Zhang Quanzhong was silent for a long time, and sighed again: "Brother, no one wants to be a deserter. ”

I didn't want to say anything more, I had lost faith in him.

The fragrance of tea wafted out from the corner door, and Jingguan Xiaowu came out with a delicate green bamboo tray, on which were two octagonal pottery cups, and the fragrance of tea was curling up from the cups.

"Mr. Xia, please drink tea. She placed the tray on the bookcase, held a clay cup in both hands, and offered it to mine.

Japanese women are gentle by nature, and their every move exudes a graceful temperament like a clear spring.

I took the cup and whispered thanks.

"Mr. Xia, I guess there must be some misunderstanding between the two of you. Mr. Zhang is a great hero, who has always led the underground organization in Shandong, fighting on the front line of the fight against the invaders. If he was afraid of death, then he would have avoided Nanyang a long time ago and become a wealthy man in the world. She said.

Zhang Quanzhong in the history books can indeed be regarded as an anti-Japanese hero in the land of Qilu, and many of his heroic deeds are still talked about by the old Jinan people.

"Sorry, I just spoke too aggressively. I nodded to Zhang Quanzhong.

"It's fine. Zhang Quanzhong shook his head, "The current situation is very complicated, and it is easy to provoke a fight, but I want the best of both worlds, not a momentary impulsive move." ”

"There is no one-size-fits-all approach. I sighed, "Blindly seeking perfection, but the chicken flies and the egg beats, and the two fall into vain." ”

Zhang Quanzhong frowned, took matters into his own hands, and picked up another cup.

"This is good tea, the 'fast snow is sunny' on the Changqing Snow Peak Mountain, and the three tea trees will produce more than two catties of fine tea in a year. The Zhizhen monk on the mountain is a good friend of mine, so I don't sell any of these teas, but only give them to me. However, this is the last year of harvest 'when the snow is almost clear', and after drinking these, there is no good tea in the world - because the monk Zhizhen has already been beheaded under the Oriental sword of the invading army, and the Yuanlu Temple, which he has maintained for thirty years, has also been destroyed in the war and burned to the ground. He said.

According to historical records, there were anti-Japanese troops stationed in Changqing, so they were repeatedly wiped out by the invading army, and innocent people were killed.

"Condolences. I whispered.

"Every time I make tea, Monk Zhizhen seems to be looking at me. He didn't mention revenge, but he was sorry for the temple and the tea tree. Zhang Quanzhong also said, "Therefore, I most hope that one day, just like the Japanese devils cut down all the fruit trees all over the mountains, they will cut off the enemy's head with one knife and one sword." ”

"Right now, it's the right time. "I picked it up right away.

Jingguan Xiaowu applauded: "The two of you are talking about the same thing, why are you different? Mr. Zhang asks for both, while Mr. Xia asks for a bang - everyone is pursuing the same direction, isn't it?"

I suddenly thought of the two lines of the great man's poem "It is advisable to chase the poor bravely, and not to become famous and learn from the overlord", if you want to kill the enemy, you must go all out and not let an enemy slip through the net. In this Hongmen banquet, we will never learn from Xiang Yu, the soft-hearted overlord of Western Chu, but should kill the killer, cut off the head of the enemy chieftain, and sacrifice the dead villagers with blood.

"Either or not, tomorrow will be a Hongmen feast, and the Japanese devils must die, and they will die under the blade of the anti-Japanese athletes. Zhang Quanzhong nodded in response.

"There is also a three-year-old peach blossom wine buried under the peach blossom tree in the backyard, and after the Hongmen banquet, dig out the jar of wine to celebrate. Jingguan Xiaowu said with a smile.

Her smile was so calm, like the murderous knife that the heroes dipped in wine before the Great War.

Good tea, good wine, and good poetry are all inventions of the Chinese, and although the Japanese invaders are elegant, they also make flower tea, make sake, and write haiku, but after all, they are stealing from the ancient Chinese and falling into the inferior position of "stealing and writing thieves".

Those who steal the civilization of our great country - kill.

Mess with the authority of our great country - kill.

Those who invade the borders of our great country - kill.

Compared with Zhang Quanzhong's sad and quiet, Jingguan Xiaowu seemed slightly more relaxed. Her gaze occasionally swept over Zhang Quanzhong's face, and there was always a smile in her eyes.

A good woman is the most powerful backing for men to charge into battle, and perhaps it is her existence that allows Zhang Quanzhong's "divine calculation" to be brought into full play.

"Mr. Xia, the tea is cold. She said.

I took a cup of tea and drank it, calming down and savoring the aroma of tea.

"Mr. Xia, there is still half a day, everything is ready in time, don't worry. She added.

I shook my head: "I'm not worried, with Mr. Zhang, the 'No. 1 God Operator in Jiangbei' here, there's really nothing to worry about." ”

Zhang Quanzhong can be called the "thaumaturgical supreme" in the last century and 100 years, and having him is indeed like giving everyone a reassurance.

"Yes, with him, what else is there to be unfair?" Jingguan Xiaowu smiled.

Zhang Quanzhong also laughed, but the sideburns on both sides were clearly soaked with sweat, and a faint mist evaporated.

"What about the others, are they all waiting in the ancestral hall?" asked Jingguan Xiaowu.

Zhang Quanzhong nodded: "Yes, it's all there." ”

"It's better to-" Jingguan Xiaowu smiled humbly, "Why don't you let them eat and rest first, and accept the deployment early tomorrow morning, is that good?"

Zhang Quanzhong nodded again: "Okay, I'll give the order immediately." Tomorrow the rooster crows and prepares for battle. ”

He walked out, and I should have followed, but I realized that Jingguan Xiaowu must have something to say to me alone.

Sure enough, Jingguan Xiaowu raised his hand: "Mr. Xia, please stay, I have a few puzzles and want to ask you for advice." ”

Zhang Quanzhong looked back at me: "You stay for a while, and I'll come back after I finish dealing with the things in the ancestral hall." ”

The cooperation between the two of them is very tacit, what one says, the other will immediately help, sing and harmonize, without the slightest mistake.

I nodded: "Okay, Mr. Zhang, please." ”

After Zhang Quanzhong left, the smile on Jingguan Xiaowu's face slowly faded.

She was not in a hurry to speak, but walked back into the house, came out with an iron kettle, and filled the clay cup with tea.

"Mr. Xia, the night is very long, let's have another drink. She said.

I drank tea silently and waited for her to speak.

"I was very tired of life, and this boredom began after I came to Beijing from China. As a member of the Imperial Intelligence Service, I received secret training from the intelligence agencies of the United States, France, and the United Kingdom, and later studied under Kenji Dohi, specializing in the analysis of intelligence systems in Asia. The reason why I am tired of it is because I have read too many killing materials. The atrocities committed by the military, which are also of the Asian yellow race, are heinous in their absences against Chinese civilians, and this is no longer a war between countries, but a massacre between races. This kind of slaughter will be punished, it is completely against the sky, and it violates the bottom limit of my life. When I woke up one morning, I looked out the window at the kapok and suddenly understood what my purpose in life was – to save more lives, to help civilians in the occupied territories survive, and to reduce war casualties as much as possible. From that moment on, I was no longer a simple Japanese, but a capital 'person'. As long as it is helpful for the survival of mankind, I will do my best. This Hongmen banquet was to smash the seventh Changqing sweep that would start in three days. Only by killing the head of the garrison can the goal be achieved simply and effectively. Mr. Xia, did I make it clear enough?" she said.

I nodded as I listened, in awe of her feelings.

"Putting aside nationality and concentrating on saving people" can only be done by a person with great sentiments, just like Dr. Bethune, who was praised by the great man himself. The difference is that Jingguan Xiaowu is unknown in history, but he really did what he did to resist the atrocities of the invaders, and he was on the front line of the war.

"I thank you on behalf of the people of Jinan. I bowed deeply to her.

"I'm also from Jinan – now and in the future. She avoided the side and did not accept my salute.

I thought she meant "marrying Zhang Quanzhong to be the daughter-in-law of Jinan", so I laughed it off.

"We'll meet again after this fight. She said firmly.

I was stunned: "Where will I see you next time?"

Jingguan Xiaowu shook his head: "When the time comes, you will know that all creation is in your heart, all education is in words and deeds, and all the fate is in silence." ”

Her words reminded me of Aunt Guan again, especially when she spoke, she revealed the calm wisdom of "showing talent without going out and knowing the world", which was exactly the same as the expression of Aunt Guan when she walked in thousands of households on Qushuiting Street.

"I have a friend, surnamed Guan, who walks in the impermanence of Qushuiting Street. She looks a lot like you, but unfortunately she died young, and everyone can't see each other. I said.

Jingguan Xiaowu shook his head: "It doesn't matter if you see it or not." Now, let's talk about something very important. ”

The following is a big secret of the Japanese military told me by Jingguan Xiaowu -

As a high-ranking official in the intelligence department, she has a total of nine layers of telegraph codebooks from the weak three to the strongest, and can access the military's highest-level ciphered telegrams at any time. One day, she saw something related to the Divine Water Mirror, saying that the treasure came from ancient Chinese mythology and had a supreme function that no treasure in the world could match, that is, "recreating the universe".

Japanese culture was born in the Central Plains, so they are very familiar with the ancient knowledge of China, once they found that the Divine Water Mirror has the function of "recreating the universe", they immediately think of the ancient myth of "Pangu opened the world".

In the view of physicists and metaphysicians, the universe existed forever, and the appearance of Pangu was not the criterion. Then, Pangu broke the chaos and created the earth, and Nuwa (or God) created man on this basis, so that human beings could multiply on this planet. Looking in the opposite direction, Pangu broke one chaos or several, dozens, hundreds, tens of thousands, tens of thousands of chaos? As a result, the theory of "mirror universe and parallel universe" has become the biggest proposition that physicists have exhausted their thinking.

The supreme commander of the Japanese military gave a death order to get this treasure at any cost.

As we all know, earthquakes are frequent on the island of Japan, and the people's demand for "peaceful housing" is always the first place, and they always dream of abandoning the island and landing, dividing a piece of land on the Asian continent, living for generations, and forever getting rid of the nightmare of the capsizing of the island. In the 30 years following the First Sino-Japanese Naval War and the entry of the Eight-Nation Allied Forces into Beijing, the Japanese military sent a large number of military spies to infiltrate the Central Plains and carried out extensive investigations in various fields, thus forming a huge spy network in Northeast China and North China.

There is no wasted effort in the world, and this net provides accurate information for the military - "the Shenxiang Water Mirror is in Daming Lake in Jinan Prefecture, Shandong Province".

The intelligence also said that the reason why Daming Lake uses the word "Daming" as its name is because it means "greater than the sun and the moon". The sun and moon are the most familiar celestial symbols when human beings look up, how can a small urban lake be bigger than the sun and the moon? The only reason is that there is a treasure hidden in it, an artifact that can "recreate the universe".

These theories may seem absurd, but after careful analysis, they are very logical. So, the military ordered - "Dig up Daming Lake and take treasure." ”

Digging up a lake is a huge project, but for the occupying army, it is quite simple, just to catch more people to work.

Before Jingguan Xiaowu obtained this information, the military searched Daming Lake, but found nothing.

(This matter is recorded in the "Licheng County Chronicle", and I did read this section.) At that time, the official notice said that it was "Daming Lake dredging", and the people downstream did not know anything inside, only that the river was cut off for half a month, and then returned to normal. ）

When the military failed, they immediately sent a telegram to the country, asking the intelligence department to send elites to help Jinan. It was in this situation that Jingguan Xiaowu left her original post, arrived in Qingdao by boat, and then took a train to Jinan via the Jiaoji Line. At the handover meeting, the official who presided over the Taogan Daming Lake reported that there was only silt, shipwrecks, tree roots, Wang Ba, river mussels, etc., and there were no man-made objects related to the "mirror" at the bottom of the lake.

The military's war correspondents took a lot of photos of the bottom of Daming Lake, and the facts are indeed as stated in the written report.

Jingguan Xiaowu's cleverness lies in never conformism, she started from a metaphysical point of view, and found a famous thaumaturgical master in Jiangbei to analyze this problem together. As a representative of the meeting, Zhang Quanzhong also expressed his views at the meeting, and fell in love with Jingguan Xiaowu at first sight.

The three-day, three-night seminar yielded no results, and the military could only admit that it had received false information and temporarily abandon the pursuit of the Divine Mirror.

After leaving the military, Jingguan Xiaowu and Zhang Quanzhong compiled all the information and continued to carry out long exams.

At first, they lived in seclusion in the Buddha Ziyu Grass House in the south of Thousand Buddha Mountain, and only went down once a month to devote all their body and mind to it.

Here, in fact, the two people also have some kind of selfishness. "Recreating the universe" is tantamount to putting a person above the supremacy of the "creator", and any thaumaturgist will be attracted to this goal and strive for it.

People have desires, not only thaumaturgists, even the heads of great powers and alliance overlords will do whatever it takes once they get such news. To cite the example of the war between the United States and a small desert country, around 1990, the Pentagon received a secret report saying that the small country had developed a "weapon of mass destruction" that could destroy the United States three times in an instant. As a result, the United States braved the world's condemnation and launched a cross-continent attack to launch Operation "Desert Storm." Around 2000, the United States launched the second "decapitation operation", which was also aimed at the same topic of "mass murder". It can be seen that even as a superpower, it is extremely important to "control the power of life and death on the earth".

As a thaumaturgist, Zhang Quanzhong's lifelong pursuit is to exert thaumaturgy to the highest level and become the "king of thaumaturgy" that cannot be compared with his peers in the world.

In fact, after the fall of the Manchu Dynasty, the thaumaturgists of the world have been divided into countless factions, each occupying the mountain, recruiting people, and creating their own banners. Especially those who used to follow the court and Baylor Mansion to make a living, they are even more self-proclaimed emperors and big people who have been rewarded by the Empress Dowager of the West.

Zhang Quanzhong knows that as long as he cracks the secret of the Divine Appearance Water Mirror, he is one step away from the "King of Thaumaturgy". Jingguan Xiaowu loved him deeply, not only dedicated all his property to protect the lives of the two, but also used various channels to steal or buy all the parts of the military intelligence related to the Divine Appearance Water Mirror, and get all of them back to the grass house.

The emperor lived up to his painstaking efforts, and the two finally took a small step to understand the big secret, that is, they must go to the shore of Daming Lake to carry out research, and feel the mysterious enlightenment brought to mankind by this lake in the city up close.

Seven months after moving to the shore of Daming Lake, Zhang Quanzhong was boating on the lake on a full moon night, and suddenly had an epiphany - "The word 'Daming' must be taken apart, and then read it the other way around, that is, the three words 'month, day, and big'." First of all, you must understand the moon, then the sun, and finally find the artifact that is bigger than the sun and the moon. ”

For all thaumaturgists, the full moon is capable of bringing tremendous energy to a person, causing a "tidal movement" in the brain and raising their IQ. Of course, the structure of the human brain is different, some people can only increase by 1 percent, others can increase by 50% or even 80%.

Zhang Quanzhong was extremely fortunate that his brain activity was twice as high as usual during the full moon, and his computing power improved by leaps and bounds, and he understood human history overnight.

He said to Jingguan Xiaowu that all human beings are labyrinthine ants, with no direction, doing nothing, repeating history from generation to generation. Among the ant clan, there are occasional people who come out of nowhere and can change the world by themselves. He cites several examples to illustrate this insight, such as China's "Zen concession system" to "hereditary system", that is, the transition from the ancient era of inaction to a slave society. For example, Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms and changed the slave society into a feudal society, which lasted for thousands of years. In modern times, the Xinhai Revolution led by Sun Wen overthrew the imperial system and entered a democratic society. These people who can change the social form are the real children of destiny, and they come from the "will of heaven".

Zhang Quanzhong hopes that he can also become a "child of destiny", and his ambition is no longer what a "king of thaumaturgy" can pretend.