"Now not only the people in the mountains know that I am going to get married, but even a few elders in the green forest who know the roots also know that I am going to get married. Hugging the calf is a matter of a daughter's family, and I am afraid that it will not be long before it spreads in the rivers and lakes. It's not easy to ride a tiger if you want to get married. Besides, the second uncle also said that it is not a matter for the two families to guard against each other, and if they can't make a fist, they won't have the power to hit someone. Marriage can set a two-sided relationship, everyone becomes a relative, and they will take care of each other. My Uncle Gui Liang is still in the hands of the government, and I don't know whether he is alive or dead. Although he may not come back if I marry, if I don't marry, everyone will say that I killed him, and I can't afford this crime. ”

Zhao Guanhou pondered for a moment, and gritted his teeth fiercely, "If you want to marry, you don't have to marry Kanziquan!" It's the same to marry, why don't you marry me! ”

Sun Meiyao raised her cigarette gun and made a gesture to smoke, "What are you talking nonsense?" Why did you just come to the mountain, and you talk nonsense. ”

"It's not nonsense, it's the truth. If you can only connect with someone by marrying someone, you can't marry a boxer. Zhao Guanhou's face was very serious, and he didn't mean to joke.

"Now the situation of your cottage is very bad, once Yu Zuochen sends troops to attack, it will be a situation where all the jade and stones are burned, it is a good mountain, there is no need to go to that step. Now that you marry a boxer, you will push the entire cottage to the side of the boxers. Although the foreigners will be killed, your lives will not be saved, and this inheritance will be destroyed in the future. If you marry me, it will be a marriage with the government, I dare not say anything else, it is more than enough to protect you and your cottage. ”

"Isn't that a little wife?" Sun Meiyao snorted, "You are a person with a bad heart, how good you are to Sister Hanzhi, as soon as you turn your head, you want me to be your little wife, I won't be fooled by you." That side is to marry me as the main house, and don't please the small, you, who are a big official, marry me as a small, and you will have to please others in the future, didn't I suffer in the past? ”

Zhao Guanhou smiled, "Shopkeeper Sun, you are confused." I mean, if you marry me, it's not like we're really going to do something. This is a ploy, to find out who is with you on the mountain, who has the same heart with you, and who has the same heart with the boxers, and then deal with it slowly. This is to lure the snake out of the hole. ”

When Sun Meiyao heard him say that this was a plan, not a real marriage, her face suddenly sank, and she threw the cigarette gun away, "Forget it!" We Green Forest people go straight and don't do so much nonsense. Whoever wants to turn against me, let them turn against me. I, the big boss, was originally pushed out by everyone, and when I saw that I was not suitable, they dismissed me, and it didn't matter. ”

Zhao Guanhou hurriedly said: "Shopkeeper Sun, listen to me, now is not the time to be angry." The lives of your people up and down the mountain are in your hands, and you can't hand them over to the boxers. I don't really listen to what I say, you are the green forest of Shandong, and you eat and drink on weekdays, and you come from Shandong. If foreign soldiers sweep Shandong, you are also sinners! In the mixed green forest, the first does not end well, and the second does not have a good reputation. If you are recruited, I will guarantee you a good ending, isn't it better than following the boxers? ”

Sun Meiyao muttered, "That will make the reputation even worse." But after all, he still seriously considered Zhao Guanhou's suggestion, his cottage has always been bad with foreign soldiers, if the foreigners swept Shandong, there would be no room for maneuver, and the cottage would not be able to resist the attack of foreign soldiers. She also knows that killing these foreign tickets is to form a mortal enmity with foreigners, and I am afraid that the responsibility is greater than that of robbing the emperor, and it is difficult to escape. The delay in making a decision to kill people is also due to this consideration.

At present, the external pressure is getting bigger and bigger, once the people below are really killed, the entire cottage will not be protected, the foundation of the elder brother will be destroyed, and these subordinates of his own will inevitably die. She had to think about it seriously, and she had to gain and lose.

"We are from the green forest, we can't trust the government, you are a foreign official, are you sure of doing the job of recruiting security?"

"I'll tell you." Zhao Guanhou leaned forward and lowered his voice, "Yu Zuochen is in Shandong, and he has been mixed up for a few days." As long as the matter of foreign tickets can be resolved smoothly and no murder is made, Yuan Weiting can go to Shandong as a governor. I am his confidant, and I am a man of my word in front of him, as long as he can come to Shandong as an official, you will protect me. But the premise is that foreigners can't die. ”

Sun Meiyao raised her head and glared at him, "Are you speaking?" ”

"If the big shopkeeper doesn't believe it, you can try it by any means. Everyone is mixed up, swearing and the like, no one believes it, and I won't say it. I'll just say one thing, just open your mouth if you want to vote, and I won't end well if I hurt you when the time comes. ”

Sun Meiyao was silent for a moment, "Forget it, there is no need to vote for the name, and this matter is not in a hurry." I'll give you a pick-up tonight, and I'll eat and drink well. I asked people to go to Chaoyunguan to see the foreign girl, she was not lightly injured, don't beat her to death. ”

Zhao Guanhou took out the necklace, "You ask someone to give this to her, tell her that her knight is here, and she will naturally understand what is going on." It's just that this person must be sent to rest assured, and there can be no accident from him. ”

After about twenty minutes, there was a knock on the door outside, and it was the three leaders who knocked on the door. I looked into the room and saw that the two of them were in good condition, so I put a snack and said with a smile: "Big boss, our banquet is ready, please come to the front to sit down." ”

The cottage has all improved the food, celebrating the arrival of the VIPs, the minions each have a piece of meat to eat, the small leader has two meat dishes, three masters, and a sixty miles away, Eguan Gaodou wearing a gossip Taoist robe received Zhao Guanhou as a guest.

In the green forest, the wine and food are not exquisite, what is sought is affordability, and the nine large bowls are full of cooked meat. In the middle are several large wine jars, and sure enough, as Sun Meiyao said, it is a posture to pour people down.

Someone introduced the Taoist, the Taoist name Xuan Xuanzi, who is Sun Meiyao's uncle, and at the same time, he is also a master of Liziquan. This person is an old man who has been famous for many years on the rivers and lakes, and his martial arts are said to be extremely strong, but he became a monk in his later years, and he has been cultivating for many years, and he also entered the boxing door at some point. When he saw Zhao Guanhou, he did not mention the time of the attack on the Heze train, but spoke according to the seniority of the rivers and lakes, only thanking him for saving his master and nephew.

Wan Nian Hao walked towards Zhao Guanhou with a wine bowl, "My lord, we people in the mountains can't speak, and we don't know how to thank you." You saved the big boss, that is, we are the benevolent father who holds the calf, come, this bowl of wine, I respect you! ”

Zhao Guanhou smiled, did not drink, but said to Wan Nian: "Second master." I know you, on this mountain, you are the pillar of the cottage, the needle of the sea. Now in the cottage, Mei Yao's elders are not there, so I have to tell you if I have something to say. I came today, one is to worship the mountain, the second is to say peace, and the third is to ask for relatives. ”

"Asking for a kiss?" Wan Nianhao's expression froze, "Second Master Zhao, what do you mean by this?" Why don't I understand? ”

"It doesn't mean anything, I'm here to ask to marry Mei Yao. I am not afraid to say this, when I was treating the gunshot wound in Jinmen, I didn't know that Meiyao was a girl, so I unbuttoned her blouse, and I saw it clearly whether she should see it or not. Besides, you also know that it is inevitable to contact him for healing, and if I don't marry Meiyao, I will be sorry for him. ”

Sun Meiyao slapped the table, "You...... What are you talking about? Isn't this a good thing, can't you talk to anyone, how can talking not count? ”

Although she was angry when she said this, her expression was clearly twisted, and everyone could see that she was just ashamed. In the past, the big boss who was as bold as a man would be ashamed? This caused several leaders to look at each other, barely believing their eyes.

The people of Ludi are conservative, although the defense of men and women in the green forest is not serious, Sun Meiyao usually mixes with a group of men, and there is nothing to do with drinking and fighting. But it's one thing, it's another thing for the body to be seen by a man. Sun Meiyao was just right to be angry and ashamed, but she also showed her attitude.

She has obviously agreed to leave the word boxing to ask for a kiss first, and now she has this attitude again, which is obviously an attitude that gives people a space for imagination. At the beginning, the two of them, because of the treatment of gunshot wounds, just saw it, or did they do something after seeing it?

Wan Nian put down the wine bowl and said, "Marry you?" How can this work? Who the big boss marries, there is a fixed number, and even the dowry has been accepted, everyone runs the rivers and lakes, what they say counts, how can they say it doesn't count. ”

Xuan Xuanzi snorted, "Lord Zhao, you are on the way, you hurt my junior brother with evil magic, and we haven't counted this debt yet." Now you are going to marry a bad guy again, isn't this too much of a deception, is it really that we are weak? ”

Xiucai said: "Lord Zhao, you want to say that you want to ask for marriage, but it's a little late." If you had come earlier, everything would have been possible, now...... It's too late, it's too late. In a lifetime, anything can be late, only to ask for relatives, must not be late, now the wood is already in the boat, I see things are not possible. ”

Zhao Guanhou said: "The mistake has been made, and there is no way to make up for it." At that time, I wanted to marry Meiyao as a wife, as compensation. But at that time, I was just a pot guy, and what did I do to start a family. Now, I am a candidate for the second-rank registered chief soldier of the imperial court, wearing a yellow coat, fame and wealth, and lacking nothing. Only then did he come from Tianjin to Shandong, just to give an explanation to the shopkeeper Sun. Please all the old and young masters, fulfill my thoughts, let the two of us become husband and wife, this is a good thing for everyone. As for saying that the wood is already in the boat, I don't think so! ”

As he spoke, he took out the cheque for twenty thousand pounds from his bosom and held it high: "This is my dowry for marriage, twenty thousand Albion pounds, which can be exchanged at any time, and the treasury is worth 140,000 silver." Compared to the two pistols Mei Yao carried, I want to be much more expensive, right? Besides, I also have two pistols on me, and Mr. Li should have sent them up the mountain, so we can compare whose guns are better. Before this family affair is completed, everything will take a turn for the better, and the big deal will be the end of the bride price. ”

Sun Meiyao asked, and Xiucai hurriedly said: "The gun was delivered, but I thought that it was the guest's gun, and it had to be returned when I went down the mountain, so I didn't put it in the warehouse, and it was with me." This makes people take it. ”

Zhao Guanhou's two revolvers, compared to these two guns that I don't know how long they have been used by missionaries in which mountain village, are naturally much better, even if they are laymen, they are only better than the old and new, and they can also know the good and bad. Moreover, 20,000 pounds of silver can get 140,000 taels of Kupin, which is also a very considerable amount for a cottage.

It is true that people in the green forest value righteousness over wealth, but it also depends on how much righteousness and how much wealth there is. So much money smashed down...... Naturally, it is to give up the green forest and make money, otherwise everyone will sacrifice life and death with a knife and a gun, what is the picture?

Kanli Erquan, starting in the countryside, the boxers are mainly villagers and farmers, most of them are poor people, and their families have no money to spare. Although it is possible to borrow grain from the rich gentry and landlords of the people and distribute donations, the money and grain obtained is only rations to eat and drink, and the savings are not much. As for the seizures from the attack on the church, most of them were fed back to the owners of various funders, or they were exchanged for everyone's food, and there was not much money left. With 20,000 Albion pounds, the fist will naturally not be able to take out.

Xiucai was in charge of the money and grain in the mountains, and calculated: "This money can be used to pay for the benefits of several cottages around, and besides, you can buy a batch of winter food, winter clothes, and some livestock for the mountains......"

Seeing that he was settling accounts here, the others all shook their heads, and Wan Nian said: "Xiucai, will you rest first?" I know that the money and food of the whole mountain belong to you, but we can't open our mouths to be money. In this matter, we have already responded to the Taoist of others, and now we are backsliding, and in the future, on the rivers and lakes, will we still raise our heads? Big boss, you have to say something about this matter of your life. ”

Sun Meiyao put the wine bowl down gently, looking at Wannian Hao, there was something incomprehensible in her eyes.

"Talk? Second uncle, if you want me to speak, I can really say it. I don't like this gun. ”

She took off the two old revolvers, pushed them in front of Xuan Xuanzi, took Zhao Guanhou's pair of revolvers, and fiddled with them in her hands. "These two guns are still in the spotlight, and they are gone."

"Mei Yao, wait!" Xuan Xuanzi swept the dust, his slender old face was sinking like a pool of stagnant water, and his silver-white beard was windless. "Big boss, you have to think clearly, this lifelong event is not only related to yourself, but also to the future of the entire calf. The army of the 10th battalion of Shandong is ready to stop, just waiting for Yufutai to give an order, and immediately enter and suppress, with the strength of a mountain of calves, and the 10th battalion of officers and soldiers, how many victories and defeats? And if his uncle is still in prison, who will save him? ”

Zhao Guanhou didn't wait for Sun Meiyao to speak, he had already taken the conversation. "Dao Chief, what I'm talking about now is precisely for the sake of holding calves. I am the plenipotentiary minister sent by the imperial court, and I am in charge of the liaison with the calves. In this matter, even Yuxian cannot interfere with my decision. He will also be under the jurisdiction of the governor, and I can go directly to the governor and ask for peace, which is much more reliable than your promises, this is one thing. I also made an agreement with the Prussian Consul General that as long as the hostages were rescued, the Prussian Consulate would mediate and guarantee the progress of the recruitment and the safety of everyone. ”

"Can you believe the words of foreigners?" Wan Nianhao interrupted Zhao Guanhou's words, and his face became extremely hideous, "When the Taiping Army returned to Suzhou and was also guaranteed by foreigners, what was the result?" Isn't it still slaughtered? If we recruit security, who knows if the government will use this hand. Yu Zuochen is ruthless, you are a foreign official, even if you rely on your power to recruit peace, clap your hands and leave. When we look back, aren't we still going to be harmed by Yuxian? ”

"What the second master said makes sense, and I also thought of this layer. I have two ideas here, one is that everyone follow me and go to Jinmen to join Lord Yuan. It's not that I'm talking big, in front of Lord Yuan, I still have some weight in what I say. It's not difficult to make up a team for everyone and give a suitable organization. Second, that is, everyone first dodged and waited, waiting for Shandong Yifu. (To be continued.) )