Spring in Beijing.

In the alley deep in the flowers, an eighteen-year-old young officer is tall, heroic, and high-spirited. Anna smiled brightly. On the roof tiles covered with withered grass, Qin Beiyang has disappeared without a trace.

A team of pigeons whistled and pierced the blue sky. Ouyang Anna lowered her head and looked at the jade ring on the middle finger of her left hand. Three months ago, on the choppy Yangtze River, Qin Beiyang gave her a gift.

"Seeing this jade ring is like seeing me!"

After Wu Songkou and Qin Beiyang separated, she and Ye Kenan returned to the Shanghai Concession and negotiated with the Ministry of Industry Bureau and the Youth Gang respectively. They proved that Qin Beiyang and Qi Yuanshan had nothing to do with the arson case of the Dharma Mountain extermination, and the real culprits were still the assassins of the Hongkou Hunting House Massacre.

Ye Kenan took the train back to Beijing to report on his work, and Haneda Taiki took a boat back to Japan.

As for Ah You, there is nowhere to go, and there is no suitable Xiaokun class in Shanghai. Ouyang Anna kept her by her side.

Where should Anna go? The Dharma Mountain on the sea has been burned to ruins. My father was not only bankrupt, but also in debt, and creditors came to my door every day. The world is hot and cold, and everyone in the Green Gang said that they wanted to avenge Ouyang Sicong, but no one helped the boss's daughter, but instead took the opportunity to encroach on the only remaining inheritance, which was claimed to be jointly owned by the Green Gang brothers.

In desperation, Ouyang Anna rented an apartment on Gordon Road. The clothes, shoes and hats that used to fill the two rooms have been reduced to ashes. She is no longer the princess of Dharma Mountain on the sea, the daughter of the Ouyang family, she must be cautious. She changed into plain clothes and bought her own rice to cook. Ah You is used to living a hard life and helps Anna with household chores. Although they are young, in the old era, they can also talk about marriage, like "Bao Dai Chai" in the Dream of Red Mansions. The two girls warned each other not to think of themselves as children anymore.

Anna did not touch any of the 3,000 taels of silver brought out from Damo Mountain, and sent all of them to the branch of the Swiss private bank in Shanghai to go through the deposit and fund custody procedures.

Earl of Dharma Mountain, in the column of everyone, she filled in the words "Qin Beiyang".

Ouyang Anna rented a small steamboat and went back to Damo Mountain. She buried her father's coffin on her home island, next to her mother's grave. She also visited the ama and brought candy to her two half-brothers. Anna went to the cave where Xiaomu was imprisoned, and through the grid of the cellar, listened to the cries of the tomb robbers, begged him to be released, and swore a poisonous oath not to reveal the secret. She left with a heart of stone, not giving him any chance.

Only she and Qin Beiyang remembered the secret path to the Treasure Cave. Anna carried it more than a dozen times in a row, took out nearly 100,000 taels of silver, transported it to Shanghai, and deposited it into the fund of the Earl of Dharma Mountain. She bought three properties in Shanghai, two apartments on Nanjing Road in the Public Concession and one garden house in the French Concession, as a long-term investment in the fund. She can't use her own name, or she'll be robbed of her creditors.

Before the Spring Festival, she received an admission letter from National Peking University. A few months ago, Anna was recommended by the French Church School to take the entrance exam for Peking University in Shanghai. The acceptance rate in the entire Jiangsu Province is less than 1/10, and when she got the admission letter, she knew that the results of the preliminary examination and the re-examination were good. After the Chinese New Year, Ouyang Anna set off from Shanghai to Beijing, Ah You followed her, wandering in a foreign land, and the two girls could take care of her.

Qi Yuanshan went to Zhengyangmen Railway Station to pick them up. As soon as they met, Anna grabbed his arm and asked, "Where is Qin Beiyang?" ”

He shook his head in embarrassment, the Nanyuan base was goodbye, and Qin Beiyang had no news. In the winter of goose feathers and heavy snow in Beijing, Anna endured not to cry and forced a smile. Qi Yuanshan rented a courtyard house in the inner city of Beijing, in the depths of the Hutong, and set aside two rooms for the two of them.

In the depths of a hundred flowers, just hearing this name made the two girls full of joy. They agreed to be called sisters, one was called Ouyang Anna, and the other was Ouyang Anyou - Ah You liked his new name very much.

In March, the branches of the Peking University campus burst into shoots. Anna took Ah You to the door of the history department's classroom and blocked the little county king of Ordos Doro head-on.

"Timur, who do you think this is?"

Ouyang Anna put on a cold face and pushed Ah You in front of him.

"This ......"

The little king did not wear Mongolian clothes, he was dressed in a neat little suit, and his hair was combed shiny, like a foreign student who had just finished eating foreign ink.

"The eighteenth change of the female college, you don't recognize this girl?" Anna is the daughter of the boss of the Green Gang, and she has no stage fright in the face of the Mongolian princes and nobles, "The little county prince and nobleman are so forgetful." In the fourth year of the Republic of China, when Yuan Shikai was proclaimed emperor, in the Beijing District Court, you took this girl away as a slave. The Republic of China, the law protects personal freedom, should you still be in the Manchu Qing Dynasty? ”

On the campus of Peking University, the little king was scolded as a remnant of the Manchu Dynasty, and he was so ashamed that he wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into. Ah You is no longer a little girl, she has become a slim beautiful girl, but her big eyes have not changed, she bows her head timidly, afraid of being caught again, and sent to the back of a camel to be escorted to the prairie.

"I ...... I admit my mistake! The dignified Mongolian county king, for the first time, took the initiative to admit his mistake to the two yellow-haired girls, "Classmate Ouyang, I promise to give Miss Ayou back her free body immediately." ”

"Empty words! Give us back the original deed of sale. ”

The little king had no choice but to agree and sent a telegram to the palace. Five days later, a fast horse came from Ordos and delivered the deed of sale.

Ouyang Anna burned the paper deed of sale in public. She told her classmates that people are born free and equal, even if it is a master-servant relationship, and there must be no more oppression by others. For a while, teachers and students applauded.

In the distance, there was a middle-aged man with a mustache and a homespun coat, with round-framed glasses on the bridge of his nose, and praised his chin: "Brother Zhongfu, it seems that your New Youth magazine has been very effective in changing the fate of China since the beginning of the time." ”

Another man in a suit, with slightly bald hair, was respectful: "Mr. Principal, you are falsely praised!" The road is long, I should go up and down and seek. ”