Chapter 45 Chapter Forty-Five

Li Lianying came over, squinted to see that no one was coming in, and said to the old woman, "Lafayette, the train will enter Beijing in two hours." The old woman did not turn around, her eyes still stayed on the fleeting trees. In her mind, this period of ups and downs was just like the fleeting trees. This period of bitterness, humiliation, and shock And restlessness, just like the fallen leaves, will be forever forgotten and buried forever in this barren mound. "What happened to Concubine Yu?" She asked in an old but strong voice. Concubine Yu is the concubine of Mu Zong. She got married in the eleventh year of Tongzhi and chose another concubine.Since Mu Zong passed away because of the "cloud flower", Empress Dowager Cixi hated Empress Arut, loved Concubine Dunyi, who was first named Concubine Hui, and empress Concubine Yu.Because Noble Concubine Yu is well-versed in literature and manners, she knows the rules very well, and she is indifferent by nature, so she doesn't compete with others.In addition to her virtues, she has extraordinary talents. When the emperor fled in a hurry, people in the palace were panicked, and everyone was crying day and night, fortunately, Concubine Yu was calm and stepped forward, commanding the eunuchs to guard the palace gate separately, and comforting the palaces everywhere. Friend, try to be quiet.Concubine Yu also made an appointment with all the concubines and court ladies. If the coalition forces broke into the deep palace and committed violence, they would commit suicide collectively to keep themselves clean.So she gave each woman in the palace a dagger.After the allied forces entered Beijing, Da Nei was under the jurisdiction of the Japanese army, and all negotiations were presided over by Concubine Yu, and the Minister of Internal Affairs followed orders and managed them in an orderly manner.Not only was there no military disaster in the palace, none of the palace family members and maids were harassed by foreign soldiers, but they were able to maintain the dignity of the royal family. This made Concubine Yu worth a hundred times more, and her prestige was growing day by day.Therefore, Cixi naturally feared her.

Concubine Yu has become Cixi's potential rival and a rising new political opponent.Empress Dowager Cixi, who had just escaped from humiliation, hunger, thirst, and pain, began to face new challenges and began to plan new techniques for managing people under the fence. Li Lianying replied: "Concubine Yu asked King Qing to send a message that the backyard of the imperial palace has not moved at all." The old woman let out a sigh of relief.It turned out that in the backyard of Changchun Palace and Le Shoutang, Cixi buried millions of taels of cash. Concubine Yu said this to show that this batch of silver is still there.

"Yu'er is so capable, I should give her credit for it." The old woman said unhurriedly. "That's not going to work. You should be the one who deserves the credit. If you didn't work so hard to pull the team out, but became a prisoner of foreigners, wouldn't our Qing Dynasty be over?" Li Lianying said, looking at the old man. The woman's profile. The old woman didn't show any expression, she paused for a while, and then said: "The one who memorized the second merit is Yu Er, and the one who memorized the third merit should be Yin Fu." "What about Li Hongzhang?"

"His diplomacy was not very successful, and he lost too much money, and there is no money left for the Summer Palace." Li Lianying didn't say anything more, he thought: It's a bit unfair to say that Li Zhongtang didn't get a bargain at the negotiating table. The amount of money to be paid was finally determined by the Queen Mother. passed away. Li Lianying was thinking about it when she suddenly heard the sound of galloping horseshoes coming from outside the train. He leaned his head to the window, and saw a man galloping on a bay red horse. Li Lianying felt that something was wrong, and hurried to the float in the second section where Yin Fu was.

Yin Fu has noticed the fast horse. The rider drives the horse and gallops almost at the same speed as the train. Yin Fu ordered the train to slow down, and then shouted at the rider: "Who are you? Why are you chasing this train?" The rider panted and said: "I know a big conspiracy, if you reward me with twenty thousand taels of silver, I will tell you!" Yin Fu said to Li Lianying: "Director Li, the matter is urgent, let's give him 20,000 taels of silver first." Li Lianying said doubtfully, "It can't be fraudulent money." "It doesn't look like, how many heads does he have?"

Li Lianying returned to the fifth float where she rested, took 20,000 taels of silver, wrapped it in a parcel, and handed it to Yin Fu on the second float. Yin Fu threw the package to the rider, who happily took the package, squeezed it with his hands, and tied it around his waist. "Tell me, what kind of conspiracy is it?" Yin Fu asked loudly. The rider said: "The rails on the bridge in front of me have been ripped off, and the train will overturn." After he finished speaking, he slapped his ass and ran back quickly. Yin Fu asked, "Who picked it up?" The rider was nowhere to be seen.

Yin Fu hurriedly ordered the driver to stop. Li Lianying murmured: "I think he looks like a scammer, and the two thousand taels of silver was given to him for nothing." Yin Fu and Li Lianying got off the train with more than a dozen guards. Looking forward, there was indeed a bridge a few miles away.They walked for a while and came to the bridge, and sure enough, they saw some rails on the bridge were pulled off and thrown aside. Yin Fu said: "When the train arrives here, it will definitely fall into the river. It's really dangerous." Li Lianying said: "It's probably because the rider first pulled the rails, and then came to rip us off. Isn't this breaking ground on Tai Sui's head and pulling teeth out of the tiger's mouth?"

Yin Fu said in embarrassment: "We are laymen, and we don't have any tools, how can we repair?" Li Lianying stomped her feet and said, "It's Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang who are arguing about foreign affairs and building some kind of railway. I think this train is not as comfortable and safe as the old one." Yin Fudao: "I remember that there was a railway trackman accompanying us on the train, please invite him here." Li Lianying went back. After a while, the railway officer arrived with some soldiers. The railway trackman inspected this section of railway and said with confidence: "Fortunately, there is no missing screw. If the screws and rails are thrown into the river, we will not be able to leave. We have to take a car instead."

Under his leadership, the guards and soldiers worked together, and within a meal, the railroad tracks were laid. At this time, intense gunshots came from where the train stopped. Yin Fu shouted: "No, someone robbed the train!" He ran back with his soldiers and guards. There are a total of more than 30 carriages on this train. Except for the cars of the Empress Dowager, the Emperor, the Empress, Concubine Jin, and the accompanying ministers, most of the carriages are loaded with the luggage of the Empress Dowager Cixi and the rare and exotic objects tributed by various provinces.Due to the limited number of carriages, too many things, and a few more hours to go to Beijing, the accompanying soldiers and guards were less than 200 people.

Yin Fu rushed to the place where the train stopped, and saw people lying in ambush on the mounds on both sides shooting at the train.The armed soldiers and guards on the train also fired back at each other. During the fierce battle, Yin Fuqing clearly saw an old woman motionless at the window of the fifth section of the float, staring at everything in front of her.She didn't seem to hear the gunshots and shouts, as if in another world. Yin Fu looked towards the east mound, and saw a blonde girl gesticulating and saying something. Yin Fu recognized her at a glance as Miss Dinah, the killer of the Eight-Power Allied Forces.

This ghost, she finally appeared. Yin Fu said to Li Ruidong: "You lead someone to cover me, and I will kill that Dinah." Yin Fu followed the grassy path and quietly went around behind the mound to the east. Yin Fu saw a bandit lying behind a tree and shooting at the train.Raising his hand, a dart pierced his back. Yin Fu crawled in front of him, picked up the foreign gun, aimed at Dinah and shot. "Bang!" Dinah shook and fell down. "It's not good, the officers and soldiers came up from behind!" A bandit yelled as he slid down the mound. When the other bandits heard this, they scattered and rushed to grab the horses parked behind the mound first, and the bandits in the east collapsed. Yin Fu went to find Dinah again, but Dinah was gone. Once the bandits in the east withdrew, the bandits in ambushes in the west also had no intention of fighting, and retreated while fighting. Yin Fu saw that there were few Qing soldiers and it was inconvenient to chase them, so he ordered them to get on the train, and the train drove north like a wild horse. When the train passed the bridge, Yin Fu felt nervous, and the train passed the bridge safely. Li Ruidong breathed a sigh of relief: "It's really passed five levels and cut six generals, even Huarong Road, and almost fell here." Yin Fu seemed to be talking to himself: "I hope this is the last hurdle." Yin Fu went to check the carriages and found that in the fierce battle just now, more than 20 soldiers and guards were killed or injured. Among the royal family and ministers, only one person fainted from fright, and no one was injured or injured. Yin Fu went all the way to the last carriage, only to see a soldier taking a nap.Yin Fu looked into the carriage, and saw that there were treasures tributed by various provinces, and there were boxes stacked there, very neatly.Suddenly he found that the glass at the back of the carriage was broken, and he saw a wisp of green smoke rising from behind a box... "Oh, it's not good!" Yin Fu yelled, rushed to the box, and pulled out a pack of explosives from behind the box. The soldier had already woken up. When he saw the explosive package, he yelled and ran forward. Yin Fu tore off the burning detonator and threw the explosive package under the car. Yin Fu calmly walked forward, and people in the carriage kept asking, "Where's the explosives?" "Let's run away!" Some soldiers jumped from the windows and broke their legs, and some died under the wheels. A fat eunuch wanted to jump down, but his body was blocked by the window, and he was full of ugly behaviors. Yin Fu explained one by one, and the carriage became quiet after a while. Yin Fu saw the soldier running out again like crazy. When he saw Yin Fu, he asked in surprise, "Master Yin, are you still alive?" He was obviously stunned. A officer came over, slapped the soldier, and said, "Disturb the morale of the soldiers!" The soldier's mouth was slapped crookedly, and he yelled with his mouth crooked: "The train is going to explode, it's going to blow up, we are going to ascend to heaven together with the emperor and empress dowager!" Guan Dai drew out his sword angrily, but it was too late for Yin Fu to stop him. The soldier's face was split in two, and he could no longer cry out. When Yin Fu came to the second section of the float car, Guangxu and others scrambled to ask him what happened behind him. Yin Fu told the truth. The weather was gloomy, and the sky was full of thick, low, grayish-yellow turbid clouds.The wilderness of the fields and weirs is blurred. The northeast wind was whistling, withered grass and fallen leaves were flying all over the sky, the yellow dust was hazy, and it was so chaotic that it was hard to tell where was the sky and where was the earth.The winter in the northern country is indeed ruthless, like scorched coral, which is shaken by the severe wind and bends its waist, screaming sharply.Occasionally, there are a few jackdaws, hula la flapping their wings, floating around in the leaden air, making a rustling noise. "This nasty crow!" Guangxu's relaxed mood was completely disturbed by the crow.He thought of the tall old locust tree in Yingtai, South China Sea in the old days, which was said to be a hundred years old. There was a crow's nest among the tall branches, and the annoying crows kept making noise, which made him even more restless.He asked the eunuch to remove it several times, but shortly after each removal, the crow's nest stood there again in darkness, like a black coffin, pressing heavily on his heart, and he couldn't breathe. "When we go back, we must ask the eunuch to saw off that old locust tree. That tree is the root of all evil, so we must saw it off!" He secretly made up his mind. The train passed Lugou Bridge, Fengtai Town, and slowly entered the Majiabao Station in the southern suburbs of Beijing. There were cheers in the carriage. From a distance, Yin Fu saw the civil and military officials who greeted him, who had already knelt along the sides, and there were also many foreigners watching the fun with a smile on their faces. Yin Fu seemed to see a woman's smiling face, it was his wife's face, too much fatigue had sucked up the afterglow of her youth, she looked haggard and old, but her eyes were full of hope.Suddenly, that smiling face changed into another, beautiful and infatuated, with big eyes that were bottomless and full of spirit... The train stopped, and Li Lianying was the first to get off. He didn't seem to see the officials who were kneeling to pick him up, so he turned around and went to take care of his luggage.Then the emperor got out of the car, ignored all the officials, and hurried into the sedan chair.The first thing he thought of was to see the deep well full of grievances, and then saw off the old locust tree. Then, Tang Yun got out of the car with the help of an eunuch. A foreign woman with a suitcase in her arms suddenly rushed out of the line of foreigners who were driving her, and rushed towards Tang Yun. Yin Fu was watching in the first section of the float, when he suddenly saw the woman, he was shocked and shouted: "Dinah!" Dinah ran wildly, her golden hair floating like a red cloud.Her running movements and curves were like a hungry wild wolf, desperate and trying her best to exert all the remaining strength in her body. "Boom!" There was a huge explosion, and powerful air waves scattered in all directions, with flesh and blood flying everywhere. "Tang Yun!" Yin Fu jumped down from the window recklessly, and staggered in front of Tang Yun, who was covered in blood. dyed. Tang Yun was still breathing, and her legs had been blown off. Hearing Yin Fu's mournful call, she opened her beautiful eyes and said with a smile, "I...love...you!" After speaking, she tilted her head, The eyes are closed forever and ever. "Tang Yun! Tang Yun!" Yin Fu cried loudly. People who knew Yin Fu had never seen him cry so loudly, because in their minds, Yin Fu was a man who never shed tears. In the fifth section, an old woman got off the float. She proudly looked around the panicked people and walked forward expressionlessly.Her arrogant behavior like no one else attracted everyone's attention. Li Lianying scrambled over and kowtowed to the old lady: "Lafayette, please get on the sedan chair." Yin Fu picked up Tang Yun's body, threw himself at the old woman's feet frantically, and cried out in grief: "She is all for you!" The old woman said lightly: "She tried her best, and her sins were redeemed." After speaking, she walked towards the car step by step. The luxurious car shivered in the cold wind.Before getting into the sedan chair, the old woman turned her head and said gloomyly: "I am the sky, and the Qing Empire is the earth!" The car went away, as if carrying a distant nightmare, it went away... (End of this article)