The flickering candlelight illuminated the woman's pale face on the shelf, and she couldn't help but shrink back into the quilt.

Hu Yulin looked at her frightened appearance, laughed loudly, he strode to the bed a few times, stretched out his hand to uncover the brocade quilt on the woman's body, and the woman's whole body was immediately exposed.

"You didn't let me see it a few days ago, and now I want to see it, what else can you do now?" Hu Yulin looked at this woman with unscrupulous eyes, and his heart was very happy.

Hearing him say this, the woman realized that he was deliberately humiliating herself, and couldn't help biting her lip, lowering her head, and tears flowed down her eyes.

This woman was met by Hu Yulin once through a tailor shop, when he saw her standing at the door, with a slender waist, white skin and beautiful appearance, very eye-catching, so he stared at her a few more times. She noticed that he was watching him, and was so frightened that she hurriedly closed the door and entered the house. Hu Yulin then sent someone to propose to his father with a huge amount of money, saying that he wanted to accept the woman as a concubine, and the woman's father agreed when he saw the money. Hu Yulin married the woman back one day and became his concubine.

People around Hu Yulin who are familiar with him know that he didn't really fall in love with this woman, but purely wanted to take revenge on her for not letting him see it.

For Hu Yulin, he has done this many times.

"You are my person now, not only can I see it however I want, but you also have to bear it for me!" Hu Yulin said and began to take off his clothes.

Liu Er, who was holding the candle, kept tilting his head at this time, not letting himself see the body of the woman on the bed, he heard the sound of Hu Yulin undressing, so he quickly put the giant candle in his hand on the copper lampstand next to the bed. Then he walked out in amusement. And close the door.

Hu Yulin quickly stripped naked. He grinned wickedly and went to bed and lay down next to the woman.

The woman sensed his approach, her body shrank violently as if she had been electrocuted, she held her chest with both hands, closed her legs, and turned around, leaving Hu Yulin with a smooth back.

Hu Yulin's hand grabbed her shoulder and jerked her body over. He grabbed the woman's wrists with both hands, forcefully parted her arms to the sides, and pressed down on top of her.

The woman struggled desperately, and her writhing posture was tempting in Hu Yulin's eyes. Hu Yulin carefully admired her beauty of futile struggle, and the smile on her face became cruel.

He held her down, leaned down slowly, kissed her beautiful face, and stuck out his tongue to lick the tears on her face.

The woman stopped struggling and lay there sobbing.

Hu Yulin kissed her neck little by little, and quickly moved his mouth to her chest. He kissed for a moment, feeling himself uplifted. He squeezed her legs with his legs, and she pressed them together to prevent him from parting.

When the two were holding each other, at this moment, there was a sudden noise in the courtyard, and there were hurried footsteps, Hu Yulin was stunned for a moment, stopped, and before he could understand what was happening, the footsteps and the shaking fire light came from far and near, followed by another "bang", the door was kicked open again, and the officers and soldiers holding torches rushed in.

Hu Yulin's surprise was not trivial, and he immediately froze down.

The officers and soldiers who rushed in obviously didn't expect to see such a scene, and they were a little stunned for a while, some people couldn't help laughing when they saw the soft lump between Hu Yulin's legs, and more people stared at the white and greasy body of the woman on the bed.

Hu Yulin never thought in his life that he would one day let so many people watch, he knelt on the bed, and didn't know what to do for a while, but the woman felt ashamed and indignant in front of everyone, and suddenly raised her legs and kicked Hu Yulin off the bed, covered her body with the quilt, and cried.

Hu Yulin was caught off guard, couldn't help but let out an "ouch", and fell heavily to the ground, and the officers and soldiers around him looked at his embarrassed appearance, and they all laughed.

"Uh-huh!" With a heavy cough, the officers and soldiers immediately suppressed their laughter and all stood aside.

Hu Yulin, who was naked, got up from the ground, picked up a piece of clothing that he had just thrown on the ground and surrounded his lower body, he looked up, and just met the eyes of Chen Lusheng, the new governor of Hangzhou Prefecture, who came in.

Chen Lusheng's eyes were full of disdain, he sneered, and said, "Hold up the Qin prisoner Hu Yulin!" ”

"Prisoner?" Hu Yulin finally understood, and couldn't help but exclaim, "Lord Chen, you and I are both officials of the imperial court, how can you slander me so much, when did I, Hu someone, become a prisoner?" ”

"Hu Yulin! You dare to talk nonsense when you are dying! Chen Lusheng was furious, and Hu Yulin scolded angrily, "Do you really think that as an official and businessman, you dare to act recklessly and lawlessly, and no one can control you?" Let me tell you clearly, this official came to arrest you on the order of the imperial court, and you really think no one knows about the huge amount of money you are greedy for in the treasury? ”

Chen Lusheng's sentence of "greedy for huge sums of money from the treasury" made Hu Yulin stand on the spot as if he was struck by lightning, his hand loosened, and the clothes surrounding his lower body fell to the ground.

"Bring the prisoner down!" Chen Lusheng shouted, and several officers and soldiers stepped forward and dragged Hu Yulin out like a dead dog.

Chen Lusheng looked at the woman who was still crying on the bed, and couldn't help feeling pity, turned his head to an attaché and ordered: "Hu Yulin has bullied many people's women, and this woman must be one of them. ”

The attaché agreed repeatedly, and Chen Lusheng turned around and walked out of Hu Yulin's "new house" and came to the courtyard.

Chen Lusheng looked up at the swirling corridors and alleys, pavilions, courtyard patios, cliffs and rockeries, small bridges and flowing water, Zhu Fei purple trees, and carved gatehouses, and felt as if he was in a labyrinth for a while.

Hu Yulin's house is located in Yuanbao Hutong, southeast of Hangzhou. Outside is a white fence more than 10 meters high, entering Yuanbao Hutong, looking at the gate of Hu Yulin's mansion from the outside, but it does not have the spaciousness and grandeur of the powerful and rich. And once you enter the door, it can be described as extremely luxurious. Hu Yulin's house is laid out in a symmetrical manner, traditional in China. The central axis area is the waiting room, which is composed of the sedan hall, the main hall of the Baishi Building, and the four-sided hall; On the right is the living room courtyard, which is composed of Nanmu Hall, Mandarin Duck Hall, Qingya Hall, Heyi Hall, Yixia Courtyard and Rongdong Courtyard. for groups of wives and concubines to live in; On the left is Shibaen. It is connected by a cloister. The meandering pools are connected. Pavilions, platforms, floors, pavilions, high and low are scattered, elegant and harmonious. There are also stele corridors, red army stone fences, small bridges, water pavilions, every section of the heart, step by step is the scene. There is also an artificial karst cave under the rockery in the park, which is tortuous and circuitous, and it is ingenious. The entire building is compact and well-conceived. The living room and the garden are blended, and the building materials can even be compared to the palace, which can be described as a precious material. Wood carving, brick carving, stone carving, gray plastic painting, superb craftsmanship, can be described as no quality. And Baishi Building, Suochun Courtyard, Yixia Courtyard, Xiqiu Courtyard, Rongdong Courtyard, Yanbi Hall, Zaifu Hall, and Hele Hall are all strange.

"There is a way to have a family heirloom, but it is thick, and it is strange but frank." Chen Lusheng looked at a pair of couplets at the door of the sedan hall, and couldn't help nodding secretly.

"That's a good point, but you didn't do it." Chen Lusheng sighed and said.

At this time, the Hu Mansion was full of officers and soldiers who had been raided, and the Hu Mansion servants of the brigade and Hu Yulin's family members were driven to the compound for centralized detention. Chen Lusheng noticed that except for Hu Yulin's wives and his old mother who were crying, the rest of the concubines were all kneeling there silently. Most of the concubines had a resigned look on their faces, and a few even had gloating expressions on their faces.

Thinking of the crying woman in Hu Yulin's room just now, Chen Lusheng's hatred for Hu Yulin deepened.

For the "romantic affairs" of this "second-grade official businessman", he had already heard of it when he was the prefect of Jiaxing Mansion.

Chen Lusheng was born in the military, and was appointed to Hangjiahu Road, Zhejiang Province with military merits, and he has always been very dissatisfied with Hu Yulin's ugly fishing, this time he was suddenly transferred from Jiaxing to Hangzhou by the imperial court, and he himself did not expect that the first thing he did when he took office was to be ordered to arrest Hu Yulin.

Just then, an attaché hurried over.

"Did you find the slip?" Chen Lusheng asked.

"My lord, I think I've found ...... However, there are some troubles, Master Zhang, please go over and take a look. The attaché said to Chen Lusheng.

Chen Lusheng couldn't help but be very strange when he heard his words, he followed the attaché through the corridor, came to a magnificent warm pavilion, as soon as Chen Lusheng entered the door, he saw all kinds of exquisite jade and porcelain furnished in the interior, each piece of valuable money, and there were calligraphy and paintings of famous artists of the past dynasties hanging on the wall. Chen Lusheng immediately guessed that this should be where Hu Yulin stored important things.

At this time, Master Zhang and several staff members of the government were discussing something in front of a big black golden cabinet, and when they saw Chen Lusheng coming in, Master Zhang immediately greeted him.

"My lord, it's a bit of a problem." Master Zhang pointed to the big cabinet and said.

"The copies of the documents that the court wants must be hidden in this cabinet."

Chen Lusheng took a step forward and stared at the big cabinet in front of him, he touched the cabinet with his hand, and his brows suddenly tightened.

This is a large cabinet made of black bronze, the four corners of the cabinet door are carved with exquisite curly grass patterns, there is a copper handle on the door, next to the handle is a black hole keyhole, on one side of the keyhole, is a round knob, around the knob is a circle of exquisite flower body Awei Bo numerals.

"This is a copper cabinet specially ordered by Hu Yulin in the United States, which is specially used to store valuables or confidential documents." The well-informed Master Zhang said, "This cabinet needs to have a key and a password to open it." ”

"He Hu Yulin really thought about it!" Chen Lusheng said with some annoyance, "The key must be on his Hu Yulin, and he must know the password, so bring Hu Yulin immediately!" Let him open the cupboard! ”

"Slow down, adult." Master Zhang shook his head and said, "Hu Yulin knows that the password is not fake, but this kind of secret cabinet is generally equipped with a machine bracket, once the word transfer is not entered accurately, or the cabinet is opened by force, the machine bracket will be activated, and the memory can be destroyed." If Hu Yulin is allowed to open the cabinet by himself, he will jump over the wall in a hurry and deliberately bracket it, once the documents inside are destroyed, it will be a big trouble. ”

"That's what you said." Chen Lusheng understood what Master Zhang meant, and nodded, "According to you, what should I do?" ”

"This cabinet is urgent and difficult to open, so it is better to send the prisoners to the capital together with this cabinet, and gather the strength of skilled craftsmen to open this cabinet." Master Zhang suggested.

"It's good!" Chen Lusheng nodded, and immediately ordered someone to get Hu Yulin's key.

At this time, Hu Yulin had already changed into a prison uniform and got into the prison car, although he saw that the key he was carrying was taken away, but at this time he calmed down.

Of course he does. The officers and soldiers who raided it would surely find the huge copper cabinet. But this copper cabinet. But it can't be opened with a key.

I thought I was prescient. He was glad that he had specially ordered such a copper cabinet with a password to be converted in the United States.

He knew that as soon as the organs in the cabinet were activated, all the documents and account books inside would be destroyed, and at that time, the court would have the intention to embarrass itself, and there was nothing to think about.

Hu Yulin was pondering there how to activate the mechanism in the cabinet once Chen Lusheng wanted to open the cabinet by himself, but was surprised to find that the copper cabinet was actually carried out by several strong officers and soldiers with horizontal logs. Carefully loaded into a large car.

Seeing Chen Lusheng's cold gaze looking at him, Hu Yulin suddenly burst out laughing.

"Master Chen knows that this gold cabinet is customized by me in the United States, the only one in the world, except for me Hu Yulin, there is no second person in the world who can open it! I see how you can account for the court! Hu Yulin looked at Chen Lusheng, his eyes were full of resentment, "I, Hu Yulin, have fallen, you Lord Chen, I'm afraid I won't have a peaceful birthday in the future!" Ha ha! Ha ha! ”

"Hu Yulin. This mouthful of food can be eaten, and the mouth is full of words. Chen Lusheng listened to Hu Yulin's wild words. Not thinking about it, he smiled slightly and said, "I am a big country, I can double the number of people, and I have someone who opens this cabinet, you wait and see." ”

After Chen Lusheng finished speaking, he no longer looked at Hu Yulin, but waved his hand and motioned to the officers and soldiers to escort Hu Yulin and the copper cabinet down. Hu Yulin watched the officers and soldiers laboriously move the copper cabinet, and laughed wildly.

Xinjiang, on the outskirts of Urumqi, a large camp of cadres.

On the high lookout, Zuo Jigao, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, was holding a monocular, looking at the battlefield in the distance.

The rumbling sound of artillery continued to come, and a large cloud of black smoke rose from the city wall, which was the artillery of the cadre army under the command of the French instructor, using a French 140 mm cannon to bombard the city wall of Urumqi. The cannon was accompanied by a number of steel cannons that fired 12- or 16-pounder shells, as well as a large number of old mountain splitting guns.

The defenders in the city were still resisting stubbornly, and they also used foreign artillery to attack the Qianjun, but their artillery was smaller in caliber and extremely inaccurate in firing, but it was a great threat to the Qian's infantry and cavalry who were preparing to attack the city.

Seeing that the artillery bombardment of the cadres could not suppress the artillery fire of the defenders, Zuo Jigao couldn't help but feel anxious.

Just a few days ago, he inexplicably received an edict from the imperial court, which changed the tone of the previous warm and admiring tone, and the words were very harsh, saying that "the battle of Xinjiang took more than seven years, cost up to 30 million, and still could not be fully successful", "the minister was ineffective in supervising the army, the soldiers were delayed, and the fighter plane was delayed", after reprimanding Zuo Jigao, he gave him a death order, "Within three months, the whole Xinjiang must be recovered", Zuo Jigao was taken aback after receiving the edict, he didn't know what was happening, and in a hurry, he hurriedly responded with an expedited response of 800 miles, said that his "slow advance and rapid war" strategy has worked, and now the "slow advance" has ended, and he is in the midst of a "rapid war", but the three-month period is too tight, and he asked the court to grace it to six months, "must compete for all the work", after this echo went up, the court finally approved it, but at the same time sent an edict asking "Hu Yulin is like a greedy ink affair", Zuo Jigao knew that the trouble was caused by Hu Yulin.

At this time, because he was supervising the war on the front line, it was located in the desert, and the telegraph was not available, he didn't know what happened to Hu Yulin, and not long ago, the 1 million catties of grain from the Western Expedition to the Grain Station were not transferred, and he guessed that it was probably Hu Yulin who had a leak, and now Hu Yulin had no news there, so he had no choice but to ask for help from his "old friend" Russians.

As early as the first year of Guangxu, when Zuo Jigao was stationed in Jielanzhou, Russian officials offered to provide 5 million catties of grain to Zuo Jigao's western expeditionary army, and the price was "extremely fair", Zuo Jigao soon reached an agreement with the Russians, and soon 3 million catties of grain were sent to the grain station of the Western Expeditionary Army, which was not a small amount at that time, and it was difficult to buy so much grain at once in the local market. Later, when he marched into northern Xinjiang, Zuo Jigao purchased 2 million catties of grain from Russian businessmen through the hands of Hu Yulin. It was only because the Russians now occupied Ili, and it was rumored that the Russians were also helping Aguba, and he was worried that someone in the DPRK and China would impeach him for getting too close to the Russians, so he did not openly ask the Russians for help, but the private contact was never broken.

In order to hide people's eyes, he hid behind the scenes in some of the things he did with the Russians, and Hu Yulin handled them on the surface, of course he knew that Hu Yulin and the Russians might also be a little tired in private, but he always turned a blind eye to these "hard work" for Hu Yulin.

Now that the imperial court has issued such an edict to him, did Hu Yulin and the Russians have something to do, so that someone grabbed the handle and put him in custody?

If something happened to Hu Yulin, why didn't any official in Zhejiang Province, his rear, give him a message?

Zuo Jigao was thinking about himself, but suddenly there was a loud noise in the distance, Zuo Jigao hurriedly turned the telescope, looked in the direction where the sound came from, and immediately saw a black column of smoke rising from his artillery position. (To be continued......)

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