The wine is gone

Li Xuanzhu and Duan Qirui said goodbye to Lei Xiaopeng and others, and left the Longfeng Restaurant to walk back, the two of them lived in the Huhai Hotel, about two streets away from here, just after a full meal and a walk, they walked back along the side of the road.

Qinglong City does not have the prosperity of a metropolis like Red River Valley City, but a small cultural city with beautiful scenery, exquisite and elegant, with a lot less noisy business atmosphere at night and more quiet atmosphere.

Walking on the road illuminated by street lamps, the evening breeze containing the fragrance of grass and trees is cool and cool, and the sound of music is faintly heard from the people on the roadside, which makes people feel that the years are quiet.

Walked a few hundred meters ahead

Li Lianzhu didn't speak, Duan Qirui just walked quietly next to him and didn't make a sound, and the street lamp stretched the shadows of the two people long.

"I've lived here for two years, but we students rarely have the opportunity to go out shopping at night, and at most during the day, we can pool some money to buy some snacks, and that's the happiest moment." As he strolled along the road, he seemed to be caught in a deep memory; "At that time, school was everything, learning in school, living in school, playing in school, the outside world was beautiful and desirable, and I always looked forward to growing up quickly, graduating one day earlier and leaving this cage-like school."

Speaking of which

Li Fushou turned his head to look at Duan Qirui, who had been silent, his eyes looked bright in the night; "Brother Qirui, you must be the same, right?"

"Yes! We students all have the same mind, and of course I am no different from others, except for ......"

"Except for what?"

"Huh...... Except for those lucky guys who already have someone in their hearts, they can't wait to stay in school for the rest of their lives. ”

"Oh...... They, hehe......"

Li Xuanzhu laughed understandingly, there are more men and fewer girls in the Eagle School, the ratio is almost 9:1 or even lower, and the boys and girls do not live and teach together, at most they can only occasionally meet in the school yard, and the lucky ones who have the opportunity to win the favor of girls are even rarer.

At least among the 100 people in their district team, there were no such lucky ones.

District captain He Jiaben inexplicably captured Zhu Qiaoer's heart because of an accident, but he was about to graduate at that time......

"Looking back now, the life of the school is green and beautiful, and every time the big guys finish eating, they don't rush back to the dormitory, they just wander around the playground in twos and threes, just to see the girls passing by in a queue, and everyone knows it." Speaking of this, a smile tugged at the corner of Li Fushou's mouth.

"Brother Zhuzhu, I heard the instructors talk about it, they know what this group of boys in the school has in mind, but they can't bear to destroy it, speaking of which...... Really thank them for accompanying us as we grow together. ”

"yes, it looks like it was yesterday in retrospect."

"Who's to say it isn't?" Duan Qirui's emotions were obviously excited, they were all young people with the same experience; "To tell you the truth, I sometimes drink with my brothers, and when I get up in the morning on the second day, I sometimes get scared, I want to die, and I have to be beaten by the instructor after delaying the morning class, and when I come back to my senses, I have a strong sense of emptiness in my heart for no reason."

"Did you donate money to the school?"

"I donated £20 last year and hope to help more people."

"Brother Qirui, you donated 20 pounds, I donated 65 pounds last year, but thinking about the fact that the headmaster spends millions of pounds a year, and has been persisting for so many years, and millions of lonely teenagers, including us, have benefited a lot, I really think that the headmaster is too great."

"Yes, Entong reinvented!"

The two streets are not far away, and the two young officers strode side by side for a while, and the Huhai Hotel is a three-storey Chinese-style cornice-style building with a string of lanterns at the door, and a traditional wooden door.

There are also several hostels near the street, which are nothing more than plaques such as Yuedong Inn, Guangxi Hotel, and Fusheng Inn, which are all Chinese-run businesses, and occasionally some whites are used to living in Chinese hostels.

Sometimes the language barrier can be solved by comparing and dying, just pay for it.

"Yo ho, the two chiefs have come back from eating wine, can you make a pot of tea for you in a while? What else do you think you need? The innkeeper greeted him politely and greeted him from afar.

"There are fresh fruits, pick up the exquisite ones and send them to a plate."

"The little one understands, and I'll arrange it right away."

The rooms of the two were separated, and Duan Qirui didn't want to rest so early, so he came to Li Xuanzhu's room to chat, just drink some tea, eat some fruit to sober up, and by the way, talk about the Lei brothers at today's banquet.

After the innkeeper brought the tea and fruit plate, Li Fushou took out a shilling silver coin and handed it over, and said generously; "Take it, and I'll reward you more."

"Thank you, sir, for the generous reward."

"Okay, let's go down."

"Thank you, thank you." The officers who had recently moved in were generous, and the hostel men left happily and closed the door.

In the room, an oil lamp illuminates the surroundings.

It is a simplely furnished room, with a bed, a cupboard, a table, and a few bamboo-woven chairs, and the futon is clean and tidy, and there is a thermos at the foot of the table.

Li Xuanzhu took off his military jacket and hung it in the closet, walked over and sat down, took a sip of the brewed tea, raised his eyes to look at Duan Qirui, and saw him sitting on a chair with Erlang's legs on his legs eating fruit, with a thoughtful expression, so he asked;

"What do you think?"

"I'm wondering where Lei Xiaopeng will go on this expedition?"

"Hmm...... And then what? ”

"In fact, a lot of information has been revealed in and out of his words, so I estimate that it is Africa, after all, the British and Germans in that part of West Asia have penetrated very deeply, and it has a long history of culture and heritage, but it is not something that his expedition of more than 1,000 people can touch, and the specific location is not counted."

"You can use the elimination method to analyze, maybe it will work?"

Hearing Li Xuanzhu's words, Duan Qirui's spirit suddenly came, he took a big bite of the crisp and juicy melon and chewed it very vigorously, tilted his head and thought for a few minutes, then suddenly slapped his thigh and said; "With ......"

"What's there...... Don't be scared! Li Xuanzhu was so stunned by his sudden action that he spilled the tea on his body, and couldn't help but complain.

This did not affect Duan Qirui, who was still immersed in what he had just discovered; "Brother Zhuzhu, listen to me analyze it and see if it makes sense!

Let's set the big target on Africa, well, according to the analysis of the information we know, it can't be on the west coast of Africa, which is much more sensitive than the east coast, and it can't be South Africa, because that's the territory of the British and the Boers, and it can't be North Africa, it's the territory of the French, so we can exclude the Suez Canal and Egypt, and we can also exclude the Kingdom of Ethiopia, because according to what we learned in the military geography class, Ethiopia has no less than 300,000 tribal and foreign forces. Even 300,000 pigs were not something that Brother Xiaopeng's expedition could handle.

The rest is simple

Only the Horn of Africa in northeastern Africa and the coastal areas of the west coast from Somalia to South Africa can be narrowed down to roughly the entire west coast plus the Horn of East Africa. ”

"To be more specific?"

"That's going to be difficult, we don't know if there is a naval force to cooperate, objectively speaking, with the combat effectiveness of our Shangri-La Division, landing anywhere on the west coast of Africa, there is more than ninety percent certainty of establishing a solid base area. The only factor is international interference, otherwise I dare say 100% sure. ”

Duan Qirui did not delay eating the fruit while analyzing, and Li Xuanzhu quickly grabbed the last melon in his hand, and then refuted it; "Then you're setting the force of the Africans too low?"

"Brother Zhuzhu, there is no way to do this, the generation gap in science and technology cannot be bridged by the bravery of African warriors, as long as you bring a few machine guns, it is a one-sided massacre, and the war between the British and Zulus has demonstrated all this for us." Duan Qirui threw the last few grapes into his mouth, his mouth bulged high and the juice overflowed, and after swallowing it heavily, he spit out a few grape skins, and his movements were very skillful.

Europeans and Arabs have a centuries-old history of capturing black slaves, including the war between the British and the Zulu kingdom that has also been discussed in military case study classes.

"I think...... Grapes should be planted in your plantation. Li Xuanzhu said abruptly.

"Why?"

"First of all, you like to eat it yourself, and secondly, fresh grapes can be sold or made into wine."

"No, I don't like to drink sour wine."

"And what about the wine lady, don't you like it either?" Li Xuanzhu's words could ask Duan Qirui's heart, and he showed an obviously moved look.

According to the French wine-making process, the first step is to put the picked large pile of grapes in a large wooden barrel, and the wine lady enters the large wooden barrel barefoot to step on it...... Of course, a woman's white feet are very clean.

Harvest season

The women sang joyful songs, stood hand in hand in the big wooden barrel and stepped on it vigorously, the white calves were dazzling, and the body fragrance mixed with the fragrance of grapes and fruits was drunk in the hearts of the people;

Thinking of this scene, Duan Qirui was a little red, and hurriedly took a big sip of tea to soothe it.

The two chatted for a while, and the topic was about the medal system that the General Staff was preparing.

"Brother Zhuzhu, you said that our chief of staff will not make a set of German medal system, right?"

"It's hard to say, you see our German-style foot drill, German-style training rules, and the seriousness that officers must polish their shoes every day and military uniforms without a trace of wrinkles, are not all Junker's military aristocrats."

"That's possible, I know that the eldest son of the Fritz division is only 8 years old, so he was sent to the junior barracks for training, and other German officers are like this, and boys must be sent to the junior barracks to study at the latest at the age of 10, I heard that it is the custom of the Junker military aristocracy, even His Majesty the Emperor."

"Therefore, many of our officers have also learned the same, and sent their children to the junior barracks when they are seven or eight years old, receiving rigorous military training and cultural learning and education, and cultivating military demeanor and a sense of honor from the bones, I think it is right, and our children will be like this in the future."

"Our children ......" Duan Qirui was directly speechless.

The two married sisters at the same time last year, and there has been no movement so far, and now Li Xuanzhu has begun to think about the child's going to the junior barracks.

Let the child in his wife's womb know that he must not cry to death!