Beijing had long since fallen, and the Empress Dowager Cixi, on her way to Shanxi, called Li Hongzhang, meaning that the imperial court "no longer remotely" and that Li Hongzhang could "act cheaply".

Originally, the troops of the Eight-Nation Coalition had reached Shanxi, although the attack was blocked, but Yu Wei still made the imperial court restless, and Cixi issued two edicts to punish the culprits, and the coalition forces did not buy it at all.

However, a sudden incident caused great uneasiness to the coalition forces, that is, Russia's increasing pressure on China, and this time, Russia dispatched troops second only to Japan. At this time, Russia suddenly announced the supervision of the three eastern provinces, which made the other countries of Britain and the United States panic, they all realized that defeating the Qing court, and eating a fat Russia was obviously not the purpose of this military dispatch, so they also took the initiative to give up the idea of arresting Cixi and immediately negotiated.

At this time, the imperial court also seized the opportunity to severely punish twelve ministers of the main war faction, such as Zaiyi and Yuxian, so the two sides entered the negotiation stage, and finally signed the "Xinchou Peace Treaty", which is also known as the "Xinchou Treaty".

The "Treaty" stipulated that China would apologize and compensate other countries, that the provinces participating in the Boxer Rebellion should suspend scientific expeditions for five years, that the Dagu Fort should be dismantled, and that many other provisions would be made.

But the most impressive thing is that the indemnity of 450 million taels of silver, plus interest, China needs to pay a total of 980 million taels of silver in 11 years. And such an indemnity is calculated by one tael per capita, which is an insult in itself, and even before and after World War I, China has not fully paid it off.

The foreigners have different uses for the indemnity, and they are naturally happy to fill their own pockets, but some are not. For example, the Americans used indemnity money to establish Tsinghua University and Union Hospital, but if you think about it carefully, the proportion of students from each province admitted by Tsinghua University is also different, and the number of places in the provinces where the Boxers were the most violent back then was even smaller, which is probably related to this.

Qin Zhihong discussed with Lian'er that although the capital is the core of China, the situation is turbulent and it is not a place to live for a long time, so he has the heart to leave.

Just before the Qing government returned to the capital, Qin Zhihong said goodbye to Boss Wang with Lian'er and left for SD.

And in this catastrophe, Zhao Sanduo, the master of HB, was finally arrested because he participated in Jing Tingbin's uprising. But Zhao Sanduo was very dignified, swore not to eat the food that came to him, went on a hunger strike for seven days, and starved to death in prison. Qin Zhihong passed by CZ, and after getting the news, he couldn't help but burst into tears, thinking about two years ago, Uncle Cousin, Brother Yu, Brother Wang, and Monk Benming were in high spirits, and Master Zhao San had been in the armor for many years, and he was still fierce, but now, in just two years, he is no longer alive. Thinking of this, Qin Zhihong couldn't help but feel like a different world, and Lian'er couldn't be sad and angry?

Fortunately, soon the two of them arrived at GT Master Yang's house and saw Master Yang, Qin Zhihong really had mixed feelings, and Master Yang was very happy to see Qin Zhihong and Lian'er, because he thought more than once that the two would have accidents in the war, and now it is a great joy to see the two of them safe and sound.

Ziyi also happily didn't ask her father, so she came out to see her "fiancé" Qin Zhihong, and Lian'er was even more overjoyed to see Ziyi, and her previous worries were melted away at once. Qin Zhihonghe described his encounter in the capital to Master Yang in detail, but he did not mention anything about the "Records of the Green Bag", not that he couldn't trust this father-in-law, but that he felt that Master Yang was an official of the previous dynasty after all, and he was afraid that he would be unhappy if he knew that he had inadvertently obtained the collection of Wenyuan Pavilion.

The next day, Qin Zhihong said goodbye to Master Yang, Master Yang was very puzzled, he didn't know where he was going, Qin Zhihong said:

"Master, I've been out for more than a year, although I haven't achieved anything, but I have indeed experienced a lot, and now my mother is still at a relative's house in ZP County, I haven't seen her for three years, I want to go back to see the old man."

When Master Yang heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, and Qin Zhihong continued: "More importantly, the matter of marriage must also be decided by the elderly, and this etiquette cannot be abolished, so this time I will go back by myself and let Lian'er stay at home, and after my mother agrees, I will come to marry immediately." ”

Master Yang stroked his beard and laughed, and said: "Your kid is the same as when I was young, and you don't want to start a family until the end." At that time, I was also full of ambition and felt that I had great ability, so I didn't think about starting a family, and later encountered setbacks and became discouraged, so I married Ziyi's mother. Saying that, Old Man Yang laughed again.

However, it is said that Qin Zhihong has great ambitions, but he does promote him, although he has a little backbone when he follows Zhu Honglan and Nie Shicheng, but it is good to say that he was infected by these heroes, and his masculinity came out vigorously, and then he felt that he was too ridiculous at that time; It's not good, it's just that it was forced by the shape at the time and was driven to the shelves.

Qin Zhihong cried on both sides of the strait along the way, and he arrived at ZP and saw his mother Jia, although there were a few thatched houses, but he was relieved to see that his mother had not been wronged. And their family is also pinned on relatives, as for what relatives, Qin Zhihong can't tell, but he knows that it is a family surnamed Xu. It is said that in the early years, his ancestor had helped the ancestor of the family when he was in Yuyao, and later funded him, so the ancestor of the Xu family swore that he would definitely instruct his children and grandchildren that if they met the Qin family in Yuyao, they would do their best to repay.

So the two families are also commensurate with each other, the children of the Xu family abide by the ancestral teachings and treat the Qin family as parents, Qin Zhihong saw a family member send dumplings to Qin's mother, but when Qin Zhihong went back to send dishes and chopsticks, he found that their family was a nest to eat, just drank some dumpling soup.

Qin Zhihong was so moved, thinking that in the world, there can be people who can benefit from you, and it is good to say good things for you, not to mention that there are people who want to get rich and kill people and sell goods; And there are even fewer people who know how to repay their kindness, and this kind of Cheng dù who is so grateful and repayable, it can be said that how many people can there be in the world? Moreover, the whole family agreed without objection, and when they saw Qin Zhihong, they asked for warmth, for fear that they would not take good care of them and were sincerely afraid.

At the beginning of the period, when Qin Zhihong left Hedong Village, he just settled here with his own family, and he didn't know what the Xu family was like.

Although the Xu family has everything they have for the Qin family, after all, it is only a small household in Hedong Village, with only a dozen acres of thin fields, and they have mortgaged nearly half of the land to a family in the village who resells medicinal materials, that is, the Zhang family, the big family of this Zhuangzi, and the Xu family owes the Zhang family a lot of grain in order to take care of the Qin family, and the interest is high.

Originally, how could the Xu family let the Qin family know about these things, but the eldest son of the Xu family was named Xu Wende, Qin Zhihong returned to Hedong Village, he was familiar with it, and Qin Zhihong also knew these things in the idle chat.

Fortunately, he made a lot of money in the capital, and when he set off from GT, Master Yang sent someone to follow him to see Qin's mother, but Qin Zhihong just refused, and Old Man Yang couldn't, so he had to give him a lot of entanglements, which was regarded as a meeting gift to Qin's mother.

And when he returned home, Qin Zhihong naturally handed over these silver deposits to his mother, who had been in Hedong Village for several years, and knew that there should be grain deposits in the famine year, so she was reluctant to spend these silver taels, but Qin Zhihong told her that the Xu family was in debt in order to take care of the Qin family, and was also entangled in usury, Qin's mother immediately took out the package of the silver deposits, and said:

"Son, although our ancestors are kind to the Xu family, but we can't be so ignorant, my mother is a woman's family, and it is inconvenient to show up, you take it and look at it, there is only one, you must not let the Xu family suffer!"

Although these words were kind, they were extremely majestic, Qin Zhihong immediately nodded, and went to Xu's house with the silver taels.

When Qin Zhihong explained his intentions, took out the silver taels, and asked the Xu family to pay off the Zhang family's debts, Xu Wende was very excited, but Xu Wende's father glared at Xu Wende, and without saying a word, he slapped it with a slap, the sound was extremely loud, Xu Wende didn't react at once, he was stunned, and a deep palm print suddenly appeared on his face.

Qin Zhihong didn't know the reason, so he hurriedly stopped Master Xu and said:

"Uncle, what are you doing, why are you beating Wende?"

Master Xu ignored Qin Zhihong, and still said to Xu Wende angrily: "I said you don't talk nonsense, but you just don't listen, this time our Xu family's face has been lost to you!" Get back to the back room and kneel, and see if I don't beat you to death at night!" Just go! ”

When Qin Zhihong heard this, he couldn't help but be horrified, daring to feel that Wende would have to be beaten severely at night, so he hurriedly persuaded:

"Uncle Xu, you can't blame Wende, I have been wandering the rivers and lakes for many years, I haven't seen anyone, I can hear what the other party thinks in a few words, Wende didn't tell me, I guessed it."

When Master Xu heard this, he thought to himself, it's not false, but it was also in Wende's fork, and he still didn't forgive him in his tone, but he turned to Qin Zhihong and said earnestly:

"Young master, don't you know this, my father was rescued by your grandfather back then, and told me what happened. At that time, it was a severe winter with heavy snow, young master, you may not know the winter in the south of the Yangtze River, although it is not as cold as the north, but once the weather is cold and humid, the limbs are very easy to ossify. ”

So Qin Zhihong carefully stood up and talked about the two ancestral families, only to hear Master Xu continue:

"At that time, my father was doing business in the south, and he had no money to return to, and he was penniless and had nowhere to stay, so he had to sleep on the streets, but that night was extremely cold and he was frozen on the street. Passers-by don't want to care, after your grandfather passed by, he immediately took my father back, and Mrs. Qin massaged my father's whole body with snow water, and finally rubbed it for four hours, and finally saved my father, and Mrs. Qin's hands also had chilblains, and finally almost amputated in order to save his life. ”

At this time, Master Xu was a little excited, and continued: "Young Master Qin, what kind of kindness do you say this is, without the heart of a Bodhisattva, will you do this?" ”

Of course, Qin Zhihong knew that people who were frozen should be rubbed with snow, and should not be washed with warm water or roasted immediately, because they would definitely die. But this is the first time he has heard these things, and he has never heard from his grandfather.

At this time, Xu Wende also crawled out and said, "Dad, I was wrong, you beat me, I shouldn't let Brother Qin know about our family, you can beat me!" ”

At this time, Master Xu was about to make a move again, Qin Zhihong's eyes were quick, and he immediately stopped and said, "Later, I haven't heard what happened later......

As soon as Master Xu heard Qin Xiao ask him, he stopped his hand and said, "Later, your father cured a kind of medicinal wine, and the old man took it both inside and outside, and the chilblains were actually cured." ”

Qin Zhihong knew as soon as he heard it, it must be the medicinal wine in the medicinal gourd prepared by his own family, but it takes five years to configure, and his grandfather must have suffered a lot in these five years, but in exchange for the Qin family to finally be able to gain a foothold in Hedong Village and survive, Qin Zhihong admires his grandfather very much at this moment. However, he suddenly remembered the "Green Capsule Testament" he had gotten, and thought to himself that if he had known the recipe for the Seven Spirits Flower Scatter, his grandfather might have been fine a long time ago, and the effect of the blood wine was like a cloud compared to the Seven Spirit Flower Scatter. At this time, Qin Zhihong suddenly had an idea, and the "Green Capsule Testament" was in his hand, and the original book was already hidden in the aggravated and hidden place, so he could take out the copy he copied and do a big job.