Chapter 9 Bastard

Early the next morning, Glass Flower changed into the modest attire she had on the day of the meeting, specially put on the foreign mandarin jacket that Fei Laifeng gave him over the robe, and went to Guanglai Foreign Goods Store.When Yang Dianqi saw it, he smiled and said: "Why do you still wear a suit waistcoat over the robe? Hahahaha, how can you dress like this when you go to foreigners, not to mention that your outfit is neither fish nor fowl, just wearing authentic Western clothes, in the eyes of foreigners There are also Chinese people here, but foreigners look down on them."

Yang Dianqi's attire is the most exquisite and gorgeous national dress.The horizontal coat, the overcoated mandarin jacket, and the silver satin shoes with two faces, one size new, with high-quality materials and exquisite workmanship.There are nine big items hanging from the belt: finger fingers, pocket watch, pen holder, glasses, beard comb, snuff bottle...all of them are put in the embroidered case inlaid with gold and silver. Walking around and swinging three times, he still held a silk fan made of Xiangfei bamboo, with words and pictures on it. "Okay, the bells and birthday stars are all hung up!" Glass Flower called, "The masters of the Eight Great Families are no more than this!"

Yang Dianqi smiled, but said nothing. Glass Flower feels that when she compares herself with others, she looks poor.In the past, he would have to ask Yang Dianqi to borrow his luggage, but now for some reason, his tongue is sharp and his mouth is not hard.While taking off his foreign jacket, he handed over the paper-wrapped copper stove to Yang Dianqi.Yang Dianqi opened it and said, "Ah, I didn't see it clearly under the lamp that day. I always thought it was a Xuande stove, but who knew it was a fake Xuande stove. Look at the rust, it's all floating rust, it's purely made; Look at the words on the bottom, what a blessing! Forget it, take it as a meeting gift for Mr. Foreigner!" He said and handed it to the boy who was going with him.

"Don't you fucking use it to borrow flowers to offer to the Buddha. When I have no money, I still point to it as some money!" Glass Flower said. "You are a dignified third master, why do you speak so poorly? When did I make you bleed? If you make friends with you, you have to pay for it! You say it in your conscience, don't you?" Yang Dianqi was talking and laughing, and the two of them crossed Erdao Street together, and came to the river, where an oriental carriage with big rubber wheels had already been parked.The two got into the transparent glass hood on all sides, and the man stepped on the pedals at the rear of the car. The driver of the car stepped on the big copper bell like a pot, and the car went straight to the newly repaired official road, and rushed quickly. To the east is the Zizhulin Concession.

The glass flower has not been in the purple bamboo forest for several years, and through the glass window, it recognizes the Jiangsu Guild Hall, Fengshen Temple, Gaoli Pavilion by the roadside, as well as the wooden planks of Artemisia stalks piled up like mountains and hills at the Xingjia Wood Factory, and the east and west pieces of the Liumi Factory to dry. The white flowers of the small Zhanmi are still the same.But as soon as he entered Majiakou, he couldn't recognize him at all.There are many more bungalows, foreign firms, and foreigners than before.All kinds of foreign-style buildings are newly built, and the shops are also newly opened; the foreign flags on the pointed, round, and slanted roofs have several extra patterns.There are also some gardens with straight trees and slanting flowers, which are very elegant and quiet; the road surface is soaked by the sprinkler with nozzles, as if it has just been lightly rained, and it is dusty and moist. Dioramas seen in a box of foreign films.Glass Flower felt in a trance that she had gone abroad and entered the world of foreigners.

Yang Dianqi called the car, and the husband stopped the car.The two got out of the car, and the man paid the fare.Before Glass Flower could figure out which road this was, suddenly something flew towards him, hard and heavy, and hit him on the cheek with a "pop!".He was dizzy, thinking that someone threw the brick. A few days ago, he was hit by the east gate for no reason. Thanks to it being crooked, it hit his shoulder.He covered his painful face and cursed: "Fuck your grandma, you don't even think of the third master as a human being!" "Don't curse, this is a ball played by foreigners." Yang Dianqi said, picking up a fluffy ball and showing it to Glass Flower, "Look, it's called tennis."

I saw two foreigners, a man and a woman, on a piece of green grass on the left, separated by something like a fishing net.Everyone held a short-handled racket in their hands and giggled at him. The man laughed more and more, and he simply lay on the ground, rolling around laughing, with his belly up and his butt up for a while.The woman laughed and yelled foreign words in this direction.Yang Dianqi also shouted foreign words at them. "What did you say?" Glass Flower asked. "They apologized to you and I said you're welcome." "You're welcome? He hit the third master, so he should make amends!"

"You really don't understand the truth. Foreigners can smile at you and apologize, which is very polite. I think these two foreigners are young. If they are older, they are polite to you? You are lucky if you don't call a dog to bombard you." "What if I'm fucking rude?" "White-hat yamen meet you, you will be imprisoned for at least three months, and you will have to be beaten, starved, and fined money. Come on, third master, don't think you are number one in Tianjin City, here, just anyone Foreigners are only three grades older than our magistrate. This is not our territory. We are safe and sound, and invite the Japanese warriors to calm you down. It’s not better than that!"

Glass flower squeezed this hard yet soft, rare ball and said: "Okay, the third master will not be angry with him. But it can't be in vain. The foreign ball belongs to me!" He turned around and was about to leave when the foreign woman in a long white gauze dress, like a big butterfly, ran up a few steps and yelled a few foreign words.Yang Dianqi asked Glass Flower to throw the ball to her, so as not to cause trouble, Glass Flower felt cowardly and had nothing to do, so she threw the ball over fiercely as if venting, cursing in her mouth: "Throw a colored ball on your third master's head, and the third master doesn't want you bitch!"

The two foreigners over there didn't understand Chinese, so they smiled and shouted a foreign language at him together.Glass Flower asked Yang Dianqi: "What did they say? Three pieces of meat? Did they call me skinny?" Yang Dianqi smiled and said: "This is British, which means 'thank you'. These two foreigners are very special to you. I have been to the concession no less than a hundred times, and I have never seen such a polite person!" Hee hee, the anger in Glass Flower's heart is gone. Not far away, Yang Dianqi led him into a foreigner's house.A black-faced Indian servant with a green cloth on his head went in to report the letter, and they climbed up the high steps covered with flowers, and saw a man named "Northern Toad" (actually called "Beham", which is a homonym for glass flower). A foreigner with a bald head, a yellow beard, and a big fluffy belly.He is very kind, always laughing, and still laughing, as if he thinks everything is fun.In addition, there are two elderly foreign women who exude fragrance, their eyes are as blue as cats, and their waists are as thin as gourds, which seem to break at the touch of a finger.It was the first time for Glass Flower to be a guest at a foreigner's house, and she was a little confused.Especially foreign goods everywhere: foreign houses, foreign windows, foreign tables, foreign chairs, foreign lamps, foreign books, foreign paintings, foreign waxes, foreign wines, foreign cigarettes and all kinds of weird and interesting foreign odds and ends, his eyes are too dazzled to see clearly. And half of them can't even pronounce their names.Even a long-haired Huahua Dayang dog is across the road, lying on the ground and can't see where the head is.In the past, getting some foreign goods was like fishing for fish in a haystack, but this time I fell into the "foreign" sea.

Yang Dianqi and Bei Toad went to another room, for some reason, they left Glass Flower alone.He just had the opportunity to take a closer look at these foreign things, otherwise it would be in vain.He first saw a small brass cannon on the table, thinking it was probably a small ornament, curiously pressed the small button on the cannon, clicked, and something shot out from the muzzle of the cannon and fell to the ground, which surprised him. , Then look at it turned out to be a foreign cigarette.He picked up the foreign cigarette roll, but couldn't put it back.He thought he had broken the thing, so he crushed the cigarette roll and secretly tucked it under the cushion.He sat obediently for a while, but no one came. He squinted and saw a small upside-down silver bowl with a handle on it, and two naked women were engraved on the handle.He took it gently, only to hear "ding ding ding", it turned out to be a bell.In response, an Indian with a big beard ran in and spoke to him with round eyes. He didn't understand and thought he was being scolded, but the bearded man immediately brought a cup of black, thick, sweet and bitter hot water. He didn't speak foreign language, so he suffered a lot.Yang Dianqi and Bei Toad were talking and laughing, coming and going.The northern toad was interested in the nine pieces tied around Yang Dianqi's waist. From entering to leaving the door, he kept touching this one, pinching that one, kept making strange noises, and even pulled the two women to look at it, as if he saw some treasure. .He sat by the side, not knowing what to do, and not knowing the etiquette of foreigners, so he had to laugh along with Yang Dian. He nodded when others nodded, and shook his head when others shook his head.Learning from others in every move can be exhausting.Later, Bei Toad seemed to be interested in him and always smiled at him.Do I like him, or is his face getting dark? I can't figure it out.Until he bid farewell to Yang Dianqi, Bei Hama said "in vain" a few times, looked at him again, patted his bald head and laughed wildly. When Yang Dianqi entered the purple bamboo forest, it was like going back to his hometown.He told Glass Flower to wait a while in front of a steeple church, and then he went in for a while before coming out. Then he took him to turn two turns to the left, then turn three turns to the right, and walked into a Japanese foreign company.Packs and bundles of Chinese medicinal materials, leather goods, pig bristles, cotton, etc. are piled up here from the yard to the corridor.Passing through these goods with various smells, in a low and spacious room, I had tea with the owner of the foreign firm.Yang Dianqi changed his Japanese and talked with the boss for a while, the boss got up and opened the Japanese-style partition door, and saw a Japanese man in a long gown sitting cross-legged on a bamboo couch in the courtyard, with his head down and his eyes closed, as if he was sleeping. Sleeping, it's like an old monk in a temple meditating. The foreign boss can speak Chinese.He told Glass Flower that this is Mr. Sato Hideo, an oriental samurai.Then, Boss Yang yelled a few Japanese words at Sato. Sato lifted his bald head, revealing a short face; when he opened his eyes, a pair of eagle eyes hidden under the brow ridges shone brightly.He waved his arms, like a big bird, jumped off the bamboo couch, and stood on the ground. He turned out to be a short man with short legs and unusually long arms. The storytelling said that Liu Bei "hands were above his knees", so there really are such people in the world. people.This guy is spooky and kind of scary. Boss Yang asked Glass Flower to talk about the ability of the Magic Whip. Although Glass Flower had fought against the Magic Whip, and had seen the scene where the Magic Whip defeated Dai Kuiyi, Suo Tianxiang and others, he still hadn't figured out the braid. No matter how he came or went, when he closed his eyes, he felt dangling back and forth, like a snake shadow. At this time, in order to show that he was a useful person in front of foreigners, he spoke the true and false of the magic whip in vernacular, cloudy and misty, To put it bluntly, it is more powerful than Monkey King's golden cudgel. Unexpectedly, the Dongyang warrior got angry when he heard it. He asked someone to bring a horsewhip for driving a cart, and handed it to Glass Flower, who asked Glass Flower to whip him.How dare the glass flower. Boss Yang said: "Mr. Sato told you to smoke, you just pump hard." Yang Dianqi also said: "Oriental samurai look down on the incompetent, if you don't smoke, I will." Glass Flower thought to herself, it's polite for the third master not to smoke you, who wouldn't beat someone cheap.He rolled up his cuffs, swung his whip and lashed at Sato desperately. "Crack!" After a sound, Sato was not whipped, the whip seemed to be hanging somewhere, and when he looked up, there was no tree on his head, and there was no other things wrapped around his head. Looking again, it turned out that Sato was holding it in his hand.Glass Flower cried out in surprise: "This--" Sato had let go of the whip and told him to whip again.He whipped, up, down, left, and right, each whip was harder than the last.But Sato caught every blow, and the shots were so fast that he couldn't see clearly.Glass Flower threw the whip on the ground, cupped her fists and said: "Admiration, admiration, Master Zuo! I have never seen such a skill." Yang Dian laughed and said: "You know that foreign products are good. Foreigners are not strong, but foreign products can be strong?!" The boss translated these words to Sato, Sato had no complacent look on his face, and called out four short and thick Japanese men, all of them looked strong and brave, each with a long whip in his hand.The four stood at the four corners and beat Sato with whips. Sato leaped left and right, the whips gradually accelerated, Sato's body turned into a ghost image, head and feet could not be distinguished, but none of the whip touched him.Only the whistling of the whip with strong wind in the air could be heard.The glass flower was dizzy, and one eye was obviously not enough. Suddenly, Sato uttered a strange cry from the shadow of the whip, and Sato landed on the bamboo couch in an instant like a big bird leaping out of it like lightning.The four Japanese men stood there stupidly, unable to swing their whips. It turned out that the tips of the four whips were tied together by Sato with a buckle. Yang Dianqi applauded loudly.Glass Flower couldn't even say "yes", so in order to show that he was not a layman, he pondered for a while and said to Sato: "Master Zuo, it turns out that your practice is to catch pigtails!" Sato Hidero didn't answer, but he was arrogant, as if he could grasp the braids of all the people in the world.The glass flower is really not in vain, it is an eye-opener, from which one can know that in the world, there are people who practice kung fu, and there are also people who point and eat.At that moment, Sato asked Glass Flower to send a battle form to God Whip Sha Er, and agreed to compete on the open ground in front of the Empress Palace outside the east gate in three days, and if there were no people at that time, he would admit defeat.Seeing such a back poke, Glass Flower became more courageous, and promised to hand over the battle chart to the fool, and pass the words to the fool's ears.Afterwards, Yang Dianqi talked to the boss Sato in Japanese for a while, the glass flower couldn't fit his mouth, and he was a little angry, thinking that Yang Dianqi either had something behind his back or wanted to show off his foreign language to himself.When we parted, Glass Flower, in order to show that she was not a land turtle, said the two words in foreign language she had just heard from "Northern Toad": "in vain!" This made the Japanese laugh out loud. On the carriage back to the city, Glass Flower asked Yang Dianqi why foreigners always laugh at herself.Yang Dianqi said: "I don't know, the customs of foreigners and our Chinese are very different, and some places are exactly the opposite. For example, Chinese people like to shave their heads, while foreigners like to shave their faces; Chinese people write from right to left, and foreigners from left to right; Chinese books are vertical Okay, foreign books are arranged horizontally; the Chinese compass is called "Dingnanzhen", and foreigners call it "North Needle". Chinese people like to keep long nails, while foreigners like to cut their nails short; Females and males; Chinese people wear hats as a gift when seeing relatives and friends, and foreigners take off their hats as a gift; Chinese people eat vegetables before soup, foreigners eat soup before vegetables; Heel height; the lid of the Chinese tea bowl is on the top, and the lid of the foreign tea bowl is on the bottom. You just used a saucer as a bowl lid and put it on the tea bowl at Mr. Berham's house. Of course, people laughed at you." When Yang Dianqi said these words, there was a wave of spirit that went straight out of his boyish face. "You are so knowledgeable!" Glass Flower felt ashamed.But he stared at Yang Dianqi's face, and suddenly said, "I see—you used to bluff both sides—you bluffed foreigners with Chinese things, and bluffed Chinese with foreign goods. Today you tie these birthday bells around your waist." , just to scare Toad. Isn’t that right? Hey, where are my two copper stoves?” Yang Dianqi didn't speak, and took out two things from his bosom for him.The same is nail scissors, and the other is a shiny gold watch, exactly the kind of "push and ask" ones I saw yesterday.But it wasn't the engraved gold-black and silver shell yesterday, but the shiny, unworked gold-plated shell, obviously Yang Dianqi just got it from a foreigner. "You boy, how many watches did you exchange for my two copper stoves?" Glass Flower asked. Yang Dianqi glanced at him and said: "If you don't want it, don't hold it in your hand, bring it! I'll return the two fake Xuande to you. Do you know how many things I put in it? A big hanging five baht money, and a box of blood Jade pieces impregnated with copper!" "Good boy! Anyway, it's up to you to tell whether it's true or not. I don't know what kind of trouble you and Bei Toad ran into that house. Admit it to bad luck!" Glass Flower pushed the crown of the watch, put it to her ear, and listened happily Hearing this, he put the watch in his bosom and pinned the chain on his chest. "You still have to collect some bronze Buddhas, bile jars, calligraphy and paintings for me. I--I still have some good things, you haven't seen them before!" Yang Dianqi said. Glass Flower followed the swing of the carriage, looked at the gold watch chain dangling on her chest, and listened to Yang Dianqi's words, she suddenly became energetic: "When the oriental samurai wins, I will turn over the third master, and we will make a big fuss!"