The day Anna sold her deed on the campus of Peking University was later recorded in the chapter of women's liberation in modern Chinese history.

On the same day, in the Old Summer Palace outside the city, Qin Beiyang was looking for the broken stone carvings in the barren smoke and vines like a nine-color archaeology.

In front of Emperor Qianlong's favorite palace, there is a stone Go board, perhaps Qianlong and He Shen, the two forgetful people, played against each other here.

He made hundreds of black and white chess pieces and played chess with the nine colors. Fortunately, the garden was deserted, and if he was seen playing chess with a dog, either he was mentally ill or possessed by an evil spirit. Just as the two of them were working hard, someone picked up a black seed, put it at a critical point, and ate the big dragon of the white seed. Qin Beiyang, who was white, was furious, but saw a familiar face.

"Inspector Ye!"

Detective Ye Kenan, still dressed in a chic long shirt, wrapped around his neck, with thick black eyebrows and beard, took off his white top hat, and touched his nine-colored head: "You actually know how to play Go!" The secrets of the Tomb Beast are endless. ”

A few days ago, Qin Beiyang wrote an anonymous letter to Inspector Ye of the Beijing Police Department, making an appointment to meet at the Old Summer Palace.

After Ye Kenan received the letter, he thought that the Count of Dharma, who had a million-dollar silver fortune, was in line with Alexandre Dumas's temperament by hiding in the abandoned royal garden.

"In the year before the Spring Festival, on the evening of the twenty-third day of the lunar month, in the case of the destruction of Longxi Hall in Desheng Gate, Li Botong, the largest antique dealer in Beijing, was killed by cutting his throat, and Li Longti, the craftsman on the wanted notice, is it you?"

"Inspector Ye, are you here to arrest me?"

"I gave you the address!" Inspector Ye pursed the beard on his lips, "Fortunately, you are smart and use a fake name." I think that since you are regarded as a murderer, you must have seen the face of the real murderer. ”

"Assassin! The one with the scar on his face, I saw him, but he wasn't alone. Also, their methods of killing have improved a lot, and they are getting more and more terrifying. ”

Qin Beiyang told what he saw and heard in Longxi Hall, including the drugs sprayed out of the wood-carved Buddha statues of the Liao Dynasty, pretending to be Xiao Yanyan to speak, etc., which made Ye Kenan amazed.

"The whereabouts of the coffin of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty - Li Botong told the Buddha statue, which is equivalent to telling the assassin who eavesdropped outside the window"

"Congressman, Qu Jinghe." Ye Kenan frowned, "I know this name, I was born in a famous family in Hunan, my ancestor was a general under Zeng Guofan, and there are thousands of acres of fertile land on both sides of the Xiangjiang River. Qu Jinghe studied in Japan in his early years, and was a senior official of the Ministry of Communications, in charge of railway loans, and an important member of the new transportation department. The coffin of the little prince fell into his hands, and it was not easy to take it out. ”

"New Department of Transportation?"

"What do you think is the most important and richest industry in the world today?"

"Banks? Industrial factory? Coal iron ore? ”

Qin Beiyang even said a few words, but Ye Kenan shook his head and vetoed: "Have you forgotten how we came and went between Beijing and Shanghai?" ”

"Railroad?"

"Not only railways, but also steamships, postal, telephone, telegraph...... Whoever controls transportation and communications controls the circulation of the world – the circulation of people, goods, and information, all of which are controlled by the Ministry of Communications. When you talk about banks, you are right, the Department of Communications also controls the Bank of Communications, China Huiye Bank, and Postal Savings Exchange. ”

"Understood, as the saying goes, when the railway rings, there are ten thousand taels of gold!"

"The great powers all wanted to get the privileges of the railroad and competed with the transportation system. The Japanese took control of the South Manchurian Railway and became the overlord of the three eastern provinces. After the fall of Yuan Shikai, the new transportation department, headed by Cao Rulin, Lu Zongyu, and Zhang Zongxiang, all belonged to the pro-Japanese faction. ”

"Inspector Ye, you really know the current situation of the Beiyang government with shallots and tofu."

"Wang Shizhen's cabinet has fallen, and now the prime minister is Duan Qirui. Politicians and parliamentarians from the Anhui Department and the New Transportation Department were matched by Xiao Xu in Anfu Hutong in Xuanwumen to establish the Anfu Club, and Qu Jinghe was one of them. ”

"Inspector Ye, can you save the coffin of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty from the hands of this Qu Jing and the councilor?"

Hearing them talk about this topic, Nine-Color's eyes lit up, radiating a glass-colored gaze.

"I don't have the right to search. The MP of the Anfu Department is also the new transportation department, which is just popular. Ye Kenan couldn't solve it for the time being, so he relaxed his tone, "Beiyang, I haven't seen you for a few months, are you okay?" ”

"One man and one beast, the end of the world is far away, like a lost dog."

Qin Beiyang said a few words, being in this Old Summer Palace, he had to be infected by the earth's qi.

"Ouyang Anna has come to study at Peking University. I went to see Anna the other day. She hasn't been able to find you, and she's very worried. But I guess you're hiding from her, aren't you? ”

Qin Beiyang actually blushed: "Yes, but I can't let her know." Inspector Ye, you have also seen that since I was nine years old, no, since I was born, I have continued to bring disasters to others, first killing my own mother, and then killing my adoptive parents, and my father is now abducted to the gate and his life and death are unknown. And where I passed, it was either a massacre or a case of extermination, the Hongkou Fishing House in the Shanghai Public Concession, Ouyang Sicong in the Dharma Mountain on the Sea, and Li Botong in Longxi Hall...... I'm a broom star, and if it weren't for me, Anna wouldn't be without her father. It is better to be alone than to bring disaster to people. By the way, the nine colors are also disaster stars, and the two disaster stars are together, bent on revenge, and no longer implicate others. ”

"Boy, you've got a kind! But how do you know the girl's mind? I don't know how blessed I am. You also have to promise me that you will hide in this Old Summer Palace and do not act rashly. ”

After Ye Ke took care of it, he said goodbye to the Old Summer Palace and left.

However, Qin Beiyang had already made up his mind in his heart, and he was going to find the coffin of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty tonight.

Do you want to bring the Nine Colors with you? After thinking about it, Qin Beiyang decided not to bring it. Nine colors can play a role in desperate situations, but this time it's not to go to a big battle, but to fight a front. If you bring nine colors tonight, once you startle the snake, I'm afraid there will be no chance next time.

The three-foot Tang knife given to him by his father was specially sharpened on the stone for a long time to restore the sharpness in the Anshi Rebellion 1,200 years ago.

The moonlight was bright on a spring night, and he didn't dare to go to the north gate, for fear of being stopped by the police for inspection, so he still climbed over the city wall.

Bypass the bell and drum tower, follow the shadow under the eaves, do not turn around Di'anmen, and arrive at Mao'er Hutong. Many high-ranking officials of the Beiyang government live here, and the security is tighter than in other places.

He still remembered the mansion of Congressman Qu Jinghe, a high-walled compound in the dark night, with dense bamboo forests sticking out of the courtyard wall.

During the time when he was repairing houses at Peking University, Qin Beiyang practiced a wall-climbing stunt, and climbed the wall in three or two clicks. When he jumped into the courtyard, the warm blood jade of Hetian in his heart was hot, and he realized that something big had happened.