Chapter 14: Distant Mountains and Mountains (2)
"How many revolutionaries did that old woman kill? Do you do the math? Qiu Jin, Xu Xilin......"
"There are also the reformist Wuxu Six Gentlemen."
"A lot of blood! Brother Yuanshan, do you think that the Empress Dowager Cixi died twenty years ago and would have escaped this catastrophe? No! That's too cheap for her. It's not that you don't report it, the time has not yet come...... Now is just right, we are going to get rid of the life of the Empress Dowager Cixi! The life of Geyehnala! The life of the Qing Dynasty! It is also my grandson's vote for Mr. Sun Yat-sen's spirit in the sky! ”
"Your Excellency, your loyalty to the revolution is really a shame for Yuanshan!"
Qi Yuanshan thought in his heart that this grandson was full of revolution, but he was just robbing the tomb under the guise of revolution.
"Okay, Brother Yuanshan, you have a good rest tonight, and tomorrow morning, I will lead the soldiers and horses to revolutionize on the spot!" Sun Dianying took out a pistol and pointed it at the floor tiles, "Our brothers can also open our eyes and see what the Empress Dowager Cixi looks like?" ”
Sun Dianying was a little drunk, and swayed out of the East Side Hall. Qi Yuanshan lived alone in this huge palace, as if accompanied by the ghost of the Empress Dowager Cixi. He sat on the marching bed and repeatedly wiped the pistol. Tonight is more auspicious, Sun Dianying has already handed over. During the day in the Longen Palace, Qi Yuanshan always felt that there were a pair of eyes staring at him behind his back, and the back of his neck was cold.
This night, I can't sleep, whether it is Qi Yuan Mountain, who lives in the East Side Palace, or the Empress Dowager Cixi, who lives at a depth of dozens of meters at the foot of Qi Yuan Mountain.
The second half of the night.
Qi Yuanshan dreamed of her, no one knew her real name? I dreamed that she lingered in the sparkling waters of the Old Summer Palace, leaning on the young Emperor Xianfeng. Such a youthful and invincible, radiant face, she is fantasizing about the brilliant life in the future, fantasizing about the whole world bowing down under the soles of flowerpots......
There was a gust of wind blowing down overhead. Qi Yuanshan opened his eyes, and the sunny day of the Old Summer Palace turned into the dark night of the imperial tomb of the Qing Dynasty. The daughter of the house of Yehnara was scattered like ashes by the wind, and only the moon was left on the roof.
It was not a dream, but a gap in the roof of the east side hall, and someone lifted a few tiles and hung down a rope.
Qi Yuanshan picked up a pistol and rolled over. His marksmanship and eyesight are excellent, and he can see people on the roof at a glance. Just as he was about to raise his hand to shoot, a voice came from above, like a stone falling, and he could hear it clearly-
"Tonight is dangerous, please come up with me!"
In fact, the volume is so light that others can't hear it at all, as if a headphone cable is connected and plugged directly into the ear from the roof. The word "dangerous", Qi Yuanshan had expected it, but he didn't know where it was sacred on the roof?
After much hesitation, I decided to go up. Qi Yuanshan put the pistol in his arms, grasped the rope with both hands, and clamped his feet on the lower plate. In the past two years, he has become more and more powerful, and he easily climbed onto the beams of the house.
Drilling out of the roof of the East Side Palace, the wind whistling in the cemetery all around, sandwiching the souls of the five emperors of the Qing Dynasty, Qi Yuanshan saw each other's faces clearly - a young man in his twenties, dressed in black, similar to himself, his face contours and facial features, all have a bit of similarity.
He is Zhongshan.
"Have we met?"
"A few years ago, in Guangzhou, at the foot of Yuexiu Mountain."
"You are?" Qi Yuanshan frowned, the moonlight became brighter and brighter, and his memory became clearer, "Ah You's subordinates? The assassins of Taibai Mountain? ”
"Hmm......" Nakayama controlled his emotions and whispered, "It's not good to stay here for a long time, let's leave quickly." ”
At the entrance of the east side hall, including the Longen Palace, there are guards standing guard. Outside the cemetery, the sound of marching drills sounded, and occasionally one or two gunshots rang out, and it seemed that the large army was moving. Qi Yuanshan knew that the situation was serious, so he followed Zhongshan to climb down from the East Side Palace, grabbed the rope over the wall, and went out of the cemetery.
In the dark wilderness, behind the leafy hillsides, the rustle of the pine forest is blown by the wind. Qi Yuanshan asked, "Why did you save me?" ”
"Brother, don't you recognize me?" Zhongshan dragged Qi Yuanshan to the mountain nest, turned on the fire fold, and illuminated his face, "I am Zhongshan, your younger brother!" ”
Before the words fell, Qi Yuanshan reached out and touched his younger brother's eyebrows, as if touching a flame. The brothers' father was killed by assassins sent by Yuan Shikai during the Xinhai Revolution, and they were soon separated from the streets. At that time, Qi Yuanshan was twelve years old, and he firmly remembered the scene when his father was killed and the whole family cried bitterly. He was sent to the barracks to be a soldier, but he still missed his younger brother in his heart, and he once secretly ran out to look for it, but there was no trace of Zhongshan.
Qi Yuanshan pushed his younger brother in, opened Zhongshan's shirt, and saw a triangular scar on his shoulder, tears raining down...... He remembers that when he was a child, the brothers played a firecracker fight during the Chinese New Year, and he accidentally threw the firecracker on his younger brother, blowing up a bloody wound, leaving this triangular scar, and he was hung up by his father and beaten for three days.
"Zhongshan!"
There will be no mistake this time, the brothers finally recognized each other, hugged their heads and cried. Qi Yuanshan said no wonder, a few years ago at the foot of Yuexiu Mountain in Guangzhou, when he saw the young man next to Ah You, he felt that his face was very familiar, and there was an indescribable sense of intimacy in his bones.
Qi Yuanshan just wanted to ask him how he had come over all these years? How could they get mixed up with the assassins of Taibai Mountain? But he heard fierce gunfire outside the cemetery. Qi Yuanshan's heart tightened, and he climbed high and looked into the distance, and outside the big red gate in the dark night, a large tent of fire lit up.
"Brother, don't look at it, the cavalry company you brought has been made dumplings by Sun Dianying."
"How can it be!"
Qi Yuanshan is not mentally unprepared, but Sun Haozi has just drunk with himself on the front foot, and he has a knife on the back foot, and he is really ruthless.
"This area is rampant with soldiers and bandits, and Sun Dianying plans to claim that you met the remnants of the warlords on the road, or ran into the troops of Xiao Liuzi outside the gate, and the whole army was wiped out and died under the Great Wall." Zhongshan sneered, "Brother, warlords are like this, turning their hands into clouds and covering their hands into rain." ”
"Brother, if you hadn't reminded me, I'm afraid I would have died."
Before the words fell, countless torches were lit around Cixi's mausoleum, and sure enough, a large group of people came to search for him.
Zhongshan tugged at his arm and said, "Brother, I finally saw you, hurry up and run for your life." ”
"Brother, aren't you going with me?"
"I have important business tomorrow, and our brothers will meet again."
Qi Yuanshan overlooked the cemetery: "Is it possible, you will also participate in tomb robbery tomorrow?" ”
Zhongshan didn't know how to answer, and a man's voice sounded behind him: "Yes, tomorrow is the big day to open the Cixi Mausoleum." ”
This sound made Qi Yuanshan's heart almost burst, and he just turned around to touch the pistol, and a dagger was already against his neck.
The moonlight illuminated a scar, and Qi Yuanshan saw Ah Hai's face.
"Brother Ahai!" Zhongshan immediately knelt down and begged for mercy for Qi Yuanshan, "Please don't ......"
"Nakayama, I had long guessed that you would do this. It's just that you should tell me in advance, and don't do it yourself. Ah Hai took a half step back and removed the dagger from Qi Yuanshan's neck, "Qi Yuanshan, you go." ”
"Why didn't you kill me?"
"What's in it for me to kill you?"
"Ah Hai, you must have ulterior motives for keeping my life."
"You are a smart man, don't ask, there is a hiding place on the mountain, don't come down again. After a few days, the imperial tomb of the Qing Dynasty will be hollowed out, Sun Dianying will withdraw his troops, and you will be able to go back to Beiping. ”
Qi Yuanshan took two steps back and clenched his fists with both hands: "Count me owing you!" ”
Zhongshan urged: "Brother, let's go." ”
"Brother, take care!"
After all, Qi Yuanshan burrowed into the reckless jungle on the mountain, even if Sun Dianying sent troops to search the mountain, he might not be able to touch a hair.
Zhongshan still knelt in front of Ah Hai: "Brother Ah Hai, are you going to kill me?" ”
"What are you going to do?" Ah Hai sneered, "You can follow me down from Taibai Mountain, we are already grasshoppers on the same rope, and it is impossible for you to return to Qin Beiyang in your life." ”
"yes, it's fate."
Zhongshan complained bitterly in his heart, regretted listening to Lao Jin's words, betrayed Taibai Mountain at a critical moment, not only did he not get a tael of gold, but followed Ah Hai here to dig a grave.
Ah Hai put away the dagger: "I don't believe in life. ”
"But why did you let Qi Yuanshan go?"
"Do you know "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Catch and Release Cao" after the Red Cliff War?"
"Huarong Dao? Brother Hai, are you better than Guan Yunchang? ”
"That's wrong, I'm not Guan Yunchang, I'm Cao Mengde."
Ah Hai overlooked the entire Donglin, looking at the raging flames outside the big red gate, and the treasure tops of the two mausoleums at the foot of the mountain.