Ye Shuangqi was surprised, and the person's surprise seemed to be no less than Ye Shuangqi, and said, "Are you sent by President Yuan?" Ye Shuangqi looked at the man, about fifty years old, middle and upper build, big ears, slightly curved eyebrows, drooping eyelids, swallowtail beard, red lips, although he was dressed in casual clothes, he looked like he had been an official for many years. Seeing him ask, Ye Shuangqi felt bitter in his heart, and he didn't hide it, and said: "I, not sent by the president, but under house arrest here." ”

The man looked Ye Shuangqi up and down, and when he saw that he was young, he was even more surprised, and said, "You are also under house arrest here?" Ye Shuangqi heard him use the word "also", and thought: Could it be that he is also under house arrest?

The man hesitated, and wanted not to say it, but when he thought that since he was already in this Yingtai, most of them already knew my name, and if I covered it up, I would seem timid and afraid, so I replied briskly: "Down, Li Yuanhong." "Ah!" Ye Shuangqi was taken aback again, and said, "Could it be Li Yuanhong of the Wuchang Uprising?" The man seemed to be a little proud and said, "Exactly!"

This Li Yuanhong is not an ordinary person. In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, he became the commander of the 21st Army, and mastered the land and water military power of the three towns of Wuhan. At the time of the Wuchang Uprising, the highest official position of the commander of the rebel army was only a team officer, and there was no deterrent effect. With the counterattack of the Qing court, the rebels realized the embarrassment of the dragons without a leader, so they forcibly elected Li Yuanhong as the governor of Hubei, declared the independence of Hubei and broke with the Qing court. It is said that at that time, Li Yuanhong did not know how the situation would develop next, and he was unwilling to be the governor of the rebellion against the imperial court, so he took office under the guns of the rebels and shed tears. Unbeknownst to you, the Wuchang Uprising kicked off the prelude to the Xinhai Revolution, the provinces became independent one after another, and the Qing court collapsed. Li Yuanhong actually won the great merit of the first righteousness, and was praised by Sun Yat-sen as "the first great man of the Republic of China", and in 1912 he was elected vice president of the Republic of China, second only to Yuan Shikai. After Li Yuanhong became vice president, he continued to sit in Hubei, and got very close to Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren, Hu Hanmin and others, which made Yuan Shikai quite jealous, so he sent his right-hand man Duan Qirui to Wuchang in person to invite Li Yuanhong to Beijing. Li Yuanhong knew that Yuan Shikai wanted to get himself to be monitored, where would he go. Duan Qirui had no choice but to return to Beijing, but asked Li Yuanhong if he could see him off at the station. Li Yuanhong didn't know what to do, so he came to the station to see Duan Qirui off. The two talked while walking, Li Yuanhong personally sent Duan Qirui to the special train, who knew that Duan Qirui personally ordered the train to leave immediately, Li Yuanhong couldn't get off the train, and Duan Qirui actually sent himself to Beijing. When he arrived in Beijing, Li Yuanhong lost contact with his subordinates in Hubei and became an empty vice president with no name and no power. But Yuan Shikai was not at ease, and even put him under house arrest in Yingtai, during which he also used "Emperor Guangxu was under house arrest here" to warn Li Yuanhong.

Ye Shuangqi thought about it, a big man like Li Yuanhong was also under house arrest here, so what was his house arrest? Ye Shuangqi did not hide it, and told him how he came to Zhongnanhai, how he treated President Yuan, and how he was forcibly left here. Li Yuanhong saw that his demeanor was natural and he didn't seem to be lying, so he also said his anguish in Yingtai and his heart in Wuchang. The two sympathized with each other, and they chatted very speculatively. While talking, he suddenly saw two guards, ran over in a panic, helped Li Yuanhong up, and said: "Vice President, why did you come here, I thought you were lost, but it frightened us." Li Yuanhong glanced at Ye Shuangqi, meaning, you see what kind of personal freedom I have.

Li Yuanhong was carried out of a distance, and suddenly turned around and shouted at Ye Shuangqi: "Brother Ye, I have the opportunity to say a few good words for me in front of the president, if Li can have a bright future, he will be rewarded!" Ye Shuangqi waved at him, smiled bitterly, and was stunned: He has sat in the high position of vice president, and he is still so embarrassed, it can be seen that Yuan Shikai is vicious, and I don't know how he wants to deal with me.

Early the next morning, Yang Du came, and the people behind him carried a few boxes. Ye Shuangqi was puzzled and asked, "Uncle Yang, what is this?" Yang Du smiled: "Didn't you want me to give you the candy on the desk, I brought you all the sugar at home, my cough was cured by you, these candies are useless, you can laugh at it." Ye Shuangqi was secretly happy, now the sugar ball has something to eat, and he couldn't stop thanking Yang Du in his mouth.

Yang Du said again: "Are you still used to living here?" Ye Shuangqi said with some anger: "I don't know what the president means, he didn't let me go home." Yang Du hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Don't be suspicious, the great president has no other meaning, he does have something to ask for, and I came here today for this matter." ”

Yang Du led Ye Shuangqi to see Yuan Shikai again, the place where he met this time became the Ziguang Pavilion, which is a magnificent building, divided into two floors, heavy eaves and ridges, solemn weather, a floor of the pavilion is the size of seven houses, the jade fence in front of the door, the dragon pattern is carved on the railing, like an imperial atmosphere.

Yuan Shikai and Yuan Keding were standing in the open space in front of the pavilion, there were about thirty people in front of him, and they seemed to be standing in a phalanx, but there was no one in the position in the array. Ye Shuangqi took a closer look, and those people's costumes looked like military uniforms, but they were obviously much better-looking, and they felt a bit like today's honor guards of the three armed forces. As soon as Er Yuan saw that Ye Shuangqi had arrived, they all greeted him, and Yuan Shikai smiled: "Shuangqi, it's good that you're here." Yuan Keding nodded on the side.

Ye Shuangqi didn't know what was going on, and as soon as Yang Du explained to him, he knew what was going on. It turned out that these people were all selected from Yuan Keding's Central Army Model Regiment, and the military uniforms were restructured by Yuan Keding according to the German military uniforms, and the formation of this square team was really for welcoming guests. They've been training because the end of the month is coming. However, in the past three or five days, something has happened, and some people in the team have abdominal pain from time to time, and the light ones can still stand, and the heavy ones can't get out of bed. The team was originally sixty people, but now almost half of them are sick. Yuan Shikai attaches great importance to this distinguished guest, and other things have been arranged, but there is something wrong with this welcome team, how can he not be in a hurry? Yesterday Ye Shuangqi arrived, Yuan Shikai saw that he was very good, and he heard Yang Du's uncle and nephew talk about his medical skills, so he wanted him to live here for a period of time to treat the sick team members.

Ye Shuangqi realized that his heart suddenly widened, it seemed that he was wrong about Yuan Shikai, but in any case, this way of forcibly retaining people was unacceptable.

While he was talking, another team member collapsed holding his stomach. Ye Shuangqi had the intention not to give Yuan Shikai this favor and make him make a fool of himself, but he thought about how he could treat human life as child's play, and finally decided to treat these team members. He walked up to the team member who had just fallen, and again pretended to look and ask, and then pretended to think about the condition. Jiu Ling had already seen it clearly in the dark, and said in Ye Shuangqi's ear: "This disease is not evil, it seems to be a man-made disaster! You pour Huoxiang soup on him first, and then I will use spells to help you!" Ye Shuangqi's face changed, and he secretly thought: Jiu Ling said that it was a man-made disaster, could it be that someone moved his hands and feet in the diet of these team members? His hands swept over the man's body from head to toe again, and the mana of the Nine Spirits was everywhere, and the man stood up again as if nothing had happened.

Yuan Shikai and Yuan Keding were both impressed and praised Ye Shuangqi again and again. Yang Du shook his head, couldn't help but look at Er Yuan, and the implication of his words - the president, the prince, what am I talking about, this Ye Shuangqi's medical skills are superb!

At that moment, Yuan Keding led Ye Shuangqi to the residence of the sick team member, and Ye Shuangqi concocted the same method and cured all the more than 20 people. Yuan Keding was overjoyed and thanked him again and again. Ye Shuangqi heard Jiu Ling gasping slightly weakly in his ears, his heart became anxious, he wiped his sweat and said, "Eldest prince, I want to drink." Yuan Keding immediately arranged a meal, and sent it to the front of the Ziguang Pavilion with wine and food.

Yuan Shikai, Yuan Keding, Yang Du, and Ye Shuangqi set up tables and chairs in the open space in front of the pavilion, and watched the square team drill while eating. Although this meal was very casual, Ye Shuangqi ate very well, and drank more than thirty glasses of wine, which naturally helped Jiu Ling recover his strength.

Halfway through the meal, another chef came to serve the food, but it was a dish of Kung Pao chicken. The chef ran to the table while announcing the name of the dish, suddenly dropped the plate on the ground, and took out a pistol from his pocket, and the muzzle of the black hole was already pointed at Yuan Shikai. Yuan Keding was shocked when he saw it, and jumped up to rescue. But between the two Yuans, Ye Shuangqi was separated, and Yuan Keding's action was quite big, and he made a mistake in a hurry, sliding Ye Shuangqi's body. Ye Shuangqi was unprepared, and he wanted to grab a borrowed thing, but he wanted to catch Yuan Shikai just right. The two fell to the ground together, and Ye Shuangqi pressed Yuan Shikai under him. It was too late, it was too late, the chef pointed down with the muzzle, pulled the trigger, snapped, and hit Ye Shuangqi's left shoulder from behind, and blood gushed out immediately.

Because of the suddenness of the incident, the guards began to go numb, and as the guns rang out, the guards woke up like a dream, and rushed to the cook like hungry tigers. The chef saw that a shot did not hit Yuan Shikai, and knew that it would be difficult to succeed in today's assassination, and if he was caught alive, he would definitely be worse off than dead, so he scolded at the moment: "Yuan Datou, you must not die well!" By the time the guards rushed to him, the cook had already fallen.

Everyone was in chaos again, and hurried to rescue Yuan Shikai and Ye Shuangqi. Yuan Shikai just fell, and it was no big deal, but Ye Shuangqi was shot in the shoulder, and half of his shirt was dyed red. Everyone saw Ye Shuangqi stand up and block the bullet for the president, while rescuing him, and praising his righteous deeds in his mouth.

Jiu Ling secretly cast a spell to stop Ye Shuangqi's bleeding and pain, but there were others present, so it was inconvenient for him to heal his wound immediately. Yuan Keding called the military doctor early, gave Ye Shuangqi a bullet, powdered the medicine, and arranged for someone to send him back to Yingtai's residence to rest and recuperate.

Yuan Shikai watched Ye Shuangqi being sent away, didn't move his gaze for a long time, and muttered: "This person has met me for the first time, and he has shown me three times, but he can be a confidant, but he can be a confidant!"