Han Xianfeng is the most popular book in Shanghai in the past year [Note 1], its popularity is also luck, last autumn my mother sent her photo to the game newspaper that presided over the selection of the flower list, the editor-in-chief Li Boyuan [Note 2] was shocked to see the heavens, and then listened to the song of Han Xianfeng Jasmine, but also tried to pursue it, and worked hard to publicize it in the newspaper, and finally made Han Xianfeng Yan overwhelm the group, the third of the Oiran that year, and because of its pink jade, snow and beautiful face, known as the Guanghan fairy.

Since it is famous, there are naturally many high-ranking officials and nobles who are sought after and called, but since it is a scholar's apartment, it is a show that does not sell his body, but most of the book-apartment signboards in Shanghai are bought for thirty yuan, and most of them are Changsan (the most high-class prostitute, who is called to pay three foreign dollars as usual for the seat), and there are many swingers who want to take away their red pills, but since they are Guanghan fairies, they are naturally cold and ruthless, and they do not add color to these people. One day, a giant Jia spent a huge amount of money to bribe his mother, and he could afford to agree to think of medicine and force it, but the fake medicine was wrong, and he did not succeed, Han Xianfeng swallowed hibiscus paste angrily, and fortunately sent to the Westerner hospital early, so that he could live, but this matter was reported in Shanghai and heard about it, and his mother promised to allow him to sell his art and not sell his body, so that he could be innocent.

That is, it is not a prostitute in the eyes of foreigners, but dancers, artists, musicians, Han Xianfeng's book apartment since suicide, from time to time there are foreigners in and out, these foreigners or customs officials, or consulate staff, they like Han Xianfeng in addition to others, but also like her music, even if the language is not clear, but the music is the same. They are very appreciative of the erhu, an oriental violin. And now that there are foreign adults, Han Xianfeng's status in the study has begun to stabilize, and its residence is no longer the same roof as the women. Instead, she moved to an independent house, and because of the fake medicine, from her aunt, to the cook, they all changed sides according to her wishes.

Because the whole city is searching for suspects, Han Xianfeng was always searched on the way back to his house after the end of the game tonight, and he stumbled and stumbled for a short time, only waiting for more than ten o'clock. Fang heard a soft shout from the sedan chair drivers, and the sedan chair stopped at the door of the study, and the subordinate rolled up the sedan curtain. Xianfeng got up and stepped off the sedan chair, under the red lantern at the door, the signboard of Qifeng's book apartment was very bright, and Xianfeng's eyes swept over this piece of signboard that was faked and realized. There was a slight joy on his face - if it weren't for this sign. Then she is estimated to be the same as her mother's other daughters, and she will have to sell herself to accompany customers. Now she has to go out to accompany the game in three days, but she is just going to play a few erhu, although the eyes of those men are always scary, but they are always eyes.

Xianfeng thought about these messy things, and did not stop in the hall, but went directly back to the room to remove her makeup, and then wanted to rest after washing. At this time, the maidservant girl who carried her had already gone upstairs to light the lamp. But before dawn in the room, I heard a "bang", and it seemed that something had fallen on the floor. Xianfeng thought that Xiao Zan had accidentally hit something, but when she entered the house, she found Xiao Zan falling down in the house, and when she was about to help her up, she saw a person lying on the bed, and a person covered in blood was lying on her bed. Xiao Zan fainted when she saw blood, and although Xianfeng was not like this, she was also numb when she saw this scene, and she wanted to shout but couldn't shout, only after half a sound, she came back to her senses, and her heart was a little calm, so she looked at the person who got up.

The man on the bed was lying on his stomach, his shirt on his back was full of blood, his head was facing outward, he was holding a short gun in his hand, but his eyes were closed, and there was a letterhead on his side, and there were some silver dollars and silver tickets piled up on the paper, among which a few hundred yuan tickets were placed on the top, and the hearts of those people who only read the word "Bai" were hot.

Ye Yunbiao has tried his best, even if he gets lost, he can't be completely blamed, he brought Yang Rui into this courtyard when he was desperate, it was also a helpless move, Yang Rui was still in a coma after the operation, not because the operation was unsuccessful, but because the bullet was poisonous. But just when he was thinking about how to detoxify, the patrol outside the courtyard was approaching, so he could only leave books and silver, so that the head of the household could show mercy to his subordinates for the sake of the money, and he led the patrol to flee elsewhere.

Xianfeng trembled and took the letterhead from the bed, only to see that it was written: 'Mr. Huijian: Now my lord has been plotted by evil people, so he has suffered such a great calamity, and it is really helpless to hide here. My lord is the backbone of the revolutionary party, resisting the strong enemy between the white mountains and black waters, saving the nation from the dire situation, and is really the hero of the Han people and the hope of the nation. Now my lord's life and death, only in the thought of the gentleman, if you sue the official, then you may be able to get a reward or two, but the revival of my China is hopeless; If you can take good care of it, then you will thank you in the future, and you should give 10,000 taels of silver, or even more until the revolution is successful, and the new country is founded, and Mr. should be the founding father of the country......

The words on the letter are moving, ten thousand taels of silver and the founding fathers are even more irresistible, but Xianfeng is unmoved, she is just a book, her body has no freedom, and she is only less than sixteen years old, even if she has ten thousand taels of silver, she can't redeem herself; As for the founding father, I don't know what year Ma Yue happened, but I expected that at that time, I would have committed suicide. At this time, she only thought about moving people out of the room and sending them to the foreigner medical center, and it was too scary to lie on her bed covered in blood.

Xianfeng put down the letterhead, and when she was about to turn around and go out to call someone, her eyes subconsciously glanced at this revolutionary party, but this glance suddenly made her stunned, and after a closer look, she found that this person was known. Three years ago, on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, in a restaurant in Pidgin, when she and her grandfather were singing, she met this man, he not only gave his grandfather three foreign dollars, so that the grandfather and grandson would not starve to death in any winter, but also taught grandpa a song about Shanghai on the beach, and also wrote a song to himself, with this song and this word, last year Hua Quai himself could rank third - which one on the list of Hua Quai was not a rich businessman who was popular, if it were not for this song to amaze the four seats, I am afraid that I would not be able to become a book apartment I am afraid that he would have long been dead. Xian Feng looked at the face of the man on the bed and thought about the past, she thought that this amiable man would never see him again in this life, but she didn't want him to suddenly appear in front of him today, still lying on his bed, his life hanging by a thread.

When Xianfeng stood in front of the bed in a daze, Aunt Niang came upstairs. She prepared hot water downstairs, and called Xianfeng a few times but didn't see her reply, so she wanted to come up and call someone. As soon as she entered the door, Xianfeng realized it, and in the confusion, she hurriedly pulled up the curtain of the bed. When the aunt entered the door, she only saw the maidservant Xiaozan falling to the ground, and the fairy phoenix stood helplessly on one side, not knowing the mystery in the bed curtain at all.

"Oh, why did Igo to the ground?" Aunt Niang said strangely.

Xianfeng calmed his breath and said, "Yi accidentally fell, and I was about to call someone." Carry her out ......"

"Oh, Allah go shout, Allah go shout." Aunt Niang didn't expect that it was not Xianfeng who gave Xiaozan. When he saw this, he had to call someone.

"Don't go, don't go." Xianfeng hurriedly shouted, "It's not good for those people to come in. It's good if you help her pinch her middle. ”

"Oh." The gentleman ordered, and the aunt squatted down and pinched Xiao Zan's people. After a while, she woke up with a "hmm". Even when she woke up, her face was still full of fear, and she was about to speak but was pinched by Xianfeng, Xianfeng's hands were hard, but she asked her aunt to get water, and when Aunt Niang got up, she said softly to Xiaozan: "Don't say anything." After that, he made a silent gesture.

Xiao Zan was not a girl in the fairy phoenix room, but just helped in the kitchen. Xianfeng called her to her side as a personal maidservant, and she was half of her nobleman. When she saw that Xianfeng didn't let her speak, she was in a hurry, and Xianfeng had no choice but to say again: "I know everything, don't say anything." ”

Aunt Niang is stupid, Xiao Zan is obedient, Xianfeng is not difficult to deal with them at that time, and those subordinates are even easier to deal with. It's just that these people have been dismissed, and the man on the bed is still unconscious, Xianfeng doesn't know medical skills, so he can't do anything about it, as for asking a doctor, I'm afraid it's ...... Xianfeng thought for a while, and finally remembered that the unfinished letter seemed to have some drug names written in it, she hurriedly picked up the letter again and read it carefully, and didn't wait to transcribe it, only called Xiaozan into the house and asked her to go out to buy medicine.

"Miss, that man...... That person is afraid that it is a thief caught by the official...... "Xiao Zan, who went out just now, still didn't understand why Xianfeng wanted her not to talk nonsense, and then remembered that when she came back from outside just now, she was catching Jiang Yang thieves with foreigners in the official mansion on the road, and now the bloody man in the house is afraid that he is a big thief."

"Xiao Zan, how does my sister usually treat you?" Xianfeng didn't care about any big thieves and small thieves, but asked this directly.

"My sister took me better than my parents." Xiao Zan said truthfully.

"Since I'm treating you like this, then don't talk about it." Xianfeng admonished.

"Sister, but that person ...... I'm afraid that man hurt my sister. Xiao Zan is still not at ease.

Seeing Xiao Zan like this, Xianfeng's heart warmed, and he smiled: "He won't." He's not a thief, he's not a villain, he's a good guy. After Xianfeng finished speaking, he took out the end torn from the letter, and said: "You follow the prescription above to grab the medicine, remember to catch it separately, so as not to be discovered by the government." ”

Xiao Zan didn't understand why Xianfeng said that he was a good person, but he thought that what Miss Lai said would not be wrong, so he hurriedly went out, and now that the curfew is imminent, I am afraid that the pharmacy will be closed.

Xiao Zan went out, and after Xianfeng washed downstairs, she asked her subordinates to bring a basin of hot water up, and then she put aside others and opened the bed curtains, wanting to clean up the bruises on Yang Rui's body. In fact, there are two wounds on Yang Rui's body, one is that the bullet passed by, but it left a shallow wound, which is not fatal, Ye Yunbiao is no longer hindered after cleaning and suturing; The other was extremely deadly, although the bullet penetrated the arm of a guard before hitting Yang Rui, it still drilled into the vest, but the broken ribs were exhausted and stayed behind the heart. Ye Yunbiao is Yang Rui's personal bodyguard, that medical training is indispensable, at that time there were a lot of battles in the army, after many surgeries, he can also be regarded as half a surgeon, he half relied on luck and half experience to take out the warhead, but when he thought that Mr. would be saved, he found that there was a layer of gray on the surface of the warhead, and subconsciously he felt that the warhead was poisonous.

Ye Yunbiao didn't know what kind of poison it was, but now that the operation was completed, he was afraid that he couldn't open it again, so he had to write the secret recipe for detoxification passed down by his master on the back of the letterhead, hoping that the owner of the house could save his life for the sake of the money. Ye Yunbiao was actually too naïve, the land of flowers in Shanghai has always been just the icing on the cake, how can there be charcoal in the snow? This time, fortunately, she met Xianfeng, and she and Yang Rui had an old relationship, which was just as he thought, otherwise, Yang Rui would really not be able to see the sun tomorrow.

Xianfeng used small scissors to wrench all the bloody clothes on Yang Rui's body, and then raised Yang Rui's body slightly, so that the clothes on the upper body were removed, and she used a wet towel to scrub all the places except the bandage, and the blood stains were removed. Suddenly revealing her normal complexion, the adult man's own Fang Gang blood qi couldn't help but make her face red, and her face was red. Still gritted his silver teeth and wiped his back again, then wrung out the towel, changed the water and began to wipe his face, and then closed the bed curtain again, waiting for Xiao Zan to come back from buying medicine.

*

In the British barracks on Difeng Road, Major Gai Winter looked at the Qing Guoyan who had fainted. Shaking his head helplessly, according to what everyone said before, Qing Guoyan is the most fearless kind of person who is not afraid of pain. And every time they are injured, they don't need to be treated, and the wound can be healed with little or no treatment, whether the latter is true or not he doesn't know, but the former has been fully proven true today. The personal guard of the leader of the Revival Society did not say anything after suffering so much. It really surprised him for a long time.

"What a damn infidel......" he muttered to himself as he shook his head in his iron-scorching cell.

"Elfred, what now?" Lieutenant Colonel James was accustomed to the smell of the cell, and he did not regard the Qing Yankees as human beings at all, and according to the spirit of Christ, the execution of heretics was not only innocent but meritorious. The Qing Guoyan in front of him wounded eight of his soldiers, if it weren't for Gai Winter's desire to live. He had already put this man to death.

"Leave him." Gavin was supported by the Consul General, although he was lower in rank than Lieutenant Colonel James. But this time it was up to him to direct things.

"Leave him? He ......" James's voice raised a lot, "Major, he won't say anything, these heretics are all very stubborn, and the best way to deal with them is to kill them." ”

"Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, now I'm leaving him in order to better kill them. In this operation, we did not obtain any valuable information. ”

"But that's because the intelligence of the operation is on a business trip."

"That's true, so if we want to get more information, we should keep him." Major Gainvent's logic made it impossible for Lieutenant Colonel James to refute it, so the result of the discussion was not to execute the Qing Guoyan, and to treat his wounds.

"What about the other one?" James puffed up and began to ask another person, who was one of the four special agents in charge of cover, the others were all dead, only he was lucky not to die, but he was afraid that he would not survive after being shot several times.

"The other one is the same, Lieutenant Colonel. We need to get as much information out of them as we can, or we will never know where they are hiding. "Major Gaventer now finally understands that the Revival Society is not a simple anti-Qing organization, and its good organization and fighters who are not afraid of life and death make him understand that he will not be able to deal with these people without all his strength.

James pouted boredly, and then Major Gainvent's adjutant ran over and said to the major, "Sir, Sir Hobilan of the consulate wants you to go, he wants to hear what you have found." ”

When he heard that Sir Gevent was chagrined, he had said yesterday that he could catch all these people, but now, only two wounded men had been caught, and a few "passers-by" who did not seem to have any evidence, he straightened his face, nodded to the adjutant, and then left the camp for the consulate.

Sir Huo Bilan is on crutches, has been waiting for Gavin in the consulate for a long time, and now the German consul on duty on the lease, but he has no idea about the arrest, not only in the afternoon in the concession on fire, but also shot in public, these made the Germans very dissatisfied, but these complaints have made Sir Huo Bilan back, but, in order to be more convincing, he still has to take out conclusive evidence of arms smuggling from Gavint to prove his right.

Sir Huo Bilan kept knocking on the crutch and asked, "In other words, you didn't find any weapons in the afternoon arrest?" ”

"Yes, Sir." Not only was Gawint's face tense, but his whole body was tense at this time.

"No evidence of smuggling weapons was found either?" Sir Huo Bilan asked again.

"Yes, Sir." Major Gawin only felt that a storm was about to rise in Sir Hobilan's heart, but he could not stop it, he could only bear it.

"Nor have we caught any big names that would help us understand their weapons smuggling." Sir Huo Bilan still asked.

"Yes, Sir." As soon as Major Gawin finished speaking, the storm on the opposite side began to sweep over, and Sir Huo Bilan's voice was so loud and terrifying that his beard seemed to stand on end, and saliva sprayed his face like a torrential rain, "Major, what are you doing this afternoon?" Could it be that the Marines are playing? Is it being a fire brigade? Isn't your brain stuffed with horse manure......"

The more violent the storm, the straighter Major Gavent stood. Fortunately, due to age and energy, this storm did not last long before it ended, and Sir Huo Bilan did not have the strength to be angry again. Major Gavant weighed before saying, "Sir, we snatched some Wen Ji from the fire," the fire in Wan'anli in the afternoon could not make people rush in, but the fire brigade came in time, there were still some things that were not burned, and after extinguishing the fire, Ge Went ordered someone to look through all the Wen Ji with words from the ashes. I still got a lot of things.

"What is written on the text?" Huo Bilan is already sixty years old, and his spirit is already very bad after a temper tantrum.

"This ...... The text is all something broken, and we... We're still looking for someone to sort it out. Looking at Sir Huo Bilan's gloomy face again, he hurriedly said, "Yes, I'm sure, it won't take long to tidy up. I think I'll be able to sort it out the day after tomorrow. And also. The escaped arms offender has been wounded, he must have been hiding near the racecourse, I have already notified the hospital in the concession, and the man with a gunshot wound in his back was immediately reported to the patrol room. ”

Sir Huo Bilan nodded when he heard this, and said, "Okay then, Major, I'll wait for your good news the day after tomorrow." With that, he got up and walked away without looking back on his crutches.

The Consul General was not Major Gawint's immediate superior. But his opinion affected Major Gainvent's future prospects, and an intelligence officer who was denied by a consul general was not a good intelligence officer. Sir Huo Bilan has been gone for a long time. Major Gawin left the consulate, but instead of going back to the barracks to torture the prisoner, he went straight to the old hunting room.

"How's it going?" Gai Winter directly called Ailes, the patrol leader in charge of the arrest, over.

"Oh, they all said they were just passing by there, or just where they were having tea, and they wouldn't say anything, and I couldn't do anything about it." Ailes asked Zhang Taiyan, Wang Jitong and several male students, but he didn't get any news.

"Is there really no way?" Ge Winter read the word "method" for a moment, and he meant torture.

"There's no way." Ailes understood what he meant, but still replied: "One of them is a political criminal, although he is now on bail, but once something happens to him, the Qing Guoyan will start screaming again." Remember, the last time one of his accomplices was poisoned, and there was a big fuss, and Mr. Holland, the general office of the Ministry of Works, resigned. There is another one, a Qing Guoyan surnamed Wang, he is actually the leader of the Revival Society, but he has a good relationship with many rich people in the concession, and the most troublesome thing is that he is familiar with all the law firms in Shanghai, Gao Yi came over just now, and he thinks that we cannot restrict the freedom of the parties without evidence......"

"Those lawyers only know money." Major Gawin couldn't help but interject when he heard this, a truly famous lawyer would not come to the Far East, only criminals and speculators who wanted to get rich and wanted to go crazy.

"But they're English lawyers, majors. I can't think of any 'way' for them. "Ailes was almost dismissed by the Ministry of Industry last time and returned to his hometown, and if something big happened this time, his pension would be ruined, so he didn't dare to mess around.

"Then I'll go meet them." Major Gavent understood the joints, and he thought about finding a way for himself.

"Major, you ......" Ailes looked at him, thinking that he was going to be punished himself.

"No, it's not. I just wanted to have a chat with them. Major Gawin said.

"Okay. I'll take you. Ailes said this, but instead of taking Major Gavant to the side of the prisoner, he went to another man.

In the afternoon, Wang Ji found that his eyes were full of foreign soldiers when he came out of the alley, so he talked about it this time, but although his heart was shocked, he was calm as water on the surface, and he just waited to be taken to the patrol room, except for saying "I don't know anything, I'm just a passerby", he didn't say anything. The same is true for several other male students, who don't know anything when asked. “

Faced with this situation, the patrol room had to shut them all up, standing in the small cell, when the window under the door threw in the iron bowl containing porridge, Wang Jitong laughed, remembering that everyone said that the patrol room ate porridge, and they didn't expect that they really came. After drinking the porridge, he only sat on the ground, he didn't know that although Yang Rui escaped but was injured, Zhang Taiyan was also arrested, he thought he was arrested by walking through the back door. In his opinion, it doesn't matter if he catches the most, as long as Yang Rui goes out, even if Zhejiang's move is not successful, the loss will not be too great. Excluding the incident, he is now sitting on the ground and thinking, how did the Ministry of Industry find out that Wan Anli was those students on the third floor, he didn't believe it, but who could it be? (To be continued......)

PS: Note 1: The highest brothel in Shanghai is called a book apartment because of the signboard hanging at the door of the brothel. Generally trained by famous teachers, or storytelling, or playing and singing, never showing people with color bodies, in the middle of Guangxu, began to mix with Changsan.

Note 2: The author of the Officialdom Appearance.