Chapter 65: Spring in the Three Eastern Provinces
The ninth year of the Republic of China, 1920, in early spring and February.
Ouyang Anna's cave room spent candle nights, shedding tears and missing someone, who knew that he was still alive in the world, living in the northern country thousands of miles away, in the icy and snowy outer Xing'an Mountains.
In the Outer Khingan Mountains, deep in the ice caves of the permafrost, mammoths are gradually rotting. Qin Beiyang, Paul Kochakin, and the town's tomb beast are nine colors, waiting for death or spring.
Spring came before death.
The nine colors in the ice cave suddenly became excited, dragging Qin Beiyang to the other end. There was a faint drop of water, indicating that it was melting, and several large rocks were falling down as the temperature changed inside and outside the ice cave. Nine colors kept spitting out fireballs, breaking through layers of siege, and slowly opening up a ray of skylight.
Qin Beiyang made a rope out of clothes, and then used the weapons of the Khitans to make a simple grappling hook. Bid farewell to Han Xingde nine hundred years ago, took away the jade pendant given by the princess, and decided to fulfill his last wish on his behalf.
The grappling hook was tried hundreds of times before it was thrown to the top of the ice cave, and he and Paul escaped. They cut down a small tree and let Nine Colors climb up with it.
Lying in the melting snow, Qin Beiyang just wanted to go back to China, where there were ancient tombs everywhere, just find one to get into.
Otherwise, the cancer cells will kill him at any time.
Qin Beiyang and Paul found a cavalry detachment, most of the Far East had been liberated, and Irkutsk established the Far Eastern Republic as a buffer state between Soviet Russia and the Japanese occupation forces.
On the other side was no longer the White Guards, but the Siberian Dispatch of the Japanese Empire, and even a naval formation of the Chinese Beiyang government, flying the five-color flag and sailing on the Heilongjiang River, which belonged to Russia.
He volunteered to be a Japanese translator and accompanied the Red Army generals to negotiate with the Japanese. There was a Japanese captain named Saburo Qinda, who spoke fluent Russian, served in the 18th Infantry Wing, and was also a survivor of the experiment accident of the armor "soul mechanical body" of Yoshino Kofun in Nara, and had a relationship with Qin Beiyang.
Qin Tian Saburo stared at his face and asked, "Qin Sang?" β
"I'm sorry, I'm a Soviet Workers' and Peasants' Red Army soldier, my name is Georgy Qin."
He replied in Japanese and Russian.
There was no progress in the negotiations, and Qin Beiyang made a request to his superiors to return to China. He didn't want to sneak out of the army and become a deserter. The political commissar liked this Chinese soldier very much, not only brave and fearless, but also a master craftsman, who could repair all kinds of equipment in the army, and even acted as a translator for Chinese and Japanese. The political commissar wanted to promote him to the rank of officer, enjoy the preferential treatment of cadres, and assign him a Russian female college student as his wife.
Qin Beiyang politely declined: "Comrade Political Commissar, thank you for your appreciation." But I have been away from my homeland for too long, China is close at hand, and I must go back. β
These words come from the heart, and the only way to survive is to ignore the secret that you can only survive by returning to the ancient tomb.
That night, Qin Beiyang and Paul drank vodka, not knowing when they would meet again, and they burst into tears with each other, meeting on the day when the red flag was flying all over the earth......
The next day, Qin Beiyang took off his military uniform and left the barracks with nine colors. According to Slavic etiquette, he and Paul kissed and hugged each other mouth-to-mouth, just as the future Berlin Wall did with Comrade Brezhnev and Honecker and brothers.
Behind him, the comrades-in-arms sang "Three Sets of Cars" in unisonββ
Ice and snow covered the Volga
There were three sets of cars running on the glacier
Someone is singing a melancholy song
It was the man who drove the car that sang
Young man, why are you sorrowful?
Why keep your head down
Who made you so sad
Qin Beiyang traveled hundreds of miles along the Ussuri River and Xingkai Lake in three days and three nights, and finally arrived at the Sino-Russian border.
Two years ago, he left Dagukou in Tianjin and fled to Japan. Qin Beiyang traveled tens of thousands of kilometers, crossed the Pacific Ocean, the Panama Canal, the North American continent, the European continent, the Arctic, Russia, and then passed through Siberia and the Far East to complete a round-the-world journey.
The snow in the vast jungle melts, and the Suifen River goes upstream, which is the motherland that I miss day and night.
He was greeted by spring in the three eastern provinces.
Some people say that spring in the three eastern provinces is like a butterfly. The pupation winter is so long, the endless snow has not yet melted, the birch forest is still dead, the blind bear has just crawled out of the hibernation tree, the hungry wolves are still howling on the ridge, even the bandits are frozen to the point that their beards are dregs, and they can't rob a few bags of buds when they go down the mountain. When the spring is cold, the rain and snow are combined, the freezing rain is like the tip of a knife hitting the face, and the snow flakes are fluttering like paper money, like a grand king's funeral. When the butterfly emerges from its cocoon with great difficulty, it finally holds it in the palm of your hand, and then quietly slips through your fingers.
Qin Beiyang took a small step with Jiuse, crossing the boundary post left by Russia when it ceded the territory of the Qing Dynasty. There is a long road in front of you, and the Eastern Railway is beside you, and you can see the Suifenhe Railway Station.
But he didn't plan to take the railroad, but to find the nearest tomb.
Suddenly, in the bare bare birch forest, the cancer cells and Hetian warm blood jade were heating up one after another, and Qin Beiyang saw four figures, each riding on four horses.
The first is a Chinese girl, sixteen or seventeen years old, wearing a floral jacket of a Northeast girl; The second was an old man, whose original black beard was completely white, and his eyes radiated a burst of light; The third body resembles a polar bear, and is no more than twenty years old; The fourth was about thirty years old, and he had a centipede-like scar on his right cheek.
The nine-colored tomb beast of the town that cannot be transformed makes a yo yo deer roar on its neck.
"Ah Yu ......"
Qin Beiyang read her name softly, but swallowed the word "sister" alive. It's like the dark night eleven years ago, in the secret room outside the underground palace of Emperor Guangxu, the eyes of the two children when they first met. She stared at him like a dark black hole, devouring him.
"Brother, I've been waiting for you."
Ah You showed a row of snow-white teeth, and the three assassins behind him: Ah Hai, Daddy, and Tuohuan, each revealed a snow-white dagger.
"How did you know my whereabouts?"
"I'll talk about it in detail later, brother, please follow us up the mountain."
"Changbai Mountain?"
"Definitely, Taibai Mountain."
This answer caught Qin Beiyang by surprise, and he drew a long arc in the map in his mind before turning from the northeast edge to the geographical heart of China, "Could it be the Taibai Mountain in the Qinling Mountains of Shaanxi?" β
"It's far from here, but it's close to your White Deer Plain."
Ah You said lightly, but her eyes turned to Jiu Se's eyes, she knew that this "big dog" could understand their conversation, and the tomb of the Tang Dynasty in Bailuyuan was also its destined place.
"Why did I go with you?"
"Brother, don't you want to see the coffin of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty? Please get on the horse. β
Tuohuan came with a good horse with a full saddle.
Qin Beiyang thought of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty in the Bailuyuan Tomb, all the running and tossing in the past two years, wasn't it just for this coffin? In order to open the key to Qianling? Returning to the side of the tomb owner is also the long-cherished wish of the nine-colored tomb beast in the small town that has been wandering around.
He took the reins from the Assassin's hand, and the moment he stepped on the stirrup, his gaze swept over the scar on the right side of Hai's face.
The Assassin Ah Hai had a vendetta against him for killing his mother, and the Assassin Daddy had a vendetta against him for killing his father.
At the same time as turning over and getting on the horse, the pistol in Qin Beiyang's sleeve tube fell into the palm of his hand, which was a gift from the political commissar when he said goodbye.
He raised his wrist and pulled the trigger on Ah Hai. A bullet spun and rushed out of the muzzle. Unexpectedly, Ah Hai was prepared, and he had already moved sideways in advance, and the bullet flew past his cheek, just shooting the assassin father behind him.
I don't know if it was a blow in the head or a heart, and the father fell off the horse heavily.
Qin Beiyang wanted to shoot a second shot, but the assassins had already dismounted and each looked for terrain to cover and hide.
You only have one chance to succeed, and these guys won't give him a second chance. Qin Beiyang galloped on his horse and beckoned the nine colors to hurry up and catch up.
The horse's hooves had barely kicked out a few paces when the man fell on his back, and rolled in the muddy water, when he realized that the horse had been hit by an arrow in his buttocks, and neighed and struggled in pain.
The Assassin had a light steel crossbow with a second arrow on the string. Shoot a man first and shoot a horse, the other party doesn't want to take his life, otherwise he would have pierced his heart with an arrow.
Qin Beiyang knew the jealousy of the assassins, so he got up and ran westward, how could two legs outrun four legs? One man and one beast, submerged in a dense ravine, a forbidden area where horses cannot set foot.
It's not that he doesn't want to see the little prince of the Tang Dynasty. But how much can the Assassin's words be trusted? In the Shijingshan cave in Fangshan, Beijing, he saw that Ah You deceived General Xiao Xu into turning around, and where did Taibai Mountain come out? If it is said that it is Zhongnan Mountain or Qianling, it is still somewhat credible. What's more, the assassins wanted to get Qin Beiyang, just as they wanted to get the coffin of the little prince, all to open the secret of Qianling, and he didn't want to be used by the wicked as a key.
Fuck the Taibai Mountain!
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