"I'm really sorry, Lord Wang, I failed to save the officers and soldiers of the 7th Brigade and 9th Regiment of the 3rd Division against the Taiping Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, please atone for your sins. "Late at night, outside the prince's mansion, outside the bedroom where the prince lived, the strong man leader knelt down on one knee on the stone platform outside the prince's bedroom, after experiencing the fire at night, the strong man's leader's heart suddenly became extremely depressed, and the more than 100 officers and soldiers he led had no intention of surviving in that accident, and at that time when he escaped from the inn, he was scratched his right cheek by a little wood slag from a wooden beam that was burned in the fire and fell, and his body was also smashed by the wooden beam, and in that escape, both cheeks were burned by the flames that were scattered everywhere, but the area covered was not very large, but because of the long-term overnight rush back to the capital, there were no timely disinfection measures for the wounds, so the wounds on the face were particularly obvious.

He had been waiting outside the prince's bedroom for nearly 2 hours, and when he rushed back to the capital and came to the prince's mansion, the prince had already gone to bed at that time, and there was no movement in the bedroom

"General Shen, the prince has been asleep for a long time, you see that it is not early at this time, wait for you to come to the prince's mansion early tomorrow, I will report your arrival tonight to the prince in advance when he wakes up tomorrow morning. Sun Fan, the butler and retinue who had followed the prince for a long time, saw the strong general who had been kneeling on the ground for a long time from a distance, and quickly stepped forward and walked over to persuade him.

"It's okay, when the prince wakes up and gets up, I'll get up and go to see him. The leader of the strong man replied with some trembling.

"But now that the weather in the capital is getting cooler at night, and the wind outside is blowing so hard at night, you can't always kneel outside and keep watching!" Sun Fan said with some concern.

"It's okay, Steward Sun, you better go back to the house early, leave me alone. Looking at the strong man general who had been kneeling on the ground, his body was trembling constantly, his lips and face had frozen purple, Steward Sun also shook his head, turned around helplessly, and ran back to his room in small steps, and then the strong man general kept kneeling on the ground, motionless, his eyes closed, letting the cold night wind ravage his whole body, but he regarded it as his due punishment.

"Xu Wei, wake up, hurry up and come out and have breakfast with everyone. Zhang Qi shouted loudly outside Xu Wei's bedroom, waking up Xu Wei, who was still in a daze and half-asleep, he rubbed his eyes, stretched a big lazy waist on the bed, and then quickly got up from the bed. quickly put on the cloth shoes that were discarded under the bed last night, slowly walked to the door, and then pushed the door open very arrogantly

"Good morning, little brother Xu Wei, hurry up and have breakfast with everyone. Zhang Qi said with a smile on his face towards Xu Wei.

"Morning, Brother Qi, I slept well last night, how did you sleep last night?" Xu Wei responded with a smile.

"Well, thank you for your concern, I had a good rest last night. Zhang Qi also said with a smile.

Then Xu Wei happily walked down the steps at the door of the room and accompanied Zhang Qi to the backyard where everyone had been waiting for a long time.

This morning's breakfast was extraordinarily rich, even more sumptuous and beautiful than last night's dinner market, which had to make Xu Wei's heart have some questions and curiosity: "Brother Qi, why is today's breakfast so hearty and delicious, and what important things do you want to tell me today?"

"Well, you did find out, and we plan to leave here and head north of Guangxi. Zhang Qi replied a little vaguely as he chewed on a fried fritter that he had just put in his mouth.

"Why do you want to leave here? I really feel that this place is very good, I live relatively comfortably, and the food is also very good, besides, we just experienced that thrilling escape of life and death a few days ago, and I am still a little scared."

"It is precisely because of this that we plan to leave here as soon as possible, because this news will definitely reach the Qing government soon, and we will definitely not be able to escape their pursuit at that time, besides, I just received a message that Feng Yunshan, the commander-in-chief of the rebel army in the southern region, wants to send the rebel army to your hometown in the next few months- Hunan, and they plan to go north next month or so to the Guilin area, where although there are also the distribution of our rebel army, but it is mainly controlled by the Qing government, and they also hope that we will go over as soon as possible to give them the last anti-encirclement and suppression uprising as a backup support. At this time, Zhang Qi finished chewing the fritter in his mouth, picked up a glass of white water on the table, rinsed his mouth, and spit it out to the flower bed behind him

"Oh, okay, then when are we going to evacuate here?" Xu Wei asked.

"We are still agreeing on this, and we plan to evacuate all the rebels here in the next few weeks, but the specific schedule will have to be gradually customized during this time. Zhang Qi replied earnestly.

"Xu Wei, I suggest that you should start making some preparations starting today. Look at what you need to carry on your body on the road, and don't keep the rest of the things you don't need, including those bad memories from before you. After speaking, Zhang Qi smiled, got up from the stone bench he was sitting on, turned around and left the courtyard.

Xu Wei sat stupidly on the original stone bench, motionless, but thinking about what Zhang Qi said to him just now.

"Yes, there are some things that should be forgotten, don't carry too much heavy burden, but they are not really the baggage you want, so that you can only stand still, it is impossible to leave the place where you were staying, and thus you will not be able to go to the next destination" Xu Wei muttered to himself, laughed stupidly a few times, and then stood up and turned to leave the courtyard.

In the courtyard, the guys who had eaten breakfast together one after another finished eating one after another, and left the yard, and after the last few guys who had eaten breakfast took away the utensils on the table that had originally held breakfast and drinking water, the whole yard returned to its original cleanliness and cleanliness.

At this time, Xu Wei had already returned to his bedroom, and took out the book "Love in the Late Qing Dynasty" from the suitcase that had been trampled and destroyed by those Qing soldiers , I was going to take advantage of the time when no one else was there to quietly flip through a few photos, but when he opened the album again, he was dumbfounded, the album was actually blank, not even a picture, not a word He wondered if it was his eyes that were not very good, and carefully approached a little closer to flip through the album, but indeed the contents of this album were empty, except for the portrait of the beautiful woman on the bookmark in the center of the album was printed on it untouched.

"It's really strange, I have indeed traveled to this era, but will even the album change because of this?" Xu Wei asked to himself puzzled.

He put down the album in his hand, rearranged the suitcase, and threw all the food and drink he had brought before, as well as some items that were not used at all in this era, such as the flashlight that had long been out of electricity and had been damaged by those Qing soldiers before, and some electrical items that needed to be used for charging, and finally found that he only had a retractable trekking stick for travel and this album.

"Well, don't you want the rest of the things, as for this album" Xu Wei pondered for a long time, he was a little hesitant, facing this empty book, he felt in a dilemma, frowning, staring at it with both eyes, his left hand supporting the elbow tip of his right hand, and his mouth kept gnawing on the fingers of his right hand.

After an unknown amount of time, his expression seemed to be more stable

"This book took me to this world, this era, and maybe this book will help me record what I did in this world, this era, and maybe it will also take me back to the real life where I used to be one day. After speaking, Xu Wei nodded slightly, and reloaded the retractable hiking stick and the album into the suitcase

"I think it's almost ready. Xu Wei was relieved: "I'm really looking forward to the days ahead, maybe there will really be more unexpected surprises and more exciting adventures waiting for me there in the future." As he spoke, Xu Weibian got up from the ground where he had been sitting and lay down on the bed, and soon after, he fell asleep again.