couldn't stop sneezing, ginger soup was hard to swallow and resentful. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Jianning spit out and fell to the ground, Wang Kai shook his head and sighed.

If you don't recover from the wind and cold, how can you bring the disease back to the palace.

Foreigners knocked on the door to make a mystery and exchanged agreements with each other.

After letting the cook spend nearly half an hour boiling two bowls of ginger soup, Wang Kai returned non-stop with a tray and rushed to the guest room where he and Princess Jianning lived. On this way, Wang Kai naturally couldn't help but sneeze several times.

At this time, Princess Jianning, who was not sleepy, had already gotten up, and after dressing up and washing, she sat on the round stool next to the round table, covered her nose with a pink handkerchief, sneezed from time to time, and sat waiting for Wang Kai to bring the ginger soup.

After pushing the door and entering the guest room, Wang Kai hurriedly put the tray on the round table, took down a bowl of steaming ginger soup from the tray, and put it in front of Princess Jianning, who was sitting on a round bench on the side.

After finding an empty round stool next to him and sitting down, Wang Kai faced Princess Jianning, who was sitting opposite him, and said with concern: "Your Royal Highness Princess, this ginger soup is specially made by the master of the kitchen for nearly half an hour. After a moment of drinking the ginger soup, the kitchen master will bring the breakfast for today. ”

As soon as Wang Kai's words fell, Princess Jianning snorted coldly, and after taking a sip of steaming ginger soup with a spoon, she just put it in her mouth and stayed before blinking, so she turned her head and spit on the green bricks on the ground next to her, and at the end, she took a sip.

Princess Jianning, who had a painful expression on her face, looked down at the night of ginger soup placed on the round table in front of her, and immediately raised her head to look ahead, stretched out her right Qianqianyu and pointed at Wang Kai opposite, and angrily accused: "Wang Kai, what are you doing, this ginger soup is so spicy, too unpalatable, it is really hard to swallow."

"How can this ginger soup have ginger slices, green onions and garlic cloves in it? When the princess used to drink ginger soup in the palace, she had to put a lot of rock sugar in this ginger soup, so that it would not be so spicy and bitter to drink. ”

Seeing Princess Jianning's angry face, she said that she wouldn't drink it, which made Wang Kai anxious. Because this Princess Jianning was fine when she went out of the palace with him last year, and her body was fine, and it was only a day later, Princess Jianning was going to catch a cold because she asked for the thick and warm quilt to give him.

Moreover, if this cold is not treated in time, it is likely to aggravate the condition. As far as the current conditions are concerned, Wang Kai feels that drinking ginger soup is the best way he can think of.

If Princess Jianning had caught a cold and rushed back to the palace with him this evening, this Xuan Ye would have nothing to do if he learned about it, in case the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang learned about it, once the matter was investigated, then he would be to blame. Just taking Princess Jianning out of the palace without permission is already a serious crime, which is undoubtedly a crime on top of a crime.

After thinking of the serious consequences brought about by this, Wang Kai, who had a bitter face, was about to think about how to persuade Princess Jianning to drink the ginger soup quickly, when suddenly, he heard the closed door five or six steps away behind him knock twice from outside.

Wang Kai, who was disturbed by this sudden knock on the door, was worried that he had nowhere to vent the fire in his stomach, he thought that the master in the kitchen had brought the prepared breakfast in advance, so he thought that he would use him as his punching bag to vent his grievances.

"Squeak", when Wang Kai opened the door from the inside, he saw that the person standing outside the door was not the imaginary kitchen master just now, but Thomas of the English Legation Martial Arts Pavilion who taught him marksmanship yesterday and became a defeated general.

Thomas, who was standing outside the door of the guest room, saw that after the door was opened, Wang Kai walked out of it, and without waiting for Wang Kai to speak, he saluted Wang Kai in front of him like a gentleman, said hello, and said politely: "Ambassador Plenipotentiary Wang, good, moming!"

As soon as Thomas's greeting fell, after about four or five blinks, when Wang Kai woke up, he hurriedly replied without hesitation: "Thomas, good, moming!"

After listening to Wang Kai's very fluent and innocent London accent, Thomas was really taken aback. Because when he was talking to Wang Kai together yesterday, he also heard Wang Kai say a swearing and innocuous word, and he was very curious about it. It's just that because yesterday was all about testing marksmanship, he left this matter behind.

Early this morning, Thomas came to visit Wang Kai half an hour before Chenshi, and came to reply to Wang Kai's request for 400 guns for free from the two envoys yesterday.

This is out of Thomas's personal selfishness, he wants to test Wang Kai again to see if he is really proficient in their English Chinese, only then did he see Wang Kai open the door and quickly said hello in English.

Sure enough, what made Thomas feel extremely careful was that Wang Kai was stunned for a moment, and then answered him in English.

In this regard, Thomas felt that Wang Kai was so young that he could say a few simple English words with such an innocent accent, and nine times out of ten Wang Kai could speak a lot of more complex English.

However, what made Thomas a little puzzled was that it was precisely because of Wang Kai's young age that he was able to speak such fluent English, and who did he learn it from? Could it be that he had visited the English Islands in their country?

Suddenly, Thomas's head was full of question marks. At the same time, he thought that Wang Kai was very familiar with the operation of muskets, and his marksmanship was even more exquisite than that of him, a "sharpshooter" who had used muskets for six or seven years and was praised by everyone in the envoys.

After combining these two aspects, Thomas remembered more, which made Thomas even more confused and unpredictable about Wang Kai's identity and ability.

In Thomas's eyes, this young man who reached out to the emperor of the Qing Dynasty government was heavy, a good kung fu, more than a dozen post house soldiers were not close to him, he was familiar with musket operation and accurate marksmanship, and he could also speak the official language of their English nation, what kind of young man should this be, and immediately made him dare not continue to think about it.

After opening the door from the inside, Wang Kai saw Thomas, who was standing outside the door, still greeting him politely, and then in a blink of an eye, he stood still in place, like a telephone pole.

After observing for a while, Wang Kai felt the need to wake up this Thomas who was out of his mind. After all, he was going to return to the palace at 10 p.m. tonight. Although he has mastered the use of the musket, and the marksmanship can already hit the target five zhang away, it can be regarded as completing the task assigned to him by Xuan Ye.

However, Wang Kai felt that it was not enough to just complete the task given to him by Xuan Ye, he felt that after getting rid of Aobai, he could not close off the country, open the coastal ports to the outside world, and do business with foreigners mainly with me.

In addition to cooperating with foreigners in doing business, it is also necessary to get their hands on the sophisticated manufacturing technology of military equipment from foreigners. And, on this basis, slowly develop the military industry. Otherwise, it will become a colony of Westerners in more than 200 years, which is not what he wants to see.

I have to say that Wang Kai, a modern man from more than 500 years later, really broke his heart for the social and economic development of the world and the people's living and working in peace and contentment, and no longer repeating the invasion and oppression of Western powers. You know, he could have done it all.

After thinking about Jiangshan Sheji and the people of Li Min, Wang Kai stepped forward, stretched out his left hand, patted the shoulder on the right side of Thomas, who was standing in front of him in a daze, and asked angrily: "Hey, Thomas, wake up quickly, don't be in a daze." I'm very busy right now, and I have a lot of official business to give, so what's the matter with you standing in front of the door of my room in a daze, you have something to say, and you have a fart to let go. If you really want to go somewhere else. ”

After being questioned by Wang Kai on the shoulder, Thomas, who was standing in place and secretly thinking about Wang Kai's various abnormal behaviors and couldn't understand it, immediately shivered all over his body and woke up.

Thomas, who came to his senses, scratched his head a little embarrassed at first, then went straight to the point, and said with some unthinking: "Lord Wang, I'm really sorry, Fang Cai, I'm thinking about a problem. After a while, I didn't figure it out, so I made you wait for a long time.

"I have come to you early this morning to convey to you the reply of our Excellency Michael, head of the English Legation, and of our friendly neighbour, His Excellency Barna, of the French Legation, to your request yesterday for four hundred guns free of charge.

"After careful study and consideration by the two Excellencies, I believe that this request made by you, Lord Wang, is too harsh for the envoys of our two countries to agree. But ......"

Before the thoughtful Thomas could tell the content behind "but", he deliberately paused here, and was immediately interrupted by Wang Kai, who was a little anxious himself, and couldn't wait to ask: "But what, Thomas, you don't want to sell it, if you have anything to say, just say it directly." ”

Thomas, who deliberately played tricks, saw Wang Kai's impatient look, and then continued slowly: "Lord Wang, don't be too anxious. Although His Excellency Michael and His Excellency Barna did not agree to your request, they finally reached a consensus, that is, in the early stage, they would first provide you with 100 guns and 10,000 rounds of ammunition from the Qing Dynasty government.

"Then, teach you the technology of making guns and bullets, and let you produce and manufacture guns and ammunition yourself. However, regarding the opening of coastal ports by your Qing Dynasty government, trade with our England and France, it is necessary to sign an agreement with your Qing Dynasty government. In the words of those of you here, it's called 'one hand to pay and one hand to deliver', yes, that's what it means. I don't know, Lord Wang, what do you think of your Excellency's proposal?"

As soon as Thomas's words fell, Wang Kai, who was standing only one step in front of him, immediately stared at his cheek coldly, "Azine...... Azine...... Azazine" sneezed three times in a row.