At ten o'clock in the evening, An Yi, who was wearing a tweed Western-style wide-brimmed hat and a royal blue satin gown, stood on the cold middle wharf, how to look at how he felt that his image at this time was that of a landlord, foreign but not earthy, very awkward, but Lin Xudong and others praised it greatly, and they almost didn't use the words dragon and phoenix and Yushu Linfeng among the people.

"Look, the ship heading east from the middle channel suddenly turned around and drove towards us, but the gunboat that I thought was loading made a big bend and slowly drove upstream to the water, it seems that the gunboat is only for escort, and it is this big ship that really wants to trade with us." The Ahai family has lived on water for generations, and is very good at sailing, inland river fishing, and transportation.

Everyone looked in the direction pointed by Ah Hai, and sure enough, they found that the gunboat that had reached the upstream waters turned around again, and slowly followed the big ship at a distance of about 300 meters upstream.

The big ship was about 30 meters away from the dock, and everyone could see that the muzzles of the black large-caliber naval guns on the ship were actually a German [***] ship of more than 700 tons, and more than 500 guns were sent to such a powerful warship to transport, which was indeed unimaginable to An Yi and others.

"Bang-bang-la-"

The heavy iron anchor quickly sank to the bottom of the river, and the tail of the warship was still slowly approaching the huge stone pier, two heavily armed German sailors lowered a sturdy ladder, and Hans was already standing on the side of the ship at the top of the ladder and looked down, trying to find his old friend in the crowd of torches on the pier.

An Yi smiled and took two steps forward, took off his tweed top hat and made a very chic gesture of a Western gentleman bending down and saluting, straightened up and shouted loudly to the surprised Hans in English that had been prepared many times: "Haha! Hans, my good friend, you are so cute! ”

"Ann? How do you dress like this? My God......"

Hans propped up his hands, skillfully separated his two long legs and slid down the ladder, strode forward as soon as he landed, hugged An Yi's waist tightly, and laughed and picked up An Yi and spun it around before putting it down.

"Almost strangled me...... Hans, your grandmother is so efficient! ”

The excited An Yi smashed a punch on Hans's strong chest, Hans laughed, and also gave An Yi a punch, making Lin Xudong and the others stunned - this is too affectionate, right?

Hans pulled over An Yi and introduced him to a young German man who had just disembarked: "This is Raut. ”

An Yi stretched out his hand and shook Raute gently: "It's a pleasure to meet you!" ”

"I'm glad too, I've been hearing Hans praise you a lot lately, I can't wait, it's a great honor to meet you today! In the future, I would like to ask Mr. An to take care of me. "Raute is very proficient in Chinese.

An Yi looked at Raute in surprise: "Your Chinese is too good!" If I didn't look at your appearance, I really thought you were from Shandong. ”

Laute laughed: "Mr. An is really well-informed, haha!" I came to Shandong with my father when I was eight years old, first in Yantai and then in Qingdao, so I speak Chinese with a Shandong accent. After my father's retirement, I took over from him as the Commercial Liaison Officer for our headquarters in Germany, and I was very happy to come to Guangzhou last month when Mr. Hans was promoted to General Manager of South China for the Far East region of our headquarters. Hans was my senior when I was a university student in Germany, and our friendship was very strong. I hope to count on Mr. Ahn's generous assistance in the future, and I greatly admire Mr. Ahn's creativity and far-sightedness. ”

An Yi turned to Hans: "Hey, you ...... me All said? ”

Hans laughed and replied humorously in Chinese: "I sold you to Raut, haha!" ”

"Grandma's...... Hans, you violated Lao Tzu's **, you have to compensate me for my losses! An Yi also joked.

Hans heard it very clearly and immediately replied: "I am happy to pay compensation, you see......"

An Yi looked in the direction pointed by Hans, only to see Lin Xudong and dozens of others stopped under the battleship by several German sailors with loaded guns, a wide ladder had been erected at some point, and the German naval officers and men with high cattle and horses carried them on their shoulders, moved boxes of guns and bullets, and stacked them neatly on the dock, and the strict discipline and high efficiency made An Yi admire.

"Mr. An, in order to express his gratitude to you and for the deep friendship between you, Hans has decided to give you another 50,000 rounds of rifle bullets and 5,000 rounds of Mauser military pistol bullets, which are what you call shell gun bullets. Also, based on your excellent set design, Mr. Hans asked me to tell you that after the German manufacturer has sent feedback confirming the adoption of Mr. Hans's design, Hans will talk to you about the remuneration in detail. Raute expertly explained to An Yi.

An Yi, who was extremely grateful in his heart, pulled Raute and turned to Hans: "Raute, you can only translate if you don't know...... Hans, are we old friends? ”

"Of course!" Hans didn't need to translate this, he blurted out a sentence in Chinese.

An Yi said a lot of words in one breath: "In this case, don't mention the matter of the honorarium again, you have given me so much help, I don't know how to thank you, there may be many things that need your help in the future, so don't be so outward, as for those drawings, they are just gifts I gave you this old friend, before doing this business, I was worried that you didn't remember me, so I drew a few pictures to let you remember me, especially my signature You also said it looked good last time, I guess you will help me after you see it, take 10,000 steps back and say, I'm glad if the drawings work for you, because I can do something meaningful for my friends, you know? Don't mention the remuneration or bonuses or anything, and then mention that Lao Tzu is in a hurry with you! ”

After listening to Raute's translation, Hans solemnly and emotionally stepped forward and shook An Yi's hand: "Dear Ann, you have touched me very much!" I fully appreciate your deep friendship, it warms my heart! But Ann, no real German can ignore the interests of his friends, and I understand what you ask, but I can't do that. You are the best friend I have made since I came to China, I admire you and feel very lucky, Ann, I cherish it! ”

What did he say? It's all German bullying Lao Tzu? An Yi quickly turned to Raute.

Lauter smiled and translated the full text, and finally gave his own advice: "Mr. An, please accept Hans's opinion, we Germans have our own principles of life, just like you Chinese stick to your own principles, we have accepted your heart, and we will develop better in the future." ”

An Yi was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Germans are indeed Germans, they have not changed for thousands of years, grandma's Hans ......"

"Ann, don't curse! I will scold people too, you listen: grandma's ......"

Hans burst out laughing.