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At this point, Sir Gordon's escort mission had officially ended. The priest of the Xuanwumen Catholic Church had specially come to receive the explorer's remains, and from now on, the church would be the one to escort Sai Mouerbeike back to his homeland.

Gordon saw the priest and Chinese priest escorting the coffin into the city ahead of time, he turned to Major De Lanni and asked, "Is it the Southern Church of Xuanwu Gate?"

"Yes, it is the first church of Beijing!"

"AHH!" Gordon nodded his head, "So it's a church built by Limitless, Tang Ruo Wang and Nan Huairen! God bless him! "

"Alright, my De Lanni, what other urgent matter do you have now? I am simply too tired, can't you let me take a bath and have a good night's sleep?"

De Lanni smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I'm afraid not, I have a lot of questions to ask you, and the emperor will probably summon you right away!"

"This eunuch has already waited here for you for over half a month. If you don't enter the palace today, I'm afraid he won't be able to explain himself!"

The welcoming eunuch smiled obsequiously in front of the horse to welcome the noble, he could not understand a string of English words, and seeing that the two Master Yang s had found the time to glance at him, he immediately took the opportunity to speak.

"Lord Gordon! You must hurry and follow me to the palace! His Majesty has always been talking about you! "

"If only I had known that the Western Regions was such a dangerous road, I wouldn't have split up in India... "Look at this, he even caused Mr. Samuel's death in the Western Regions! What the hell is going on?!"

These two were both Chinese characters, and their Chinese proficiency had already reached the level of spoken language. It was just that reading and writing was a bit strenuous, as a lot of foreign Chinese characters were too difficult to recognize!

As for chatting in Chinese, there was no problem at all!

The young eunuch mentioned Samuel's trip to the Western Regions. De Lanni immediately spoke to Gordon in English, "This is the most important mission that I came here for. I have to ask you about the power generation in the country, is there any secret behind Samuel's death?"

Gordon frowned: "Could it be that London suspects something?"

"How can I not doubt it? Samuel is the explorer of my British Empire and the examiner of my Nile. In such a dangerous place like the Middle East and North Africa, he didn't even take his life.

"Is China more dangerous than an uncultivated South America rainforest? Do not bully the people in your country because they do not understand China. Dunhuang's history can be pushed back to the Han Dynasty BC, or even longer! "

"This land has long been domesticated through animal husbandry and agricultural development! Although there's still a bit more of the desert, it's not enough to take Samuel's life! "

"Isn't it abnormal? "You have no suspicion of Samuel's death!"

Gordon raised his head to look at the towering Yongding City Tower, and carefully recalled the hardships that the Central Asia had gone through, and it took a long time before he could finally say it, "I … I really did not notice anything amiss! "

"Samuel's death was a real tragedy, but there was a reason for it. On the surface, it looked like he had fallen into a hole in the ice and died from typhoid fever, but that's not the case …"

"In the Ivu River Valley, we avoided the pursuit of the Sha Russian cavalry, and traversed the vast snowy mountain in winter. Where did he freeze and fall ill?!"

"On the way to the Northern Frontier, he can no longer walk. He's always been dragged over by the climbing plow … It took a long time for the Chinese to recover their health! "

"After a tough journey all the way to Dunhuang, his illness was finally cured eighty to ninety percent … However, that was only eighty to ninety percent of what it was. The root of the illness was still there, and in the end, the water fell directly onto his body and caused him to repeatedly suffer from cold and wounds. Only then did he lose his life! "

"If the Chinese really wanted to kill him, why did they need to spend so much time treating him? You must know that when we reached the Dunhuang, the Chinese had already cured his disease! "

De Lanni continued to ask, "Then what if you fall into the water? In the cold winter, how could the ice cover fall off when it was so solid? Why didn't she fall down before? "

"I'm afraid you'll have to ask God. Samuel got the water very close to his camp. You must know that the explorer and the rest are extremely vigilant! "

"Every night in Expedition, there is someone on guard … That day was no exception, and the man on night shift said that no one appeared on the surface of the ice at all, not even a wild beast! "

"How? "With what?"

As a Martial Officer, De Lanni was naturally in charge of intelligence. This kind of person had the most doubts!

He rolled his eyes. "Isn't there a possibility …" Someone was hiding underwater and had secretly destroyed the ice cover? "

"Ah …" I have no other choice! " Gordon shrugged his shoulders, "You can continue to pretend, but I don't have any evidence to prove your imagination!"

"Shall we go back and collect the evidence?" Gordon pointed at the wild flowers beside the road, "It's already this season, what other evidence do you still want to find?"

De Lanni also knew that her guess did not have any evidence to back it up. The two chatted for a long time before he sighed: "I guess that's the only way to repay London!"

"I never thought that this would become a historical mystery. It makes me feel so uneasy!"

After chatting with Gordon for a while longer, the two went their separate ways. Under the protection of the palace eunuchs and guards, Gordon rode his horse towards Donghua Gate.

Gordon had been out on a campaign in the south of China for a long time, yet he had only been to the capital twice. The first time was when he had just arrived in China from England, following a group of ambassadors in handling official affairs.

And the second time was in the year 1864, before Xiao Letian had even entered the capital, he had already reached the Beijing!

He received General Liu and the officials from the military, bestowed him with gold, silver, and a noble title, and finally sent him back home.

Gordon stayed in the capital for half a month, but did not even enter the Forbidden City once.

The rest of the time was spent traveling around the Beijing market.

Until he returned home, he was very regretful that he did not enter China's imperial palace to take a look!

But today, the Tongzhi Emperor had actually invited someone to the forbidden city. When the majestic imperial city appeared in front of him, even Gordon, who had seen such a huge scene before, couldn't help but become excited.

His entire body was even trembling slightly as if he was swinging his hand!

"Ai …" This is outside of Donghua Gate? Why are they all new troops? Gordon looked at it and became surprised immediately! "

Just then, a small sedan chair appeared in front of him, and stopped right in front of Gordon.

"Ouch …" Long time no see, I travelled thousands of miles to travel across the entire Central Asia and the Western Regions, your Lordship has worked hard! "

"Oh!" It's Chief Steward, hello, hello … I was just sighing with emotion, why did this Imperial City have a new atmosphere? "