The eighth year of the Republic of China, 1921, June.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, the wheat harvest season in Guanzhong has passed, and the wheat customers have returned to their hometowns like migratory birds. In the endless wheat field at the entrance of Qianling, it has been neatly harvested, and only a stubble of stubble is left black and earthy yellow. The five-color flag was still flying high in the barracks at the foot of Nitou Mountain, and the surrounding villagers did not even recognize it as the national flag of China.

A convoy drove out of the barracks, headed by a young officer, only in his early twenties, with epaulettes already with the rank of major.

It was followed by several large cars, and the curtains of the first car were lifted. The young woman with curly hair, cutting the popular children's flower head, staring at the glass-colored eyes, looking at the main peak of the Qianling Tomb that is gradually moving away behind her, bidding farewell to Tang Gaozong Li Zhi and Empress Wu Zetian, bidding farewell to the wordless monument written all over this visit, bidding farewell to the sixty-one Fanchen headless horsemen, and bidding farewell to several princes, princesses and ministers who were buried within a radius of more than ten miles, such as Princess Yongtai, the tomb owner of the tomb beast in Guhou Bird Town.

Ouyang Anna is holding a baby, she is about to turn one year old, and she is a beautiful daughter. The little girl was very healthy, her eyes even had a glass-colored taste, and her two little hands like lotus roots were scratching around. The young mother lifted her daughter up so that she could also see the tombs of the two emperors.

"Nine colors, nine colors, although you are a girl, you are not inferior to all boys, they can do it, you can do it, they can't do it, you can do it even more, just like the woman buried in this mausoleum!"

On the bumpy car, Anna wiped her daughter's body with a towel, and the weather was hot and prone to rashes. On the back of her daughter's neck, a pair of red antler-shaped birthmarks rushed to the thick black hair like flames. The mark of the Qin clan's tombsmith clan was also passed on to the girl.

She shoved her plump nipples into her daughter's mouth. The lactation period is about to pass, and Jiuse is also drinking rice soup. Next, she plans to give Nine Colors milk to make the child as strong as Europeans and Americans.

Outside the cart, Qi Yuanshan slowed down the horse's hooves and looked at his wife and daughter in the car window. He gave Nine Colors a big smile, and to be honest, he was handsome! This little girl is Yan Kong, so she also gave "Dad" a smile.

Anna in the car didn't give him a smile. Qi Yuanshan was a little ashamed, lowered the brim of his hat, clung to the spurs, and rushed to the front of the team again. He left the barracks in Qianling in disgrace.

There was a black cat entrenched on the roof of the big car.

The old cat from Princess Yongtai's underground palace doesn't know how old he is, no matter how Qi Yuanshan chases it, he just won't leave. Even if it is not fed anything, the cat can catch mice and finches to eat.

The cat's eyes stared at the land of Guanzhong in front of him.

In the summer of that year, Shaanxi was not at peace, with warlords Chen Shufan and Liu Zhenhua supporting their troops and Hu Jingyi's Yasukuni Army cutting off their command, and the two sides were tense and on the verge of breaking out. It was decided to control the direct line and Feng of the Beiyang government and remove Chen Shufan from his post as the overseer of Shaanxi. Chen Shufan and Liu Zhenhua would not give up power easily, declaring the Shaanxi people to rule Shaanxi, and at the same time going to war with the direct warlords and the Yasukuni Army.

Qi Yuanshan's lone army stationed in Qianling was not strong enough to turn the tide of the war, so it announced that it would disarm and leave the war zone and return to Beijing. The base he worked hard to run at the foot of Qianling fell short, what princes and warlords, but Nan Ke dreamed.

Despite this, Cao Kun still sent a telegram to Qi Yuanshan, praising him as a direct young hero, worthy of being a famous general in Beiyang.

The convoy left Qianling, crossed the Wei River two days later, and saw the yellow-colored Xi'an city wall. It's a pity that the Tang Dynasty Chang'an City has long been turned into dust, and now the city wall is just built during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, which is thousands of miles away from the Tang Dynasty, but it still stands, the corner tower, the horse face, the daughter wall, looks like the Jincheng soup pool.

Qi Yuanshan enters the city from the Anding Gate facing west, passes through the quaint arrow tower and the urn city, passes through the bustling West Street, only to see a tall city tower carved with beams and paintings, which is located on the brick and stone pedestal of several zhang high. There is the arch coupon door opening for people and vehicles to enter and exit at the bottom, there is a beam-frame type wooden structure pavilion, two floors up and down, three layers of heavy eaves, including the cloister there are as many as nine, the roof is three drops of water for the heavy eaves of the mountain type, covered with gray tiles, green glazed tiles cut edges, and has the style of the three dynasties of the Tang, Song and Ming dynasties at the same time.

Anna's mother and daughter in the cart also opened the curtain and looked - they saw a plaque on the city tower "Wenwu Shengdi", which is China's No. 1 Xi'an Drum Tower, which is equivalent to Tiananmen Square in Beijing, but is taller and more majestic, not inferior to the specifications of the imperial capital.

Passing through the city gate cave under the drum tower, is the North Courtyard Gate where the Hui people lived, which belonged to the imperial city in the Tang Dynasty, the seat of Shangshu Province, and the heart of the entire empire. Qi Yuanshan on horseback looked back, and the plaque behind the drum tower was "heard in the sky".

Xiao Jiuse, who is less than a year old, has a nose as sensitive as a deer, after all, he grew up eating deer milk in the ancient tombs of the Tang Dynasty, and smelled the mutton steamed buns, sesame sauce and cold skin, mutton in the water basin, soup dumplings, and eight-treasure rose cake all over the street...... Suddenly, a large number of troops rushed over, and the crowds on the streets dodged, and many vendors' stalls were trampled to pieces. Qi Yuanshan ordered the convoy to calm down, and quietly took out the large mirror box cannon on his waist.

But these soldiers slid like a stream through both sides of the convoy, and in an instant surrounded the drum tower behind them. Under the command of the officer, the soldiers cautiously climbed up to the platform, and were just about to break into the drum tower when gunfire rang out from inside. The two soldiers fell to the ground in response, and the bullets were fired from the depths of the drum tower, and it was obvious that the marksman's marksmanship was quite accurate.

Among the soldiers in blue uniforms, a man in a black police officer's uniform looked a little nondescript. The man was in his thirties, with thick eyebrows, two mustaches on his mouth, eyes like stars, a tall figure, and no anger and self-authority.

Through many heads, Qi Yuanshan recognized this face - the heir of the six doors of the capital, the famous detective Ye Kenan.

Some people shouted loudly, and offered a reward of 1,000 yuan for the arrest of the important culprit hiding on the drum tower.

Under the heavy reward, there will be brave men, and these soldiers are also outlaws, and they rushed forward with bayonets. For a time, on the ancient Xi'an Drum Tower, there was a sound of killing, guns and bullets flew sideways, blood splashed five steps, and corpses were constantly carried down, and then I saw that all were soldiers. The key criminals entrenched in the drum tower, I don't know how many people and horses? The army even brought in Gatling machine guns, ready to carry out strafing damage to the drum tower.

Anna, who was holding the child in the car, said coquettishly: "These unscrupulous descendants! We will spoil all the treasures of our ancestors! ”

Her voice actually reached Ye Kenan's ears by the wind, and the detective in the capital turned around suspiciously, and his eyes just met Ouyang Anna.

With curly hair and glass eyeballs, even if it is burned to ashes and ground into powder, Ye Kenan will not recognize her.

"Anna!"

Ye Kenan ordered the attack to be suspended, came to the cart, and this time also saw Qi Yuanshan.

The young Beiyang Major dismounted and saluted the senior officers of the Beijing Police Department. Ye Ke looked at Anna who was holding the child in the cart and had already guessed the result.

It's not the time to catch up, he looked back at the drum tower and gritted his teeth: "Today, if you fight for my life, you have to catch that guy!" ”

"How many important criminals are there on the drum tower?"

Qi Yuanshan didn't ask a question, but Ouyang Anna asked curiously.

The detective only held out a finger.

"What royal law did you violate?"

"Kill!"