In the last years of the second year, the common people did not know much about the specific information of the telegraph office, and sometimes, they could not even distinguish whether it was built by the Qing government or by Western countries, so under the turmoil of "helping the Qing Dynasty to destroy the foreigners" that had begun one after another in the past few years, the telegraph offices in Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai were all injured by mistake.

The telegraph office mentioned by Cantonese people is the Australian Oriental Branch (China) Telegraph Company, which is located on the Great North Value Street, and is the Great North Straight Street from the north gate next to Guanyin Mountain.

In addition to the telegraph office on Dabeizhi Street, there are also Tongwen Hall opened by the Westerners, as well as churches and shops established by foreigners, etc., this street can be said to be based on Western architecture as the main body, at a glance, it is made of white bricks and stones, and the national flags floating above the building group are all from Western countries, including Britain, France and the United States. (Note: If you want to write about the author's historical data, please move to the third chapter related to the work)

Someone said that there was a practice of setting up altars in the Sacred Tree Sect at the telegraph office, and the residents on the side of the small north gate went west to cross the foot of Guanyin Mountain and went straight to Dabeizhi Street.

"Hurry up, it's all open."

"Hurry up, the good positions are occupied."

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At both ends of this street, in addition to the guards of the foreigners, there is also a group of green battalion soldiers from the Cantonese Yamen who guard here day and night, and their duty is to prevent the common people from entering by mistake, because in these years, without the permission of the foreigners, they are directly shot, and even cruelly, they are beaten to death by Indians or foreigners, and sometimes they hang their heads and corpses outside and expose them to the sun for several days.

Therefore, the Guangfu Yamen also arranged personnel to guard here.

At this time, the soldiers suddenly saw groups of civilians crowding in, and couldn't help but hurriedly pick up their guns and prepare to stop the civilians from entering.

You must know that this place is already part of the foreigners' concession, and they don't dare to let the common people go in, in case the foreigners complain to the governor and the prefect, they can't eat and walk around.

When the crowd got closer, the soldiers heard the crowd shouting that the Divine Tree Sect was opening the altar, and they couldn't help but look at each other, not knowing what to do.

"Boss, are we going to stop it?" The soldier cautiously asked the head of the flood guard here.

"Stop?"

Now that he learned that the crowd was going to see the opening of the altar of the Divine Tree Sect, Xun Shoujiang couldn't help but think of the demon of the Divine Tree Sect, and also remembered the incident of a month ago.

At that time, he was still a guard at the north gate, and he was guarding the north gate with his soldiers, when he suddenly saw a Han man in a foreign suit walking towards him, and couldn't help but attract his attention.

"It's worth it.

No one dares to stop you in Western clothes, but the Qing Dynasty has not perished, you dare to cut off the tail of the ox in broad daylight, it seems that this fake foreign devil is trying to create a rebellion against the Qing Dynasty, maybe this person is some revolutionary reactionary mentioned by the Admiral. ”

Then, thinking that he could make a great contribution, he excitedly stepped forward with a dozen soldiers, preparing to encircle and capture the revolutionary reactionaries......

As a result, within a few days, he was demoted and sent to guard here, and now not only did he have no oil or water to fish, but he also had to worry about the sudden rise of foreigners to shoot them, and even worry about being secretly attacked by hateful thugs on the way home.

Thinking of this, Xun Shou gently wiped a certain part of his face where a few bruises could be faintly seen, then wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and waved his hand to the soldiers: "No, no." "He didn't want to see the demon again.

"General, should we go over, in case the people have a conflict with the foreigners." Seeing a crowd running past him from time to time, the soldier suggested.

"Yes, we'll go too."

After saying that, the general of the flood guard took his soldiers into the crowd and walked towards the telegraph office.

The telegraph office is a three-story Western-style building with a circular dome on top, and at this time, in an open space at the main entrance of the telegraph office, the believers of the Sacred Tree Sect are preparing the sacrifices and ritual objects for the opening of the altar.

The crowd, fearing to disturb the believers, slowed down and walked through the verandah of the bungalow next to the telegraph office.

This is a corridor building, the lower skirt is decorated with stones, and the middle section adopts the ancient Greek and Roman pillar building, so there is an empty verandah around the building, which is similar to the role of arcades, sun and rain.

However, even though the verandah is large, it still can't squeeze the crowd.

"Ah Kuan, how can you shoot if you can't see it?"

Because of the clumsy wooden floor-to-ceiling camera, Aunt Thirteen and Liang Kuan did not walk fast, and when they came to the verandah of the bungalow, they could not see the picture of the altar in front of them, so Aunt Thirteen asked anxiously while jumping up.

Hearing this, Liang Kuan's face was happy, and now he could have physical contact with Aunt Thirteen openly.

Thinking of this, he suddenly sat on the ground, patted his shoulder and said, "Stand on my shoulder." ”

"It's not good."

Although she said so, in order to be able to take pictures, Aunt Thirteen didn't shirk much, and carefully stood on Liang Kuan's shoulder: "Then I'm here, you hold on." ”

Then, the thirteenth aunt pointed the wooden floor-standing camera at the front of the telegraph office, and saw ten women in white robes embroidered with green leaves lined up in two lines, following behind a little girl, who was holding a small green tree in her hand, step by step, with a holy expression, walked to a place five meters away in front of the telegraph office.

There was already a wooden table set up here at this time, and there was not much on it, except for some various fruits.

After the little girl placed the sacred tree in the center of the wooden table, she took a step back and prayed: "Today there is a sacred tree to save the world and drive away evil spirits for all generations." ”

At the same time, the procession behind the little girl began to chant: "The sacred tree descends to earth, and all the people turn over." The tree of God descends to earth, and all the peoples. ”

"Smack."

With a loud sound, a bright light shone into the little girl's line of sight, interrupting the ritual immediately.

It was precisely because of the sudden sound behind her that the frightened crowd scattered to both sides, and from this, the little girl turned her face in the direction of the light, and she could clearly know what was going on with the bright light just now, it turned out that a woman was taking pictures of them and the sacred tree with a Western camera.

Now the little girl is very angry, you must know that for today's sacred tree worship ceremony, she is begging Uncle Shen with great difficulty, and promised not to let any problems with the ceremony, but she was slapped in the face and interrupted by a fake foreign devil, which makes Uncle Shen think of her.

As soon as she thought that she had lived up to Uncle Shen's expectations, the little girl blushed on her face angrily and shouted, "Divine guard, come here." ”

Then he pointed to the direction of the thirteenth aunt: "Capture that woman for me, take it back to the main altar and listen to Uncle Shen's whereabouts." ”