Rain in Guangzhou.

At the foot of the gray Yuexiu Mountain, Ouyang Anna smiled back at her husband, showing the charm of a young woman. A big husband, a beautiful Jiao'e, they stand together, a pair of beautiful people made in heaven, and the fairy couple is also.

A year and a half ago, on Christmas, the Assassin Ah Hai visited Ouyang Anna's home in Shanghai. For the safety of her daughter Jiuse, she decided to move and flee Shanghai that day. A family of three traveled with Chang Kaishen and went south to Guangzhou by boat.

Qi Yuanshan broke away from the Beiyang warlords and joined the Kuomintang, serving as the president's security officer. On the side of the Yuexiu Building where Mr. Zhongshan lived, Anna bought an old courtyard with red beans and plantain trees planted in front of it.

In the spring full of red beans, Ouyang Anna was at her desk and repeatedly copied Wang Wei's "Red beans are born in the south, and a few branches are sent in spring." May you pick more, this thing is the most lovely. The daughter was babbling, so she recited the poem with her mother.

In the summer when the rain hit the plantains, she copied Jiang Jie's "A Cut of Plums": "A piece of spring sorrow is waiting for the wine to be poured." The boat on the river is rocking. Upstairs curtain moves. Qiu Niangdu and Tai Niangjiao. The wind is blowing again. The rain is bleak again. When will I go home and wash my robes? Silver word sheng tone. The heart word incense burns. Streamers are easy to throw people away. Red cherries. Green plantains. ”

Jiuse, who has just turned three years old, is familiar with his ears and eyes, and not only can memorize ancient poems, but also recognize a lot of words.

Ouyang Anna was born on a remote island in the East China Sea, grew up in Shanghai, studied in Beijing, and now has taken refuge in Yangcheng in the south, just like her mother from the island of Java south of the equator, perhaps destined to love the hot south.

It is rainy in Guangzhou. But she doesn't like to hold an umbrella, preferring to let the rain wet her clothes.

Because the umbrella is scattered.

When she was a girl, she was not afraid of heaven and earth, and she had no taboos like the father of the boss of the Green Gang. Now that I am a new mother and marry a woman, I have a lot of taboos, such as never touching raw pears again, for no other reason, I am born!

Last summer, Chen Jiongming mutinied, and the rebels shelled and besieged Yuexiu Tower. Qi Yuanshan was born and died, protecting Mr. Zhongshan and breaking out of the encirclement. Anna held her daughter and slept overnight, and the black cat that came out of the tomb of Princess Yongtai in Shaanxi Province guarded the mother and daughter inch by the side. The next day, Qi Yuanshan picked up his wife and daughter to board the Yongfeng ship anchored in the Pearl River. Mr. and Mrs. Zhongshan and Chang Kaishen were also on the ship, and everyone was reunited, which was embarrassing. Mr. Zhongshan moved to Shanghai, and Qi Yuanshan and Ouyang Anna lived in Hong Kong for half a year.

At the beginning of the year, Chen Jiongming's rebels were expelled, and Guangzhou returned to the hands of the revolutionary party. Anna returned to the old courtyard of Yuexiu Mountain, just because she liked the two red bean trees and plantain trees.

Chang Kaishen, who holds great power, has a lot of support for Qi Yuanshan, all of which depends on Ouyang Anna's face - because on Christmas Eve in 1921, that generous loan is comparable to a life-saving grace.

Being at the center of the Great Revolution, in the whirlpool of meeting of influential figures, Ouyang Anna is not interested in politics. A few years ago, she dreamed of becoming China's first female diplomat, the first female minister, the first female foreign minister, and even the first female president. But since her daughter Jiuse came to the world, she has given up all her dreams.

What's more, she is also a person who has really seen the world, participated in the Paris Peace Conference, and has been close to the most powerful men on the planet, such as the President of the United States, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and the Prime Minister of France...... But in poor and backward China, even if you climb to the peak of power, just like the princes who occupy the Beiyang government, isn't it a fart on the international stage?

Now, her life is a husband and a child, and she reads "Six Tales of Floating Life" in her spare time, imagining the days of Shen Sanbai and Yun Niang. Even if Yun Niang vomited blood and died early, she was still worthy of Anna's envy, which was a happiness she had never enjoyed. In addition to taking care of her daughter, she recalls the short time she spent with Qin Beiyang, listening to the dripping rain in Guangzhou, watching the flowers bloom and fall in front of the court, the clouds rolling in the sky, the spring breeze red beans, and the summer rain plantain......

On this day in August, Ouyang Anna had a hard time going out, and it was raining again. Qi Yuanshan ran out to hold an umbrella for her, and the couple went to Xiguan to buy some grain, rice and clothes. My three-year-old daughter is taking a nap in her cot. And they didn't notice that in the fence opposite the door of the house, there was a small town tomb beast hidden, and the man's red, swollen and moist eyes.

Qi Yuanshan and Anna went away under the umbrella, and Qin Beiyang came out from behind the fence. It wasn't that he didn't want to say hello to Anna and catch up with the sworn brothers' distant mountains, but it was as if there was a wall between them, and he couldn't say anything about it, or he would be so embarrassed that he wanted to die.

He stroked his nine-colored mane and decided to say goodbye to Yuexiu Mountain, find a roof to spend two days, and wait to board the passenger ship to Japan.

Suddenly, a crack opened in the door between red beans and plantain trees.

A cat came out first, a cat with a black body and walnut-like cat's eyes, which happened to see Qin Beiyang.

Even if there are 10,000 black cats tossing in front of him, he will recognize this cat at a glance - the granddaughter from Wu Zetian, the sister of Li Longqi, the little prince of the Tang Dynasty, the old cat of Princess Yongtai's underground palace, I don't know how many years I have lived, and I can still meet here?

The cat looked at him and recognized him.

Then, Nine Colors let out a growl at the cat.

Generally speaking, the Tomb Beast will not care about ordinary animals, especially cats and dogs in the human world, unless the animal has become a spirit, or is it a Tomb Beast disguised as an animal?

"Don't move!"

Qin Beiyang pressed the head of the nine colors and told it to calm down for a while, maybe it smelled the smell of the ancient tombs of the Tang Dynasty emitted by this cat?

It stands to reason that when a cat encounters a fierce dog, it must have run away as soon as it slipped away, but this old cat didn't move at all, calmly looking at the uninvited guest Jiu Se and Qin Beiyang.

Suddenly, another man came out of the door.

The little girl, three or four years old, has grown to Qin Beiyang's crotch, and is draped with a hair of black hair that curls freely, completely covering the antler birthmark on the back of her neck. She wears a small hat and straw sandals suitable for walking in the rain.

She is very beautiful, almost milk-white, glass-colored eyes, just like her mother, looking at Qin Beiyang coldly, with the sharpness of an adult in her eyes.

As soon as the town tomb beast Nine Colors saw her, they immediately became quiet, and they obediently crouched under the banana leaves. The old black cat jumped on the little girl's shoulder, like a snake entrenched in her body.

"Little sister, what's your name?"

"Nine colors."

The little girl's thin voice was like a silk string wrapped around Qin Beiyang's heart.

He had a rare laugh: "You are also called Nine Colors?" ”

"Qi Jiuse."

The girl added her name, and Qin Beiyang nodded slightly: "Your mother gave you a good name!" ”

"Uncle, who are you?"

"I'm ...... Your dad's friend. ”

"Mom said that no stranger can enter our house, please sit at the door for a while, and I will give you that umbrella." She returned to the yard with the cat on her shoulder and brought an oil-paper umbrella for Qin Beiyang, "Mom and Dad will be home soon." ”

"Thank you! Nine colors! ”

Holding up the umbrella, the world seems to have become smaller, the outside is flooding, and there is only one man and one beast left.

The little girl Nine Colors looked at the nine-year-old tomb beast in the town and said, "What is its name?" ”

"It'...... Also called nine colors. ”

"This dog has the same name as me?"

Qin Beiyang nodded: "Well, but it's not a dog, it's my partner." ”

"Can I touch it?"

"Of course."

Nine Colors obediently and even cheaply leaned her head over, allowing the little girl to stretch out her fleshy hand and stroke its red mane and the top of its head.

"It's weird, it's got horns."

The girl Jiu Se touched the antler expansion of the town's tomb beast, which was usually covered by fluff, only two sharp protrusions.

Suddenly, the black cat lying on the little girl's shoulder screamed and jumped down behind the girl.

Qin Beiyang didn't know what to do, and subconsciously reached out to grab the Tang knife on his back, only to find that the old black cat had caught an emerald green bamboo leaf in the grass under the red bean tree...... Viper!

Unbelievable, Zhuyeqing is one of the top ten venomous snakes, and there are many distributions in the Lingnan region, especially in Yuexiu Mountain, which is moist in the rain. If it weren't for the old cat's keen senses, it might have bitten the girl's nine-colored bare calves.

Zhu Yeqing is not easy to mess with, Qin Beiyang is worried that this old cat will be bitten?

Incredibly, this cat stretched its body, first like a weasel, and then became like a long snake, more than seven feet long in front and back, only one or two inches in diameter, like a black fluffy python, swallowing the bamboo leaf green whole.

It's not a cat.

It's something special between a snake and a cat.

Qin Beiyang searched his intestines and scraped his stomach and came up with a new species: snake cat?

In an instant, the jet-black "snake cat" returned to the shape of a cat. After swallowing the bamboo leaf green, there seemed to be no sign of poisoning, and the walnut-like cat's eyes looked at Qin Beiyang and Jiuse faintly.

The little girl Jiuse held it in her arms, kissed the cat's ear and said, "Thank you for saving me!" ”

Qin Beiyang understands that in the tomb of Princess Yongtai at the foot of Qianling, the tomb beast of Gu Bird Town, which contains the soul of the princess, regards Xiao Jiuse as his little daughter in the stillborn womb - even if he is rescued by Qin Beiyang, he still sends this "snake cat" divine beast between snakes and cats, which may have lived in the ancient tomb for 1,200 years, and the contemporaneous product of the tomb beast Jiuse in the town loyally guards this little girl chosen by destiny.

With this tomb snake cat, he can fight poisonous snakes and assassins, as if he is a guard guarding the house, which reassures Qin Beiyang. He hurriedly turned to the fence with the town's tomb beast Nine Colors, and the little girl Nine Colors shouted behind him: "Uncle! Aren't you waiting for my dad to come back? ”

"Nope! Say hello to your mom and dad on my behalf! ”

"What's your name?"

"Matthias!"

Qin Beiyang shouted his German name and disappeared into the lush woods with the town's tomb beasts......

After a while, Qi Yuanshan and Ouyang Anna came back with a bamboo basket for grocery shopping, and brought half a piece of cloth to make a skirt for their daughter.

Xiao Jiuse stood under the eaves and said, "A strange uncle came just now, he said it was a friend of my father, but he left again. ”

"What's his name?"

Anna picked up her daughter alertly, trying to check her body. Qi Yuanshan took out a pistol and searched the surroundings, worried about whether Ah Hai was making a comeback?

"Matthias!"

"The name ......," Anna felt a little familiar, "foreigner? ”

Xiao Jiushi hugged the black cat and shook his head: "No, it's Chinese, and there is a big dog with the same name as me." ”

Before the words fell, Ouyang Anna rushed into the mist and rain, but she could no longer find her Matthias Beiyang Qin.