"Shanhe Escort"
In the 20th year of Guangxu's reign, on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, Chen Muyun, the young boss of the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau, received a fatal escort.
The iron box was so black that it was hard to tell what it was. Thirty taels of gold, only buy one rule: when the dart is with you, when the dart dies, the person dies.
On the night of leaving Beijing, the killer in black came through the snow, and the iron box vibrated in his arms like a living thing. The mysterious woman Su Mingzhu appeared with a foreign lantern, and dragged him into the abyss with one sentence: "If you don't leave Beijing for a hundred miles before tomorrow night, the things in the box will wake up, and every village in the ten miles will be a cemetery."
The south road is Huangquan Road. The Cao Gang's swords, the government's arrows, and the Jianghu's plots all follow him like a shadow. The iron box vibrated more and more violently every night, and the blood beads on the surface of the box gradually lit up, as if counting down to the awakening of some indescribable thing.
Only then did Chen Muyun know that the same escort his father escorted twenty-five years ago had only half of the blood-stained jade pendant left when he returned. But this time, the thing in the box is no longer dead - it is the "key" that can stir up the court, attract foreigners, and make the Revolutionary Party and the old forces compete frantically.
From the ancient road west of Beijing to the roaring waves of the Pearl River, a desperate escort across the Qing Dynasty begins. Chen Muyun holds the ancestral Yan Ling Dao in his hand, and Su Mingzhu holds the ingenious map of Taixi. There is a Shanhaiguan card in front of him and a treacherous human heart in the back. What they escort is not only the iron box, but also a broken era that is staggering forward between the roar of the train and the awakening of old dreams.
"This last dart does not give away any property or favors——
I, Chen Muyun, want to leave this mountain and river behind and find a way out. "
