"What's wrong?" Hearing the movement here, on the opposite side of the venue, a sturdy old man with a white beard turned around and looked here.

Backstage, Li Xuanying also walked out, followed by a bear in a robe.

"Oh, you're here." He beckoned, "What's wrong?" Ready to catch a show? ”

"It's not ......" Guo Kang didn't know how to say for a while: "The main thing is that I was startled just now." ”

"Nothing." Li Xuanying said, walked over, and patted the saddle on the wild boar's back: "Nurhachi is a well-trained professional pig, don't worry." ”

"I'm not worried about something going wrong with the pigs......" Guo Kang stopped talking.

"Hey, what are you messing with? Isn't the circus just about having fun? Li Xuanying looked at the two of them and said nonchalantly: "It's okay if you're late, I'll treat you and give you a special show." ”

"Nikita!" He turned to the bear and shouted, "Come, speak!" ”

However, Xiong still only looked at Guo Kang and Zhu Wenkui curiously, and did not react.

"It won't work, it doesn't understand, sir." Next to him, a white-bearded old man spoke Greek with a thick accent. He walked over, stood across from the bear, pointed to a box in the middle of the field, and said in a deliberately elongated and pompous tone: "Nikita, speak!" ”

When the bear heard the command, he immediately stood on his feet, rubbed his paws, and then swaggered towards the box and climbed up. Then, without continuing the order, it stood up straight, imitating the movements of Greek politicians, screaming and gesturing with its paws, which looked quite verveful, and made people laugh.

"That's what I said earlier, the bear named Nikita." Guo Kang came back to his strength and took advantage of the situation to introduce to Zhu Wenkui: "This is the beast tamer Ivan." ”

"Nikita is smart and good at imitating Greek politicians. Sometimes, I forget that he's just a bear. Ivan smiled and said, "However, you have to give him the Greek password before he can get into the groove." ”

Several people were happy to watch the performance, and Jeanne also drove the wild boar over. It's just that Nikita performed for a while, then stopped again and lazily stopped moving.

"Mr. Nikita needs encouragement." Old Ivan told everyone: "Come, please applaud him!" ”

Although I don't know why Mr. Xiong still has this demand, old Ivan is very good at mobilizing the atmosphere, and Guo Kang still applauded with interest.

"Good!"

"Good!"

"Good!"

"Humph!"

The only audience also applauded.

Now, Nikita actually came to the spirit. It straightened up again, gesturing with one paw in mid-air and one on its chest, screaming, looking around at everyone, changing movements from time to time. Everyone laughed back and forth, and Nikita looked more energetic.

After a while, it made a bowing motion. Old Ivan told everyone that the show was over. But Nikita remained standing on the box and did not leave, as if waiting for something.

Old Ivan walked over, stretched out his hand, shook its paws, and took a straw ring from the side and put it on its head. Nikita let out a low growl, climbed down the box in satisfaction, and paced back to the backstage.

It's not the first time for Jeanne and Li Xuanying to see it, but they still smile and lean back. Zhu Wenkui tried to maintain his expression at first, but in the end, he couldn't hold back and laughed with them.

"Now you can understand why the soldiers liked it." Guo Kangle said hehehe.

"I think it can play the ancient Greek officials in the comedy, better than the people in the troupe." Li Xuanying was also very happy: "The only drawback is that he can't memorize lines and can't say meaningful words." ”

"It's fine. If the news I heard about the Ming Dynasty before is similar, then it is not necessarily a shortcoming. Jeanne interjected: "Aren't you short of people to visit Daming?" I even think Nikita does. ”

"But Nikita doesn't speak, it's just a show." Guo Kang turned around and said.

"It's fine. It is said that the civil servants of the Ministry of Rites can only perform and never speak meaningful human words. Jeanne said.

"......" Guo Kang and Zhu Wenkui were speechless for a while.

"Humph!" Nurhachi said.

"Alright, let's stop here today." Li Xuanying stood up and made a round. He looked left and right, and saw that Jeanne didn't seem to have had enough, so he said to old Ivan, "Leave the chores here to the others." We took Nurhachi with us and went out with the little county lord to have fun. ”

Old Ivan nodded, threw the matter to his assistant, fed the wild boar a few handfuls of chaff, and brought it over again. Jeanne wanted to ride again, but Zhu Wenkui firmly disagreed, saying that it would be too embarrassing to be like this in front of everyone.

"Actually, you don't have to be so particular." Guo Kang persuaded: "There are too many rules in different places, and if you abide by them, I'm afraid you can't do anything." ”

"yes. She was born in France, and she is still a relative of the King of France, so she is still a French nobleman. But according to the rules over there, it would be illegal for a little girl to wear pants, let alone ride a horse and practice guns every day. Li Xuanying pointed out: "So, don't worry about it so much. It's a holiday today, let my little sister have a good time. ”

Zhu Wenkui had no choice but to nod his head, indicating that he had accepted his fate.

Guo Kang asked old Ivan to lead the pig and follow them to the other side of the training ground.

"What are you going to see?" Li Xuanying asked.

"Let's go see the chariots." Guo Kang said: "There are also a lot of iron and wood instruments over there, and the prince should be interested." It just so happened that the old mercenaries recommended by Wu Wanggang were also there, so they could see how the progress was. ”

"Oh?" Zhu Wenkui really came to be a little interested, nodded and said that he was indeed happy.

The camp for the chariot was right next to it, and it was not long there.

"Old Yang! The prince is here, come out and introduce him! Guo Kang shouted.

A young man dressed in priest's clothes, with a one-eyed middle-aged man, stepped out from behind several carts and bowed to them.

"This is Brother Zerik, our translator." Guo Kang introduced: "That is Captain Jan Jeska, the commander of the mercenaries. However, he did not yet know Greek, and needed Mr. Zerik's help in relaying it. ”

Jeska and Zhu Wenkui had a relationship, but they only handed over Zhu Yunwen's letter and didn't talk much. and Zhu Rangna, they don't know each other at all. After the introduction, he greeted the brother and sister, and looked at Guo Kang again, as if he wanted to ask him what he needed to do.

"I'll give you a general introduction first, and then you will take the prince to visit the weapons and ordnance here." Guo Kang continued: "Shizi has a lot of experience in this area, and I plan to let him supervise the construction of the workshop, and it will also involve the equipment you need. For specific questions, you can ask him more and communicate with him later. ”

He was worried that with the atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty, directly saying that Zhu Wenkui would be the leader of the blacksmith would make him resist, so he kept emphasizing "dabbling" and "supervision" to show that he had other serious identities and was not a simple craftsman.

But at the moment, it may be that he thinks too much. Zhu Wenkui unexpectedly didn't put up a stand at all, but was full of interest and had no intention of objecting.

"By the way, Shizi, this Lao Yang is also a powerful person." Taking advantage of Zelik's translation for Jaska, Guo Kang whispered to Zhu Wenkui again: "If he needs anything, try to help him." This person is an experienced veteran, and his opinions will not be out of touch with reality, so it should not be a problem. ”

"Do you know him?" Zhu Wenkui said curiously: "In my father's letter, I didn't elaborate on his achievements. ”

"I've heard about it from other places." Guo Kang had no choice but to say mysteriously: "This person has won several miraculous victories, so he is known by the locals as a rare genius commander in a hundred years, known as ...... Uh, 'Magician Young'. It's just that now there is civil strife on the side of the HRE, and they are down, so they are here. In short, we must keep this talent well. ”

"I see." Although Zhu Wenkui still didn't understand a little, he still nodded seriously and agreed.