When it was just dark, the electric lights were lit up early in the German Shan Hall outside Chongwen Gate.

This is to talk about the season when the electric lights are just turned on in Sijiu City, which can be broken back to the years when the Empress Dowager Cixi Lafayette traveled in the palace.

At that time, there was a lighter from outside the road who was followed by seven or eight eunuchs to finish the work in hand, seeing that the courtyard where the Empress Dowager Cixi Lafayette lived was illuminated by a long string of electric lights, and he didn't know where he jumped out of the guts, he actually knelt down in front of the eyes of the Empress Dowager Cixi Lafayette, learned the number of roads in the play, and opened his mouth to ask the Empress Dowager Cixi Lafayette for a reward!

At that time, there were foreigners' gunboats outside the Qing Dynasty bombarding with cannons, and there were righteous fists inside who were burning with holy fires. Sensei said that at this time, the Empress Dowager Cixi Lafayette still had the heart to reward a lampman from outside, that is, he really wanted to reward him

I really can't get anything out of my hand - maybe Ming'er Forbidden City has someone's surname, and this has to be said!

It is estimated that the Empress Dowager Cixi Lafayette was also idle that day, and another one who could hold the molars in front of him was sent over, so he raised his hand and shouted to the electric lightmaker who came from outside: "Then seal your town!" ”

After saying that, a group of palace maids and eunuchs surrounded the Empress Dowager Cixi Lafayette with a faint smile on her face and returned to the dormitory, leaving only a lightmaker from outside who had just won the reward and knelt on the ground ecstatically, kowtowing like pounding garlic!

Waiting for his head to break the oily skin, the electric lightmaker from outside was not stupid, and he knew that he dragged a few eunuchs around him to ask--what kind of product and title is this town bridge? Is it bigger or smaller than the county master?

If this is not figured out, I am afraid that it is not good to publicize the reward of the Empress Dowager Cixi Lafayette in front of the villagers and elders, right?!

As soon as the words came out, the eunuchs who were dragged by the electric lightmaker from outside suddenly laughed into a pile of quails. The quack laugh startled the birds in the trees around them!

After laughing enough and gasping for breath, a eunuch told the truth to the electric lightmaker who came from outside the road - when he was in Sijiu City, when the big guys were playing with the boring people, they all called the squatting on the side of the road to ask for food Hanako the general who stretched out his hand, and the squatting at the bridge to ask for food called Hanako also had a nickname - Zhenqiaohou!

Since the Empress Dowager Cixi Lafayette rewarded you with the title of Zhenqiaohou, then don't you take a broken bowl as an official seal and take office immediately? !

Let's talk about it. It's just a joke that doesn't sit too small.

It's just that I helped install a few light bulbs in the palace, and I wanted to ask for a reward, so the official title of the Great Qing Kingdom is really worthless, isn't it?

But to put it again, Nuoda is a great Qing country, and his mouth is shouting that the whole world, the land is not the king's land, the shore of the land, the king's ministers, rich in the world, the land is rich, but it is mixed with the head, and the queen mother of a country is forced to be disgraced by foreign guns and cannons, and escapes from the Forbidden City with a different appearance. When I finally returned to the Forbidden City, I couldn't even afford to give a lighter's reward

This Great Qing Kingdom really deserves to die!

Although the electric light has been exposed in Sijiu City since the time of the Empress Dowager Cixi Lafayette, it is still difficult for ordinary people to use electric lights at home!

At that time, on the boundary of Sijiu City, it was called three feet of soil on a sunny day and mud on two legs on a rainy day. In ordinary people's homes, those who can afford to light a kerosene lamp every night are considered well-off, not to mention how many people can only gather next to the stove when it gets dark. Mend your clothes with the glow of the embers in the hearth

This means that some businessmen, wealthy families, and nobles can spend money to pull the wires and install the light bulbs in all the rooms. Wait until it's dark every day. Only then did he carefully close the electric switch installed in the yard, and when he saw that he had reached the stall where he was sleeping, there were immediately housekeepers shouting in the courtyards with their voices - just pull the gate when they spoke! Lights up in each room!

After shouting three or five times, and seeing that the kerosene lamps with small flames were lit up in the houses, the housekeeper only then stepped in front of the electric switch, and still carefully pulled the gate knife down. In the originally bright mansion. It has restored the appearance of old Beijing with swaying lights and shadows and faint voices!

―― If you're not careful, the electric light is good, but something goes wrong and people can't stand it! A little careless

Haven't you heard that the second steward of the Qi family in Deshengmen in the past, that is, when the gate is pulled, it is called electrocution?

Almost by the blink of an eye when the electric light was turned on, Yan Xu had quietly climbed over the wall of the good hall. Squatted in the back of the room in the good hall.

It has to be said that the nine monkeys are active in their brains, although they have just entered the Shantang, and they haven't even stepped on the ground yet, but they have already started small tricks under their hands.

On the threshold of the dining hall where he ate, he dipped some dust with his hands with the help of lifting his shoes, and drew a pattern of monkeys offering fruits with three or two strokes. Not to mention that in the eyes of the good hands in the sneak, I am afraid that the characters who know a little bit about the secret memories of the rivers and lakes will look at it, and those who can see that this room is a canteen that is not tight.

The bathing room didn't let the nine monkeys fall, and the foreigner's pancreas was used to spend three vertical curved lines on the window frame, no matter how you look at it, you know that this is a water room.

The door of the room where I was staying was full of people, and it was not easy to leave a mark that I had drawn. But the nine monkeys can be so clever, taking advantage of the stall of chopping firewood and coal for cooking, they use chopping wood to build a pagoda-like monkey mountain without revealing the mountain, and the few coal blocks resting on the top of the mountain, how to look at it, are only adult monkeys looking at the moon and spitting!

With this mark that can be seen at a glance at night as a guide, Yan Xu naturally quickly found the realm where the nine monkeys were staying. As soon as he shrank into the back of the stove room, Yan Xu had already pursed his lips and gently learned the screams of the sound rats fighting for food.

Almost like a shadow, from the stove room with the electric light on, there was a sudden movement of the nine monkeys talking: "Master, where is this swill poured towards?" ”

Busy serving dozens of people for a day's food and drink, the cook in the room who can cook foreigners' meals was so tired that he lost his temper, and shouted at the nine monkeys in a muffled voice: "Isn't it the one who has long eyes and is angry? There is a drain behind the stove, and Ma Yoer pours the swill there! There are still a bunch of dishes in this room that have not been washed, and if I can't clean them up today, I will tell Dr. Ke tomorrow. Throw you back into the street and ask for food! ”

pretending to be timid and scared, the nine monkeys' voices were a little trembling: "Don't you, I'll go, I'll go."

Muttering timidly, the nine monkeys carried a large bucket of swill around the back of the stove, and also pursed their lips and lowered their lips to learn the movement of the rats competing for food.

After carefully looking at the people around, Yan Xu didn't move anywhere. just suppressed his voice and shouted at the nine monkeys: "Don't look back, busy with your own work!" Something is wrong? ”

Like a weak child who couldn't lift the heavy bucket of swill, the nine monkeys walked slowly towards the sewer ditch not far away, and promised Yan Xu's question without looking back: "Second uncle, this good hall is not a good place!" I heard those children who had come to Shantang early say that the doctors in this place would give those children injections and medicines, and also said that they would send those children who could not be cured here to Tianjin, and take a steamer to Germany to continue treatment! Second uncle, you said that the foreigners in the forty-nine city. When will you have this kind heart? ”

Scanning the surrounding movements like meteors, Yan Xu listened to the words of the Nine Monkeys, but said to the Nine Monkeys: "What's wrong?" ”

Pretending that he couldn't lift the swill bucket and could only stop for a while to take a breath, the nine monkeys shook their heads towards the brightly lit two-story building in the Shantang: "Among the several rules set by the foreigners, the first one is that we Sijiu City masters are not allowed to enter that building, unless they are led in by a few Germans!" Even if the cook in this room gave him supper, it could only be delivered to the door of the building, and then the Germans in the building would take it in."

I listened to the footsteps of the master walking in the stove room, moving towards the door. The nine monkeys picked up the heavy bucket of swill and trotted to the edge of the sewer ditch. Poured a bucket full of swill into the drain!

Maybe it was because the nine monkeys were not sharp enough, and the cook, who was tired and exhausted, only saw that the nine monkeys were still standing next to the sewer ditch, and immediately shouted and scolded in a loud voice: "Hey, you are really an emperor with a flower life!" You're going to have to pour a bucket of swill, you're going to have to spend two hours, aren't you? Ma Yoer came in to clean up the dishes, and Dr. Clinder's gang of German doctors would have to have supper in a while! ”

Putting on a silly look, the nine monkeys trotted towards the room with the swill bucket. While agreeing in a thin voice: "When will you come to this realm?" The gate is going to be pulled at night, and the bright porcelain plate is going to be unwashed, so you can't see it."

Snorted from his nostrils, the cook standing next to the room reached out and took out a box of foreigner cigarettes from his arms, took out one and put it on the corner of his mouth: "Let's just say that you are a turtle who has never seen it, don't you?!" Where is this? This is the good church of the Great German National Corporation. It was opened as soon as there was an electric light in Sijiu City, and unless the power plant that made electricity was shut down, the lights were never turned off! Sensei give me, get over here and work! ”

Agreeing one after another, the nine monkeys looked stupid and stunned on their faces: "Here comes the good hall of the Great German State, but there is really old nose money!" But if the light bulb is shining brightly at night, how can people sleep? ”

Lifting the fat slap on the head of the nine monkeys, the cook who had just lit the cigarette curl scolded angrily: "Are you still worried about this?!" Let me tell you that every house in this good church has its own lamp rope, and if you pull it, it will be bright, and if you pull it again, it will be extinguished! The days when the power plant in Shantang was not lit up have only come back in recent years - the strong wind blew the wires under the corners of the house."

Seeing that the nine monkeys asked the cook to scold and throw him back to the room to work, Yan Xu squatted in the room for a long time, and waited for the cook to knead the dough in the room again, Yan Xu stood up from the hiding room, stuck to the wall that the electric light could not illuminate, and tiptoed towards the two-story small western-style building in the good hall (to be continued). )