front of the inn, Shi Xingang sent a person to knock on the door, and after a while, the man came back and said, "Shi Dart, there seems to be no one inside." ”

"No one?" Shi Xingang looked at Lin Xuewu and Xue Daoshi left and right, and said: "It's strange, there was no movement on the side of the lord of Wanda Village in Hungry Tiger Ridge before, and now there is no one in this inn." What do you two think?"

Lin Xuewu thought for a while and said: "I think something is wrong, even if it is a coincidence that the master of Wanzhai and the shopkeeper of this inn have moved away, but we are cautious in our dart game, and I don't think it is appropriate to live here." ”

Xue Dart Master on the side said: "But there is no second inn within a radius of dozens of miles, and it is dark when I see it, and it is even more dangerous if I rush to the night." ”

Shi Xingang nodded and said, "Don't think about these first, let's go and have a look first." ”