The rainy season, which had been raining for more than half a month, finally showed signs of stopping, and when the morning sun shone into the Shikumen house, Han Xianfeng stood in front of the shrine in the living room, praying sincerely. More than a month ago, every time she paid homage to incense on the fifteenth day of the new year, she didn't know what she was asking for, now she has nothing to worry about, life is just a play, she can only play according to this role, as for the day when she gets off the stage, can she wait? She felt like she couldn't wait for that day. But those thoughts suddenly changed one day more than a month ago. Since then, she has felt that she has asked for something and feared, and now she only wants him to be safe.

Because of the endless articles about the Revival Society in the newspaper, Han Xianfeng already knew who he was; Looking at the honest confessions of the revolutionary party published in the newspapers, she understood even more what he was going to do. She hoped that he would get better soon, to lead the revolutionary parties, to save the shattered revolution......

"Miss. The foreigner came...... "Every time she saw the Frenchman, Xiao Zan's voice trembled a little, and it was difficult for her to understand why people's eyes could be blue, why their hair was yellow, and why there was so much hair on their bodies.

"Are you coming? Then let him in. Han Xianfeng put the incense in the incense burner, then gently pulled up her hair, and then went out of the courtyard, she didn't understand foreign languages, just smiled at this kind Frenchman, slightly blessed, and then welcomed him into the hall in broken steps.

Briand was actually a personal doctor, he was in his fifties, and he mainly served the French in the concession, of course. As his fame grew, he also served patients in some other countries, as far as the Chinese. Because of the language barrier, he had little contact with them. Han Xianfeng, or rather the man in Han Xianfeng's house, was his first Chinese patient, and at first, he thought that this beautiful and elegant young lady was sick, and later came to Qi Feng's study. Only then did I know that the patient was a man. At that time, the man's condition was very bad, and his bodily fluids were already out of balance due to the prolonged coma, so he had to take a carriage back to the French Concession. He brought over a special set of infusion equipment, and after several tosses, the saline was transferred to the patient's body.

Brian did not pay attention to who the patient was and why he was injured when he was resuscitating. Only when he returned to his apartment. Only then did I remember that the wound on the man's back was a gunshot wound. Since it was gunshots, it must have been a criminal, but when he was waiting for the patrol in the patrol room, the news about the revolutionary party in the newspaper and the portrait of the reward in the governor's room made him suddenly change his tune when facing the British patrolman, he claimed that his money had been stolen, and then left the patrol room. The revolutionaries are not criminals, they are a group of people who can dedicate their lives to their ideals. The Renaissance Society is the revolutionary party in China, and the patient is the leader of the revolutionary party. With this in mind, Briand told himself that he must be cured, a reverie of a Frenchman who praised the revolution and was naturally romantic.

Following Xianfeng into the living room, Bai Lian did not drink tea downstairs, but went directly to the second floor, after he took his temperature, he nodded at Han Xianfeng, signaled that one qiē was normal, and made a gesture of two, asking if the patient had woken up twice. Han Xianfeng shook his head and made a gesture of three, indicating that it was three times.

In fact, what they say about waking up is not completely awake, but a kind of half-asleep dream, Yang Rui has often made some noises recently, or called a few unfamiliar names that he didn't understand, but this is enough for the doctor and Han Xianfeng, the situation is constantly improving, maybe a week, maybe three days later, the patient will be fully awake.

Bai Lian saw Han Xianfeng smiling and making a gesture of three, and he smiled himself, he carefully hung the silver pot filled with salt water at the head of the bed, picked up the silver needle in the front of the tube with one hand, and then picked up the patient's arm with the other, found a position without a needle hole, and carefully inserted the silver needle into the vein. He noticed that when the silver needle pierced the skin, the patient's hand seemed to tremble, and he couldn't help nodding, the patient was indeed getting better, and he had not responded to the pain at all before. Brian put the patient's arm down and immediately looked at the pocket watch, which, according to the amount of water in the silver pot, could be withdrawn in about three hours.

Although intravenous infusion was invented very early, before 1940, intravenous infusion was an extremely dangerous operation, an emergency treatment for critically ill people, and only doctors had the right to do so, and during the infusion process, doctors had to watch and wait on one side, which was actually the reason why Brian chose to come in the morning, but this waiting time was boring, and he had to read the newspaper to pass the time.

In the battle of Hangzhou on July 2, according to the official information of the Qing state, more than 3,000 rebels were killed, and more than 4,000 rebels were taken prisoner - seeing this, Brian couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, many news of the Qing government were false, for example, in the revolutionary army in Songjiang, the Qing government advertised in the newspapers that it had been eliminated, but according to the news from the consulate, This army was not completely defeated, and all the remaining people fled to Taihu Lake...... Skipping the false figures, the following is the news of the arrested revolutionaries, the most influential of which were Cai Hezhong, and one hundred and two other key members of the revolutionary party, all of whom had been executed after the trial, except for Cai Zai, who had committed suicide but was not treated......

Brian scanned the text, looked at the somewhat confused photos of the execution, and quickly turned one page of the newspaper, and the other page still had news about the revolutionary party, but the article did not speak of the revival society. Rather, another leader of the League who organized the failed Chaozhou uprising, Sun. Yat-sen, and the leader of the Renaissance Society in the United States, Zhang Taiyan, together in Los Angeles, USA, gave a speech condemning the Qing government, in which Sun said that the soldiers and nobles of the Qing Kingdom (Manchu) slaughtered innocent citizens in the cities of HangZhou, ShaoXing, HaiNing, etc., which only helped the revolutionaries to do some work. suffered from the government's tragic retaliation. In his speech, Sun called on all Han Chinese to rise up against the barbaric Qing government, and declared that his organizations, the League and the Fuxinghui, had merged with the arrest of their leader, Cai. He will take on the task of continuing to lead the revolution......

When Briand saw Sun. Yat-sen, he immediately found a pen to write him down - knowing that his patient was a revolutionary leader, Brian had been trying to contact the revolutionary organization called the Renaissance Society, but the news he saw in the newspapers was not optimistic, many revolutionaries affiliated with the Renaissance Society had betrayed the revolution, and they had published in the newspapers that they would no longer participate in any revolution in the future, and confessed their crimes to the Qing government. At the same time, the LongMen Hotel and the China Times in various concessions were seized by the concession authorities at the request of the Qing government. Brian really didn't know who he should trust......

When Bai Lian was reading the newspaper, Han Xianfeng made him a cup of tea, and then sat on the side and pulled up the erhu, which was a way for her to repay Bai Lian. The music is melodious. However, when Han Xianfeng pulled the famous song to Shanghai Beach, it was disturbed by a slight rhythmic "bang" sound, and when Bai Lian thought it was the maid downstairs, Han Xianfeng threw the erhu and ran quickly to the bedside, she knew that he was awake!

Yang Rui was pulled back into this world by a familiar music in the darkness - after he was shattered by the whirlpool, he thought he had traveled back. But this process of crossing seems to be endless, after a long, long ascetic. The music allowed him to find his way, but when he reached reality, he found that he couldn't seem to open his eyes, and after making sure that he was hearing music again, he began to pound the bed in a hurry, but after a long illness, his body was very weak, even if he was beating, the sound was very small.

"You're awake!" A woman's voice said, Yang Rui didn't have the energy to listen to who this voice was. The woman's voice had spoken, and it was a foreigner's voice, and it was not in English, and it couldn't understand a word.

Yang Rui didn't have the strength to speak, he couldn't tell where this was, whether it was 2013 or 1906, when he was about to pound the bed again, his hand was held by a delicate and fragrant hand, and the woman's voice said again: "The doctor said it, you won't be able to see when you wake up, but it will be fine after a while...... This is Renheli, you were very seriously injured at that time, I found a foreigner to heal you, and now the foreigner says that you want to recuperate, you have been sleeping for almost a month, and you have to wait for your body to recover before you can go out and walk around...... It's a good place, no one knows you're here, the patrols have searched here, but they haven't found you......"

In the woman's gentle words, Yang Rui gradually quieted down, he seemed to feel that he was still in 1906, and the people around him were not any of the acquaintances, in addition, he also felt that there were many, many things in his mind that he had not remembered, but when he was about to think about it, the whirlpool in his mind swallowed him up again.

Seeing Yang Rui's gradual calm breathing, Han Xianfeng and Bai Lian quietly left the bedside, and when they walked outside, Bai Lian picked up the Sino-French News that he was looking at, pointed to the photo of the revolutionary party being executed on it and shook his head at Han Xianfeng, and then made a silent gesture, his meaning was very clear, although the patient was awake, but the injury and long-term bed rest made the body extremely weak, if it was stimulated by any more intense stimulation, it would be very unfavorable to the patient's recovery. Han Xianfeng looked at the photos of those murderous people and beheaded, and her heart was cold, but she was smart enough to understand what Bai Lian meant, and looked at him and nodded heavily.

Yang Rui woke up again at midnight, at this time Xianfeng came back outside, the room was bright, she was removing her makeup in front of the dresser, and heard some noise on the bed again, she hurriedly got up, sat on the side of the bed and held the big hand that kept swinging and said, "Are you awake?" You're really awake. ”

Hearing this familiar voice again made Yang Rui feel a little relieved, especially the slender hand made him feel alive and still able to move, but all he could do was this, just after Xianfeng said a conversation, he fell asleep again. It wasn't until the next morning, after the intravenous infusion, that he woke up again, and after feeling that the people around him could be trusted, he tried his best to say a sentence that was quite complete, "Jianghai Chaozong... Yixiao Lou...... Table 44...... Dot... Four corners and four points of tea, code..., he said one, three, one, four...... You answer one, four, one, three...... And in the pockets...... Half a dollar ......"

It took Han Xianfeng a lot of effort to memorize the intermittent words, and when she repeated them again. Yang Rui had already fallen asleep, and these intermittent words had taken all his strength, and Han Xianfeng saw him fall asleep. She took out the half of the one-dollar from the pile of money she had left behind, and when she turned around and wanted to go downstairs, she stopped again, she could be sure that this was the contact code of the revolutionary, as long as she went, she would immediately find the revolutionary party, but if she really found the revolutionary party. Isn't he going to be picked up by them?

Thinking of the panic when I first met, the shame of wiping the man's body for the first time, and... There is also the anxiety of seeking medical treatment on a rainy night when his condition worsens...... She only felt that she had been together for a month. I can't do without this man anymore. If he just left, would he remember himself? He hadn't even seen his own appearance, ...... Han Xianfeng couldn't help but stay at the door for a while thinking about these things. Until she came back to her senses again. After a few more spins in the same place, I made up my mind. She changed into a less ostentatious shirt, and then put her hair down, and went out like this, although she sat in a sedan chair, but when she arrived at the intersection of the four roads, she let the sedan chair go back, and only took the girl Xiaozan to the laughing building.

Jianghai Chaozong Yixiao Lou is a famous teahouse in the British Concession. But no one ever sat at table 44, because there was no place in the entire teahouse. Besides, ordinary people are unlucky and will not ask for this position; And the four corners and four points of tea, completely outrageously expensive, the general tea is three or four cents a lamp, even if there is a Japanese tea house with two eight enchantresses, the tea is only two triangles. When Han Xianfeng saw an old guy open his mouth to ask for table forty-four, she seemed to feel that this guy's body seemed to shake a little, and then took her to the teahouse with a smile on his face, it was a private room, after she ordered the tea in four corners and quarters, the guy sent the tea after a while, in addition to the tea also came with a lot of snacks, just when she sat here for half an hour and wanted to leave, a sweaty Oriental coachman rushed in, he saw Han Xianfeng and the two were stunned at first, Then he pretended to be calm and asked: "Guest officer, are you satisfied with this tea?" ”

The person who came was wearing the coachman's clothes, but he didn't look like a cart puller at all, and the time for Han Xianfeng's loss was not short, and the dress of all kinds of people was very clear, seeing that he had embedded the code in his words, he also said: "One four one three." “

As soon as she said this, the person who came panicked took out half of the residual coin from his arms and put it on the table, and then looked at it eagerly, and Han Xianfeng, who was looking at the thing, seemed to be able to read, and also took out the half of the money from the entrainment, and the half of the money on the table were combined, and the two looked seamless. Seeing this, the visitor eagerly took a few steps back, bowed deeply, and then said, "May I ask the girl, first... Where are the people? ”

Looking at the joy of the visitor, Han Xianfeng only felt uneasy in her heart, looking at his expectant face, she said half-loudly: "I saved your people, then you have to help me......"

He heard that someone was ordering table 44 in Yixiao Building, so he ordered the shopkeeper to keep the people, and he wore a Dongyang coachman's shirt and pulled a Dongyang car to Yixiao Building, and finally arrived, and he felt like crying after all the qiē were matched. Han Xianfeng asked them to help each other, which was not expected by Mu Xiangyao, he replied happily: "Girl, as long as I can do it!" ”

Mu Xiangyao replied too quickly, and the words were too full, and the money for Han Xianfeng's redemption was 10,000 yuan, which was basically his special department's activity funds for half a year, but he couldn't take care of the money when he was desperate to find someone. It's just that when Han Xianfeng took him to the house and was about to leave with Yang Rui, Mu Xiangyao was in trouble, after finding Yang Rui, he didn't want any strangers to approach Mr., but Han Xianfeng's original intention of redeeming himself was to be with Yang Rui.

Mu Xiangyao was reluctant to agree, but when Han Xianfeng inadvertently mentioned the doctor, he thought that without this girl, Mr. was afraid that he would not survive, and besides, Mr. was not well yet, so he rushed back to Tonghua, just afraid that the journey would be bumpy and the illness would deepen, for the sake of safety, it was better to take care of the injury in Shanghai first and then go to Tonghua, and he was not rejecting Han Xianfeng at the moment, after all, the doctor was invited by her. I just asked to change my residence to the French Concession, which was the only safe place in Shanghai.

The news that Xianfeng moved out of Qifeng's book apartment was all over Shanghai that day, and everyone speculated that the mother of the book was crazy about money, and a cash cow was gone. In fact, Qifeng Shuyu's mother didn't want to buy it, Mu Xiangyao said that the fire started, and with a touch of the back of her waist, an axe was chopped on the table. Shocked, the powder on her face fell down. She didn't recognize Mu Xiangyao, but she recognized this kind of axe - during this time, many white-faced people in Shanghai were hacked to death by this axe. is Guifeng's good friend Ying Guixin in the book, such a character who can eat everywhere, was frightened by this axe gang and fled to the point where he didn't know. Mu Xiangyao also saw her mother's fear, sneered at the corner of her mouth, and directly threw out a stack of silver dollar coupons, and then led Han Xianfeng to the French Concession.

When the gentry in Shanghai lamented the loss of a prostitute, the entire revival association would boil over Yang Rui without dying. The shadow of Hangzhou's defeat suddenly dissipated a lot, and Tonghua immediately sent military doctors to Shanghai to help heal his wounds. However, some people are happy, and naturally some people are not happy, the British Concession Defuli Tianbao Inn. Chen Qimei, who received a telegram from Mr. Zhongshan in the United States, was very mad, and calculated so much, Cai Yuanpei was arrested before he died, and the army of the Revival Society was almost wiped out. But in a blink of an eye, Yang Jingcheng, who thought he was dead, came back to life. This is not good for Mr. Nakayama's ongoing annexation and revival plan.

-- During the period when Hangzhou was suppressed by the Qing army, the relationship between the League and the Revival Society was extremely harmonious, after all, the two associations had a friendship cemented by blood, and the members of the two associations went to the trouble together. This gave the people in the two sessions a sense of sharing weal and woe, and Cai Yuanpei finally sent a telegram to Sun Wen agreeing to the merger of the two associations, so recently Sun Wen now advertised himself as the co-leader of the League and the Revival Association when facing reporters from American newspapers. But now that Yang Jingcheng is still alive, then his co-leader is not worthy of the name.

"Where is this Yang Jingcheng hiding?" Chen Qimei looked at Wu Naiwen in front of him and asked. He remembered that Wu Naiwen said that he had searched every house in the concession.

Hearing that Yang Jingcheng was still alive, Wu Naiwen was also taken aback. said: "Second brother, this news can't be used by the revival to deceive people, now that they have experienced this big defeat, they are about to get some news to boost their morale......"

"Cheer up the fart!" Chen Qimei's face was distorted when she said this, "It was Zhang Taiyan of the Revival Association who said to Zhongshan personally, and now the merger of the two associations can only be discussed when Yang Jingcheng gets better......

Taking advantage of the successive difficulties of the president of the Renaissance Society, annexing the Renaissance Association is the best choice for the Alliance, at least, in Taihu Lake and Yanzhou and other places, there are still one or two thousand remnants of the Renaissance Society, although these troops are all defeated armies, but they are formed armies, and if they want to integrate the revolutionary party of the whole of China to be "listed" in foreign countries, the Renaissance Association must not be missed, but now Yang Jingcheng will slide into the worst situation uncontrolled as soon as the situation appears, it is really a vain calculation! This is the reason why Chen Qimei is the most angry.

"Second brother, the most sensational thing in Shanghai now is that Han Xianfeng has been ransomed." Wu Naiwen saw that Chen Qimei was angry, and had to think of a way, "And according to the old bustard in the book, the redemption silver was only given 10,000 yuan." ”

"What does this Guan Yang actually have to do with it!" Chen Qimei was angry, how could she have the heart to think about a famous prostitute, she only felt that Wu Naiwen had nothing to say.

"Second brother. If Han Xianfeng wants to redeem himself, he will have to pay more than 100,000 taels. Now he was ransomed by 10,000 foreign dollars, there is a mystery in this, the old bustard didn't dare to say it to the outside world, but the people below said that the reason why my mother agreed was that she was scared by an ax, otherwise she would not agree to die. Wu Naiwen consciously found the key by himself, and his words were very complacent, but Chen Qimei's "bang" made his bearded hand shake, and his beard was broken twice. I only heard Chen Qimei force out a few words from between her teeth: "Axe Gang!" ”

The biggest force in Shanghai before last month was the Qing Gang, but this month began to change the world, those old men who did not listen to the order were cleaned up by the Axe Gang, especially the rest of Fan Gaotou, who was good friends with Ying Guixin, was killed by a chicken and dog, and several gang leaders were hacked to death by the axe, and then hung to a big tree on the edge of the county yamen one night, the messenger in the yamen wanted to untie but was broken by a shot, and the corpses hung in the afternoon, until the defense army on Wusong's side entered the city, The body was finally dismantled.

In addition to dealing with the Qing Gang in the Chinese Circle, the Qing Gang on the concession side was also miserable, especially the Xingwu Six in the British Concession, because he had helped Ying Guixin find someone, the old man Zhang Shanting was shot in the head as soon as he went out to practice, and the remaining big-character disciples were thrown explosives in the room when they were discussing revenge for the master, and after a loud noise, the leader of Xingwu Six was basically dead, and Xingwu Si of the French Concession wanted to take revenge, but he was bulldozed by the Axe Gang before he could do it, The remaining few people relied on the Huzhou Gang Li Zhengwu's words to save their lives, and it can be said that Shanghai is now the world of the Axe Gang, and any other gang with a little dissent has all gotten lotus root in the Huangpu River. It can be said that except for foreigners, there is no force that can save in Shanghai.

"Second brother, the Axe Gang is the peripheral organization of the Revival Society, but although they are powerful, it doesn't mean that they can't find Yang Jingcheng." Wu Naiwen was still holding his beard, "Looking at it now, this Yang Jingcheng was hidden in Qifeng's apartment, Han Xianfeng was a prostitute, whether it was patrolling or Qinggang, she was still polite to her, and she didn't go in to rummage through the cabinets, which allowed Yang Jingcheng to escape......

Wu Naiwen was making clever inferences, but Chen Qimei was impatient, and he shouted: "If there is a fart, let it go quickly." Say. How did you find Yang Jingcheng? ”

Wu Naiwen wanted to show his resourcefulness, but he didn't want Chen Qimei to wait, so he had to say: "It's difficult to find Yang, but it's easy to find Han Xianfeng, isn't Kui Cheng's concubine Guifeng also the eldest third in Qifeng's apartment, she may be good friends with Han Xianfeng, and it will be easy for her to find Han Xianfeng." ”

Chen Qimei thought about it patiently for a while, and found that this was indeed the truth, but then she thought that even if she found Yang Jingcheng, she would not be able to kill him, not to mention that he must be in the Shanghai Concession? As long as he casually gets on a cruise ship, he can disappear without a trace, in fact, in the final analysis, it is Yang who has a big fate. Chen Qimei thought of this festival and waved his hand to let Wu Naiwen go out. He felt that the battle with the Revival Society was just the beginning, and that if he wanted to win, he had to think long-term. (To be continued......)