Huang Ying said: "The dead sheath is the name of our dart bureau, and this name comes from the 'silver sheath' used when escorting the official silver, Lin Shuai, do you know how we escort the official silver?" ”

Lin Yuan thought about it and said, "Put the silver in the box, and then put the box on the car, isn't that so?" ”

Huang Ying shook his head lightly and said: "It's not like this, if it's put in the box, in case a dart master sees the wealth and takes a silver ingot from it, who can know what to do?" On the road, once you meet a thief and snitch and steal a few pieces of silver, you will have to compensate our dart board. ”

"Also, the government never directly gives us silver for us to transport, you think, we transport official silver for 100,000 taels, and the official silver ingots are 100,000 taels, so there must be a thousand silver ingots, and we can't count them one by one! Therefore, when transporting official silver, a silver sheath must be used. ”

"The silver sheath was made of two pieces of wood, and a groove was dug out of the two pieces of wood, the same size as the silver ingot, and about half the height of the silver ingot. When the silver is placed, the silver ingots are first placed in a trough of one piece of wood, and then another piece of wood is fastened to it, so that the silver is not put into the trough? ”

"After that, the outside of the wood is made with an iron hoop, and the seams are sealed, which becomes a silver sheath, and all the government gives us are silver sheaths, and we can't see the silver ourselves, if there is less silver in the silver sheath, it is a matter of their government, and I am happy to be clean."

"Such a silver sheath can hold ten silver ingots at a time, and a silver sheath can hold a hundred catties, and two people have to carry it together! So this is also safe, later some customers for the safety of their own things, also put things in the wooden box, outside with iron hoops and seals, we can not move people, if the hoop and seal are broken, people will say that we have private people and goods, just like this, the wooden box containing silver is called a silver sheath, but we don't know what is in the wooden box of customers, so it is called a dead sheath. ”

Lin Yuan nodded and asked, "Do you know what is in there?" Is it silver? ”

Huang Ying shook his head and said, "No, the things inside are much lighter than silver!" And some of the boxes are light, some of the boxes are heavy, the difference is very big, we have two dart masters took a lot of effort to move a dead sheath, thinking that each is so heavy, and when moving the next one, he also used all his strength, but the next dead sheath is very light, and he sat on the fart mound, so I remember this matter very clearly. ”

Gao Yu giggled on the side, and Lin Yuan asked, "Is there any situation on the way to transport things?" When the things arrived in Tianshui, who took them? ”

Huang Ying smiled and said, "Lin Shuai, don't worry, I'll tell you slowly." Then he continued: "Although we will meet robbers on the way to darts, but just say a few words and pass, after all, we have hard work, even if the robbers eat us, we have to make a mouth full of blood, they are also willing to pick soft persimmons and pinch, so there may not be one real dart a hundred times!" However, something strange happened when it was transported to Huangsha Town. ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Huangsha Town?" This name is so familiar! ”

Huang Ying said: "Huangsha Town is quite close to the Prajna Temple. ”

Lin Yuan nodded and asked, "What happened in Huangsha Town?" ”

Huang Ying said: "The customer is walking with us, which is also a miracle, we give darts to others, and we have never met the owner of the goods to go with us!" When we stayed in Huangsha Town for one night, and the next day we got out of the town, and walked out of ten miles, and a group of people came in front, and we thought it was a gangster, but when we came closer, we found that those people did not have a sword, not like the gangsters who blocked the road, and then the customer spoke, let us stop, and hand over the things to the group of people who came. ”

"Darts for so many years, this is the only time I give the darts to others halfway, although we think it is strange, but the goods are the customer's, people give us to give it, then the customer spoke again, let us wait in the same place, he rented our carriage for use, and then he sent the carriage back to us after the goods were delivered."

"I said at the time, where you are going, I will just pull the things over to you, who knows that the customer of Lu Dao disagreed, and gave us a large sum of money, which is enough to buy our carriage! I didn't say anything, and let them get the carriage away, and it wasn't until the afternoon that the patron brought it back to us. ”

Huang Ying stopped when he said this, and Lin Yuan asked, "What about the rest of the matter?" ”

Huang Ying said: "The back is gone, he gave us the carriage and went back to Huangsha Town, and we don't know where the goods went." ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "It seems that the batch of explosives and munitions found under the Praruo Temple should be transported by them, the nitrocellulose is very light, and the guns and tools are very heavy!" ”

Lin Yuan then asked, "Who is that patron?" What kind of business do you do? Is there a deal for him in Tianshui? ”

Huang Ying shook his head and said: "We don't know about this, he didn't say it, I didn't say it a few times along the way, he gave us a name, I think it's fake, it's called Chu Youzhen!" ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "What's the use of just having a name, it must be fake!" It seems that this clue ends here, and so much effort has been wasted. Lin Yuan said: "If there is any more news of this person, you must inform me." ”

Huang Ying agreed, Lin Yuan said goodbye, leaving Gao Yu in the dart game, Lin Yuan returned to the station, and saw Shen Wanqing looking at the window in a daze, Lin Yuan smiled and said, "What are you doing there?" ”

Shen Wanqing "shhh ”

Lin Yuan looked around Shen Wanqing, there was neither a chessboard nor a chess piece, and when he looked out of the window, there was nothing, so he asked, "Playing chess?" Who are you playing chess with? ”

Shen Wanqing pointed her finger at her head and said with a smile: "Blind chess!" Suddenly, his face changed, and he said: "When you interrupt it, the chess is messed up." As she spoke, she stretched out her hand and waved it in front of her for a while, as if there was a chessboard in front of her, and she wanted to mess up all the chess pieces on it, and said, "No! ”

Lin Yuan smiled, and Shen Wanqing asked, "Why did you come back alone?" What about Gao Yu? ”

As soon as Lin Yuan talked about today's events, Shen Wanqing smiled and said: "Gao Yu was often coquettish when he was with me, but I didn't expect to be even more coquettish when I got to the dart game." ”

Lin Yuan said: "Now that the clue is broken, I can only think about how to solve the land problem behind." ”

Shen Wanqing said: "Solving these problems requires manpower, Gansu is so big, you need a lot of people." ”

Lin Yuan said: "I have already thought about it, now that everything in Mongolia is almost done, I will call the people who are carrying out reforms in Mongolia, and then carry out reforms." ”

Shen Wanqing asked, "What about the Qing court?" Don't you care? ”

Lin Yuan said: "There is no owner of the land in Gansu now, I am equivalent to cleaning up the mess for the Qing court, and they will commend me." ”

At this moment, he suddenly saw Gao Yu hurriedly running in and said to Lin Yuan, "Hurry up and go to the dart game with me!" ”

Lin Yuan hurriedly asked, "What happened?" ”

Gao Yu said: "The person who carried the things is here again!" ”