Out of the south gate of the Alcohol Prince's Mansion, from Houhai to the west to Deshengmen Inner Street, turn right to Sanbulao Hutong, pass through Cotton Hutong, and then arrive at the Hutong in the depths of Baihua. Facing the back gate of Huguo Temple, a courtyard house is full of flowers and plants. The spring is cold, and only the begonias bloom with flowers and bones. Last night there was a spring rain, and this morning there was a dusty wind, and the petals were all over the ground.

Ouyang Anna wore a thick black cotton robe, came back from class in the Red Mansion of Peking University in Songgong Mansion, and said to Haitang first when she entered the door: "Last night, the rain was sparse and the wind was sudden, and the heavy sleep did not kill the wine. I tried the curtain people, but the begonias were still the same. Did you know? Did you know? It should be green, fat, red and thin. ”

"What a Li Qingzhao's green, fat, red and thin."

Qi Yuanshan was dressed in a blue Beiyang military uniform, took off the big cap of the five-color star emblem, and the jade tree under the porch was in the wind, and the corners of his mouth were smiling.

"Far mountains? You're back from Japan? ”

Anna wanted to say something, but leaned over to sit down in a chair.

"Took a few days off. The War Department was in a meeting to discuss the situation in Siberia, and our navy was in trouble with Japan on the Heilongjiang River. In a few days, I will go back to Japan to study. Qi Yuanshan walked behind Anna and was surprised that her figure and face had become a little rounder, "I haven't seen you for half a year, are you okay?" ”

"Wasting your time, hurting yourself in vain......"

Last fall, they were rescued in the Arctic ice and returned home from thousands of miles away. Ouyang Anna went back to study in the Department of History of Peking University, and Qi Yuanshan went to Japan, just as the Army Non-commissioned Officer School opened.

She lived alone in the deep alley of Baihua and concentrated on studying in the history department of Peking University. Every month, the Shanghai branch of the Swiss private bank would send her a registered letter, informing her of the custody status of the Count of Dharma's fund, and that one million taels of silver had increased by 100,000 taels.

Qi Yuanshan looked at the gray sky of Beijing: "I think of the volcanic eruption in the North Pole, on an isolated island in the ice sea, and I remember it vividly and ......vividly."

He originally wanted to talk about Qin Beiyang's death, but he was stuck in his throat and couldn't say anything.

"Yesterday, I received another letter from Washington, USA. Do you still remember Minister Gu Weijun? He invited me to work at the Chinese Embassy in the United States as an official diplomat. ”

"Minister Gu has a very good impression of you. Congratulations! A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, not to mention girls, even many high-achieving students who have returned from studying abroad may not be able to get such a position. ”

Having said that, Qi Yuanshan was a little lost in his heart, if Anna wanted to go to the United States, I don't know if she could see each other again in the Year of the Monkey?

"I've written back to say no."

Ouyang Anna stroked a four-season begonia, and Qi Yuanshan was shocked: "Aren't you determined to be China's first female diplomat, or even a female politician?" ”

"I also thought about being a female president. But everything has changed, it has become unpredictable, it has become irretrievable. ”

"Tell me, Anna, what's going on?"

"I have."

In the depths of a hundred flowers, a place of begonia remnants, the two of them were silent for a long time, as if returning to the North Pole, in the white ice and snow, thousands of years and solidification.

She stood up with her back propped up, and only then did she stand out of her belly in the thick cotton robe, and she looked seven months old. She couldn't hide it, and the school's dean of academic affairs talked to her and persuaded her to quit school early.

Qi Yuanshan lowered his voice and asked, "Qin Beiyang's?" ”

He didn't dare to say the word "posthumous son".

"It's his children, we are in the North Pole, the mausoleum of the Vikings, the vault of the goddess of desire......"

Tears couldn't help but flow, this kind of private words should not be said to anyone, but the matter has come to this, and Anna has regarded Qi Yuanshan as a caring male girlfriend.

"What do you want to do?"

"Big deal...... she never thought about abortion, and at this time, it was too late, "I went back to Shanghai alone to give birth to a child, and raised Qin Beiyang's child alone." ”

Qi Yuanshan grabbed in front of her and widened his eyes: "Marry me!" ”

"You ......" Anna's eyes trembled, she took two steps back, and pulled out a backhand slap, "Take advantage of the danger!" ”

She inherited the brute strength of the pirate and the boss of the Green Gang, and with this slap, Qi Yuanshan had five more marks on his face.

"You misunderstood, Anna, I didn't mean to bully you. I am willing to be a nominal husband and wife with you, and I will not treat you lightly. Qi Yuanshan's eyes made it impossible to refuse, "I just, I don't want Beiyang's children to have no father when they are born." ”

"I'm sorry." Ouyang Anna was silent for a moment, "But it's not fair to you. ”

"I swore to Beiyang that I didn't want to be born on the same day, the same month, and the same year, but I only wanted to die on the same day, the same month, and the same year. Now he's in another world, and I'm still alive. It was the last thing I could do for him. When the child grows up, I will tell him personally - his father's name is Qin Beiyang, and he is a hero who stands up to the sky. ”

"You wait......"

Anna, seven months pregnant, returned to her room, stirred her curly hair, and pondered for an hour, as if it were the length of a lifetime.

Pushing the door out, Qi Yuanshan was still standing straight in the courtyard, the man and the begonia were in pairs.

"Have you figured it out?"

Ouyang Anna pressed his chest: "Yuanshan, have you thought about it too?" ”

"A gentleman promises a thousand gold."

"But aren't you studying at a military school in Japan?"

Qi Yuanshan smiled indifferently: "Anna, if you withdraw from National Peking University for the sake of the child in your womb, then I can also withdraw from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School!" ”

A week later, the Cathedral of the Savior in Sishku, a simple wedding was held.

In the year when Qin Beiyang, Qi Yuanshan, and Ouyang Anna were born, this majestic and sturdy Gothic building, but on the battlefield where bullets rained, the Boxers besieged it for two months. So far, in old Beijing, he has left a smooth tongue of "eating noodles without putting sauce, shelling Jiaomin Lane, eating noodles without putting vinegar, and shelling Xishiku".

The groom wore a blue Beiyang military uniform, which was majestic and heroic, and he had the style of a European prince getting married in a military uniform; The bride wore a lace-trimmed white gauze from head to toe, which cleverly concealed her seven-month-old belly.

There weren't many guests invited to the wedding, there were only about a dozen people in total, but there were three big people-

Wang Shizhen, the late Minister of War of the late Qing Dynasty, the former Prime Minister of the Republic of China and the Chief of the Army; Wang Jiawei, professor of history at Peking University; The second National Assembly member of the Republic of China, the king of the small county of Ordos, was the only college classmate who came to attend Anna's wedding, and only the king of the small county understood who the real father of the fetus in Anna's womb was.

Ye Kenan didn't show up, so he didn't send him an invitation at all. Ouyang Anna knew that he would not come if he invited Ye Kenan, he had not seen Qin Beiyang fall into the crater with his own eyes, out of the instinct of a detective, he suspected that everyone in the world was a criminal suspect, and he was even more suspicious of Anna's marriage to Qi Yuanshan - could it be the old story of Ximen Qing and Pan Jinlian?

The bride and groom both have dead parents, and there are no siblings around. Wang Shizhen is Qi Yuanshan's father-in-law, so he naturally became the man's parent; Wang Jiawei, as Anna's university teacher, replaced the woman's parents. The bride takes the professor by the arm and walks into the center of the church, where the choir children sing, and the organ is like Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D minor" in the Louvre in Paris, which summons the grave beast and the mummy. The old French priest officiated at their wedding, and in front of the crucifixion Jesus, Qi Yuanshan put a gold ring on Anna.

At the end of the Catholic wedding, the bride changed into a phoenix crown. The groom was still dressed in military uniform, mounted a war horse, and led the wedding procession back to the alley deep in the hundred flowers.

Two tables of banquets were set up in the courtyard, and everyone was drunk. The king of the little county sent a Mongolian hada, two rolls of high-quality Mongolian tapestries; Professor Wang Jiawei gave a set of all-Tang poems and an original version of "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"; Wang Shizhen, who had already gone to the wilderness and returned to seclusion, gave a set of rosewood furniture made in Suzhou.

The old hero "Beiyang Dragon" said a toast, hoping that the groom will inherit the ambition of Beiyang - patriotism, self-improvement, respect for teachers, and education, and wish the bride an early birth of a noble son.

During the banquet, Wang Shizhen hugged the groom and said, "Virtuous nephew, uncle feels sorry for you." If you stay in Japan for three more years, with your excellent grades, you will come back and become a brigade commander directly. How young you are, in time, you will be the man of the year in Beiyang, the princes of one side, and even the unification of the world, and the throne of the great president is unknown. Now, if you give up this opportunity, you can only find an errand under the warlord, and maybe you will have to go to the battlefield to die, hey......"

The throne of the great president? Qi Yuanshan shook his head with a wry smile, just toast his father-in-law.

There was a commotion outside the door, and someone reported that a distant guest had sent a wedding gift. Qi Yuanshan ran to the door and saw that there were twelve sturdy Mongolian camels, each of which was carrying a camphor wood box.

Everyone helped to open the box in the courtyard, and in an instant, everyone's eyes were blinded-

The bronze tripod of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the terracotta figurines of the Western Han Dynasty's tombs, the stone carved Buddha statues of the Northern Dynasties, the Tang Sancai warriors and maids, the Northern Song Dynasty Ru kiln azure glazed bowl, the Western Xia Water Moon Guanyin silk painting......

Professor Wang Jiawei was amazed, and took out a magnifying glass to identify them, but they were all genuine products, which could form a museum.

The above are all treasures of Dharma Mountain on the sea, antiques collected by Ouyang Sicong, the boss of the Green Gang, who disappeared in the arson case of Hongkou in Shanghai.

The only thing missing is a treasure - the wood carved Buddha statue of the Liao Dynasty, which was carved according to the face of Xiao Yanyan, the Empress Dowager of Khitan, and Qin Beiyang also made up three fingers for her.

Anna knew who the "distant guest" was - the owner of the Assassins, the once dear "Sister Ayu".

The bride rushed back to the cave room with a blushing face, took out a hammer, and smashed several of the priceless treasures.

This is not a wedding gift, but a return to Zhao, or an insult and mockery: I can kill your whole family, take your wealth and treasures, and return them to you.

It was late at night, and the guests dispersed. On the night of the candles in the cave room, Qi Yuanshan returned to the west wing, drunk alone, and fell asleep.

The moonlight sprinkled on the window paper, and Anna was lying alone at the head of the bed, surrounded by a room of treasures from an ancient tomb that originally belonged to her, plus dense double happiness stickers. On the ring finger of her left hand, it is the wedding ring that Qi Yuanshan put on her, and the middle finger is still a jade ring from the Tang Dynasty tomb in Bailuyuan. She touched the restless fetus in her womb, and her heart was full of Qin Beiyang's face, even if she was poor and fell into the yellow spring, she couldn't see the two places.

This night, in the alley deep in the flowers, at the threshold of the courtyard, there was an old woman standing in the cold dew. She was dressed in the clothes of the former Qing Dynasty, dressed neatly, and was still waiting for the return of the expedition......

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