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Therefore, the hospitality of these foreigners is really meticulous, fully embodying the spirit of our great Qingning and friends, when the foreigners rest, in addition to a variety of seasonal fruits, they also specially rewarded Wang Shizhong's tofu, Huang Jinlin's squid, Guo Xi's bacon and Quanjude's duck, and even added ice cream, hot cocoa and other Western desserts that were not common on the market at that time, so that these foreigners feasted their mouths.

Among these people, Mr. Dagrober, who was good at trading and speculation, also followed the Italian delegation to China, and thanks to this imperial favor, he also stole a lot of plates.

To tell the truth, according to Mr. Radish's records, he and other foreign ministers were not interested in the Raoshzi food and the final finale of the exhibition, but in the midst of international etiquette and Lafayette's generous reward, they very much wanted to stay and continue to make money.

Moreover, the first place in this machinery fair has not yet been decided, and the reward of one thousand taels of gold has become one of the biggest motivations for these people to persevere.

In this way, a group of foreign devils ate and drank until late at night, and then went out of the palace, accompanied by Lafayette and Emperor Guangxu, and went to the big opera building by Kunming Lake to watch Peking Opera.

At that time, the palace people and the Jingban who entered the palace knew that the Empress Dowager Xi loved to watch plays, and she especially loved to watch monkey plays. Therefore, the main drama before this official birthday banquet is also a festive monkey play, such as making trouble in the heavenly palace, apes offering birthdays and the like. And the list of dramas accompanying the list is also a reunion drama such as Shiro visiting his mother, Mu Guiying taking charge, and Wang Baochuan turning over to the palace, and feminist dramas.

This arrangement is very satisfying to the protagonist of the birthday banquet, but in comparison, the supporting role of Emperor Guangxu in this birthday banquet is much more cold.

This emperor, since he entered the Zheng, has not been comfortable for a few days, and he has been pressed by his "imperial mother" everywhere, and he has to pretend to laugh every day like a dumb melon. Finally, he waited for the 60th birthday of this Lafayette to roll up the promise of returning to power, but recently he has been worried about the problems of the Korean East rebellion and the Japanese picking quarrels and provoking troubles.

The combination of these factors caused the titular ruler of the country to be unhappy at all, and even on his birthday, he was only accompanied by a walking corpse.

Our Italian technician, Mr. Dagrob, has a special record of this, which he describes as "...... The Great Chief looked like he was sick, and every smile and reward was like a wild boar skin mask. ”

In this way, the emperor with the mask and Galeries Lafayette watched the operas that he liked to watch or did not like to watch.

After the end of the first two plays, Lafayette was in high spirits, but at this moment, a little eunuch hurriedly ran out from behind the crowd of spectators, and then walked to the emperor, who was frowning and not interested, and muttered something.

After that, Guangxu suddenly stretched his brows, then stood up and asked the little eunuch, "Is this true"?

Faced with the emperor's sudden concern, the eunuch nodded again and again, and said, "People have brought it...... Just waiting outside...... "Yunyun."

After that, Guangxu, who was extremely excited, reported to Lafayette, saying that at the International Machinery Expo, in addition to the style of thunder, there was also a "thing" made by the Chinese people who did not take it out. And said that if you take it out, you will definitely be able to win the championship and reward of Galeries Lafayette.

At this time, the Empress Dowager of the West, the whole person was immersed in the world of opera and couldn't extricate herself, and when she heard the emperor say that there was still a "thing" that had not been taken out, she naturally felt a little disappointed.

So, she asked the emperor, "Is this thing reliable?

In this regard, Emperor Guangxu nodded excitedly, and told Lafayette with a twelve-point affirmation that it must be reliable, and said that that thing was guaranteed by Zhang Zhidong Zhang, a serious thing, a Chinese product, and it will definitely be able to compare the "strange skills" of foreigners.

Emperor Guangxu's boast really raised Lafayette's interest again. And in addition, the person who introduced this matter was Zhang Zhidong, who was a high-ranking and powerful person in the Prime Minister's Yamen, it seemed that it was really difficult to refute face, so she also responded.

After that, the emperor instructed the interpreter to explain the situation to the ministers and officials of various countries, and asked the eunuchs and the people of Jingban to vacate the space to see the "mechanical performance" of the Zhang Zhidong Baoju.

After everything was ready, the chief manager Li who took the lead gave an order, and the two "mechanics" who were protected by Zhang Zhidong walked up with a mahogany box.

The mahogany box, reflected in the night light with its hazy blood-red halo, gave people a very cold and eerie feeling, which was incompatible with the festive atmosphere of the whole church.

In the words of Da Grober, who witnessed everything, the red box was like a frozen coffin, and its appearance quickly plunged the otherwise lively venue into an extremely cold atmosphere, and even more displeased the supreme rulers present.

Even Da Grober felt that thing was like a coffin, so our Queen Mother Xi probably thought the same way, but after all, she was the main owner of the scene, so in the face of the puzzling mahogany "coffin", she was still very calm and asked the manager Li next to her to ask the two mechanics on the stage, what is here.

At this moment, the people standing on the stage are a man and a woman, the man is wearing a black dress with a bright red belt around his waist, he is in his thirties and does not smile, and the woman is wearing a Han woman's skirt, seventeen or eighteen years old, with red lips and white teeth.

Seeing that someone asked, the man had not yet answered, and the girl suddenly giggled and replied to Mr. Li: "Father-in-law, we are not a Western machine here, but a wooden mechanic that our country has had since the Shang Zhou, and he is a puppet man, but it is beautiful." ”

The girl's lips are red and her teeth are white, she speaks neatly and neatly, and she has no stage fright in the face of the envoys of various countries, which is very face-saving for the Qing Dynasty.

In this regard, the Queen Mother Xi, who was sitting on the phoenix chair, was extremely satisfied, not only swept away her previous anger, but also made an exception and praised "a good girl", and asked her to take out the gadgets and take a look.

Listening to this, the smart manager Li naturally understood, so he hurriedly took a few little eunuchs to the stage to help unpack the box, and at the same time smiled and asked the girl to behave well, if the thing is good, Lafayette will naturally have a reward.

In this regard, the girl just smiled, and then led the eunuchs to open the mahogany box, and took out the contents with her own hands.