Dart Master

Chapter 1 The Last Dart
Walking Yin Darts, also known as "Zouxikou", are specially used to guard darts for ghosts.

People who walk darts are usually called dart masters.There are two types of bodyguards, one is the one who eats food in the sun, this kind is the most common in movie themes, escorting people's property, etc., licking blood with a knife, and a lifetime of confusion.The bodyguards who traditionally eat in the sun have already gradually developed with modern transportation and communication, and disappeared in the long river of history.

The other kind of bodyguards are more hidden. They eat food from the underworld and walk with the underworld darts. They are specially born for the dead and ghosts to escort property and utensils.During the Manchu Dynasty, they were often called "Yin Legs", which means lowly, shameless, and shameless people. They were often looked down upon by their colleagues who lived in the sun, and they were not even allowed to set up dart flags and live in dart shops.

It is precisely because of the low status and the concealment of the industry that the underworld darts are rarely known to outsiders.

Today, the traditional bodyguard bureaus have long been in decline, but Yinyin bodyguards have been passed down because of their particularity.

My name is Qin Wushang. Since the old man founded the Huangquan Bodyguard Agency during the Tongzhi period in the late Qing Dynasty, the descendants of the old Qin family have made a living as bodyguards for generations and have lived in Fengquan Town, Wushan.

The ghost gates are divided into land and water, and there are ghost gate waterways leading to the underworld along the Yangtze River along Wushan and Badong.

Fengquan is one of the nine ghost gates in China. Li Daoyuan's "Shui Jing Zhu" said: "There is a way for near witches, and people can't tell them. It's difficult and difficult, and you can only find it with a lamp!"

As the saying goes, people and ghosts have different paths, so some weird and strange things often happen in this area. The local people like to read the almanac when they go out. Often when the gate of ghosts opens in July or on some taboo or ominous days, fishing boats will not come out. He turned his eyes away from the river in order to seek safety.

However, the inexplicable and horrifying place of great evil for ordinary people is a convenient door for us darts and yin practitioners. It is common for Fengshui and Qimen experts in Sichuan and Chongqing to go to Lianghu, Guangdong and Guangxi.

Some people may ask, once this person enters the earth, the loess will add to his body and soul, so how can he use things outside his body? At most, he will burn paper money and ingots every year to show his respect.

This statement seems reasonable, but if you really think so, it is a big mistake.

The underworld is not that simple, it is a crueler world than the Yang world, where the weak prey on the strong, conspiracies and tricks, and the survival of ghosts is even more difficult.Therefore, don't imagine that the paper money and ingots you burn can reach the hands of dead relatives.Furthermore, what you burn may not be usable in the underworld, and it may not be as good as a piece of waste paper there.

And what we have to do is these things, going back and forth between yin and yang, taking money from people, and eliminating disasters and difficulties for ghosts.

However, the journey of ghosts is difficult and dangerous, and ghosts are more cruel and treacherous than humans. From the first day of walking the ghost dart, half a foot of the escort has already stepped into the gate of ghosts.

Our old Qin family has single-passages for generations, and males are not happy. This is not because the men of the Qin family are useless, but because Yin and Yang are different. They walk around in the underworld all year round, hurting the body and mind.

Today, there are fewer and fewer Yin dart families, most of them died in the ghostly way, or the incense is hard to continue. Another reason is that they are limited by the cumbersome rules.

Once the Yin Escort Bureau opens and the employer places an order, regardless of whether it is fat or thin, the Yin Escort Bureau will have to work. Often, the money earned from a trip to the escort agency is not enough to buy road money for the little ghosts on the road.

But this is the rule, "Walk the darts, walk with conscience! If the darts are with the people, the game will end when the darts die."

In the Qin family, the dart masters of the past dynasties set up dart flags by themselves, and the dart masters traveled around. In my father's generation, due to the fact that there are fewer people who believe in this profession and most of the Huijiazi who dare to take the wrong path, most of them have changed their profession. There are so many rules in the Escort Bureau, and the Yin Escort has declined.

After all, in this day and age, you can earn 80 yuan just by showing a feng shui to a big family. Who would put their head on their waistband and risk losing their children and grandchildren to earn this kind of life-threatening money.

When I was eight years old, my father took the last dart in his life.

I vaguely remember that a person came to the house that night, and my father talked with that person for a whole night.

On the second day, my father had a big fight with my mother, and my mother cried a lot.In my impression, my mother is a very strong woman who seldom sheds tears. My father is away all year round. It is not easy for her to take care of the housework and take care of my grandma and me.

But her tears still failed to keep my father. He led his bodyguards on a road of no return and never came back.

On the seventh day after my father left, my mother sealed off the escort agency and burned everything related to him. Slowly, my father and everything became a memory.

To this day, I can’t remember what he looked like. I only remember the day before he left, he stroked my hair and sighed: “My son, don’t blame me, I can’t help myself!”

Then, without looking back, he disappeared into the night.

Until now, I can't understand the meaning of his words, but somewhere, I always feel that my father seems to be implying me something?
With the erasure of my father's traces, the Yellow Springs Escort Bureau has come to an end, but the people of the Qin family are destined to be unable to escape the entanglement of fate, and I finally embarked on this road of no return.

After graduating from university, I returned to Jiangdong and helped Seventh Uncle manage his courier business.

My seventh uncle is Qin Jian. He is the youngest bodyguard in the Huangquan Bodyguard Agency, ranking seventh. His father took good care of him during his lifetime.In my impression, my father was always strict with the bodyguards under his hands, but he didn't pay any attention to this joking and drunken Uncle Qi.

The last time he walked the darts, his father and his escorts failed to come back. Only Uncle Qi survived, because he didn't go, why he didn't go, no one knows.

After the Escort Bureau was disbanded, Uncle Qi came to Jiangdong and opened a courier company. In his words, this life is a life of worrying and hard work. The Escort Bureau is gone. If ghosts can't get away with Escort, they will deliver goods to living people.

Uncle Seven is almost always drinking, but he has never been drunk, and the deliveries that should be delivered are rarely delayed.So he can only be regarded as a drunkard, not a drunkard.

In February, the season of melting snow in spring, my strong mother finally came to the end of her life.In fact, the mother's heart died the night her father left.

I asked Uncle Seven for leave, and before leaving, I asked Uncle Seven if he would come back to attend my mother's funeral?

Uncle Qi hesitated for a long time, then sighed, "Hey, I don't have the face to see my sister-in-law."

I know it has something to do with my father's affairs, it's taboo, he never said it, and I didn't ask.

I returned to Fengquan from Jiangdong overnight, and when I saw my mother, her face was as pale as paper, her breath was like a thread, and she was almost dying.

When she was dying, my mother told me that she had dreamed every night in these years that her father had suffered in the underworld, was tortured by ghosts, burned tubes, wore iron shoes, and hob the mountain. Life would be worse than death.She also said that her father reprimanded her for not closing down the bodyguard bureau. The Qin family is here, so as long as it is a man who is panting, he has to stand up the bodyguard, so as not to lose face of the old Qin family.

When my mother said this, I burst into tears and held her hand tightly, crying hard.

My mother is a very stubborn woman. It has been 15 years since she mentioned her father for the first time. She can't even shed tears anymore. In those silent nights, she has quietly shed all tears.

"This is the key to the dart door. You hold it. Stand up the dart like your father. You must find your father. If you live to see people, if you die, you want to see souls." My mother tightly held my hand.

"Mother, don't worry, I will definitely set up the dart and find my father." I held her hand hard, and it was so cold on my face.

"Wu Shang, you, your seventh uncle is not easy, you have to respect him like your father, and be with him in everything..." My mother's voice became smaller and smaller, and finally she fell into my arms and fell into a deep sleep forever.

My mother left, and on the day of her burial, I saw from a distance the seventh uncle in a white gown standing on the opposite hill for a long time. That night, Sheng Xiao sobbed.

After the funeral, I packed up my mother’s belongings, and stood at the gate of the gate, holding the key of the guard gate in my hand, looking at the bluestone threshold covered with green spots in the compound, and never dared to take half a step.

The Qin family, the Huangquan Bodyguard Agency, was once so majestic and majestic. In both Yin and Yang realms, when the Huangquan bodyguard flag was raised, people and ghosts respected each other.

"When the dart flag is raised, the world is shocked, and the yin and yang avoid the movement of the underworld!"

At the height of its prosperity, even the Escort Bureau of Friends who lived in Yangjian was not inferior. Even an important court official like Mr. Zeng had to cross the river to visit the door in person if he wanted to entrust his bodyguards.

I imagined that I could see the high-spirited looks of the older generation of bodyguards, the majestic and bold heroism of the ancestors, but now this mottled moss-covered compound is left with endless loneliness.

(End of this chapter)