Chapter 1: The Beginning of the Crossing
Updated: 202-0-
On April 4, 20, the Longkong Mountain Forum took the opportunity of the Qingming holiday to hold a gathering of friends in the military history version of the overhead group at a large hotel near Wutong, Xiamen. At two o'clock in the afternoon, a group of friends from all over the world walked around Ruiyun Palace, which is not far from the hotel, and walked to the beach after being full of wine and food. All of them, they found a few reefs on the edge of the beach and sat down, admiring the seaside scenery while talking nonsense, all about what I would do if I traveled back in time, and the atmosphere was quite enthusiastic.
Just as everyone was in an impassioned mood, a shrill voice appeared, "Do you all really want to go back in time?" A man of medium stature, mediocre appearance, wearing a black windbreaker, and a pair of sunglasses stood up, this guy's ID in the forum is called Sun Xuanwu, and he always says that he is Xuanwu when he has nothing to do, and he claims to be the protector of Huaxia, and he is a divine horse and a divine beast.
"I really want to cross, I can help!" Sun Xuanwu said as he glanced at the crowd as he took out a strange metal box from his arms and pressed the button lightly. A blue halo suddenly appeared on the beach, through which people could go to the sea to sail and dot the sails, as well as two galleons that had only been seen in pictures, movies and television.
"That's clippers, the fastest ships of the mid-9th century." Bai Baoxiang said. Bai Baoxiang is a native of Jinjiang, Fujian Province, and is 27 years old this year. He is the moderator of the Longkong Mountain Forum, good at collecting and sorting out all kinds of information and literature, and his memory is also good, but whenever he discusses problems, he can always quote scriptures and say that he is ugly, so he is nicknamed "Treasure Chest".
"It's a drop, that's a clipper. Opposite is Xiamen on April 4, 54, or this beach. Sun Xuanwu continued to make a shrill sound, "Because of the limited energy, the time of this space-time box has been set and cannot be changed. Remember, crossing the space-time gate is just a time travel, time changes, the place does not change, travel in both directions, and the passage of time on both sides is also synchronized. Warning, due to the lack of energy of the machine, the total mass of the matter that passes through the space-time gate in both directions is limited to about 30,000 tons, and after two years, the time machine will automatically disappear. Happy crossing to everyone. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, Sun Xuanwu disappeared from people's sight at once. What remained in front of everyone was a strange metal box placed on a reef.
"The dream in my heart is really about to become a reality?!" Everyone, you, me, you, can hardly believe it.
The closest to Sun Xuanwu just now were Wang Tiezhu and his wife. Wang Tiezhui is 4 years old and a major officer of a naval unit stationed in Xiamen. Seeing that the machine box was under his feet, he cautiously pushed his wife Fan Hua aside, then slowly squatted down, looked at the box carefully, and reached out to pick it up.
The space-time machine in the shape of a small box has a little weight, and I don't know what kind of metal material it is made of. There are two buttons on the top of the box, and there are two arrows on each button, one backward and one forward.
Seeing that everyone gathered around to ask for this box, Fan Hua, who is a doctor, hurriedly stretched out his hand and stopped him, "Everyone be careful, if it is really a space-time machine box, it should have radiation, and I am going to do some radiation measurement in this box." ”
"Don't worry, the box is absolutely safe." Sun Xuanwu's big head suddenly emerged from the void, startling everyone, "It should be noted that the opening of this space-time gate is time-limited. ”
At this time, the space-time box in Major Wang's hand made a mechanical sound, "The space-time gate will disappear in two minutes." ”
Qian Duoduo is Qian Shuiting's daughter. Thirty-four-year-old Qian Shuiting has been working hard in North America for many years, and he is now engaged in statistical analysis and related project management of pharmaceutical clinical trials in a large company in the United States. Ten-year-old Duoduo is fluent in Chinese and English, has a lively personality and quick behavior, and when she saw that this time and space gate was not far from her, she immediately passed through.
Qian Shuiting saw that Duoduo was wearing a blue halo, and hurriedly shouted, "Don't rush over." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to pull Qian Duoduo. But where did this come from, Qian Duoduo was quick with his hands and feet, and he wore it all at once. So Lao Qian and his wife Aibeibei also went over.
Through the time and space gate, Qian Duoduo was waving to everyone, and everyone was a little eager to try and want to go through. Mao Pi, who has a calm personality, is a native of Fuzhou, 2 years old this year, slightly wide and fat, and has always pursued a calm and strategic, consultative and then action. He and Bai Baoxiang are both moderators of the Longkong Mountain Forum, and they are also the initiators and organizers of this gathering. Mao Pi coughed lightly twice, everyone turned their eyes to him, and he said lightly: "Calm, calm, the opposite side is Xiamen Island in 54 years, this is in the Qing Dynasty, we have no braids, no preparations, and the danger factor is five-star!" ”
As he spoke, Mao Pi turned his head to the space-time gate, "Old Qian, you come back quickly, and then go over when we bring enough necessary equipment." ”
"Hehe, it won't all be Ye Gong's good dragons." The big head in the air let out a shrill laugh, "I'm going to give you a ride." As soon as Sun Xuanwu's words fell, the blue space-time gate suddenly swelled, enveloping everyone, and everyone only felt that the air suddenly became very viscous, almost unable to move, and returned to normal in an instant.
The location where everyone is now is the same as the original time and space, it is still a beach in the Wutong area, but the scenery is more charming. Hidden in the mountains and forests, the Ruiyun Palace is built on the abrupt rocks, and it is picturesque; The seaside is full of strangely shaped tall rocks, and flocks of birds fly on the dark brown rock cliffs. Beneath the cliffs, a beautiful stretch of sand sparkles in the sun. Even the air is much cleaner, and people feel as if they have entered another world.
"Okay, give you a little surprise, don't thank me, we'll meet indefinitely." Saying that, Sun Xuanwu disappeared from people's sight again. The blue aura also disappeared.
Just as everyone was in shock, the metal box in Wang Tiehammer's hand made a metallic sound again, "This machine has entered a dormant state and will restart in twenty-four hours." ”
Wang Tiehammer hurriedly put the box in front of him, and he cautiously pressed the button of the forward arrow of the sign, but there was no reaction; After a pause, he pressed the backward arrow button again, but there was still no response. The major pressed the two buttons a few more times, but the space-time machine box did not respond, and everyone looked at each other.
Mao Pi immediately took out his mobile phone from his pocket, "It's 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and the mobile phone has no signal at all." ”
"There's really no signal."
"That's right, the phone does run out of signal."
"It's normal to travel to another time and space, and there is no signal." Bai Baoxiang stood up, "Let's count the number of people first, there are five people in the major and Lao Qian's family, Mao Pi and me, as well as Gu Wusheng, Lei Nianping, Wang Xietang, we are now a total of ten people." Except for the mysterious Sun Xuanwu, everyone is here. Now let's check your belongings again and see if there's anything missing. ”
Thirty-year-old Gu Wusheng, a native of Beijing, is an MBA in business administration, and he is a fanatical nationalist who pulls a group of people on the forum to carry out deductions on the late Ming Dynasty to eliminate the Tartars. Lei Nianping is 30 years old, originally from Beijing, and actually from Taiwan. Wang Xie Tang is 2 years old and a native of Langya, Shandong. They are all the tubes of the Longkong Mountain Forum.
Everyone replied, "No." "No", "My stuff is here." ”
"That big-headed uncle left a small bag just now." Qian Duoduo held up a small bag at Bai Baoxiang.
Bai Baoxiang took the small bag and turned out a lot of pieces of paper from it, and he suddenly became happy, "Great, this is the customs clearance paperwork, our customs clearance paperwork." With this thing, we can't blow in the wind or rain in Xiamen. Everyone's slightly apprehensive mood suddenly relaxed a lot.
"Okay, isn't it a day." Aibeibei opened her arms with her back to the sea, "Old Qian, you take two pictures of me and Duoduo first." ”
Lao Qian's family of three took a photo with the sailboat on the sea as the background, and Wang Tiehammer said to everyone: "If you come, you will be safe." Finally came to a different time and space, we should first record our glorious image. ”
Mao Pi was not interested in taking pictures, he took two photos casually, and then raised the Russian telescope that he had been carrying with him to look around, "Well, I went to the man with long braids, and the boats at sea are all men with braids, and we are indeed in the late Qing Dynasty." ”
Wang Tiehammer looked out into the sea, and the sea was dotted with sailboats, large and small, and there were many small sampans.
"Major, take those two clippers." Mao Pi handed the telescope to Wang Tiezhu, "These ships don't go to the port, there must be a problem with unloading here." ”
Not far from the shore are two clippers, many of which are leaning against the side of the clippers to unload. Wang Tiehammer picked up the binoculars and scanned the past, "This should be a smuggling ship, right?!" ”
Bai Baoxiang walked over, "These are opium ships." Before the Opium War, American and British opium smuggling ships dared to anchor far away in the ocean, but now that Xiamen has a British consulate and an American consulate, they have stopped in the coastal waters. ”
"Uncle, these opium dealers are so bad, they should all be arrested." Qian Duoduo stood behind them and said.
"Don't mess around, Uncle is talking about serious things." Abebe walked over.
"Mom, I'm also talking about serious things, and I'm not messing around." Qian Duoduo pointed with his hand, "You, uncle said those are opium ships." Dad told me a long time ago about the poisoning of opium, and those bad guys who poison the Chinese should all be locked up and not allowed to do bad things again. ”
"Duoduo is right, those villains should be locked up, and they can't be allowed to do bad things." Qian Shuiting walked over and gently stroked Duoduo's head.
"Old Qian, how did you educate this daughter, she has a full sense of justice at a young age." Major Wang smiled, "But, Duoduo, we are the Qing Dynasty, this is the world of foreign devils and Manchu Tartars, and we have no right to speak." ”
"What do you guys do?" Four sturdy men in dark robes came down from the shore, each with a large white circle on the front and back of their clothes, and in the middle of the white circle was the word brave, each with a spear in his hand, and long braids on the back of his head.
Lei Nianping did not participate in the discussion of everyone, and walked around the beach with a camera, and when he suddenly came down to these four people who looked brave, he didn't care about the three seven twenty-one pick up the camera is to click a photo. The flash startled the four officers, and they quickly stopped, raising their spears to defend themselves.
The group of people in the back saw the four Qing Dynasty soldiers brave, and they also raised the cameras in their hands and clicked violently. Lei Nianping saw that these four people were about to get hairy, so he hurriedly stepped forward. "Four big brothers, we just came back from overseas, and we just rested here." He was afraid that these four people would not understand, so he spoke Beijing, Hokkien and Hakka with Taiwanese accents.
Bai Baoxiang was afraid that Lei Nianping would suffer a loss, "Lao Qian, Lao Wang, the two of you will accompany your family, and we will go up." With that, a few people greeted him together.
Abebe didn't speak, she had already pulled out a large women's wolf guard from her bag. Similarly, Qian Duoduo also took out an item from the small backpack behind him. They followed, with tools in hand. Fan Hua and Wang Tiehammer saw that the two sturdy women were followed by the empty-handed Qian Shuiting, and they looked at each other and smiled.
The leading soldier pointed his spear at the crowd, "Where did you come from, where are you going, and if you are visiting the local area, will there be anyone to protect you?" ”
"They speak Hokkien, don't move." Bai Baoxiang stepped forward and arched his hands and gave a deep salute, "This big brother, we are from American, American, that is, the United States, the United States, and Citigroup." He also spoke Hokkien.
"Citi Nation?"
"Yes, we are foreign monks from Citigroup, and we have just come to Guibaodi, ready to go to the foreign monk temple in the city."
"Boldly rebelled, dared to pretend to be a foreign monk. You must know that your appearance and accent are all the appearance of my Celestial Empire. Don't think that if you shave your hair and change your outfit, you can get by. ”
As soon as the soldier said this, he saw another flash of flashing lights, which startled the guy. A photo with a wide white edge slowly spit out from the mouth of the Polaroid camera in Qian Duoduo's hand, Qian Duoduo picked up the photo for a while, felt okay, and handed the photo he had just taken to the soldier.
"Hexology, this is the Demon Technique of Soul Harvesting!" The leading soldier's legs softened suddenly, and his voice trembled a little.
“no,no,no!” Bai Baoxiang shook his head again and again, he clasped his hands together, and said very sacredly: "This is not soul collection, nor is it a demon method, this is science, and it is a sacred spell that everyone knows." He said as he drew a cross on his chest.
The soldier's whole body went limp, and he was a little overwhelmed by the picture, and turned his head to the three brothers behind him. He took a few steps back, holding the picture and muttering to the three brothers for a long time.
Although the voices of those four people were very low, those who could understand Hokkien still vaguely heard something, "soul collection", "essence blood", and "lifespan".
It didn't take long for the leading soldier to turn around, although his face was full of smiles, his whole body was still a little trembling, and his voice was a little hoarse, "You are really from Citigroup?" ”
"We're really from Citigroup, and there won't be any fake, that's our customs clearance paperwork." Bai Baoxiang was also full of spring breeze, and handed over a few pieces of paper, "I don't know what the four eldest brothers do, you are soldiers of the Green Battalion?" ”
"It turns out that the gentlemen are really from Citigroup." The leading soldier took the paperwork, checked it a little and returned it to Bai Baoxiang.
"We are the Green Battalion soldiers of the Five Communications." The messenger put away the stick in his hand and gave a deep salute, "Masters, don't blame the villain, it's mostly because the knife will be chaotic recently, and the imperial court has strictly ordered all localities to guard against the chaos of the party, and we can't help ourselves." ”
Bai Baoxiang didn't think about it for a while, "What is the fifth communication?" ”
The soldier hurriedly explained, it turned out that Wutong was the soldier guarding the Wutong Ancient Ferry, which used to be Wutong Village, but now it has been reduced to Wutong. This Wutong ferry port is the only passage from Xiamen Island to the mainland of the mainland, and the government has always attached great importance to defense, especially in the past few years, the small knives of southern Fujian will cause chaos in the Xiamen area, so the precautions have become stricter.
Mao Pi also interjected in Hokkien dialect on the side, "What is the knife club?" ”
The four people explained to everyone in a babbling voice, the knife club is a chaotic party, and it opposes the court all day long, although several leaders were killed in the past few years, but a new leader has emerged, and a new leader was also killed last year, but now there are still more parties in chaos.
Although everyone has long known what a knife will be, they still pretend to be very angry, how can these thieves do such evil!
Seeing that everyone's mood was relatively high, the leading Min Zhuang accompanied him and said carefully, "Masters, I know that everyone is a master, can this soul-gathering spell be lifted for us?" ”
"Solve spells~~" Bai Baoxiang touched his scalp and turned his head.
"Four big brothers, wait a minute." Qian Shuiting took out four small pendants of the gossip diagram from Qian Duoduo's bag, which he had just bought from Ruiyun Palace, he folded his hands, four small pendants in the palm of his hand, facing everyone's cameras, an imaging photo, in the air, and the front and back of the four people were constantly dating, and there were words in his mouth, "*~!" #¥%……&*”
Lao Qian chattered for a few minutes, then held four pendants in both hands and sent them to the soldiers, the four soldiers carefully took the pendant, and the gossip map was on it, and the four of them retreated to the side and muttered for a long time, and made up two taels of silver and handed it to Qian Shuiting.
Lao Qian asked the soldiers for photos again, and the lighter lit the photos at once, and the eyes of the four soldiers were round, and they couldn't stop muttering, "Masters, what masters!" "They had never seen a running fire, so they were very surprised.
The soldiers reverently hung the gossip map on their chests, and then said goodbye to everyone very respectfully and went ashore.
When the four of them walked away, Gu Wusheng jumped up all of a sudden, "That soldier just now said that it is now the seventh day of the third month of the fourth year of Xianfeng, what day is this changed to the Gregorian calendar?" ”
"The seventh day of the third month of the fourth year of Xianfeng is April 4, 54." Qian Duoduo raised the handheld computer in his hand.
Wang Tie hammered the time on his mobile phone, "It's three o'clock in the afternoon, this is the late Qing Dynasty, the environment is very dangerous, let's sit down and discuss, what should we do next?" ”
Until everyone sat around, Wang Tiehammer continued, "We have traveled through time, the space-time machine has taken us to 54 years, what do we do now? ”
As soon as Wang Tiezhu finished speaking, Qian Shuiting followed up, "What should I do?" There are two ways, one is to use the time machine to make money and everyone shares it equally; And then there's the fact that we're doing something big with this machine. ”
Gu Wusheng raised his head, "Of course, we are doing a career, we want to create a new era in China in 54 years." ”
"That's right, everyone has always wanted to travel through to do great things, and now that the space-time machine has been delivered to us, how can we live up to the kindness that God has given us." Wang Tiehammer said.
Bai Baoxiang nodded and said: "54 years is good, the Yangtze River valley is making trouble in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and soon the British and French bandits will engage in the second Opium War, followed by the Indian native army uprising, this is a very favorable time for us." We must do our best to overthrow the Manchus, restore China, defeat the foreign powers, and establish a Chinese sky. ”
"Uncle, those man-eating opium dealers are all big bad guys, we should wipe them out, as well as their backstage bosses and helpers."
"Duoduo is right." "Agreed." Everyone, you and I are vying to speak.
Bai Baoxiang stood up from the rock, "Listen to me, we are here in the late Qing Dynasty, and we have to compete with foreigners, and the environment is very dangerous, so we must unite and have a strong leadership core." I propose that we be present to form a cross-cutting executive committee. ”
"Agree, agree, agree......"
Qian Shuiting paused Aibeibei, "I have a suggestion, that is, it is better for a family to have only one member in the executive committee. ”
"Yes, Lao Qian is alone in the executive committee in our family, and my daughter and I won't join in the fun."
Everyone turned their attention to Wang Tiezhu and Fan Hua, Fan Hua nodded slightly, "Lao Qian's suggestion is very reasonable, I agree." When our family Wang Tiehammer is in the Executive Committee, I will be the masses. As a mass, I also want to weakly ask, since you want to stay in Xiamen for a whole day in 54 years, what should you do? ”
Bai Baoxiang took out a notebook from the bag he was carrying, he turned on the computer and crackled for a while, and said: "The most important thing to do is people and money. people, wait until they return to modern times, and then recall; Well, we're going to start raising it now. According to the records, there is a Banmei Society here in Wutong, and there is a 'Dafudi' in the village, so we will fool it. ”
"What's Doctor?"
"Dafu is a wealthy Tainan businessman Shi Shirong who returned to his hometown after making a career in Tainan to build a big mansion, and the silver spent on the construction was 13,300 taels."
Several people stood up, sorted out their clothes and belongings, and left the beach.