In a novel, there is a description of the escort:
One day, a Jianghu knight came to a certain escort station to visit: "Everyone in charge, you are courteous! I have heard for a long time that all of you in the escort bureau are superb in martial arts, have a rough knowledge of weapons, and have a little knowledge of fists and feet. Today, you came to the door, and I came to ask you for advice, in order to meet friends with martial arts, and I hope you in charge will not hesitate to teach me!" All the escorts could not figure out the origin of this person, and had never heard of this person in the rivers and lakes. In short, if you come to the door to challenge alone, it must be that the person who comes is not good, whether to fight or not? Fight, if you lose to him, wouldn't it be a loss of face in the escort station, not to fight, wouldn't it be a "shrinking turtle"? Just as the head of the family was hesitating, an escort jumped out, with a horizontal iron coiled dragon stick in his hand, and shouted: " In fact, this kind of situation was impossible. The more famous large-scale escort bureaus often met various people directly or indirectly. Once they came to the door to challenge, it was nothing more than a down-and-out martial artist who came to find relief, either a really capable martial arts master who wanted to work in the escort bureau, or some seedlings (the yamen and young masters of the rich or official family) to make trouble.
When encountering this kind of thing, the rules of the escort bureau are: treat each other with patience, don't be forced to do it as a last resort, and never hurt the peace. As for the people who come to the door to make trouble, they also know that the escort is not an ordinary person. If you really want to persuade them, it is often yourself who suffers. Therefore, as long as the martial artist who comes to seek relief can get a few taels of money from the escort bureau, he will usually clasp his fists and thank him. As for those seedlings, they just say a few words of flattery and coax him to stop.
We know that the main business of the Escort Bureau is walking darts. Now let's go with the Escort Bureau and experience some of the rules of the Escort Bureau.
Waterway three regulations
Taking waterway darts, rafting, and avoiding the trouble of riding on pommel horses and carriages can be called a beautiful job. So, why is waterway darts a beautiful job? Is it like traveling, doing things arbitrarily and without scruples?
In fact, most of the water darts travel along the canal, and the areas they pass through are mostly fertile land. Although there are relatively fewer thieves taking risks than land routes, there are also unpredictable variables in the water darts. Therefore, if you want to travel safely, you must abide by the "three rules" of the waterway.
The first rule was "wake up day and night". During the day, except for the escort on duty, the rest of the escorts went into the cabin and slept soundly until the red sun slanted west, ready to go to work at night. Because there were almost no river robberies during the day, only thieves at night would often come to sneak attack, steal or rob, and the escort had to be on guard.
The second rule is "people never leave the boat". Along the canal are mostly densely populated areas, with cities, towns, villages, and episodes facing each other. In some prosperous areas, teahouses and restaurants abound. Not only entertainers and singers haunt them, but village meetings and social dramas are also common. In the canal, "flower boats" and "Jiangshan boats" (these are all boats carrying prostitutes) are often Sheng, Guan, Flute, and Xiao Song dancing. But the escort must never go ashore to watch or move the boat to watch, because wandering will mean losing the dart. The escort will not only not leave the boat to watch the fun, but also will not leave the boat to chase the thief, for fear of the thief's plan.
The third rule is "avoid taboo women". Boatmen make boats their home, and wives and daughters are in the same boat. Boatmen are the most open women in feudal society. And escorts are mostly masculine and bold men. According to the routine of heroes and beautiful women and talented women in old novels, it will be all the way on a boat and all the way, and the love will be good. In fact, it is not the case. Boatmen have always attached great importance to martial arts, and boat women also abide by women's ethics. They all know that they respect themselves and abide by feudal ethics.
The "three lives" of the land dart
Logically speaking, the land darts are all on the plain, and the escorts are mostly on horseback to escort the escorts along the way. Once the thieves appear, they can react quickly and flexibly, and there is not much to worry about. In fact, the truth is not that simple. Especially when the darts stay overnight in some larger villages and towns. You need to pay more attention to everything and be careful everywhere. Because the local forces in such villages and towns are generally relatively strong. Once you get into trouble, you have to eat and walk around. Therefore, "three times without stopping" is still the travel principle of the escorts.
Because the escorts usually take a fixed path, they are very familiar with the hotels along the way, and have formed good friends with the store owners. Because they don't know the details of the newly opened stores, they always drive straight past and never stay overnight. They are afraid that they will meet Zhang Qing and Zhu Gui-style stores in "Water Margin" and cause personal and financial problems.
There must have been a reason for the sudden change of ownership of the old shop. Before it is clear, the escort will always stay away from this kind of shop, afraid that after the old shop changes owners, it will become a thief shop, and the thieves will lie in ambush first, waiting for the escort to arrive. Therefore, before the escort car enters the village, the escort will always ride a horse first and go to inquire about it in order to grasp the real situation.
The so-called prostitute shop was a two-in-one hotel and a brothel. There were always a few flamboyant women standing in front of the of the hotel door, showing off their elegance and attracting customers. The customers of the prostitute shop were less serious and more bad people.
Three essentials for entering the store
It stands to reason that the escort should have a good rest when he walks in the escort car for a day and arrives at the hotel. In fact, this is not the case. But if you don't have a good rest, you will definitely be sleepy when you walk the darts the next day.
But this possibility is very small. Because after checking into the store, the escort is not in a hurry to rest, but according to the "three things to do when entering the store" rule, first of all, he should inspect the store to see if there is any "abnormal appearance", in case he is "glanced at" by the thieves. Second, he should inspect the outside of the store to see if there is any "abnormal wind", in case he is "labeled". Third, he should go into the kitchen to inspect again to see if there is any "peculiar smell", in case he is secretly drugged.
The so-called "abnormal appearance" means that there are suspicious people in the store. "Strange wind" is the sign of suspicious outside the store, and "peculiar smell" is the manipulation of the cook's food. If there is any abnormal appearance or abnormal wind, take effective preventive measures immediately. If there is a peculiar smell, declare that everyone has "been sharpened (eaten) ". When the door is closed at night, eat some dry food that you carry with you to satisfy your hunger.
After dinner, except for those who are on duty, the escort has to go to bed on the kang. Northerners have the habit of sleeping with their heads on the kang edge, so as to keep warm, so as not to blow their heads in the cold wind outside the window. But the escort sleeps with his head close to the window all year round, stepping on the kang edge, because this is convenient for hearing the movement outside the window, and the second is that if there is a situation, he does not need to turn over and get off the kang, as long as he jumps, he can land on the ground. Generally, when people go on the kang, the heel of the shoe is always facing out, and when they get off the kang, they put it on upside down, but the escort has developed the habit of turning the shoe upside down when taking off the shoe and getting on the kang, so that the heel is facing the kang. If something happens, they jump off the kang and put on their shoes. These habits of the escort were all developed through the lesson of blood, because once a night attack occurs, life and death are determined in an instant.