On this day, Cai Ye explained his thoughts and situation to Xiao Fengxian and Pan, and said: "I don't care about life and death, I have to escape from the bondage." ”

Xiao Fengxian was not shocked, and immediately decided to live and die with Cai Yi. On the spot, she actually bit her tongue and dripped blood on the couplet that Cai Ye gave her to show her loyalty. This move later became a good story and was known as "biting the tongue to show loyalty".

As a result, Cai Ye and Xiao Fengxian became more and more like glue. He also asked Liang Shi to buy a abandoned house of a certain squire in the former Qing Dynasty, build a large number of buildings, and threaten to build a Chinese house for Xiaofengxian everywhere.

Cai Yi's activities annoyed the original wife Liu Xiazhen even more, and the trouble became even more serious. caused Cai Yi to be annoyed and ashamed, first smashed a lot of furniture to pieces, and then added a fist to Liu Xiazhen, and the "war" in Cai's house in Cotton Hutong escalated. People say that the ugliness of the family should not be publicized, but the "war" of Cai's house has caused a storm in the city, and the government and the opposition have shaken.

Yuan Shikai couldn't stand it anymore, so he sent Wang Yitang and Zhu Qichao to mediate and persuade them. The so-called Qing officials are difficult to decide family affairs, and Wang Yitang and Zhu Qichao tried their best to speak, to no avail.

went back and reported to Yuan Shikai: "The hero is sad to pass the beauty pass, and there is a good saying among the people, which is called persuading gambling and not prostitution." ”

After hearing this, Yuan Shikai shook his head regretfully, but in the end he greatly relaxed his vigilance against Cai Yi.

Cai Ye threatened to take Xiao Fengxian home, Liu Xiazhen made even more noise, and Cai Ye shouted to take off this shrew. Mrs. Cai stood on her daughter-in-law's side from the beginning, and often counted her son's faults with a handful of snot and tears.

Sadly said that the harsh winter is coming, the weather in the north is very cold, the elderly are really unbearable, if the daughter-in-law wants to go back to her hometown, her old man will also return to the south.

In this way, Mrs. Cai and Liu Xiazhen left Beijing and went south one after another, and in this way, Cai's mother and his original wife left the land of right and wrong.

After a long time, when Cai Ye also left the tiger's mouth, the world suddenly realized that this was a bitter trick made by their mother and son, husband and wife, and Xiao Fengxian.

Cai Ye and Xiao Fengxian are together, although they are acting for Yuan Dang, but the two are still moved by their true feelings, thus deducing a moving love story. This story has been artistically processed into a movie "bosom friend" by later generations, and it has been sung for thousands of years.

Of course, that's for later.

Looking back, when Cai Ye saw those people who came to search his house, he knew at a glance that they were sent by Yuan's secret agency, the Military Police Law Enforcement Department, and he knew that it was unreasonable.

After they searched and disappeared, they immediately called Lei Zhenchun, the director of law enforcement.

The person who answered the phone replied: "The Commissioner has not gotten up yet." ”

Cai Ye was really angry, left a message to the other party, asked Lei to get up and make a phone call, and then sat at home, waiting for Lei's call.

In the evening, Lei Zhenchun called.

Cai Ye told him about the unreasonable house search of the soldiers in the morning, and Lei Zhenchun said repeatedly: "How can this be reasonable, how can it be reasonable, it is too nonsense, it must be a misunderstanding, please forgive me!"

Lei Zhenchun later explained to Cai E the reasons for this misunderstanding as follows:

Cai's residence was originally the property of He Zhongjing, a large salt merchant in Tianjin, and was managed by He's relative, surnamed Fu. He Zhongjing and Yuan Shikai are in-laws, Yuan's fourth daughter-in-law is He Zhongjing's niece, and when Cixi died, Yuan avoided trouble in Tianjin, that is, lived in He's house.

Platoon Leader Liu, who searched the house, was originally an old servant of the He family.

In the third year of Xuantong, He Zhongjing owed a huge amount of money to foreign businessmen in Tianjin, and he was almost bankrupt, and He's aunt and wife sent Liu to Beijing to store the owner of this residence, Fujia.

After many years, He died, and He's aunt and wife didn't know where to go, this old servant of the He family, from a soldier to a platoon commander, only he knew the ins and outs of this property best, and he always remembered it in his heart. Because of the loss of gambling money, he remembered this matter, so he led the troops to search the Fujia family in Xicheng Cotton Hutong.

He didn't know that the Fu family had already moved, and now it was General Cai who lived, so this scene happened.

This explanation is really unsatisfactory, since He Zhongjing is Yuan's in-laws, and He's brother He Yichen is still alive, even if he gives this Liu platoon leader a hundred leopard galls, I am afraid that he will not dare to make such a fortune.

It is not known what happened to the platoon commander Liu that Lei Zhenchun said, but someone made a scapegoat. On 17 October, a "criminal" was kidnapped and taken to the Land Temple in the western suburbs to be executed, and his crime was to break into Cai's mansion, but his name was Wu Baojun.

After this incident, it was a great thing for Cai Yi, because nothing could be found in Cai's house, so Yuan Shikai relaxed his surveillance on Cai.

Cai's escape from Beijing was dramatic, on the one hand, because he himself did not have an official account of this scene, and on the other hand, there was no relevant record of the official history, so it was rumored by the people into various versions, the following examples are given:

First, Cai had a banquet in the private mansion one day, deliberately threatening to accept Xiao Fengxian as a concubine, Mrs. Cai was also present, drunk, Mrs. was angry and criticized Cai, and the two fought outdoors, so they discussed divorce.

The lady asked for clothes and belongings and moved to live in Tianjin. Cai lived alone in Beijing, and was even more debauched, and everyone mistook Cai for being a gentleman.

A few days later, General Cai and his friends went to the Chang'an Restaurant, and the flying note summoned Xiao Fengxian to drink drunk, Cai exhaled abdominal pain, and then went to the toilet to "urinate".

The guests thought that Cai had returned home drunk, but at dawn, the people who monitored Cai found that Cai had not returned home and was not at Xiaofengxian, so they learned that Cai had taken a night train to Tianjin.

Second, a colleague surnamed Kazakhstan congratulated his parents on their birthdays, and Cai Yi went to congratulate him, participated in the provincial war, and fought all night.

It ended at seven o'clock in the morning, and Cai was defeated. So Cai went out of the side door of the Ha house and went straight into the Xinhua Palace.

The surveillance personnel sent by the Yuan Party stayed up all night in the Ha Zhai, and when they saw Cai Ye dragging his staggering steps into the palace, they completely lost their vigilance, and stayed up all night sleepy and slept at the communication office.

Cai Ye stopped in the office for a while, secretly spied that the watchmen had fallen asleep, and then went out of the Xiwan Gate from the political hall. disguised as a rickshaw driver, he went to the train station. I bought a third-class ticket, mixed in the third-class carriage, and escaped to Tianjin safely.

Third: Since late October, Cai has often said that he is on sick leave and does not go to work, and soon took the opportunity to travel with Xiao Fengxian by car and slipped to the East Railway Station.

Liang Qichao had already sent Cao Fu to buy two third-class tickets to wait at the station, before Cai got on the train, Cao Fu secretly stuffed a ticket into Cai's hand, and the two pretended not to know each other on the car.

There is also a version that is much more mysterious. It is said that Cai Ye is not an ordinary person, he is the lower realm of Wuqu Star in the sky, and he is a toad sent by God to punish Yuan Shikai, the "Ten Evils of the West Mountain" in the troubled world.

It is said that after Cai Ye sent the old lady and his wife away, he tried many ways but failed. On this day, I sat in front of the desk and thought hard about a good plan, fell asleep unconsciously, and woke up when I was already in Liang Qichao's house in Tianjin. This version does round out some of the theories, such as, why is there no official account of this scene himself? It's because he doesn't know how he got to Tianjin. Why did he die soon after the end of the battle to protect the country, it was because he completed the task and returned to heaven to restore his life. There is also a problem with this version, hasn't Heavenly Court always been the leader of the Jade Emperor? I haven't heard that Heavenly Court is engaged in a constitutional monarchy or a republic, how can it send immortals to maintain the republic on earth?

The closer to the facts and the reliable statement is this: Cai has two wives, Liu and Pan, Liu Xiazhen is from Wugang, Cai is only eight years old Liu came to Cai's house as a child daughter-in-law. In the first year of the Republic of China, Cai was thirty-one years old and served as the governor of Yunnan, and in October, the Napan clan was the side room.

Cai was transferred from Yunnan to Beijing, that is, he accompanied the Pan family, and only a year later did he welcome Mrs. Tai and Liu to Beijing.

Mrs. Pan gave birth to the eldest boy Kun in Beijing on June 27 of the third year of the Republic of China (the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar).

Before Cai's house in Cotton Hutong was searched, Cai's wife was intolerant of cold because she lived in Beijing, and Cai Nai ordered Zhang Jieshou to escort Wang Banqiao to the south. After Cai's house was searched, Mrs. Liu was ordered to return to her mother with her son.

In November, Cai was also admitted to the Republic Hospital in Tianjin under the pretext of illness. When the Hongxian Empire was in full swing, Cai was still treating patients at the Japanese Republic Hospital in Tianjin. At the end of the month, Yuan sent people to Tianjin to visit Cai's illness, and at the same time stepped up the dispatch of spies to monitor Cai. In order to dispel Yuan's suspicions, Cai returned to Beijing on the day Yuan ordered to be proclaimed emperor.

Cai Yi's return to Beijing this time disturbed Yuan Dang's ears and eyes, and also greatly confused Yuan Shikai.

On December 1, Cai Kai roamed with Xiaofengxian, then slipped to Beijing's East Railway Station, quietly got on the third-class train, and arrived in Tianjin silently.

After Cai left, the people who were monitoring Cai hurriedly reported to Lei Zhenchun, the head of the Military Administration and Law Enforcement Division, and Lei immediately reported to Yuan. Yuan Nai sent Jiang Fangzhen to visit Cai at the Republic Hospital in Tianjin, hoping that Cai would return to Beijing as soon as possible. Cai gave the doctor's medical certificate to Chiang to bring back to prove his condition.

Cai went to Tianjin this time because he was determined to leave Tianjin and did not plan to return to Beijing, so after arriving in Tianjin, he sent He Pengxiang to accompany Cai's wife Pan Shi to leave Tianjin to **, and then went to Liang Qichao's apartment to say goodbye.

Before leaving, Cai E said tragically: "This time to maintain the national system, the great responsibility falls on the teacher and me, what about success, I don't want any status, go back to do our learning." If you fail, you will become a benevolent, no matter what, you will not run to the concession, and you will not run to foreign countries! ”

Cai E also wrote in a letter to his friend Ding Huaijin (Shi Sheng): "With the heart of a bodhisattva and the means of thunderbolts, I am in a troubled world today, and if we believe that there is no rebellion in our moral conscience, we should be bold and careless, and the so-called should be both merciful and happy." ”

On the evening of December 2, Cai E changed his name in a kimono and went to Japan on the Japanese merchant ship Shandong Maru.

Before leaving, he left a letter to Yuan to ask for leave, saying that he was going to Japan for medical treatment, and after arriving in Yokohama, he also wrote to Yuan to report the situation of Dongdu for medical treatment.

At the same time, he wrote several postcards in advance and handed them to Zhang Xiaozhun, telling Zhang to travel all over Japan, and send a postcard to Yuan Shikai everywhere he went, to show that Cai Ye was roaming around Japan.

When some of these postcards arrived in Yuan's hands, and some were still on the way, Cai Ye had already passed from Japan to Yunnan along the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway.