Capital.

Unlike the fallen Tianjin, this capital, as in the past, even if countless Tianjin refugees poured in, they still did not see the slightest bit of the collapse of mountains and rivers, and the panic of Shenzhou Lu Shen, but the hustle and bustle was more lively than usual, and those who didn't know thought they had caught up with the prosperity of the peace.

Only some well-informed and intelligent people, looking at the blood-stained refugees, began to secretly pack up their belongings, and started to leave Beijing to escape the war, and walked quietly.

In the face of the plundering of foreign enemies and the actions of the "Boxers", in order to resist the foreigners, the Qing court acquiesced to the entry of the "Boxers" into Beijing.

What's even more ironic is that in the midst of the hustle and bustle, there is no lack of painful moans and wails of refugees, but they have become the laughing stock of the people in the capital, as if they have seen something new.

In the northwest corner of the outer city, there is a house, the courtyard is ordinary, not big or small, behind the half-hidden wooden door, you can vaguely see the figures in the courtyard walking around.

It's a woman, and the woman is still holding a doll less than a year old in her arms, wrapped in swaddling clothes, it is Song Xiaotian.

She paced back and forth in the courtyard, as if she was flustered, a little distracted, until there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and then she looked up, but when she saw who came in, her eyes were a little disappointed. "Brother Jukun, have you found Shoucheng?"

"Nope!"

The reply was Li Jukun, the son of the old swallow, at this moment he was also discouraged, his body was stained with blood, and his face was stained with blood, as if it was difficult to get out, since the old swallow was buried under the musket, he inherited the name of the swallow Li San, and followed Wang Wu and them into the Boxer Rebellion.

It's just that when they broke through to Tianjin yesterday, many people were separated, and it was a fluke to be able to come back alive.

As he spoke, as soon as the wooden door opened, he saw Wang Wu, Li Cunyi and several of them coming in, all of them were more or less injured, Li Cunyi was shot in his right arm, wrapped in a wound, the old man seemed to have aged a lot overnight, his face was withered, his eyes were dull, and most of his spirit was scattered.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing the two people in the courtyard, Wang Wu's eyes were raised.

"Fifth master, my family Shoucheng hasn't come back yet!"

Song Xiaotian said with a crying voice.

"I'll go out and find it!"

Wang Wunong twisted his eyebrows, turned around and went out again without saying a word.

But everyone's hearts sank, now Tianjin City has already fallen, the city is full of corpses, blood and water, and there are dead people everywhere, if you really don't come back, I'm afraid that there is no hope of survival.

"Woo ......"

Song Xiaotian's eyes were dark, her legs were weak, and she sat on the ground with the child in her arms, stunned for a moment, and then cried in a low voice. Seeing this pair of orphans and widows, others couldn't bear it, but they didn't know how to comfort them.

"Let's go out and find out!"

"I'll go too!"

"And me!"

......

The others followed and walked out of the hospital.

Only Li Cunyi was left with a deep sigh and shook his head.

Everyone has been looking for noon from the morning, almost all the outer and inner cities have been running, and there is still no shadow of Qin Shoucheng, no one alive, no corpse dead, the result is self-evident.

By the end of the evening, everyone had given up.

Song Xiaotian sat in a daze as if she was stupid with the child in her arms, looking at the wooden door fixedly.

"Xiao Tian, you have to mourn, this child and old man will be accepted as a disciple in the future!" Li Cunyi comforted.

But he said that everyone was silent and sad.

Outside the door, I overheard.

"Bang...... Bang...... Bang......"

Three knocks on the door were soft.

Everyone was shocked, Song Xiaotian was even more excited, holding the child and running towards the door, but when she pushed the door open, she was stunned, and when she saw the scene outside the door, she immediately stood on the spot, and then cried bitterly.

"Shou Cheng!"

But I saw that on the stone steps outside the door, there was a cold corpse, it was Qin Shoucheng, and there was a yin and yang blade on the side.

The people in the house rushed out, and they were all surprised, and they looked at the alley outside the door, and saw that it was empty, and there was no one in sight.

"This person is so fast!"

Wang Wu said in a deep voice.

"Who could it be?"

Li Cunyi glanced at him, and all of them frowned, and their eyes were intertwined.

......

"Oh, what does this smell like?"

On the street, passers-by covered their mouths and noses and fled to the side, and when they looked closely, they saw a person on the street with his chin down, walking with his head down, dressed in clothes that were neither green nor black, with strange colors, and exuding a pungent fishy smell. Not only the clothes, but also the flesh of this person had a layer of black hair attached to it, like dirt, as if it had rolled in the mud, and the smell was so bad that it made people feel sick.

This person's pace is extremely fast, and the ups and downs look soothing and ordinary, but with a slip and a step, he turns into an alley and walks far away in a few steps.

When he walked to the entrance of the vegetable market, this man went around to an inn, and the guy smelled the smell of the visitor, not only did he not shout and drive away, but he smiled shyly and stepped forward to greet: "Oh, master, you are back, I have already sent new clothes to the room, and the water is boiled!"

"You're rewarded!"

Su Hongxin casually shook off two foreign dollars and went straight upstairs.

The upstairs was deserted, and the entire inn was wrapped up by him, and he went in with a room, but he saw Chen Xiaobraid sitting at the table, holding a swaddling baby in his arms, and carefully feeding the child who was less than a year old with rice soup.

"I'm back, how is Xiao Tian?"

Su Hongxin tore off his clothes that had long been stained red by blood, sat down in the bathtub, and said softly: "I didn't dare to look at it!"

It was only said that as soon as his body entered the water, he immediately saw that the water in the barrel turned red, and he forgot how many people he had killed in the battle last night.

Su Hongxin exhaled, his body seemed to be soft into a puddle of mud, soaked in water, he held the edge of the bucket with both arms, half tilted his face, closed his eyes and said: "If I hadn't taken him back to Guannei, there might not be today!"

It's just that his words changed suddenly and said, "Seventh aunt, let's talk about it, how did the old swallow die?"

The words fell.

I saw a big gray mouse suddenly peeking out of the table, straightening up, with tears in his eyes, and a little scar all over his body.

The sunset was gradually setting, the afterglow had faded, and I saw that under the light from the window, the shadow under the feet of the mouse suddenly distorted, and changed into the appearance of a woman, and said with a crying voice: "Hongxin, you have to avenge him, since he came back from Chenjiagou and learned about the White Lotus Sect, he secretly wanted to find out, and wanted to know what the White Lotus Sect was plotting for, but who knows, by mistake, let us hear a terrible thing, and it is just like this that it attracted the disaster of killing!"

"What's the matter?"

Su Hongxin asked.

But I saw Gray Qigu shedding tears the size of beans, and said four words in an astonishing voice.

"Immortality!"

Su Hongxin's closed eyes first opened a slit, and then slowly opened, and said in a half-shocked tone: "Immortality?

Gray Qigu nodded her head busily.

"We only listened to them discuss how to catch that drought fish for immortality, but, before we heard it completely, we were noticed by those people, I thought that we had not been recognized, but who knows, who knows, while he went to save people, that group of people played tricks!"

Su Hongxin's eyelashes twitched, and he glanced at the slowly setting sun outside the window.

"Immortality?

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