"A few guest officers, Tianjin Wei has arrived."

The handlebar lifted the door curtain, rushed into the three bumps in the car for more than an hour, and the pale-faced man said - riding in a carriage in this era is definitely a more unbearable torture than riding a boat.

Chu Fan endured the churning of his stomach, stretched out his head to look, and saw that in the vast twilight, a majestic city rose from the ground.

On the blue brick city wall as high as several zhang, every few dozen steps, there is a soldier lazily patrolling the city with a pole and spear; Just on the right side of the gatehouse, between the two battlements, a Hongyi cannon is impressive, and the swarthy cannon mouth is pointed directly outside the city - since the victory of Ningyuan last year, many military towns in the north have been equipped with this kind of weapon to defend the city, and Tianjin Wei is of course no exception.

Chu Fan was still looking curiously at this future municipality, Liu Zhongwen had already gotten out of the carriage, holding the Dengzhou Navy Garrison Battalion to negotiate with the guards at the city gate, and it took a long time for the guards to wave their hands and let them go.

In the sound of sparkling cars, the carriage turned east from south to north at the intersection in the center of the city, and came to the front of Tianjin Yimen, and the sky was dark.

The four of them got out of the car, Chu Fan stayed to pay for the car, and after sending the carriage away, he didn't rush in, and looked curiously at this post station with a long wall and a small face. On both sides of the gate of the post station, various food stalls are lined up, and the air is filled with the aroma of wontons, boiled boiled and even rice wine.

After watching for a while, Chu Fan stepped into the door, passed through a small courtyard, and came to the lobby of the post station, and as soon as he entered the door, he heard Liu Zhongwen speak angrily, "You don't know anything about it, we are also serious, how can we live in that small and broken north courtyard?" ”

The lobby was brightly lit, and behind the desk opposite Liu Zhongwen, a middle-aged man in his forties with two rat-tail beards on his lips and about forty years old replied lazily, "There is only the North Side Courtyard left in the station...... You will stay and live, and you will not go out to find the inn by yourself. ”

Seeing this, Chu Fan asked Ge Bi next to him in a low voice, only to know that after they came in, Liu Zhongwen was dissatisfied with the arrangement of this post and had a dispute.

They didn't come to do business, the so-called "stolen gongs and drums can't be beaten", it was already good to have a place to live, so Chu Fan hurriedly stepped forward, pulled away Liu Zhongwen, who was still arguing, and followed a post guard and prepared to go to the North Side Courtyard.

At this moment, I saw a servant-like person enter proudly, and said loudly, "In the first year of the Apocalypse, Enke Sanjia Jinshi, supervising the imperial history, and ordering Shandong Patrol to press Lord Hu arrived!" ”

When the post man heard that the inspector was coming, he jumped up like a spring, his face was full of flattering smiles, and he shouted loudly, and hurried his subordinates out to greet him.

"Grandma's, when we came, we sat with a loud horn, and when we heard the patrol coming, we were like dogs...... What the hell! Walking behind Chu Fan, Liu Zhongwen spat fiercely and muttered in a low voice.

Chu Fan smiled bitterly and shook his head, this is inevitable in any dynasty, so he didn't take it to heart at all, and quickly followed the leading post guard, curiously inquiring about the situation of this post station. When he arrived at the north courtyard, Chu Fansai gave the post guard a handful of copper and asked him to send dinner to the courtyard, and the post man agreed to go with great gratitude.

This courtyard is small and dirty, with two rooms in the east and west compartments, but the north compartment is a warehouse for stacking firewood and charcoal, and the ground of the whole courtyard is pitch black, and even the green bricks cannot be seen.

They were placed in two rooms in the east wing, one for Ge Bi, one for Chu Fan and one for Liu Zhongwen, and when they entered the door and saw the mess and dirtiness in the room, Liu Zhongwen's face became even darker, and he scolded this Yicheng dog for looking down on people.

"Let go of me! I have to beat this guy this time! ”

The two of them were in the room, and when they heard a loud shout in the courtyard, the voice was quite strange, although it was a Beijing accent, but with an awkward taste.

Chu Fan and Liu Zhongwen glanced at each other, rushed outside the house to take a look, and couldn't help but be stunned.

But I saw that it was a very tall man who scolded loudly, dressed in a green robe, and embroidered with a seahorse on his supplementary clothes. The most strange thing is that his hair is pale yellow, densely curled and scattered; The long horse's face is high, nose and deep eyes, and a pair of blue eyes are particularly terrifying in the light.

Crooked nuts?!

Chu Fan couldn't help but wonder, during the apocalypse of the Ming Dynasty, crooked nuts were all over the place? Looks like you're still an official?

He felt strange, and Liu Zhongwen felt even more strange, the eyes of the second son, who had never seen crooked nuts, were like copper bells, as if he had seen the strangest thing in the world, and his mouth was wide open and he couldn't close it.

Ge Bi, who also went out to see the excitement, immediately recognized this as a red-haired ghost - he had not seen it in Nagasaki - but what made Ge Bi strange was how the red-haired ghost ran to the mainland?

The military attache foreigner was beside him, one tall and one short, and the tall and thin figure looked like a servant, holding the foreigner's black gauze hat in his hand, and he lowered his eyebrows and persuaded him again and again, "Xiye, aren't all the posts in the world like this today?" Just bear with me! ”

The shorter one was a sixth-rank civil official, who was about fifty years old, and his chin was sparse and sparse, and nearly half of his beard was white; He was full of heaven, but his eyes were extremely clear, revealing a cleanliness and purity that did not correspond to his age. Chu Fan noticed that his green robe was wrinkled, and the spots on the mandarin duck patch were full of oil stains, and his sloppy appearance really didn't look like an official master.

At this moment, he saw that the military attache was still yelling to beat people, he couldn't help frowning, and a large series of muttering words came out very quickly, and the military attache responded in the same language, and after a long time, the foreign military attache finally stopped making trouble and stopped.

This scene made Chu Fan even more curious, although he couldn't understand the conversation between the two - obviously not English - how could there be someone in the Ming Dynasty who was proficient in foreign languages?

He was still wondering, Liu Zhongwen's curiosity next to him had already exploded, no wonder, in this era, anyone who sees a ghost-like crooked nut for the first time, or hears the crooked Mandarin like a bird, will drop his eyes in surprise.

"This military master is invited, Liu Zhongwen in Xia Dengzhou, he doesn't dare to ask, is it possible that Your Excellency has also suffered from the pickled smell of that Yicheng?" Surprised to surprised, Liu Zhongwen still politely clasped his fists and saluted.

The military attache was stunned for a moment, swept the three of them with a pair of blue eyes, and quickly understood that Liu Zhongwen, like himself, was sent to the dilapidated courtyard by the snobbish Yicheng, and suddenly felt sympathy for the same disease, and bowed his hand and saluted back, "In the lower franc machine Sidesa...... This dog post is really angry and kills a person, Liu Gongzi must feel the same way? ”

"It turned out to be the Western ......," Liu Zhongwen said in his heart how awkward this surname sounded, and after a pause, he continued, "My lord, I am fortunate to meet you." ”

The foreign military attache seemed to have gotten used to being surprised by him, and smiled disapprerovingly, "I'm not actually surnamed Xi...... Alas! Whatever you want to call it. ”

Liu Zhongwen was surprised and asked, "What is the adult's surname?" ”

The foreign military attache muttered a string of Francophone words, and Chu Fan listened to the word "Silva" in the end, so he asked with a smile, "My lord's father's surname is Silva?" ”

The foreign military attaché's face was immediately full of surprise, and he replied in amazement, "That's right! That's right! , the full name under which is Sidsha Felipe Silva, and this Sidsa is the name...... Does this brother also understand the words of the Franco? ”

Liu Zhongwen's eyes were wider than those of a foreigner, and he looked at Chu Fan for some reason, this amount of information was too large, and he didn't turn around - how could he not know that Chu Fan still understood bird language? And what's the father's last name? Could it be that there is still a mother's surname?

Chu Fan didn't pay attention to him, but glanced at the civil official, who was obviously also interested, and looked at Chu Fan carefully.

Chu Fan arched his hand and said, "Chu Fan, who is born in Xia Penglai, although he doesn't understand the words of the Franc machine, he likes to read some miscellaneous books on weekdays, and he also knows a little about the rules of the Franc machine, so he guessed the father's surname of the adult." ”

After speaking, he arched his hand from the civil official and said, "I don't dare to ask this lord for his name." ”

The civil official smiled faintly and arched his hand, "A certain is the head of the Ministry of War-Sun Yuanhua." ”