The warden who had his throat cut had already lost his breath, and Qin Customs was stabbed in the right side of the chest, although it did not hurt his heart, half of his body was stained red with blood.

A teenager rushed out of cell 414, it was Qi Yuanshan, who had just been knocked unconscious, and he woke up because of the sound of gunshots.

Ye Kenan looked at the courtyard in the center of the prison, furrowed his thick eyebrows, and said, "Since the assassin can bring the dagger into the prison, there must be an internal response, and this place must not be left any longer." ”

"What do they mean by not killing us, but kidnapping and taking us away?"

Qin Beiyang raised an important question - in the past two encounters with the assassins, he thought that they were here to take his own life, was this not the case?

Ye Kenan squatted at the door of the cell and bandaged the wound of Qin Customs with a strip of cloth. This layer of the political prisoner prison is still quiet, and he said casually: "Do you know that this place is the yamen of the Criminal Department in the former Qing Dynasty, and this cell No. 414 has imprisoned the six gentlemen of Wuxu. ”

"Tan Sitong, Kang Guangren, Lin Xu, Yang Shenxiu, Yang Rui, Liu Guangdi." Qin Beiyang said the names of the six heavens and the earth, "What a blessing to be locked up in the same cell as the six gentlemen of Wuxu!" But people are bleeding and dying for changing the law, what about us? In order to build a tomb for Yuan Shikai to be called the emperor, according to Sima Qian's statement, one is heavier than Mount Tai and the other is lighter than Hongmao! ”

"Boy, I haven't seen you for eight years, and I've read a lot of books! The confiscation of your admission to the juvenile class by the Beijing Normal University is really a great loss to the country. ”

Ye Ke saved the lives of their father and son, but Qin Beiyang didn't appreciate it: "Don't fool me again!" Now that the Qing Dynasty is restored, all the soldiers have braids, why don't you wear fake braids? ”

"Then you might as well kill me! Eight years ago, it was I who saved your life from the hands of the Assassins, and it was I who brought you from Tianjin to Xiling, so you don't have to accompany Zhang Xun and the Qing Dynasty to the funeral. You guys go! ”

So, Ye Kenan took them out of prison, Qin Beiyang carried his injured father on his back, and Qi Yuanshan held a lamp to illuminate it.

Along the way, the bodies of five or six prison guards lay sideways, all of which had been killed by daggers with severed throats...... Up to the warden, down to the cell head. From the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, this is an unprecedented big case. The Assassins also seized on the restoration of Zhang Xun, and the prison was understaffed to prevent the gap of emptiness.

The back gate of the prison is Xijiaomin Lane, and the large front gate can be seen in the southeast. Qin Customs, who was stabbed in the chest, beat his son's back and said, "Let go of me and let me stay." ”

"Daddy......"

"Beiyang, listen, if both our father and son die, the gravesmith clan will be completely finished. It's not like I haven't escaped. Gengzi year, followed Lafayette to flee to Xi'an, I don't know how many sins he suffered, causing your mother to lose her life. Lao Qin's wounds were still bleeding, he grabbed Qin Beiyang and Qi Yuanshan's hands and said, "I know that I won't live long, if I run away together, it will be a burden." You boys, run away and leave me alone! The most important thing is your lives. ”

"Dad, how can I abandon you?"

Qin Customs said with the only strength left: "Go as far as possible!" Don't come back easily. I remember that in the underground of Jingxi Camel Village, there are treasures of the old Qin family hidden in those few urns and jars. ”

Ye Kenan gave them a few oceans as travel expenses, and took care of them to run south: "Your father is right! I'll take him to the hospital. The Beiyang warlords have become a plate of scattered sand, and the whole north will fight, and it is better to run across the Yangtze River to be safe. The Assassin will appear again! I'll keep looking for it. If you see the mark of 'Comet Strikes the Moon', you need to pay special attention, most likely related to the Assassins. ”

Qin Beiyang put down his father: "Daddy, take care!" The child will come back to save you. ”

In the second half of the night, the crescent moon hung high above the city tower, like a sleepy flower. Hopefully, this isn't the last time I'll see a crescent moon in Beijing.

The rooster crowed in the morning, and the two teenagers had left Beijing, stole a wooden boat in Tongzhou, and passed Tianjin along the canal.

Qin Beiyang remembered an important thing - going to the grave.

Today, the German Concession no longer exists. Although the Beiyang government had not yet participated in the world war, it had severed diplomatic relations with Germany and Austria-Hungary, recovered the German concessions in Tianjin and Hankou, as well as the Austrian concession in Tianjin, and captured the small German troops stationed there, which was regarded as a small revenge for the disaster in the year of Gengzi.

Back on Wilhelmstrasse, the bronze statue of the Kaiser is still there, but the German primary school has closed, and Qin Beiyang still remembers his German name "Matthias". He went to Deutsche Bank, and sure enough, it was closed, and he found Qiu Desheng's colleague back then, only to learn that his adoptive parents were buried in Yangliuqing Town, west of the city.

Qin Beiyang went to the grave with a large stack of paper money and tin foil. Eight years have passed, the small grave is overgrown with weeds, and in addition to the names of Qiu Desheng and his wife, the tombstone is also engraved with "Zi Qiu Xiaogeng Weeping".

He knelt down and kowtowed three times: "Dad! Mother! Unfilial son Qiu Xiaogeng, come back to worship your two elders! Xiao Geng swore that in his lifetime, he would definitely stab those two assassins and avenge the second elder. ”

Qi Yuanshan also knelt down and helped him burn paper money and tin foil, and the smoke was like wolf smoke in this troubled world, making Qin Beiyang burst into tears. He no longer hid his grief, but let go of his voice and cried.

Leaving Yangliuqing, Qin Beiyang and Qi Yuanshan passed through Cangzhou and Dezhou, crossed the Yellow River, and arrived at Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province. At that time, Shandong was not very peaceful, and it seemed that there would be another small civil war. Qin Beiyang bought two train tickets for the Jinpu line.

The steam train is speeding away, and Qi Yuan Mountain looks at Mount Tai passing by. Half a day later, he arrived in Xuzhou, the base camp of Zhang Xun's pigtail army. Parking in Bengbu, the hawker delivered a newspaper - Duan Qirui swore in the horse factory and appointed himself as the commander-in-chief of the rebel army. Nanyuan Aviation School took off three French-made G.III. reconnaissance planes, and the principal personally flew to the Forbidden City to throw grenades. The sacrosanct royal shrine has become a sky of freedom to come and go. The braid army was defeated, and Qianmen Street was full of discarded fake braids. Zhang Xun fled to the Dutch embassy for refuge, and Pu Yi, who had only been emperor for twelve days, abdicated again.

Qi Yuanshan asked: "Beiyang, Zhang Xun is finished, do we want to go back to Beijing?" ”

The train broadcast said that it was about to reach the terminal Pukou. At that time, there was no bridge over the Yangtze River, and the train had to stop at Pukou on the north bank of Nanjing.

Qin Beiyang remembered his father's care before leaving-the farther he went, the better: "Let's all drink the Yangtze River, why don't we go to Jiangnan to have a look?" ”

At Pukou Station in the afternoon, the two teenagers were at a loss. A middle-aged fat man in a black cloth coat looked quite difficult to climb onto the platform after crossing the railway. Qin Beiyang dragged him onto the platform, the fat man thanked him politely, there happened to be a vendor selling oranges, the fat man bought a bag of vermilion oranges, gave them to Qin Beiyang two, and staggered over the railway. There was a young man waiting on the opposite platform, similar in age to Qin Beiyang. This is a father and son, the father sends his son on the train, and when he leaves, he buys a few oranges for his son to take on the road. This scene reminded Qin Beiyang of his father, and he couldn't help but be full of sadness.

Out of Pukou Railway Station, I saw the Yangtze River for the first time, and the smoke and clouds beyond imagination were completely different from the dry northern country. The two of them got on the ferry, with the sound of motors in their ears and the white mist in front of them. Traveling to the middle of the Yangtze River, they saw the turbid waves lapping the side of the boat, and from time to time water droplets splashed on their faces, which gave the two of them a taste of the Yangtze River. There are hundreds of boats competing on the river, including white-sailed wooden boats, thousand-ton river ships that can go up to Sichuan, and warships flying British and Japanese flags. Qin Beiyang thought to himself, Beiyang, Beiyang, aren't they all heroes and heroes of the world? Why are they still allowed to run rampant on the Yangtze River?