The five soldiers of the firing squad stood in a row, carrying the Li . Enfield rifle, muzzle aimed at Liu Yanzhi, this is a regular old European way of shooting people, very ceremonial, just as the execution commander wants to shout "fire!" A sharp whistling was heard, and the experienced officer quickly fell to the ground while shouting: "Hide! ”

A shell landed accurately on the clearing, blowing up a patch of dirt with blades of grass, and the soldiers dodged in time, and there were no casualties, but the condemned prisoner standing by the wall was nowhere to be found.

Just as they got up to search for the condemned prisoner, the screams came again, and another shell fell on the clearing, and no one dared to move, and five shells fell in succession, blowing five craters out of the clearing, and the shelling stopped for a while, and the soldiers were frightened and quickly evacuated.

The sudden shelling made the people in the embassy area even more convinced that Liu Yanzhi was indeed a spy, and the Qing army even did not hesitate to use artillery in order to cover him, and it was observed that the cannon firing position should be on the Zhengyangmen city wall, using 57 mm Grusen fast artillery, the artillery position was condescending, the entire Dongjiaomin Alley was within range, and it was a matter of minutes to destroy the embassy area, but these Chinese were only used to rescue spies, and it was really difficult to understand their thinking.

They didn't know that these cannons were fired by the Wuwei Zhongjun in order to give the palace a sound, not for Liu Yanzhi at all, the Empress Dowager Cixi was good at slapping a sweet date, and the melons, fruits, pears and peaches were given, so they naturally had to give another slap, but they were afraid that the cannon would kill people and hurt the peace, so they had to greet the open space, but saved Liu Yanzhi's life.

Liu Yan escaped from death, how dare he delay in Dongjiaomin Lane again, taking advantage of the shelling when he performed light skills, jumping and running wildly, the defenders shot at him, and the bullets hit the tiles, and he couldn't hurt him at all.

Fortunately, the breakthrough he chose in a panic was the defense line of the Boxers, and the boxers on the opposite side saw a person running out of the embassy area, and immediately became confused, shouting that no one came forward, and when they ran to it, they found that it was not a foreigner, but a yellow-skinned and black-eyed compatriot.

"I'm the interpreter of the Prime Minister's Yamen, get out of the way." Liu Yan shouted, squeezed a way out of the boxers, swaggered away, and ran to no one before sitting down to rest, his heart was about to jump out of his cavity.

This oolong is too big, and he tried his best to sneak into Dongjiaomin Lane, but the target was not there at all, and it may not even be in China, and An Tai's intelligence work was full of loopholes, but there was no way to blame them, it is estimated that this ancestor of the Cunningham family likes to brag and add other people's Far East adventures to his own head, which shows that the credibility of the memoir is quite unreliable.

At noon, Liu Yan, who had been reflecting for an hour under the city wall, came back with a disgraced face, and everyone was very depressed when they learned the news of the failure of the mission.

"What do you think?" Lei Meng carried forward the spirit of democracy and convened three team members to discuss collectively.

"Since the people are not here, let's go back, and then we will enter the city without leaving the Eight-Nation Alliance, I don't want to watch the foreigners slaughter our compatriots." Zhang Wenbo said.

"That's it, don't blame us for the failure of the mission, blame them for their intelligence errors, let's go back quickly, the war is chaotic, and it won't be so good if you meet the enemy again." Guo Yuhang looked at the bandage on Lei Meng's chest, and glanced at Liu Yanzhi again, with a lot of blame.

"What about your opinion?" Lei Meng looked at Liu Yanzhi, although he is the team leader, but in fact, Liu Yanzhi has been playing the role of a commander, Lei Meng is not a narrow-minded person, and he is also happy to let Xian, let Zhang Guo and the two speak just to make a show, in fact, he wants to hear Liu Yanzhi's views more.

Liu Yanzhi took a deep breath and said, "I plan to stay, regardless of this George. Cunningham in China or in the United States, I will find him, if it doesn't work in one year, it will be two years, if it doesn't work in two years, it will be ten years, you go back first, let's have a ten-year appointment, and you will come back to pick me up in 1910. ”

"Are you sure?" Lei Meng was a little stunned, and left alone in the chaotic times at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and he couldn't figure it out.

"Sure." Liu Yanzhi is very relaxed, "I know the direction of history, and I have a lot of kung fu, I won't mix too badly, and it's not that I can't go back, even if I can't go back, it's good, you look at those novels, the protagonists are mixed with three wives and four concubines, how moisturized is how much I want to be nourished, if I don't change the direction of history, it is also possible to make a founding president." ”

"Don't!" Lei Meng gasped, "History has changed dramatically, and we may no longer exist." ”

Liu Yan smiled and said: "Just kidding, I won't mess around, I have made up my mind, and I have to complete the task." ”

"Okay, I approve it." Lei Meng was helpless, and this was the only feasible way.

Since the goal was not in Beijing, it would be meaningless to continue to stay in the capital, and they decided to set off to return to Jiangdong, but before leaving, Liu Yanzhi still wanted to go to Li Chongzheng's mansion to resign, and by the way, he gave him advice to leave Beijing quickly to avoid the war.

In the afternoon, Liu Yan went straight to Li's house, Lord Li went to the yamen on duty, the housekeeper invited him to drink tea in the living room of the inverted seat room and wait, when it was dark, the attendant next to Lord Li came back first, rushed into the door and cried: "Oh no, no." ”

The housekeeper hurriedly stepped forward to inquire, and it turned out that Li Chongzheng was suddenly arrested half an hour ago, took off his top feather, stripped off his official uniform, and was sent to prison, accused of colluding with foreigners to communicate with foreign countries.

Li Mansion suddenly fell into a collapse situation, and after a while, there was a cry in the inner house, and no one greeted Liu Yanzhi, although he didn't know the real reason why Li Chongzheng was arrested, but he could vaguely guess that it was related to him, and he was in a bad mood, so he said goodbye.

……

Tonight is not to go, everyone decided to set off tomorrow morning, Xia Feixiong and Yan Shengnan did not go with them, although they only got along for two days, but the feelings were still very strong, everyone found a tavern to drink goodbye, they are all children of the rivers and lakes, there is no sorrow, only pride.

"Yanzhi, from now on, we will be separated, I'm afraid it's been decades since we saw each other again, so let's do it!" Xia Feixiong picked up the wine bowl and drank it all.

Liu Yanzhi also dried the wine in the bowl, took out the shell gun and said, "Master, you have more trouble than me, so keep this gun for protection." ”

Xia Feixiong insisted on not accepting it, but in the end, he couldn't resist the enthusiasm of his apprentice, so he reluctantly accepted it, and at the same time asked Yan Shengnan to take out the jade Ruyi in the baggage.

"We're walking the rivers and lakes with this thing in the way, you take it."

"Then I'll be disrespectful." Liu Yanzhi was not pretentious and accepted Yu Ruyi.

Liang Dingbang drank with his head stuffed and didn't speak, he knew that his status was low, and he was a "traitor", he didn't dare to sit on an equal footing with the heroes, and he also sat at the last seat when he ate, but everyone didn't actually look down on him.

Lei Meng said: "Dingbang, where are you going?" Go back to your hometown in Weihai, or go to Tianjin to find your troops? ”

Liang Dingbang said: "Thanks to your care, the grace of saving my life is unforgettable, just leave me behind, and I can go back to Weihai myself." ”

Lei Meng said: "There are enough cars and horses, your legs and feet are not good, and you are with us." ”

After a hearty drink, everyone came out of the tavern and was about to get into the carriage, when suddenly the blind man on the fortune-telling stall on the side of the road shouted: "A few heroes help the liner, touch the head to tell the fortune, and you can't count it without money." ”

Lei Meng had nothing to do, and said, "You give me the math to see how many years I can live?" ”

The blind fortune teller was overjoyed when he saw the business coming to the door, stood up and stretched out his hand, but he couldn't reach Lei Meng's head, everyone laughed, Lei Meng squatted down, grabbed the blind man's hand and put it on his head: "You touch it, it's not accurate, I'll smash your stall." ”

The blind man touched it for a while, and a strange look appeared on his face: "This ...... Xiao Lao'er has been a fortune teller for many years, and he has never touched such a skeletal head. ”

"Hurry up and get serious, don't talk useless." Lei Meng said.

"Zunjia is from the army, but he doesn't have the talent of a general, so he can only be a martial artist." The blind man spoke directly, "I will be a rich man in the future, and I will live a long time...... Obediently, you can live to be at least one hundred and twenty years old. ”

There was another burst of laughter, but this time Liu Yanzhi and the others didn't laugh, only Xia Feixiong and Liang Dingbang were laughing.

Lei Meng's face changed, and the fortune teller said that he could live to be one hundred and twenty years old, which was calculated from 1900, and he could live for three years in the baseline time and space.

The blind man was very hearing, his ears trembled, and he pointed to Liang Dingbang and said, "This guest, I will touch you." ”

"Me?" Liang Dingbang was surprised, but he still stepped forward and let the blind man touch his head.

The blind man touched it for a while, and a smile appeared on his face: "Well, this is a blessed head, but the good fortune will be in your descendants, your great-grandson, who can have a governor's future." ”

"Governor?" Liang Dingbang was overjoyed, "Is it the Governor of Zhili or the Governor of Liangjiang, there is green smoke on my ancestral grave." ”

The blind man pinched his fingers and said, "No, it's a governor on a small island in the south." ”

Liang Dingbang smiled: "Blind man, you just talk nonsense." ”

Zhang Wenbo and Guo Yuhang also asked the blind man to touch him, and after the blind man passed each other, his brows furrowed and said: "There is a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not, you two are already people who have died once." ”

"That's it, how many times have we been through the rain of bullets, aren't we people who have died several times?" Zhang Wenbo said, "Then how old do you think I can live?" ”

"More than one hundred and ten years old." The blind man said.

The faces of the two changed greatly, and they stopped talking.

Xia Feixiong was happy to see that they were calculating, and he also wanted to do the math, but was pulled by Yan Shengnan: "Liar, don't believe it." ”

Liu Yanzhi was skeptical and didn't believe it, he had met a master today, and he stepped forward: "Master, give me a touch." ”

The blind man stretched out his skinny hands and touched Liu Yanzhi's head for a long time, and the suspicious look on his face became even heavier.

"What to say, I won't smash your stall." Liu Yan took out two silver dollars and tapped them in his hand, and the blind man heard the crisp sound of the silver, his ears moved again, and he swallowed his saliva.

"Guest, little old man really can't count your life, I can't collect this money."

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