Late Qing Dynasty.

Tokai City ......

There are no bustling streets, no crowds, no high-rise buildings, only desolation and white smoke rising from everywhere.

Even in the air, there is a smell of decay.

Of course......

Occasionally, there will be a street of a few small buildings.

It's just that most of these streets are occupied by foreigners......

Those foreigners, all wearing suits, strutted through it, their faces different from the depression around them, replaced by pride and self-confidence.

Of course......

In the streets, there are occasionally some Chinese people wearing cloth clothes passing through.

Whenever they saw a foreigner, they all came forward with flattery......

"Hello, Mr. Will, you came out shopping again, I recently bought a very beautiful white tiger, how about it, do you want to try it?" All it takes is 20 grams of smoke......" A man in a cloth shirt in his thirties with dull eyes, when he speaks, his head is bowed, and his body is bent, like a dog.

"Mr. Gülen...... As you said yesterday, you can take me out of this country, I want to go to the United States, as long as I can do it, let me do anything. "A woman who looked to be in her twenties, kneeling on her legs, tears streaming down her face.

in the streets.

There are just too many such scenarios.

Besides......

Tokai City!

Another inconspicuous street is a different scene entirely.

The street is very narrow.

Strictly speaking, it's just a small alley.

The air smelled of decay, and in the sunlight, it was sweltering.

But......

The streets were full of people.

These men were ragged, pale, dirty, and bloodless......

Compared with the people who flatter foreigners in other places, they are even more unbearable, like a puddle of mud.

Besides......

Almost everyone has a cigarette stick in their hands.

Some people looked at the cigarette stick in a daze.

Some people are obsessively smoking, tilting their heads from time to time, spitting out a puff of white smoke, and their numb faces, sometimes sluggish, sometimes showing a silly smile, can't tell whether they are enjoying or suffering.

It's in this environment......

In the middle of the street, two teenagers were walking side by side.

These two teenagers are very different from the people around them.

Thereinto......

A young man was dressed in cloth and tied with a long braid, typical of the Qing Dynasty, but his eyes were full of fine light, and his face was ruddy, and it was obvious that this era did not have much impact on him.

The other teenager was dressed in a white shirt, his hair was shoulder-length, naturally scattered, spotless, and he walked with his hands on his back, like an immortal, very elegant.

"Alas! Sir, these people are crazy, they take all the valuable things in the family to foreigners for some big cigarettes, and even their daughters and wives can be sold, in order to get big cigarettes, they don't even recognize their brothers and parents, this is an era of complete destruction, maybe our huge Huaxia Kingdom is really over like this! ”

When he walked, the young man in the cloth shirt kept frowning.

Maybe it's because the people around me are so miserable......

He finally couldn't help it, opened his mouth, first sighed, and then said to the white-shirted young man next to him in a hoarse voice.

"The change of times is like this!"

The white-shirted young man looked indifferent.

He's seen too much.

I don't know how many are more miserable than this.

The situation on both sides of the street at the moment, to some extent, could not have any effect on him at all.

But......

That's not what the boy in the shirt thinks.

"Sir, you are right! But...... No matter how bad this era is, these people are innocent, they were just born in this era by mistake, and I am willing to help them if I can. The young man in the cloth shirt spoke seriously.

The white-shirted young man said indifferently: "Oh? ”

"Instead of selling those antiquities to foreigners, it is better for me to spend money to buy them, after all, antiquities are also what we want."

"But in the end, the money will still be used to buy big cigarettes."

“…… I can dissuade them! If these big cigarettes continue to be smoked, they will definitely be completely wasted in the long run, and when I have money, I can help them rebuild their homes, and as long as there is enough food, they will definitely want to live better. ”

"It's not these few people you want to save, it's this country, and even this era."

"I ......" The cloth-shirted boy wanted to say something, but after this word was spit out, he couldn't say the next words at all!

Oh, yes!

He's just playing dumb.

The bad thing is this era.

Even if these people are saved, what can they do?

What should be destroyed will still be destroyed.

Forcibly meddling......

It is absolutely impossible to stop the torrent of this age.

"Sir, in this era, forget it, I want to save this street, of course, in return, I will do my best to collect what you need for you, sir, in the years to come."

After a long time, the young man in the cloth shirt spoke again.

"Yes!"

When the white-shirted young man heard this, he did not hesitate, but replied a word very casually.

"Thank you, sir."

The young man in the cloth shirt who was originally frowning, after hearing this answer, his face was overjoyed, although he had not known the young man in the white shirt for a long time, but he knew very well how much weight this word represented.

This one word......

It's equivalent to directly saving all the lives of everyone on this street.

These two teenagers.

It is Lu Wensheng and Ye Bei!

When they first met...... It was in the late Qing Dynasty.

……

"Time flies, and I don't know how many fragments that little guy collected back then."

Confucian temple.

on the streets.

Ye Bei muttered softly in his mouth.

Next to him, Gongsun Bo happened to hear this.

I secretly felt a little strange in my heart.

But......

After he witnessed Ye Bei's magic, at this time, he didn't dare to say anything more, just silently led the way.

Time passes quickly.

About twenty minutes later, Gongsun Bo stopped in front of a half-hidden antique shop.

The corners of his mouth twitched.

was about to open his mouth to speak to Ye Bei......

On the street, a discordant voice was the first to come.

"Hey, don't get in the way if you two are okay, I have to go in and smash this store today...... A damn bastard, obviously selling fakes, not to mention the high price, and ignoring Lao Tzu at all. ”

It was a man of twenty-five or sixteen years of age who spoke.

Behind him, there were two men's men, carrying two baseball bats in their hands.