When something happened in the city, everyone slept in their clothes, and was ready to cross the river to the east bank for shelter as soon as the wind and grass went, but there was nothing to do all night.

Xiao Wuziren is here but in the city, worried that if there is a false alarm, the ticket number will have neither an account book nor any money that will affect the business, so he plans to go to the city to have a look.

Han Xiufeng didn't dare to take it lightly, not only did he not let him enter the city, but he didn't plan to go to the concession again today, but took out a hoe from the house where the sundries were stored, came to the vegetable patch in front of the house, and observed the movement in the direction of the small stone bridge while pretending to hoe the grass. Pan Er and Zhang Guangsheng were not at ease, one found a straw hat to put on, and the other carried a bamboo basket and followed quietly.

"Squatting, do three big men seem to work together?" Han Xiufeng pointed to the loofah rack with reed bamboo branches diagonally opposite, and motioned Zhang Guangsheng to hide under the loofah vine.

"Oh, I see." Zhang Guangsheng smiled awkwardly and hurriedly walked over.

Pan Er squatted in the ground, pretending to sort out the pumpkin vines, while looking into the distance and asking, "Fourth brother, where are Chen Hu and they hiding, why can't I see it?" ”

"It should still be ahead," Han Xiufeng held his hoe, looked at the crowds of pedestrians who flocked to the small stone bridge, and said solemnly, "Most of the guild halls are built outside the city, and most of the guild parties live outside the city, there should be movement at this time, otherwise there will not be so many people running to the concession." ”

Pan Er glanced at it and muttered, "It's not much." ”

"That's not much, only a few people crossed the bridge yesterday." Han Xiufeng thought about it and said, "What's more, this is the British Concession, and next to the county seat is the French Concession. If nothing else, it is estimated that the French Concession will be overcrowded at this time. ”

Zhang Guangsheng turned around and said, "Fourth master, why don't I go to the French Concession to have a look?" ”

Han Xiufeng didn't want to be like a deaf and blind man, so he muttered, "It's okay to go and have a look, but you have to be careful." ”

"Fourth master, don't worry, I'll be fine when I pass from the British Concession."

"Then go, go early and come back early."

As soon as Zhang Guangsheng was sent away, Su Jueming hurriedly ran along the riverbank, shouting as he ran, "Fourth master, fourth master, no, two foreigners are here!" ”

"Don't worry, speak slowly, where did those two foreigners come from?"

"I came from the north, and I brought a dozen guns, and I didn't understand a word."

Han Xiufeng realized that it should be the Citigroup sailor that the second devil surnamed Lin said yesterday, and put on his hoe and said with a smile, "It should be here to sell guns, why hasn't Lin Qingyuan come yet, what should he do if he is not here to trade." ”

"yes, he spoke yesterday and came early this morning." Su Jueming subconsciously looked in the direction of the county seat and muttered.

"Leave him alone, go back and have a look first."

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Han Xiufeng and Pan Er followed Su Jueming back to the mansion in a hurry, and sure enough, they saw two foreigners wearing triangular hats, beards on their faces, dirty clothes on their upper bodies, and leggings on their lower bodies that made the outline of the second child clearly visible, with two strange-looking hands pinned to their waists, and a strange smell on their bodies.

The wall behind them was wrapped in two long oilcloths, unwrapped so that the muzzles of the guns were clearly visible.

They were gesturing with Big Head and Little Wuzi, muttering something.

The big head clenched the knife and didn't know how to respond, and when he saw Han Xiufeng, he said eagerly, "Fourth brother, you are back, you can tell these two foreign devils, I don't understand their words." ”

Han Xiufeng thought to himself that you don't understand, can I understand, and was arching his hands and not knowing how to say hello, the tall foreign devil actually said happily in a blunt official dialect, "yes yes, foreign devil, foreign devil", and patted his own chest as he spoke, as if he was called a foreign devil.

Han Xiufeng was happy, and couldn't help laughing, "Mr. Foreign Devil, hello." ”

"Hello, me, foreign devil, hahaha......"

"Contemptible Han Xiufeng, my name is Han Xiufeng, Han Xiufeng is my name, can you understand?"

The tall foreigner seemed to be no less than dealing with the Chinese, pointing at Han Xiufeng and asking, "Han Xiufeng?" ”

"Yes, yes, I, Han Xiufeng." The tall foreigner was amused, looked back at his companion, turned to untie the oilcloth bag leaning against the wall, pointed to the six-shot spear inside, and muttered a lot.

This is different from introducing each other's names, Han Xiufeng didn't understand a word, and he didn't know how to communicate, when the short foreign devil suddenly took out a silver dollar from his trouser pocket, held it up in front of everyone, and then handed the silver dollar to the tall foreigner, holding his hands on the front and back and constantly gesturing.

It looked funny, Pan Er was not as nervous as before, and couldn't help laughing, "Fourth brother, this foreign devil is quite shrewd." ”

"It doesn't matter if you don't understand, you just need to know how to settle accounts." Han Xiufeng also felt funny, and simply pointed to the wide open courtyard gate and beckoned them to come in and talk.

These two foreigners are also bold, and they are not worried that they will be blackened at all, so they follow up with two large bags of foreign guns.

Han Xiufeng asked Xiao Wuzi to fetch a hundred silver dollars, and he didn't care if the foreigners could understand what he said, so he said, "Mr. foreign devils, let me take a look at the goods first", and took out a shotgun from the oilcloth bag to see if it was from the mains, thinking that these guns were bought back for Lu Daming and others after all, and asked Zhang Guangsheng to call Lu Daming over.

The guns brought by these two foreigners were better than the materials that Wu Wenming sent someone to buy in Shanghai, and they were heavier in their hands than the ones they used before, and they looked a little longer. Lu Daming looked at the barrel of the gun, immediately broke the hammer, raised it to aim, and gently pulled the trigger, only to hear a snap, and sparks shot out on the flint.

"Fourth master, this gun looks okay, but you have to load gunpowder and lead and put a shot to try."

"How to try it here, now is not the time to test the gun."

As soon as Han Xiufeng's words fell, the tall foreign devil took out a leather box from the oilcloth bag, and while muttering, he took out a gunpowder lead in a paper shell from the leather box, took the gun from Lu Daming's hand and was about to load it into the muzzle.

Han Xiufeng didn't want to recruit the party, so he hurriedly grabbed him, "Mr. Foreign Devil, I believe you, let's talk about the price." ”

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The tall foreigner grunted a lot, and the short foreigner followed along. Han Xiufeng's head was big, so he simply took the gun from his hand, put it on the ground paved with green bricks, and then took the money bag from Xiao Wuzi's hand, counted out thirty silver dollars, divided them into three small stacks, turned around and asked with a smile, "Mr. foreign devil, what about thirty silver dollars per rod, how much do I want!" ”

"Nonono......" The short foreigner shook his head as he snatched the money bag in his hand and counted out twenty pieces of ocean, which were put together with the three small stacks from before.

"Fifty dollars a stroke, that's too expensive!" Without waiting for Han Xiufeng to speak, Su Jueming squatted down and picked up ten pieces, turned around and gestured, "Forty silver dollars, at most forty!" ”

"Nonono......" The short foreigner was obviously too few, so he snatched the silver dollar that Su Jueming picked up and put it next to the gun again.

Su Jueming couldn't help but smile and said, "Otherwise, let's take a step, and you guys will also take a step, thirty-five silver dollars a stroke, it really can't be more!" ”

This time, not only did the short foreigner not agree, but even the tall foreigner did not agree, so he squatted on the ground and grabbed it, counted and counted, and counted for a while before it was sold for forty-three silver dollars.

After "talking" about the price of the gun and talking about ammunition, it was another bargain.

Han Xiufeng was thinking it was funny, Xiao Wuzi's cousin Wood ran in in a hurry, and as soon as he saw Han Xiufeng, he panted and said, "Master Han, something really happened!" As soon as the morning dawned, those party members were ambushed outside the east gate and the north gate with red scarves, and those villagers in the small east gate were all their fellow villagers, and they heard the fleeing people say that as soon as the code was sent outside, the inner city should open the city gate, and as soon as they entered the city, they went straight to the county government and the provincial office, and the north gate was full of people from the party when I mixed out of the city! ”

"Jueming, hurry up and send these two foreign devils away." Han Xiufeng calmed down, and asked solemnly as he walked out, "Do you know the situation in the city?" ”

"Today is the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, and it stands to reason that the county master and the 'Chicken Seller' are going to the Confucian Temple to worship, and they will be served by the party, and it is not said whether they are still alive at this time." Wood wiped his sweat and continued, "I'm running fast, I'm not stuck in the city, and I can't get out if I'm slow." ”

Han Xiufeng looked at the direction of the county seat from afar, and said coldly, "I'm really afraid of something, but fortunately, Guangsheng helped us rent this house outside the city, if we live in the city, it will be a big trouble." ”

"Master Han, what now?"

"We are such a small number of people, what can we do except wait for the imperial court to send troops to quell the chaos."

Woodquan asked eagerly, "Do you want to send someone to Songjiang to report to Qiaofutai?" ”

Han Xiufeng weighed it and turned around and said, "Mr. Wu, you can go to Songjiang to report to Qiaofutai, and I won't send anyone to go." After all, I am the deputy of Lianghuaiyun, and I am not an official of Songjiang Mansion, so if I can not mix the things here, I will not mix. ”

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