late Qing Dynasty arrest

Li Guolou yelled angrily: "Sister Qian, you are too outrageous, what is the world today, even the British Empire does not allow women to be concubines, how can you let your daughter jump into the fire pit?"

Qian Shuiping picked up Niuniu, coaxed her daughter, and told Niuniu not to cry, "Niuniu won't cry, Niuniu won't cry, we won't learn to sing, we will learn needlework, and we will support ourselves in the future!" After a while, he said, "Little girl Lou, this is the Qing Empire. Rich men all marry concubines. You say it nicely now. When you grow up, you will also please a few wives in the future. Men are all the same when they see beautiful women! Don’t believe it We can bet."

People say that Li Guolou is an underdeveloped "boy chicken", his face is as red as a persimmon, he is now a man of five feet, although he has no hair on his face, there are no less than other places that should be there.

Li Guolou thought of Xie Yunfang, the little girl who retired from the engagement. She was a woman who was familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics. I can't look down on him, a good-for-nothing who wasted his youth and went abroad to study.Now Li Guolou has not come out of the shadow of being dumped by the little girl, let alone glance at the beauties passing by on the road. He wants to have his own career so that others can know that Li Guolou does not depend on his family. You can also live comfortably in the world.

Li Guolou squinted and said: "Sister-in-law Qian, don't look down on people. I know Western boxing and free fighting. I also know a little bit about Chinese martial arts. Your husband can't help me. In this world, strength alone is not enough." , Just like the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was wiped out by the Hunan Army and the Huai Army, it still relied on the foreign powers of various countries to provide us with foreign guns and cannons from the Qing Empire."

Wang Shutong, who was eavesdropping on the speeches of Li Guolou and Qian Shuiping outside the door, showed half of his head from the door, and said angrily: "Down with the great powers of all countries, give me back Shanghai, give me back Guangzhou, give me back my great rivers and mountains, fake foreign devils are traitors!"

Qian Shuiping closed the door with a bang, and shouted, "Wang Kuaizui, you have nothing to do here, and Hong Xiuquan still said that guns and swords are invulnerable. You can continue to use your mouth to talk about dead devils."

Uncle Wang was full of patriotic enthusiasm, but no one paid attention to him. He still didn't give up, and stood at the door of the south room, leaning against the door panel and listening to the conversation between Li Guolou and Qian Shuiping.

Li Guolou stood up and looked at Niu Niu and Niuniu. He didn't like Four Books, Five Classics, and Stereotyped Essays at all. Although he had learned them when he was a child, since he came to the UK to learn basic cultural knowledge, he knew that Four Books, Five Classics, and Stereotyped Essays not only cultivated his cultural accomplishment. , Writing a few articles cannot promote social progress.

Li Guolou turned to Qian Shuiping and said, "Sister Qian, discuss it with you. I can understand what you said just now. Go back and discuss it with your husband. If you are willing to let Niu Niu and Niu Niu go to Ma I can pay tuition fees for them. The way of Confucius and Mencius can no longer keep up with the changes in this world. Now my grandfather and uncle are planning to build shipyards and arsenals in Shanghai. To tell you the truth, my family also has business in Shanghai and needs Western culture. Knowledgeable people are best at learning Western knowledge from an early age, and they can master it well, unlike me who only started learning Western knowledge at the age of 14. I can only learn one language, and I only know a general idea of ​​others, and I have never passed the exam.”

It was the first time that Li Guolou told others that his family had a high status in the business world, and it was also the first time that he revealed that his family had a lot of money.He still hasn't said how much money he spent in the six government yamen in the capital this year?If it was revealed, Wang Kuaizui, who was eavesdropping outside the door, might knock his jaw on the ground.Not afraid of embarrassment, he revealed that he didn't study well and couldn't produce a solid diploma, so he sat on the bench for a year in the capital, and no yamen invited him.

Qian Shuiping smiled distressedly, and said, "Xiaolou, I heard that in that Maria Church school, people will be brainwashed if they go in, and they still believe in their sect. I'm afraid there will be endless troubles."

Li Guolou is helpless, he has not been enthusiastic about preaching to others for a long time, and has been denounced as a "fake foreign devil" and "traitor" by the people of the country countless times, and said: "Sister Qian, whatever you want, anyway, just say it, if you disagree , Just pretend that I haven’t said that the impact of reading on the future is not necessarily good, and a life free from disease and disaster is also a blessing, right?”

Niu Niu looked at Li Guolou, gritted her teeth, and said, "Mother, I'm going to the Ma School, and I will become a rich man with Uncle Li in the future."

Niu Niu is a smart person, so he doesn't know the reason why people go to high places, so he shouted: "Mother, I also want to go to Ma's school, and I will be Uncle Li's subordinate in the future. I guarantee that I will not lose money."

Li Guolou smiled wryly and said, "Don't follow me. I'm the most worthless person in my family. I'm idle and accomplish nothing. I will follow my brothers and sisters from now on. I can't guarantee anything else. Sister Qian, as long as Niuniu and Niuniu graduate from the church school , I can guarantee that the entire courtyard will belong to your family in the future, and you can even afford servants."

Qian Shuiping was so excited that he almost fainted. Although the Chinese scolded the foreigners, who doesn't know that foreigners are superior to others.If her children come out of church schools run by foreigners, they will be superior to others in the Qing Dynasty.

Qian Shuiping patted her breasts and shouted: "Xiaolou, I'm in charge of the family affairs, and I will scold you when Wang Kuai swears at me. The neighbors in the neighborhood don't like it, so I don't like it. My family will depend on you from now on."

Li Guolou replied: "Sister-in-law Qian, it seems that I have been supporting your whole family for the past six months. If Ma Dabangzi does this again, I will really beat him up. This is not a joke!"

Qian Shuiping burst into tears with excitement, and said: "Xiaolou, you can beat me anyway, beat him to death, this bastard, so that I can remarry sooner."

Niu Niu and Niu Niu looked at each other, it seemed that their mother wanted to marry Li Guolou, that would be great.

As soon as Qian Shuiping opened the door, the door had not been opened too much, and her two hands were still on the door. Wang Shutong rushed into the room impatiently, scaring the four people in the room.

Wang Shutong said anxiously: "Brother Li, my son is a child prodigy, so you take him as your son. I will never speak ill of you again. I will kneel down for you."

Li Guolou doesn't like this, Wang Zaizi looks like a monkey, and when he sees a little girl, he will go crazy behind her buttocks, and even pee on the little girl. He must be a pervert when he grows up. No matter how smart Wang Zaizi is, he won't Would spend money on this kid.Honggu's nature has long been passed on to her son. As the saying goes, there is nothing wrong with a kind like a kind.

Li Guolou stopped Wang Shutong and said, "Don't babble, Wang Kuaizui, fake foreign devils are invulnerable to swords and guns, bad words can make people progress, you can just say it. Your son's virtues are known to neighbors, I can't afford this god."

Wang Shutong failed, he left Nanfang helplessly, and in the future he will use his quick talk to publicize the "scandalous incident" between the fake foreign devil and Mrs. Qian.Even if people don't believe me if I say it once, he believes that as long as I say it a hundred times, this scandal will spread to every corner of the capital.

Li Guolou no longer wears robes, and now he doesn't dare to be avant-garde. He wears a suit and tie, with a short braid on his head.

He had met this kind of nondescript fake foreign devil on the road, with his nostrils upturned, and he looked down on the Chinese.Generally, such people are translators at foreign consulates and compradors in foreign firms.Some have even cut off their braids, because they have become foreign nationals, and they are superior to others when they travel in the capital. They wish they had a high nose bridge and blue eyes, and they like to hold a "Stick" in their hands. The common people dare to scold them, " "Fake foreign devils" will wave "Stik" and greet them with foreign languages. Yamen servants are more afraid of such "fake foreign devils" than real devils, because such people can't be fooled. Compared with the real ones, they must If you want the yamen to beat up the common people, this kind of "fake foreign devil" can understand others scolding him. If you are a little dishonest, they will have an excuse to "start the fight", just like the British Empire warship firing artillery outside Tianjin Port.

Although Li Guolou was scolded as a fake foreign devil, he was also angry when he saw this kind of "fake foreign devil" who had forgotten his ancestors.Once fought with "fake foreign devils", since they like everything in foreign countries so much, Li Guolou greeted them in English, coupled with Western boxing service, and beat these "fake foreign devils" to the ground in one fell swoop.These "fake foreign devils" clamored to go to the yamen to make a case, but Li Guolou refused, and directly said that he wanted to go to their consulate to make a case.If you can't beat it, you deserve it!If you don’t believe me, ask your master what to say?He found fault with nothing, beat up four "fake foreign devils", now in the capital, he is already the "boy kiss" in the "fake foreign devils", often attends the "fake foreign devils" party, people are so cheap, these "fake foreign devils" "With Li Guolou joining, their strength is even stronger!

But Li Guolou regretted it very much. Now that he sees those "fake foreign devils", he can't do anything anymore, because we are all friends now.When I saw those "fake foreign devils" on the road, I ran away quickly, for fear that something bad would happen and he would be a human being inside and out.Because it is often the "fake foreign devils" who occupy the "reason", which makes him in a dilemma, and he can no longer be a rogue with fists.

He is young and fashionable and loves to dress up. He wears the most popular gray cap in the capital, which is made of six pieces of the same material, symbolizing the "unification of heaven and earth", with a piece of blue jade inlaid in the middle.A woolen black trench coat, a pair of gray trousers, and military boots.Li Guolou didn't want to wear the silk mandarin jacket that rich people usually wear. Although he also had mandarin jackets, as long as he didn't enter the yamen, his clothes were still nondescript like "fake foreign devils" (he thought he already looked like a Chinese).