Chapter sixty-seven the sword
When Adong saw Xiaomali, he was first startled.
However, Xiao Mali greeted Adong openly, then placed two cups of coffee in front of him and Tang Haoming, and sat quietly on the sofa watching them chat.
"Mr. Lu, you are really capable. How did you bring her back from Vietnam to Shanghai?" As Dong looked at Lu Yongzhi with admiration.
"What I have the ability, it's purely a coincidence. Not long after I came to Shanghai, their family also came to Shanghai. I happened to want to hire a French teacher, and someone recommended her. When I turned around, it turned out to be her. Are you surprised?"
Lu Yongzhi opened the box, took out two cigars and handed them to them. Adong refused, and Tang Haoming happily took it.
"Mr. Lu, what is fate? This is fate. If you are destined to meet you thousands of miles away, why are you waiting for? Marry her? Then I found that she is interested in you." A Dong said without any hesitation.
Xiao Mali's face turned red when she heard this, but she didn't say anything.
"Adong, do you think she was the little Mali from that time. She now speaks Chinese more standard than you. Do you think she doesn't understand?"
Lu Yongzhi smiled.
This made Adong blush, and he had to say to Xiaomali in embarrassment: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
But Xiao Mali said generously: "Brother Dong, don't do this, we are all old acquaintances. I remember that you liked to follow my brother's butt the most at that time, and you followed wherever you went."
"Wow, you call me brother? It's still our Guangxi dialect. Brother, sister is kind."
"Don't talk nonsense, my brother has someone in his heart, he can look at me." Xiao Mali glanced at Lu Yongzhi's eyes with a grievance.
When Adong saw that the situation was complicated, he hurriedly interrupted: "Mr. Lu, let us drink this bitter thing and bring your foreign wine to try."
"Yes, it's still exciting to drink." Tang Haoming also felt that the situation was unclear and then interrupted the road.
Before Lu Yongzhi could speak, Xiao Mali got up, opened the wine cabinet, held the wine glass, and acted skillfully like the housewife of this family.
Tang Haoming looked at Ah Dong, and when he was right, he shook his head slightly to show that he couldn't understand the relationship between the two.
"Brother Guan asked me to bring you a message, so that you would be better off taking time to go back to Longzhou recently. Su Shuai is in trouble."
"Oh, you can tell me in detail."
The reason was that Wang Zhichun, the current governor of Guangxi, reported to the court that he attacked Su Yuanchun to plunder the people, wrote anti-poems, and made friends with foreigners. Su Yuanchun accused Wang Zhichun of betraying the rights of roads in Guangxi and mining the rights to the French, causing political instability in Guangxi.
Wang Zhichun accused Su Yuanchun of looting soldiers and looting was still accused by the victims. Wang Zhichun had already been in a quarrel with Su Yuanchun, and after receiving the accusation, he went to Longzhou in person.
At first, Su Yuanchun didn't know what he was thinking, so he accompanied him to visit the completed Liancheng project. With the money left by Lu Yongzhi for him, Su Yuanchun transformed a cave in the middle of Xiaoliancheng Mountain into a border command post.
The cave has a strange structure, and the sun and moon can shine into the cave. Su Yuanchun was very happy to see this strange scenery, so he nominated the cave as Baoyuan Palace and wrote a poem on the cave wall of the cave: The sun and the moon are half of the talent.
This poem was understood by Wang Zhichun as Su Yuanchun compared himself to the sun and the moon, and wanted to confront the court, each occupying half of the day. This is the origin of the anti-poetry.
At this time, the French consul changed to a Chinese Communist Party, and he gave himself a Chinese name called Fang Suya. He had many contacts with Su Yuanchun. After a long time, he was called brothers and left photos of him taking photos with Su Yuanchun.
This also became one of the evidence that Wang Zhichun framed Su Yuanchun for the handover of foreign invaders.
Su Yuanchun learned that Wang Zhichun had a secret negotiation with the French Mining Group, and the French would invest in the construction of roads. The cost of building roads was handed over to the French for low prices for mining in Guangxi to the French in return.
At that time, the right to road and mining rights were regarded as the lifeline of the country. Wang Zhichun's behavior of borrowing foreign capital to build roads was regarded as a traitor by the public. Later, Wang Zhichun was dismissed from office and was assassinated by the Chinese during his residence in the Shanghai Concession.
Guan Wuming always believed that Su Yuanchun was kind to him. He also knew that Lu Yongzhi was extremely commendable for Su Yuanchun's construction of all kinds of cities and consolidating border defense. Now that Su Yuanchun is in trouble, he still hopes that Lu Yongzhi can return to Guangxi and help Su Yuanchun overcome the current difficulties.
Lu Yongzhi did not express his opinion on this and asked, "How are the troops now? Are the others okay?"
"As you said, each battalion of Jian is organized by two battalions. Usually one battalion is preparing for war, and the other battalion is reclaiming land, and it is rotated every six months. In addition to the small bandits on the border in southwestern Guangxi, everything else has been suppressed, destroyed, and reconciled by us."
Looking at Tang Haoming's outfit, we know that they are living a very comfortable life now. Moreover, it is estimated that most of the profits from opium cultivation are put into their own pockets.
There must be no smoking ban, but now it is banned. The soldiers cannot even have enough food to eat, so what equipment should they talk about?
"What do you guys lack when you go to Germany? Do you need me to buy it for you?" Lu Yongzhi asked. The reason why the 50,000 yuan that Adonghui had opened another account was because he wanted to use it for studying abroad in the future.
"No, the funds for our study abroad are calculated at 10,000 yuan per person. According to the German pastor, there are enough restaurants every day." Tang Haoming waved his hand.
Lu Yongzhi looked at them, then looked at Xiao Mali, and said, "You go first, maybe we will meet overseas."
"You want to study abroad too? If you want to come, come to Germany. We are waiting for you in Munich." Adong said.
As he was speaking, Maggie pushed the door open and performed the British court ceremony gracefully, and then greeted: "Hello sirs. Dear, why don't you arrange Western food tonight? Let your friends feel the enthusiasm of the French meal."
Xiao Mali curled her lips on the side, showing a disdainful look.
Lu Yongzhi quickly translated Maggie's English into Chinese and introduced it, "This is my partner, the Marquis of England, you can call her Maggie." Then, he explained to Maggie: "They have several companions, and they have already ordered meals in the restaurant tonight."
Tang Haoming, Adong quickly stood up and greeted, "Hello, Marquis!"
Xiao Mali muttered in Guangxi dialect, "Tsk, partner on the bed." Without waiting for Lu Yongzhi to react, he stepped forward to hold his hand and said crisply: "Brother, I'm going to have a dinner together tonight."
"It's all a group of men, what are you, a little girl, getting involved?"
Lu Yongzhi patted her hand.
"I'm still a little girl, I'm so old, I don't pay any attention. My dear, I won't accompany you anymore and go home early." A series of English appeared in Maggie's mouth.
"I don't, I'm going to go!" Xiao Mali said, shaking his arm.
One cannot understand English, the other cannot understand Chinese, and two people are open and secretly arrows, neither of which is easy to save money. Lu Yongzhi smiled helplessly at the stunned Tang Haoming and Adong.
Chapter completed!