Chapter 5: Death Passes By
"I only returned to Beitang yesterday on a German merchant ship, a sentry officer on the Gao Sheng; Because of his cowardice on the Gao Sheng, he was reported and prepared to be executed by military justice. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
Zhang Peilun said with a strange face: "On the execution ground just now, he said that he heard the captain of the Gao Sheng and the first mate talking secretly in English, saying that the British and the Orientals had just signed an equal maritime and trade treaty ten days ago, so he had to secretly tell this information to General Wu." ”
"Ridiculous!"
Li Jingyuan said disdainfully: "Yunzhang is in the East, Gong Fantai is in the United Kingdom, and they have not heard such news. It is clear that this fugitive is greedy for life and afraid of death and lies about the military situation, it is really difficult for my brother-in-law to make such a heavy rain and make a special trip. ”
Because Ye Zhichao led troops to North Korea in June, he proposed in front of Li Hongzhang that Li Jingyuan be the commander of the former enemy, but was discouraged by Zhang Peilun.
Therefore, between Li Jingyuan and Zhang Peilun, they are now on the same footing, and at this moment, Li Jingyuan couldn't help but stab Zhang Peilun.
Zhang Peilun smiled slightly when he heard this, but did not speak.
The eldest son Li Jingyuan said this, but Li Hongzhang heard it very well.
Although the treaty announced by this English-speaking sentinel seemed to have a mysterious connection with the doubt in Li Hongzhang's mind.
However, Li Hongzhang is no longer willing to find out the truth inside.
Anyway, this little Oriental makes a crackling sound in front of the whole world with the old face of the British Empire.
You foreigners have always talked about conventions and international principles, and this time the Orientals have flouted the conventions for you so much, you will never let them go!
"Youqiao, it's hard for you to go and tell Gosh, who delivered the letter, so that Wu Congqi should not spread this kind of rumor in the camp, so as not to cause more complications."
Hearing his father-in-law's words, Zhang Peilun sighed slightly in his heart.
Since the information presented by this sentinel who understands foreign languages has been determined as a rumor, and the news has been transmitted back to Wu Yuren in Beitang, then his fate is already self-evident.
Li Jingyuan looked at Zhang Peilun with a sneer in his heart, this brother-in-law of his was in Mawei Harbor back then, facing the ironclad ships of the French army, wasn't he also a famous deserter who was 'cowardly in battle'?
Thanks to his father's kindness in rewarding him with a bowl of rice to eat, he turned out to be Long Wangshu, a poor man who died of his wife in his forties, and dared to peep at his little sister who was only twenty-eight years old.
took advantage of his father's slip of the tongue, and he shamelessly climbed the pole on the shelf and became his brother-in-law.
Phew!
I was shameless to die, greedy for life and afraid of death, and my father dissuaded me from going to North Korea.
Li Jingyuan's heart was furious, now that the British Empire has spoken, then the Oriental Japanese still dare not listen? You can't honestly go back to his broken island and stay there!
Originally, the great glory of 'defending the border for the country' would have been paid more attention to himself, and he would have achieved a beautiful talk about Lao Tzu's heroes and heroes, but it was all mixed up by this white-eyed wolf!
The more Li Jingyuan thought about it, the more angry he became, and he casually picked up the Beitang presentation on the table and looked at it a few times, and said, "Huh? He screamed.
"How?"
Li Hongzhang and Zhang Peilun, who was just about to go out, sighed in their hearts at the same time.
"Father, I have seen He Changying, the sentry officer of the deputy third battalion of Jiangzi Kangrenzi, the son of He Ningyuan of our Feixi He family, three generations of single transmission."
When Li Jingyuan returned to Feixi three years ago, He Changying and several young children from large local families visited him once, and invited him to a restaurant for a meal of flower wine.
This time, Li Jingyuan returned from the East to Ding Wei, and He Changying also came to the door to ask to see him, but Li Jingyuan did not show up and asked the porter to send him away.
When I return to my hometown to see my father, the local big family, the old man, and even the people who slaughter dogs and sell pulp, can be treated with courtesy.
But now that he is on the platform of the governor of Jinmen, he is not just a cat or a dog, who is qualified to walk in and climb the dragon.
Not to mention that you He Changying, a small sentry officer, is a battalion officer, and it is extremely difficult to walk into this gate and ascend to the sky in one step.
But since he had this bit of involvement before, Li Jingyuan didn't mind saving the life of this small township party, so he deliberately mentioned the words 'Feixi' and 'three generations of single transmission'.
"Feixi He family, He Ningyuan's son, three generations of single transmission?"
Li Hongzhang muttered to himself in surprise, lowered his head and thought for a while, and accurately and clearly figured out the door inside.
Back then, the Feidong Wu family and the Feixi He family, because of a male and female Fengyue lawsuit, everyone knew that he was only eighteen or nineteen years old at that time, and he was still a student of Fuxue.
Fifty years have passed!
Li Hongzhang couldn't help but feel pity, and said to Zhang Peilun who was standing at the door: "Youqiao, you bring another sentence from the beginning, let this He family kid go back to Feixi and think about it behind closed doors; Since he knows foreign languages, it is expected that he will also have some knowledge, so let him abandon martial arts and follow literature, maybe it will be a good story for people to make the best use of their talents in the future. ”
"Boom—"
In the sky outside the house, another earth-shattering thunder rolled through.
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He Changying was thrown back into the barracks prison, he was soaking wet, trembling violently, stripped off his clothes, and wrung the water on it.
"Click!"
Through the small window of the cell, the sky outside the window suddenly lit up, and then a thunderbolt shook the inside of the cell.
He Changying, who was awakened by the thunder, threw off the clothes in her hand, walked to the wooden fence of the cell naked, gritted her arms with a hideous face, and smashed it with a fierce punch against the wooden fence with a thick bowl.
"Boom!"
The fence that was smashed suddenly 'buzzed' and trembled, showing good strength.
"Ahh
He Changying, who was in pain, hugged his right hand and screamed, and the flesh and blood on the bone joint of his right hand were blurred.
And the fist broke through the knife in his right shoulder, and the blood gushing out immediately stained half of his chest.
"Paralyzed, it's really TM crossed!"
He Changying's body trembled, her eyes slid blankly on the straw floor of the prison, and her stomach full of grief had nowhere to speak.
", you're paralyzed, God, what can I do with my daughter-in-law?"
At this time, He Changying didn't know that at the same time, the governor of Jinmen was on the stage, because of Li Jingyuan's 'Huh? Only then did he pass by the Grim Reaper again.
I don't know how long it took, the rainstorm outside was still falling, and the inside of the prison gradually became pitch black, He Changying's body was painful, panicked and hungry, fortunately it was summer now, and she didn't feel cold naked.
"Damn, you're paralyzed, how long is this going to be locked up?"
He Changying, who has slowly accepted the reality, vented the depression in his heart with a national scolding.
At this time, the door of the prison was opened from the outside with a 'clang', and the guards in charge of the prison carried oil lamps and let two people in.
He Changying looked up at the light, and a bearded stubble with a Chinese character face was not the bastard who kicked his ass just now in the execution ground?
The other is the star-eyed sword eye, handsome and extraordinary, with a face that makes He Changying want to beat him when he looks at it.