After Puyi was expelled from the Forbidden City by Feng Yuxiang, he lived in Prince Chun's Mansion for a period of time.
The next year, he moved to the Tianjin Concession and lived in the prestigious Zhangyuan.
He moved to Jingyuan two years ago.
The Tianjin Concession was taken back by the National Government in 1929, but it was only in name.
It was still dominated by foreigners.
Jingyuan is within the original concession, covering an area of about 2,000 square meters.
It was originally Lu Zongyu's house.
It was named Qianyuan and was renamed Jingyuan after Puyi moved there.
The deposed emperor Puyi liked to make friends with senior officials of the Republic of China, and celebrities from all walks of life also liked to deal with the little emperor to get a taste of the royal nobility.
As the chairman of the National Defense Construction Supervision Committee and an active-duty army general, Chen Zikun has a distinguished reputation, second only to the dominance of the north.
Zhang Xueliang, and the two had known each other for many years, so Puyi naturally wanted to invite him as a guest.
Chen Zikun and his three wives went to the banquet.
The quiet garden was decorated with lights and colorful decorations, and it was very lively.
Many cars were parked in front of the gate.
The butler guarding the door saw Chairman Chen's special car with the three-star general flag, and rushed back to report.
In a short time, , Puyi went out to greet him personally.
This is a thin young man in his twenties, with a medium build, wearing round-frame myopia glasses, oily hair parted in the middle, elegant British evening dress, shiny leather shoes, and an authentic British accent: "Welcome, respect.
Chairman Chen.”
Chen Zikun stepped forward to shake hands with him and introduced his three wives.
Yao Yilei met Puyi ten years ago.
At that time, he was still a boy.
Now he is an adult, but his appearance has not changed much.
He is still sharp-mouthed and slightly obscene.
Naturally, there is nothing shocking for her, and she accepts Puyi's kiss calmly.
Hand gift.
Jian Bing is also calm and calm.
She comes from Shanghai's fireworks industry.
Shanghai opened its port early.
The idea of equality brought by foreigners is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and she is not interested in imperial power.
Xia Xiaoqing was different.
The reckless heroes of the land of Yan and Zhao were still full of awe for the emperor.
In the past, to see the emperor was to burn incense and smoke from the ancestral graves for eight lifetimes.
But what do you think of the emperor today?
It looks very different from what I imagined.
In Xia Xiaoqing's mind, the emperor should be wearing a bright yellow dragon robe, a big red tassel hat, hanging court beads, tall and majestic, how could he look like a little man?
That's fine, but as the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, It's a bit unreasonable to not even have braids.
She was thinking wildly here, but others didn't know it.
After a brief greeting, everyone entered the hall.
Today, the hall was full of guests, including upper-class people in Western clothes, Westerners and Asians, local gentry and sages in Tianjin, and Manchus, old and young.
They all came to see Chen Zikun and knelt down.
Very polite.
Puyi introduced his two wives to Chen Zikun, Queen Wanrong and Concubine Shu Wenxiu.
The two women were graceful in appearance.
They looked like ladies from a wealthy family, but they wore Western-style skirts and talked like fashionable people with a new education.
Chen Zikun waved his hand, and the entourage presented the gift and opened the exquisite packaging.
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They were three rose gold Swiss watches, one for men and two for women.
"Breguet is great.
I was planning to ask someone to bring it from Shanghai.
Thank you, Victor."
Puyi was very excited and couldn't put it down.
Wanrong and Wenxiu were also well-informed people and knew how valuable this watch was.
They laughed.
Yingying thanked Chen Zikun and his wife.
"Cousin, what a good gift, let me see it."
A girl in men's clothes squeezed over from the side.
She was twenty-four or five years old and quite handsome.
Pu Yi said: "This is Prince Su's fourteenth daughter, Dongzhen.
She likes to wear men's clothes and ride horses, just like boys."
Dongzhen said: "I also like to fly airplanes."
Chen Zikun said: "Oh, I don't know what type of aircraft Shi Shigege is good at flying."
Dongzhen's eyes flickered to Chen Zikun, and he asked, "You are the famous General Chen Kunwu, right?"
Chen Zikun said: "I am the one who wants to give you some advice."
Dongzhen giggled, picked up Wanrong with the wine glass and ran away.
Puyi said: "Dongzhen is a crazy girl.
She has lived in Japan for many years and has no decency at all.
Chairman Chen, don't mind.
It's noisy outside.
Let's talk in the inner room."
Entering the study, Puyi introduced a sixty-year-old skinny old man to Chen Zikun.
"This Mr.
Zheng Xiaoxu is my calligraphy teacher."
Chen Zikun was in awe: "Mr.
Zheng's calligraphy is hard to find in Shanghai and Nanjing."
Zheng Xiaoxu was polite and started to talk.
It was just that the civil strife in China was not going away and the emperor had to come out to clean up the situation.
Chen Zikun's face turned dark on the spot.
Puyi observed his words and hurriedly stopped Zheng Xiaoxu.
He changed the topic and said, "I have prepared a few small gifts. , Teacher Zheng went to get it for me."
After a short while, other servants brought several brocade boxes.
Chen Zikun opened one of the long boxes and found a beautiful sword inside.
The Mughal-style white jade frontispiece had a bright yellow silk ribbon on the handle, and the gilt sword was The dragon is hollowed out in the tan, and the blade is extremely smooth.
The seal is engraved with the words "Baoteng" and "Tian Zi No. 17" made in the Qianlong year.
The scabbard is made of golden peach bark and is shaped like mountain armor.
"This is a sword made by Emperor Gaozong.
It is a royal treasure.
It is given to heroes, and I hope the general will accept it."
Pu Yi said with a smile.
Chen Zikun wanted to refuse, but was unable to speak.
He knew what Puyi had in mind, and he wanted to make friends with warlords from all walks of life, in order to one day return to the throne and face the south and the north.
But he really liked this sword and couldn't put it down, so he would not let it go.
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"Then I would like to thank your Majesty for the reward."
Chen Zikun stroked the sword, but he sighed in his heart, he is such a prodigal son, and he may have lost all his family's foundation in the past few years since he left the palace.
After Chen Zikun left, Zheng Xiaoxu came back: "Your Majesty, what did Chen Zikun say?"
Pu Yi smiled arrogantly and said: "He just called me Your Majesty, what else can he say?
Chen Zikun was my royal bodyguard and a member of the royal family.
No matter how high an official he became in the Republic of China, he was still my bodyguard."
Zheng Xiaoxu said: "Your Majesty is a wise man."
The banquet started, and somehow it was arranged.
Fourteen Gege actually sat next to Chen Zikun, gently kicking him from time to time, his eyes full of youthfulness and temptation.
Chen Zikun pretended not to see it.
Yao Yilei and Jian Bing found out that someone was hooking up with their husbands, and they were furious but they couldn't show their face.
"Zikun, sit over here."
Xia Xiaoqing walked straight over, changed seats with Chen Zikun, and gave Dongzhen a provocative look.
The Fourteenth Gege immediately stopped and stopped.
After the banquet was the dance.
This time the three ladies shared the same hatred and would never let Dongzhen get close to Chen Zikun.
Chen Zikun found it funny.
He saw Dongzhen holding a wine glass and flirting with the crowd.
From time to time, she would wink at him and lament the decline of the world. , even the daughter of the Aixinjueluo family is so debauched.
Suddenly, she saw Dongzhen and a man in his forties chatting and laughing together.
The chatter seemed to be in Japanese.
Puyi happened to come over, followed Chen Zikun's gaze and said, "That is Colonel Tada Shun, from Beijing."
Army University instructor, Dongzhen’s old acquaintance, Chairman Chen, would you like to have a chat with him?”
Chen Zikun said: "The Japanese and I have nothing in common."
It happened that Chen Zikun was also being talked about over there.
Tada Shun raised his wine glass in greeting, and Chen Zikun responded politely.
He said to himself that this quiet garden is indeed a smoky place, harboring filth, old and young, politicians, soldiers, and all kinds of things.
I felt a little regretful that I shouldn't have come.
"Henry, are you going to live your whole life in Jingyuan?"
Chen Zikun suddenly mentioned this topic, which made Puyi startled, then happy, and he couldn't help but think of Zhang Xun back then.
But what Chen Zikun said next made him greatly disappointed, like a bucket of cold water poured on his face.
"It is not a good thing to stay in Tianjin, surrounded by the old and the young, as well as the Japanese with ulterior motives.
Henry, young people should go out more and see the world.
They can go to the United States, Europe, and go to university.
If you want, I can arrange it."
"Thank you, I have no plans to go abroad recently."
Puyi's mood was waning and his energy was gone.
Before leaving, Puyi gathered strength and gave Chen Zikun another gift.
Zheng Xiaoxu's calligraphy, together with the previous large and small brocade boxes, filled a trunk.
Back downstairs, Yao Yilei and others opened the boxes to appreciate the gifts.
They were shocked by Puyi's generosity.
In addition to the Baoteng sword made by the Emperor Qianlong, there were also jade, antiques, Suzhou embroidery jewelry, etc., all of which were royal items made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Not only is it priceless, it is also very memorable.
The three ladies chatted about their trip to the Jingyuan.
They were disappointed with the so-called royal majesty.
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Their evaluations of the fourteenth princess were surprisingly unanimous, saying that he was the one.
"The Japanese are not good at all."
Xia Xiaoqing heard her father tell the story of the Eight-Nation Allied Forces entering Beijing, and she hated Japan deeply.
"Actually, Japanese women are not like this.
They are no less virtuous and virtuous than Chinese women."
Jian Bing corrected.
"She must have received strong stimulation when she was a child, otherwise she wouldn't be so crazy."
Finally, Yao Yilei, who once studied in Japan, came to the conclusion.
Chen Zikun said: "With such a crazy and silly personality, it is easy to get close to others.
Maybe this Fourteenth Princess is a Japanese spy."
After going to Jingyuan, the next step is to go back to the hometown to visit the tomb.
Yao Yilei and Jian Bing don't have to go together.
Chen Zikun takes Xia Xiaoqing and Xiaobei and rushes to Cangzhou in a light car with Jian Cong.
Master Xia's tomb is in a mass grave on the outskirts of Cangzhou.
At that time, Xia Xiaoqing had no money, so he could only hastily bury his father.
Now that he has returned home in rich clothes, he naturally has to buy a cemetery and bury him again.
The Xia family was a small and independent family in the local area, with no relatives and no family cemetery.
Chen Zikun spent money to buy a piece of land, found a team of craftsmen, built a magnificent double-cavity tomb, and bought a fine nanmu coffin.
Looking for a good and auspicious day, he will move his father-in-law's coffin.
Another important thing is to find the remains of Xia Xiaoqing's mother so that she can be buried with her father.
This is an impossible task because Xia Xiaoqing's mother was lynched by her family back then.
Only the Yan family knows where the bones are buried
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