96 those years

Hankou, this place is far away from Xiangyang's smoke. At this time, it is during the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, which is presented in front of Li Xiang, and it is a dazzling peaceful and lively scene.

When Li Xiang's car entered Xinsheng Street, he met a group of people who visited the temple fair with banners and golden drums. Lixiang also had to stop and give way.

At the head is a triangular flag with a height of four or five feet. It is full of green dragons, white tigers, gossip, Taiji and other sects. It is followed by big drums and small gongs. Finally, they carry incense with bamboo bales and cannons. The leaders hold small triangular flags, burn incense in temples, set off cannons along the way, and onlookers fill the road. Most of the people in the meeting are masons, salt cookers and brothers in robes... If they meet in the two sessions, they will have to calm down and prevent them from fighting in the streets. This kind of temple tour is held every day during the Spring Festival in Hankou, and it will not stop until the fifth is broken.

There are many attractive places, such as the bookstores that say "Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin"; there are theaters that sing Henan pendants or hit pear flowers and iron plates to sing big drums. Shaanxi Qinqiang Hunan flower drums and Sichuan face-changing theaters; there are those who sell art, turn tricks, and compare martial arts; there are also restaurants that "to eliminate the eternal day" and "chat to fill" Hungry restaurants, you can climb the Tibetan Sutra Tower, the Eight Hundred Arhat Hall where the Buddhas can be divination, and the Western Mirrors from afar; there are also ** despicable "sound field" and improper behaviors such as buying and selling, gambling and seducing rape, etc. There are all kinds of strange things, which not only dazzle the old farmers in the countryside, but also make the "city oil" "We linger and forget to return... The Hankou Port, which is connected to the nine provinces, brings together the folk customs of all parties.

Since the Nanjing Provisional Government issued a decree abolishing the clothing reform centered on the clothing of the Qing Dynasty. In Hankou City, men's clothing has gradually transitioned from robes and coats to Sun Yat-sen clothes and suits invented by Sun Yat-sen. At the same time, Li Xiang also noticed that women's clothing has become more and more gorgeous and popularize cheongsam. There are also groups of girls on the street, dressed in flowers, which are particularly eye-catching. The atmosphere is becoming more and more open.

The children put on new clothes, trousers, shoes and hats, and had a lot of lucky money in their pockets. They happily bought melons, sugar cubes, firecrackers, etc., and had to run around and play like crazy.

The most in the hands of children are firecrackers, such as cannons, mine cannons, rockets, etc., which are numerous. These little farts gangs form a faction, holding a fragrance in their hands, burning cannons throwing at each other, and the sound is endless. Those who are hit by the shell, those who are light will burn their clothes, and those who are heavy will be burned.

Li wants to recall his childhood happily. He is like these little kids, and there are countless disasters with firecrackers.

Li Xiang's car passed through the most prosperous street market in Hankou and stopped at the wharf of Siguandian to prepare for a ferry across the river. Li wanted to chat with an old gentleman merchant of the Hankou Chamber of Commerce on the dock at the boring moment of waiting for the ferry.

The old gentleman and businessman's family are blowing cold air on the dock, as if they are waiting for a very important person in their family.

Li Xiang couldn't help asking curiously, "Who is the old gentleman waiting here?"

The old gentleman Shang knew Li Xiang and didn't hide anything. He said, "Wait for my daughter-in-law."

"What?" This surprised Li Xiang. There are a large number of old gentry merchants dressed like old antiques. His daughter-in-law is "married by the princess" and will let the old antique in this robe and horse coat put down the shelf and come to the dock to pick up in person?

The family of the old antique understood Li Xiang's surprise and knew Li Xiang's identity, so they patiently explained...

In Hankou, the Fang family lived a life that was envied by his neighbors. He ran an Express company and was rich in finances. Although he came from an old-fashioned family, he sent several children and daughters-in-law to study abroad early. In the Chinese business circle of Hankou, when it comes to the family tradition of the Fang family, everyone they know should sincerely praise "Vision!"

The two children of the old Qifang Shengdong are still in Japan. The daughter-in-law Wang Ying just gave birth to a fat boy the year before last, and she was pregnant with another one at the beginning of 1911.

On the eve of the Guangzhou Uprising, the Fang family received a letter. The Fang family thought, could it be that their son was going home, so they said hello to the family first?

He didn't expect that Xu Tu unfolded a perfect letter.

"Your father is here. This is the last time my son writes to you in person. When this letter is sent to you, my son is no longer in the world..."

The letter is displayed happily, but it is the best in the eyes. The Fang family cried loudly and couldn't lie down.

When Li wanted to get the unique letter hidden in his arms like Mr. Fang's baby, his eyes were moist. Xinhai, in those years, the hearts of the revolutionaries were full of heroism and pleasure for revolutionary ideals, and the rest were insignificant to them.

After that, Fang Junying, the second daughter of the Fang family, hurried back to Wuhan from Hong Kong.

She and her brother Fang Shengdong are both revolutionary. Before the Guangzhou Uprising, she was sent to Hong Kong to transport ordnance. She arrived in Guangzhou on April 27, but saw that the gate of Guangzhou was tightly closed. The uprising had failed, so she had to return to Hong Kong by boat overnight.

In Hong Kong, Fang Junying received the news of her brother's martyrdom. With suppressed grief, she thought that her sister-in-law was still in Japan, and the orphans and widows had to pick them up.

Before leaving, Fang Junying sorted out the relics of her younger brother sent by the revolutionary comrades. She saw a draft of her brother's desperate letter to her father. The letter paper is mottled and smeared in many places. How does the younger brother feel about writing the last pen? The day of her younger brother's letter was April 26, and it was May 3 when she received her younger brother's relics. I'm afraid the old father can't hide it.

Fang Junying went home to comfort her father first, and then went to Japan to pick up her sister-in-law Wang Ying. She didn't know how to tell her sister-in-law Wang Ying that her brother and her husband were dead.

Who knows that as soon as Fang Junying arrived in Hankou, Wuchang's righteousness broke out. Fang Junying's plan to pick up his sister-in-law in Japan was stranded, and he did not hesitate to take the revolutionary cause first, which was also the will of his dead brother. This time has been delayed for several months. The revolutionary army has been surging, and the Republic of China has become!

A ship returning from Japan finally docked in Hankou.

Wang Ying, who walked out of the hatch, was in a trance.

There are many private boats parked on the dock in Hankou, loading goods from various provinces to Hankou, and the workers are busy unloading the goods. The whole bank of the Han River is full of masts, which looks the same as when she left three years ago, but there is no husband around her.

At that time, they were only ten days old, and the couple went to Japan to study. At the end of March 1911, when my husband heard that Guangzhou was preparing for an uprising, he decided to return to China to participate in the revolution. Before leaving, she went to take a family photo. On that day, her son Fang Xianxu was one year old. Wang Ying, wearing a kimono, faced the camera. Her son stood on her lap, waved his right hand, and his left hand was tightly held by his father. Fang Shengdong leaned sideways.

The Japanese photographer said, "Sir, turn your face to my side."

Fang Shengdong said, "No, I want to look at my son."

As soon as her husband left, there was no news. This time, Fang Junying suddenly came to pick up their mother and son. Although nothing was disclosed, Wang Ying, who was also a member of the Alliance, was vaguely uneasy. She held her eldest son in one hand and the smaller one in the other.

The hazy snow on the dock also seems to be floating with an inexplicable sadness.

The moment he saw Wang Ying, Li wanted to be tortured by the inexplicable sadness on her body. "Let me do this villain." Li thought so. Wang Ying is a very intelligent and beautiful woman at first glance. It's impossible for her not to notice anything? Obviously, she has the worst doubts, but the heart without an answer is thinking nonsense day by day. What kind of cruelty is tormenting her heart. Although the truth is cruel, it is also the best way to end this torture.

Wang Ying learned of her husband's death. At that moment, she completely understood why her husband always said, "I'm so sorry for you" before leaving. Why did he look at his son so reluctantly? It turned out that he had the determination to die.

(The author's note: On April 27, 1911, 165 days before the Xinhai Wuchang Uprising, Fang Shengdong was killed in Huanghuagang. The day before he went to Yiyi, he sent a unique letter from Guangzhou to Wuhan. In the letter to his father, he wrote: "He succeeded in the revolution. My family are all new citizens of China. Children and grandchildren can live a long time, and even if they die, they will still close their eyes to the ground..." In those years, it became a fashion to dare to die.)

After Ma Fuxiang was surrendered, Chang Geng and Shengyun retreated to the Hexi Corridor. Ma Anliang and his son parted ways and fled to Xining.

The tree fell and scattered. After these hard-hards fled, their subordinates were in chaos. The officers did not care about the soldiers, the soldiers ignored the officials, burned the literary scrolls, robbed the jie treasury, and scrambled to seize the west of the road. The two official officials, Qingxin and Ning Zhang, are the eunuchs and their wives, who are shoulder to shoulder one after another for a while, and they are scrambling for their lives and embarrassed.

The Anxi Army of the National Revolution launched a battle order to march into Qinghai to capture Xining. The Jingbumu Corps took Xunhua from Linxia, crossed the Yellow River, and went straight to Xining through Gandu and Hualong. Zhang Yunshan Corps crossed the Yellow River from Yongjing, passed through Minhe and Ledu, and marched along the path in the mountainous area south of Jianshui.

The two armies are like two powerful iron streams, forming a situation of clamping Xining. The historic march of Guangfu Qinghai to capture Xining began in the rolling of this vast iron flow.

The soldiers are so fast that they are surprised. In order to prevent the scattered Ma Anliang remnants from regrouping and counterattacking, not to give the fleeing enemies a chance to breathe, and not to delay the historical process of the restoration of Qinghai, Zhang Yunshan, on the one hand, organized a large force to quickly cross the river and march west day and night; on the other hand, he transferred four cavalry reconnaissance companies and nine regiment reconnaissance platoons of the army and regiments. The cavalry squad, as well as more than 600 cavalrymen, including the reconnaissance section chiefs of each division and the reconnaissance staff of each regiment, formed the advance force of the army, wearing stars and moon, riding lightly, rushing to Xining, to find out the situation of the enemy situation, road, terrain and other conditions along the way to enter Xining, and open the way for the Anxi army to restore Xining, and then the large troops followed up.

The advance reconnaissance force advanced smoothly. Although there are still a small group of lonely ministers trying to build fortifications, burn ferries and destroy bridges with the Yellow River and Datong River. However, the news was better than expected: Ma Anliang, Ma Tingxian and his son entered Tibet one after another and were ready to flee from Tibet to India for exile; Ma Anliang's remnants have become frightened birds under the strong military and political pressure of the Anxi army and performed without fighting. Some enlightened people in Xining and the local people formed a maintenance meeting to automatically maintain public order, guard the property abandoned by the enemy, and only wait for the Anxi army to receive it.

Fully in response to Li Xiang's previous assertion, "After the Battle of Lanzhou, the rest is to walk and receive."

The vanguard force**, who entered Xining with the enlightened people who came to greet him at Ping'anyi, was warmly welcomed by the people of all ethnic groups.

The ancient city of Xining on the plateau is restored!