Chapter 322

Holding a crutch in one hand, holding a volume of books in the other, and wearing a pair of reading glasses.

Just such an old man who seemed to fall down at the first touch made Xu Tong's heart skip a beat, and he was startled: "Who is he?? Why does he live in the school room?"

In the capital city, officials with a first-rank official position can live in a large courtyard mansion with three entrances and five rooms in the front, middle, and back, which is called "Dazhaimen".

Second-rank officials have 15 rooms, and two rooms and three rooms are already the highest standard.

Officials of the third grade only enter one room, 12 rooms.

This entry can be understood as the meaning of the courtyard in the courtyard, and the room refers to the main hall.

For example, March's house is composed of one entrance room, one main hall, two wing rooms, one inverted seat room, one private school, two side rooms and so on.

The house is not big, but it has everything you need. There is a small room next to the gate, where the gatekeeper lives at night. There is a room next to the small room. The inconspicuous place is the school room. If the family invites a gentleman to teach , teach in it, the origin of the private school is like this.

Xu Tong, the doorkeeper at home, knew it well, but he had no impression of this old man.

What's more, this old man was unusual, he appeared behind him silently, even Da Ya and the others didn't notice it. He watched with his desperate eyes, but found that he couldn't see the old man's luck.

Using Qimen to feel it, the result made him break out in a cold sweat.

Man is the spirit of all things, and he has a subtle resonance with nature all the time, but this old man is as quiet as still water, like a pool of stagnant water, isolated from everything around him.

Asked by the old man, Xu Tong thought for a moment, and said calmly: "I'm upset, I want to go out for a walk, and I'll be back in a while."

"Oh, okay, okay, young master go early and come back early."

After finishing speaking, the old man held the book and walked back, reciting a poem while walking: "The light clouds are not clear yet, and the trickling ditch is silent. For pity on the new moss and green moss, there is no wall to take the road."

Xu Tong breathed a sigh of relief, the more flustered a person is, the easier it is to overthink.

It's like a fugitive murderer eating in a restaurant, and finds two policemen standing behind him. Even in summer, he can feel his back getting cold. At this time, the policeman casually asks him, "How does this food taste like?"

The murderer was about to start thinking, what does this mean, the last meal before arresting me?

This kind of blind thinking makes people more nervous. When people are nervous, they are prone to problems. In fact, people just ask casually. This is the result of poor psychological quality.

The more natural and casual Xu Tong behaved, the more normal he felt. If he panicked, something might happen.

Seeing that the old man had left, Xu Tong hurried out of the house, thinking about it as he walked, saying that the old man was hidden in the court, and the old man had come to hide in my house.

No wonder he reminded himself in the mission that once his life was in danger, it turned out that there was such a master in the Ma family.

Surprised in his heart, Xu Tong also found that his completion rate had reached 99/100, which was just a little bit short, and his side task was considered complete.

After going out, Xu Tong asked Ji Xiang to lead him the way, he wanted to see what the foreigner's steam car looked like.

Ever since the foreigners smashed the country's gate with a steamboat and defeated the Beiyan fleet, the Empress Dowager Cisheng signed a series of treaties, and even set aside a foreigner's area in the capital.

It has only been two or three years, and the foreigner's district is already full of feasting and feasting. It seems to be prosperous, but it is full of filth.

Because this is a foreigner's area, it is tax-free, and it is not convenient for the government to come in, so many people see opportunities.

The biggest gambling house is here, the biggest brothel is here, people trading, tobacco trading, everything you need here, only what you can't think of, nothing you can't find here.

When Xu Tong walked in, two students in long coats handed him a leaflet.

Take it over and take a look, there are long articles about Westernization disrupting the country and so on. The person who wrote this thing has a good literary talent, citing scriptures and classics, and listing the scourge of Westernization.

But in his opinion, it is just a piece of garbage, and it is too hard to throw it into the toilet to wipe your butt.

It's not that he worships foreigners, but that he feels that this stuff is written, and he can't even guess what he reads, and he expects illiterate ordinary people to understand?It’s almost the same as the Heaven’s Book. As a publicity leaflet, people can’t understand it. It’s not rubbish.

"Puff puff……"

Walking into the Western District, Xu Tong could see a steam car coming from one end of the street from a distance. Its shape was no different from that of a car, except that there was a large water tank behind the car and a chimney emitting white smoke.

The further you go inside, the more steam cars there are.

The difference from the outside world is that this place actually gives Xu Tong a modern feeling. There are no lanterns on both sides of the street, but light bulbs.

It is said that foreigners built a power plant on the North Canal, in addition to supplying power to the palace, mainly to supply power to the foreign area in front of us.

The dim light cast crooked shadows on the street, and some men and women with oriental faces had already put on long skirts and suits that looked like foreigners.

On the contrary, it was his coat that looked a little out of place here.

"Boss, give me a bite."

An old man was lying on the container tremblingly, and took out a few copper coins from his pocket.

The boss fiddled a few times with a look of disgust, counted the amount of copper coins, and took out something like an iron kettle from the container behind him. The old man took the iron kettle and did not go inside, but went out to the backyard.

Xu Tong stood aside and saw the situation curiously, followed up to have a look, and saw a separate place in the small courtyard behind.

There are several vents on the wall, and these people hold iron pots, cover the vents, and smoke vigorously to suck out the smoke in the house and smoke second-hand smoke to relieve their addiction.

In the corner on the side, there were still two full-fledged people lying crookedly, without even a single piece of clothing on their bodies, lying on the ground skinny, with nervous smiles on their faces from time to time.

Xu Tong watched the fate of these people with the help of the eye of fate, but only saw a skeleton.

Shaking his head, he turned and walked out of the alley, but as soon as he got out of the alley, he saw a group of richly dressed men and women walking into the smokehouse.

Xu Tong looked and found that one of them had official luck, and he was afraid that he was also an official.

Not to mention officials, even the current Emperor Datong is smoking this potion, and even gave this potion a nice name, Fushou Ointment.

Even the emperor has this kind of virtue, which shows that this country has been rotten from top to bottom.

Xu Tong was not interested in these things, so he continued to walk inside after reading it. The purpose of his visit today was to see what the so-called steam gun and steam aircraft looked like.

As a result, I didn’t see it after walking around. After asking Jixiang, I found out that these things can be seen in the barracks near the foreigner’s church.

So I can only go to Xiangyue Tower to see the famous Qiao Xiaofeng in disappointment.

As a result, as soon as they walked to the door, the street suddenly became lively.

"The red light shines, the gods help the boxing, just because the devils are in the Central Plains, persuasion, self-confidence, disbelief in gods, forgetting ancestors, male infidelity, female rape, ghost children are all born by mothers..."

Xu Tong looked back and saw a big red lantern jumping over his head, and there was a woman in a costume standing on top of the lantern.

Immediately after, a group of women holding lanterns poured out on the street at some point. They were stacked on top of each other, shaking red silk hands, looking like they were performing street acrobatics.

Some people who knew the Red Lantern Sect saw this, turned around and ran away as soon as their expressions changed, for fear that if they ran two steps too slowly, they would be slaughtered as foreigners.

There are also some people who don't know the situation standing on the side of the road applauding and applauding, which is right to watch the excitement.

There were many foreigners among them, and they couldn't understand what the song was singing, so they chased after them with their cameras.

Seeing the excitement, Xu Tong simply followed to see what this group of people were going to do.

"The red light is shining, the world is safe, the Virgin is out, everything is fine..."

This mighty group of people went straight to the direction of the church. The foreigners in the church heard the movement and came out one after another. Looking at the sky full of red lanterns, they didn't know that disaster was imminent, and they all shouted: "brilliant"

Seeing these foreigners clapping and applauding, the woman standing on the lantern suddenly pulled out a big knife and kicked the lantern under her feet forward. The lantern hit the church directly and exploded with a bang.

"Kill foreigners, keep peace, ascend to heaven, enjoy immortality!"

As soon as the slogan changed, a large block of lanterns fell down, and these foreigners standing at the door of the church were instantly engulfed by flames, turning into burning men one by one.

Immediately following the ladies and sisters who were still pleasing to the eye just now, they have already drawn their blades and rushed into the church, killing anyone they see.

"Teacher, should we help!"

Da Ya stood behind and asked, after all, no matter from the point of view of preaching or foreign devils' invasion of the country, they don't have any good impressions of these foreigners.

"Hmph, watch."

To be honest, Xu Tong didn't have a good impression of the foreign devils, nor did he have a good impression of the Red Lantern Sect in front of him.

He had read the script, and the Red Lantern Sect went door-to-door begging for rice and money. If they didn’t give it, they would be classified as traitors, and if they were dragged out, they would be chopped up. It's like getting the news in advance, and it will disappear when the officers and soldiers encircle and suppress.

If that's the case, that's all. The way they win over the believers is nothing more than swindling and abducting. There are countless cases of deceiving the common people by using incense ashes as magic medicine.

Especially when I heard their slogan, I felt that this group of people was more shameless than Liangshan Green Forest.

Just looking at it, I heard a buzzing in my ears.

Looking up, I finally saw the steam aircraft I wanted to see, but after a closer look, I was very disappointed.

This thing is also called an aircraft? ?
The aircraft in my imagination should be similar to the pilots in the game Red Alert, but the aircraft in front of me seems to have that meaning.

But in fact, it is just a process of jumping high, using the steam injector behind it, temporarily pushing people up to a height of two or three meters, and then slowly landing.

But these are auxiliary arms, because the camp is near the church. Seeing that the church is on fire, those foreigners naturally sent troops quickly.

In addition to the steam car, there were also all musketeers holding muskets. Two small-caliber cannons blasted directly into the crowd, making their flesh bloody in an instant.

(End of this chapter)

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