Under the moonlight of the Tianjin De Concession, the Haihe River emits an intoxicating smell of rottenness.

Patrol agent Ye Kenan took off his top hat and showed his naked forehead: "Qiu Desheng, do you know why I came?"

Qiu Desheng's eyelids twitched, and he was frightened all day long, but he came indeed! But he still pretended to be stupid and shook his head to express his ignorance.

"In the year of Gengzi, you were a translator for the German army, recognized the thief as his father, acted as accomplices for tigers, sold the country for honor, and wanted to deny it?"

Even though Ye Kenan was young, he spoke unambiguously, full of energy and loud voice.

After a silent stalemate, Qiu Desheng had his legs slimmed and his knees fell to the ground: "This detective, I admit that I am an unforgivable person. I just want to apologize for death, but please do not hurt my young wife and children. In the year of Gengzi, I was forced to be a translator by the German army. At that time, my mother was in bed and dared not to obey, otherwise the whole family would die under the guns of the Germans. I followed the German army into Beijing to help them maintain public order."

"Bad! Everyone knows that German soldiers are the most violent. You are helping to harm the people in the capital."

"Yes, the German army burned, killed, looted, and I couldn't stop it. The blame was hard to escape. During the Spring Festival of the Xinchou Year, the situation eased, and I quietly fled from Beijing and stopped working for the German army."

"Hmph! If the old things in the Gengzi year are investigated, Caishikou will not be able to finish the traitor's heads after three years! Besides, foreign devils won't let us investigate!" Ye Kenan turned his mind and looked at the courtyard. "Qiu Desheng, you have an only son named Qiu Xiaogeng. Now he is studying in a German elementary school, right?"

"What does this matter have to do with Xiao Geng? He is only nine years old and was born in Gengzi..." At this point, Qiu Desheng swallowed again, "You?"

"That's right!" Ye Kenan had already entered the door and looked at the lights in the study, "Speak on! Your son was born in the year of Gengzi. What month was it? Where was he born? Is there any record of someone else?"

“In…………”

"Let me tell you! The twelfth lunar month of the Gengzi year is about to be the first lunar month of the Xinchou year. If you serve as a translator for a group of German soldiers, patrol the craftsman village at the foot of the imperial city, and meet a few girls on the road, the German soldiers will come forward to commit adultery."

"I have dissuaded them, but it is useless. They have long regarded human life as a mustard of grass, and even I will shoot it to death."

"At that time, a man passed by, carrying a baby in a cradle and a female goat. He wanted to stop the atrocities of the German soldiers, but was shot in the chest. The German soldiers raped the girls first and then killed them, and returned to the camp with antiques robbed in the craftsman village. And you felt compassion when you heard the crying of the baby in the cold wind. You thought the craftsman was dead, and when you picked up the cradle, he saw that it was a healthy baby boy. If you left the child alone, you would freeze to death or be dragged away by a wild dog. And you had married for many years and had no children. You were particularly happy to see the child, so you decided to take it away. Qiu Desheng, thank you for saving the child's life and accumulating good deeds. You took him back to your home in Tianjin and raised him with your wife, treat him as your own, loved him in every possible way, and named Qiu Xiaogeng."

"Yes!" Qiu Desheng's lips trembled, and tears rolled in his eyes. "There is a piece of Hotan's blood jade in the cradle, which must be the treasure left by the child's biological parents."

Hearing this detail, Ye Kenan had confirmed it and breathed a sigh of relief.

A month ago, Ye Kenan, an agent of the General Police Bureau of Jingcheng West Road, received a handwritten letter from the Regent, and ordered him to quickly retrieve Qin Beiyang, the son of Qin Customs, the imperial craftsman of the Internal Affairs Office.

He frowned and read the contents of the letter, playing with a copper ink cartridge in his hand. The ink cartridge was engraved with "Ink waves appear in the ancient inkstone pool, how wonderful is the calligraphy of the Right Army. Huangting has no more words in a volume, and it has been replaced by Shanyin Taoist Goose". Behind it is a picture of the word "Ghost Hands and Benevolent Heart", which was passed down by his grandfather Ye Xingke.

The famous Liusanmen Ye family has been working in the Shuntian Prefecture yamen since the Kangxi Dynasty.

During the Xianfeng period, the chief constable Ye Xingke solved a series of rapes and murders in the capital through clues, killing a madman who carried thirteen lives with his hands. The emperor praised the imperial pen - it is said that it was written by Concubine Yi and later Empress Dowager Cixi.

When the British and French coalition forces entered Beijing, Ye Xingke went into battle with a musket and died in front of Zhengyang Gate. In the year of Gengzi, Ye Kenan's father died in the same place. This time, the invaders were replaced by the Eight-Nation Alliance.

He has only graduated from the Higher Patrol Academy for two years. He just celebrated his 24th birthday. He was wearing a brand new black uniform and a black and white-line hat on his head. In the mirror, he looked more like a student who lived in Japan, but this dress looked better than his father's robe.

However, the tasks assigned by the Regent were purely nonsense - in Beijing in the year of Gengzi, he ran into a German soldier who killed people without blinking. The three-month-old child had a very small chance of survival.

In this world, human traffickers plunder women and children in broad daylight, putting grass on the street to sell, and the government was too lazy to care about it. Moreover, even if the child is found, he is already nine years old, how can he prove that he is himself? The youngest successor of the Six Gates feels in a dilemma. Even if he can't find a living person, he has to dig out the corpse and bones to deal with him. Should he dig out a baby skeleton from the mass grave in the year of Gengzi to fool people?

The Regent's letter ends with an explanation of how to identify Qin Beiyang—

First, the child has two red birthmarks on the back of the neck, which looks like a deer antler.

Second, when it was lost in the year of Gengzi, a piece of Hotan warm blood jade hidden in the cradle is rare and will never admit its mistakes.

There was no choice, Ye Kenan had to complete his mission. He met with Qin Customs three times. Lao Qin provided an important clue. On the day of the accident, there was an interpreter around the German army, who was a middle-aged man who was timid.

Ye Kenan started from then on, and asked the Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to visit the military officers of the German Embassy in the Qing Dynasty to find the German army number at that time in Beijing. Of course, he had already withdrawn his troops and returned to China. He sent a telegram to the Chinese Embassy in Germany to convey the regent's decree to thoroughly investigate the matter and confirmed that there were more than 20 translators accompanying the army.

Ye Kenan went around for several days and found everyone who was still alive. Most of them lived in Qingdao, a German colony, and a few were in the De Concession in Tianjin. The last one was Qiu Desheng in front of him. This person had an only son, Qiu Xiaogeng, who was born in the year of Gengzi, and just met the conditions.

In the past two days, Ye Kenan has been secretly following and observing - Qiu Xiaogeng, a child who is less than ten years old, is taller than a child of the same age. When running, he looks like a locomotive with endless energy, and is like a horse that breaks away from the reins. It stands out among Chinese children, and is no less than German children. What is even more surprising is that Xiaogeng dares to insult German soldiers in German on the street, which shows that the child is more courageous.

When Ye Kenan knocked on this door, he could see it completely clearly - Qiu Desheng was short, narrow and long, with a narrow nose, thick lips, and a sick person. If Xiao Geng was born by Qiu Desheng, it would be unreliable.

At this moment, Qiu Desheng and his wife knelt in the yard and cried in tears.

They knew in their hearts that from tonight, Xiao Geng would no longer belong to him.

Qiu Desheng wiped his tears and said, "I love Xiao Geng in all kinds of love. When I present him with one year-old wine, I will follow the customs of the old law and put out various objects. If I capture the Four Books and Five Classics, I will become a scholar when I grow up. If I catch the Qinglong Yanyue Sword, I will be a general. If I catch the abacus bead, I will make a fortune in business. I didn't expect that this child would firmly grasp a carpenter. Will he be a craftsman in the future? Now you come and say that he is the blood of a royal craftsman, and it is indeed destined!"

Although Lao Qiu's wife is a woman, she is more independent than a man. She said to Ye Ke Nan: "Official, please leave it to us for one night. I am Xiao Geng's mother. Although I am not a biological child, I am more considerate than a biological child. Wait until tomorrow morning, I will take the child away. I promise to cooperate with you and not let Xiao Geng resist."

Ye Kenan remembered his mother who died early, and felt sad. After hesitating, he nodded and agreed. He patted Qiu Desheng on the shoulder: "Fortunately, your family adopted this child, I want to take a look at him now."

Qiu Desheng opened the study room and did not want Xiao Geng to see him crying. He hid outside the door and said, "Xiao Geng, your uncle is here to see you."

"Where did you come from? Daddy, are you cheating on your child again?"

Xiao Geng turned around and saw Ye Kenan. The man in the blue silk gown was looking at him carefully under the light. The boy was not timid and asked honestly: "Who are you?"

Ye Kenan did not say anything. He walked a few steps beside him. When he saw the Romance of the Three Kingdoms on his desk, he looked up to the sky and recited the last ancient style of the book: "The world is endless, and the number of days is vast. The tripod is three points and the three points are already a dream, and future generations complain to them!"

"Are you a storyteller? You don't look like you!" Xiao Geng observed the actions and expressions of the visitor, "Are you a detective in the patrol department?"

He was actually seen through by this child! Ye Kenan was not polite, and he blinked his hand and overwhelmed Xiao Geng from behind. The child struggled desperately and was extremely strong. Ye Kenan practiced internal martial arts with his father since he was a child, and also learned Toyo Judo from Kawashima Natsu in the Higher Patrol Academy. He removed Xiao Geng's top and saw the two birthmarks on the back of the child's neck.
Chapter completed!