The beauty is heavy and the appointment is light. The Qingjiang River, the cold weather does not cross, and the water is deep and icy. The road is broken and the wheels are born at four corners, and the pedestrians here are pinned. Ask, who makes you sad? Cast and now lovesick mistakes, it is expected that at the beginning, it took all the iron in the world. The long night flute, don't blow it.

The Huangpu River is so cold that it is almost freezing. Under the statue of the Goddess of Peace on the Bund erected to commemorate the First World War, Qi Yuanshan looked up at the cold starry sky, and his mind was full of the two teenagers on Taihang Mountain.

Across the entire dark river, there was a faint flute sound in the wind. It's not like the flute of the silk and bamboo in the south of the Yangtze River, nor the Bang flute of the northern country, but some kind of dull sound, as if it floated from two thousand years ago......

In the second half of the night, who is in the mood to play the bone flute in Lujiazui, Pudong? Except for Qin Beiyang, there was no one else.

Qi Yuanshan still silently recited the "He Bridegroom" that Xin Qiji gave to Chen Tongfu.

Tomorrow is the day when the tomb beast Nine Colors will undergo surgery—this day is extremely secretive, lest the Craftsman Alliance raid the Ink Celestial Craftsman, otherwise Qin Beiyang and Nine Colors will be unable to fly. Last night, Qi Yuanshan came to the ancient tomb on the outskirts of Shanghai to find Qin Beiyang to drink, and only then did he learn the news.

Qi Yuanshan rubbed his red eyes, put on a woolen cloak, and was about to get into the car to return to the mansion, when two ghostly figures appeared in front of him. He was about to pull out his pistol when he heard a young voice—

"Brother! Don't shoot! ”

This is Zhongshan. Three years ago, as soon as Tanglin said goodbye, this voice has been imprinted in Qi Yuanshan's brain.

Under the street lamp, illuminate Zhongshan's face; The second face, with a centipede-like scar, is a man about forty years old, he is Ah Hai.

Qi Yuanshan almost fell into the Huangpu River behind him, fortunately it was a battle-hardened soldier, and he quickly aimed his gun at Ah Hai's eyebrows, but the man was as cold as a corpse and unmoved.

Zhongshan approached Qi Yuanshan: "Brother, we are not here with any malice. ”

"Zhongshan, although you and I are brothers, but you recognize the thief as your father, and you are willing to take refuge in Ah Hai and the Japanese invaders, I must be brothers against you."

"Brother, Zhongshan doesn't care, as long as my brother can be well."

"Ah Hai, last time I let you go in Tanglin, we don't owe each other, next time we meet, I will kill you." Qi Yuanshan took two steps forward and looked directly into Ah Hai's eyes, "Why did you throw yourself into the net?" ”

"You're not going to kill me."

Ah Hai spoke, his voice low, as if rising from the dungeon.

"The gun is in my hand, why do you say that?"

"Because...... We are the same kind of people. ”

"The same kind of people?"

Qi Yuanshan was a little puzzled, could it be a distracting smokescreen before Ah Hai cut his throat with a dagger? Although he didn't sleep all night, he still fought hard and didn't move at all.

Ah Hai smiled faintly: "Me and you are both from the family of the heroes. Our fathers were killed, and we were all burdened with great enmity since childhood. ”

What does that mean? What qualifications do you have to compare your family background to me? ”

"I'm not Chinese."

"You finally admit it, you're Japanese!"

"I'm not Japanese either."

Qi Yuanshan's muzzle shook: "Then who are you?" ”

"I'm North Korean."

"You...... What do you want to tell me? ”

During his study in Japan, Qi Yuanshan came into contact with many Korean classmates. He likes the temperament and personality of North Koreans, and if you think about it carefully, he has some similarities with Ah Hai, including the appearance of small eyes.

Ah Hai glanced at the Waibaidu Bridge at the northern end of the Bund: "Do you remember the Hongkou patrol house in the Shanghai Public Concession?" ”

"More than ten years ago, Qin Beiyang and I followed Ouyang Sicong, the boss of the Green Gang, to the scene of the Hongkou Hunting House Massacre."

"Tuohuan and I slaughtered many of the patrolmen and prisoners in the arrest room, including the Indian patrol and the British inspector, just to get out of the bars. When I finished killing people, I kowtowed to the air outside the Hongkou fishing house and worshiped my father. ”

"Who is your father?"

"In the year of the First Sino-Japanese War, there was an assassination in Shanghai. The case caused a sensation and involved the political situation of the three East Asian countries. The person who was stabbed to death was my father, Jin Yujun. ”

"Jin Yujun?"

Qi Yuanshan seemed to have heard of it, but he didn't know the details.

"My father was a prominent figure in the Joseon Dynasty. He was the top student in the imperial examination and was proficient in Confucianism and Chinese, which is equivalent to a Chinese scholar of Hanlin. At that time, Japan invaded Korea, and the Qing court sent troops to the east to control the military and political power of Korea, and the minister stationed there was Yuan Shikai. ”

"Yuan Datou is my family's number one enemy!" Zhongshan interjected, "Yuan Kewen, one of the four sons of the Republic of China, was born to Yuan Shikai and his wife when he was in North Korea. ”

"Yuan Shikai is also my father's enemy!" Ah Hai looked at Qi Yuanshan and Qi Zhongshan and said, "My father, Kim Yujun, once inspected Japan's Meiji Restoration and decided to transform Korea according to the Japanese model. He became the leader of the 'Enlightenment Party' and staged a coup d'état in Jiashen in an attempt to kill Concubine Min, who had abused power. ”

"I do know that three days after the political and political coercion of the Korean Kaihua Party was suppressed by the Qing Dynasty garrison under the command of Yuan Shikai."

"Well, my father lived in exile in Japan for ten years, and in order to escape the Assassins, he took refuge as far away as the Ogasawara Islands in the Pacific Ocean. His father was proficient in qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, and he was the designer of the Korean national flag, the Taiji Flag, because he studied Taiji and Zhou Yi a lot. He is good at painting orchids, and is the first Go player in North Korea, and once talked with the Go family Honinfang Xiurong in Atami for 18 days, which is passed down as a good story of East Asian Go. I was born in the Ogasawara Islands while my father was in exile. ”

Zhongshan also heard the secret of Ah Hai's life experience for the first time: "Brother Ah Hai, no wonder you have been a first-class player in Go since you were a child. ”

"When I was four years old, my father was lured to Shanghai. That was the first time I can remember – the day my father left, he picked me up and kissed me, and then he went out and got on a ship to Shanghai. "Although it was an old incident thirty-eight years ago, Ah Hai still had hot eyes when he said it," said "On March 28, 1894, my father was killed by assassins at the Donghe Hotel - the first bullet hit the left cheek, the second hit the left chest, and the third bullet hit the shoulder blade, and my father died instantly......

Qi Yuanshan couldn't help but say: "Ah Hai, you lost your father when you were four years old, it seems that Zhongshan and I are luckier than you." ”

The Assassin was arrested at Wusongkou and personally interrogated by the prefect of Shanghai, who confirmed that the Assassin was a Korean and had been assassinated in the name of the Joseon king. My father's body was parked in the Hongkou Capture House in the Shanghai Public Concession. The Japanese government sent people to Shanghai to negotiate and demand that the body be sent to Japan. However, the Qing government sent his father's body back to Korea on a warship, along with the Assassins. The king ordered his father's body to be cut with a thousand knives, his head hung on the traffic point of Seoul, and his limbs were transmitted to the people of Korea to guard the people. ”

Qi Yuanshan summed it up: "The cruelty of political enemies has always been like this. ”

"I think it's not the king who hates my father to the core, but Concubine Min, who Kim Yujun is trying to kill. Women are no less vicious than men. However, his father lived in exile in Japan for ten years and befriended Japanese celebrities, such as Yukichi Fukuzawa, who advocated leaving Europe and joining Asia. After the tragic death of his father, the Japanese political circles, including the Black Dragon Group, believed that he died in Shanghai, and his body was returned to Korea, and the Qing court was actually the mastermind behind the scenes, which was a great insult to Japan by China, and they advocated war. Not long after, the Donghak-do Rebellion broke out in Korea, and China and Japan sent troops at the same time, which finally triggered the First Sino-Japanese War. Fortunately, the Japanese ronin broke into the Joseon palace and hacked to death the queen Min, which can be regarded as avenging my father. ”

"Even if she was posthumously named Empress Mingcheng later." Qi Yuanshan recalled history, "Except for the king of Korea, the person you hate the most is the Manchu Dynasty, right?" ”

Ah Hai nodded and said, "Excavating the mausoleum of the Empress Dowager Cixi is part of my revenge for my father. When I was fifteen years old, I was sent to Taibai Mountain by my father-in-law, Nakajima Naniwa. From this day on, all I thought about was revenge. ”

Qi Zhongshan nodded and said: "Not only Ah Hai, but also Fangzi, Tuhuan, and me, are all sent to Taibai Mountain by 'Sichuan Daoren', on the surface, they are 'blood endowment', but in fact, they are all 'Trojan horses'." ”

"What you have in common is that you are fathers of thieves!"

"Brother, there's a secret you don't know yet, back then, Mr. Nakajima, the boy he wanted to take away was you! It's a pity that he passed by you and took me away. Otherwise, the boy who grew up on Taibai Mountain is you. ”

Qi Yuanshan's vest felt cold: "I can't wait to kill your so-called 'father-in-law'." ”