Chapter 32: The Big Turnip

Shopkeeper Tong, how can he be the same as an old naughty boy in personality?

As soon as he heard that the results of his research for months were unnoticed, he was anxious. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

At first, I was slightly stunned, and then the old shopkeeper smiled at me and said, "Boss Huo, it's rare to talk so much, you and I can talk more!"

I shook my head and said, "It's boring to say it, we still have work in the hotel, I'll see you tomorrow......"

As I spoke, I turned to leave.

Seeing that I was leaving, the shopkeeper Tong hurriedly reached out and grabbed my sleeve and said, "Boss Huo, it's boring to say it, so let's talk wet? Anyway, there are snacks from Shuihe, how about drinking tea and eating at the same time?"

Looking at the pleading expression on the shopkeeper Tong's face, I couldn't hold back the snickering joy in my heart, and then continued to turn around and leave, and said at the same time: "I'm not interested in listening! And take our snacks for us, do you think it's interesting?"

The shopkeeper Tong, the nagging ghost, saw that I had repeatedly refused to listen to his great discoveries, and he was so anxious that when he saw that I had turned around and wanted to leave, he suddenly took a brisk step and flew in front of us.

Guarding the door, the shopkeeper Tong said with an unforgiving expression: "The surname Huo, you are too bad, you took someone to degrade me, but you don't even want to listen to an explanation, what kind of hero is this......! You...... What the hell are you willing to stay and listen to me!"

Seeing that I got to the point, I hurriedly glanced at Lao Zhao behind me, and then Lao Zhao hurriedly took out two agreement documents that had been stamped with the official seal of the justice department from his underwear pocket.

I handed these two documents to the shopkeeper Tong and said: "These two things, one is the document I gave you Partridge Spot, and the other is the description of the merchant you gave me on Black Tiger Street...... I hear you tell the story of the clock. ”

After listening to my words, Shopkeeper Tong suddenly realized, and then stretched out his hand to me and said, "Boy, it turns out that you have long wanted to calculate me." Even the documents were brought, so in such a hurry?"

When asked, I nodded and said, "What I'm most afraid of is that there are many dreams at night, let's sign early, and take what we need, how beautiful!"

In fact, even if I don't have these disputes with Shopkeeper Tong, I want to hand over these documents to him for signature today, but I estimate that according to the character of Shopkeeper Tong's thief, he will not sign with me easily, and he has designated to carefully look for loopholes in these agreements and have a hard-fought "bull's tongue war" with me.

And after such a drama just now, the shopkeeper Tong, who had already mobilized my feelings, seemed to be in an overly surging mood, and I just took this opportunity to make the whole incident happen.

And under my impromptu performance, the old shopkeeper looked at the two certificates I brought, and sure enough, he only neglected to read them once, and then signed his name with a big stroke of the pen.

After throwing the two documents to me, the shopkeeper Tong yelled at me angrily: "You monkey spirit, now you can sit down and listen to me!"

When I got the document, I completely solved the Gada matter in my heart, so I naturally nodded very seriously, and asked everyone to sit down quickly, as if I was holding a seminar, and listened to the research results of the shopkeeper Tong.

After that, the shopkeeper Tong carefully ...... us first No, it should be said that his eighty-one partridge was hidden by himself, and then he took the piece of papyrus with the translation of the zombie bell and talked to us.

According to the treasurer Tong, the author of this biography is an Italian whose transliterated Chinese name is "Da Gerob".

Listening to this Chinese name, my brother Ah Si spat out tea and laughed: "What? The big radish is too funny, can't it be a cook?"

Listening to my brother's ridicule, the shopkeeper Tong immediately retorted: "I'm not a cook, he is a civil official of the Italian delegation to China during the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and his ancestors repaired clocks and watches in France, carved them by subtlety!

"Oh!" my brother nodded, and then said, "It turned out that he was sending the bell, so does he care about the funeral?

Hey! My younger brother teased him for a while, and the shopkeeper Tong was so bored that he stood up in a rage and yelled at him: "Shut up! Listen to me now! Pay attention to quality!"

With the anger of the shopkeeper Tong to the extreme, the fourth child completely shut up, until after everyone said a lot of flattering words, the shopkeeper Tong hummed angrily about the past of this zombie clock.

The old shopkeeper then told us that when Mr. Radish came to China, it was the 60th birthday of the Manchu Empress Dowager Lafayette, and the whole country was busy with this most powerful old lady.

At that time, the society was already in danger of the old lady and her century-old decay of the Manchu magnates, but the Empress Dowager Xi, as the supreme ruler, was still painting the peace with her decadent and depraved birthday, decorating the century-old dream of the Celestial Empire, and continuing her extravagant hobbies and moods.

Among the many preferences of the "Queen Mother of the West" back then, there was a very special preference, that is, she liked some of the "strange tricks" of Westerners, such as cameras, locomotives, self-striking clocks, light bulbs, small movies, etc., she loved them all, and she was the first group of people in China to use modern technology.

Since Galeries Lafayette likes "Western scenery", how can there be no foreign gadgets to celebrate his 60th birthday like this?

Therefore, I don't know who came up with the idea, saying that the ministers and prime ministers of various countries living in China should take the lead in organizing a "International Machinery Expo" in the Summer Palace during the entire birthday period, which will last for three days, and bring those rare goods that Westerners are fun and good-looking, and celebrate the birthday of the Queen Mother of the West together.

For this World Exposition, the officials of the Qing court also worked hard. Li Hongzhang and Yuan Shikai personally took the lead, embezzled military salaries from the Beiyang Navy Division in advance, and used the money to buy artillery shells to renovate the 1.5-kilometer-long railway that ran through the "Zhongbeihai and Ziguangge" overnight, and to run a small train, the Post and Telecommunications Bureau rushed to work day and night to issue commemorative stamps to celebrate his birthday, and on the way from the Forbidden City to the Summer Palace, he also imitated Qianlong's birthday and carried out a face-saving project of "lighting the scene."

Then, Prime Minister Yamen informed the ministers of various countries, saying that all foreign missions that came to celebrate their birthdays would be rewarded with 100 silver coins for their heads if they had machinery and equipment in the birthday ceremony, such as electric lights and telephones, and that they would be sure to participate in the International Machinery Exposition.

And if there are those who participate in the ranking of the mechanics of the world, in addition to the reward from Lafayette's side, the prime minister Yamen also arranged an additional 1,000 taels of gold and a number of Chinese specialties, and also promised that whoever wins the championship will be sealed with a six-grade top belt and enjoy the same courtesy as the officials of the capital in China.

Give money, food and officials, such a good thing is naturally difficult to find with a lantern. As a result, the ministers of various countries also exerted all their resources under the stimulus of money, and one by one they rushed to be the first, like mosquitoes that have seen blood, and sent people to participate in the exposition one after another.