In the crowd, Duan Fang leaned against the window of the restaurant on one side, looked at Wang Zhaoming on the step from afar, and saw that the face was gradually self-conscious and colorful, and couldn't help sighing, stood up, and did not greet Fang Xiaoru, and walked towards the staircase by himself.

Seeing this, Fang Xiaoru knew that Duan Fang was exhausted, smiled lightly, took out a few pieces of broken silver from his sleeve, threw them on the table, got up and followed.

The two of them went forward and one after the other, and they didn't speak, and suddenly, Duan Fang suddenly let out a long howl, ran wildly, turned the streets and alleys, and ran a few bags of cigarettes all the time, and suddenly came to a deserted garden. Fang Xiaoru followed up the garden, took a cursory look, and saw that although the garden was already a wilderness and no longer saw the landscape of the day, from the dilapidated pattern, it could vaguely be seen that the heroic royal spirit of the year was victorious.

Duan Fang ran to the side of the ice of a lake in the garden, and then suddenly stopped, and screamed at the dead trees and ice and snow, and then let out a sad and cold breath of the end, and gradually opened up in this four wild wastelands.

Fang Xiaoru sighed secretly, knowing that Duan Fang was indignant because he saw Wang Zhaoming become famous, so he didn't comfort him, just stood quietly on the side, waiting. After a long time, Duan Fang calmed down, and suddenly, he asked, "Xigu, do you know what kind of place this is?" ”

"It looks like the site of a garden." Fang Xiaoru replied.

"This is Changchun Garden!" Duan Fang was a little remorseful, "Back then, the Holy Ancestor Emperor (Kangxi) was here all the year round, managing mountains and rivers, creating a prosperous era, and raising the prestige of our country. Now, in the hands of our unscrupulous descendants, it is already a remnant of the mountains and rivers, and the prosperity of the past is no longer there at all! ”

"It turns out that this is Changchun Garden!" Fang Xiaoru was shocked in his heart, and then looked at Siye carefully, but he couldn't find anything that could prove that this was once the center of Asia's prosperity. Changchun Garden was first built in the Ariake Dynasty, and it was called "Tsinghua Garden" at that time. Later, it was rebuilt for Kangxi as a palace. Only later, due to the decline of the Qing Dynasty, when Changchun Garden was passed to Daoguang, it was unreasonably renovated and dilapidated, and then it was repeatedly looted by the British and French.

"Seeing him raise the Zhu Building, seeing him feasting guests, seeing his building collapse," Duan Fang sighed: "I just didn't expect it, but it was my generation who suffered from this collapse!" ”

Duan Fang sighed there, but Fang Xiaoru suddenly remembered something, and couldn't help interrupting Duan Fang's rise and fall, and asked, "Now that Tsinghua Garden, is it next to it?" The U.S. Tourist Affairs Office should be right next to it, right? ”

"You know about the Tourist Affairs Office?" Duan Fang was a little surprised.

"I've been in Hawaii all these years, how can I not know?" Fang Xiaoru said with a smile, "Speaking of which, this tour art office also has a lot to do with us, since we are nearby today, Mr. Duan might as well lead me to take a look?" ”

Duan Fang was so smart, he knew what he was doing, he thought about it a little, he didn't say anything, he stopped thinking about the rise and fall, and led Fang Xiaoru to Tsinghua Garden.

Although this Tsinghua Garden has also been looted by the British and French, and there has been a righteous fist here to do the practice, but since it returned to the U.S. Affairs Office, it has been renovated by Tang Guoan and others in charge, but after all, the funds are insufficient, and only a few key points have been slightly repaired. But even so, it is much better than the Changchun Garden.

Duan Fang and Fang Xiaoru walked in the Tsinghua Garden, and saw that many places were still dilapidated, and there was no trace of people in the few places that had been repaired, and there was no sound of reading, but in the depths of the garden, there were a few cries.

The two of them looked at each other, and they both felt a little strange in their hearts, and they didn't know who it was, crying bitterly in this garden where the old and the new were stacked.

After walking a few steps deeper, he passed a moon gate, and saw a white-haired old man, sitting by a fish pond, crying bitterly.

Fang Xiaoru looked at it fixedly, and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise: "Amber, it's you?" ”

It turned out that this old man was Tang Guoan, the director of the Youmei Affairs Office. This Tang Guoan is Sun Mei's fellow villager, and he is one of the earliest children mentioned above. A few years ago, Zhu Yizhou secretly operated and urged the United States to return the Gengzi indemnity to train American students, and Tang Guoan was his principal in China. Because Hawaii is a transit place in the Pacific Ocean, when Tang Guoan escorted the first batch of Gengzi indemnity students, he went to Hawaii and visited the Chen Mansion, so he was no stranger to Zhu Fang's teenagers.

Tang Guoan heard the shout, looked up, and saw that it was Fang Xiaoru, and couldn't help but be surprised: "Xiaoru, how did you come to this capital?" ”

Before the words fell, Tang Guoan suddenly glanced at Duan Fang on the side, and was even more surprised, hurriedly stood up, and bowed to Duan Fang, "It turns out that Lord Duan is also here." ”

Halfway through this ceremony, Tang Guoan suddenly remembered the identities of the two, couldn't help but raise his head, and asked in a hissed voice, "How did you two get together?" ”

Fang Xiaoru laughed and explained to Tang Guoan: "The eldest brother brought a few of us to the capital to settle the ten-year contract, and now the grievances have been settled, the Hongqing family, why can't we be together?" ”

After speaking, Fang Xiaoru turned to ask, "What is Amber crying here?" But did you encounter any difficulties? ”

Hearing that the ten-year contract had been concluded and the Hongqing family, Tang Guoan's heart was much more settled, and he sighed, "Is the eldest prince still in the capital?" I originally planned to look for Mr. Yizhou, but if the eldest prince is here, I don't need to trouble Mr. Yizhou. ”

After a pause, Tang Guoan continued: "Originally, the tour art office has been running smoothly, because it is Gengzi refund, there is American supervision, and the yamen everywhere dare not embezzle funds, so in the past two years, I have completed the renovation of Tsinghua Park and renamed it 'Tsinghua School'. ”

After that, Tang Guoan picked up a handkerchief to wipe away the new tears from the corners of his eyes, and said: "I think of the great trust that Mr. Yizhou gave me back then, but now things have become like this, I really have a negative trust, and I can't help but ...... when I think of the pain."

After hearing this, Duan Fang snorted coldly and said lightly: "This kind of place for raising slaves, it's not a pity to close the door and close the door." Do you think the United States will return this Gengzi indemnity and use it as funds for studying abroad, right? It's just that seeing that England is now invading our financial system and Germany is dying our military system, it wants to take away my religious system and want me to be a Chinese scholar, and from now on it will be the ideology of the United States, and I will be a slave for him in the United States! ”

"At the time, people said that Master Duan was learned and skilled, but he couldn't imagine saying such unwise words!" This Tsinghua School is Tang Guoan's painstaking efforts in recent years, and naturally it cannot be easily humiliated by people: "At this moment, the country is so weak, poor and weak, as long as there are some funds, it can run the school for future young people to open a place of wisdom, and it is a blessing for the country and the people!" The lotus is beautiful, why not out of the mud? ”

Duan Fang didn't expect that Tang Guoan dared to refute himself in person, and couldn't help but be furious, and suddenly said angrily: "Tang Guoan, you are so bold!" ”

I didn't want to think at this time, Fang Xiaoru said leisurely: "Seeing that his building collapsed, seeing him rise Zhu Lou." I don't want to rebuild on the ruins of this royal garden, it is not a garden, but a place of wisdom to carry forward the past and forge ahead into the future! ”

This sentence hit Duan Fang's heart in pain, he turned his head sharply and looked at Fang Xiaoru, "What did you say?" ”

"Mr. Duan should have understood the theory of the top of the Forbidden City that day. Now is the autumn of the life and death of our Chinese Taoist system, and the dispute between middle school and Western learning will not be resolved in the next hundred years. ”

"This Tsinghua Garden is originally a royal garden, where the Chinese Taoist system is maintained; Now it has become a place to train Chinese teenagers to study abroad, don't you think, among them, it's quite interesting? ”

When Duan Fang heard this, he was slightly startled and asked, "What do you mean by this?" ”

"Today's study tour in the United States, but it is not like Amber back then, who selected a few people and immediately sent them." Fang Xiaoru smiled lightly: "Don't hide it from Mr. Duan, this Tsinghua School is actually my uncle's earliest plan, and then the eldest brother made up a lot, according to his design, Tsinghua Academy is now going to send people to study in the United States, and first prepare for eight years in the school, first consolidate the roots of Chinese learning, and then learn Western learning, so that after graduation, you can apply to study in the United States." ”

"Mr. Duan must also know very well that in my Chinese culture, there is a cohesive force, and the deeper the roots of Chinese culture, the stronger the cohesive force. Therefore, as long as the roots of the teenagers' national studies are done well, there is no need to worry about slavery! ”

Duan Fang was originally a rare erudite person among the Manchus, and when he heard Fang Xiaoru say this, he thought about it carefully in his heart, but said: "I can't imagine that you have such power in the United States to do this!" ”

Fang Xiaoru laughed, "To tell you the truth, Mr. Duan, not only will the Gengzi indemnity from the United States be used for studying abroad, but in a few years, the Gengzi indemnity from Britain, France, Germany, Russia and other countries will also be used as the capital for studying abroad." This is still taken from the people and for the people! ”

"But now, this Tsinghua Academy is no longer maintainable!" Tang Guoan sighed heavily: "The eldest prince once said that after the founding of the Republic of China, the Han Retention Hall would be set up in the Tsinghua Academy, but now the school is closed, let alone the Han Retention Pavilion!" ”

"Why bother?" Fang Xiaoru comforted: "Now that the eldest brother is in the capital, how can there be no solution?" ”

Tang Guoan high-fived, "I forgot, since the eldest prince has already planned, presumably this matter of funds will not be out of his control!" ”

"Amber is right," Fang Xiaoru said with a smile: "To tell the truth, we have accumulated some assets in the United States in the past few years, and now we are on the way, and by the end of this month, we will definitely be able to reach the city of Beijing." This asset is used for education! ”

"You're so confident!" Listening to Fang Xiaoru's words, Duan Fang couldn't help but feel a little blocked, "Zhu Chongzhen believes like this, the battle of the Forbidden City will definitely be won?" ”

"Don't Lord Duan still understand? Victory or non-victory, the Republic of China is the same, different, victory is a republic, defeat is constitutional! ”

Duan Fang was stunned when he said this, but before he could wake up, he suddenly heard a long howl flying high in the distance, Fang Xiaoru heard the whistle, his expression suddenly changed, and he hurriedly said to Tang Guoan: "Amber and a little rest, we have our help in the affairs of the school, I have some things, I have to go immediately." ”

After that, he jumped towards the long howl, and said loudly in the rush: "Mr. Duan, let's go together!" I'm afraid that someone has something to do with the Qingmen! ”