In the outer city of Beijing, in an alley between Xuanwumen and Zhengyangmen, the heroes were gathering in Da Wenxi's courtyard. The little girl Dai Wenpei was holding a baby in her arms and was coaxing her awkwardly.
They couldn't help but laugh. Several older men wanted to take the child and hug him, but Dai Wenpei refused: "This is a task assigned to me by the chief helmsman, how can I let you hug me?"
The hero smiled and said: "It would be a pity to have you strangled to death for the child ticket that Mr. Li San, the swallow, finally kidnapped. Seeing that you have never held a child like that, give it to me quickly."
"No, who says I have never held a child? I have held our Wenlong since he was a child." Dai Wenpei pursed his lips and tightened the grip on the crying baby in his arms.
"That's weird. You were only four years old when Wenlong was born. You still had to be held by an adult. How could you hold your younger brother?" Haohan was obviously a frequent visitor to Tiedan Village and was very familiar with the situation of the Dai family.
Everyone was talking and laughing, and suddenly the person in charge of surveillance at the door whispered: "Hush, everyone, the officers and soldiers are coming to search." Everyone hurriedly silenced, and several leaders rushed to the door and looked out, only to see a group of Qing troops.
We were searching house to house, and the land security guard was accompanying us with a household registration book. All the people living in the capital were registered. It was originally convenient for collecting head tax, but now it is also very effective for investigation. If someone comes to the house,
Fortunately, the two of them were relatives visiting, but dozens of good guys came in all of a sudden, all with ferocious faces and leading men. It was too easy to be exposed. It seemed that it was not suitable to stay here for a long time.
Liu Ziguang was in the main hall with the guardians on the left and right. Several new hall leaders discussed the next work arrangements. After hearing the report, they quickly made arrangements. Everyone evacuated from the back wall and could not have direct contact with the searching officers and soldiers. The heroes came and went.
It was a piece of cake for the martial arts masters to climb over the wall and ridge. They left the courtyard as quickly as possible and followed the previous agreement to move to the densely populated Dashilan area in multiple ways. Liu Ziguang was the last one to leave the courtyard. He was about to leave.
, suddenly found that Dai Wenpei was still standing there and fidgeting with the baby.
"Why aren't you leaving? Why are you lingering?" Liu Ziguang asked.
"He pooped and it was all over me..." Dai Wenpei said solemnly. The little baby cried out because of discomfort. At the same time, the door was kicked open: "Why don't you open the door!"
Officers and soldiers check household registration!"
As the owner of the house, Da Wenxi naturally could not leave. When he saw the officers and soldiers breaking into the door, he hurriedly greeted him with a sorry smile: "Master, a relative has come to the house. The child was crying so loudly that I really didn't hear you knocking on the door.
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"Fart, you just deliberately didn't open the door for me!" The leader gave Da Wenxi a hard look, turned around and called for his men to enter the house to search, and then asked the landguard: "How many people do they have in their home?"
"He is the only old man in this family. He has no relatives, no children, and no children." The land security guard knew the details of Da Wenxi without checking the household registration.
"Then what do these two people do?" President Ba asked, pointing at Liu Ziguang and Dai Wenpei.
"Master, these are my cousins who came from Wanping to visit relatives." Da Wenxi said quickly.
The general manager looked up and down at Liu Ziguang and Dai Wenpei. They were both wearing ordinary clothes. They were neither rich nor poor. They looked like country people from Wanping County. There was nothing suspicious about them, except for one thing that aroused their suspicion.
The president noticed that Dai Wenpei was not very good at taking care of children. The baby had poop all over it, and he didn’t know how to wrap up the untied swaddling clothes. The president immediately concluded that this woman was definitely not the child’s biological mother!
"You two are very suspicious. Come back to the Yamen with me." The general manager pouted, and two soldiers came up from behind to lock him up with iron chains.
Dai Wenpei stopped caring about the child and looked at Liu Ziguang nervously. He clasped his hands tightly and probably had a handful of flying needles in his hands. He only waited for the chief helmsman to give the order and let the officers and soldiers in front of him die.
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"What are you saying, sir? We are all good citizens. There is nothing suspicious about it. We were unjustly accused." Liu Ziguang spread his hands and looked innocent. It seemed that he did not intend to kill anyone.
"Hmph, what can be hidden from me on the ground in the capital? Tell me where on earth this child came from!" Mr. Ba yelled.
"This child is indeed the child of our couple. We brought him to the city to meet his cousin." Liu Ziguang said as he pulled the boss's sleeve and motioned for him to go aside to talk.
"If you have anything to say, just say it, these are my brothers, there is nothing to hide." Mr. Ba said arrogantly. Based on his many years of experience as an errand, he had already figured out that the two couples were probably going to the city to buy a child.
During the Qing Dynasty, it was not illegal to buy and sell people. As long as the parents of the child agreed to the sale, it was a legal transaction. Of course, it was still illegal to abduct young children. Judging from their reactions, the baby might have been bought from a kidnapper.
Liu Ziguang had already judged the source of the general's suspicion and replied appropriately: "To be honest, the official said, we bought this child. His parents couldn't survive and had to sell the child to us. We also met a destined person.
My wife fell in love with this child as soon as she saw it and insisted on taking it back to make all the gentlemen laugh. Come here and smoke." She then took out a box of Double Happiness and started to smoke. She handed over a large denomination card
Dexing banknotes were stuffed into the boss's hands.
"Boy, I see that you are still a sensible person. I will let you go today and take your wife back to Wanping quickly. If you are late, you will not be able to leave the city. The capital has not been peaceful recently." Mr. Bao glanced at him.
He was very satisfied with the figure on the banknote, so he stopped pursuing the matter of abducting and selling the children. He shouted: "Brothers, retreat." He led the officers, soldiers and land security guards to continue searching other houses.
"This place is no longer safe. We must find a more suitable place to stay." Liu Ziguang said. "Where is the safe place?" Da Wenxi frowned.
"The most dangerous place is often the safest. This is called darkness under the lamp." Liu Ziguang said confidently. The baby was still crying loudly, making people raise their voices two octaves when speaking, "Can't you coax the baby well?"
Liu Ziguang asked Dai Wenpei dissatisfied.
"He seems to be hungry." Dai Wenpei finally cleaned up the feces on the child, but the child was still crying. It was probably because of hunger.
"If you're hungry, just feed me."
Liu Ziguang said unabashedly that there was no milk powder technology at that time, and they all relied on wet nurses to feed milk on the spot. Where did Dai Wenpei, a yellow-flowered girl, get the milk? She blushed at that time. Miss Tietanzhuang, who was usually unruly and willful, was proud.
, Thousand-Hand Guanyin, the famous king of hidden weapons in the world, has now restored her true appearance as a seventeen-year-old girl. She lowered her head in shame and tried her best to shrink her perfectly developed breasts to avoid being raped by this hateful chief helmsman.
The lustful eyes saw.
After dealing with the search, Liu Ziguang took Dai Wenpei to a restaurant in the Dashilan commercial district. This was the contact point set by the Tiandi Society in advance. The heroes had spread to the surrounding area. Several guardians and hall masters were on the second floor of the restaurant.
In the private room of the building, waiting for the arrival of the chief helmsman, when they saw Liu Ziguang Dai Wenpei, who looked like a family of three, the heroes couldn't help but joked: "Master, the young lady is here."
The eldest lady of Tietanzhuang has a great reputation in the world. She is good at martial arts and beautiful. Many young heroes admire her and pursue her. However, the Thousand-Hand Guanyin has a very high vision and is determined not to marry unless she is a hero.
Normally, she doesn't pay attention to people with certain reputations in the world, but now she is following the chief helmsman with a low eyebrow like a little daughter-in-law. How can she not make everyone happy? Everyone knows that most of the little girl is
I found my big hero.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, Liu Ziguang began to plan a new place to stay. The city of Beijing is shaped like a convex letter, with the inner city at the top and the outer city at the bottom. The outer city is mainly populated by ordinary Han people, supplemented by some shops, restaurants, brothels, etc.
Commercial places are always the focus of searches by officers and soldiers; while the people living in the inner city are mainly officials' families and bannermen. There is also an imperial city in the inner city, and there is also a palace city in the imperial city, which is the Forbidden City. This is the entire Manchu Qing Dynasty.
The core of the empire is also the most heavily guarded place. Within the Forbidden City and the Imperial City, there are a large number of institutions that serve the royal family, called the Thirteen Yamen: Si Li Jian, Imperial Jian, Royal Horse Jian, Internal Official Jian, and Shangyi Jian.
, Shangshan Supervisor, Shangbao Supervisor, Sishe Supervisor, Shangfang Department, Xixin Department, Bell and Drum Department (Etiquette Supervisor, Ceremony House), Military Warfare Bureau, Weaving and Dyeing Bureau, etc. The entire imperial city is filled with people from the Shangsan Banners.
Bao Yi, the eunuchs and maids of each department, and the corresponding officials were all mixed together, and the composition of the personnel was quite complex. However, these people all had some status, so even the nine-door admirals did not dare to randomly interrogate them.
"Let's just go under the lamp and live in the imperial city!" Liu Ziguang finally made the decision. His courage made all the experienced heroes take a breath. A great hero is a great hero, and his courage is outstanding!
The Manchu and Qing Dynasties inherited the imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty. In order to save money, they did not make any major changes. The inheritance inherited from Dongchang by Nanchang included a detailed topographic map of the Imperial Palace in Beijing, with all the houses and secret passages marked.
There are even many retained Northern Ming eunuchs who still live there, and the imperial palace in Beijing is generally similar to the imperial palace in Nanjing, only different in size. Therefore, for Liu Ziguang, the imperial city is a place that is both familiar and unfamiliar.