Chapter 106: A Buffet Luncheon Combining East and West
Returning to Yangxinju, the place where he started his military training, Li Yongji felt very cordial and felt that everywhere was pleasing to the eye and comfortable everywhere.
That's for sure, Yangxinju is the place where Li Yongji stayed for the longest time after his rebirth, and it is also the most familiar place, the so-called golden nest and silver nest are not as good as their own kennels, and of course they are all kinds of comfortable when they are used to living in one place. What's more, among his residences here, the modernization process is the highest, and it is definitely not comparable to the mobile villa that is still in Wuxi.
Therefore, in Yangxinju, Li Yongji can enjoy more modern enjoyment, of course, these are secondary, the key is that there is a group of people he is most concerned about in this place, that is, his youth guard group, the group of students he spent the most effort on.
These students are the young domestic slaves he bought at the beginning, although they are all his slaves in name and claim to be his own personal guard group, but in fact they are all students trained by Li Yongji himself.
At first, Li Yongji was a bit utilitarian about this kind of education, but as time went by, as he spent more and more time with these students, his relationship with these children became deeper and deeper, and he became more and more fond of educating children.
In the past days, Li Yongji actually spent most of his time teaching this handful of children, and only then on training elite soldiers.
Later, Li Yongji led the troops out to engage in training, and by the way, when the troops were sent to Suzhou halfway, almost all of the students of these young guards stayed in the Yangxinju mansion, and only a few people, such as Li Fei, Bai Yunfei and others, were by Li Yongji's side, and that was because Li Yongji wanted to train them in the military field.
The so-called heart-to-heart comparison, Li Yongji usually dotes on these children of the Youth League in every way, and these children also worship Li Yongji in every way, and after Li Yongji's words and deeds for more than half a year, the behavior of these members of the Youth League has become more and more like a modern person, and even has a tendency to become more and more willful.
For example, now, when Li Yongji asked why the group of foreign envoys and businessmen were imprisoned in the punishment classroom instead of staying in the guest house, Xiuxiu, who was Li Yongji's personal maid and substitute tutor, pouted his mouth and said crisply: "Those foreign devils are a group of 2Bs who are not beaten, and they are uncomfortable if they don't fight." When they came, I told them that this was a military restricted area, and outsiders were not allowed to enter, so they should stay in the guest house and not go out without permission, but they just didn't listen, and still found all kinds of excuses to go out of the guest house all day long, wanting to visit everywhere.
Later, several of them found that they could not get out of the guest house through the normal way, and actually wanted to sneak out of the backyard of the guest house in the middle of the night, but they did not know that our cameras could see it clearly. Hmph, if we hadn't considered that they were still useful to the young master, we wouldn't have just shot and beaten them. β
"You're still shooting them?" Li Yongji was surprised.
"It's not anymore, it's the little tigers." Xiuxiu said embarrassedly, "I found that they ran away, I asked Xiaohuzi to lead the troops to arrest them, who knew that some of them actually took out a gun and wanted to resist, but Xiaohuzi They shot first, fortunately, the person who was shot was not injured in the vital point, it was hit in the leg, and we also took out the warhead in time and gave antibiotics, there should be no major problem." β
"That's not a big deal? You shot people, and those foreigners were willing to give up like this? Li Yongji frowned.
"Naturally, they were very unhappy, and they wanted to reason with us, but I was not happy either, so I put them in the punishment classroom on the grounds that they were making trouble, so that they would not run around again." Xiuxiu smiled, "Actually, it wasn't me who really locked them up, it was Wall who did it." β
"Wall? The Wall of the Foreign Guns? What's the matter with him? β
"I guess it's for war." Xiuxiu said, "Wall is bringing someone here to look for me, and he wants me to help contact you, because he seems to know that we have a device, no matter where you are, I can contact you directly." That time, he also brought someone to ask me for help, so I arranged for him to live in a guest house, which happened to happen. I was still hesitant that he was also a foreigner, whether to let Xiaohuzi's people accuse him as well, but I didn't do anything, he found out that these foreigners were making trouble, and he actually took people to take those foreigners into custody, and then asked me what to do, I said that I would put them in the punishment classroom first. Tsk, young master, I'm also a razor, right? β
"And what's going on?" Li Yongji was stunned, "Why did Wall do this?" β
"I don't know what this guy thinks, if you want to ask why, I'm afraid you'll have to ask yourself, young master." Xiuxiu smiled, "But it's true that Wall and the people from the foreign gun team took the first action to put those foreigners into custody, and at best, I gave an order to let them punish the classroom afterwards." Moreover, although I let them go to the punishment classroom to stay, the treatment on weekdays is still very good, they are all good food and drink, and even for fear that they will be bored, I also provide chess, English novels and music appreciation. β
"So, during this period of time, you detained all those foreign merchants, and then the news that the foreigners were waiting impatiently was also spread by you?"
"That's it." Xiuxiu nodded, "I'm afraid that they will talk nonsense after they go out, so I won't let them go, and I'll deal with it when you come back, young master." β
"Why don't you just report it to me?" Li Yongji frowned, "Your radio intercom can also talk to me directly, why don't you tell me about such a big thing in advance." β
"Actually......" Xiuxiu shrank her neck, "I, we think that the young master has so many things to do with your army, so we don't want to trouble you for such a trivial matter, besides, it's good to let these foreigners suffer a little crime, at least let them know who is the master here, right?" Anyway, foreigners don't have a good thing! Besides, the people who are guarding are foreigners from the foreign gun team, and the foreigners are foreigners, isn't this also good? β
"Nonsense!" Li Yongji immediately said, "Who gave you the authority to do this?" What did I say at the beginning? Didn't you say that you should stay here and take care of this base camp with the guards and soldiers who stayed here? As a result, you actually made such a show, how dare I let you do things independently in the future? Forget it, I'll settle the accounts when you make your own decisions, now hurry up and release the people to me and invite them to the reception room! Immediately, immediately! β
Seeing that Li Yongji was angry, Xiuxiu didn't dare to take it anymore, and said that she would immediately go and release those foreigners, and invited them to the reception room of the main house of Yangxin Residence.
In order to apologize, but also to demonstrate and display Chinese elements, of course, it may also be for pure pretense, Li Yongji asked people to clean up the reception room a little in advance, that is, to prepare two long tables, spread white tablecloths with ** edges, which are full of all kinds of drinks and food from modern times, and also made a few sets of sofas, tables, chairs and benches, and even put a few vases, turning the living room into a salon-style cafeteria.
After doing this, he also deliberately asked several of the tallest male members of the Youth League to wear the blue military uniforms that imitated the Royal Swedish Guards, wear white gloves, and hold Sharps rifles to stand guard at the entrance of the reception room. At the same time, he also asked several older girls of the Youth League to wear invisible foundation, draw eyebrows and eyes, wipe lipstick, make two buns on their heads, and then put on a modern version of Chinese red three-quarter sleeve silk cheongsam, plus white stockings and white long-sleeved gloves, and lined up in two rows as maids.
Not only that, before letting these foreigners come over, Li Yongji and the others did this qiΔ, and at the same time learned that those foreigners had also been packed up and brought over, Li Yongji put on a set of modern fashion Tang costumes in Chinese red, turned on the crystal chandelier in the reception room, and opened the door of the living room under the magnificent background music of "Memories of the Forbidden City".
The moment the door of the living room opened, Li Yongji stood with a smile, and the two rows of cheongsam girls around him performed the traditional Chinese sideways half-squat salute together, plus the two gun-wielding guards at the door who were not angry but mighty, not to mention, Li Yongji's set really suppressed those foreigners, even if he was holding back the fire, he also said it in this scene at this time.
Most of the foreigners who came here thought they were educated, and when they saw the other party opening the door so ceremoniously to welcome the guests, they straightened up their waists, cheered up and walked over, and shook hands with Li Yongji one by one.
After everyone entered the reception room, Li Yongji first paused the music, and then made a brief speech.
In his speech, he excused himself from being busy with military affairs and couldn't take care of this place, and at the same time, this side is a military restricted area, and the soldiers will inevitably act recklessly, and he apologizes here for the trouble caused to everyone.
After saying this, Li Yongji asked everyone to sit and eat casually, everyone chatted while eating, and if they had any other ideas, such as what business they wanted to discuss, they could wait until they were full before talking to him alone.
Not to mention, this time period is close to lunchtime, and everyone is a little hungry, and the diet prepared by Li Yongji is basically based on Western meals such as pastries, fruits, vegetable salads, and meat steaks, and the drinks are basically red wine, beer and juice, in addition to black tea and coffee, which are very suitable for their taste. In addition to the classic Western dishes, there are also many Chinese dishes, such as braised pork and mapo tofu, which are also placed together with Western dishes, and they are all dishes that are very suitable for eating with knives and forks.
Not to mention the full set of shiny stainless steel Western-style tableware, pure white cotton napkins, as well as good background music and beautiful Chinese maids, it is a high-end atmosphere and high-grade luncheon, even if you are not hungry, you have to eat it first.
In this way, everyone continued to enjoy a pleasant modern Chinese and Western buffet food, of course, during this period, there were three people who thought they were enough to find Li Yongji, and wanted to talk to Li Yongji, the host, while eating.
Who are these three people? There are also some origins, namely the British Consul in Shanghai, McWarto, the French Consul Counsellor in Shanghai, and the ChargΓ© d'Affaires of the US Minister in Shanghai, Howard.
What Li Yongji didn't know was that these three people did not come to participate in his so-called large-scale business negotiations, but to give Li Yongji a news that he did not expect, and start another kind of negotiation with him.