XXVI. The Woman in White 4

At the top of Baiwang Mountain, the third master took Shen Zongfu to find the reservoir they built. After a few words, the third master was about to go down the mountain, and the sentry came to report: "Boss, the foreigner has called."

"What? Isn't it a few days away? Shen Zongfu asked.

The sentry said, "Chief, you're halfway up the mountain. I come up from the north slope. ”

The third master was shocked, and thought: I wonder if Jia Luo has found his brother and sister-in-law, so the dragon head is still safe? He said to Shen Zongfu: "Brother Shen, I will go down the same road from the south, and the dragon head must be moved out quickly." Take care. ”

couldn't help but say, the third master went down the mountain, he was in a hurry to see the dragon head, and he had to find Meiyu. There was no trace of the path that he had walked out earlier, but Shen Zongfu's team of more than 20 people stepped on the road solidly. Such traces were naturally discovered by foreigners, and they divided several people to go up the mountain from this path. Before he was halfway up the mountain, the third master noticed that someone was climbing up below. He knew that if these people went up from the south, Shen Zongfu's team would be attacked by surprise. Although there are urgent things to be done at the foot of the mountain, the third master can only return to the top of the mountain to report the news at this time.

Those foreigners did go up the mountain from the courtyard of the medical hall. But these were Englishmen, and they didn't know anything about the dragon's head, and they didn't care what the people who were tossing around in Rose Hill were doing. Without greeting anyone from the infirmary, they began to patrol the base of the mountain.

"Gentlemen, what are you going to do?" Andrei walked over and asked.

"We're going up the mountain." Said the short GI.

"There's nothing on the mountain." Andrei said.

The GI glanced at him and said, "Tell me, is there a path up the mountain?" ”

Andrei responded angrily: "This is the medical hall, a place to treat diseases and save people." There is nothing at the top of the mountain, and the construction of the sanatorium has not yet begun. ”

Another GI excitedly ran over and said, "Found it, there's a path over there." ”

The short soldier asked Andrei, "Is that the way up the mountain?" ”

Andrei glanced at him and did not speak.

"Well, for your sake, I don't care about you. Maybe I'll have to heal myself in the future. After speaking, the short soldier led a few others up the mountain.

Andre knew that the third master was on the top of the mountain, so he chased after him to stop him, but was beaten back by one of them with **. Andrei clutched his shoulders and reluctantly retreated back to the vicinity of Mount Rose.

"Brothers, work hard, we need to get all the stones down as soon as possible." Andrei said to Gui and them.

"Gallio, are you coming back?" Agui asked.

Andrei looked at the foot of the mountain and muttered, "I hope he is doing well." ”

Jia Luo rode alone to the northeast of the Old Summer Palace, and found the "Homo Inn", but the inn was not open, and Jia Luo stepped forward to call.

"Uncle, aunt!" Gallio shouted with a boo.

"Who?" The proprietress asked alertly from the inside.

"I'm Jia Luo, Shen Jia Luo, Doctor Shen. I gave you a doctor's treatment in the ruined temple that day. Carrie responded.

"Big brother?" The hostess asked.

"Yes, it's the brother of the third master's family." Carrieu replied.

Hearing the "third master", the proprietress and the boss glanced at each other and decided to open the door.

"Oops, big brother. This army is in chaos, have you returned to Baiwang Mountain? A few days ago, we went to see that the hospital was still occupied by people fleeing the famine. The proprietress pulled Carlo into the house and quickly closed the door.

"Auntie, we just came back too. The foreigners came in, Tongzhou was not guaranteed, my sister had just given birth to a child, and we all followed the foreign doctors back to the hospital for refuge. Carrie said breathlessly.

"Oh, that's our third master's child. Is it a son or a daughter? The hostess asked.

"Boy."

"Great joy." The boss can finally interject.

"The third master asked me to come to you two." Jia Luo took the tea handed over by the proprietress, drank it dry, wiped her mouth, and continued: "The foreigners have entered the city. The third uncle asked me to invite the two of you to the foot of the Rose Mountain to protect the dragon's head. The third uncle is worried that if it is later, I am afraid that if the foreigners occupy the medical hall, the dragon head will not be guaranteed. ”

"What about the third master?" The boss asked.

"Isn't this the army of the eight countries all coming in, each of them has their own minds, some want to take the dragon's head, and some want territory. Then the British are about to occupy Baiwang Mountain, and the third uncle will take my father's team to the top. They are to defend the Baiwang Mountain. It is the commanding heights of the capital, and it must not be lost to foreigners. The third uncle has no skills, so he asked me to find out about the dragon's head. He still has to go into the city to find Sister Meiyu. Carlevo said.

The proprietress leaned out and asked, "What's wrong with Meiyu?" ”

"Hey! Sister Meiyu, in order to save everyone, she went with these escapees. After the third uncle took my father's team to the top, he would go down the mountain to find her. So, I'm the only one who can ask you two to help you get the dragon's head. ”

"Oops, poor Miyu." The proprietress sighed, she didn't dare to think about what might happen to Meiyu. I held back my tears and didn't let them out.

"Little brother, let's go now." The boss walked around the counter and walked out as he spoke.

The proprietress also followed.

"The third master hasn't fought before? He took your father's team to the top? The boss then asked.

"Uncle, now that everyone is a soldier, it doesn't matter if they have fought or not. Rose Mountain is already breaking ground, and with the help of a few of our family's workers, we can finish moving the stones in the afternoon, and we can dig and take out the dragon's head in the evening. Caryo mounted her horse and began to run.

In this way, in Baiwang Mountain, the third master and Shen Zongfu were preparing for the upcoming bloody battle on the top of the mountain, Jia Luo and a few were digging Rose Mountain at the foot of the mountain to welcome the dragon head that was about to be revealed, and Jia Rou and her mother were accompanying the newborn life in the medical hall.

Aikman went to Dongjiaomin Lane to bring rescue soldiers, but the men were too busy cleaning up their messes that no one listened to him tell the story of a Chinese girl.

"He saved all the doctors in our Nine National Medical Center." Aikman yelled.

"She's a good girl, but now that the Eight-Nation Coalition is busy occupying Beijing, who would understand sending troops to save a Chinese girl? Our soldiers are here to fight the enemy, not to save the enemy. A French minister said coldly and expressionlessly.

"She's not an enemy, she's a benefactor." Aikman raised his hands excitedly, waving.

"By the way, my lady has been very unwell these days, can you help me take a look?" The French minister asked.

"I'm a doctor, and you know I have to go. But I still want you to send someone to rescue that girl. Well, two days ago, did an Indian-looking doctor come here to ask for help? "Ekman wanted to hear from him.

"Dongjiaomin Lane has just been relieved, and no one can enter here two days ago." The French minister waved his hand and said.

Aikman sighed, reluctantly returned to his professional status as a doctor, and asked, "What's wrong with your wife?" I'll take a look. ”

"Oh, dear doctor, she's had a sore ear for a few days." The French minister wrote.

"Have you started to have a fever?" Aikman asked.

"Yes, you're a miracle doctor, you know the symptoms before you even see it. She has had a fever for several days. Please, I want to thank you so much, even though that girl, I still can't do anything. Next time, the next time something happens, just tell me. The French minister folded his hands and thanked Aikmann.

Aikman helped the minister's wife to do a check-up, and instructed her to take the medicine later, and then went back to Baiwang Mountain.

Bo Jia did come to Dongjiaomin Lane first, he used to go here often for medical treatment, and he was familiar with the surrounding terrain. It was not easy to find Dongjiaomin Lane from Tongzhou, and he followed a group of German soldiers into the city. When the sun set when they passed through Dongbianmen, they went straight to Dongjiaomin Lane. There was a street battle going on, and he heard from the German soldiers that he would not be able to calm down for a while, and he did not want to waste time, so he continued westward on his own.

"Brother, the east is already under our control, but the west is not our place yet. You'd better stay with us and don't run around. The German soldier said.

"So she should be there, she must be in those most chaotic places." Bo Jia said firmly.

"Are you going to die?!" The German soldiers excitedly dissuaded him.

In the huge Beijing, you can imagine how difficult it is to find a person who has been hidden. Bo Jia had no clue, he didn't know anything about the place outside of Dongjiaomin Lane. But the longing and pursuit of his lover made him extremely brave all the way to the west.

Perhaps God was moved by him, and gave him a little clarity in his thoughts, which were confused by exhaustion and anxiety. Bo Jia suddenly remembered, and on the road, he heard someone mention, "There is a female Bodhisattva coming out of the door of the Tongzhou mansion." "So, follow this clue.

But he can't pull the uncle and aunt on the street to ask anything, but the Bodhisattva is used to worship, so go to the place with the most people, although this is extremely dangerous, but as long as he can find Meiyu as soon as possible, Uncle Jia is not caring for his own safety.

After entering Xicheng, Bo Jia did not dare to move around during the day, hid in the small forest on the side of the road, and drank some water from the pit on the side of the road when he was thirsty. In the evening, when there are fewer people on the streets, rush again. The next morning, it was slightly cool, and the uncle who was hiding on the side of the road heard the conversation between the two aunts.

"Hurry up, you'll have to queue up if you're late. I heard that the female Bodhisattva was able to achieve enlightenment, so she asked for what she wanted. One said.

"Heavenly immortals descend to earth. Dressed in white, that's called a beautiful one. Another said.

"As long as she looks at it, there is no disease."

"It is said that it is from Baiwang Mountain, and it is a fairy in the mountain."

"Let's go, first in line." The two ladies laughed and said as they hurried forward.

This information is enough for Bo Jia to confirm that the white-clothed female Bodhisattva is Meiyu. Bo Jia followed, following them into the area where Meiyu was.

"The female bodhisattva is in the backyard, and she will come out in a while." An eldest lady pointed with her finger as she spoke.

"Don't point it, it's a god, don't be disrespectful." The other lady organized affectionately and seriously.

Bo Jia looked in the direction of his finger, the wall was not high, but there were many guards standing outside the wall, and it was very strict. He was planning how to get in, but fortunately he saw a food delivery man pushing a cart past him and heading towards the back door of the house. He stepped forward in a few steps, took off the foreign watch in his hand, handed it to the man, and whispered, "Brother, this gold watch is enough to buy this mansion." ”

The man glanced at the gold foreign watch, then glanced sideways at the uncle's face, and asked in a low voice, "Are you a foreigner?" "Uncle does not look like a foreigner.

"I'm Indian. You hold this watch. In order to draw in the relationship with that person, Bo Jia switched his true identity.

"This can't be done, if you don't want foreign goods, you will die." The man shook his head, but stared at the watch.

"The Eight-Nation Alliance will enter the city immediately, and when the time comes, this thing will not be fatal. You take it and go and change the house. Bo Jia persuaded.

"What do you want me to do first?" The man took the gold watch and put it in his arms.

"I'm going in. My woman is in there, a Chinese girl. I had to get her out. Bo Jia pointed to the back door and said.

"Is that the female bodhisattva? I heard that the female bodhisattva was snatched by them, and it turned out that she was snatched from you. However, even if you are Indian, you are half a foreigner, and you are not falling into the net. As he spoke, the man took out the gold watch and returned it to the uncle.

"It's okay, you take me in." As he spoke, he went into the shed of the vegetable cart, and then showed his head and said, "We will come out like this later, and when we come out, there will be two people, but she is very thin and does not take up space." ”

"Then you gave me, this is the price of one in and one out." The coachman touched the gold watch in his arms, but decided to go on this trip.

This is how Bo Jia entered the mansion and saw the beautiful jade on the tip of his heart. The hasty meeting with Miyu gave him some peace of mind, but he didn't dare to stay away, and he stayed outside in the woods. Until gunshots rang out on the street, the queue for worship dispersed instantly, and people shouted: "The foreign devil has come in." ”

The crowd fled in a hurry, stepping out of the dust. Bo drove to dodge the shuttling crowd, staring motionlessly at the back door of the house, only to see that there were people rushing out. After a short time, she waited for Meiyu's figure, and she stepped through the threshold of the back door and entered a wide carriage. Bo got up and followed behind, not far away, sometimes hiding.

Meiyu and her mother sat in the car, listening to the chaos outside the car. The screams of women and children are creepy. From time to time, the old mother lifted the curtain of the car window and looked at the movement outside.

"Here, it's like Xishiku." The old mother put down the curtain of the car and said.

Xishiku is where Miyu grew up, and she is familiar with it.

"Let me see." Meiyu said as she lifted the curtains, "It's here, that's right." ”

The carriage came to a halt, and everyone entered a secret room. When Meiyu got out of the car, she quickly looked around, but she didn't make out her specific location, and she couldn't see the figure of the uncle. She was a little flustered, but she also sensed that Bo Jia was nearby.

Meiyu and the old mother were arranged into a small room, and the meals brought in were also very simple. In order to ease the tense atmosphere, the old mother spoke: "The girl is familiar with Xishiku? ”

Meiyu said, "I grew up here. Before he was three years old, he was sent to an orphanage in Xishiku by his brother and sister-in-law. I didn't leave here until I was ten years old and went to Baiwang Mountain. ”

The old mother said, "Where is your hometown?" ”

"Zhangjiakou Yangjiaping. When my parents died at an early age, my brother and sister-in-law sent me out. I think they're still there, but haven't been in touch. Meiyu lowered her head.

"God is fair, he let you give birth to such a good skin, and he will naturally give you some sin." The old mother sighed. "However, the girl is so handsome, why is no one rushing to propose? It stands to reason that you should have married a big family. ”

"Auntie's joke, a good skin is at most a relief for a big family." Meiyu remembered her past with the third master, and thought that the third master would not come to the rescue for many days, so she came to such a conclusion.

"Doctor Nayang is really sincere to you." The old mother saw that Meiyu was lonely and comforted.

"We were supposed to go to France together, but we were delayed by this world." Meiyu said.

"It's okay, maybe we'll be able to leave tonight." The old mother said with a smile.

"Tonight? Is this true? Miyu asked eagerly.

"The girl must save herself tonight, so as not to be injured by mistake." The eldest lady said.

"What do you mean by that?" Miyu asked.

"They'll tell you later." The eldest lady took the used tea tray and withdrew.

Then, a few days ago, the leader approached, with a smile on his face, and said to Meiyu: "Girl, oh, female Bodhisattva, you have worked hard these days. ”

Meiyu looked ahead and didn't speak.

"We have been serving you delicious food and drink these days, but it has cost a lot of silver. You have also helped us to surround a lot of people's hearts and boost a lot of morale. The leader said, and stood up.

"What do you want me to do?" Miyu asked solemnly.

"Tonight, I will lift you to a high place, and the girl doesn't have to say anything, just stand on it."

"What are you going to do with me?" Miyu continued to ask.

"Naturally, please boost your morale, and you can just listen to our command at night." With that, the leader saluted Meiyu and turned to go out.

The leader walked on the front foot, and the old mother brought in a table of light and lovely refreshments. They knew that Meiyu was eating delicately, so they deliberately made her happy. Meiyu asked the old mother: "Why is it so grand today?" She was so nervous that she wondered if she was going to see herself off.

"It's said that there was a tough battle in the evening, and I expect you to boost morale." The old mother said.

"I'm going to the front?" Meiyu muttered to herself.

"I'm afraid I want it. Girl, you have to be careful. The old mother said with a bitter face.

"I've gone from being a nurse to a warrior." Meiyu laughed at herself, "Auntie, actually, I'm actually quite scared." ”

"Girl in her teens this year?" The eldest lady asked.

"Seventeen."

The eldest mother's heart tightened, she lamented in her heart that she was in the mood for such a flower, but she didn't dare to say it, she only turned around and swallowed her tears into her stomach.

At night, Meiyu was put on a sedan chair and swayed forward. There was still the sound of burning and looting along the road, but the more I walked, the more children cried.

"How can there be so many children crying?" Meiyu was very puzzled, guessing that it was not an orphanage, she raised her hand to lift the curtain of the car window and looked out. Torches flickered everywhere outside the car, but it also lit up the dark night. Meiyu recognized that this was indeed the path near the orphanage.

The orphanage was home to a large number of Chinese orphans who had been held hostage by German and British soldiers to blackmail the deserters into exiting Xishiku.

"Bodhisattva, you wait until you go up to the high platform, you don't need to say anything, we will shout below: The Bodhisattva has appeared, brothers rush." The leader said.

"Where are you going?" Miyu asked, her eyes wide.

"The orphanage. We've got to get those foreigners out of the orphanage. ”

"What about the orphans?" Mitama asked.

"Bodhisattva, can you fight without casualties? Hurting a few can save more. The leader said.

Meiyu secretly felt sad: "Are all the children that no one wants to be sacrificed?" Just like yourself. At present, only Bojia will come to the rescue. ”

The old mother handed over a red robe with a hat and put it on for Meiyu. The inside of the red robe was bright blue, and Meiyu glanced at it and remembered it.

The high platform was far higher than the walls of the orphanage. Meiyu climbed up step by step, until she reached the top, and she clearly saw the orphans in the courtyard, who had stopped crying and were curled up and sleeping with their grandmothers. They were so quiet, perhaps because of the exhaustion and fright of the past few days, that the young body could no longer support it. The Germans and British soldiers, carrying guns, a few of them stood and patrolled, and a few of them sat on the ground and dozed off. In the corner of the courtyard, there was a white cloth, and what was covered under the white cloth looked like it should be large and small corpses.

The tranquility in the yard is even more anxious compared to the fire outside the yard. Meiyu stood on a high place, she felt that she should be a big bird with wings spread, and she should protect the children with her arms, so as not to disturb their rare moment of peace.

Miyu was already illuminated by the torches below. I heard someone shouting, "The Living Bodhisattva has appeared." The crowd gathered in Xishiku looked up at her, and many people immediately knelt down.

The GIs in the courtyard also noticed the miracle that suddenly appeared overhead, and they immediately took up arms, woke the children, and ordered them to keep their heads down and not to move. The startled children began to cry again, and the GIs shouted at them to shut up. The smaller child couldn't stand it, lying on the body of the orphanage nanny and crying hard, the foreign soldier poked his head hard with **, and an old mother used her body to protect the child, and immediately, the mother was beaten and vomited a mouthful of blood. Meiyu recognized that it was the grandmother who took care of her growing up. She knew that without the old mother's protection, the child would have died.

Frightened and angry, Miyu trembled and grabbed her red cloak. For a moment, she remembered that the inside of the cloak was bright blue. I don't know where the power came from, she took off her cloak, quickly turned it over, exposed the bright blue to the outside, and with her white dress, Meiyu turned herself into the Virgin Mary.

In the courtyard, the crowd outside the courtyard saw the apparition of the Virgin Mary, and they fell silent for a moment.

Witnessing everything from a distance, he realized that Miyu was going to act violently and wanted to rush over to stop it, but the crowd made him unable to move at all.

The leader below was also stunned, he didn't know what this living bodhisattva was messing with.

Meiyu was particularly quiet and tranquil against the background of her blue robe, she cleared her throat and shouted in foreign language at the highest volume: "My dear children, let these young children from the orphanage go. Go away quickly, and I'll bless you. ”

The GIs in the courtyard panicked, they looked up at Meiyu, dropped their guns, and fled in a hurry. The children and the nurses in the courtyard were on their knees and shouted: "Blessed Mary, Hail Mary!" ”

When Meiyu saw the children out of danger, she smiled heartily.

This foreign sentence repelled the foreign soldiers and angered the deserters. They couldn't understand what Meiyu was saying, they only knew that it was a foreigner's bodhisattva, speaking foreigner's words. They froze, waiting for the chieftain to give the order to kill her. The leader did not understand what was happening, but he saw the foreign soldiers running out of the orphanage. The leader shouted at his brothers: "Brothers, don't leave any of them! Annihilated them all. ”

The crowd rushed towards the foreign soldiers, the bullets flew sideways, Meiyu stood on the high platform and was about to go down, a ** hit her leg, and she stumbled; Another one hit her heart. Meiyu didn't feel pain, but she couldn't stand up, she was on the high platform, and she fell down little by little, and the slow fall made her see the figure of Bo driving towards her. Everyone was running out, but Bo was running to himself. Meiyu smiled and looked at Bo Jia, who received the eye contact that Meiyu gave him. Bo Jia shouted Meiyu's name loudly, and the call through the noisy war was heard by Meiyu vividly, it was the last call she heard from the world to her: "Meiyu!" ”

She is a stunner, and she does not belong to the world. Previously, people only said that she was good-looking and had a good skin. Since then, people have said that she is good-looking, brave and kind. Meiyu used her body to protect the orphans in the orphanage, and with such a schedule, she successfully completed her scene in the world. She retreated before everyone else, retreating to her heavenly land, which belonged only to her.

Meiyu fell directly into the orphanage from the high platform. The children were frightened silly, and several nannies cried and cried around, they didn't dare to touch it with their hands, and could only silently watch under Meiyu's hair, overflowing with a red warm current.

Bo drove through the crowd like crazy, pushed open the gate of the orphanage, and ran to the place surrounded by the nannies. He brushed aside the nannies and stood in front of Meiyu. Bo Jia trembled, at a loss. After a few moments, he leaned down and pressed Miyu's heart. He ignored the blood stains under Meiyu's hair, and kept muttering, "It's not high, the place where you fell is not high, you can live." Hurry up and get your heart back in beat! ”

Bo Jia refused to stop, until he clearly heard that he had broken Meiyu's ribs, then slowly lowered his arms, and then buried himself in Meiyu's body, crying bitterly.

The nannies pulled away the uncle, who had fallen apart, and covered Meiyu with a snow-white cloth. Bo Jia begged them not to drag Miyu into the corner where the rest of the corpses were kept, he didn't want to see Miyu really fall into that category.

"I'll bury her, I'll just leave her here, and I'll not go anywhere." Bo Jia said bitterly.

"People can't be resurrected after death, and you mourn and change. Meiyu is my eldest child, and we should be glad that she has returned to heaven. Isn't it, sir? The old woman said.

Bo Jia shook his head and said, "No, we can go to Tianjin together in a few days, and then go to France, my mother may have already set off, and she will wait for us in Paris." She had been looking forward to seeing Miyu. Then, we went back to Boston together to get married. Yes, my mother has been waiting for us to go back and get married. ”

The moment Meiyu fell, the third master on the top of Baiwang Mountain sensed it, his head suddenly became dizzy, his heart beat violently, and his heart seemed to jump out of his mouth. The third master's eyes flashed Meiyu's appearance, which was the one left by Meiyu when she passed by in the backyard of the Shen family in Tongzhou that day.