"What, you're not welcome?"

He Changying couldn't help but feel a little disdain for John, the stinginess of this Western devil, where is it like our Chinese masters, born generous and hospitable, that is called a bold!

"No, no, it's my pleasure and it's very welcome. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

John said with a clear conscience, but secretly complained in his heart, Audrey's cooking skills were not ordinarily bad, and there was no decent food at home.

"Haha, I'll definitely try Audrey's good craftsmanship that night."

He Changying said happily, thinking that the Hungarian food made by Audrey's white and tender hands must be very delicious.

If this girl can be her own woman, she must be like those unscrupulous Japanese films that future generations will see: she is naked every day, with only a simple sleeveless apron in front of her, while cooking, she pouts her ass and lets herself be wanton in the back.

"As long as you're satisfied."

Listening to He Changying's words, John was stiff and said with a wry smile.

As soon as the curtain moved, the beautiful Audrey walked out with a pout, holding two cups of fragrant coffee in her hands, resting heavily on the table, without looking at He Changying, still leaving with her head held high.

This girl's breasts are tall, round and straight!

Looking at Audrey's towering chest, He Changying's heart fluttered, and she hurriedly took a sip of coffee, it was so bitter!

"Why didn't you put sugar?"

He Changying looked up and asked John strangely.

Hearing He Changying's inquiry, John's face suddenly turned red.

After coming to China for more than two months, he and his sister Audrey have spent all their previous savings, and the luxury of enjoying lump candy has long stopped for more than half a month, and there are not many coffee beans at home.

Otherwise, John would not have gone all the way to the Jinhe Inn to take pictures of He Changying for the sake of four silver dollars, let alone be busy for tomorrow's beach party.

Looking at the blood red on John's face, He Changying immediately understood what was going on.

In this era, there were many Western settlers who came to China by boat to pan for gold, eager to get rid of poverty.

It seems that the John siblings are one of them.

So He Changying stopped continuing this topic and began to talk to John about some Western literary and artistic things.

After talking about it, He Changying roughly figured out the basic details of John's brothers and sisters, his brother is a literary and artistic youth in Budapest, and his sister is also a famous beautiful lady in Budapest.

In order to repay the debt, but in He Changying's view, it was more like they were running away from the debt, so they traveled thousands of miles to China, intending to join one of their uncles who was working as an errand in the French embassy.

However, when he came to Jinmen and inquired in the purple bamboo forest, he learned that his uncle had already resigned from his mission and ran to India with a merchant ship of the East India Company.

So the helpless brother and sister had no choice but to settle down in Jinmen and open a small photo studio to sit and eat.

"John, I deeply sympathize with the misfortune of you and Audrey, we have an old saying in China, 'Heaven will descend on the people, you must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, and starve their bodies and skin'; of course, you can't understand what I'm saying, but you just need to know that when you and Audrey are lucky enough to meet me, your fate has changed dramatically."

He Changying glanced at the Western clock on the table, the time was already more than two o'clock, he stood up and confidently said to John, who looked puzzled: "Please remember what I just said, when you want to write a memoir when you are old, you should be able to use it." ”

He Changying left John's photo studio, called a rickshaw outside the door, and soon came to the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili.

It's still the old rule, the soldiers of the governor's mansion took He Changying's piece of Guangyang with disdainful eyes, and soon came out with a pleasant old steward, He Changying also smiled and 'honored' the last two pieces of Guangyang in his hand.

He Changying followed the old steward into the governor's palace, as soon as he entered the door, there was a tall white marble wall carved with mountains and rivers and beasts, and around the wall was a deep rectangular courtyard, on both sides stood two rows of governor's mansion Goshha with a brave look and a brand-new Mauser Type 92 rifle.

Walking through the first courtyard, He Changying followed the smiling old steward into the second courtyard, which also stood majestically in two rows of Goshha, and at the door of the second hall stood a military attache with a rhinoceros complement on his chest, and when he saw He Changying and the two approaching, he opened the pearl and jade curtain at the door.

", even the general of the roller shutter is a military attache of the seventh grade, Niu Bi!"

He Changying deliberately scolded in his heart to relieve the pressure in his heart, raised his legs over the high threshold of the second hall, and stepped into the hall of the governor's mansion.

Everyone in the room stood up, and the tall thin old man in the middle who was wearing a ruby top beaded cool hat and a first-grade crane supplement suit said with a smile: "The main owner who wants to tie the long dragon is here, and if you want a book, just look for me to go." ”

He Changying suddenly saw the people in the room under the pressure of the black, and he was a little dizzy, and then he heard the old man sitting in the main seat in the middle standing up and talking with a smile, and knew that this energetic old man was Li Hongzhang.

"The kid greets the boss of the middle hall, and I wish the old man of the middle hall a blessing like the East China Sea and longevity than Nanshan."

He Changying didn't have any guilt in his heart when he kowtowed to Li Hongzhang, an old man in his seventies.

But He Changying, who experienced this for the first time, knocked her head down but didn't know what to say, so she read it according to what she had seen on the film and television show.

The room suddenly fell silent, and Zhang Shiheng, who was drinking tea, couldn't hold back, coughing and spraying tea all over the ground.

Then the room burst into laughter.

"Get up."

He Changying's birthday greetings also made Li Hongzhang stunned, but after thinking about it, he thought that it was the first time this hairy boy had experienced this kind of scene, so he couldn't help but panic, which is also human nature.

Besides, 'Blessing is like the East China Sea, Shoubi Nanshan', this is also a good word after all, so he said with a smile: "Look at the seat." ”

He Changying stood up, his eyes swept around quickly, and saw Sheng Huaixuan, Li Jingfang, and Zhang Shiheng all sitting here.

There was also a graceful scribe in his early forties, who saw He Changying's gaze and nodded to him with a smile.

Next to Li Hongzhang's left throne sat a civil official in his early fifties, wearing a white pheasant complement official uniform, who also looked at He Changying curiously at this time, and nodded and smiled at He Changying's gaze in a friendly manner.

Who is this old guy, a five-grade civil official is still in front of Sheng Huaixuan?

He Changying nodded and smiled back, and his eyes looked towards Li Hongzhang's right.

There stood a military attache in his fifties who was not smiling, with a unicorn complement of a first-class military attache on his chest, and his eyes were not angry but looking at He Changying.

Ding Ruchang!

He Changying instantly guessed the identity of this military attache from the first rank.

Under Li Hongzhang's men, there were two real power in Beiyang, Ye Zhichao, who had not fled to Pyongyang at this time, and Ding Ruchang, the commander of the Beiyang Naval Division, was in the navy.

What is the origin of that five-grade civil official, who can sit in a more honorable position than Ding Ruchang?

For a while, He Changying's heart was full of doubts.