The South Manchurian Railway is a single-track railway that runs from Harbin to Lushun via Changchun. This railway was originally built by the Russians, but after the Russo-Russian War, according to the Treaty of Portsmouth, the two sides took Changchun Kuanchengzi Station as the boundary, and the railway south of it was handed over to Yueben and renamed the South Manchurian Railway. After he took over, he converted the narrow-gauge railroad of the Russians into a standard track.

The railway crawled the mountain road, and the two locomotives pulled forward and pushed backwards with great difficulty, and the fourteen carriages were dragged up. This train was a coal truck, which transported coal from Manchuria to Andong in Korea for the use of the troops stationed in Korea.

The train was torn into wisps of black lines by the north wind. Seeing that the train was coming, several people suddenly became excited. Most of these people were Russians with high noses and deep eyes, and a few Mongols with flat faces. They ran around the side of the railway, and if you looked closely, you could see that there were thin wires stretching down the hillside.

The train finally climbed the hillside, and the stoker, whose face was dyed with soot and could not see the color, wiped his sweat with a towel, and several black ravines suddenly appeared on his face.

"Boom!"

With a loud bang, the front of the car suddenly flew into the sky, and the cars behind it were pulled up by a huge force, and then tumbled and slid to the side of the road, and the wheels and rails rubbed to make a fleshy "squeak" sound. The coal in the carriage was lifted into the air, and the sky turned black. The driver and the stoker were blown to pieces on the spot, and a Russian [***] officer walked down the hillside, saw the body of the driver, sneered and kicked it, found that the boots were stained with blood, and waved his hand arrogantly, and a richly dressed Mongolian ran over and smiled flatteringly. The Russian [***] officer rubbed his boots clean on his Mongolian robe, and the other Russians laughed, and several Mongolians did not think it was wrong, and also grinned with yellow teeth. This Mongol is none other than Delentai, the son of the Mongol king Utai. And this pot-bellied Russian [***] officer is also an acquaintance, the major military attache of the Russian Consulate General in Harbin, Vasily.

Vasily smiled and pulled out his pistol and put it on Delentai's head, Delentai's face turned pale, and he forced a smile to say something in Mongolian. "Bang", a gunshot rang out, and a round hole appeared in Delentai's forehead, but half of the Tianling cover was removed, and his brain was sprayed all over the ground. The other Mongols were stunned for a moment, and then pulled out their short knives and prepared to fight desperately. The Russians, apparently prepared, fired with rifles and pistols, and in an instant all six or seven Mongols were killed.

Vasily and the others thought that they were doing something unknowingly, but they didn't notice that in the foothills of the distant mountains, there were several pairs of vigilant eyes that had been watching their every move. They planted explosives, blew up trains, and killed people, all of which were clearly visible to a pair of eyes hidden behind an eight-fold Zeiss telescope. There are four people hidden in the foothills, camouflage uniforms with black markings on a grass green background, which perfectly blends them with the surrounding scenery. Those who can wear this kind of military uniform don't need to ask to know that this is a scout of the advance army.

These four men, who did not even have horses, followed the horse bandits of Utai all the way, and inadvertently found that the horse bandits and the Russians seemed to be making a name for themselves together, and in order to prevent being discovered by the Russians, they handed over their horses to their comrades and took them away, leaving only a military pigeon that was summoned. Then in the thorn bushes at the foot of the mountain, lurk quietly.

At the head is a young man with a grim expression, he is a squad leader, the highest person in charge here. The expensive eight-fold Zeiss telescope imported from Germany hung around his neck. After long-term joint training with the Gurkha Guards, the scouts of the advance army have the basic skills of ambushing and sneak attacks in the mountains, although they are not as good as those black monkeys who grew up in the foothills of the Himalayas, but there is no problem in trying to deceive the eyes of ordinary people. They were lurking less than 500 meters from the Russians, but they didn't make any noise, and no one made any movement. Each technical movement is broken down and becomes extremely slow, making it difficult to spot clues even when you are close at hand.

One of the four races was a thin sniper, and the high accuracy of the Hanfeng I short rifle made it a natural sniper weapon, and the optical sight firmly locked on to Vasily. With a sniper's instinct, he can easily discern which is the best target to snipe.

The Hanfeng I with a six-fold optical sight was made with the best quality barrel, and the trigger was also modified, and the trigger force reached 1.8 kg. All the snipers of the Jianghuai Army can hit the head in the first shot and the chest at a distance of 600 meters within 300 meters. The sniper, through the optical sight, and the squad leader through the telescope, both discovered a strange phenomenon, two Mongol corpses were stripped of their dirty Mongolian robes by the Russians, and then their hair was shaved. In the end, the Russians dressed their corpses in a grass-green uniform.

The squad leader's heart suddenly chuckled, isn't this the military uniform of the advance army? What exactly do the Russians want to do? Although it is not clear what the Russians are trying to do, it is certain that the Russians must have a conspiracy.

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There were bursts of laughter in Chai Dongliang's mansion, and Zhang Taiyan talked about the anti-Qing revolution in those years, and the embarrassment of the revolutionary party made everyone laugh. After telling the joke, he began to routinely scold Sun Yat-sen. "Sun Wen is not ashamed of his words, and when he does things, he has a short plan, and he often brings humiliation on himself. The surname is narrow and reckless, and authoritarian and domineering, except for Wang Jingwei, Hu Hanmin, Huang Keqiang and other three or five people, they are no longer willing to trust others, and they are jealous of whether they can appoint talents, and compete with Yuan Shikai, it is really a grasshopper shaking the tree! I have acted above board all my life, and Sun Wen has been deceitful, I will not be with this person! ”

Zhang Taiyan's scolding of Sun Wen seems to be a traditional repertoire, not only among friends, but also often in newspapers, from Tokyo to Yanjing, and he still lives in Shanghai without delay.

Chai Dongliang had already learned about Zhang Taiyan's quirks from Gao Chuguan, and he kept his mouth closed from beginning to end, and it was boring to save himself. However, Zhang Taiyan's scolding of Sun Wen is really not untargeted, everything has a basis. Chai Dongliang and Sun Wen also had two contacts, and they felt that this great man was really not what he looked like in the textbook. Sun Wen's arbitrariness and domineering were almost well known in the revolutionary party, and he simply did not listen to dissenting opinions. Chai Dongliang talked to him twice, and each time he had a feeling that he was not speculative, if it weren't for his high prestige, he would have gone long ago.

Gao Chuguan saw that Zhang Taiyan was scolding endlessly, so he quickly took out a cigarette and handed it over: "Mr. Binglin, smoke one!" ”

Zhang Taiyan was scolding, and he was suddenly interrupted by the boss in his heart, but when he looked at the standard on the cigarette tube, he was suddenly overjoyed: "Uelik? The old lady of my house only allowed me to smoke the 'golden rat', and I haven't seen this kind of goods for a long time! ”

Gao Chuguan said with a smile: "Chai Dudu has prepared ten boxes of 'Eggplant' and ten boxes of 'Axe' brand three-star brandy for you, and you will bring it with you when you return to Shanghai, which is enough for you to spend a while." ”

Zhang Taiyan's eyes couldn't be seen: "It's better to be respectful than to obey your fate, you are full of hospitality, but it is disrespectful, but it is disrespectful!" ”

Chai Dongliang patted his chest and said: "You are my third brother's teacher, naturally my teacher, in the future, I will cover all of your smoking and drinking, and I will honor your old brother for my third brother." ”

Zhang Taiyanle's eyebrows and eyes bloomed, and he looked around and said, "Take the four treasures of the study!" ”

The next person sent pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and Gao Chuguan personally studied ink for him. Zhang Taiyan said seriously: "I don't owe favors in my life, let alone money, I will write a banner for you when I drink a bottle of wine, and I will write a middle hall for you when you smoke a cigarette, let's settle the bill, right?" If you don't think it's cost-effective, you can also paint two banners for a bottle of wine, two halls for a cigarette, or a four-screen painting! ”

Chai Dongliang couldn't cry or laugh: "Sir, do you know how many silver dollars you sell for a middle hall?" ”

Zhang Taiyan shook his head and said, "I don't know, it's just a dime, right?" ”

Chai Dongliang stretched out a slap: "At least fifty yuan!" ”

Zhang Taiyan glanced at him: "Impossible, impossible, where is my broken character worth so much?" It's too expensive for a dollar! After rolling his eyes a few times, he suddenly said, "Brother Chai Shi, your face is not good, let me help you take a look?" My words are ordinary, but I don't dare to say that I am the first in the world, and I never recognize the second in the world. ”

After that, without saying anything, he pinched Chai Dongliang's mouth, looked at his tongue, and then checked his pulse, shook his head and said: "You are qi stagnation and blood stasis, you should be diagnosed and treated as soon as possible." ”

As soon as Chai Dongliang heard that he was going to see a doctor, his head was as big as a bucket, and he hurriedly said: "I'm not sick, Mr. is bothered." ”

Zhang Taiyan's face suddenly pulled down: "Brother Shi, don't you hear the story of Bian Que seeing Cai Huangong?" It is a taboo for young people to avoid medical treatment, and it is difficult to treat this disease now if it is not treated, and it will be difficult to treat it when you are old. Today, you and I meet each other, it is your chance, you and I see each other at first sight, do not help you diagnose and treat, I am uneasy! ”

After speaking, regardless of whether Chai Dongliang agreed or not, he prescribed a prescription on the paper, and then proudly dried the ink: "This prescription is my life's proud, enough for your tobacco and alcohol expenses!" You and I don't owe each other, brother? ”

Chai Dongliang had no choice but to take it, and then thanked him repeatedly. But he was smiling bitterly in his heart, Zhang Taiyan's scriptures, history, and books are known as the three uniques, but he doesn't care about the same thing, but he never forgets his unpopular medical skills.

"Mr. Binglin, do you have anything important to do when you come to Anqing this time?" Gao Chuguan asked.

Zhang Taiyan was stunned for a moment, and looked at Yu Qiaqing next to him: "Ade, what are we doing here?" I can't remember. ”

Yu Qiaqing said with a smile: "Governor, Mr. Xiang Yuan, don't feel strange, Mr. Binglin often can't even remember where his family lives. Then he smiled and said to Zhang Taiyan: "Our two brothers were entrusted by others to speak for others, Mr. forgot?" ”

Zhang Taiyan suddenly realized, patted his head and said: "Forgive sins, forgive sins, your brain is not good!" An old friend of mine has a daughter in the family, twenty-eight years old, it is the good years of cardamom at the beginning, she is beautiful like a flower, and Brother Chai is also young and promising, handsome and chic, and he sells an old face when he is old, and wants to ask for a cup of wine to drink. ”

Chai Dongliang was stunned suddenly, this master ran thousands of miles just to tell himself about the matchmaker? He hurriedly shook his head and said: "I'm still young, and now the affairs of Jiangxi and Anhui provinces are complicated, and I really don't have the heart to marry. ”

Zhang Taiyan's face suddenly pulled the elder: "Brother Shi's words are wrong, the man's husband cultivates himself, Qi family, governs the country, and equalizes the world, if you don't cultivate your family background, how can you govern the country and the world with peace of mind, besides, my old friend gave me five hundred rotten duck eggs, I have already accepted them, and there is absolutely no reason to return them, if you don't allow this family matter, where can you let me have the face to be a man?" ”

Is there anything like this? If you receive a gift, I have to marry a daughter-in-law? Whose truth is this? Chai Dongliang had to admire Zhang Taiyan, he spoke without any moisture, every word was the truth, but it sounded so awkward!

Chai Dongliang was not interested in arranged marriages at all, and refused again and again, and the anxious Zhang Taiyan scratched his ears and cheeks.

Yu Qiaqing smiled on the side: "The governor doesn't want to know whose daughter that woman is?" ”

Chai Dongliang thought to himself, he is Yuan Shikai's daughter, and Lao Tzu will not marry!

Yu Qiaqing smiled mysteriously: "This woman is an old acquaintance of the governor. ”

Chai Dongliang thought about it for a long time, and he didn't have any old acquaintances in Shanghai, when he suddenly slapped his thigh and said, "Could it be Shu Yexuan?" ”

Yu Qiaqing laughed and said, "Could it be that the governor belongs to Shu Yexuan of the women's Northern Expedition of the Guangfu Army?" If so, leave it to me, and I'll help you propose. ”

Chai Dongliang's head shook like a rattle, that rouge tiger is not something he can ride, if he provokes her one day, he won't kick himself three or five ribs? Although I have watched a few femdom literary and artistic works, I never thought of playing a supporting role for the queen!

Thinking of Shu Yexuan's elusive long whip, Chai Dongliang's forehead sweated. But that girl's small waist is really thin enough, and the heroic spirit between her eyebrows is simply too **. If she travels to the 21st century, she will definitely be an idol of both men and women.

Chai Dongliang wanted to divert the topic, and hurriedly asked: "Where did the people from the women's Northern Expedition team go?" I remember that after the Liberation Army was disbanded, they also went back to school. ”

Yu Qiaqing sighed and said: "Eight out of ten are married, Xiaokai, a big guy on the beach, likes to ask these foreign students as wives, and in the end, many people even became aunts and wives for others, and they still want to save the country if they can't save themselves?" ”

Chai Dongliang couldn't help but be gloomy, a group of young girls between the ages of fifteen and twenty braved the rain of bullets to attack the heavily guarded ordnance station and Yuhuatai, and fought bloodily with the Qing army, but the final result was so regrettable.

Yang Shiqi's words couldn't help but ring in his ears again: "Revolution is a common tea and dinner in the home of Chinese history." Since the third generation of Tang Yu, there have been no less than thirty or forty emperors, and they have been reformed for thirty or forty times. It's like a red-faced man on the stage fooling around for a while and being beaten down by a yellow-faced person; The black-faced man fooled around for a while, and was beaten down by a flower-faced man again. All of them are in the name of revolution, and the reality of changing the dynasty is also. ”

"What about Shu Yexuan? What is she doing? Chai Dongliang asked, "I heard that I am preparing to go abroad to study, a woman is virtuous if she is not talented, and no matter how much she reads, she still has to get married?" It is serious to marry a good family while she is young, and the youth of reading is no longer there, who will marry her in the future? Yu Qiaqing pursed her lips disdainfully.

Chai Dongliang couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head, no matter how grand the revolutionary tide was, in the end, it was like rain hitting the beach, buried clean by Chinese tradition.

Gao Chuguan was a little anxious, and he asked, "Brother Ade, whose daughter are you and Mr. Binglin matchmaking?" ”

Yu Qiaqing said with a smile: "As long as I say the name of this person, the governor will be satisfied." ”

Chai Dongliang was also a little curious: "Oh, who are you talking about?" ”

"Wuhu, Mr. Wu Xingzhou's son-in-law, Miss Wu Meiqi!"

"So it's her?" Chai Dongliang suddenly realized.

Yu Qiaqing and the Wu family are good friends, and he is friends with Zhang Taiyan, he didn't expect this, it's really stupid!

Gao Chuguan laughed: "It turned out to be the eldest lady of the Wu family!" This is a good candidate, talented and beautiful, a natural pair, not bad, not bad. ”

Chai Dongliang has always felt a little guilty about the rudeness last time, and his reaction at that time was really too big. I have always been wary of the interference of officials' relatives in political affairs, and as soon as Wu Meiqi opened her mouth, she immediately turned her face. Think about it carefully, she is only sixteen years old, where do you have so many hearts? Wu Jintang is really, what can't he say to himself, but let his sister pass it on?

"Let's talk about this later, eat first, eat!" Chai Dongliang was sloppy.

Yu Qiaqing and Zhang Taiyan looked at each other and smiled, they had already decided that this family business must not have run away.

The servants served the dishes, although it was not a boiled phoenix and a dragon, but it was also a land beef and sheep seabed fresh water and land mixed with Chen, and the dishes were mainly Huaiyang cuisine, supplemented by popular Sichuan and Cantonese cuisine. When a plate of stinky edamame tofu fried leeks was served, Zhang Taiyan's eyes suddenly lit up, he honestly and unceremoniously put this dish in front of him, and even drank the vegetable soup clean. After a while, he served scrambled rotten eggs, stinky amaranth and mixed with thousands of sheets, and roasted stinky mandarin fish. Zhang Taiyan was fascinated, and his eyes changed when he saw Chai Dongliang, and his eyes were full of appreciation.

The smell of these smelly vegetables in the house was smoky, and the windows were all opened, so Chai Dongliang had to order someone to bring an electric fan, the Mid-Autumn Festival has passed, the weather in Anqing is already a little cold, and it is really enough to see a room of people blowing electric fans.

A person ran in outside, Chai Dongliang saw that it was Gao Ming, and hurriedly greeted: "Mr. Gao is here, sit, accompany Brother Ade and Mr. Binglin to have two drinks." ”

Gao Ming's face was solemn, he squeezed out a smile and said hello to everyone, and then whispered a few words in Chai Dongliang's ear.

Chai Dongliang put down his chopsticks and said with a smile: "A few slow users, Mr. Xiang Yuan will help me accompany the guests, and I have two words to say with Brother Ling." ”

Gao Ming and Chai Dongliang walked outside, and Gao Ming took out a newspaper: "Governor, please see, this is a newspaper run by the Russians, which says that our people blew up the South Manchurian Railway in Xinmin Mansion and killed a few Mongols." ”

Chai Dongliang suddenly became nervous, the South Manchurian Railway is said to be his own, and now he has been hated by the Russians for pursuing the Mongolian horse bandits, if he fights with himself again, then the advance army of Mongolia will not say that it will gain a foothold in Manchuria, even if it wants to withdraw, it will be a very difficult thing!

(To be continued)