Chapter 48 Chapter 48: Li Ruidong's Death at Long's funeral

Zhang Sanfei kicked a whirlwind, and the guns in the hands of the two disappeared.Zhang San stepped on the bearded head and asked, "Who sent you here?" The bearded man lay on the ground like a corpse, struggling and unable to speak.Zhang San withdrew his foot and stepped on Yinggoubi's chest again, and asked, "Say it!" Yinggoubi stammered, "It was sent by Director Wu. He said that you always pretended to be sick and didn't go." The Presidential Palace is serving as the bodyguards of President Yuan, so we have been invited to attack you...Third Master, the villain will never dare again, please always see that you are an old martial arts veteran and spare our lives!" Zhang San turned around and took the birdcage, and said to Yinggoubi: "Take a break, find a foreign car to take him home, take care of him carefully, so that he won't be crippled, otherwise..."

It turned out that Zhang San had just seen the two punching back and forth. When the two punches were about to touch his body, he used his own phantom dodge skill to withdraw from the gap between the two punches.Thinking of the hooked nose, he flinched, so he slapped him lightly on the back with his right hand, hating the beard who was eager to try, and slapped him hard on the back with the cigarette pouch in his left hand.Both of them were injured, and the beard was hurt more seriously. In the evening, Baye Wan, Xiaoyingbi, He Liu and others came to Zhang San to discuss about attending Li Ruidong's funeral tomorrow.Several people agreed to gather at Xuanwu Gate at 8:00 a.m., and together with the coffin from Tianning Temple, they would travel south to the East Highland.

At 8 o'clock in the morning of the second day, Zhang San was wearing a green robe and arrived at the downstairs of the Xuanwu Gate on time, only to see Wan Baye and others waiting there.Xiao Yingbi held a pile of mourning clothes in his hand, and he said to Zhang San: "I will send you a white silk coat." He said a white silk coat.Zhang San put on a white silk gown, looked back and saw that Bao San and Shen San were only wearing a filial hat and a filial belt, he was puzzled, and hurriedly asked: "Our attire is different." Xiao Yingbi said: "Send the funeral Priests are given filial piety clothes according to grade, closeness, and seniority, the top class is given a white silk gown, the middle class is given a white cloth gown, and the low class is only given a filial hat and a filial belt."

After a while, Wang Jinting also came by car. He was wearing a white silk mourning dress and looked exhausted.He also has friendship with Li Ruidong, Mr. Li often goes to his house to discuss matters.Since Emperor Xuantong abdicated, Wang Jinting has been living in seclusion at home.After Yuan Shikai became president, Xiong Xiling was made prime minister, and Xiong Xiling retained some old bureaucrats from the Qing Dynasty to hold some government positions.Xiong Xiling and Wang Jinting were able to handle the case well and had high prestige in the former Ministry of Criminal Justice, so he was invited to serve as the deputy chief of justice.

Wang Jinting greeted Zhang San: "Master Zhang is here too? How are you doing recently? Haven't been to my place for a while, how many bottles of Moutai have I left for you?" Zhang San asked: "How is Miss Yuanwen?" Wang Jinting sighed softly: "You are a girl in her thirties, and she hasn't left the court yet! She is locked in the room all day, reciting poems and painting, dancing with guns and playing clubs. People have told me about several new schools, and some of them are from the scholarly family. The first is a family of officials, some of them hold important positions in the government, and they are talents who have studied abroad. As for her, her head is shaking like a rattle. I am old, and her mother died early. There is no way! Her personality has also changed. A little withdrawn, not as talkative and laughing as before, usually living in secluded places. It's really 'female college students can't stay, stay at home and worry', if Mr. Zhang wants a suitable one, it's best to find one for him."

Zhang Sandao: "Most of the friends I meet are from the market, and they are good at dancing guns. Girls like Yuanwen are so versatile. It's better to find someone from the right family!" At this time, only the sound of mourning and joy came from Ding Mian, and a group of people came slowly. In front of them was a golden melon and axe. thing.Sixty-four poles are raised high to enclose the coffin covered with money embroidered with the pattern of "Hundred Shoutu", and the drums and music are loud and full of details.After the coffin, Li Ruidong's relatives, friends, folks and friends from the martial arts circle followed closely, crying loudly and mourning.Some hold silk, some hold incense, mighty and mighty.

Wang Xiangzhai's eyes were crying like peaches, and he was throwing paper money in the team. He threw forty or fifty stacks of paper money in a straight line to a height of five or six meters, and when they reached the air, they fell in all directions like umbrella covers, which was wonderful , white flakes flying.When the paper money fell, the spectators flocked to grab the paper that did not land. It is said that if the paper money wipes the face or body mange, the affected area will suddenly disappear. Zhang San, Wan Baye, Wang Jinting and others silently walked into the funeral procession.Zhang San looked around and saw a lot of colleagues from the martial arts circle, including Wu Jianquan from Wu Style Taijiquan; Yang Chengpu, Yang Yuyan, and Yang Shaohou from Yang Style Taijiquan; Chen Fake from Chen Style Taijiquan; Hao Weizhen from Wu Style Taijiquan; Xingyi Sun Lutang of Bagua and Bagua; Wang Zhanchun of Tongbiquan; Shi Jidong, Ma Gui, Wei Jixiang of Baguazhang; Yu Jian and Li Yaochen of Sanhuangpaochui; Li Xingjie of Xingyiquan; Li Heming of Qingquan;Zhang San knows most of the martial artists and wrestlers.

When the funeral procession marched south to the east highland of Daxing County, Zhang San, Wan Baye, Wang Jinting, He Liu of the 'Little Silver Spear', Xiao Yingbi and others stopped in tears.Coincidentally, Wang Jinting's driver came to pick him up in a car, and everyone crowded into the car to return to Beijing. Time passed by like a flash, and in a blink of an eye, Zhang San was 53 years old this year. He had been living a half-hidden life. To pass the day.As the saying goes, people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong. Zhang San's reputation is so great that martial artists from all over the world want to compete with him.

On this day, in a wine shop in Dongdan, a burly man with a Northeast accent asked a drinker, "Where does the drunk Zhang San live?" "Little man, why do you ask Mr. Zhang?" "What are you doing? I heard that he possesses special skills, so I want to compete with him!" The drinker laughed loudly and said, "Master Zhang's kung fu, not to mention you alone, even eighteen of them will not be close to him!" "You know him?" "He often comes here to drink, no one here knows him!" The big man said: "Then please tell him that my name is Zhang Xiaoyi and I live outside the customs. I came here specially to compete with him. If I don't defeat him, I won't go back."

In the middle of the night, Zhang Xiaoyi was sleeping soundly in the flower market inn. Suddenly, he felt a sharp itching in his nostrils, and he sneezed uncontrollably. He also felt that someone pushed him. When he opened his eyes, he saw that there seemed to be a fire outside the window.He got up in a hurry and wanted to put on his clothes, but when he grabbed the bedside, the clothes and pants were gone; he looked around, but still couldn't find them.Some peasants outside the customs like to take off their clothes. Zhang Xiaoyi is this type of person. Now he is naked and feels ashamed. Fortunately, it was dark, so he had to grab a steel knife and run to the yard to check, only to see that the fire had gone out. , A black shadow swished onto the wall.Zhang Xiaoyi saw that the wall was one or two feet high, and he couldn't go up it. It was almost the Mid-Autumn Festival and the moon was shining brightly.Look at that black shadow, a big man with a toad waist, walking on the wall as if walking on flat ground, and in a blink of an eye, he ran to the west room.Zhang Xiaoyi held the knife in his mouth and climbed up a jujube tree to the west room, but he was stung by a caterpillar.He went to the room to have a look, but the black shadow came to the east room again.Zhang Xiaoyi jumped down from the west room and ran to the east, the black shadow had already run to the front yard room.Zhang Xiaoyi chased to the front room, but the black shadow turned to the backyard.Zhang Xiaoyi carried a steel knife and chased from the front yard to the back yard, and from the back yard to the front yard.I saw that black shadow leaping across the room and jumping over the spine like a bird, he was so tired that he was sweating profusely, panting heavily.

At this moment, the candles in the innkeeper's room were lit, and the door opened with a "squeak". The proprietress was caught up with a stomachache, her hair was disheveled, she came out with her trousers in her hand, and was about to go to the latrine. Seeing Zhang Xiaoyi, who was like a white water bird, he was taken aback, and with all his strength, there was a "puchi", and all the shit was pulled in his crotch.Zhang Xiaoyi was at a loss when he saw it, but saw a black object rushing towards him and falling into his arms. He was startled, and when he shook it off, it turned out to be his clothes and trousers.At this time, the people in the inn started up one after another, and ran out with sticks in their hands.Zhang Xiaoyi panicked and hurriedly slipped back to his room. Zhang Xiaoyi went back to the room and lay on the bed thinking carefully: Who is this kidding me?This person's lightness technique is so good, after thinking about it, he suddenly realized: the drunkard Zhang San must be the one flying over the roof and wall, so I'm convinced. On the morning of the second day, Zhang Xiaoyi brought three bottles of Shanxi Fenjiu to Dongdan Yangyi Hutong to look for Zhang San, and Zhang San's wife, Mrs. Zhang, opened the door for him. "Is Mr. Zhang at home?" Zhang Xiaoyi asked. "I just came back in the middle of the night last night. I just slept soundly. I asked a high-ranking official to pick me up in a car early this morning..." Zhang Xiaoyi handed the wine to Mrs. Zhang, and said: "Master, give this wine to the third master. You tell him, my name is Zhang Xiaoyi, and I am from outside the Guan. With his skills, I don't drink medicine. I put on plasters and take ( apply)!..." The official who picked up Zhang San in a car was Wang Jinting, the Deputy Minister of Justice.Wang Jinting sent someone to bring Zhang San home to discuss an extremely important matter with him. In the living room, Zhang San anxiously listened to Wang Jinting's impassioned statement: "Yuan Shikai, the old thief's fox tail finally showed, he is going to abolish the republican government now, he is going to proclaim himself emperor, and he is going to abolish the Republic of China as the Chinese Empire. This is his long-planned and dreamed ambition! For many years he has been dreaming of the emperor's dream. He betrayed the reformers, hunted down the revolutionaries, eliminated dissidents, and formed cliques for personal gain. The backbone of the military to realize the Yuan family's dream of being an emperor." Wang Jinting was shaking wildly with anger, pacing up and down in the living room excitedly. "At the beginning of this year, the Japanese government proposed to Yuan Shikai the secret clause '21' to dominate China, as an exchange condition for supporting Yuan Shikai's proclaiming emperor. Among them, Japan was required to inherit Germany's rights and interests in Shandong, and the Chinese government must hire Japanese as political , financial, military advisers, etc. Yuan Shikai was eager to proclaim himself emperor and was eager to win the support of the Japanese. On February 2 this year, he sent Minister of Foreign Affairs Lu Yuyu and Deputy Minister Cao Rulin to start secret negotiations with Japanese Minister Hiki Masaki and others to prepare Selling the country and proclaiming the emperor. On May 7 this year, the Japanese government actually issued an ultimatum to Yuan Shikai on the "Twenty-One" ultimatum, and the reply was limited within 48 hours. On May 9, Yuan Shikai, a traitor, sent a reply to the Japanese Embassy in China, announcing that "two Article 11, except for No. 5, which is "to be negotiated in the future", all others are recognized. May 9th, this is really a national humiliation day!  … "On August 14 this year, Yang Du, Sun Yuyun, Yan Fu, Liu Shipei, Li Xiehe, Hu Ying and others organized a security meeting in Beijing to create public opinion for Yuan Shikai to proclaim himself emperor. Support Yuan Shikai's ascension to the extreme and proclaim himself emperor...Yuan Shikai's proclaiming emperor indicates that China will be subjugated! Well, China is about to be defeated by such a prodigal son!" The more Wang Jinting spoke, the more intense he was, he stopped abruptly, tears streaming down his face, and suddenly sighed: "Although three households in Chu can destroy Qin, is there no one in the majestic China!" Zhang San understood what Wang Jinting meant. Wang Jinting wanted him to learn from Jing Ke and assassinate Yuan Shikai, a country thief. Wang Jinting stared at Zhang San with piercing eyes, and said with great emotion: "Master Zhang, you and I have been friends in times of trouble for 16 years. You have been brave enough to see each other through ups and downs! You once followed me to the south of the Yangtze River to wipe out the corrupt officials Hong. Sheng, to eliminate harm for the people of Zhejiang. You once went to Tibet with me, killed the rebel Sadi for the sake of national unity, and sent the edict to the thirteenth Dalai Lama. He is moving, going to the sky and entering the earth, his sleeves are clean and spotless, he can be called a martial arts teacher and a model of the nation, all of which my Wang Jinting can learn from, and I will never forget it! Now for the people of Liming, for the ancient country of China, in order to prevent Yuan Shikai from claiming the title of emperor, and for the sake of To abolish the traitorous 'Twenty-Ones', I...I want to ask Mr. Zhang, as Jing Ke and Gao Jianli, to assassinate the old thief Yuan Shikai!..." After Wang Jinting finished speaking, tears streaming down his face, he knelt down in front of Zhang San with a "plop".Zhang San hurried to help Wang Jinting, but Wang Jinting was full of tears and refused to get up.Zhang San also knelt down, cupped his hands towards Wang Jinting and said, "Master Wang is from a scholarly family, a family of officials, with huge wealth, and no worries about food and clothing, but he is willing to share the worries for the people, the country, and eliminate harm for the people." , For the sake of justice, Zhang San is as clear as a mirror, and I really appreciate it. Mr.'s personality, quality, demeanor and temperament are really a model for officials! Now that Mr. needs me, it is actually the country and the people who want me! I, Zhang San, a commoner, was born in a humble family. When I was studying art, my master repeatedly warned me to become a useful talent for the country. I have lived 53 years, and I have tasted all the ups and downs in the world. In a word: The people are not afraid of death, why should they be afraid of death! I, Zhang San, would like to serve the country, the people, and the adults with my life!" Speaking of this, they only heard "woo woo" crying outside, and the two quickly stood up and ran out the door, only to see the bright moon shining brightly and the autumn wind rustling, but there was no one there.Wang Jinting and Zhang San were puzzled, they walked out of the hanging flower door, only to see a figure flashing.Wang Jinting shouted: "Who are you?" The two chased after him, but the figure disappeared.