As soon as Lin Yuan heard the news, his heart sank, thinking: "If they don't go back to Tianjin, but stay in Beijing, are they going to stay and deal with me?" So Lin Yuan hurriedly asked: "Who are they staying in Beijing? What is the reason?"

Zhang Hua said: "Emperor Guangxu wanted to inspect them, so they stayed in the outskirts of Beijing."

Lin Yuan then asked, "How is your relationship with Emperor Guangxu recently?"

Zhang Hua said with a smile: "Our relationship is not bad, he hasn't looked for me since he invited me to dinner last time, but he is a busy person, so there is nothing strange about it."

Lin Yuan said, "Then does he know about our relationship?"

Zhang Hua said: "I told him that we are family friends, your father and I are life and death friends, and I watched you grow up."

Lin Yuan laughed when he heard this, and said, "Old Zhang, I won't take advantage of you like this!"

Zhang Hua said: "Who made me ten years older than you? How can I not say that?"

Lin Yuan asked again: "Where is Guan'er? Any news?"

Zhang Hua said: "There is no news, but if you don't come back, she lives in the palace every day and comes back every few days to pass on the information."

Lin Yuan asked a few more questions about the company, then turned off the communicator, put down the communicator, Lin Yuan thought, "Yuan Shikai's troops stayed in Beijing, what are they going to do? Is Emperor Guangxu going to inspect them?" Woolen cloth?"

There was nothing to do that day, but the next day, Xiao Dezhang and Yuan Yulin entertained Lin Yuan uncharacteristically. Lin Yuan thought to himself: "It's really strange. They used to avoid me when they saw me, but now they invite me to a banquet!" Lin Yuan thought. Yuan didn't have too many things to do, so he went to the banquet. In the next few days, hunting, watching theaters, and tea parties, Xiao Dezhang and Yuan Yulin would play with Lin Yuan in different ways almost every day.

On the evening of July [-]th, one of Xiao De Zhang's attendants found Lin Yuan and said to Lin Yuan, "Shuai Lin, tomorrow morning at ten o'clock our family will hold a banquet in the mansion, please show your respect."

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Still having a banquet? There is no free time these days."

The attendant laughed and said, "Tomorrow's banquet is very unusual. Our adults have said that if Commander Lin refuses to come, he will cut off my head!"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "What's at the banquet?"

The attendant smiled mysteriously and said, "The villain is just a messenger to run errands. The villain doesn't know these things."

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Well, I'll just go to the banquet tomorrow."

A few days later, Lin Yuan came to Xiao Dezhang's mansion, and was taken by a servant to a small pavilion by the lake. Xiao Dezhang and Yuan Yulin were waiting for him inside. Accompanied, the scene was very quiet, Lin Yuan smiled and said: "I heard about today's banquet last night, and I have been thinking about it all the time, and I didn't even sleep well!"

Xiao De Zhang said with a smile: "I know that Lin Shuai is usually thrifty and has never eaten anything good, so I specially found some high-quality food today!" After speaking, he said to the attendant: "Bring the tableware first!"

At this time, three beautiful women came over, each holding a tray in their hands, and on the tray was an exquisitely carved rosewood box. The women walked up to the three and placed the box in their hands Lin Yuan opened the box and saw that the things inside looked like small scissors and a small hammer, and there were a few things he had never seen before.

Xiao Dezhang smiled and said: "Here are eight pieces of crabs. We will eat crabs today!" Then he made a gesture to the attendants, and three more women came up, holding delicate small plates in their hands, and there was a crab on the plate. De Zhang smiled and said, "Does Shuai Lin know where this crab comes from?"

Lin Yuan shook his head lightly, and Xiao De Zhang smiled and said, "I got someone to get this from Yangcheng Lake in Suzhou! The king of crab kings! Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs!"

Lin Yuan was shocked after hearing this: "Gansu is thousands of miles away from Suzhou, I wonder how much manpower and material resources they spent to transport the crabs!" Lin Yuan pointed to the crab on the plate and asked, "Could it be that we Are there only three crabs?"

Xiao De Zhang smiled and said: "Of course not, we have a lot of crabs? But this one is enough for us to eat for a while. Come on, I will teach you to eat eight pieces of crabs. The first step is to use small The scissors cut off the crab legs..." After Xiao Dezhang finished speaking, he took out the small scissors and cut slowly. Lin Yuan watched his movements and felt a sense of foreboding in his heart. It will take an hour to finish this crab!"

Sure enough, Xiao Dezhang disassembled the crab while talking, and asked Lin Yuan to follow his example. He dismantled one crab for an hour and a half, and after dismantling the crab, Xiao Dezhang sent another one up. Lin Yuan noticed: Send the crab up The glamorous women are different, obviously each crab is delivered by a special woman.

Lin Yuan ate this crab feast from ten o'clock in the morning to ten o'clock in the evening, but he was only half full. Xiao Dezhang reluctantly let Lin Yuan go back. When Lin Yuan returned to his residence, he found Shen Wanqing Waiting for himself, he hurriedly asked, "Is there anything to eat?"

Shen Wanqing smiled and said, "Why are you still hungry after eating all day?"

Lin Yuan said helplessly: "I ate a few crabs a day, can I not be hungry? Why are you still not sleeping so late?"

Shen Wanqing said: "Beijing has sent important information, and I am in a hurry to tell you, so I have been waiting for you."

Lin Yuan hurriedly asked, "What information?"

Shen Wanqing smiled and said, "Let's eat first, we'll talk after dinner."

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Just hurry up and talk, I eat information as food."

Shen Wanqing said: "Kang Youwei recently made a memorial to Emperor Guangxu to carry out reforms!"

Lin Yuan said hastily: "In our era, he advocated reform because of the defeat in the Sino-Japanese War. In this era, why does he want to reform when we win?"

Shen Wanqing said: "According to our information: Kang Youwei saw our reforms in Mongolia and felt that Mongolia's policies were very good, so he hoped that the Qing court would push them out across the country. By the way, he also specifically mentioned you!"

Lin Yuan asked: "I was mentioned? What did he say?"

Shen Wanqing replied: "Kang Youwei said that Lin Shuai is an inexhaustible talent. I hope that Emperor Guangxu can entrust you with the heavy responsibility of reform and reform. If you are in charge of the reform and reform, the prosperity of the Qing Dynasty will surely go far. Super Western countries!"

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "This is an interesting thing. I was worried that the Qing court would attack me. I didn't expect Kang Youwei to come out and insert such a slap in the face!"

Shen Wanqing took out a newspaper from her bag and said: "This is an article published by Kang Youwei's disciple Liang Qichao in our Kanto Newspaper - "Mongolian Experience Records", which says: 'Mongolia is originally the land of the barbarians. In this land, the people don’t know etiquette, but under Lin Shuai’s rule, within half a year, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and are kind and courteous. Shuai is the leader of the reform, and he will make our Qing dynasty reappear the splendor of the prosperous Tang Dynasty!"

Lin Yuan asked: "Then what do the folks mean?"

Shen Wanqing said: "Of course I support you to reform! Not only the folks, but Zhang Hua said that many high-ranking officials also support you! I think Xiao Dezhang often visits you these days, probably because he wants to curry favor with you! "

Lin Yuan nodded, and at this moment someone came to report: "Shuai Lin, Eunuch Zhang invites you to go to the house for a feast of fish tomorrow!"

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