"Red hair" in order to plunder the property, broke into the Li family compound, did not expect a huge rich manor, but could not find anything valuable, and found that there are three big holes under the laurel tree in the backyard, presumably the front of the carriage one step ahead, the Li family compound was ransacked, and set fire, leaving only a mess for himself. The "red-haired" leader was so angry that he instructed his men to chase the carriage and vow to rob the cart of its belongings. But the fog was so thick that he couldn't see the road clearly, and the chasing thieves shouted, chasing the sound of the horse's hooves in front of him all the way, Jin Xiangyu was so frightened that he ran all the way, after all, the troika was faster than the "red hair" one person and one horse. "Red Hair" chased for a day and a night, Jin Xiangyu had fled and disappeared, and saw that the village in front of him was guarded by the Green Forest Battalion, so he had to withdraw his troops.

Here, Niu Laosi shook the oar, because it was a raw hand, and anxious, for a while the hand took off the handle, for a while the oar took off the shaft, almost slipped into the river, finally put the oar, and shook the boat from side to side, a boat of people were exclaimed. Li Shanren hurriedly stopped: "There is a white expanse ahead, you have to be careful, we can't see anything clearly, and the 'red hair' can't see us, don't worry." They didn't know that there was a boat in the river. Only then did Niu Lao Si settle down, hold the wooden oar, and shake it steadily. Looking back at the Li family's compound, it is no longer visible, and the jujube forest is also surrounded by streamer-like clouds and mist, appearing and disappearing from time to time. The "red hair" chased Jin Xiangyu, and the wooden boat carried the Li family to flee, all in the same direction, one on the shore and the other in the water, the sound of gunshots, horses' hooves and people's shouts on the shore rang out one after another, and the people on the boat were frightened, and they all hid in the cabin and did not dare to speak loudly.

The fog gradually thinned out, turning into a milky white air stream like a veil that drifted rapidly behind the ship as it moved. The boat was not rowing fast, but the fog was flowing fast under the wind, and it seemed that the boat was moving rapidly, which provoked Li Shanren to blindly order Niu Laosi: "Slow down, why are you in such a hurry, are you in a hurry to chase the red hair or what?" Niu Laosi said that he didn't have a brace or a rocking oar, and the boat was going downstream. Li Shanren was anxious, afraid that if he drove at such a speed, he would catch up with the "red hair". Fortunately, the boat soon turned into the canal and diverged from the direction pursued by the "Red Hair", and the sound of gunfire, horses' hooves, and bluff shouts on the shore faded away. The boat slowed down, and all was quiet except for the sound of the current, and the gray-white fog swept towards it, slowly parted by the bow and closed slowly at the stern, and the ship seemed to drift not on the water, but on the clouds. Only then did Li Shanren fall to the ground with a stone in his heart.

The wooden boat has two levels, the upper deck is the guest cabin and the lower deck is the cargo hold. There are also two cabins, one master and one cabin. There are also two oars, one at the bow and one at the stern, which can run east to west, west wind to east, it is really "three thousand miles a day to travel Jianghuai, and the wind sends the first boat to the north and south". At the beginning, Li Shanren bought this boat in order to help friends in the business field solve their urgent needs, and in addition, the Li family compound is close to the river, and it is convenient for business with a boat, and it can also be used for emergencies, so it will come in handy soon.

Gradually, the fog slowly dissipated, but it was still white a few feet away. The birds are still asleep, only the boat "squeaks" in the thick and humid air, and the boat moves unhurriedly on the water, as if in a fantasy world, roaming in a dream.

An hour later, the ship had sailed ten miles out of the canal. In the cabin, Li Shanren stroked the gun in his hand and sat silently, everything that had just happened was like in a dream. This gun is his treasure, when the Jiangnan Arsenal imitated the first batch of pistols, ten guns were gilded, numbered, and presented to Master Li for nuclear preparation, this gun is one of them. At that time, Mr. Li had just returned from a visit to China, and he was recuperating in Zongbu Hutong Mansion because he had been shot by a Japanese ronin in the forehead, and his heart was indignant. Seeing that this gun was exquisite, no worse than foreign goods, he breathed a bad breath in his heart, and not only equipped it with the Beiyang Naval Division, but also awarded a gun certificate to every person who had made meritorious contributions in the arsenal to commend him. In the fourth year of Tongzhi, when Li Shanren was only five years old, he remembered that his father used a carriage to carry a tile jar of the Li family's livelihood silver, and traveled thousands of miles to Shanghai to invest in the arsenal. My father said that Lafayette allowed to run military engineering and build the Beiyang Naval Division "coveted by foreigners", which was a great thing for the country and the people, but it was shelved due to lack of funds. The local squires really responded en masse and provided funding one after another, which solved the urgent need for financial support in the early days of the arsenal. Over the next 30 years, the arsenal successively produced muskets, artillery, and Mauser guns. In the year of Gengzi, the first automatic pistols were finally made. On that day, entrusted by his father, Li Shanren took the pistol from Shanghai, asked Lao Lu to move out of the floor flower stand, put it against the wall in the backyard, and asked his father to retreat ten zhang away, and carefully handed the pistol to his father.

It was a gold-plated Browning eight-inch pistol that glittered in the sun.

"Is this a new firecracker? How far can you hit so small? "My father was a little disappointed. Li Shanren said with a smile: "Where is this firecracker, this is the pistol of the Europeans." There are two upper and lower tubes, and one shot is automatically ready to fire after one shot, and there is no problem from here to the river outside the hospital. Li Shanren pointed to the small river 100 meters away from the courtyard wall and window, and said confidently. Then he instructed the family to bring a copper hand pot, put it on the flower stand, and asked his father to test the gun himself.

Li Shanren instructed his father to load the gun, aimed at the copper hand pot and pulled the trigger, only to hear a loud "bang", the copper pot "clanged" against the wall, and the white gray wall actually hit a swarthy pond. Look at the copper hand pot has been torn apart, and it has become a flowering copper pomegranate. My father was so shocked that his arms were numb, his ears were almost deaf, and he kept exclaiming, this is too powerful, and there is no need to use gunpowder, so foreigners don't dare to bully the Chinese anymore! Li Shanren told his father that not only did he not need to use gunpowder, but he could also fire automatically in bursts, and his father could fight again. Father immediately said, don't fight, it's too awkward, put it away quickly! It's better not to use this kind of murderous weapon. Li Shanren carefully took the pistol, wiped it clean, blew it, and reloaded it into the box.