Chapter 1: Snowy Night

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On February 22, 19o4, at five o'clock in the afternoon on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Wang Jitong sent Yang Rui to Wusong Wharf to take a boat north. Although the boat was about to start, Yang Rui was not in a hurry at all, he found a place with few people, lit a cigarette and smoked leisurely against the street lamp pole. Wang Jitong looked at him and said, "Actually, I remember that you didn't smoke often before." How can I ...... now?"

Yang Rui smiled and replied with the standards of later generations: "No way, it's a lot of pressure." ”

Wang Jitong was dumbfounded, as the head of a meeting, Yang Rui is under enough pressure, since the establishment of the Renaissance Association, he has been running around, first to Japan, then to South Africa, and then to the United States, and now he has to rush to the Northeast where the artillery is full of fire, he has not stopped for a day, the man still has to find a woman to take care of, thinking of this, Wang Jitong said: "Actually, not long after you left last time, that girl came to look for you once, and left a letter, which is still ...... with me."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Yang Rui, Yang Rui smiled and said: "It's better to leave it with you, if this girl scolds me in the letter, I won't have the heart to revolution when I go to the Northeast." He seems to have forgotten about Cheng Ying, and now when he hears Wang Jitong mention it, he only feels a sudden shock in his heart. It's just that he doesn't want to go into this matter anymore, he knows very well that the lethality of love to people's hearts has been hit once last time, fortunately, his kind of goods are often hit by women in later generations, and it has been tested for a long time, plus the revolutionary work is imminent, and he is busy with the pain of falling out of love, and now, he doesn't want to ask for hardship anymore, no matter what is written in her letter.

Wang Jitong shook his head, he didn't understand the attitude of modern people towards feelings, in this era, women are ignored, and their only use is to take care of men and pass on the ancestry. Yang Rui also shook his head, trying to drive back the memories he evoked, and he hurriedly found a topic to divert his attention, "How is the gold in Tanzhou?" "For the sake of secrecy, the former Ming clan always used gold instead.

"The hole was dug up years ago, and people went in and were looking for it." Wang Jitong is also very concerned about this matter, because it is a heavy matter, and he has always reported this matter less, unless there is any breakthrough. "Those who go in will judge that there is still gold."

The former Ming clan was a big killer in the process of opposing the Qing Dynasty, and when the Qing court lost the hearts of the people in the Xinhai year, this big killer was revealed, that is, if it did not rely on those stinky constitutionalists, the collapse of the Qing court would also be accelerated, and the most important thing was to contain the people's hearts in the time of turmoil. "Then let the people inside be careful, take your time, and don't worry." Yang Rui was afraid that he would be in a hurry to make the chickens and eggs beat, so he thought of one more thing and said: "Also, the memo I left you contains a plan to go to India to study Buddhism, and the detailed things are in the memo, so you can implement the plan according to it." ”

Wang Ji said, "Okay." I'll arrange it when I get back. Although he didn't understand why Yang Rui sent someone to India to learn what Buddhism, he still habitually held back his curiosity.

Before Yang Rui could say anything, the ship's whistle sounded, and the ticket inspector under the gangway was also shouting, urging the passengers who had not yet boarded the ship to hurry up and get on the boat. Seeing this scene, Yang Rui stopped talking, extinguished the smoke, stretched out his hand and Wang Jitong's hand tightly clasped together, and said categorically, "Xiao Xu, goodbye!" ”

"Success, goodbye!" Wang Jitong also repeated, but what he said was extremely heavy, although the Northeast planned it properly, but in case ...... Hey, God bless.

The war had already started, Yang Rui's northeast route could not pass from Lushun or Andong, the entire Bohai Sea was full of Japanese and Russian warships, and no steamship company was willing to brave the fire to cross the line of fire, so he could only go out of the customs from Tianjin through Shanhaiguan. He is not worried about the war, the most terrible thing is his own shortcomings, if he is not careful, he will shoot himself as a Japanese spy, and he has thought of many ways, but there is no safe strategy, and he has to take one step at a time.

From Tianjin to Fengtian, the internal and external railways were repaired, but the railways only went to Xinmintun. After Yang Rui went to Tianjin and slept overnight, he took the train directly to Xinmintun for the second time, at this time he was no longer dressed in the usual suit, but wore the Chinese-style clothes prepared for him by Wang Jitong. The train was crowded, and the war between Japan and Russia in Lushun made the passage only Jinzhou and Shanhaiguan line, and the war was only at sea. The scalper ticket that Yang Rui bought is a first-class carriage, and it is naturally worth a lot of money. This is the first time Yang Rui took the train at the end of the Qing Dynasty, in fact, there is no difference from the one he took in the United States, at this time the Chinese railways are all purchased, and the carriage styles are all foreign.

After transferring at Goubangzi Station, I finally arrived at Xinmintun. By this time, it was already half dark, and the snow was falling very heavily, and the cold was overwhelming. In later generations, Yang Rui had never been to the Northeast in winter, although the clothes prepared by Wang Jitong were warm enough, but there was still a chill that penetrated deep into the bone marrow, and after getting off the car, he casually found an inn, ordered a pot of stew, and drank a few sips of soju, and the chill retreated from his body. It was the time to eat and drink, when suddenly a child outside shouted, "The big nose is coming, the big nose is coming......"

Yang Rui was startled, and hurriedly got up and ran to the door to look out, only to see a team of Russian cavalry passing outside, Yang Rui didn't know if this was the legendary Cossack cavalry, only to see them wearing special fur coats and yellow hatbands and walking proudly across the street. Seeing that he didn't come to check the store, Yang Rui breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly finished eating and went back to the room to rest, and after tying a rope to the window of the room on the second floor, he slept peacefully with his clothes.

Early the next morning, Yang Rui immediately got up and hired a climbing plow to rush to Fengtian, and the driver was very happy to see him generous, but when he saw that the back of his head was empty, he hurriedly beat him, and found a few in a row.

I already knew that it was a trouble to have no braids, but I didn't know that it was such a trouble, so for today's plan, I had to bypass Fengtian and go directly to Tonghua, and send a letter to Fengtian's office at the moment. Then Yang Rui accommodated the coachman on the pretext that someone in the family was seriously ill and he stayed abroad to go to school and go home. Maybe it was for the sake of the money, or maybe it was because he knew that Yang Rui was really not a Japanese, and the coachman who was told promised to take him to Tonghua.

When I arrived at the Dongqing Railway Line for two days, the coachman Lao Zhang called Yang Rui out, "Young Master, there is a big nose in front of you, what is the fire road, I will go first, no one will follow you again, and it will be nothing to go to Tonghua after this period of time." ”

Yang Rui didn't sleep well last night, he was making up for sleep on the climbing plow in a daze, looking up at the front and saw that the sky and the earth were white, there was no train road, the only feature that could distinguish the railway was a row of telephone poles, Lao Zhang stopped the climbing plow and waited for Yang Rui to get off the car, and drove away from the road to the woods next to him, Yang Rui was also looking around in the back, and followed him from a distance. Soon, Lao Zhang crossed the railway, and Yang Rui also hurriedly ran up and rushed across the railway in the thick snow.

After the railway and walked for two days, he finally arrived in Fushun, looking at the Fushun city built by the mountain, the circumference is only two miles, Yang Rui did not want to enter the city, but Lao Zhang said that there is only a store here nearby, looking at the vast snow in the wild, Yang Rui had to go into the city to stay. If you are really afraid of anything, you will come to anything, in the middle of the night, there was a neighing shout outside the big car shop, which startled Yang Rui, who was half asleep, he leaned to the window and saw the torches shining outside, dozens of Mao soldiers with guns were standing outside an inn, it seemed that they were preparing to stay, some disheveled guests were driven out, Yang Rui was glad that he was looking for an inconspicuous small hotel, otherwise he would be finished.

The noise woke up Lao Zhang, who was sleeping in the same room, and he saw Yang Rui squatting at the window, and was about to speak when Yang Rui booed him to silence him, and then whispered to him: "Lao Maozi is here." ”

"Huh? Old Maozi? Lao Zhang was a little confused, "Oh, it's the big nose here?" He reacted and suddenly became a little flustered.

Yang Rui held him down and said, "What's the panic, I'm not a little Japan." It's okay to catch you. When he had settled down a bit, he asked, "I guess it's some Maozi who stayed there, and I don't know where they came from and where they are going?" ”

Lao Zhang will come back to his senses completely, he knows some of the situation on this road for a long time, he said: "I see that the big nose is here to dig coal ballast, this Fushun city southwest of the Qianshan Terrace, the east of the city eight miles of Yangbai Fort have coal ballast, I heard that the big nose robbed a few mines here a few years ago, the previous mine owners were driven away, and some people were digging by themselves. ”

It turned out that I came here to dig coal, right, isn't this Fushun the place where coal is produced? Yang Rui patted his head, he couldn't sleep anymore, these Mao soldiers didn't come before, and now they are estimated to be here to strengthen the defense of the coal mine, and only this Fushun city can settle near this coal mine, and it is estimated that he will check the house early tomorrow morning. He put on his clothes and was about to ask Lao Zhang where there was a place to stay near here, and when he was about to climb over the wall and go out of the city overnight, he heard a shout from the owner of the big car shop outside: "Everyone, get up, the patrol police have checked the room, the patrol police have checked the room......

In the middle of the night, the voice was unusually loud, and Yang Ruilei was not light, and he dared to see that he was wrong just now, those hairy people were either staying or doing rounds. Yang Rui rushed out and covered his mouth with the boss who was shouting in the corridor, dragged him into the house, and took out a flashlight to shine on his eyes, the shopkeeper only felt that he was covered by a big hand to breathe, and then was vigorously dragged into the guest room, the neck was cold and cold as if he had a knife, but he couldn't see anything clearly when his eyes were shot by the strong light, Yang Rui said in a deep voice: "Shopkeeper, who brought the dog?" In order to open up the situation in the Northeast, Yang Rui has been learning black dialect since Shanghai, although he is not professional, but bluffing people still has some effect.

As soon as the shopkeeper heard this man speak, he knew that he was a bandit, this kind of person was not something he could afford to offend by doing this small business, and if something really happened in his shop, then his accomplices would have to seek revenge on him. He hurriedly shouted: "Big boss, I didn't provoke, I didn't provoke, I didn't provoke, it was those big noses who brought it, saying that there is a small Japanese nose in this city, and they want to search the store......

Yang Rui interrupted him and said, "Is there a fan in the back of the store?" ”

The shopkeeper nodded hurriedly, "Yes, yes, I'll take the big boss with me." ”

Yang Rui didn't want him to lead the way, so he asked, "Show me, where is it?" ”

The shopkeeper pointed in the direction and said, "Next to the latrine in the yard." Yang Rui put him down, took out a handful of silver dollars and stuffed some in his arms, and threw the rest to Lao Zhang, he picked up his bag, packed his cigarette butts and took them away, and said to the shopkeeper when he went out: "You know what to say to the dog, right?" ”

The shopkeeper nodded again and again, although there was no bright light now, but his eyes still couldn't see anything clearly, only felt a tall shadow flash out of the door, he touched the silver dollar in his arms and breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly went out to pick up the horse lantern that had just fallen in the corridor, and shouted again.

Yang Rui out of the back door out of the big car shop, although during the day he turned around the neighborhood, but this night there was no light at all, can not tell the direction, fortunately this Fushun city is not big, so regardless of the sound of the dog, identify a direction and run, the flashlight is turned on and off, and soon arrived under the city wall, but there is no place to climb up under the wall, so I had to take out the buckle in the bag, bolt it to the rope and throw it a few times before hooking the city wall and climbing up.

Yang Rui did not rush to climb down after going up the city wall, he wanted to make sure whether he had been revealed, looking back at the direction of the inn, only to see that there was still a fire on the other side, mixed with some cries, and saw that there were no torches under the city wall, it was pitch black, he felt that his whereabouts were not exposed, he took a deep breath, while feeling that he was really unlucky, he actually had to run out in the middle of the night to suffer from the cold, and on the other hand, he felt that he was lucky, and finally did not lose his life, he scolded the country, and covered up the mark he left on the snow, after identifying the direction, crossed the battlements and slipped down the wall along the rope.

Relying on the flashlight in the dark night, Yang Rui ran along the road for I don't know how many miles, I only felt that he had run far enough, and he was trying to find a leeward place to rest until dawn before leaving, but he didn't dare to stop when he saw the footprints behind him, who knows if those Mao soldiers would see what to show him, if they chased out of the city overnight, chasing these footprints would be finished. He walked like this for half the night, his face was completely numb from the cold, he rubbed his hands vigorously but was still unconscious, gritted his teeth and waited until the sky was bright, he had already arrived at Xiazhangdang Village. According to Zhong Guanguan's report, although this place is a village, there is a big car shop, and he is busy straightening the braids stuck to his hat, and is ready to go into the village to find out the news of the road ahead, and it is better to hire a climbing plow before going on the road.