"I, Guise de Ruyt III, want to ...... you What is your name? Aite, yes, I'm going to fight a duel with China's Aite! Accept it, you are the son-in-law of the Truger family, and you can't refuse. ”

If Hong Tao is watching the excitement below, he must whistle and stomp his feet, and it is not impossible to push forward when necessary. Duel, this scene that has only been seen in film and television works is actually alive today, and it is best to poke each other with knives. The gun is boring, and it takes a long time to get ready.

“…… With a knife or with a gun? Can you be empty-handed, I promise not to fall to your death. But when it was Hong Tao's turn to be the performer, he was a little vague.

It's true that the other party is an old man, but the old man with a gun is not much worse than a young man, and he is not old enough to pull the trigger, and he looks quite strong, maybe in his early fifties. Even with a sword, I'm not sure, and I've never played with that kind of device.

"Hey, hey, hey...... Claire, I resolutely do not take back what I just said, he is still an albatross with no feathers, and he can't fly half a meter despite his loud cry. As soon as Hong Tao said this, not only did he laugh, but almost everyone in the restaurant laughed.

"Ruyter, he's a Jiu-Jitsu champion, and I suggest you duel on the shore so you don't have to go to the sea to suffer. Even Thomas was laughing, and he didn't mean to help at all, only Dan had a good heart and stood up to administer justice for Hong Tao. But it doesn't sound like she's trying to stop the duel, she's reluctant to go to sea, and in the end it's for her own comfort.

"Wait, I want to understand the rules of the duel first, what's so ridiculous about this? Have you stayed here all your lives and never been anywhere else?" Hong Tao heard a little from Dan's words, how can the duel still be divided into sea and land, isn't it a sword to cut each other, nor a gun to spray each other?

A few minutes later, Hong Tao also smiled, laughing very cheaply, laughing while hurriedly high-five and swore an oath with that Ruyter III, completing the preliminary procedures for the duel, which day will start the duel will depend on the weather forecast.

To say that the descendants of this group of Boers are really idle eggs, the duel is indeed not to hurt each other with knives and guns, they think that it is too easy to die like that, and the threshold is too low, so they changed the weapons used in the duel and turned it into a sailboat.

Originally, this kind of game was popular among their ancestors, and when there was a dispute and there was no way to determine who was right and who was wrong, the two parties would choose a windy night to go to sea, and drive a dhow to the Cape of Good Hope, and whoever came back first would win.

Although summer is not the season for the biggest storms in the Cape of Good Hope, the west side of False Bay is full of high winds and waves all year round, and it also picks bad weather to go out to sea at night.

Now, of course, these Boers are far less powerful than their ancestors, and they have changed the rules and added a fishing boat to follow. It is said that it is to prevent someone from cheating, and it must be supervised by a third party, and to put it bluntly, it is to be a referee.

In fact, they are afraid of death in their bones, but they have a good face, and they are embarrassed to say that they are more than instigated by their ancestors, and one more fishing boat is a little bit of a safety guarantee, and they can also help point out the correct route.

Hong Tao wanted to admit defeat directly after listening to the rules, but it was obvious that the latter was more important than his face and his life. I don't plan to live here for a long time, so there is no face problem. As for Thomas, his face is about his own.

But Thomas seemed to be very willing to watch his son-in-law die, and he changed Hong Tao's decision with a word, and happily agreed to the duel. What did he say? In fact, he only reported one position, and then Hong Tao complied.

Ruyt, the Speaker of the Cape Town City Council, has been a South African political family for generations, and there was a defence minister in his sixties. If it weren't for Mandela, it wouldn't have been a difficult task to become president.

But does this have anything to do with Hong Tao? Of course, if Ruytken helps, this trip to Li Bing will have to get twice the result with half the effort. It is estimated that Thomas himself does not have this ability, and he has to go to the local dignitaries to get a favor.

Since he met such a wayed Ruyt, Hong Tao did not plan to hang himself on Thomas's crooked neck tree, walking on two legs, whoever was fast would use whomever was fast.

But if you have already duel, will people still help? This is the difference in cultural habits. Duel culture is very noble in the tradition of some Europeans and Americans, if you are a common person who is not qualified to duel, you must be recognized by the society as a person with status and status to have this honor.

If he refuses Ruyt's challenge, he will be a coward in his eyes. This evaluation is very low in European and American cultures, and it belongs to the existence that people don't want to see dogs, let alone help, and people can't even look at themselves.

But if he can win him, he will immediately look down on himself, he will not have any big hatred, and he has to apologize to himself honestly, without this kind of demeanor, he can't get along in high society.

In fact, when Hong Tao agreed to a duel with Ruyter, the people in the restaurant already looked up to this young man from China, not to mention his sailing skills, this courage alone is worth a drink. Even with Thomas, no one said that he had found a soft son-in-law, only temporarily.

"Don't worry, I'll find the best captain to follow your ship, and there will be no danger. Thomas didn't eat dinner at all, he was chatting with the old men at the bar all the time, and when he was almost drunk, he returned to the table and patted Hong Tao on the back to show some concern.

"You haven't asked me if I can sail a sailboat, and no matter how good the captain is, he can't save the Cape of Good Hope in time at night, so are you looking forward to my natural death?"

Hong Tao, such an old man on the stall, also felt very unlucky, he not only did not look at himself, but also teamed up with outsiders to stumble on himself, and he watched the jokes on the side.

"Didn't you tell me that you once sailed through the Drake Passage in the middle of the night in winter? The Cape of Good Hope is more of an inland lake than the Drake Passage. Come on, this duel hasn't been held here for many years, and the honor of the Kruger family must be defended!"

In the face of Hong Tao's questioning, Thomas looked innocent, and also brought out Hong Tao's bragging words. Hong Tao clearly remembered that when he talked to him about this incident, he had a disdainful expression on his face, and he didn't believe it at all. But now that he has actually taken it out as evidence, this character has tended to be negative and infinite.

"Yes, you must win, and tomorrow I will invite guests to my house for a very special party, especially for you! This should be considered a holiday, and we will all go to the boat to cheer you on. ”

The ancients looked for fish, shrimp looked for shrimp, turtle looked for Wang Ba, Dan looked like a woman, but he didn't have the slightest sympathy, and he was not afraid of big things when he saw the excitement, and his virtue was exactly the same as Thomas. She is not lively enough, and if she wants to celebrate this event as a festival, she must publicize it widely.

"Yes, I'll go too. Thomas, don't you have a bet on a duel? Whoever loses goes to the other party's ship. It's fair that dead people don't need boats. ”

Jiang Zhuyi, who had been struggling with the curry meat foam on the plate, also finished the last bite at this time, wiped his mouth, and said something that Hong Tao loved to hear.

It's not that a family doesn't enter a door, she knows best what she thinks. Taking such a big risk to duel and make it fun for you to watch, you can't just give some honor. That thing doesn't work for me, so I'd better get something affordable.

"Hurry up and get out of here when you're done......" Thomas glanced at Jiang Zhuyi with disdain, then at Hong Tao, and went back to the bar with a pout, as if his honor had been tarnished by Hong Tao, if anything.

The next day, from ten o'clock in the morning, Thomas and Dan were busy, pulling Hong Tao and Jiang Zhuyi to run to a big mansion built on a cliff by the sea. It seems that this is also Dan's home, because the black maids in it are all masters when they open their mouths and close their mouths.

It is much larger than the original house, not only the rooms are large, but the yard is also large, and there is a swimming pool built on the edge of the cliff, and you can look out at the sea and the people on the beach from lying on the wall of the pool. At this time, two black men were disinfecting and cleaning in the pool, and it was clear that it was not often inhabited.