Although Wang Genbao had never experienced any big scenes, let alone seen the Russian Tsar, he saw that a person was dressed very differently from everyone else, and he was surrounded by everyone, and he also guessed that this person was the Tsar, and he couldn't help but panic, and he looked at Lin Yuan helplessly.

Lin Yuan stood beside him, patted him lightly on the shoulder, and said, "It's okay, there is me." ”

When Lin Yuan was talking to him, the tsar had already come to Wang Genbao, and without looking at Lin Yuan, he said to Wang Genbao: "Hello, my Chinese friend. ”

There was a translator on the side who translated this sentence to Wang Genbao, Wang Genbao looked back at Lin Yuan and asked, "Lin Shuai, what should I say?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "He's saying hello to you, just say hello too." ”

The sweat on Wang Genbao's forehead fell, and he asked Lin Yuan tremblingly: "How should I say hello?" ”

Lin Yuan said helplessly: "Hello, won't you?" Say hello to the owner of your restaurant as you would like to say hello to him. ”

Wang Genbao wiped the sweat from his forehead, and then smiled at the tsar: "Hello, have you eaten?" ”

Lin Yuan thought helplessly: "You are treating the tsar as a roadside uncle!" ”

If the level of that translation can be slightly higher, he will understand that "have you eaten" is a more accustomed greeting phrase for Chinese, and he can translate it better according to local customs, but unfortunately the translator is a Russian, the level is not high, and the sentence is translated literally.

Tsar Nicholas II was stunned when he heard this, and thought: "Why are the Chinese interested in me eating or not?" He replied, "I haven't eaten yet." ”

The translator translated this sentence back truthfully, and according to the habit of Chinese, after asking this sentence, he would talk about his own situation, so Wang Genbao said: "Actually, I didn't eat either." ”

The translator saw that Wang Genbao and His Majesty the Tsar were chatting about family life, so he did not translate again, and the Tsar looked at Wang Genbao and said: "Your braids are very long, it must take a lot of time and energy to take care of them, right?" ”

It turned out that Wang Genbao still had long braids on the top of his head, and after Lin Yuan disposed of the corrupt Fengtian prefect Zhang Xiaofeng, he replaced the officials of the three eastern provinces with his own people, coupled with the leading role of the army, many people in the three eastern provinces have cut off their braids, but Wang Genbao is timid and afraid of things, so he has kept it.

Lin Yuan heard the tsar mention "braids" and thought: "Come, the time has come to humiliate us, in the late Qing Dynasty, foreigners had a contemptuous and mocking attitude towards Chinese clothing, and during the Opium War, some foreign soldiers used the embroidered shoes worn by bound women as cigarette bags; Cutting off a person's head and tying it to a high place with a braid is innumerable. ”

Lin Yuan was thinking about countermeasures, and Nicholas II continued: "When we meet for the first time, I have a small gift for you. As he spoke, he took a small gold-inlaid box from the attendant on the side, opened it in front of Wang Genbao, and when he opened it, he saw a flash of gold inside, and it turned out to be a comb made of gold.

Nicholas II handed the small box to Wang Genbao and said: "This comb is given to you, I see that your hair is very long, and you must be combed frequently, I believe that this comb will become your good friend." ”

Wang Genbao looked at Lin Yuan, and Lin Yuan said, "You will take the things he gives you." ”

Wang Genbao accepted the golden comb, but Lin Yuan was very puzzled, thinking: "It turns out that he is not here to find fault, so why did he give him a golden comb?" ”

At this moment, the Tsar said to Lin Yuan: "Is Mr. Lin Yuan still satisfied with today's dinner?" ”

Lin Yuan nodded and said, "The dinner is very good. ”

Nicholas II pointed to a clown next to him and said, "How about this is the famous circus in all of Europe?" Do you think their performances are passable? ”

Lin Yuan really didn't watch their performance carefully, but out of politeness, he nodded lightly and said, "Their performance is very exciting." ”

Nicholas II smiled and said, "You said it so reluctantly, I know that you must be unhappy tonight, so let's do it, we have a show later." ”

Lin Yuan looked at the people standing on the side and thought, "I've seen all the ways they perform, and I don't know if they have anything new." ”

Nicholas II saw Lin Yuan's puzzlement, so he said, "Invite our knights up." ”

With the words of Nicholas II, the orchestra played the music just right, and in the midst of the impassioned music, the door to the side of the hall opened, and everyone looked over curiously, and after a long time, there was no handsome knight, but only a fat dwarf walked in, and one of the guards by the door shouted: "Our knight is here!" ”

Everyone laughed, and Wang Genbao leaned into Lin Yuan's ear and asked, "Lin Shuai, what's so ridiculous about this?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "Knights are very noble people in Europe, and if you want to become a knight, you have to go through strict training, and those training is not only in terms of physical skills, but also in terms of social etiquette, so in the eyes of Europeans, knights are all beautiful men with good manners, but this knight is an ugly and fat dwarf, so everyone laughed." ”

The dwarf walked in, and immediately someone followed, changing the knight's spear, armor, helmet, face guard, and other equipment, and the dwarf made funny moves while putting on the equipment, and the laughter of the crowd was one after another.

When the gnomes had changed their equipment, the guards shouted, "How can a valiant knight be without a warhorse?" Where are our horses? ”

With the words, the door on the side opened, and a guard led a horse in, these horses were all red, without a handful of silk variegation, and the belly belt saddle on the body was also inlaid with gold and jade, the dwarf was very short, not as high as the horse's legs, he climbed on the horse's body, but he couldn't climb up, so he yelled angrily, and everyone laughed again! Wang Genbao also laughed.

The guard hurriedly shouted: "This horse is not good, let's change another one." Soon the door opened again, and one of the guards came in with a pig, also with a splendid saddle and a blanket, exactly like a war horse, and the crowd snickered when they saw a pig being driven up.

The dwarf stretched out his thumb at the pig, then stepped on the "stirrup", flew on the pig, and then raised the spear in his hand, and shouted like a swaggering knight, and the crowd laughed even more when they saw that he had ridden the pig as a horse, and the pig took two steps forward, and the dwarf jumped down from the pig at once, and rubbed his buttocks with his hands, as if there was a nail on the pig's back!

None of them understood what it meant, and the dwarf walked up to the guard, and said something with a dance, and the guard hurriedly said, "Our knight has said that there is something on the pig's back, which makes his ass very uncomfortable, hurry up and get scissors, and cut off the saddle and blanket on the pig's back, and see what is on the pig's back." ”

Soon several maids brought scissors from a tray, and the dwarf angrily picked up the scissors and cut off the blanket and saddle on the pig's back, only to see that on the pig's back, there were several long braids.