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Of course, the Daotai Mansion is magnificent, although it is the backyard of the yamen, but it is also connected to the front hall. The typical room layout in the late Qing Dynasty has a few foreign gadgets in it, such as the big pendulum clock in front of you.

"Things are always content, and people are always happy! It's a little interesting, it's a little interesting! Zhang Renjie looked at the furniture in the living room for a while, all of which were of the highest quality, and then looked at the couplet hanging on the wall. In the middle of the couplet is a picture of a fisherman catching a carp and laughing happily. From this painting, it can be roughly seen that Ding Shicheng's utilitarian heart should not be heavy, and he yearns for the joy of leisure fishing. But in this era, how many Qing officials are there? Could it be that he booked that this old man was also a clean official? No, looking at the furnishings in the living room, it's worth a lot of silver!

"You are the young hero who saved my daughter from fire and water?" Zhang Renjie, who was looking at the couplet, suddenly heard someone behind him, and immediately turned around and saw a medium man in a silk horse coat. According to Ding Wan'er's complaint to him, Ding Shicheng is only forty-seven years old this year, but now he looks like he has two sideburns, a thin body, and a lot of wrinkles on his white face. But with thick eyebrows and bright eyes, he seems to be able to see through people's hearts and show majesty. Could it be that this is the official authority that only the legendary superiors have?

"Students don't dare to be. Student Zhang Renjie has met Master Ding! Zhang Renjie saw the middle-aged man and immediately bent down and saluted. There will be no one else who can come to the living room except Ding Shicheng. According to the rules, he is a showman, except that he doesn't have to kneel when he sees the county order, and he has to kneel when he sees officials above the county order. But Zhang Renjie didn't pay attention to these and asked him to kneel, except for facing his parents, nothing else! His knees aren't that soft and won't bend!

Ding Shicheng is not a very conservative person, and he actively supports the Westernization movement, but he also recognizes some of the rules passed down from his ancestors, including this etiquette and humility. Seeing that Zhang Renjie didn't kneel down for him, he suddenly felt uncomfortable. But listening to what his daughter said, this Zhang Renjie has a lot of credit and is kind to his daughter, so it's okay to be rude.

"Sit!" Ding Shicheng said a word, and then sat down on the top of himself.

Zhang Renjie saluted again, and then sat down. At this time, the maidservant of the Ding family came to serve tea, and Zhang Renjie was not polite, so he took the tea bowl and took a sip. I ran all afternoon after noon today, but I didn't get a drop of water, and I was really thirsty. Unconsciously, Zhang Renjie did not estimate too much of the etiquette of this era.

This made Ding Shicheng feel that Zhang Renjie was not polite and was not a talent to be created. I wanted to give him a hand, but now I'm going to give up. If it weren't for her daughter's begging, she wouldn't have wanted to come out to see Zhang Renjie. A scholar who has no identity background and is just a talented scholar has set up a group exercise at home, although this time he has a little merit in exterminating a group of bandits, but it is not worthy of him to be personally received by an envoy. is like an ordinary college student in later generations, even if he helps the police department catch the country's top wanted criminal, it is not guilty of letting an executive vice governor meet with him.

"Are you a student in the sixth year of Guangxu? Then you can judge this couplet! ”

This is the famous sentence of Ji University, which talks about people to be content and happy, indifferent to fame and fortune! That's what people should be, but it's not right now! The moon in Matsuma looks like this; What is the reason for the floating clouds outside the body, but it is not as good as the heroic spirit, and the majestic wind will last forever! Zhang Renjie replied neither humbly nor arrogantly.

Ding Shicheng said undeniably: "The ambition is quite ambitious, but it is better for young people not to be ambitious, and to be down-to-earth!" Listen to Wan'er, you came this time to buy foreign guns to arm your Lian Yong? ”

"Back to my lord, there are 500 people under the command of the students, but there are few guns, and they have been seized with the extermination of the Sea Dragon King's water bandits, but they are far from enough. Therefore, I want to come over to purchase some guns to facilitate the reimbursement of the imperial court! ”

"Good idea. At present, there is a lack of people who dare to fight in the Qing Dynasty, and there is a miasma of patrols and brave camps in various places, and it is very good for you to practice bravery. I also support this, go back to Zhenjiang Mansion to find the General Office of the Ordnance Bureau, he will help you contact Harrison, the manager of Lihe Foreign Company, you have to buy it directly from him. Originally, you saved the little girl, and I can allocate these guns to you, but after all, you are Lian Yong in Huai'an Mansion, not to my Changzhen Tonghaidao, and the five hundred guns in the house are not a small number, so the allocation cannot be allocated. I gave the tent ten thousand taels of silver, and I took it with me when I went back. ”

Ding Shicheng is not salty or light, Zhang Renjie also heard the meaning, first praised you twice, and then, oh, you saved the little girl and did not spread the news that he was kidnapped by bandits, I am very grateful, you want to buy a gun, I will help you, I will help you pay for the gun, we will settle it together, and we will not owe each other in the future. In addition, Ding Shicheng didn't say anything, which also means that you don't have to come again in the future, and you don't have to see my daughter again, so you will treat it as if you don't know each other in the future.

"This old thing really knows how to cross rivers and tear down bridges, and he hates me so much?! Didn't you kneel down for him soon, what a pedantic head! Zhang Renjie thought to himself. Don't want me to see Wan'er? How is it possible, I still want to marry her as a wife! It's a little late for a girl to be unmarried in seventeen or eighteen these years, and if she starts slowly, she will be someone else's wife when she turns back. ”

"Then the student will quit!" Zhang Renjie is not a person who doesn't know what to do, so he retreated very interestingly, and just like that, Ding Shicheng didn't raise his eyelids. Sample, it's not like saving my daughter to get on the relationship. He also saw his daughter's table just now, and it was obvious that he had a good impression of this kid. I want to promise my daughter to my old friend's son, my old friend's son has already seen it, he is knowledgeable, and he has stayed abroad in England for three years, which is very satisfying. 10,000 taels of silver sent away, and you don't have to bother anymore!

Coming out of the Daotai Yamen, Zhang Renjie looked unhappy. This is too much, let the house account pay 10,000 taels of silver in the silver ticket, stuff it into him, and then send himself away! Why? Ding Shicheng doesn't look like a mean person? It stands to reason that he is kind to his family, and he should be warmly received, so that he will not be angry if he doesn't kneel down for him. I also saved his daughter, even if I kneel for him, he can't let him?! I don't understand, I really don't understand! But after all, this is someone's territory, and he didn't dare to show his face in the yamen, and the tent room that was already waiting at the door handed over two silver tickets of five thousand taels and two taels, and he didn't think about taking them and leaving. It seems that he is also a corrupt official, don't let this money be in vain!

Zhang Qishi and other ten team members have been paying attention to the door of the Daotai Yamen, and as soon as they saw Zhang Renjie coming, they immediately gathered in front of Zhang Renjie. "Company commander, you're out! Why, I didn't leave you for dinner! ”

Zhang Renjie was angry, and said with an unhappy face: "Keep a fart, people are in a province, where can they look down on us." However, we saved his daughter, and this time the matter of buying a gun has been settled, No, he also gave 10,000 taels of silver tickets! ”

"Drink, in the end, it's according to the inspector, it's really generous, it's 10,000 taels at once, company commander, now we have enough money to buy guns!"

"Yes, company commander, this is enough to buy more than 400 guns!"

"Not bad!"

"That's good!"

Zhang Renjie was speechless, these heads are made of wood, and their EQ is really low enough.

"I have nothing to say to you! Let's go, find an inn to eat and rest, and go to Zhenjiang Mansion tomorrow! ”