Three days later, Xiao Yimin, the deputy chief of the Sichuan military and political affairs, held a warm farewell ceremony. He personally sent two German representatives who "come angry and leave happily" to the East Wharf with his own special Swiss-made four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage. Before leaving, he also gave the enlightened guests a sumptuous gift.

The small passenger ship left the dock and slowly headed east. Two German representatives on the ship were still moving to Xiao Yimin who was seeing him off on the shore. Officials at all levels of Sichuan Province who came to accompany him to bid farewell to the evil guests were smiling and waved back their gifts. The big stone in their hearts finally landed on the ground.[]

The officials were very impressed by Xiao Yimin. If Xiao Yimin had not taken the overall situation into consideration and generously took out all the property rights of West China Group as a guarantee, and successfully obtained a "loan" of Dehua Bank Chengdu Branch, and paid the "Mauser Company" a total of 2.25 million yuan in total to the "Mauser Company", he still didn't know what the matter would be like.

Based on the great contribution of West China Group, the provincial parliamentary special meeting voted and a resolution was formed. Governor Yin Changheng and West China Group General Manager Ro Defa, in front of hundreds of Chinese and foreign journalists and representatives from all walks of life, happily signed an important entrustment contract: the Sichuan Provincial Government fully entrusted Sichuan West China Group to transform the 3,500 acres of land in the northern suburbs of Fenghuangshan Military Camp and the surrounding area into a new site of the Sichuan Arsenal. West China Group Company is responsible for the construction of all factory areas, equipment installation and commissioning and weapons and ammunition production, with the entrustment period of five years.

During these five years, West China Company has the right to manage and produce and sell weapons and equipment by itself on its own basis on the basis of giving priority to meeting the Sichuan Army's departments. After the five-year period, West China Group Company must unconditionally hand over the Sichuan Arsenal together with all property rights certificates to the Sichuan Provincial Government.

Back in the city, Xiao Yimin first went to the hospital to visit his old friend Zhang Lan and asked him to take care of his illness and not worry.

Zhang Lan ordered Shi to go out and close the door. After discussing secretly with Xiao Yimin in the senior ward for more than an hour, Xiao Yimin said farewell reluctantly.

Zhang Lan supported the sick body and insisted on sending it to the door. Looking at Xiao Yimin's departure, his eyes were filled with feelings and hope.

Xiao Yimin returned to his mansion and saw Rodfa and military advisor Bao Jiqing silence in the study. Rodfa's god moves, Bao Jiqing has been listening attentively and has not expressed his opinion.

When the two heard the footsteps, they quickly turned around. Seeing Xiao Yimin coming back, they stood up together. Then Rod whispered to tell Xiao Yimin a bad news: bad rumors have appeared in the city in recent days, slandering the West China Group and the Germans in collusion to make money. Some people also talked about Xiao Yimin's humble origin, saying that he relied on his every move to win the favor of former governor Zhao Er, who likes men, and then transformed from a small teahouse mate to obtain the foundation and reputation today.

The rumor is that Xiao Yimin is gentle and polite on the surface and treats the people well. He secretly is stubborn and cunning, charms foreigners and admires foreign countries, and colludes with European and American powers to plunder the people of Sichuan.

And there were some people who were despicable and shamelessly spreading rumors that Xiao Yimin would soon marry his own sister as his wife, who had been a prostitute and had just become a good person for a few years!

Xiao Yimin was furious and grabbed the hat on his head and raised it high and was about to smash it down. When he reached the highest point, he suddenly stopped moving and stood there like a sculpture. After a long time, he put down his hands while Rodfa and Bao Jiqing were watching worriedly, walked slowly to the sofa and sat down, grabbed the cigarette on the Huanghuali tea table and took out one to light it.

"Brother, the second brother is pursuing the source of the rumors. I believe you will know who the mastermind behind it soon. Don't be angry, I'm afraid when you get angry." Rhode whispered.

Xiao Yimin, who gradually calmed down, sneered: "No need to check, isn't this obvious? Those people were plotted against me and held a grudge. In the past six months, I have been slaughtered every step of their way. I was so angry that I had no choice but to use such despicable means."

Bao Jiqing shook his head: "We must investigate! And we must thoroughly investigate. Even if we don't move those people for the time being, we must dig out all their minions and slowly clean up one by one. If we don't do this, we will not be enough to warn our opponents. If we don't do this, we cannot boost our morale."

"Yes! Second brother and Uncle Fan mean the same thing, and they will never give up!"

Rhodes was very annoyed. He was the only son and had no brothers. Xiao Yimin in front of him was even more close than his biological brother, and he would never allow anyone to tarnish his elder brother's reputation.

As soon as Rod's voice fell, Bao Jiqing's wife, daughter, and the fourth sister rushed over and cried and said that Sister Yi left a letter and ran away from home.

Xiao Yimin was hit by five thunders, and his whole body was stiff and stupid. Rhode shouted and asked how many women why they didn’t find out earlier?

The guards and servants at home rushed in, panic inside and outside the study room, and cried loudly.

Bao Jiqing strode over, took the letter from his wife, read it quickly, raised his head and shouted sternly: "Zheng Changze, Wu San---"

"arrive!"

Zheng Changze and Wu San rushed to Bao Jiqing and stood at attention.

Bao Jiqing ordered with a calm face: "Notify the cavalry battalion commander Tang Wulin, immediately gather the team to prepare to set off, disperse the Shigu in the guards who are familiar with Sister Yi, and divide them into more than thirty search teams with the officers and soldiers of the cavalry battalion, and immediately head to all intersections and docks in the southeast, west and north, and conduct a carpet-style search. Be sure to find Sister Yi back!"

"yes!"

"Third brother, hurry up..."

Xiao Yimin, with a pale face, rushed up, grabbed Wu San's hand, and repeatedly ordered: "Go and find the elder brother and the second brother, and mobilize all the brothers in the sect to find people for me, especially the waterways that your second brother is responsible for. Immediately send all the Clippers out and send them all to the downstream gangs and brothers, and everyone will find them together... and there are also all temples and Taoist temples, send all the people out for me, go quickly, hurry--"

"yes……"

Zheng Changze and Wu San rushed out with a group of guards. Bao Jiqing waved to the crowd around him and signaled that they all retreated, poured a cup of tea for Xiao Yimin, sat opposite him, and asked calmly: "Comrade, why not think about where your sister might have gone? Or have you ever heard her like what place around her?"

Xiao Yimin hugged his head in pain: "Where is it... I think about it... She will definitely not go to Wenshu Temple and Qingyang Palace. She may not go to the temples and Taoist temples in the city, let alone go to Baicui Tower... Well, what else is there? I think about it..."

The drizzle has just stopped. In Shuiyue Temple, north of the Fifteen-mile Wharf in the eastern suburbs, is peaceful.

The peach and plum blossoms planted around the ancient small temple are gone, and bud-like fruits are beginning to be nurtured on the branches. After the spring breeze, crystal raindrops hanging on the branches and leaves are scattered, making a pleasant and slight sound.

In the dim Buddhist temple, Yi Zhenying, who was covered in dust, was crawling in front of the golden statue of the Bodhisattva statue, and tears of pain kept flowing along her face. Her body was getting thinner and thin, and she couldn't suppress her sadness and sobbing, which made the two old nuns beside her sad. They had never seen such a sad and desperate woman. They didn't know how to speak if they wanted to persuade her.

At this moment, Yi Zhenying was exhausted and cried in tears. He had only one thought in his mind: Even if he died, he would leave Xiao Yimin, who was in the prime of his life, and leave this excellent man who loved him and loved deeply. His humble origin was just a disaster for him, without any help. Although he was innocent, he could not get rid of the ugly identity of a prostitute, otherwise there would not be so many rumors circulating everywhere. He deeply hurt himself and the one he loved. If he didn't leave him, he would have harmed him... In the blink of an eye, twelve years have passed. He has been dependent on each other for his life! He is willing to die for himself, let alone just leave him...

However, after the real departure, Yi Zhenying realized that leaving was so difficult, and that she would feel such a heart-wrenching pain after leaving.

"Leave", two simple words, she said to Xiao Yimin more than once, and she was blamed every time. This time she really left, she realized that it was easy to say it, and it was so difficult and so fatal.

At this moment, Yi Zhenying knew that the whole city of Chengdu was already in chaos. The three thousand officers and soldiers sent by her beloved Xiao Yimin, more than 1,000 policemen mobilized by her second brother Ma Gang, and more than 6,000 gang members from five halls in Hongmen, Chengdu. After hearing the news, tens of thousands of Chengdu people who spontaneously joined the search team, were running around for her alone. The 600 elite cavalry of the "Zhenzi Camp" were divided into fifty teams and sprinkled to various places. The farthest search team had already run to Deyang County, a hundred miles away from Chengdu.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, only four hours before Yi Zhenying escaped from home. The 15-mile pier, two miles south of Shuiyue Temple, suddenly became noisy. Several little nuns from Shuiyue Temple ran into the Buddhist temple in panic and reported: "A few hundred cavalrymen rushed to the pier and drove over under the guidance of a group of boatmen and coachmen!"

The two old nuns were shocked. Yi Zhenying, who had been kneeling in front of the Buddha statue, slowly turned around. He endured the sadness and kowtowed three times to the two old nuns: "Two masters, I will go out now and never let every grass and tree here be damaged..."

"girl--"

The two old nuns hurriedly went up to help Yi Zhenying who couldn't stand up, and a clever little nun quickly picked up the gauze hat beside her and handed it over.

Yi Zhenying quietly wiped away the tears and smiled miserably: "Don't block this face. God made me ugly. Just like that... Don't worry, I won't seek short-sightedness, but no one can force me, otherwise I would rather die!"

"Girl, you..."

"Let's go, please help me take a few steps, my tui can't walk..."

The small-scale temple has been surrounded by thousands of soldiers and civilians, and no one rushed into the simple temple gate. A man dressed in a coachman was dancing and asking for credit from the fully armed border cavalry, saying how he was alert, how he met a young woman wearing a gauze hat in the Wuli Pavilion outside the city, how he told the woman that there was no passenger ship this afternoon, and only in the evening, and how he accidentally saw the woman with a face left the dock and quietly walked into Shuiyue Temple, etc.

The impatient cavalry captain took out five oceans on his body and stuffed them into the coachman's hand. The coachman immediately closed his mouth tactfully, and happily flashed to the side, holding the ocean tightly and looking around. He couldn't figure out what so many ferocious cavalry were waiting for here? He had guns and knives, but what were he waiting for if he didn't rush in to search for people?

After a while, the noisy crowd exclaimed, and his eyes were all looking at the temple gate. Two women in white who were too supported by the gray teacher slowly appeared in front of everyone. The woman in white was graceful and graceful. Her face on her left was as white as jade and as beautiful as a fairy. There was a scary scar on her forehead on her right. The strong contrast made everyone stunned. Then she felt sorry for her, and she blamed God for not having eyes.

Suddenly, a rapid sound of horse hooves approached from afar, and dozens of cavalry standing there quickly separated, opening the war horses one by one, giving up a wide passage.

Before the thousands of people on the field could react, more than ten tall and majestic Western Regions war horses rushed over, and the young officer who was leading the fiery war horse roared. Before rushing into the human and animal passage, the guards stopped moving forward together, but the young officer running in the front was ignored and rushed to the temple gate with bursts of screams.

The tall war horse was suddenly strangled by the young officer, and it stood up, making a long scream, and turned around in place, and the two raised front hooves fell to the ground.

After the exclamation, there was silence. The young officer, who was sweating profusely, stared at the woman in white at the entrance of the temple.

The woman in white held back her tears and slowly closed her eyes, motionless. The two old nuns were so scared that they were no one on their faces. They hid in the temple gate and dared not come out. The strange woman in white clothes stood alone in the center of the temple gate. No matter how the young officer was on the horse's face was staring at her, she still had a peaceful and tight look.

The young officer on the horse suddenly raised the whip, which scared everyone to scream and retreat, but the whip did not fall for a long time. The officer immediately threw away the whip, rolled off the horse's back quickly, got up and pounced on it, hugging the woman in white tightly, and cried heart-wrenchingly: "Sister---, if you dare to leave me again... I will not live anymore! Wow..."!
Chapter completed!