The next morning, the train passed the Beijing-Tianjin Railway, and the steam engines alternately sprayed black and white smoke, like a giant dragon flying on the ground.

Qiu Xiaogeng looked at the scenery outside the window. The wheat was growing vigorously on the plain, the poplar trees were grilled and wilted under the scorching sun, and geese flew from Taihang Mountain to the Bohai Sea.

The ancients said that parents are here and don’t travel far away. Now, Qiu Xiaogeng’s parents are no longer there, so he wants to travel alone in the world?

The nine-year-old boy has a white cloth waist, a heavy body, red and swollen eyes, and a blood jade pendant hidden in his heart.

When he opened the suitcase that his mother prepared for him last night, he saw two raw pears - it turned out that they were not separation, but separation from death! He ate a bite of raw pear and stuffed the other to the man opposite him.

Ye Kenan politely declined. He had already changed into the uniform of the patrol detective. He hung his left arm around his neck with a bandage. He had a patrol sword hanging between his ribs and a revolver on his waist. All of them were Japanese. At that time, the Higher Patrol Academy was supervised by Japanese Ranto Kawashima Naruto, and copied the Japanese Police Department's set to Beijing.

The German Concession dealt with the family extermination case as a major case. According to the unequal treaty, the Chinese government has no judicial power in the concession. Fortunately, there was a handwritten letter from the Regent, and Ye Kenan took away the only witness, Qiu Xiaogeng.

Those assassins were not good and had great supernatural powers, so it was very likely that the second wave would come. Ye Kenan convinced Xiao Geng and immediately took the train to Beijing. The bodies of Qiu Desheng and his wife had been confiscated by colleagues at Deutsche Bank and would choose a Fengshui treasure land to be buried.

"Where are you going to take me?"

After gnawing the pear, Qiu Xiaogeng put the fruit core in a handkerchief, which is the rule that no littering is allowed in German schools.

"You are destined to go."

Since last night, the boy's fate has completely changed.

"Inspector Ye, I originally wanted to join the Navy when I grew up, but now I have changed my mind. I want to be a detective like you."

"Avenge your parents? Do you really think the Inspector is just a thief? My father and my grandfather have never done any dirty and tiring work that is despised? I advise you not to join my career."

"What is the loss of good deeds? Inspector Ye, do you mean that the six gentlemen were captured in the year of Wuxu?"

"Bao, bah, bah!" Ye Kenan looked around the carriage, "Don't talk nonsense about such things, be careful of being reported by someone!"

In the afternoon, the train passed through the wall of Beijing Yongding Gate and stopped at the railway station in front of Zhengyang Gate.

Looking at the Daqianmen and the Arrow Tower, the scenery is different from Tianjin, and it is still at the intersection of the two worlds. The camels from Mongolia entered the city gate one after another, and the Dashilan has returned to lively. People who are performing arts, playing monkeys, selling dog skin plasters, selling children and girls, not to mention the group of beggars in the Beggars' Gang. Foreigners also ignored it. Western ladies were sitting in a convertible carriage and carrying small parasols to the east Jiaomin Lane.

The "Outline of the Imperial Constitution" issued by the Qing court was posted in front of the railway station: Article 1: "The Emperor of the Qing Dynasty ruled the Qing Empire forever, and was respected forever", Article 2: "The sacred dignity of the emperor is inviolable", and few people were busy with the crowds of people who had the heart to take a look. However, Ye Kenan and Xiao Geng stopped to take a closer look, and the inspector shook his head and said: "It basically copied the Japanese Meiji Constitution."

Ye Kenan bought bean juice and bastard for the boy to taste it.

Passing the west entrance of Xizhubu Hutong, there is a large archway facing you, with four pillars, three rooms, seven floors, nearly five meters wide and two meters high, crossing Dongdan North Street from east to west. Qiu Xiaogeng circled two circles under the archway and saw Chinese, German and Latin. It was an apology issued by Emperor Guangxu, who mourned for the German ambassador Clinder, who was killed here in the year of Gengzi.

"So this is the Clinder Monument!"

"The Eight-Nation Alliance entered Beijing and captured Enhai, the captain of the Shenji Battalion who killed Clinder, and the Germans beheaded him here. After the Xinchou Treaty, the court established a archway on the spot as a commemoration of the foreigners' victory over China." Ye Kenan quietly spitted, thinking of his father who died under the gun of the Eight-Nation Alliance, "I bet this monument will collapse within ten years!"

"Will Germany fail in the future European war?"

Most of the people on this street knew nothing about foreign countries, did not know that Germany and France were enemies, and they thought that the Eight-Nation Alliance was a family that was as close as brothers. Ye Kenan thought to himself that this child was destined to work for the imperial tomb for the rest of his life, a pity! What a pity!

When we arrived at the gate of the Regent's Mansion, a Western-style four-wheeled carriage was ready, and the majestic stallion was squirting its nose. The coachman was dressed in Europe. The carriage was cleaned up, and Ye Kenan and Qiu Xiaogeng sat face to face. The carriage galloped westward, and the scenery in the capital gradually blurred, and soon returned to the desolate field. In recent years, famine was everywhere, and the emperor was not spared.

The carriage ran across the Yongding River and the "Lugou Xiaoyue" written by Emperor Qianlong emerged. There were countless stone lions on the railings of Lugou Bridge. The coffin of Emperor Guangxu passed through this bridge two months ago.

"The place you are going is a hundred times more important to the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty than the Capital University." Ye Kenan realized that this sentence was not lying, "There is still two hundred miles to rest!"

The carriage was rushed for three days and three nights, and on the afternoon of the fourth day, he came to the mountainous area of ​​Yi County, Baoding Prefecture. In addition to getting off the carriage, Xiao Geng had never left the carriage for half a step. Ye Kenan was also depressed. He was the descendant of the Six Gates and the elite of the police in the Qing Dynasty, making it look like the tolerance for escorting exiled prisoners in "Water Margin".

Qiu Xiaogeng got off the carriage, looked west at Zijing Pass of the Taihang Mountains, and the north was pillowing on Yongning Mountain. The mountains were covered with green mountains and pines and cypresses were everywhere. The ancient Yishui originated from this... It was like drawing a complete map in his mind. He remembered more than two thousand years ago, the wind in the ancient Yan Kingdom was whistling and the Yishui was cold, and he couldn't help but have a generous and sad thought. The Dukang map presented by Jing Ke assassinating the King of Qin depicts the mountains and rivers in this area.

When studying in a German school, the teacher often explained the world geography, spread out the map of Europe, and told the border between the German Empire from the Rhine River to the Memel River. At that moment, real mountains and waters would appear in Xiao Geng's mind - as if the snow peaks of the Alps were near, the waves of the Baltic Sea rolled over his knees, and the castle in the Hesse Mountains had stood above his head. During the mechanical class, he only saw a drawing of a Mercedes car. In front of him, he seemed to be burning with internal combustion engines, and the cylinders were moving rapidly, like twenty galloping horses coming...

Passing a magnificent stone archway, there is the Red Gate. The Eight Banners soldiers guarding the gate are holding heavy bird guns. Compared with Ye Kenan, who is wearing the uniform of the Oriental Police Officer, they are like an old ghost dug out of the tomb.

The soldiers in front of the Great Red Gate raised the Yellow Dragon Flag of the Qing Dynasty and sang the army song "Praise the Dragon Flag" which sang the national anthem of the Power of the Republic of China—

In Swannian,

The Great Asian Empire!

Mountains are independent of the banner,

Rivers spread the waves of civilization;

Four hundred numbling gods,

The land is vast and the property is abundant.

Show my Huanglong Empire Emblem,

Sing my imperial anthem!

Although the song is loud and the lyrics are magnificent, Qiu Xiaogeng is completely unsatisfied.

After passing through the Red Gate, there is a wide main shrine, with stone men, stone horses, stone elephants standing on both sides. When you see many yellow glazed tiles roofs, you will know that it is the symbol of the royal family; the green glazed tiles building is the tomb of the concubine, princess and princess.

A nine-year-old boy was like a bird out of his cage, touching the stone sculptures on the Shinto. Although he grew up in the Tianjin German Concession, he loved stones, antiques and statues since he was a child. Whenever he touched these, he would be inexplicably excited and wanted to create them by himself. Everyone, including the German teachers, praised him for his hands as a skilled craftsman.

After passing several huge tombs, many shirtless migrant workers pulled trucks of stone and wood, and it seemed that there was another huge project. A large construction site appeared in the mountains, which was the Chongling Mausoleum of Emperor Guangxu. There was also the Chongfei Tomb next to it. Zhenfei, who was pushed into the well of the Forbidden City in the Gengzi year, was waiting to be buried.

Ye Kenan grabbed the boy's hand, walked through the dusty construction site, and came to the tent in front of Baoding - this was to protect the tomb passage from being seen. He showed the regent's handbook and led Xiao Geng in. The surroundings were heavily guarded, and the armed bannermen guarded the tombs for the Qing Dynasty for generations. Finally, they saw a deep tomb passage.

"Don't be afraid!"

Ye Kenan said in the boy's ear that he was actually telling him that it was the first time he had entered the underground palace.

The lights on both sides of the tomb passage are different from what I imagined. They are not straight and deep, but spiral and curved. It is not easy for the tomb robbers to dig to the entrance of the tomb passage. When they walk to the door of the first tomb, two bluestone slabs weighing thousands of pounds, each carved a statue of a Bodhisattva, with one man and one woman, the man is majestic and the woman's kind eyebrows and eyes are all peerless. After crossing the door of the tomb, Ye Kenan's right hand was trembling, but Qiu Xiaogeng was not panicked. The second door was still two Bodhisattvas, with slightly different postures.

After crossing the third door, they heard the sound of hammers and stones knocking. In the empty and dark ground, there was only one lonely figure squatting in the corner to work.

"Qin Customs!"

Ye Kenan called out, and the tall man stood up. When he turned around, he was stabbed in his eyes by the lantern in Ye Kenan's hand, and he quickly lowered his head and said, "Is it the father-in-chief in charge?"

"Old Qin, you are knocking underground every day. Are you deaf? My father-in-law doesn't have such a majestic voice as me!"

Ye Kenan, who was twenty-four years old, was afraid that his voice would be too young and was mistaken for the eunuch. He deliberately suppressed his voice and made a few dirty words when speaking.

"Inspector Ye of the Patrol Police Station?" Qin Customs raised the lantern and walked to them. His voice began to tremble, "Is the person here?"

"Look!"

The light illuminated Qiu Xiaogeng's face. The nine-year-old boy subconsciously blocked his face, but Ye Kenan grabbed it and pointed his face at Qin Customs.

"Beiyang!"

Qin Haiguan's feet were weak, calling out the name he had been thinking about day and night, and carefully examining the boy's face - this skeleton, this outline, this eyebrows, and especially the stubbornness of the stone popping out of his eyes. It was really carved from the same mold as himself!

"Old Qin, it's true! I've tested it!" Ye Kenan patted the child's shoulder, "Then I'll withdraw! You guys have a good chat! I really can't stand the yin energy of this underground palace... I deserve to die! How can I say this in the emperor's blessing?"

"Inspector Ye! There are successors to the tombcraft clan. Such a great kindness will never be forgotten. Please accept Lao Qin's worship!"

Qin Weiguan knelt down and kowtowed.

"Better to this child, he is extremely smart. Don't let him down! By the way, this is a letter to the child." Ye Kenan took out an envelope from his arms and stuffed it into Qin Customs' hands. He put down the boy's suitcase and turned around and ran out.

Tears rolled in Xiao Geng's eyes, feeling that he was deceived again, and he said loudly: "Arschloch!"

When he rushed out of the tomb passage, Ye Kenan was a little reluctant to leave this child: Boy, my task is to send you to your biological father. After the enemy's family killing case, the outside world is too dangerous for you - only by hiding under the imperial tomb can you avoid the assassins.
Chapter completed!