The five people waited patiently, and the sky gradually darkened.
In addition to some ships that need emergency loading and unloading, the carriage is still lit up and busy. Many Lifu on the dock have finished their day's work, and returned in groups with sweat and the settlement of today's wages.
Home.
But the little kid had dinner at his house just like nothing else. After the moon climbed to the treetops, he sneaked out of the house and headed towards a nearby house.
The child flexibly climbed into the low wooden fence outside one of the rooms, lay down under the window and called quietly.
"Uncle Tiger, Uncle Tiger, I'm here..."
The wooden door opened a crack and a man's voice sounded in the room:
"Maozi? Come in quickly, no one has noticed it?"
The little kid named Maozi squeezed in through the crack in the door cleverly.
"Don't worry, Uncle Tiger, don't you know how clever I am?"
"I turned seven alleys in the city and then got out. When I got home, I went to play with Erdan and the others as usual. I only sneaked out when my father and mother slept!"
The man threw out a cloth bag to the cat.
"Haha, don't worry, you boy, give it! I bought it with today's salary. Let's share it with your sister when I go back."
Maozi opened the cloth bag and found that there were half a bag of candies wrapped in oil paper. He was immediately overjoyed and carefully put them in his arms and said to the man:
"Thank you, Uncle Tiger."
"Okay, go back to bed quickly, don't be exhausted when you run for a day."
When the man mentioned it, Maozai felt a little sleepy. He was at the age of sleepiness. He nodded quickly, then crawled out through the crack in the door, and ran back home.
After Maozi left, the house fell silent. After a few breaths, a slight but clear low voice suddenly sounded in the darkness.
"Hu Zi?"
“…Is the captain you?”
A soft but excited inquiry came from the low and dark house.
"It's me!"
The person inside opened the door excitedly and saw Yu Honggang's burly figure with obvious characteristics, he immediately said happily:
"Captain! Come in."
Yu Honggang waved to the people behind him, and everyone entered this low house together.
Five people suddenly appeared in the house that was less than twenty square meters, and the space became smaller and smaller.
After entering the house, Gao Jingfei removed the effect of the blind eye for everyone. Seeing the modern dressed up by his captain, the person in the house became even more excited.
Yu Honggang asked directly without nonsense:
"Hu Zi, why are you the only one? Lao Zhao and Xiao Li?"
This man is about thirty years old, dressed in short clothes, with a red face and dark skin, which is not much different from those of the coolie Lifu on the dock.
Obviously, this person is disguised well and has been integrated into this world environment.
After hearing Yu Honggang's words, the man's eyes turned red and his tone said with grief and anger:
"Captain, Lao Zhao and the others were captured by the government here. After we entered this world, we found that the fog had disappeared and we had to go separate to investigate the local situation. Because I had the strength, I mingled into the dock Lifu, where Lifu Da
Most of them are outsiders who have fled to make a living, so I integrated well.”
"Lao Zhao and the others went to the wine shop, teahouse, business gang and other places. Every day we met each other and learned about the situation. Three days ago, I saw the secret notes left by Lao Zhao at the agreed place, so I followed the news to three miles outside the city.
The old wharf met. As a result, I went too late because of the delay. I found that Lao Zhao and Xiaoli were taken away by a group of yamen runners and soldiers from afar. It was obvious that someone had deciphered our secret notes. This could not be the natives of this world.
It can only be an outside enemy!"
After hearing this, Yu Honggang frowned. It was obvious that things were similar to what they had expected before.
My team members were criticized by outsiders who are also modern people.
It was only then that he remembered to introduce Gao Jingfei and others to the team members.
Gao Jingfei and the others also knew the identity of this person. They were Duan Wenhu, who was Yu Honggang's old subordinate in the army and was also the first law enforcement team members selected to be a special affairs bureau in the Demon City.
Yu Honggang pointed to the direction where the little kid's cat silly left before and asked:
"What's going on with that kid?"
Upon hearing this, Duan Wenhu smiled and said:
"The child and his family escaped from Henan Province. They have no foundation in the local area and will not have any involvement with the government and the scoundrels. I just use this child to inquire about some information, so no one will pay attention to causing trouble to their family."
After hearing this, Yu Honggang felt relieved and knew that his team members were still very safe to do things.
Then he asked Duan Wenhu about the situation in this world.
Duan Wenhu said with a hint of confusion when he heard this:
"This world is very strange..."
After listening to Duan Wenhu's story, everyone understood the specific situation of this world.
This is a period similar to the mid-to-late 19th century in the real world. According to the previous reports of the imperial court and the information they learned from the people, it was just two years after the vigorous heavenly movement ended.
It is now 1864, and there are sporadic rebellions everywhere in the imperial court. There is also a major threat from the Nian Army, second only to the heavenly movement, that has not been calmed down from the Central Plains to the Lianghuai area.
In addition, although the great uprising of the Sichuan-Chu-Shaanxi White Lotus Sect has been pacified for many years, with the rise of the Heavenly Kingdom movement, these folk sects have become active. The entire Later Jin Kingdom is now like sitting on a volcano that has just erupted.
There were also many large and small gunpowder barrels on the mouth, and if you were not careful, Mars would rekindle, causing a terrible explosion.
Although a new little emperor was established in the dynasty, the little emperor was only six years old when he ascended the throne, so the power was held in the hands of the two empress dowagers and a group of princes and ministers.
It is praised by the court as "the saint descendant of the court".
Here, the Empress Dowager Cixi is good at scheming and has political skills, so she gradually gathered power and hid the power of Empress Lü and Empress Wu. Of course, compared with those two, the Empress Dowager Cixi is still much worse, not to mention the Empress Wu, the only Empress Wu of China, who has been the only Empress in China forever, for example,
Even Empress Lü, who controlled the government power, was not as good as Empress Lü, after all, there was an Empress Dowager in the West.
Although the Empress Dowager Dong gave people the attitude of worshiping Buddha without caring about the government, the empress who was conferred by the late emperor was innately inferior to the Empress Dowager Civic, who was originally just a concubine.
Speaking of this, Duan Wenhu exclaimed with meaning:
"Maybe this Empress Dowager Cialis really monopolizes the power, just like the old Buddha on our side, and you have to wait until the Empress Dowager of the East dies before you can truly take over. I just don't know if it will be the same as what is said in the unofficial history.
The Queen Mother of Dong will have a serious illness soon after, and the soul will return to heaven?”
After listening to Duan Wenhu's narrative, everyone felt it was very novel, because this feeling of witnessing the historical process personally was a very rare and special experience for them.
Zhang Lin asked:
"Brother Duan, have you discovered extraordinary power when you come here? How did you get caught by the local government with your skills?"
Duan Wenhu said with fear when he heard this:
"The water in this world is very deep. We have been integrated into this city for several days and have not found any extraordinary signs. However, Lao Zhao and others have obtained a lot of hearsay news from teahouses and restaurants, saying that the world today is a world of knowledge.
There are three great masters and eight masters in the world.”
"Three Grand Masters? Eight Masters?"
When everyone hears this title, they feel unaware of it.
Yu Honggang: "Tell us which masters and masters are they?"
Duan Wenhu scratched his head and said:
"I don't know much. These are all found out by Lao Zhao and the others. When we met him before, he told me. Lao Zhao and the others should know more."
"The three great masters are Li Lianying, the chief supervisor of the purple robe of the imperial court, Li Wencheng, the leader of the Tianli Sect, the leader of the Northern White Lotus Sect, and the master of the Taoist sect, Zhang Yifeng, the contemporary head of Maoshan."
"There were four great masters, but the Hongtian King in the south, who was as famous as the leader of Tianli, and known as the Southern Hongbei Li, had just been defeated by the imperial court's army of hundreds of thousands of troops. Finally, he was besieged by the purple robe general manager, led by the people to attack.
And die, so there are only three great masters left…”