After hearing this, Fang Linyan suddenly said:
"No wonder that's the case. I think Master Huo has a high prestige here. Many people come just by saying hello."
Ma Kui said:
"That's right, at the Liaojia Pier next to here, at least two to three thousand people carry bags and earn a living here every day! It's hard to live on the wharf, and it's inevitable that someone will get injured. Master Huo's family has been practicing medicine here for two generations.
, always doing good deeds and helping those who have no money."
"This is not just a day or two of practicing good deeds, it is a matter of good popularity accumulated over two generations. I heard that even if the deputy leader of the Pai Gang comes here, his prestige is not as high as that of Master Huo!"
Fang Linyan pondered for a while and said:
"It seems that Master Huo is gentle and gentle, but he doesn't seem to know any martial arts?"
Ma Kui said:
"Mr. Liu, you and I are mistaken. Master Huo has been very strong since he was a child. When he was sixteen or seventeen years old, he could carry the family's seven or eight hundred kilograms of medicinal materials and run away."
"Not only that, he also became a disciple of the old Taoist who gave him fortune-telling in the past, learned the Hong Quan, and also practiced the special Wudang inner martial art of fishing toad strength, which even a dozen people can't get close to."
While the two were chatting, Master Huo had already walked in with Wang Wu. When he saw Fang Linyan this time, he immediately bowed deeply to Fang Linyan:
"Sixth Young Master has ruined his family and established his country. Please accept Huo's worship."
Fang Linyan did not refuse, stood upright and bowed to him, and then bowed back deeply:
"The Japanese are rampant and the country is in turmoil. If they succeed easily, the consequences will be extremely serious. The rest of England, Russia, and France will think that China is extremely weak and treat it as a big fat meat. At that time, it is inevitable
If it triggers the frenzy of the great powers to carve up China, we may risk the destruction of our country and our species!"
"Although I am trying my best to save everything, I still feel that I am weak and weak. I don't know if Master Huo can accompany me on this dangerous road of near death?"
Master Huo said word for word:
"I have my wish, but I don't dare to ask for it!"
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In the next two days, Fang Linyan could only spend the next two days waiting. All the cards in his hand had been exhausted. To be honest, he could only wait for the situation on Song Yuren's side.
Just looking at the situation in the past two days, it is still inevitable that the situation will deteriorate in Japan's favor.
The outstanding performance of the Huai Army in North Korea was just a flash in the pan, and then collapsed at the first touch. Ye Zhichao's troops even showed an extraordinary "stunt skill", flying two hundred miles day and night, but it was not an attack, but a runaway.
The foreign guns and cannons that Li Gongzhang spent a lot of money to buy were simply abandoned in the muddy water.
What's more, now that the waterway is cut off, Japan continues to increase its troops. The number of troops in Korea is close to 10,000, while the Huai army only has 6,000 troops at full strength.
Under such circumstances, even if the current Japanese army is not the powerful modern army that forty years later would occupy the three eastern provinces in the west, resist the Soviets in the north, attack the United States in the east, and invade Southeast Asia in the south, it has not even experienced the Russo-Japanese War.
But it was still not something that the Huai army could contend with at this time.
Not only that, under the crisis public relations of the Japanese, many British media began to favor the Japanese side when discussing the sunken British merchant ship.
Just yesterday, The Times, which was founded in 1785, also published an editorial on this incident, and even used related words like the merchant ship "bringing it to itself". Of course, this editorial = 8,000 pounds.
Brown, the deputy president of the House of Commons, said that we should not be blinded by superficial things. Those who are always trying to challenge the authority of the sun are our serious problems. These words = 5,000
GBP.
Russia's attitude continues to fall into a strange ambiguity.
Among these confusing information, Fang Linyan could not tell how much of it came from the promotion of the space warriors and how much came from the spontaneous evolution of the international situation.
However, Fang Linyan estimated that it would take at least a month for Song Yuren to get any definite news, and it was not his style to wait quietly.
Therefore, after making sure that the rotten corpse poison was completely removed from his body, Fang Linyan entrusted all the affairs of Qiao's store to Wang Wu:
What Wang Wu did was very simple. He supervised the shopkeepers of the Qiao family to sell foreign goods at the price specified by Fang Linyan, then helped collect the money, and then remitted most of the money to Mr. Song, a Song Yuren in the UK.
After confirming that Fang Linyan really easily spent hundreds of thousands or millions of money to fight against the Japanese, Master Huo was also greatly shocked. He immediately dropped all matters at the drug store and volunteered to help.
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With these two people assisting him in executing his plan, Fang Linyan was preparing to go to Japan. Unexpectedly, he met Hu Xueming again before leaving.
At this time, Hu Xueming looked much better, at least he was not the same as before with a disheveled face and a dirty face. When he saw Fang Linyan, he strode over with a smile on his face. He seemed to have no grudges at all. On the contrary,
It's Fang Linyan who looks a little guilty.
"Good nephew, good nephew!!"
Hu Xueming took Fang Linyan's hand intimately and said:
"I would have known that my wise nephew would be the best among men, and his future would be limitless." (Omit two hundred words here)
Fang Linyan was really impatient and said directly:
"If you have something to say, just say it."
Hu Xueming took out a box from his arms and said with a smile:
"The sun was nice yesterday, so I asked my family to take out the old books to dry them, and suddenly I found something, which was left by my fourth brother back then. I thought this thing might be useful to my nephew, so I gave it to my nephew.
Take a look"
Fang Linyan left the thing behind and took a look. It turned out to be a booklet called "Taoyuan Collection".
He then took a rough look at it and realized that this thing was a handwritten manuscript. After reading the preface, he basically understood that this was when the cheap old man was studying. In the spring, he and a group of classmates went to a peach garden somewhere to enjoy the flowers, and then...
Help the scholar and start reciting and writing poems.
This booklet records the masterpieces of these scholars.
Ancient parties such as garden gatherings are very popular among scholars. The most famous one is a group of people in the Jin Dynasty who drank at Lanting, drank poison (taking Five Stone Powder), bragged, used big swords, and recited poems.
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Then they organized a Lanting Collection. However, what made their big sword gathering spread through the ages was a big boss named Wang who took advantage of the crooked mouth after drinking to write a note for this collection.
Preface, and then write the masterpiece
It's a pity that the booklet left by Fang Linyan's cheap dad was very mediocre.
Whether it is the words or the quality of the verses in it - there are even famous lines such as "The peach blossoms are red, and Tweety is among them", which is enough to stun the audience.
Therefore, Fang Linyan simply threw the thing back, then shook his head and said indifferently:
"I'm not interested in this."
Hu Xueming did not expect Fang Linyan's reaction to be so indifferent, because according to the current customs, the "father's" articles must be kept carefully, and at all costs, and he must shed tears of gratitude when he gets them back.
How come table wine is like throwing away trash like Fang Linyan?
"You are unworthy of your descendants! You are unworthy of your descendants!"
Hu Xueming cursed ten thousand times in his heart, but he still could only catch the book with quick eyesight and quick hands, but he also caught it in a hurry. The pages of the book were scattered, and suddenly something like a bookmark fell from it.
Floating and floating in the air.
At this time, in Fang Linyan's eyes, the "bookmark" actually gave off a faint light. He was moved in his heart and hurriedly reached out to grab it. He realized that the material of the bookmark was not quite right.
At this time, there are wooden bookmarks, leaf bookmarks, silk bookmarks, etc., but the material of this bookmark is very strange, it looks like it is made of leather.
Suddenly, a prompt appeared in front of Fang Linyan:
"You have obtained a mysterious item: unknown leather."
"This prop will trigger a unique mission. This mission is unique to this world. It may involve supernatural aspects. The dangers involved are at least fatal to you at the moment."
"If you are interested in this, find someone who is interested in this leather."
After receiving this series of prompts, Fang Linyan was stunned:
"Oh, this cheap man's relics actually lead to a hidden mission? And it looks more dangerous?"
Before he came to this world, he also conducted various investigations and immediately caught a series of key words in the mission description:
"Supernatural, unique to this world, and quite dangerous. This world is in the Qing Dynasty at this time, and the famous writer is also in the Qing Dynasty. Is it a related task in Liaozhai?"
After so many thoughts flashed through his mind, Fang Linyan suddenly found that Hu Xueming in front of him was much more pleasing to his eyes, and then he naturally stepped forward, took back the "Taoyuan Collection", and stuffed the "bookmark" back.
"I thought about it. Since it belongs to my late father, I think I'd better keep it."
Then Fang Linyan gave Hu Xueming another banknote:
"Uncle Qi has preserved this thing until now. It's no credit but hard work. Let's take it and have a cup of tea."
To be continued...