Ouyang Anna.

Before dawn, she left the hotel alone and took a boat from Manhattan across the sparkling New York Harbor to Liberty Island. She wore a dress popular for American girls, a lace-trimmed sunhat with bangs pressed against the brim, and her sideburns showed her curly black hair.

On the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, an English poem is engraved, and Anna tries to read the meaning in Chinese——

"It is not like the bronze statue of Greece, which has the arms to conquer territory. Thou art standing majestically at the Gate of the Red Glow, holding aloft the lamp and spraying thin light, and thou art the name of the streamer, the Mother of the Vault Dweller, illuminating the vast land......"

Vault Dweller?

She remembered a man who had also been banished to the ends of the earth, and now he was nowhere to be found. Last night, she dreamed of him, dreaming that at the edge of the earth, on the frozen and snowy sea, the night sky flashed with brilliant and dazzling auroras, which also illuminated his face, reflecting the light very unrealistically, as if melting into the boundless universe. She reached out and wanted to touch his face. Infinitely close, but never touchable......

Ten months ago, Anna and Qin Beiyang parted ways in Dagukou, Tianjin. He boarded a ship to Japan and fled, and she sang a song "Farewell" written by Uncle Li.

And the identity of the assassins' master, Ah You, was revealed, and the first thing Anna thought of was the million silver on Dharma Mountain, as well as Xiaomu.

Ouyang Anna hired a steam ship and hurried to the East China Sea Dharma Mountain. However, the Assassins were ahead of the game. Kogi and the ama are nowhere to be found, and it is said that they have fled to sea. Fortunately in the midst of misfortune, the millions of silver in the treasure cave were intact.

Her ship carried all the silver, returned to Shanghai, and deposited it into the fund of the Earl of Dharma.

In that difficult summer vacation, in order to avoid long nights and dreams, Anna bought a hundred houses in Shanghai without anyone knowing!

In the new semester, I returned to Peking University, and all teachers and students transferred to the new campus, which became known as the "Red House of Peking University". She received a letter from Japan with the postmark of Osaka on the stamp. Seeing Qin Beiyang's handwriting, she stuffed the letter paper in her heart, and ran for several miles to finish reading each paragraph. She sent a thousand silver dollars, but unfortunately the sender's address was not left on the envelope.

In September, the election of the second National Assembly of the Republic of China was announced: the Anfu Department won 70% of the seats, which can be called the "Anfu Congress", and Xu Shichang was elected president of the Republic of China. Now it is President Lao Xu, Prime Minister Duan, and Xiao Xu controls the parliament - after the assassins got the coffin of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty, they strictly kept their promise and did not continue to assassinate the congressmen.

After her eighteenth birthday, Ouyang Anna set a goal for herself - her female classmates all want to marry well after graduation, and she admires Marie Curie, Red Rosa, and even Qiu Jin, the Jianhu woman.

Anna dreams of being a female diplomat, at least never in China, and very few in Europe and the United States. She was fluent in French, and when she heard that French translators were scarce in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she took out three thousand silver dollars and bribed the deputy foreign minister through Ye Kenan. Anna went to the French Legation in China, asked the great sinologist Birchhe to write a letter of recommendation, and finally got a position as an intern.

In September 98, Germany surrendered, and the First World War ended. A grand military parade was held in Beijing, and monks, Taoist priests, lamas, and priests were ordered to pray for the blessing of the Republic of China. The Klinder monument erected in Dongdan, originally to commemorate the German minister who was killed in the year of Gengzi, was changed to a "justice triumphed" monument and moved to the central park on the edge of **. In January of the following year, the Allies convened a convention in Paris. China, as the victorious power, also sent a delegation, and then the bad news came that German rights in Shandong were to be transferred to Japan. Public opinion in the country was raging, and the Beiyang government was forced to send a second delegation.

Ouyang Anna, a 19-year-old intern at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was lucky enough to catch the last train of the delegation.

In the ranks of the delegation, there is also a familiar face - the king of the small county of Ordos Doro, Timur. The father of the small gun, the king, was seriously ill, and with the approval of the speaker of the House of Representatives, he succeeded to the seat of the National Assembly. They sailed from Tianjin, not on the closer Suez Canal route, but on the round-the-world route across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

Compared with the bureaucrats with big bellies or bald heads, and the snarky reporters in Beijing, there is really no other partner. The little prince sometimes wore a Mongolian robe, sometimes a satin gown, but his favorite was a suit, a horse jacket and leather shoes, dressed like a gentleman on the streets of New York or London.

The youngest member of the National Assembly of the Republic of China, he paid tribute to the most beautiful female intern of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ouyang Anna ignored him, and didn't care that the little county king had a noble identity. She was always alone on the side of the ship, looking out at the blue Pacific Ocean.

In San Francisco, California, board the Transcontinental Railroad and travel from the West Coast to the East Coast, 4,850 kilometers away.

The express train also travels for five days and five nights, from the deserts of Nevada to the Great Salt Lake of Utah, through the majestic Rocky Mountains, and into the vast plains of the Mississippi River, all the way to the endless fields of corn and wheat. On both sides of the Ohio River, factories and chimneys were everywhere, and the people were tall and healthy, living in spacious houses. Needless to say, this is a rich and powerful country.

The train arrived in New York and the delegation stayed at a hotel in Manhattan. That morning, Anna changed into new clothes and went to the Statue of Liberty alone, wanting to experience first-hand the first impression of New York by people who came with the American dream.

Looking up at Lady Liberty's face, she saw a strangely shaped flying machine that slowly landed on the goddess's shoulder.

Far from being an airplane or an airship, it has four constantly flapping wings, more like a prehistoric monster escaping from a museum.

Four-winged angel!

Two pairs of huge wings, plus the body and head of a beast, mix the Tang Dynasty and the fertile crescent. After the initial shock, Anna saw it clearly, wasn't this the tomb beast found in the Jingjiao Tomb in Fangshan, Beijing?

A large dog with a red mane crawled from its back, and two young men—Chinese, one of whose faces had just broken into her dreams last night.

Qin Beiyang.

Is it really him? Coupled with the four-winged angel falling from the sky, the extremely unreal illusion made her suspect that she hadn't woken up from the dream yet?

Suddenly, Qin Beiyang saw her, waved his hand and shouted, "Ouyang Anna! ”

Tears poured down the cheeks of the nineteen-year-old like bursting pearls. Crossing such a large Pacific Ocean and crossing the entire American continent, she no longer had the strength to shout, so she could only nod slightly to the young man on the shoulder of Lady Liberty, and did not say anything.

A moment later, Qin Beiyang and Qian Ke climbed down from the Statue of Liberty. On April spring, the wind on the harbor of New York blew away Anna's sunhat, and the curly hair brushed against his face. Against all odds, they hug, without saying a word.

Qian Ke shook his head a little ignorantly, and Jiu Se sat on the ground, as if he had returned to Dharma Mountain on the sea, as a young Qilin Town tomb beast, he saw Ouyang Anna for the first time.

The two let go, a thousand words, and I don't know where to start, without words!

Facing the other side of the New York harbor, the high-rise buildings of Manhattan, Qin Beiyang sighed slightly: "I can't imagine that in this life, I can go so far!" ”

"No matter how far you go, I'll walk with you."

Anna raised her left hand, and the jade ring was firmly on her middle finger, a gift from the White Deer Plains Necropolis Palace, shining in the sun. She rested her head on his shoulder, almost closing her eyes, enjoying the rare and brief spring.

Chanco interrupted them in confusion and pointed to the four-winged angel on the Statue of Liberty, "How do you get it down?" ”

"Haha, it turns out that the four-winged angel is your lover!"

Qin Beiyang also learned to joke. Under the sun, the tomb beast that had spread its wings for thousands of miles had long since lost its power and turned back into a pile of iron lumps.

A large number of police arrived, and there was a report of aircraft intruding into New York. It took a crane and a large crane to move the four-winged angel to the ground, but fortunately the Statue of Liberty was not damaged.

Qian Ke explained in English that it was a Chinese artifact, and that Ouyang Anna, on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Beiyang government, wanted to return the four-winged angel to the Chinese legation.

While the New York police hesitated, another group of officers rushed to Liberty Island, took over the Four-Winged Angel Town Grave Beast, and loaded it onto a barge, completely ignoring Anna and Chanco's protests.

Qin Beiyang saw a face in the crowd - Pierre Gauguin.

Gauguin is still alive!

Just like the Titanic seven years ago, not everyone died in shipwreck, and the French were lucky enough to be rescued by a steamer and sent to the nearest New York harbor. Wet and wet, he approached the French consulate and asked to hire a ship to go to the North Atlantic to salvage the grave beasts. Gauguin pushed open the window and unexpectedly saw a flying machine on the opposite side of Manhattan, on the shoulder of the Statue of Liberty. The French Consul General called the Mayor of New York. Considering the good relations between the United States and France, both of the five victorious powers, the mayor approved the return of the four-winged angel to France.

Qin Beiyang couldn't resist, and it was difficult for the nine colors in broad daylight to transform, surrounded by heavily armed policemen, and the muzzle of the black hole was pointed at three Chinese boys and girls, and they could be beaten into a sieve at any time.

Anna questioned Pierre Gauguin in French, he didn't talk to the girl, frowned at Qin Beiyang, and threw out a Chinese sentence: "Thank you for saving my four-winged angel." ”

"The four-winged angel is Chinese."

Qin Beiyang replied word by word. Gauguin shrugged, jumped on a small barge and waved goodbye to the Statue of Liberty from France.

New York Harbor, the Four-Winged Angel Town Gravebeast, was sent on an ocean freighter by barge. The ship will carry the Grave Beast and Pierre Gauguin across the North Atlantic, sailing the waves to Europe, Paris.