The rich husband said that this person is called Li Debiao, and the development of this person is quite legendary. He was a native of Faku County, northern Liaoning, and joined the Feng Army at the age of nineteen as an ordinary soldier under the command of Guo Songling, the general of the Feng Army.

In the seventh year of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin became the patrol envoy of the three eastern provinces and officially became the king of the northeast. He was full of ambition and felt that the standard of the mansion he lived in had to be improved. Guo Songling was the chief of staff of the guard brigade at that time, and specially sent several more guard companies to strengthen the vigilance around, among which Li Debiao's company set up a sentry near the east gate of the marshal's mansion.

Zhang Zuolin has a habit of liking private interviews, often wearing a melon skin hat and a horse coat, not bringing anyone, and wandering out alone. On this day, he went out alone again, inspected several key facilities and military camps in Fengtian City, and did not return until night. Zhang Zuolin walked to the east gate of the Marshal's Mansion and was about to go inside, when he was seen by Li Debiao, who was on duty in the sentry box. When Li Debiao saw that a businessman-looking guy was sneakily approaching the Great Marshal's Mansion, he immediately raised his gun and shouted, telling him to leave quickly or shoot. Zhang Zuolin was angry and funny, thinking that the guards didn't recognize him, so he took two steps forward. Unexpectedly, Li Debiao clicked and pulled the gun to tie it, and he really wanted to do it. was so angry that Zhang Zuolin opened his mouth and scolded, saying that Lao Tzu is Zhang Zuolin, you little king and eight lambs quickly put down the gun.

This Li Debiao is also a straight man, not only did he not put down the gun, but scolded: "You are Zhang Dashuai, I am still your father, hurry up!" Otherwise, I'd have shot. The two of them were in a stalemate for a long time, and finally Zhang Zuolin was afraid that this kid would shoot him, so he had to leave in a huff. He went to the machine gun squadron headquarters of the teaching team in the east of the road in Da Nanmen, hung up the phone to the Marshal's Mansion there, and asked Guo Songling to come over to pick up people quickly.

Guo Songling answered the phone a little inexplicably, when did the marshal go back to the marshal's mansion to pick it up? But he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly rushed to the squadron headquarters to take Zhang Zuolin back. When Zhang Zuolin entered the Shuaifu, the first thing he did was to ask Guo Songling to call Li Debiao in the East Gate Pavilion.

After Li Debiao was brought in, Zhang Zuolin pretended to be displeased, pointed at him and said, Look at who I am now. Li Debiao took a look, only to find that the person at the door just now was really handsome. Next to Guo Songling's face was pale, sweating like rain, this bastard didn't even know the handsome, and pointed a gun at him, he didn't know whether he was alive or dead. Zhang Zuolin slapped the table and said that if you don't let me in, forget it, and say that it is my father who takes advantage of me? Only then did Li Debiao know that he had fallen into a catastrophe, and in the entire Fengtian City, he was probably the only one who dared to call himself Zhang Zuolin's father.

Li Debiao had a hard temper, but instead of kneeling down and begging for mercy, he stiffened his neck: "Our company commander said that no suspicious elements are allowed to approach the Marshal's Mansion." If you don't bring a guard and don't show your ID, I'll do it according to the rules! Zhang Zuolin was not angry, but was very satisfied, and pointed at Guo Songling: "Your soldiers are good, there is a kind!" If all the officers and men of the Fengjun are like him, strictly implement the order, and do not discount at all, then no one in the world can do anything to us. ”

Because of this incident, Li Debiao was a blessing in disguise, but he was praised and soon promoted. Zhang Zuolin heard that he was from Faku, and introduced him to a fellow villager, Yang Yuting, the general counselor of the Embassy. Yang Yuting admired this hard-boned little fellow villager very much, found him a daughter-in-law, and sent him to lecture in the martial arts hall for further study. Since then, Li Debiao has risen to prominence and become a legendary figure in the Northeast Army. By the seventeenth year of the Republic of China, he had been promoted to colonel and regimental commander, with an independent infantry regiment, subordinate to the 14th Army, and worked under the command of army commander Sun Dianying.

After hearing this, Xu Yicheng said that this person is also a strange person, but why are you looking for him?

Yu Fang said: "I heard a few days ago that Sun Dianying was defeated by Feng Yuxiang, and the 14th Army was routed all the way north, and now he is resting in Jixian County. And the location of the garrison of this Li Debiao Independent Regiment is between Jixian and Zunhua, very close to Ping'an City and Tanglin. The rich husband is also from Faku, and he has a little friendship with Li Debiao, and he once helped him with his military salary. If you can ask him to take action, you don't expect to exterminate Wang Shaoyi, at least you can protect the safety of Tanglin - the favor of our clan, in the vicinity of the capital, only this one can make it move. ”

Xu Yicheng pondered for a moment: "I don't know much about military matters, but Li Debiao's immediate boss Sun Dianying didn't give an order, can he act at will?" ”

Yu Fang smiled: "You don't know about this. Sun Dianying is a three-surnamed domestic slave, and he only blended into the Fengjun sequence by holding Zhang Zongchang's thigh. Zhang Zuolin was very wary of non-descendant troops, and he incorporated Li Debiao's independent regiment into Sun Dianying's 14th Army, which meant surveillance. Therefore, Li Debiao's independent regiment did not listen to the propaganda at all in Sun Dianying's place. ”

Xu Yicheng pondered for a moment and felt that there seemed to be no flaw in this proposal. Several people discussed it and decided to let the rich husband and Xu Yicheng go to Li Debiao. At this time, the rich husband frowned and said in a deep voice: "No, this is not enough." The two asked him what was wrong, and the rich husband said: "Li Debiao is a person I know very well, he is very straightforward in doing things, and he has never been accommodating." You think, when he was a soldier, he dared to stop Zhang Zuolin, and now his temper is even worse. This matter involves military deployment, and he may not be able to sell me this face. ”

"Then give money! Shall we help him get some more military salaries? I don't believe it, if a box of silver dollars is smashed over, he will not be moved? Yu Fang disagreed.

"Not enough, still not enough." The rich husband shook his head.

Yu Fang pondered for a moment, looked at Xu Yicheng, and showed a strange smile: "Mr. Xu, at this time, you have to rely on the power of your five veins. Xu Yicheng was so keen, he immediately guessed his intentions: "You want to forge a warrant from Zhang Zuolin and falsely send an order for Li Debiao to beat Wang Shaoyi?" ”

"Clever." Yu Fang stroked his palms and smiled, "Li Debiao is loyal to President Zhang Da, and he will definitely carry out his orders to the letter." ”

"That doesn't make sense, right? Aren't you afraid that he will call the presidential palace or the general staff to verify? Xu Yicheng frowned.

Yu Fang said proudly: "If it were in normal times, this strategy would naturally not work, but now the Feng army is in a mess up and down, the soldiers do not know the generals, the generals do not know the soldiers, the telephone and telegram are all not connected, Li Debiao's confidants will only recognize Zhang Zuolin's warrant - this is our opportunity." When he said this, he looked at Xu Yicheng expectantly, "As for how to imitate Zhang Zuolin's handwriting, you have to ask for the means of the five pulses." ”

The red-character door in the five veins - that is, the vein where Liu Yiming is located - specializes in ancient calligraphy and painting, and the children of the disciples have to figure out the calligraphy of each family since childhood, and it is easy for them to imitate Zhang Zuolin's old and rough penmanship.

Xu Yicheng stared at Yu Fang and saw him flash a sly look. Yu Fang is careful about what he is thinking, Xu Yicheng knows it clearly, he wants to use this to tie Xu Yicheng and the clan more tightly, and it is best to pull the five veins into the water together.

It's a pity that Xu Yicheng has no other good way, and the proposal proposed by Yu Fang is indeed the most suitable at present, and there is no other choice.

Yu Fang took the opportunity to say: "I know that the five veins have never had the habit of cheating, but if they can stop Wang Shaoyi, the Japanese will naturally retreat." A warrant can return two ways of soldiers and horses, which is a lot of business. Although he didn't understand why Xu Yicheng was so concerned about the Japanese, he knew that if he brought this matter out, this person would definitely not be able to refuse.

Xu Yicheng pondered for a long time and took a long breath: "Okay, I'll go and contact the five pulses." Do you have Zhang Zuolin's warrant in your hand? ”

Yu Fang said: "There is no warrant, but there is a copy of the authentic handiwork." Two years ago, Zhang Zuolin met the emperor in Beijing and sent him a letter. The emperor didn't think it was lucky, so he didn't take it to Tianjin, and kept it with me. The rich husband went to the back room, and after a while, he took out a scroll.

Xu Yicheng opened it and understood why Pu Yi was unlucky. There are four big characters written on it: "Recreate the Republic". To write these four words to an abdicated emperor is really ironic. What's even more peculiar is that the payment is actually "Zhang Zuolin's hand black". Xu Yicheng said strangely: "Isn't it hand ink?" Yu Fang replied embarrassedly: "He said that the clan gets too much government subsidies every year, so do you still want to occupy a piece of land?" Therefore, there is a lack of soil under the ink word, and it has become a black hand. ”

Even though Xu Yicheng was full of sorrow, he didn't laugh when he heard this, this handsome man is also a lover. He put away the scroll and turned to leave. Yu Fang arched his hand behind him and said respectfully: "Success or failure depends on you, Mr. Xu." ”

For some reason, when Xu Yicheng heard this, he suddenly felt a chill all over his body. Only then did he notice that from beginning to end, Yu Fang and her rich husband had never asked about Hai Lanzhu's situation, nor had they considered a plan on how to go to Ping'an City to rescue Hai Lanzhu. Do they have confidence in themselves that they will not die without help, or are they simply indifferent? What is the origin of this Hailanzhu girl?

However, when the big thing is at hand, Xu Yicheng can't take care of it so much for the time being. He went out the door, and Yao Lai was waiting at the door. Yaolai told Xu Yicheng that Liu Yiming had been sent to Fu Gui's house for a while, and the others were also there.

Fu Gui's house is in an alley not far from the police department, which is a large green tile house and a small courtyard with firewood. Fu Gui lives alone, so the house is very simple inside and out, and there is nothing superfluous. Originally, Fu Gui asked Liu Yiming to return to the fifth vein, but Liu Yiming was reluctant to go back, for fear of missing something big, so he temporarily settled here.

Xu Yicheng came in with the curtain, Liu Yiming was lying on the bed, Huang Kewu was sweating profusely to clean his wounds, and his sister Lu Yongde probably didn't pay much attention to Liu Yiming, so he didn't torture him with his heart, fortunately it was all bruises. As soon as Fu Gui looked at Xu Yicheng's demeanor, he knew that he definitely hadn't put things down, and his face couldn't help but be pale: "Sister-in-law, have you settled down?" Xu Yicheng said: "She is in Union Hospital, safer than at home - what about Sister Lu Yongde?" ”

Fu Gui raised his chin, and he was not angry: "Throw the firewood room, I'm asleep at this time." ”

Liu Yiming saw him coming, and struggled to get up. Xu Yicheng walked over quickly and let him lie down: "Are you okay?" Liu Yiming said: "It's okay, by the way, Uncle Yao's business...... Did you tell Old Man Shen? His eyes twinkled, full of anticipation. Yao Shenxing colluded with the Japanese to sell tobacco and soil, and this matter was shaken out, and no matter how silent he was, he couldn't be partial. The position of this patriarch will inevitably fall.

Xu Yicheng didn't hide it, so he talked and talked to Yao Shen and silently. Hearing Yao Shenxing say that he went to see the Japanese to buy antiques, Liu Yiming was emotional: "Uncle Yao, that's a pretext!" Uncle Xu, you should poke him on the spot! What an opportunity! ”

Xu Yicheng calmly touched his head: "Yiming, don't bother with this thought, the five veins are the five veins, I am me." Liu Yiming's eyes widened, and he argued angrily: "You also saw that these people are just a group of Taiping dogs. Now in this changing situation, if there is no one who understands it, sooner or later you will have to go over the ditch! If you don't fight, you just give up your responsibilities and let this big family end! ”

Liu Yiming has always wanted to push Xu Yicheng to the position of patriarch, and everyone knows this. But such a person with a deep personality is now shouting out so bluntly against the norm, which shows how obsessed he has become. As soon as he moved, he pulled the wound, grinning in pain, but his eyes kept staring at Xu Yicheng, not allowing him to retreat.

Huang Kewu and Yao Lai both looked at Xu Yicheng in silence, and the three young men of the five veins had their own thoughts, all waiting for his answer. Xu Yicheng said: "Let's talk about this later, there is an urgent matter at the moment, and I have to ask for your help." Liu Yiming only said that he was shirking, but Xu Yicheng took out a scroll and said the plan he discussed with Yu Fang.

"Although there are strict rules in the five veins that cannot be cheated, but the matter is urgent, and this is not for personal gain. Yiming, you are the most outstanding son of the generation of Hongzimen, and it should be okay to imitate Zhang Zuolin's warrant. ”

Liu Yiming took the scroll and unfolded it, and suddenly raised his head: "Uncle Xu, I can imitate this word, but you have to promise me one thing." Huang Kewu poked him next to him and said hurriedly: "Da Liu, what are you doing?" Is this to blackmail Uncle Xu? Liu Yiming said lightly: "Don't worry, this is not a threat." Even if Uncle Xu refuses, I will still write the warrant beautifully and without ambiguity. ”

Liu Yiming is retreating, but his methods are a little immature. Xu Yicheng said: "Say it." ”

"If the matter of Tanglin is successfully concluded, it will soon be Old Man Shen's 80th birthday, and I hope you can be there."

Shen Mo will announce the name of the successor of the five veins at his birthday banquet, and Liu Yiming asked Xu Yicheng to attend, naturally hoping that he would fight. Unexpectedly, Xu Yicheng agreed very simply: "Okay, I promise you, I will attend." ”

What Xu Yicheng means is that I only promised to attend the banquet, but I didn't promise to compete for a seat. What Liu Yiming thought was that as long as you appeared at the banquet, it would be a gesture and a victory in itself. So the two sides finally reached a delicate compromise, Liu Yiming breathed a long sigh of relief, and seemed to unload a big thing: "Help me prepare pen and ink." ”

He unfolded the scroll again and looked closely. Xu Yicheng laid out the good paper, pen, and ink prepared by Yu Fang, and suddenly heard a sound on the door, and when he looked back, he found that the medicine had pushed the door and dodged out. Xu Yicheng handed the ink pillar to Huang Kewu: "You come to help Yiming sharpen the ink." Then he walked out as well.

Yaolai was squatting at the door of the firewood room in the small courtyard, silent, hanging his head and not knowing what he was thinking. Xu Yicheng walked over: "What's wrong?" Feeling uncomfortable? Yao Lai half raised his head and put away the slippery face of the hippie smile in the past: "You and Brother Liu discussed in front of me how to embarrass my father at the birthday banquet, I can't listen, so I can only hide." He added, "My dad didn't do it right, but he's my dad after all." I know that I usually find trouble for him, and I don't get beaten less, but let me hear you say this, I really don't know what to ......."

Xu Yicheng squatted next to him and looked at the sky with his eyes: "Do you know why I left the Five Veins back then?" ”

"Huh? Why? "Yaolai is relatively young, and Xu Yicheng's departure was before he was born. What's more, he is the son of Yao Shenxing, and no one else will tell him.

"I was beaten out by my father." Xu Yicheng raised his head and looked at the sky, the sunlight was so strong that he had to squint his eyes, as if he had infinite emotion for the past.

"Your dad beat you too?"

"Hehe, if you've ever seen him beat me, you'll know that your dad is definitely merciful. He had broken three rattans of this thickness. ”

Xu Yicheng gestured a length with his fingers, which made Yaolai's face change. Beaten in this business, Yao Lai is a grandmaster-level figure, he knows how strong this rattan is, it can break three roots, and he doesn't know how much strength he has to use.

"My father belongs to the extreme old-fashioned, believing that strict teachers produce high apprentices, and sticks produce filial piety. Everyone outside praised him as a gentleman, but when he was his son, he was miserable. Since I was a child, I have been beaten a lot, and I often get a stick down at the slightest inappropriate thing. When you were younger, you made treasure puzzles as a game, right? For me, it was a matter of life and death, and his old man was very stubborn about the rules of palm eye appreciation, and he could not tolerate the slightest deviance. If you get it wrong, you have to stay in bed for three days. ”

Yaolai glanced at him sympathetically, not knowing what to say.

Xu Yicheng sighed: "That time, someone brought a Zhengde bright red hundred fish dark flower plate, and wanted to ask the five veins to identify it." I remember that the plate was very beautiful, with a delicate fetus, and there were four swimming fish painted on the wall of the plate, such as mackerel, white, carp, and mandarin fish, you know what that means, right? ”

"Take its homonym, clean and honest." The medicine came out of his mouth.

"Not bad. My father wanted to test the two of us young people, so he asked me to palm my eyes with your father Yao Shenxing. The identification of this plate was not very difficult, and we both judged that it was a fake. But the problem lies in the means of palm eyes. Your father is the same old way, look at the glaze, look at the fetal quality, look at the opening film, and look at the painter. At that time, I was very interested in Western science and technology, and I just read a news report that the British invented a Sherry-Webster porcelain identification method, using a high-powered microscope to observe the aging traces on the surface of porcelain, the Song Dynasty Ru porcelain can see the semi-circular corrosion line, the Yuan Dynasty Jun porcelain can see the corrosion pits gathered into spots, and the aging traces of different ages will be subtle. I went to Tongren West Hospital in Xiaoshun Hutong and borrowed a foreigner's microscope to look at this porcelain plate. Although the microscope multiplier is not high, and I don't have the specific corrosion characteristics of each type of porcelain in different ages, I thought of a way to take a real Zhengde plate and compare it with this one under the microscope, if it is different, then there must be a problem. ”

"That's a good idea." Medicine to tsk praise.

I felt the same way, and happily told my family that I wanted to buy a few microscopes from the UK. Unexpectedly, my father was furious, saying that I was opportunistic, not practicing my eyesight, not figuring out the truth in the utensils, and expecting a broken piece of glass to judge the authenticity in vain? How did I explain the scientific principles to him, he just didn't listen, and scolded me for fooling others, my character was wrong, and my reputation of the five veins was ruined. I was young and vigorous, and when I was angry, I quarreled with him, and he beat him with rattan, and I did not hide or give in. At that time, the people of the five veins came to persuade me, some grabbed my father and said don't kill people, and some persuaded me to admit my mistake quickly. But both of us are stubborn, and neither of us is willing to take a step back. In the end, I lay in bed for more than half a month to recover, and then I heard that my father ran to Tongren West Hospital and almost smashed someone's laboratory. In a fit of rage, I ran away from home. My father was even more simply, announcing in the newspaper that he had severed the father-son relationship, and he never talked to me again. Until he died a few years ago, when I went back to see him for the last time, he wouldn't let me in, until he was angry and rushed to the door, his eyes wide open, for fear that his family would let me in. ”

The medicine came to listen, and I couldn't speak for a long time. This father and son are really a pair of donkey tempers.

He knows that Wumai has always been quite resistant to modern technology, and he trusts his own vision and experience. In silent words, utensils are just arts, and in the final analysis, you have to sharpen your own Tao in order to be productive. Yaolai always thought that this was Old Man Shen's creed, but now he knew that Genzi was actually here with his father in Xu Yicheng.

Xu Yicheng leaned his head against the door panel of the firewood room and said with emotion: "Although I don't have any hatred for my father anymore, I still don't regret the decision to leave the five veins. Speaking of this, he suddenly showed a smile again, "What's more, I'm not without gains." ”

"Huh?"

"After I left Wumai, I went to Tongren Hospital to work in other people's laboratories to compensate for the loss of my father's troubles, and to study by the way. It was there that I met my wife, who happened to be working there as a trainee nurse. ”

Yao Lai's eyes widened, he was still speculating about how the two met, and it turned out that there was such a relationship with the five veins.

Xu Yicheng patted his little head: "So, you don't have to be so entangled at all." People live in the world, and you have to insist on something that is stupid but you think is right. ”

Yaolai smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I'm different from you. You're a genius, I'm just a waste, no big deal, and I smoke a lot, that's all for this life, what do you insist on? I don't have Da Liu's mind, I don't have the calmness of Rhubarb, and no one in the five veins is about me. There was self-deprecation in his eyes. It can be seen that his usual hippie smile is a disguise for inferiority.

Xu Yicheng said: "Without you, we wouldn't have been able to discover the relationship between the Yantu and the Chinese terroir expedition, let alone go this far." Isn't that what you're worth? And I can see that your sensitivity to porcelain is stronger than that of me and your father when we were younger, but you don't care. I told you to quit smoking because I couldn't bear to see a good billet ruined. ”

Yaolai replied listlessly: "You are comforting me, can people like me be saved?" ”

Xu Yicheng said: "I'll tell you another story." Just a few years ago, I met a gangster on the streets of Zhengzhou, this person is very distinctive, one eye is big, the other is small, and he took a fake bronze to set up a game to deceive me. The game he set up was so rough that I didn't have much effort to break it; Within two days, he learned a trick out of nowhere, and set up a game for me to bump into, and I broke him again. He set a trap four or five times in a row, and instead of deceiving me, he lost his own face. The last time he called a group of bandits, he wanted to scare me, but the bandits wanted to move seriously, and he was afraid of causing trouble, so he rescued me from the bureau he had set up himself. He also saved himself, if he did the same thing as that group of bandits, I had already arranged the backhand, and none of them wanted to escape. I see that this kid has a good understanding of identification, and his conscience is not clear, so he taught him a few tricks, gave him some capital, and let him do some business - now people are famous in Kaifeng, nicknamed Yin and Yang Eyes, and a well-known palm eye master. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Yiming shouted in the house that it was done. Xu Yicheng patted the medicine on the shoulder, and said You can think about it yourself, get up and walk into the house, and the rest of the medicine is alone, his eyes flashed, and he pondered.

Liu Yiming handed him a piece of paper, with ink dripping on it, and it was written that Li Debiao was asked to do his best to protect Tanglin without mistakes, and his tone was stern and intimate. Xu Yicheng compared the warrant with the scroll, almost identical, and secretly admired. How old is Liu Yiming, and he already has such attainments in calligraphy.

Huang Kewu said: "Uncle Xu, do you want me to accompany you?" Xu Yicheng said: "You and Fu Gui will wait for me to inform." If Li Debiao and Wang Shaoyi face each other, you will take advantage of the chaos to sneak into Ping'an City and rescue Hai Lanzhu. ”

"What about Professor Kido?" Huang Kewu asked, he was still thinking about this person. Xu Yicheng sighed: "If you can save it, let's save it together, he is also an idiot." Huang Kewu said "um" vigorously, and his face was happy.

Xu Yicheng put away the scroll and was about to go out, when he saw Fu Gui's face on the side, his face was like ice, he knew that he had gas in his stomach, and he didn't dare to provoke him, so he lowered his head and wanted to go out of the door. Fu Gui opened his mouth and said, "Xu Yicheng, you wait, I have something to tell you." Xu Yicheng turned around, smiled wryly, and was dragged by his arm to the outer courtyard.

Xu Yicheng smiled and said, "Don't be angry, this time it's really for a reason." Fu Gui snorted coldly: "I'm not interested in your excuse, give me something." Xu Yicheng was stunned and asked something. Fu Gui said: "Chen Weili's half of the letterhead. ”

Xu Yicheng has always carried this relic with him, he took it out of his arms and handed it to Fu Gui, with anticipation: "What new discoveries have you made?" Unexpectedly, Fu Gui replied unceremoniously: "No." ”

"And what do you want it to do?"

Fu Gui didn't say a word, just stared thoughtfully at the letterhead in his hand, and waited until Xu Yicheng was in a hurry before he said slowly: "I went to the Majestic Hotel just now, not only Professor Kido, but also the other members of the delegation have not returned. So I searched the rooms where they lived. It's a pity that the Japanese packed things up very clean and didn't find anything of value - except for this one. ”

Fu Gui stretched out his hand and took out a letterhead that was the same as Chen Weili's legacy, and Xu Yicheng noticed that there were a lot of graffiti-like ink spots on it.

"This is what I found behind the hotel counter. According to the clerk, he found it in the wastebasket while tidying up the room of the head of the regiment, Daisuke Sakai. He thought the paper was good, and there was no writing on it, so he used it as straw paper for the child - it should have been torn out in the same book as your half of the suicide note, right? ”

Xu Yicheng knew that his so-called "search" was definitely not through formal channels, not picking locks and breaking in, or blackmailing the clerk. And finding a piece of letterhead of the same texture in a huge hotel requires not only keen observation, but also amazing patience. Fu Gui quietly did such a big thing, which made Xu Yicheng moved.

"I don't know if it's useful or not, you can keep it and think about it. There's nothing else, you get out. Fu Guiyi turned around and went back to the house, not allowing Yicheng to say anything more.

Xu Yicheng put the paper away carefully, and still didn't care about it. He first went back to find Yufang with a fake warrant, and the clan had already used his connections in the capital to figure out Li Debiao's station, and learned that he was in Mashenqiao Town, only thirty miles away from Tanglin and only sixty miles away from Ping'an City.

Even such military secrets can be heard, which shows what the chaos has become in the Feng army.

Yu Fang stayed in the capital, dispatched the resources of the clan, and informed Ah Hexuan to prepare to protect the tomb. The people who went to lobby Li Debiao, except for Xu Yicheng, only followed a rich husband. The two of them didn't like each other, and they didn't have anything to say, and they were speechless all the way in the carriage.

Xu Yicheng was so happy that he didn't have to talk, so he studied the piece of paper that Fu Gui found out.

This piece of paper has the same texture as Chen Weili's half suicide note, and it is a special Meiji prince paper, which is unique in China. So Fu Gui's guess is right, the two pieces of paper must be from the same notebook.

This is a very important detail, which shows that the paper that Chen Weili brought with him when he fled from the Majestic Hotel was torn from Sakai Daisuke's notebook. In other words, Daisuke Sakai plays a very important role in the entire conspiracy.

Although it has now been ascertained that the Japanese covet the Nine Dragons Sword in Qianlong's mausoleum, Xu Yicheng always has a trace of uneasiness in his heart, and always feels that there is something that has not been cleared. Are the motives of the Japanese really so simple? Is it true that Chen Weili sacrificed his life to issue a warning because the Japanese wanted to dig Tanglin?

There are only a few kana names on this piece of paper, which is meaningless, so Daisuke Sakai will throw it in the wastepaper basket. Xu Yicheng took out a pencil and tried to rub something on this one like wiping out the marks of a suicide note. It's a pity that this paper has been scribbled a lot by children, and it is difficult to restore anything. Xu Yicheng wiped it for a long time, but only barely rubbed out a few Chinese characters.

"In the middle of the word...... Drifting...... Although it sinks...... Not...... Use. ”

It's like a sentence copied from some ancient book, or some kind of poem. These words seem to be complaining that he has not developed his ambition and talents. There are too many people writing about this kind of subject, Xu Yicheng thought about it for a long time, and he didn't remember which classic it was quoted from. The level of Sinology of the Japanese is not low, maybe this is because Sakai Daisuke himself was depressed and wrote a lyrical poem.

It's a pity that for Xu Yicheng, the amount of information in these words is almost equal to nothing, and it may have nothing to do with this matter at all. Xu Yicheng sighed and took the paper back into his arms.

"Weili, Weili, what the hell do you want to say to me, even if it's a dream." Xu Yicheng looked at the receding scenery outside the window, and felt that Chen Weili's lonely soul was still shadowed in the fog, blurred, and his mood was gloomy for a while. However, he quickly cheered up, and no matter what, he would save Tanglin first.

The rich husband and he rushed to the independent regiment station in Mashenqiao Town in the evening of the next day. At this time, it was getting late, and there was a faint black cloud in the sky. Dragonflies fly low, and the air is humid. At the end of May and the beginning of June, the weather can change, and at some point the rain will fall. The camp of the Independent Regiment is located just outside the town of Mashenqiao, and it is unusually quiet and well-organized. In the end, the army that has really been on the battlefield is filled with a bloody aura of slaughter, which penetrates the clouds. After they retired from the front line, they have been stationed here, far away from the main force of Sun Dianying's 14th Army. The main force was stationed outside the town, and a small number of officers and guard regiments were stationed in the town.

The two of them arrived at the gate of the barracks and explained their intentions. Three guards took them to the regimental headquarters. It was a squire's house, but it had been converted into a makeshift headquarters. On the front wall hung a five-color flag of the Beiyang with one corner burned, and several wooden crates of armaments formed a large wide table, on which a large map was placed, and several staff officers were lying on it, sketching and drawing. The one in the middle is short in stature, but very stocky, like an anvil.

"Commander, the people have been brought."

The man looked up, two thick eyebrows in the center, a scar on his face, and two well-trimmed mustaches on his lips. Ten years, after the war, the second stunned man has now been tempered into a strong general. The Northern Army was unfavorable, and there was a hint of fatigue between his eyebrows, but his waist was straight, and his whole body exuded a fierce aura.

"Rich husband." Li Debiao immediately recognized the visitor, but he remained silent, standing in place, unable to hear whether it was affectionate or indifferent.

"It's a great honor that General Li can still recognize the decay." The rich husband hurriedly gave a gift.

"Back then, the rich husband rewarded the army, Li has always remembered it, how can he forget it." Li Debiao's expression thawed slightly, he stretched out his hand to greet him, helped him to the only Taishi chair, and set his eyes on Xu Yicheng. The rich husband said: "This is a friend of our clan, surnamed Xu. ”

Xu Yicheng immediately said: "On the orders of President Zhang, I came to convey a warrant." ”

Li Debiao's eyebrows were too thick, and the clouds rolled in front of his forehead as soon as he moved, making him look uncertain: "Yu Shuai's order, why didn't it be issued through the General Staff?" "Yushuai is Zhang Zuolin, because Zhang Zuolin is the word Yuting. Although he is now president, the old ministry always likes to be called this as a sign of closeness.

Xu Yicheng said: "Because President Zhang said that this matter must be kept secret, outsiders are not allowed to hear about it." ”

Zhang Zuolin governed the army, often crossed the command level and directly issued orders to some cronies. This is the only way for him to control the various departments of the Feng army, so it is not unusual to send a direct warrant. Li Debiao asked again: "What about the people in the presidential palace?" Why did he let you be such an outsider? Xu Yicheng said: "You will know it after reading the warrant." ”

Li Debiao glared at him suspiciously, took the warrant and looked at it, and raised his head: "Guarding Dongling?" What the hell is going on? ”

The rich husband and Xu Yicheng told Li Debiao that before the theft of Tanglin, the clan found out that Ma Futian and Wang Shaoyi did it, and now they heard that they planned to dig Cixi's tomb, so Pu Yi personally begged to go to the presidential palace. President Zhang was kind-hearted and deeply uneasy, so he personally issued a warrant for them to come to head Li to help Yunyun.

Li Debiao said: "Ma Futian and Wang Shaoxing, I know, it is indeed a gang of bandits. But now that they have an official name in the Feng army, if I go to fight, will I not attack friendly forces? ”

Xu Yicheng said: "Yushuai does not mean that he wants you to suppress bandits, but to garrison Dongling." If people don't offend me, I don't offend anyone. If they retreat in the face of difficulties, they will not make much of a move. The rich husband then followed: "The clan has prepared a small gift to reward the soldiers for protecting the tomb." ”

The rich husband came this time, and the clan made a bloody investment and brought four large boxes of Xianyang. No warlord would be unmoved by such a large amount of money. Sure enough, Li Debiao picked up the warrant, walked to the door of the room, raised his head and glanced at it by the light, and said: "Yushuai is really preferential to the clan, when has this been, and he can still take care of this-does he have any other instructions?" Xu Yicheng said: "There is nothing else, President Zhang said that it only needs to be guarded for a few days." ”

Li Debiao said expressionlessly: "The current battle situation is urgent, and I don't want to leave my post without permission." But since Yu Shuai commanded, I had to do what I was told. The rich husband thanked him again and again, saying that Commander Li is righteous and Bo Yuntian, please send someone to unload the things on the carriage quickly. When the military salary was in hand, Li Debiao's cold face also showed a little kindness. He instructed his men to carry the box, and then stretched out his hand: "I'll send you two." ”

It can be seen that Li Debiao is very resistant to this matter and doesn't want to greet them much. The rich husband made a helpless gesture and told Xu Yicheng to leave first.

Li Debiao took the two of them out of the regiment headquarters and came to the only street in the town. The people in the town are almost gone, the shops on both sides are all black, and there are only a few wire shelves on the wide loess streets, quietly like a ghost town. Li Debiao suddenly stopped and said to them, "You guys should go on the road here." ”

The rich husband was surprised: "Head Li, you are ......"

"I mean, you're on your way right here, and I'll see you off myself."

Xu Yicheng and the rich husband glanced at each other, the rich old man was about to speak, Li Debiao smiled coldly, suddenly turned his face, threw the warrant in front of the rich husband, and his voice was like thunder: "You two dogs dare to forge military orders, so bold!" ”

The guards next to him suddenly made a move, and in an instant pressed Xu Yicheng and her rich husband to the ground. Xu Yicheng reluctantly raised his head and shouted: "This is indeed the president's edict, there must be some misunderstanding on the part of Head Li." Li Debiao grabbed his hair, picked up the warrant from the ground, shook it in front of his eyes, and sneered: "Do you really think Yushuai is a big boss?" Think I'm a stupid hill bag? ”

Xu Yicheng kept his composure: "I don't know why you said that this is fake, Captain Li?" ”

Li Debiao pursed his lips and sneered: "Yu Shuai has long been guarding against people like you, and all the warrants he writes will hide a needle in the brush, leaving a small needle eye on the paper, which can be seen through the light." You get the idea? ”

Xu Yicheng and her rich husband glanced at each other, no wonder Li Debiao deliberately held the warrant to the electric light to see. They only cared about imitating handwriting and tone, but they didn't expect Zhang Zuolin to have such scheming, but he showed a big flaw here. Seeing that the two had nothing to say, Li Debiao sneered: "If you forge a military order, you should be punished as a spy of the enemy army, and you should be shot on the spot." ”

After speaking, he took out his spear and aimed it at the two: "I just said, I will personally send you on the road." ”

The rich husband slammed it and said loudly: "Li Debiao, the warrant is fake, but the matter of Tanglin is true!" Didn't I hurt you and send you money, didn't you even talk about this kind of affection? Li Debiao was unmoved: "Military law is like a mountain, and there is nothing to be accommodating." If you forge Yushuai's warrant, you are guilty of an unforgivable crime. As for the money you financed our army, I will ask someone to burn it and return it to you—hold it! ”