At dawn, the bonfire in Xue Rengui's temple had already been extinguished, but Ouyang Anna found that Qin Beiyang was gone.

The nine colors of the town's tomb beast are also gone, and the pair of masters and servants have evaporated like phantoms.

Qi Yuanshan, Ye Kenan, Li Longsheng, and Xiaojunwang woke up at this time. Perhaps the adventure in Tanglin was so exciting that I was sleepy and slept peacefully until dawn. They rushed out of the ancient temple and searched for Qin Beiyang on the top of the ruined Great Wall and the steep mountains, but they didn't even find half a hair. Detective Ye Kenan carefully surveyed the ancient temple and did not let go of any clues, and concluded that there was no invasion by outsiders and no fighting.

"Qin Beiyang went by himself."

Xiao Mu, who was huddled in the corner, said lightly.

Anna grabbed the tomb robber by the collar and almost whipped him with a shaved ear: "! Why don't you wake us up? ”

"Don't hit someone in the face...... Xiao Mu replied tremblingly, "Qin Beiyang said in my ear that if I make any noise, he will kill me." ”

"Did Qin Beiyang say where he was going?"

"No, I don't."

Xiaomu's wretched appearance, who doesn't know if it's pretended, or if it's really scared? Ouyang Anna felt that the former was more likely.

"Forget it, Anna, you can't ask for anything." Xiaojun Wang dissuaded her, and also relieved Xiaomu, "I think, Qin Beiyang will not make any decision for no reason." ”

"I know him better than you do!" Anna looked angrily at the Great Wall outside the ancient temple, "But why didn't he tell me and leave!" ”

The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intentional - Ye Kenan keenly observed Qi Yuanshan on the side, and his face had become quite embarrassed.

"There is no one in this world who understands Qin Beiyang better than me!" Qi Yuanshan spoke unexpectedly, and immediately shut up his daughter-in-law, "He is such a person, bent on going his own way, recklessly, until his head breaks and ...... bleeding."

Li Longsheng also nodded and said, "I guess Qin Beiyang went with Jiuse to find the coffin of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty, right?" ”

Ouyang Anna said to herself: "Well, Qin Beiyang will never let Ah Hai go, even if he chases to the ends of the earth and the end of the world, he will kill that guy." ”

Ye Kenan sighed and said, "Anna, this is Qin Beiyang's life. Let him go. Jiren has its own natural appearance. ”

Three days later.

Qi Yuanshan, Ouyang Anna, Ye Kenan, Li Longsheng, Xiaojunwang, plus the tomb robber Xiaomu, a group of six people, followed the Great Wall into Gubeikou, and finally returned to Beiping City. Qi Yuanshan, who escaped from danger, heard that Chang Kaishen had led the officials of the Nationalist Government to return to Nanjing.

Everyone said goodbye on the Lugou Bridge, and Xiaojunwang and Ye Kenan stayed in Beiping. Li Longsheng went to Tianjin and prepared to take a ship back to Cambridge, England. Qi Yuanshan and Anna took the train south, passed through Zhengzhou a few days later, and then diverted to Luoyang to the tomb robbery village.

Ouyang Anna kept her promise and returned Xiaomu to the ama and the two children. The ama hugged Xiaomu and cried bitterly, and thanked her for her kindness. Qi Yuanshan thought in his heart, fortunately he didn't let Inspector Ye come over, otherwise he would definitely have served the tomb robbery village.

Bidding farewell to the tomb robbery village and Xiaomu, Anna got on the train in Luoyang. She misses her daughter Jiuse very much, and during the more than three months that mother and daughter have been separated, she has seen this girl in her dreams countless times.

Two days and nights later, they crossed the Yangtze River and arrived at the new capital of the Republic of China.

Crossing the boulevard of Nanjing, out of the Chaoyang Gate in the east, construction is underway to rebuild the Zhongshan Gate - prepared for the passage of Mr. Zhongshan's coffin, and the construction of the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum is being stepped up on the Purple Mountain.

At the foot of the lush Purple Mountain, the Chang Mansion is heavily protected by an army. Qi Yuanshan and Ouyang Anna entered the mansion and finally saw their daughter Jiuse. The eight-year-old girl grew taller again and threw herself into the arms of her parents. Anna kissed her on the cheek, and tears began to fall. The thousand-year-old black cat also lay on the nine-colored shoulder, not leaving an inch. Mrs. Chang has been newly married for more than a year, and she has not yet been happy, so she likes Jiuse very much, and raises her as her own daughter. The little girl in Chang Mansion has nine colors, and her gestures have the style of a princess of the Republic of China.

After the greetings, Qi Yuanshan reported to Chang Kaishen about the major events in the Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty - Sun Dianying dug up the tombs of the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Qianlong, and looted the treasures of the rich country.

originally thought that this complaint would make Chang Kaishen take the case, and ordered all the armies to exterminate Sun Haozi and recover the stolen cultural relics, but he didn't expect Chang Kaishen to hold the teacup and say: "Yuanshan, I have also heard about this matter, the newspapers in Beiping and Tianjin have said it, and Pu Yi also sent people to Tanglin to investigate." We can't infer until the investigation report comes out. ”

"Mr. Chang, what I said about the distant mountains is all what I have seen with my own eyes, and there are many famous people who protect cultural relics who can testify, including the king of the small county of Ordos, this time the matter is big, the impact is bad, and the difficulty of the national treasure is the national disaster, and the ...... is often "

"Needless to say, Yuanshan, your loyalty is undoubted. However, the matter of Tanglin will be handled by the Beiping District Court in accordance with national law. For Sun Dianying, after all, he has a heavy army, and he must not act rashly, lest he jump off the wall in a hurry and take refuge outside the gate. Chang Kaishen smiled again, "The husband is in the world, and he needs to take care of the overall situation!" You've worked hard, and I'll be of great use to you. By the way, my goddaughter Jiuse, you and Miss Anna should take good care of her, I will always take care of this little girl. ”

Qi Yuanshan was so smart that he had already heard Chang Kaishen's words, so he hastily ended the complaint.

When he and Anna took their daughter to say goodbye to Mrs. Chang together, they found that the beads on Mrs. Chang's chest were composed of two semicircular jewels, shining and dazzling, and they were by no means a thing that could be found in the world.

Out of Chang's Mansion, Ouyang Anna reminded with nine colors: "The jewelry worn by Mrs. Chang is like the night pearl in the mouth of the Empress Dowager Cixi described by Xiao Mu?" ”

"Hey...... Sun Haozi's actions are fast, we came to Nanjing one step earlier, and paid tribute to Mrs. Chang for the stolen goods of the Tanglin treasure theft, this night pearl can not only protect his life without worry, but also protect his army from being dismissed, and the goal to be achieved through tomb robbery has been achieved! It turns out that my life, as well as the law and dignity of the Republic of China, are far inferior to the jewelry on a woman's body. ”

Ouyang Anna looked back at the blue sky and white sun flag fluttering at the door of Chang Mansion and said, "Such a Republic of China, it is better to die as soon as possible!" ”

Qi Yuanshan almost covered his wife's mouth: "Anna, Hugh is talking nonsense!" ”

Ouyang Anna stopped talking, so she took the child and the snake cat to Nanjing Railway Station to get on the train and go to Shanghai.

Late that night, Shanghai arrived.

A car arrives at the North Station, and then Mr. Qi, Mrs. Qi and Miss Jiuse return to the mansion in the French Concession.

On the first night back in Shanghai, as soon as she put her daughter to sleep, Ouyang Anna filed for divorce from Qi Yuanshan.

Qi Yuanshan couldn't refuse. Ouyang Anna is the owner of the Earl Fund of Dharma Mountain and Chang Kaishen's life-saving benefactor. Although he is a young general of the National Revolutionary Army and has made many miraculous achievements in the Northern Expedition, he is just a small minion in front of Chang Kaishen.

As for the reason for the divorce, Anna didn't say a word, and Qi Yuanshan didn't ask a word. Actually, they both know it - isn't it all because of Qin Beiyang?

After three days of grinding, Qi Yuanshan agreed to divorce.

But he has two conditions - first, the news of the divorce cannot be announced to the public, let alone Chang Kaishen know, so as not to affect his career; Second, Qi Yuanshan can still see Jiuse often, even if he can't let Jiuse call him dad anymore.

Ouyang Anna agreed to the conditions. She also didn't want the divorce to affect her daughter's growth. But she quietly changed her daughter's household registration and changed her name from "Qi Jiuse" to "Qin Jiuse", which is "Returning to Qin".

After the divorce, Qi Yuanshan bought a new home in Hongkou Yokohama Bridge. He also had a mansion in Nanjing, which was convenient for him to participate in the Central Military Commission. Every time Chang Kaishen and his wife missed Xiao Jiuse, Qi Yuanshan would escort her to Nanjing or even to spend the summer in Lushan or Moganshan.

A year later, on "Black Thursday" on Wall Street in New York, the Great Depression descended on the United States like God's punishment, and then spread to all corners of the world. Britain is finished, France is finished, Germany is finished, Japan is finished......

Ouyang Anna went to the United States to "buy the bottom" and bought many properties in New York and California. The assets of the Earl of Dharma Mountain Fund are all over the world, and she has invested in Shanghai, Nanjing, Ningbo and other places, and even bought the copper mine in Daye, Hubei Province, and the tungsten mine in Dayu, Jiangxi. In just two or three years, Anna has become the richest woman in Shanghai.

In addition to doing business and raising her daughter, Anna studied law at St. John's University, obtained her lawyer's license, and often helped the poor and women in their legal battles, especially in financial disputes and divorce lawsuits.

Ouyang Anna wants to make up for her daughter's regret that she can't graduate from Peking University and can't become a female diplomat. Jiuse's grades in school are excellent, and all his homework is among the best, which makes foreign teachers praise him.

In the old days, women were virtuous if they had no talent. Because if a girl reads more, she will have a heart fan, and the thought fan may be bad for chastity. But what's wrong with Sifan? Anna asked herself.

Time flies, and three years and six months have passed since Ouyang Anna and Qin Beiyang were separated.

A new page has been opened in China's history......