"Sir, 500 meters southwest of us, someone is watching us. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Xiao Mubai stood up and turned to look at the six cyborgs behind him. The four men who stood like javelins and carried four large backpacks were their bodyguards, holding Mauser 98 rifles exchanged from the synthesizer in their hands, each dressed in camouflage training uniforms. Chen Chuan, who looks like a big man, is Wen Xu who is unrecognizable in the crowd of ordinary people, Guo Jin is the one who is tall and thin, and the tall and thin one is called Ding Qiang. The remaining two are dressed in suits and leather shoes, wearing Browning pistols, and the elegant appearance is the scientist Qu Mingjun, and the Chinese character face is the engineer Cao Ren. The one who spoke just now was Wen Xu.

"Chen Chuan, Ding Qiang, you want to live." Xiao Mubai looked into the distance and said lightly. I saw Chen Chuan and Ding Qiang scattering left and right like leopards agilely, and quickly rushed towards the southwest.

Fifty meters away, seven or eight scrawny men were lying in the grass and looking into the distance. A big man with a scruffy beard said to the boy who seemed to be sixteen or seventeen years old lying beside him: "Dog, go to the cottage to report the news, there is a fat sheep, let the big boss bring someone over, I and your two brothers are staring here, go quickly." ”

As soon as the young man turned over, he was kicked to the ground, only to see Chen Chuan and Ding Qiang, one left and one right, and put several people to the ground in a moment. When Xiao Mubai came over, several people were squatting on the ground dejectedly, throwing a few big knives and spears around, and a young man stared at Chen Chuan who was standing aside with hateful eyes, and Chen Chuan kicked him just now. Xiao Mubai glanced at it lightly, several people were skinny, ragged, unkempt, and dragged messy braids behind their heads, a standard image of a homeless person in the late Qing Dynasty.

Xiao Mubai stared at them for a while, and already understood in his heart what was going on. Just when a few people were stared at and felt a little hairy in their hearts, Xiao Mubai said slowly: "Who are you guys?" What are you doing here? ”

The bearded man at the head looked around nervously, and replied respectfully: "Masters, we are from the village in front, and the village is about to run out of food, so come out to hunt some prey." ”

Xiao Mubai glanced at the man, laughed, and suddenly took out the pistol he was wearing, put it on the head of the big man, and said in a calm tone: "Are you taking me for fun?" It's fun to tease me, isn't it? Hunting in the middle of the night, this excuse is too bad, are you staring at us and treating us as prey? ”

The big man's face was pale and he lowered his head and didn't say a word, except for the sound of heavy panting, there was a dead silence around him at this moment.

Xiao Mubai pointed at the young man with a white gun, and said sharply: "Give you three numbers, and if you don't explain honestly, don't blame me for being rude, just start with him." Ye happened to be in a bad mood today. ”

Under Xiao Mubai's threat, perhaps frightened by Xiao Mubai's expression, the big man chattered about it.

It turned out that the surname of this big man was Chang, and the family was two, and people called him Chang Er, and the young man was called Zhao Gouzi, and several people who accompanied him were from nearby villages, because of the war, famine and other reasons led to poor food harvest, coupled with the local government's rampant expropriation, bandit looting, life was unsustainable, and some villagers could only fall into the grass on the nearby mountains to avoid the government's harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes.

Listening to the big man's constant chatter, Xiao Mubai suddenly interrupted his voice and said, "What kind of jurisdiction is this?" ”

Dahan looked at Xiao Muchen with puzzled eyes, but he was thinking in his heart, how could this master ask such an idiotic question, but when he saw the foreign gun in Xiao Mubai's hand, he still replied honestly: "Back to this master, this is the jurisdiction of Baoning County, Guangnan Prefecture, Yunnan Province." ”

Bo Ninh District, Quang Nam Province? What is this place? Xiao Mubai was a little confused, remembering that there seemed to be a Guangnan County in Yunnan in later generations. That is to say, probably in Quang Nam.

"And what year is it?" Xiao Mubai said helplessly.

Chang Er looked at Xiao Mubai with idiot eyes again, wondering in his heart, why did this master ask such stupid questions: "If you go back to your master, it is now the thirty-second year of Guangxu and April of the Bingwu year." ”

Thirty-two years of Guangxu? Bingwu year? What's the situation? Xiao Mubai was stunned, although he had good historical achievements, but he didn't understand exactly which emperor's era name was converted to the Western calendar.

Xiao Mubai stared at Chang Er and asked without giving up, "What year is the foreign calendar?" ”

Chang Er looked at Xiao Mubai, who was in a daze, and thought to himself, this master is really stupid, didn't he just say it, April of the first year of the solar calendar! Although he thought so, he still replied honestly: "If you go back to your father, it is now the fourth month of the third year of the solar calendar." ”

Xiao Mubai is about to go crazy, this fool, he asked about the foreign calendar, but he answered the solar calendar, and he looked honest. He rolled his eyelids and said, "I'm asking about the foreigner's year calculation method." ”

Chang Er nodded suddenly and shook his head, not knowing what he was trying to express. Just when Xiao Mubai was about to be tempered out of temper, Chang Er said again: "This master, there is a Zhao Xiucai in our village, he went to the provincial capital to study a few years ago, maybe he knows, he just went home a few days ago, or, you go and ask?" ”

Xiao Mubai nodded, and several thoughts turned in his heart. If you want to integrate into this time and space as soon as possible, you have to deal with all kinds of people. But the amateur bandits in front of him obviously couldn't provide him with enough information. Then it's okay to go to the village now.

Seeing Xiao Mubai nodding in agreement, several people began to walk towards the village in the distance. Chang Er walked in the front, followed by Gouzi and Erniu, and a few accomplices, secretly looked around, and when they saw the four elite men around them holding foreign guns, if there was nothing pointed at them, they also extinguished the thought of running away, so they honestly walked in front to lead the way, after all, the four foreign guns looked powerful, and they didn't want to die in vain.

After walking for more than ten miles, the sky was bright when I walked to the village that Chang Er called in his mouth. What caught Xiao Mubai's eyes was a ruined wall, and a few cooking smoke indirectly rose, which seemed incompatible with the surrounding scenery. Chang Er smiled wryly and said: "Most of the people in the village have fled to the mountains, only those whose family background is a little too old have stayed, and Zhao Xiucai's house is in front, so I will take you there." ”

After a while, several people arrived at the door of Zhao Xiucai's house that Chang Er said. Xiao Mubai walked over and knocked on the door, and after a while, a handsome old man, about twenty-three or fourteen years old, looked at it with wary eyes, and saw the neighbors of the village among the several people. Although I am a bandit, I still have a local feeling, and I always know each other. The other four big men in colorful clothes, holding unknown foreign guns in their hands, and three young men in Western clothes standing next to them, all with short hair, brightly dressed, and looking very capable.

Although he was puzzled, he still politely asked, "Polite, how many of you are?" ”

Xiao Mubai also replied politely: "I waited for a few people to return from an overseas study tour, and on the way home, they got lost in the mountains, and they traveled for a few days. ”

Although Zhao Xiucai was puzzled, he didn't look like a villain when he looked at a few people, and what if he was a villain, he had nothing to rob his own family. Therefore, after a little hesitation, they invited everyone into the courtyard. After Xiao Mubai repeated the origins of several people again, he and Zhao Xiucai began to talk. I learned that Zhao Xiucai's name is Zhao Mingchuan, the word self-denial, born in the eleventh year of Guangxu, now 21 years old, in Xiucai, because the Qing court announced the cancellation of the imperial examination in the 31st year of Guangxu, and after the implementation of the 32nd year of Guangxu, he had no choice but to study in the provincial capital Kunming for a year in a new-style school, in order to find a way out of the future life, but the poor family could not support the high credits, so he had to drop out of school and go home. This place is in Zhulin Town, Baoning County, Guangnan Prefecture, Yunnan Province, and most of the villagers in the village are surnamed Zhao, so the village is called Zhaojia Village. Due to natural and man-made disasters, some villagers in the village fled into the mountains to become bandits, to avoid the harsh taxes of the imperial court, leaving only the old village chief with some old and weak women and children. And now it is the thirty-second year of Guangxu, the year 1906 of the Western calendar.

In the thirty-second year of Guangxu, 1906 AD, for Xiao Mubai, this was a great era in the true sense.