A few days later, at the Nanyuan Arsenal, Dr. Karl Holstein received a warrant from the Chancellor to immediately return the Four-Winged Tomb Beast to military purposes.

In desperation, he and Qian Ke opened the warehouse and looked at the unmodified four-winged angel, feeling extremely distressed. They had planned to see the grave beast fly again in three months' time.

They pulled out the four-winged angel on a flatbed truck and transported it to the gate of the arsenal. Unexpectedly, General Xiao Xu came to hand over in person, riding a white horse, dressed in a big coat, and his young face was slightly tired, thinking that he was tormented by the recent congressional election and a series of assassinations.

Xiao Xu said a few words to the doctor, and he also intended to transform the four-winged angel into a weapon, but the prime minister was under pressure from the cultural community and had to return the tomb beast to the vault of the Bank of Communications.

The War Department escorted the four-winged angel, but instead of going to the capital through the big red gate, it turned around and went to the Nanyuan Aviation School next door.

"There is fraud!"

Qian Ke patted his thigh and chased him out with the doctor. When they ran to the aviation school out of breath, they saw a large biplane parked on the runway.

This is not the plane of the Nanyuan Aviation School, nor is it painted with the five-color flag of the Republic of China, but the red, white and blue of the French Air Force. According to the flight yearbook of the aviation school, this is the latest French-made "Gao Delong" R.11 large bomber, and the belly bomb magazine has been modified and turned into a transport aircraft carrying cargo.

General Xiao Xu, riding a white horse, shakes hands with the French pilot. The soldiers carefully loaded the Four-Winged Angel Tomb Beast onto the French plane. The engine sounded, and Chanco rushed towards the runway, only to be blown to the ground by the propeller wind, and the doctor desperately dragged him out of the runway.

French planes roared overhead, like big birds rushing into the sky, heading for Tianjin in the southeast.

With blood streaming from his face, Qian Ke cursed to the sky: "We have been deceived!" The French were to airlift the tomb beast to Dagukou and ship it to Europe to fight the German war. ”

Dr. Holstein stared at the sky and noticed that the northwest direction was gradually turning red, and the sound of shaking was heard between the heavens and the earth.

Foreigners who have lived in Beijing for many years know that this is the footsteps of a sandstorm. There is a moving wall on the skyline, the upper layer is dazzling red, the middle is gray-brown, but the bottom is as black as ink, and from a distance there is a brilliant beauty, like a grim reaper with heavy makeup.

The Nanyuan Aviation School sounded the alarm, and the students rushed onto the runway one after another, urgently pushing all the planes into the hangar.

General Xiao Xu was about to ride back to the city, but he stood on the runway and watched the sandstorm coming south from Xu Xu fearlessly.

The strong wind blew from the Beijing city wall to the Nanyuan, flying sand and stones, covering the earth, and the heaven and earth seemed to fall into the middle of the night.

The French plane that had just taken off was swept up in the air by a sandstorm, like a hydrangea played by a child, and like a fly with broken wings, rushing towards Fangshan, southwest of Beijing.

General Xiao Xu whipped his horsewhip and wanted to follow the plane. A burst of sand and dust hit him, causing him to fall from his horse.

The four-winged angel has disappeared from the sky in full view.

At the turn of spring and summer in Beijing, on the afternoon of a sandstorm, Ouyang Anna and A You were drying clothes in the courtyard. The two girls hurriedly put away their clothes and bedding, closed the doors and windows and hid on the bed, listening to the sound of the hard sand hitting the window paper.

Qin Beiyang sat on the roof, helped them repair the tiles and pull out the weeds, and read "Cutting Rhyme" and "Guangyun" by the way, as well as Qian Xuantong's "Writing and Phonology", wanting to master the pronunciation of the Tang Dynasty people, hoping to be able to talk to Jiuse.

In an instant, his eyes were filled with tears from the sand. It was rare for the nine colors to enter the city, but they also climbed on the roof and sat beside their master. The red mane was dyed earthy yellow, and he looked confused.

This dark abnormal celestial phenomenon, like the wind and cloud spell made by Zhuge Kongming in the Three Kingdoms, something big must happen.

In the evening, Qin Beiyang and Jiuse returned to the Old Summer Palace, just as Qian Ke came to look for him.

"Beiyang, General Xiao Xu lied to us! The French plane carrying the tomb beast is said to have disappeared in the sky over Fangshan in Beijing. ”

"Fangshan? Isn't that where the four-winged angel was found? ”

Qin Beiyang's brain was enlightened, this sandstorm was not groundless, but the four-winged angel was unwilling to fly to a foreign land, and he couldn't bear to stay away from the tomb owner. The Grave Beast contains some kind of hidden secret that can cause planes to deviate from course? Otherwise, the plane will go to Tianjin in the southeast, and the sandstorm will chase after the ass from the north, so it can only crash in place or south, and it is impossible to turn to Fangshan in the opposite direction.

The four-winged angel wants to return to the Fangshan Tomb that has been guarded for thousands of years - only the tomb beast will never betray.

Qian Ke looked dazed: "Beiyang, you mean, it has been resurrected?" ”

"Tomb Beasts are immortal!"

The next morning, after the sandstorm, Beijing was like a layer of butter. Qin Beiyang carried the resharpened Tang knife on his back and took the tomb beast Nine Colors to the Fangshan Tomb.

Passing by Zhoukoudian Keel Mountain, I felt an invisible air flow surging underground. Father said that this is the result of practicing qi in the underground palace, which can automatically attract the qi of antiquities, maybe, Zhoukoudian buried treasures thousands of years ago! Qin Customs is right, but it is a few zeros.

Go down again, the strange rocks along the way are craggy, everywhere is the sinkhole left by quarrying, named Dashiwo, Fangshan white marble origin, the pre-Qing Dynasty, the ancestors of Qin Beiyang often come here to select the best stone for the royal family, and transport it to the east and west tombs.

Walking to the foot of Yunju Temple Mountain, Jiuse stubbornly walked up the mountain. According to reason, Qin Beiyang looked down at Jiuse, remembered the Tang Dynasty rhyme he had learned in the past two days, and tried to say to it in a half-literate and half-white Chang'an tone: "Can you measure the four-winged angel?" ”

In a few northern dialects that had long since died out, Qin Beiyang spoke with great difficulty. But when I remembered a few Wu words I learned in Shanghai, I was able to solve them.

Jiuse, who originally bit his trouser leg, suddenly squatted down and nodded. In the depths of Qin Beiyang's mind, he really heard its strange language, but it was like a book from heaven. But he understood that the nine-colored eyes, like the tentacles of a butterfly or a bee, the whiskers of a cat or a puppy, could detect the wind and grass in the air, and could also accept information from other tomb beasts.

Nine colors are like hounds, smelling the scent of four-winged angels.

The small town tomb beast ran up to the Shijing Mountain in the east of Yunju Temple, stopped in front of a white marble pagoda, and knelt down like a devout disciple worshipping Buddha.

This tower has nine layers of eaves, stands on the high post, the top of the tower is the jewel to gather the sharp brake, the Tang Dynasty "the tower of the nine thousands". There is a Buddhist shrine composed of four thick stone slabs in the middle, the lintel is carved with flames, and there are armored Vajra waffles on both sides, and there are relief carvings of Shakti Yingmu Ni and his disciples in it. On the back of the tower, there are clear italic characters engraved with "Princess Jinxian of the Tang Dynasty, please translate the scriptures Shi Tianji", the beginning is "in the eighteenth year of the Tang Dynasty, the eldest princess of Jinxian is the saint, giving the Tang Dynasty more than 4,000 volumes of new and old translations, and Fanyang County, Chongyou Mansion is the ...... of the stone scriptures"

Who is Princess Jinxian? Why did the nine colors show a kneeling posture in front of the stone pagoda that recorded the merits of the princess? All of them made Qin Beiyang confused.

Could it be that Nine Colors is not here to find the four-winged angel, but to pay tribute to this golden fairy princess?

Qin Beiyang observed the surrounding situation and found a large area of charred grass, scattered with metal parts, and the cloth of the plane's wings. Going down the tracks, more and more wreckage of the plane, down to the broken wings, the broken fuselage, the fragments of the red, white and blue French emblems. There were two people sitting in the cabin, wearing pilot hats, Qin Beiyang wanted to rescue them, but found that they had all broken their necks and died, and flies circled and laid eggs.

It was obvious that the plane lost course in a sandstorm. The two French pilots fought with nature with all their might, but could not overcome thousands of grains of sand, and made a forced landing on Shijing Mountain in Yunju Temple, Fangshan, where the plane was destroyed and people died. And this place is only a dozen miles away from the Tang Dynasty Jingjiao tomb in Tomb King Village.

However, the Four-Winged Angel Tomb Beast is gone.

Chanco said that the French plane carried away the four-winged angel, did it run away on its own long feet? Or simply flapped two pairs of wings and flew back to the underground palace of Tomb King Village?

Nine colors led Qin Beiyang down the hillside. The wreckage of the plane was parked on the top of a steep mountain, and there was a black object lying underneath, spreading out two pairs of broken wings, and it was the four-winged angel!

It must have been the shock wave of the crash that caused the grave beast to rush out of the plane and fall to the bottom of the hillside.

When Qin Beiyang was thinking about how to get the four-winged angel up, there was a noise in the wind, and the deserted Shijing Mountain was extremely harsh.

He hid behind the stone tower, only to see many soldiers coming down the mountain. Among them, there is a general on a white horse, with three gold stars on his epaulettes, the highest rank of general in Beiyang, less than forty years old, his eyes are bright, but his face is gloomy.

There was a man in a long shirt and a top hat beside the general, and a pistol must be hidden in his bulging waist, and Qin Beiyang recognized this face.

Detective Ye Ke is difficult.