Hefeng Town is a small town with a population of more than 500 in the southern part of Chunan County, but there are seven inns in this small town. It is a traffic choke point into the southern mountains of Chunan County.

Hefeng Town is also a must-pass place from Nanba County to Shangyuan City.

In the evening of this day, a man wearing a hat, a black cloak, and riding a red healthy horse slowly passed through the gate of Zephyr Town.

This man seemed to be quite familiar with the town, and he walked straight to the largest inn in the town, and Xiao Er greeted him warmly.

He threw the reins to Xiao Er, and as he walked through the door, he took off his hat, revealing an angular face. This person is Xiao Ziyang.

Xiao Ziyang handed the hat to the other junior who greeted him, and looked at the guests in the lobby of the inn. It's dinner time. The lobby is almost full. Most of the diners were merchants from the north and south. Xiao Ziyang was about to walk towards the only empty table, when he was suddenly stunned.

At a table against the wall on the east side, there were four people sitting, drinking and chatting, facing the door, there was a young man with clear eyebrows, feeling that someone was coming in, he subconsciously looked up at the door, then withdrew his eyes and was about to serve the wine glass, his outstretched hand suddenly paused, and his face showed a look of surprise.

"Wen Jin, I didn't expect to meet you here. A familiar voice with a hint of a smile reached the young man's ears.

"Wu Daxia, it's really you, where have you been in the past two years, the master still often mentions you. Wen Jin hurriedly stood up and greeted Xiao Ziyang.

"Oh, that's a clerk who has been wandering around for the past two years, and I have no fixed place to live, Wen Jin, why are you here?" Xiao Ziyang suddenly saw his acquaintance, and he was also very happy, patting Wen Jin on the shoulder and asked.

Wen Jin took Xiao Ziyang's hand and walked to his desk, "Thanks to the master's support, let me learn to do things in the Wen family firm, and recently the big shopkeeper saw that I was serious about my work, so he sent me out to be responsible for transporting a batch of leather goods to Shangyuan City." The shopkeeper removed all the dishes on the table and served them again according to the dishes just now. Two more jars of good wine. Wen Jin said as he pulled out the stool, "Wu Daxia, sit down." ”

After Xiao Ziyang sat down, Wen Jin introduced to the people at the same table: "This Wu Daxia is an old friend of our Master Wen, and he once did our master a great favor back then. All three of them got up and saluted Xiao Ziyang with their fists.

Wen Jin pointed to the middle-aged man who was thin and had slender cheeks, but there was a faint sense of fierceness on his body: "This is the horse dart head of the Black Tiger Dart Bureau, the horse dart head is not only brilliant in eagle claw skills, but also has a very wide range of people in the martial arts of Chuzhou, especially in the Jingnan area, there are horse darts heads, and the heroes of the green forest will give some face." ”

"This is Zheng Darthead of the Black Tiger Dart Bureau, Zheng Dart Head is good at using double knives, and he is the newly hired dart head of the Black Tiger Dart Bureau," Wen Jin pointed to the tall young man with slender arms.

"This is the head of the convoy of our Wenjia firm. ”

Xiao Ziyang stood up and exchanged pleasantries with a few people.

After everyone saw the ceremony, Xiao Ziyang said with a smile: "Shibei should be impressed for three days, Wen Jin, I haven't seen you for two years, you have changed from a stunned young man to a delicate businessman, not bad, not bad, you will definitely be able to sit in the big shopkeeper of the Wenjia firm in the future." ”

"I don't dare to think that if I can sit on that semicolon shopkeeper, I will be content in my life. Wen Jin said with a smile.

The wine and food were quickly served, "Come to Wu Daxia, I will toast you, if it weren't for you, I really don't know what things would have become, this time Wu Daxia must go back to Wenjiazhuang with me to see, the master mentioned Wu Daxia to me several times, saying that you left in a hurry back then, and I didn't have time to thank you." Wen Jin raised his glass and said.

"The wine is good!" Xiao Ziyang dried his glass, "I'm about to go to Shangyuan City, and I'm going to see the clerk on the way, I don't know if Wenjin is going to the southern mountains to collect leather goods, or return." ”

"That's a coincidence, I'm about to return to Shangyuan, why don't Wu Daxia accompany us, Wu Daxia is strong in martial arts, and with you in my heart, I will be sure." Wen Jin was overjoyed.

Wen Jin turned his head and introduced to the two dart heads: "Wu Daxia used a 72-pound black steel thick back knife to make the tiger and tiger, and we were extremely admired by the head of Wudu. ”

Zheng Dangtou heard Wen Jin say that the inconspicuous long knife behind Xiao Ziyang weighed seventy-two pounds, and he couldn't help but look at Xiao Ziyang in horror.

The head of the horse dart smiled slightly, and his face was full of disbelief.

Wen Jin asked about Xiao Ziyang's experience in the past two years. Xiao Ziyang made a fool of himself. After being full of wine and food, the two agreed to set off together tomorrow morning, and then went back to their rooms to rest.

Early the next morning, Xiao Ziyang and Wen Jin had breakfast together. At the door of the inn, the Wen family's convoy is ready and ready to set off at any time.

The size of the convoy is not large, a total of five carts, each with a driver and a man. In addition to sending two dart masters, the dart board also sent five executioners. In fact, a team of this size usually only needs to hire a dart master. But Zheng Darthead is a newcomer, and this time he came to follow Ma Darttou to familiarize himself with the road, and only charged the money of an executioner. The Wen family firm naturally readily agreed to such a good thing.

Under the command of Li Tou, the convoy started slowly.

"Hewu!" "Hewu!" Amid the angry shouts of the executioners, the motorcade of darts and flags headed north.

When he was resting on the road, Zheng Darthead proposed to Xiao Ziyang at the instigation of Ma Darthead, Xiao Ziyang was naturally not interested in competing with him as a dart master who was at the same level as the small leader of the mountain thieves in Cangshanzhai, and casually rejected him.

This made Ma Darthead even more convinced that either Wen Jin was bragging for him, or this Wu Daxia was a liar at all.

Xiao Ziyang naturally saw his thoughts and didn't bother to pay attention to it.

More than ten days later, the convoy entered the Shangling Mountains, and the dart master and the executioners were obviously nervous.

Chuzhou is located in the plain, except for the southern mountains, there are not many mountains in the territory. This Shangling Mountain Range is the largest mountain range on the Jingnan Plain. It divides the Jingnan Plain into two and is a necessary place for people to travel from south to north. Most of the mountains in this mountain range are not high, but there are many trees and dense forests, and there are often green forest heroes who rob goods on the trade roads in the mountains.

The Wen family's caravan traveled south and north, and naturally knew that there was a hidden murderous motive in the Shangling Mountain Range, and everyone silently accelerated their pace.

Xiao Ziyang rode a jujube red horse and followed the caravan slowly, looking a little absent-minded, the mountain road, the convoy, the dart passengers, and the familiar shouts of the runner made him feel like he had entered a dream.

The convoy passed through several passes where bandits often robbed the road, and they were all safe and sound, and seeing that the mountain was halfway through, the expressions of the dart masters gradually relaxed.