The afternoon sun shines on the bustling county seat of Huize County, even so, the streets are crowded with people, and today is a big market in several nearby towns and villages, and people are pouring into the county seat.

People come and go, pointing at flowers and foreign goods and other goods.

Zhang Shusheng walked in the crowd, feeling the unique poverty of this era, everyone with vegetables on their faces, and their faces were not filled with happy smiles, but a kind of curiosity to see the excitement. After all, Aizawa is not a coast, and it is still too poor.

"Black Op...... Hukanhei Opmi ......"

"Huh?" A strange voice came into Zhang Shusheng's ears, and he shook his head, making sure that what he heard was not an illusion, but someone was actually calling for help in extremely authentic English. Zhang Shusheng's English is not good, and it is said that it is authentic, and the tone is very similar to that in the listening recording.

The crowd soon flocked to the mouth of an alley, and finally squeezed in, only to see a beaten foreigner with a blue nose and swollen face, and a face covered with blood and dirt, being dragged into the alley by several ruffians and hooligans.

The foreigner hugged the beams and pillars of the corner of the house, this let go is terrible, just now I was almost not killed by this group of snakes, and I will be dragged into the alley again, I estimate that I will become the first foreigner to die most unjustly, and there is nowhere to avenge my grievances.

"Damn, this white ghost dares to spread wild on our land by wearing a layer of foreign skin, cheating and drinking, and trying to steal things. Folks, don't look at it, this guy should be beaten. A leading man waved his hand and motioned for everyone to disperse, looking at his fierce appearance, no one dared to provoke him.

“no，no…… Black Ob Mi, Black O Ome ...... "The foreign devil was scared stupid, although he couldn't understand what this fierce and evil person was saying, but he knew that there was no good fruit, and he was bound to clean himself up.

"What's the matter, even a crow dares to talk nonsense, Lao Tzu won't kill you." A few ruffians said as they smashed their fists down and dragged them down the alley.

Zhang Shusheng looked at this scene in great disbelief, once upon a time, in his impression, didn't foreigners walk sideways like crabs on the land of China with a civilization stick? How could he be so depressed that he wanted to steal something to eat, and was whipped wildly by the ruffians who collected protection money? Do you really think that this is not a foreigner, just a pig?

Shaking his head fiercely, Zhang Shusheng thought of the reason, this is not Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, let alone a concession where Chinese and dogs are not allowed to enter, this is the southwest where the people are fierce and will be the main force of the Anti-Japanese War for decades to come. Not to mention that in a remote place like Huizawa, in the hands of local ruffians and hooligans, foreigners should be called "sheep people".

There are no consulates, no efficient police agencies, and even bureaucrats are only concerned with oppressing the people and enjoying the happiness of the great southwestern mountains, hoping to escape, it is simply a dream.

However, although it was like a dream, fortunately, this foreign devil met Zhou Gong!!

"Silly you are sir, you, why are you here!" Zhang Shusheng pushed away the crowd, walked in front of everyone loudly, and bent down pretending to be extremely concerned to protect the foreign devils.

"Silly?" A few ruffians couldn't figure it out, what did this young man who suddenly broke out to say to the foreign devils? However, Zhang Shusheng has nothing else, that is, his temperament is a little stronger than most of the people in this era, and his clothes are relatively unique, and he can even be called good.

"Black Opremi, Black Opumi......" The foreign devil was stunned, and suddenly heard someone calling Charnis, although he didn't know who he was shouting, but he dared to swear to God, this is definitely English, and it is pronounced with a certain British style. grabbed Zhang Shusheng's arm and begged for help. "Sell Kad, Black Ompimi......"

Zhang Shusheng almost kicked away this foreign devil who cried more than a woman, thinking of his future plans, he endured it, but still said in English: "I will save you." ”

Suddenly with the backbone, the foreign devil was shocked, although he didn't know why this young man saved himself, but it was better to be beaten horizontally and vertically, so he nodded.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is a Mr. Western who has been invited by our government to teach young ladies to learn English. I don't know how to offend you. Zhang Shusheng arched his hand and said, the rules on the road are nothing more than lowering your head first and spending some money to settle it.

"This foreign devil doesn't give money for eating in the restaurant we watched, and he steals things, and according to the rules, he wants to cut off one of his hands." The little ruffian leader led by him said, looking at Zhang Shusheng's appearance like a rich man, he is not so fierce.

"Well, let me talk to Mr. Charris first." After Zhang Shusheng finished speaking, he turned around with pain on his face and said to the foreign devil lying on the ground: "It's over, they want to kill you." ”

Although Zhang Shusheng's English is very bad, but as soon as he looked up, he saw that the ruffian headed by him took out an axe, and his heart was finished, and he immediately cried, and asked Zhang Shusheng to save his life no matter what.

Zhang Shusheng nodded, promised to think of another way, stood up and turned around with the foreign devil and the leader behind his back and said: "Ten oceans buy him a hand, but you have to perform with me!" ”

At this time, the onlookers were all blown away by the ruffians, and the ruffians escorted people directly into the alley.

"Ten oceans? Bah, do you think the uncle is here to beg for food? The ruffian took a sip, shook his head, and said in a dashing manner: "Twenty oceans, you can do whatever you say!" ”

After arguing with a red face, the foreign devil looked at his life-saving angel and a few ruffians in horror, arguing more and more fiercely, and finally he couldn't stop it, and he pulled out his axe and was about to cut himself.

"Ahh Seeing the falling axe, the foreign devil let out a terrifying cry that was universal to the whole universe......

However, to his surprise, the axe did not fall for a long time, and he did not die, and he dared to open his eyes at half a ring, and everything in front of him suddenly startled him.

The man God had sent to save him with a pistol pointed at the ruffian, who was only an inch from his forehead with a machete.

Cold sweat stayed, in addition to being afraid, Zhang Shusheng's majestic appearance was almost imprinted into the deepest part of his soul, and there was a sense of jealousy for no reason.

……

It was getting late, and the good people in Huize County came to the inn again, and they didn't come back from the shopping trip, Zhang Shusheng looked at Kenneth, a foreign devil who was sitting opposite, gobbling up, and eating like a pig, and smiled in his heart, the heart is different, and the situation of this person is also different. After a day of torture, the first thing this foreign devil did was not to take a bath and sleep, but to eat, and it seemed that he was not starving to death.

"Well, great Zhang, you know, I will definitely be a great rich man in the future."

After a long afternoon of hard communication, occasionally Zhang Shusheng had to take the opportunity to go to the toilet to look up English words on the dream machine, and then he knew the whole story.

Kenneth is an American, and this time he came to China because he was bewitched by a swindler, paid money and joined the group, and it turned out that China was indeed full of business.

But unfortunate things followed. finally got the first business, and it was the business of a small warlord leader.

The business was very large, and in order not to work for foreign companies and make more money, Kenneth went bankrupt and shipped from the United States the arms needed by the warlord leader, who was superstitious about German rifles, a full 200 Mauser 1898 rifles, and even a Krupp 75mm mountain gun, as well as a batch of ammunition.

Kenneth had no way out of this gamble, and two hundred Mauser rifles plus Krupp mountain guns and a batch of ammunition, even if they were cheap goods bought from a native American Jew, cost more than 30,000 oceans, which he had to buy in exchange for mortgaging his and his uncle's house.

What followed was a series of unfortunate events.

First of all, the sea steamer encountered a storm and docked at the port for more than a month.

Then I finally arrived in Shanghai, and the consignee who had been waiting for more than a month could not be found. At this time, Kenneth was almost out of his underwear, borrowing money everywhere, and the foreigners he knew had reached the point where he ran away when he saw him.

After another month of delay, the consignee met by chance, and it turned out that the other party had changed careers to become a rickshaw owner, and when he asked, Kenneth fainted directly, and the little warlord fell.

Even if it falls, the arms are still very easy to sell, and Kenneth is ready to sell them as soon as he wakes up. As a result, the situation in China at this time has become strange, and all parties seem to be dormant, and they have clearly seen that the arms of those ocean banks are selling in private, but their "large number of arms" just can't be sold, and they can't find buyers at a discount.

In the end, his peers agreed to buy his arms, but the price was so low that Kenneth wanted to commit suicide, and even if he sold it, he would not be able to redeem a house when he returned to the United States.

At this time, Kenneth had already gone bankrupt, relying on cheating and cheating, occasionally selling a few guns to hooligans, not enough for storage fees.

At this time, an American businessman gave him a trick, saying that Tang Jirao in Yunnan might be in urgent need of arms, of course, Kenneth's "large number of arms" did not have any big kickbacks, and people estimated that they could not look down on it, but the businessman entrusted Kenneth with another matter. He was paid $5,000 to help him look for mines in Sichuan, and the merchant had heard that there was a large ore in the Sichuan-Yunnan border, because Kenneth had taken a major in minerals in college.

Then Kenneth came to Yunnan with the translator with the idea of what to do, but the unfortunate thing was not over at all, the translator was killed by the bandits, and his last bit of money and the little revolver of his protection were also robbed by the bandits, and then he was exiled to Huizawa, but he couldn't even get out of the city.

If you don't go out of the city, you can cheat and eat and drink without starving, and once you go out of the city to find any bird ore, there will be no place to be buried after starvation.

And today, when I wanted to study the "take-it-or-leave-ism" again, I was caught, and what was even more unfortunate was that the person who collected the protection money happened to be in the restaurant, so Kenneth, the "great rich man of the future", was beaten up and almost lost a hand, although he thought that he almost died under the machete until he died.

"Eat slowly, we're not short of money!" Zhang Shusheng saw Kenneth, who was gobbling up, such a sentence for no reason.

"Money? Qian ...... sure enough, as soon as he heard the money, Kenneth's eyes turned green, and he finally remembered that he still had a large amount of money in the warehouse in Shanghai, although they had not been sold for the time being......

"God knows, I was supposed to be a rich man!"

"You mean your batch of munitions, don't you? Kenneth, as your friend, I have to tell you, accept the reality, by the time you sell, you'll starve to death. Zhang Shusheng smiled and said nothing, in the troubled times of the Republic of China, arms are the best to sell, but this unlucky Kenneth doesn't know why he can't sell them. However, after learning what happened to Kenneth, he was even more convinced that there was bad luck in this world.

"So, what then...... Great Zhang, God sent you to save me, you, you should save me again. Kenneth was like seeing a savior, he just didn't hug Zhang Shusheng's thigh, "Zhang, you are not short of money, or I will sell you the arms and sell them to you at a discount." Twenty percent off? Seven folds? Great Zhang, no matter how cheap I am, I will lose money, it's really not good, five folds, five folds is my bottom price. It's still up to you to save your life, I will protect my capital, and you buy cheap arms. ”

"Arms can be bought." Zhang Shusheng smiled and said in a blink of an eye: "But the money is not enough!" ”

"What then!"

Zhang Shusheng smiled mysteriously and said: "Being a man is not afraid of bad luck, but he is afraid of not seizing the opportunity." If you believe me, do as I say! I bought the arms, and I will find you another way to make money. ”

Kenneth, who had eaten the last meal but didn't have the next meal, thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to listen to Zhang Shusheng.