In the East Flower Hall of the Mansion Mansion, Liu Yan was holding his waist knife at the door of the bedroom, and he had a hunch that the young lady who looked like Zhen Yue would appear.

Sure enough, two slender figures appeared under the shadow of the tree, and stopped for a while in the distance before they came over, and sure enough, Miss Lin appeared with the maid, the maid was still holding a tray in her hand, Liu Yan shrugged her nose, it was the taste of white fungus lotus seed soup.

The two women walked to the moon gate, and Liu Yanzhi pretended to be vigilant and asked, "Who is coming?" ”

"The little woman is Lin Su, the daughter of Lin Huaiyuan, the main hall of Omijiang Mansion, who came to deliver supper to Master Zhou."

Liu Yanzhi excused that Master Zhou had already rested, took the lotus seed soup and sent it into the house, and then came out again, the three of them stood under the porch, slightly embarrassed, Miss Lin pinched the corner of her clothes and lowered her head and did not speak, Xiaocui was anxious, and had nothing to say: "Lord Liu, are you really the reincarnation of Zhao Zilong?" ”

"Bluffing, how can there be any reincarnation, I am an atheist." Liu Yan said this directly, but he was wondering in his heart why Miss Lin looked like Zhen Yue, and even her voice was almost the same.

"And where did you learn your marksmanship?" Xiao Cui continued to be speechless.

"I didn't learn marksmanship, I just practiced blindly." Liu Yan scratched his head and said, he is not good at words, especially in front of young girls.

Xiao Cui sneered, thinking that this imperial guard was so interesting, and it was not at all different from what she imagined.

Lin Su coughed dryly, Xiao Cui immediately didn't dare to laugh, and said, "Oh, I haven't washed the dishes yet." Then he ran away with a puff of smoke.

Only Liu Yanzhi and Lin Su were left under the corridor, both of them were stuffy gourds, each glancing at the flowers and plants in the yard, their hearts were ape, time seemed to become thicker, and they flowed forward every second, and each other could hear the sound of heartbeat.

In the end, it was Liu Yan who spoke first: "That...... You look a lot like someone I know. ”

This is an old-fashioned accosting sentence, but it is especially useful in this era, Lin Suyu asked: "Is it your childhood sweetheart's cousin?" ”

Liu Yan said bluntly that this Miss Lin is really imaginative, and hurriedly explained: "No, I just met for a short time, she is a firefighter and fights fires." ”

"Firefighting?" Ms. Lin couldn't understand the connection between the young woman and the firefighting.

Liu Yanzhi realized the gap between the times, and simply explained in vain, saying: "You are not people of the same world. ”

"Hey, it's a shame." Miss Lin sighed, and said in her heart that this person was so pitiful, and his fiancée died before he got married

At the same time, Lei Meng was discussing with him in Lin Huaiyuan's signing room how to go to Beijing, with the authority of the prefect, he could allocate them eight fast horses, four sets of official uniforms, and go north by starry night with an urgent matter of 600 miles, but Lin Huaiyuan had a question in his heart, why did he try his best to escape from the capital and throw himself into the net.

"Our lord will be entrusted to the prefect to take care of." Lei Meng stood up and clasped his fists in salute.

"Don't dare to be." Lin Huaiyuan also stood up and returned the salute, the imperial guard was a third-grade military attaché, and the prefect was only from the fourth-grade, and he was a mile behind others in terms of grade.

When Lei Meng returned to the East Flower Hall, Lin Su was still chatting with Liu Yanzhi, and when he saw someone coming in, he realized that he had been delayed for too long.

"That's a hookup?" Lei Meng squeezed his eyebrows, pushed the door into the house, and saw the white fungus lotus seed soup on the table, picked it up and swallowed it in three or two bites, and said well: "It's a little cold." ”

Teacher Zhou is still unconscious, taking him is a big burden, simply left to Lin Zhifu to take care of, everyone reached a consensus, the fast horse official uniform will be sent tomorrow morning, set off early in the morning, rush to the capital as soon as possible, and complete the task is the first.

In the distance, there was the sound of the husband knocking on the bang, it was late at night, Liu Yan couldn't sleep, his mind was full of the shadows of Miss Lin and Zhen Yue, although these two looked similar, but their personalities were completely different, one was a heroic firefighter, and the other was a young lady raised in the boudoir, compared with Zhen Yue, Lin Su was as simple as a blank piece of paper.

Liu Yan couldn't sleep, Lin Su couldn't sleep, this was the first time she had chatted with a young man who was not related to her for so long, her heart was pounding, and she didn't press it down after drinking a pot of tea, Xiaocui, a dead girl, came to ask long questions with a hippie smile, what nonsense is that she will let the master propose tomorrow and take Zhao Zilong as an aunt.

"No more nonsense, rip your mouth apart." Lin Su was angry on her lips, but she was sweet in her heart, it would be nice if it was really like what Xiaocui said, but her father was afraid that she had other ideas, and she was sad in a blink of an eye.

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Early the next morning, the post station sent eight fast horses, and Zhang Bantou prepared four sets of robes and uniforms, red tasseled hats, thin-soled fast boots, and a handwritten letter to Lao Taishan.

Lei Meng and the other four turned over outside the back door of the mansion and threw their hands towards Lin Huaiyuan: "Thank you, my lord, at least half a month, or as late as a month, I will definitely come back." ”

"Take care all the way." Lin Huai walked from afar, saw the four of them go away, and went home full of ambition.

Each of the crossing group had two fast horses, wearing official uniforms, with official swords, fresh clothes and angry horses, majestic, but they were confused when they left the city gate of Omifu, they only knew that Beijing was in the north, and it was completely unclear what road to take.

"All the way to the north, first to Xuzhou, then Jinan, all roads lead to Beijing, I don't believe that the four of us can't even find the road." Lei slammed his whip and led the way in front.

Eight horses galloped for two miles, and Lei Meng suddenly stopped his horse and pointed ahead with his whip: "There is a situation!" ”

There is a Gothic building in front of it, with a cross erected on the spire, which is clearly a church, surrounded by at least a thousand people, and it is very lively.

"Is there a lot of excitement to watch?" Lei Meng carried forward the spirit of democracy and asked.

"Just take a look." Everyone was interested.

When I got closer, I found that the scene was bigger than I imagined, not only the idlers who watched the excitement, but also a large number of officers and soldiers, under a magnificent umbrella, sitting on the top of the official wearing flowers and feathers, Liu Yan straightened his eyes, saw the mendging uniform on the official's chest embroidered with brocade chicken, and knew that this was Lin Huaiyuan's top boss, the governor of Jiangdong.

The church was surrounded by Qing soldiers, and dozens of people knelt in the open space in front of the door, all dressed as ordinary people, one by one their hair braids were pulled, their heads stretched forward, revealing their long necks, and behind each of them stood a red-enveloped boxer with a knife.

This is clearly an execution ground!

The governor took an arrow and threw it on the ground, and the executioners began to kill, and the knife fell, and the head fell to the ground, and the blood in the neck spurted out far away, and every time a head fell, the onlookers made an excited noise, and the people standing behind could not see the head, and screamed urgently, some climbed the branches, and some stood on the roof, and they all waited for the next head to land.

Liu Yanzhi and the others sat on horses, with a wide field of vision and a clear view, this kind of slaughtering execution made them feel bloody and disgusting.

"Let's go, it's the parishioners who are killed." Liu Yanzhi said that the history education he received before his departure was still useful, and he was very clear about the current situation in China in 1900, and that the parishioners who were protected by the foreigners' churches had repeatedly clashed with the local people, resulting in lesson plans, and it could be said that these people deserved their crimes and did not deserve sympathy.

Everyone was about to continue on their way, when suddenly a terrible cry of a young child came, Liu Yan looked straight over, but saw a foreigner couple escorted out of the church, and the woman was still holding a two-year-old child in her arms, blonde hair and blue eyes, very cute.

There was a river of blood in front of the church, and the foreign priest was not afraid, and kept making a cross on his chest, and the executioner pressed him to the ground, and the knife fell from his hand, but the craftsmanship was almost hot, the long knife was embedded in the shoulder blade, and the blood flowed, and the onlookers erupted into more fanatical shouts, and the executioner probably did it on purpose, and chopped three or four more knives, and finally almost cut off the priest's head with a blunt knife, and then pulled his hair and raised it high, and the fresh human head came to life.

The executioner grinned proudly, revealing a mouth full of yellow teeth.

The foreign woman witnessed her husband's execution, but she did not weep, but covered the child's eyes with her hands, and said something loudly to the governor.

She said that she was not proficient in Chinese, which meant that she and her husband were building a church here to heal the sick of the people, and that they had no merit in doing anything, and that the adults were invited to kill themselves in the face of God, but to spare the children's lives.

There was an interpreter next to the governor, who translated the words of the foreign woman, and the adult really opened the net, waved his hand expressionlessly, and Goshha beside him ran forward with a waist knife, and ordered the officers and soldiers to drive the foreign woman back to the church, and a group of boxers with red turbans surrounded them, piled up firewood and grass around the church, and some people brought iron oil drums and poured kerosene on the firewood and grass.

Some people rushed out of the church, full of old and weak women and children who believed in religion, but they were all stopped by the officers and soldiers, and a big man walked towards the firewood and grass with a torch in his hand, ready to set it on fire.

"What should I do?" As soon as Liu Yan spoke directly, he realized that his voice was trembling.

Lei Meng and the other three were also shocked by the terrifying scene, they were outsiders, and they didn't know what had happened before, so that the contradictions between the two sides were so deep that they had to be bloodied to relieve their hatred, but killing women and children was a cowardly act that could never be tolerated.

"Help!" Lei screamed, drew his sword and rushed over.

Liu Yan took out his pistol and followed, although Zhang Wenbo and Guo Yuhang were a little worried that the enemy would be strong and we would suffer a big loss, they still followed hard.

Liu Yanzhi's marksmanship is accurate, and he can still shoot 100 shots on the back of a galloping horse, and he raises his hand to shoot, and the wrist of the man who is about to set fire is pierced.

The officers and soldiers around the stands raised their knives and guns and shouted at the top of their voices: "Protect your lordship!" "They have a lot of weapons, including knives, guns, iron rulers, bows and arrows, shotguns, firearms, and a small number of imported foreign guns.

But it soon became clear that the spoilers were only four cavalrymen, and they were wearing military robes, and the commander of the pacesetter battalion under the governor raised the reins and asked loudly: "Which battalion are you waiting for?" ”

There are a lot of soldiers and horses stationed around Omifu, including Shui Yong, the commander of the Huaijiang Naval Division, the Eight Banners of the Omi General Army, the Green Battalion Soldiers, Lian Yong, and the pacesetters raised by various yamen.

As soon as the general words came out, Liu Yanzhi's horse's head had already collided, he didn't want to kill innocents indiscriminately, so he turned the horse's head a little, waved the knife and cut it down, and the back of the knife fell on the cool hat of the general manager, smashing him off the horse.

The governor was furious, tore away Goshha, who was standing in his way, and ordered: "Take it for me!" ”

"Your Excellency, just look at it!" The Boxer brother standing in the audience put the whip around his neck in a dashing manner, bit the tip of the whip in his mouth, neatly took off his coat, bare his body, and rushed forward with a big knife.

Liu Yan recognized that this person was Huang Banya, who had tortured and killed the priest just now, and hated him for his cruel methods, so he slapped his horse forward, and the waist knife forged from stainless steel drew an arc, and the senior brother saw that his legs continued to run forward, but his upper body fell into the dust.

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