"Xiao Gong is here to ask me for this month's book debt?"

Zhu Fangsheng sat on the chair and asked with a smile.

Zhang Yuanji sat in the chair opposite, looking at the twelve-year-old boy in front of him who was smiling and groaning, he came to Hawaii to see this Zhu Fangsheng, but he never imagined that it would be a meeting under such a situation.

Today's experience on the island is like a marquee in Zhang Yuanji's heart: the full expectation when he went to the island in the early morning, the surprise and puzzlement when he heard Zhu Fangsheng go to be a lawyer, the passionate generosity of Zhu Fangsheng's court statement, the madness after everyone in the court knew that he lost the case, and the fierce struggle between the clansmen and the colonial government from a distance in the restaurant, until the suppression and pursuit in the evening of the afternoon. Zhang Yuanji felt that the experience of this day was really like a dream, and it was even more dreamlike than the reform of the law that day. At the same time, Zhang Yuanji's heart was even more bitter and bitter, and all kinds of flavors were surging.

Hearing Zhu Fangsheng's questioning with a smile at the moment, he couldn't help but feel angry in his heart, how many people's lives had been lost because of his words, and he could still laugh at the moment? didn't wait for this anger to come out, as soon as he looked up and saw the full gauze wrapped in Zhu Fangsheng's left hand, he sighed again in his heart, and the anger in his chest seemed to be poured with ice water, and it was extinguished.

"Now that you're like this, how are you going to end up?" Without waiting for Zhu Fangsheng to answer, Zhang Yuanji said to himself: "It's better to find a boat, you can go back to Shanghai with me, you are proficient in Western studies, and you can do a lot to serve the country when you go back." ”

I didn't want Zhu Fangsheng to hear this, so he couldn't stop laughing, and after a while, he stopped laughing and said to Zhang Yuanji: "Xiao Gong's intentions, I Zhu Qiu have it." But I can't go back to this homeland now. Xiao Gong is a believer, I don't have to hide it, Xiao Gong knows, who is my surname Zhu? Zhu Fangsheng paused, and then said flutteringly: "My ancestor is the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Gong, who was defeated and fled by the Ming Dynasty!" After speaking, he looked at Zhang Yuanji with a smile and asked, "I don't know what Xiao Gong thinks, at this time when the Qing Dynasty is in turmoil, can I return to the country?" ”

Zhang Yuanji felt that the rabbit was falling on this day, which was extremely shocking, but compared to the news he heard now, it was an ordinary thing.

He was stunned, and suddenly Huo stood up, pointed at Zhu Fangsheng in front of him, his mouth was interrupted, and he couldn't even say a word: "You, you, you...... Yes, yes...... Cinnabar...... Bright...... Cinnabar...... Ming ......"

When Zhu Qiu saw Zhang Yuanji like this, he raised his head and laughed, not at all like a wanted sinner, nor like a twelve-year-old boy at all.

"I am Zhu Ming's remnant." Zhu Qiu said, "Xiao Gong, can you sit down and talk?" And take a sip of tea, this tea is what I have planted on this island with great difficulty, Xiaogong is everyone in the tea, how does it taste like to taste it? ”

As he spoke, Zhang Yuanji had calmed down. Once he calmed down, he couldn't help but be surprised by what he had just done.

It made Zhu Gongzi smile. Ju Shengkong has lived for forty years, and his self-cultivation efforts have still not reached home. ”

After Zhang Yuanji sighed, he picked up the tea cup on the table, opened the floating leaves with the tea lid, and took a small sip.

"The tea is not good, the bitterness is too strong." Zhang Yuanji put down the teacup and said slowly.

"Xiao Gong is really everyone, and he said it in one word. But I think it's so bitter that you can taste some of it. Zhu Qiu said: "At this moment, the old country is shaking, the people are in chaos, and it is so bitter, so I can drink with peace of mind." ”

When Zhang Yuanji heard this, he tasted it again, and sure enough, the bitter taste was breeding, like the world.

Both of them are people who have had ups and downs, and at this moment they are quietly sipping this tea, thinking about their journey through the red dust, and they can't help but fall silent.

After a while, Zhu Qiu looked at the floating green branches in the teacup, and said slowly: "Bosun and I have known each other for five years now. If it weren't for him, I would have died in Nanyang a long time ago. Since we have entered the Hanliu lineage, we have long known that there will be such a day, but we didn't expect that this day would come so quickly and so suddenly. 'Die before leaving the school, and the hero will be full of tears. Du Gongbu's poem, when I read it before, I felt that it was just a depression and frustration, but when I think of it now, it is heartbroken.

Xiao Gong may not know that the earliest origin of this translation is a covenant with Bosun. Bosun Ren Yong schemed, and he intended to unite the mountain halls in various places to raise righteous plans, but I was unable to stop him.

At that time, I told him that this country is easy to change, but the old system is difficult to change. Since the evolution of our Chinese civilization for 2,000 years, in fact, it has been difficult to get up, and it has always been nothing more than a simple replacement of chaos without shedding all the blood and entering a new life. If there is only civil strife, then it will be enough, and my Hongwu ancestor back then can also be used as a precedent. But now that all the powers are invading each other, which one is not a civilization equal to me? With such a strong enemy watching on the side, where can we calmly clean up the mountains and rivers?

The first task of today's strategy is to learn from Western learning and enlighten the people's wisdom, and it happened that at that time we met a priest of the Presbyterian Church in North America, Di Lebo, and we knew that Xiao Gong had already had this intention and had already set out to do it. Priest Di brought with him Yan Youling's translation of "Yuan Fu", and after reading it, I felt deeply, and then I began to have the idea of translating 100 Western classics.

At that time, I made an appointment with Bosun, and the day when the hundred books were completed was the time when I left a lineage in Han and raised my eyebrows to restore China. No, it's a long road, less than halfway, Bosun ......"

Zhu Qiu sighed, tears like a river, but he couldn't help himself.

Zhang Yuanji looked at this tearful teenager, this young man who was difficult to return to his homeland, and this young man who was wanted in a foreign country, and felt that those tears were so pitiful. He's only a twelve-year-old boy! Even if he is amazing, even if he is a descendant of the royal family, he is still only a twelve-year-old boy.

"Why don't you find a boat and go to the East." Zhang Yuanji comforted, "That is the place of our Orientals, and there have been many anti-Qing and Ming restoration parties over the years, you may be safer there." ”

Zhu Qiu smiled and said, "Don't hide it from Xiao Gong, the leader of the Oriental Hui Party, the one called Sun Wen, was still the guide I did when I entered the Hongmen." His temperament, I know very well, anti-Qing and Ming, but a word is not a word. Those people in the East, before the big thing is accomplished, they quarrel with each other, Xiao Gong has read all the history books, don't you think that it is a repetition of the old things in the Southern Ming Dynasty? This group of people, if they don't succeed enough and lose more than they lose, they won't be able to achieve any climate after all. Speaking of this, Zhu Qiu changed his words, and then asked, "Xiao Gong, do you think that I am at the end of my rope in Hawaii?" ”

Zhang Yuanji felt that Zhu Qiu's question was a little stupid, on the Hawaiian Islands, there were American soldiers everywhere, is there still a need to ask this question? But before he could answer, Zhu Qiu said, "I have known this day since I arrived in Hawaii five years ago. In the past five years, I have cleaned up the Hongmen, cultivated the dead, secretly formed allies, and prepared for today all the time. To tell you the truth, I've been waiting too long for this day. Xiao Gong felt that I had run out of water, but in my eyes, there was a bright willow in my eyes, and this Hawaii would change hands in an instant, and it would be the base of my Hongmen overseas. ”

Zhang Yuanji shook his head, still not convinced. just persuaded: "You are in a foreign country, you may not know that these books you translated have had a great reputation in China in the past five years, and now there is a joke among scholars: If you don't learn to cure the prescription, it is in vain to read all the poems and books." As the old saying goes, the son of a daughter can't sit down, you are a descendant of Zhu Ming, and you have such talent, why do you have to take risks and think about this kind of daydream. Wasted your talents. ”

Zhu Qiu replied: "Xiao Gong doesn't know what preparations I have made in the past five years, and it is reasonable not to believe it at this time. However, Xiao Gong is a knowledgeable person, can you know the origin of my Hanliu lineage? ”

"Fang Sheng, this is a test for me." Zhang Yuanji only thought about it for a while, and then replied: "The Han Liu's lineage was created by Zhu Ming's widows during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and there are five famous people, namely Wang Fuzhi, Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu, Fu Qingzhu, and Yin Hongsheng, which are the five ancestors of the Han Dynasty. These five people were worried that the power of the alien race, like the Meng Yuan, would make China lose its cultural roots, so they created Hanliu in order to survive and preserve the 5,000-year-old civilization of China. It's just that after more than 200 years of evolution, it has long lost its true meaning, and it is just an idle organization in the rivers and lakes. ”

"Xiao Gong is right. This is what happened to me when I first arrived in Hawaii. Zhu Qiu said softly: "At that time, if you want to say that in these five years, I can turn over the clouds and rain and make this Hawaii change hands in an instant, I don't believe it."

Hongmen was derived from Hanliu, but lost the original intention of Hanliu, and blindly only knew how to fight bravely and ruthlessly, and went to fight with the Qing court. Since the death of Chen Jinnan, the helmsman of the Hongmen General Hall, the Hongmen group of dragons has no leader, the gang discipline is scattered, the good and the bad are uneven, and it is even more difficult to become a big tool. But fortunately, decades ago, my ancestors of the Zhu family and the Hongmen Chen family reorganized the Hongmen in Hawaii and secretly rebuilt the Hongmen rudder. Since then, the Hongmen Chen has been on the island of Hawaii, teaching and educating people, waiting for an opportunity. Brother Siming, whom Xiao Gong saw in the early morning, was a descendant of the Hongmen Chen family.

After I came to the island, I translated Western studies and educated the doormen; On the one hand, it is to train Hongmen people in the military method, and now it has become a little successful. However, the time is too short and the strength is still far from enough, but it is not difficult to seize this Hawaiian Island. Xiao Gong is not a coincidence, but it is also a coincidence, this situation is changing, and I have to ask Xiao Gong to be a witness. This is also a tribute to me to Bethsun. ”

"What are you going to do?" When Zhang Yuanji saw Zhu Qiu say this, he knew that he had made up his mind, and it was difficult to persuade him.

Zhu Qiu smiled and asked, "What do you say, do you mean this Hawaii Island, or the homeland thousands of miles away?" ”