"More than ten years ago, I made a bet with a term of fifteen years against my lord and me in the guillotine, I used blue and white porcelain as a bet, and I won now, and I took hundreds of taels of silver." Dai Mingyu looked cunning and coughed dryly, "So...... I need you to follow me to Dai's house, so that I can get my money. ”

"Butler Dai, who do you think you are?" Gong Changyu looked at Dai Mingyu with a look.

"Little brother, let me ask you again, have you become a general?" Dai Mingyu repeated.

"I won't tell you. I don't have time to talk to you about something that goes into conversation. Gong Changyu carried the armor-piercing gun and stepped onto the horse.

"Hey, little brother—" Dai Mingyu hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed the bridle of the red horse.

"Old fellow, get out of the way!" Gong Changyu shouted, "My horse is very strong, be careful that it kicks your ribs with one hoof." ”

"Gong Laoxue, just tell me, is it a general?" When Dai Mingyu heard the horse kicking people, he quickly let go of his hand and retreated to the side.

"Old fellow, you're not talking nonsense! My uncle is not a general, does he dare to come here to recruit troops? Gong Sheng said rudely in the dialect of Laojie Town.

"Hey, listening to your accent, it doesn't seem to be from Whitewater Village, right?" Dai Mingyu looked at Gong Sheng's question with a "Zhang Fei beard" and asked curiously.

"What Whitewater Village, Blackwater Village. General Gong is my clansman, and I am his nephew. Gong Sheng replied angrily.

"Man, I think you're in your forties, right?" Dai Mingyu said.

Gong Shengdi touched his self-righteous beard, "You talk a lot of." Is there anything wrong with me calling our general uncle? Old man, what does being in the army have to do with age? When he left home, he returned to his hometown, and his hometown accent did not change, and his sideburns declined. There are some people in the Qinghe Army who are older than me, such as the Xiangxiang regimental training envoy Zeng Fan......"

Dai Mingyu took out a cigarette gun, grabbed the tobacco from the cloth pocket, stuffed it in the cigarette holder, took the match and rubbed it on the leather boots, and the match burned in an instant, and then lit the dry tobacco, took two puffs, and then said: "Man, you misunderstood me." I mean, you're old, why do you call Gong Laoxue uncle? ”

Gong Shengdi saw the half of the matchstick in Dai Mingyu's hand, and felt very strange, approached Dai Mingyu and said, "Old man, what kind of thing is this, you can directly burst into flames?" ”

"This is a Western product, called matches. Haven't seen it, have you? Dai Mingyu spit out a few thick smoke rings from his mouth, and he couldn't do it.

"Nope." Gong Sheng sneered, then took out a bottle of Louis XVI from the cloth bag and shook it in front of Dai Mingyu, "Old man, have you ever drunk this thing?" ”

"I haven't drunk it, what is it?" Dai Mingyu's eyes widened and he looked at the orange-yellow bottle.

"Old man, it's called Louis XVI, it's imported, it's wine, it's wine from the Franco-French." Gong Sheng said with a smile.

"This wine is like blood, can you drink it?" Dai Mingyu asked with a frown.

"Of course you can drink it. I specialize in this kind of liquor in Laojie Town, Jiangzuo County. This wine can exude a strong aroma, with various aromas of walnut, narcissus, and jasmine blending into it. Gong Sheng closed his eyes slightly and smashed his mouth, "Maybe you would never have thought that you could smell so many aromas in this wine, and the feeling of their fusion is so natural......

As soon as he saw that Gong Shengdi was boasting about the benefits of Louis XVI again, Gong Changyu, who was sitting on the horse, was a little impatient, and he poked the tip of his armor-piercing gun on the cork of the Louis XVI bottle in his brain, and said slowly: "When you take a sip of Louis XVI, you will find yourself as if you are in the thick oak trees of the mountains and forests. When the scent changes to sandalwood, the fragrance lasts for half an hour...... This wine is not expensive, but a bottle of fifty taels of silver. ”

"Uncle, how can you also use this subtext in the back paragraph?" Gong Shengdi opened his eyes and glanced back at Gong Changyu.

"On the way back from Lao Cai Town, I heard this more than a dozen times, and I knew it by heart." Gong Changyu smiled.

"Gong Laoxue, this wine is not a jade liquid, can you live forever if you drink it?" Dai Mingyu bent down to look at the wine in the bottle.

"No, you can't." Gong Changyu shook his head and said.

"This wine weighs less than two pounds, right?" Dai Mingyu grabbed the wine bottle from Gong Shengdi and weighed it.

"Be careful, old man, you can't afford to break it." Gong Sheng shouted.

"Didn't it say 700 ml? Dai is the big butler. Gong Changyu pointed the tip of the gun at the bottle of Louis XVI and said.

"How much does 700ml weigh?" Dai Mingyu was still puzzled.

"Old man, you rarely go out, do you?" Gong Sheng was dismissive.

"Yes, the farthest has been to Wuyou County." Dai Mingyu nodded.

"No wonder you don't know the capacity conversion of Westerners. Let me tell you, one liter of Falanxi is one kilogram, and these seven hundred milliliters are seven hundred grams, which is about nine taels of our Qinghe country. Gong Sheng laughed.

"Man, eight taels cost fifty taels of silver, it's too expensive, right?" Dai Mingyu returned the wine to Gong Shengdi, "I'd better drink my millet wine, the money for this bottle of 'Lu Yi Sixteen' is enough for me to drink for several years." ”

"It's Louis XVI, not Lu Yi XVI." Gong Sheng corrected, "How can you be the same as my uncle, the good Louis XVI will become Lu Yi XVI in your mouth, it seems that my official language is still relatively standard!" ”

"Man, I'm kind of behind my ears." Dai Mingyu said with a smile.

"Hey, Butler Dai, you and my old nephew have been grinding for a long time when we saw a bottle of wine. You ask me to help you, if you get the money you bet, can you share half of my money? Gong Changyu suddenly remembered that Dai Mingyu had asked him to go to Dai's house.

"Gong Laoxue, the bet is only five hundred taels of silver, and half of you is too much." Dai Mingyu said.

"Then two hundred taels!" Gong Changyu immediately reduced fifty taels.

"One hundred taels, okay?" Dai Mingyu lit another tube of dry tobacco and bargained.

"Two hundred, no one less!" Gong Changyu said with a smile.

"Little brother, don't be too greedy. One hundred and fifty taels, a fixed price, okay? Dai Mingyu gritted his teeth.

"Two hundred taels, it really can't be less." Gong Changyu did not budge in the slightest.

"Two hundred is two hundred! Little brother, Dai Mingshi is a door-picker, and Y only gives me forty or fifty taels of silver all year round...... What's more, it's still a big problem whether you can get the money. Dai Mingyu frowned.

"That's your business. If you're not sure you'll get the money, I'm not going for nothing. Gong Changyu got off the horse, "You wait for a while, I'll discuss it with Old Man Zhu." ”

"Okay." Dai Mingyu nodded.

"Grandpa, I'll go to Dai's house to get some silver and come back, okay?" Gong Changyu walked up to the old man Bisheng and whispered.

"You're going alone?" The old man asked.

"Hmm." Gong Changyu nodded.

"Dai Mingshi is a bully in Dai Jiacheng, relying on his son to catch fast in the county government, monopolizing the leather business in our county, he has developed in the past two years, and he has an armed family of more than ten people, so don't mess with him." The old man said.

"Grandpa, do they have muskets?" Gong Changyu asked.

"Not much, four or five guns." The old man said.

"So be it. You take Jiao'er and a few girls back, and I will take my entourage and the newly recruited thirty people to Dai Mingshi's house for a lunch. Gong Changyu said.

"Old learner, there is food at home, why go to Dai's house?"

"Grandpa, I'd like to go to his house and see his fur business." Gong Changyu said that he wanted to take revenge, that year Dai Mingshi poured the loach he caught, trampled on his fish basket, and slapped him a few times, he has been thinking about this stubble!

"But you don't have to bring fifty or sixty people?" The old man asked.

"Grandpa, Dai Mingshi is very powerful in Dai Jiacheng, I still have to be on guard." Gong Changyu said.

"Hmm. Remember, don't get killed. Old man Bisheng specially told Gong Changyu, "Otherwise, Dai Jiachong and Tangwei Chong will have a feud, and others will say that our Zhujia compound is a bully and a bully for the weak, and I am not good at being a man in Sidu." ”

"It depends. If Dai Mingshi is still domineering and wants to crush us, I will cut off his hands and feet and kill their whole family! Gong Changyu said.

"Old learning, now that you are the general of the capital, you have to think before and after doing things, and do something and don't do something. Do I understand what I said? The old man patted Gong Changyu on the shoulder, "You are coming back to recruit troops, not to pick quarrels and provoke trouble, you must pay attention to your local image." ”

"Good. I tried to hold back my temperament as much as I could, and I didn't take these recruits with me. Grandpa, you and Jiao'er have gone back to Tangwei to rush back, and I will definitely bring someone back before dark. Gong Changyu said.

"Okay, that's it." The old man nodded, packed his luggage, and rode to the east with Feng Jiao'er, Ran Jiufeng, and Xu Yanxia.

Dai Mingyu was overjoyed when he saw that Gong Changyu agreed to go back to Dai's house with him: "Gong Laoxue, oh, General Gong, can I have a glimpse of your general seal?" ”

"Butler Dai, the general's seal can't be seen casually, and besides, I didn't bring it, so I put it in the Zhu family compound. Why don't you take a look at this saber? Gong Changyu drew his sword and handed it to Dai Mingyu.

Receiving the shiny saber with both hands, Dai Mingyu stretched out two fingers and wiped it back and forth on the sword, then raised the saber with both hands, walked to a maple tree the size of a teacup, raised it, and cut it down with a sword.

"It's really extraordinary. Good sword, good sword! Dai Mingyu shouted.

"Hey, Butler Dai, it's time to go to Dai's house, you lead the way!" Gong Changyu is happy.

Dai Mingyu handed the sword back to Gong Changyu, found his little donkey, and took a lot of effort to straddle it, and said with a smile: "General Gong, with your help, why worry that Dai Mingshi's iron rooster won't give me silver?" ”