When Guifu got the confession, he immediately called the governor of Zhejiang, asking him to kill Qiu Jin quickly. This means to protect yourself. That night, the province called back accurately. Guifu found Li Zhongyue, asked him to read the reply from the governor's yamen, and ordered Li Zhongyue to be imprisoned. Li Zhongyue disagreed, saying that according to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, the crime of treason should be conclusively evidenced, and he only relied on Qiu Jin's vague confession to execute and kill.

It was July 15, 1907, and Qiu Jin was still in the Sanyin County Prison. That night, a bizarre prison robbery took place.

The San'in County Prison is in a dilapidated state, and because of financial constraints, the cells that should have been completely renovated have been maintained, and the prison's facilities are badly damaged, half of the doors and windows of the prison have been damaged and need to be repaired, and the doors that should have been covered with iron sheets and the beds with iron bars have been reinforced with wood by the prison officials themselves. Half of the room was leaking, and when it rained, the cell would be wet, anyway, the prisoners of the Qing Dynasty had lost their qualifications to be human beings, except for those ministers who were imprisoned in the prison and expected to come back. The prison guards only care about whether they can make money through these prisoners, and no one thinks about their living conditions - as long as people are still in prison, even if they are dead, as long as they don't escape.

Because he is a death row prisoner and a celebrity in Shaoxing, Qiu Jin's treatment is much better than that of ordinary prisoners, and the room is quite clean. In the evening, Li Zhongyue sent someone to bring Qiu Jin a sumptuous dinner, which was a routine benefit for death row inmates. But Lee Jong-wook did not show up. Since the matter is irreparable, Li Zhongyue doesn't want to see Qiu Jin again. The county magistrate was in extreme pain, and he had already vaguely foreseen the pressure of public opinion that Qiu Jin's death would bring by his own hands. The officials of the Qing Dynasty finally realized the power of public opinion, and the various private newspapers that sprung up like mushrooms after a rain became more and more free of speech, and it was not a big deal to criticize the government and government.

Li Zhongyue decided to resign, and this official could not be sustained. This is a conscientious official who carries out his boss's order to execute Qiu Jin against his will, and will be destined to nail himself to the pillar of shame in history. The resignation can be regarded as a responsible explanation to those who sympathize with the revolutionary party and sympathize with the talented women of Shaoxing who will fiercely attack them.

Lee Jong-wook stayed up all night, and he was not satisfied with several drafts of his resignation, and he was annoyed. His subordinates urgently reported that there was chaos in the prison. A master attacked the prison and robbed Qiu Jin! Li Zhongyue was shocked, it was about the time of the end of the day, because he was afraid that Qiu Jin's comrades would rob the law field. The scheduled time to kill Qiu Jin was in the early hours of the morning. Who knew that something really happened!

Li Zhixian immediately changed his clothes and went to the prison to check. In the Qing Dynasty, the residence of the magistrate and the prison were often separated by a wall. Sanyin County Ya is a three-hall courtyard, with the second hall in front and his residence in the back. There is a garden on one side and a prison on the other. Li Zhongyue hurried towards the prison, but he was surprised that he hadn't heard the slightest movement in the nearby prison, let alone the sound of gunfire. Li Zhongyue suspected that the jailer who sympathized with Qiu Jin secretly released Qiu Jin, this inference made Li Zhongyue feel relaxed, if the time was pushed forward by fifty years, and the prisoner who committed the crime of rebellion escaped from the prison under his jurisdiction, he would never just be punished by cutting his post to the people, but now the situation is different, the situation is in chaos, the ban has been opened, and the prestige of the imperial court has been greatly challenged.

Thinking of this, Li Zhongyue's pace slowed down, but someone had already greeted him, it was Li Bantou in charge of criminal investigation, "Lord County, Lord County, Qiu Jin is probably robbed by the army." ”

"How?" Li Zhongyue was taken aback, and stood still to look at the shrewd Li Bantou in front of him.

"There were at least five or more of them, and without firing a single shot, they knocked out the brothers on duty, tied them up and gagged them, and then opened the cell door and took the prisoners away. Presumably, one of the brothers resisted or was about to give a warning, was stabbed in the throat and died. ”

"Who is the deceased?"

"Cell boss Liu Qi."

"Take me to see it."

Li Zhongyue inspected the scene, knocked out all the officials who were tied to the pillars in the prison yard, and stood in the corner with a solemn expression, Li Zhongyue asked one by one, there were originally two people on duty at night, but because the prisoners were to be executed in the early morning, the guards were increased last night, a total of four people were on duty, and they were also equipped with guns. Now the four surviving people were attacked almost at the same time, and it was impossible to tell how many people were attacking, and they did not say why Liu Qiwei appeared at the scene and was killed. Because Liu Qi was not on last night's shift. It can be inferred from this that Liu Qi had not yet appeared when the four people were attacked, but he unexpectedly appeared at the scene, resulting in his killing. All the prisoners in custody stayed in the cell except for Qiu Jin, and none of them were taken away, which shows that the people who came were targeting Qiu Jin.

With doubts, Li Zhongyue called Li Bantou into the signing room and asked carefully.

"Qiu Jin has a lot of connections with the Zhejiang Hui Party, and some people see that she met Wang Jinfa from Shengxian County before she was arrested, so why did she say that it was not her comrade who did it?"

"Yu Xianzun, the doors and windows of the prison are intact, and the four brothers still got together to eat before the accident, and there were no separate activities, which can rule out the suspicion of internal response. The subordinates looked around and found traces of climbing over the wall, and it can be inferred that the thief entered through the wall. The four brothers were attacked in different places, and the time was very close to each other, which shows that the criminals were not committed by one person, and the methods used to tie up the four guards were exactly the same, which shows that the people who came had received special training. The subordinates believed that most of the party members were good and bad, and it was difficult for them to plan and act so carefully. ”

"Did the murderer leave any physical evidence?"

"I've checked it, but nothing is left."

"It can't be said that the army did it." It is not a trivial matter for the Zhejiang garrison to be involved in Qiu Jin's case, and Li Zhongyue does not want to complicate things.

"County honor, subordinates are just inferences." Li Bantou kept shaking his head.

"Don't say anything about this beforehand." Li Zhongyue did not arrange a four-way pursuit, and said in a deep voice, "You first sort out a document of the scene investigation and the confessions of the four of them, and I will ask Master Mo to help you write it." "I have to report it to Guifu, and as for how I will deal with myself, let him go. Out of serious sympathy for Qiu Jin, Li Zhongyue did not even order the city gate to be closed and searched.

First press the chaos caused by the robbery of Qiu Jin in Shaoxing Mansion. At this moment, on a grain boat on the Grand Canal, Qiu Jin was sitting in the cabin dressed in men's clothes, talking to Wang Zhifeng, who had become an elegant man in a long robe.

"Who are you?"

"Can't you hear the accent?" Wang Zhifeng smiled.

"Are you from Shandong?"

"Yes, on the orders of General Long Qian, I came to rescue the Autumn Woman, fortunately, I did not disgrace my mission, but it was a great fortune for the heroine."

"Shandong Admiral Long Qian? The imperial court eagle dog that suppressed the Hunan and Jiangxi uprisings? ”

"It's better not to say that......"

"I don't want you to save me!" Qiu Jin suddenly realized, "It was Long Qian who sent you to rob me to Beijing Lingchi in order to invite credit to the Tartar Imperial Court, right?" ”

"Ha Lu Ha. I didn't expect the Autumn Woman to have such imagination. Since ancient times, it has been difficult to die alone. The Autumn Lady regarded death as home, and refused the advice of her friends to escape, so why should she be afraid of the 3,600 fish scale knives? Wang Zhifeng's tone was sarcastic.

"You guys!" Qiu Jin glared angrily at the calm man in front of him.

"Just kidding, don't blame the woman. My general has long admired the heroic name of the heroine of Jianhu Lake. On the way south of the unified army, I heard about Anqing. Aware of the danger of the heroine. A few of us were sent to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to come to the rescue. Where is there any talk of releasing the imperial court to invite merit? Don't worry, let's go to Guangzhou. Dashuai said that the woman is afraid that it will be difficult to gain a foothold in Zhejiang. You might as well go to Guangzhou to avoid the limelight first, keep a useful body, and watch the world turn upside down. This passage is true and false, making it difficult for Qiu Jin to distinguish between them. In fact, Wang Zhifeng and his entourage only learned that Qiu Jin was famous in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and he was a very famous person. It was also in Shaoxing that Wang Zhifeng learned that there was a big case in Anqing, and only then did he understand the origin of Long Qian's plan to rescue Qiu Jin. But it was shrouded in a new fog, how did Commander Long know the identity of Dao Qiu Jin? How did you know that Xu Xilin was plotting to assassinate Enming? Why don't you ignore Xu Xilin and save Qiu Jin alone? This series of mysteries made Wang Zhifeng puzzled.

When the Qing army besieged Datong School to arrest Qiu Jin, Wang Zhifeng was in the crowd of people watching. Seeing that Qiu Jin was escorted to the county government and never came out, she knew that she must have been detained in the county jail. Wang Zhifeng is not worried about robbing prisons and saving people, all he brings are the masters of the special operation team, and there is no difficulty in rescuing people from a county-level cell, the difficulty is how to retreat safely. Therefore, Wang Zhifeng's people immediately took action, bought clothes, surveyed the terrain, selected hidden houses, rented boats, and operated efficiently.

Fortunately, everything went well, and the operation at night only killed a prison that suddenly appeared to call the police, and did not alarm others, and at dawn, the subordinates who reported that the city gate was normal received them out of the city smoothly and got on a grain boat rented by the canal.

Returning to a safe place from the edge of the cliff, even a person with a heroic personality like Qiu Jin has changed greatly, and he suddenly became afraid of death, and he really felt like he was reincarnated.

"Please rest assured, we have made careful arrangements, to the front we will abandon the boat ashore, the marshal said that you will ride a horse, we will ride a horse by land, there will be someone to answer all the way, to Linshanwei, we Shanghai ship straight to Guangzhou. When the Zhejiang government was alarmed, we were on the sea boat. ”

"Let Mr. Wang arrange everything."

In a place about ten miles north of Cao'e City, the grain ship quietly docked, Qiu Jin, who had changed men's clothes, got off the boat with a few tough men, there were already people there, they were divided into two groups, got on the war horse, all the way to the east, Shangyu had passed the dawn of the day, after hitting the tip in a small town, he continued to hurry, and arrived in Cao'e City at noon, Wang Zhifeng, who had been accompanying Qiu Jin, arranged for Qiu Jin to live in a small shop, waiting for news from the seaside.

The city of Cao'e is peaceful. Qiu Jin lived in a single room, Wang Zhifeng seemed to be out of the blue, there were two men living next door to the left and right, these men with a fierce and silent body were extraordinary, Qiu Jin dispelled the idea of escaping. She vaguely felt that it was safe in the hands of these mysterious Shandong people.

In the evening, Wang Zhifeng came back with a bag of dry food, "Autumn Woman, let's just have some food, the government has started a search, so don't show up." After the meal, we put on makeup to make sure that we are in order, and then we set off for the sea. ”

Qiu Jin ate half a piece of baked bread, drank a bowl of boiling water, followed Wang Zhifeng out of the shop, rode eastward on a twilight horse, and arrived at a bay, where a small boat was parked, Wang Zhifeng and two soldiers accompanied her on the boat, but the other two men stayed on the shore.

"Won't they come with us?" Qiu Jin asked Wang Zhifeng.

"They have other tasks, escort here, and the mission is done."

"Aren't you handsome in Shandong, why did you go to Guangzhou?"

Wang Zhifeng smiled, revealing a mouthful of neat white teeth, "I don't know about military secrets. My mission is to protect you to Canton. ”

There was a faint light not far away, and then the outline of a sea ship appeared in front of him, the small boat leaned up, the rope ladder was lowered on the big boat, and a man climbed up first, Wang Zhifeng said to Qiu Jin, "Climb up, no problem, right?" ”

Qiu Jin didn't speak, grabbed the rope ladder and struggled to climb up.

Seven days later, Qiu Jin was already in Shamian in Guangzhou, living in a private house, she was sure that these people had indeed come to rescue her, but all this was like a dream, making her full of doubts and difficult to find answers.

Qiu Jin still doesn't have absolute freedom, she can't get out of the yard. The two men under Wang Zhifeng were here, and there were two more people, a man and a woman, the woman spoke with a Shandong accent, but the man spoke a Cantonese accent, which was very difficult to understand. The woman seemed to be a doctor and knew Western medicine, she wanted to check Qiu Jin's body, but Qiu Jin refused.

"Why are you putting me under house arrest when you saved me?" Qiu Jin asked Wang Zhifeng.

"Don't blame the Autumn Woman. This is the command of the great commander. When the big marshal arrives, you go and ask him. Wang Zhifeng always smiled.

"Where is he?"

"Dashuai is on his way back to Guangzhou, and he will arrive soon. All the doubts, the heroine naturally knows when she sees the handsome. ”

Qiu Jin wanted to see books and newspapers, and Wang Zhifeng sent someone to buy back a stack of recent newspapers.

This look made Qiu Jin angry, "It turns out that Long Qian suppressed the Qinlian Uprising again!" What a human-faced beast's heart! I don't want him to save me! Let me go now! ”

"You can't scold us commanders like that! People can't not understand and learn about Entu. After listening to the "translation" of the Cantonese man, the charming-looking woman sent to accompany Qiu Jin said.

"Long Qian is willing to be a Tartar eagle dog, and he is the enemy of my 40,000,000 Han people, what is it that is not a human-faced beast? Ask him, do you remember who your ancestors were? Qiu Jin threw the newspaper on the woman's face.

No wonder Qiu Jin was angry, and the news of the battle of Qinlian in the fifth town was reported in the newspapers, and the news that Huang Xing's whereabouts were unknown and he might have died in battle deeply stimulated her. (To be continued......)