Beijing, night.

Forbidden City, Changchun Palace.

After playing the leaf card with herself, Cixi finally couldn't bear it anymore, pushed a red and green jade inlaid tooth card away, and straightened up.

A light is like a bean, and the lonely shadow is swaying, silent.

This is the most unbearable time of the day for the young queen mother. No matter how "raised by the world", no matter how much you say anything in the court during the day, every day at this time, you will helplessly turn back into a lonely and depressed woman.

There is no one to talk to, nowhere to go, and nothing to do other than the folds. If anything, it's these thirty-two tooth cards.

Like psychological boredom, there is no way to vent the faint restlessness of physiology.

It's going to be like this for the rest of your life.

In the dead of night, sometimes she would see someone from afar, but every time he leaned over her with that lawless smile, she would wake up with a sudden startle and her heart beat wildly. After calming down a little, I found that my clothes were already soaking wet.

Therefore, sleeping has also become torture, and it is easy to fall asleep; I fell asleep, and I was afraid that I would be "bullied" in my dream.

Of course, she refuses to admit it, and deep down, sometimes she seems to be looking forward to such a "bully".

Still have to sleep.

After resting for a long time, tossing and turning, just hazy past, faintly heard the sound of firecrackers, Cixi woke up, stunned for a while, only to understand that the sound of firecrackers came from outside the palace, and more and more, and finally sounded into a piece.

It's weird, today is not a New Year's Day. What the hell?

Get up and ask the palace maid to take the lamp. It was passed that An Dehai, who was on night duty outside, came in.

Cixi frowned: "Xiao Anzi." You go out and take a look, what's going on outside? Do you want to give people sleep? ”

The queen mother's face was very bad, An Dehai himself heard it, and he didn't know what was going on, so he didn't dare to say more, so he hurriedly responded, the palace gate had already been keyed, and he went to the worship room to get the ticket. Hurried out of the palace.

After half an hour, outside the thick door curtain, I heard the sound of An Dehai trotting all the way, and while running, he gasped and shouted: "The master is happy!" ”

Exultation?

When it came in, An Dehaiwu was out of breath: "Congratulations to the master!" Someone came from Shanghai, saying that it was Guan Houye...... Guan Zhuofan won a big victory in the United States, and the people in Beijing are setting off firecrackers to celebrate! ”

Rao is Cixi has been training herself to "be calm when facing major events", and she couldn't help but sit up suddenly, her eyes blazing: "Is it the excerpt that has arrived?" ”

An Dehai shook his head: "The excerpt hasn't arrived yet...... It was from the front station, and the news came from Bao Jun's house. It is said that the fastest tonight, the slowest tomorrow morning, the report can be delivered. ”

Cixi urged again and again: "You hurry up and go to the internal performance office to have a look." Has the excerpt arrived? If you don't arrive, you stay there! ”

I couldn't sleep this night, so Cixi got up and put on her clothes, and sat on the edge of the bed and waited.

Although it had not snowed in Beijing in October, it was already quite cold, so she asked someone to make a cup of hot tea, and a small flame was beating in her heart.

The sound of firecrackers outside the palace is like Chinese New Year's Eve.

About an hour later, I heard An Dehai's hurried footsteps again, stopped at the door and said loudly: "Master Qiqi, Shanghai...... The American fold has arrived! ”

Picking up the curtain and coming in, An Dehai held a yellow box, opened the box, opened the oil paper, and took out the yellow paper package from the plywood.

Cixi didn't care about the yellow excerpt, and directly picked up the white excerpt, which read: "Guan Zhuofan, a second-class resolute and brave marquis, played the great victory of Chattanoo in the United States."

The first-class light car was attached to Lieutenant Hua and the governor of Jiangsu, Zhao Jingxian.

His hand was already trembling a little, and he opened the fold, and read it carefully.

She can't understand everything, the names of the people are weird and awkward, but there is no doubt that she has won a big battle!

"Annihilated more than 75,000 rebels", "Cheng Wei is an unprecedented victory in the war in the western United States since the rebellion of the South", "the offensive and defensive momentum of our enemy has since been transposed", and "the atmosphere of thieves has been cleansed for a day".

Moreover, the Xuan army is the main force, and Guan Zhuofan is the commander-in-chief.

Her heart was pounding, and there was still a feeling that it wasn't real.

The battle was fiercely fought. The last time Guan Zhuofan entered Beijing and played a battle against Taihu Lake to exterminate the long-haired sailors, "the Jintai fired a cannon, and only one cannon smashed the largest turtle boat of the long-haired Sun Sixi", which has already given her and the Empress Dowager Ci'an a very deep impression, this "missionary highland" The two armies combined four or five hundred cannons bombarded each other, what kind of situation was that?

She couldn't imagine it anymore.

There are so many things in this battle that are beyond her common sense and knowledge.

For example, the rebels' position was blown out of a large crater dozens of feet wide and several feet deep, and she couldn't imagine how many explosives had to be buried.

The regimental officer named Wu Jianying also gave her a deep impression, from beginning to end, standing on the barracks to inspire the battle, flying like rain, and actually didn't knock him down, it's really amazing! Now he is still lying in the "hospital", and his life and death are uncertain.

Cixi sighed softly, what about Guan Zhuofan? The battle was fought so fiercely, he ...... Didn't get hurt, right?

There are a few sentences in the excerpt of Zuihou, "Drifting to the country, thousands of miles of deserted clothes, lonely soldiers, looking at the hometown from afar, looking up to the mercy face, facing the wind and snow, can't be yourself."

Cixi's eyes were a little moist for a while, but she refused to show it to the eunuchs and palace maids, quietly wiped them, raised her head, and said in a voice as calm as possible: "You send the fold to the 'east', if the queen mother and the queen mother wake up, they will meet in the palace of nourishing hearts." ”

"Wow!"

"Also, tell Zhang Jing, who is on night duty at the Military Aircraft Department, that early tomorrow morning, the whole class of military aircraft will hand over the sign and call it."

The excerpt was sent to the Zhongcui Palace, and it was not laughter, but crying.

The first to cry was the Empress Dowager Ci'an, and it was out of control, and finally she cried bitterly, and the eunuchs and palace maids wept together.

These reactions were completely unpredictable by Guan Zhuofan.

Ci'an's reaction was actually natural: if there had been such an army, why would the magnificent Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens be burned down, and why would it be in a hurry to hunt west, frightened and precarious? Why did Emperor Daxing leave so early and so sadly? Why did she become a widow so early?

Ci'an is not the only one who has a similar reaction, Prince Rui Renshou is also in tears, while pouring himself, he beats his legs and pats his chest, people who don't know the inside story will think that he is dead.

The whole city of Beijing is boiling.

Although the war was not fought in China, nor was it fought against the rebellion of the Qing Dynasty, the reaction of the people went far beyond the time when the battle was drawn.

Chaos like Hong Yang, which has existed in all Chinese dynasties, is completely commonplace, and the difference is only in the size. Almost no one in the court thought that he would be uneven after all, but it was just a matter of time and cost. Although the battle was difficult, Zuihou's success was a matter of course, and it was not a surprise.

And the Xuan army fought as foreigners. Not dozens or hundreds of foreigners, but tens of thousands of foreigners, leading foreigners to fight foreigners!

Only more than 20 years ago, I thought I was the central country, but as a result, thousands of foreigners came in, defeated again and again, and were cut by others, without the strength to fight back, this pain of falling from heaven to hell in one step, destroyed all self-esteem, dug out all inferiority, and, because there was no possibility of successful revenge, the remaining bit of self-confidence was also collapsing.

Now, the Xuan army has defeated the foreigners! The vast majority of people don't think about the difference between these foreigners and those foreigners, but they just think very logically: In the future, we are not afraid of foreigners! Foreigners don't dare to bully us anymore! Many go further: we can take revenge!

In particular, the people of Beijing have not been killed by Hong Yang, but they have been brutalized by Britain and France.

So how can you not rejoice?

After all, Guan Zhuofan traveled from the 21st century, and China in that time and space had begun to become stronger. No matter what he experienced in this time and space, he still couldn't fully comprehend the unforgettable and complex feelings of fear, hatred, humiliation, and envy mixed with foreigners in this era.

Now, Kwan Zhuofan is beginning to clean up this feeling for the Chinese. (To be continued......)