dream of red mansion

Chapter 274 A Musket

Today's dinner is very small.

Because Jia Qing didn't send out invitations, all the visitors came to congratulate spontaneously after knowing the news.Originally, Jia Qing didn't want to be troublesome, but recently, there were too many banquets.It's just that other people come here with kindness, no matter what, they still have to be received.

Fortunately, most of the mansions that have made good friends with Ningguo Mansion only sent congratulatory notes and gifts, and there were only more than a dozen juniors and housekeepers from various mansions, plus more than a dozen children from the clan. Too much trouble.

Jia Qing was drinking with Xie Guowei and Feng Ziying when suddenly Lai Sheng came to report: People from the Lifan Academy are here.

Feng Ziying and the others wondered: "Most of the Lifan Academy are Qing noble literati. Brother Jia has not yet entered the court as an official, so how can he still have friendship with the people of the Lifan Academy?"

Jia Qing didn't know, so he ordered Lai Sheng to invite people in, and then said: "I don't know the people from the Li Fan Academy...

But the visitor is a guest, just come in and have a drink or two! "

After a while, Lai Sheng brought a few people into the banquet hall. Jia Qing smiled when he saw the person coming, and he left his seat to greet him, "It turns out that the honorable golden-haired prince is here, and he has not greeted him from afar. Disrespect and disrespect..."

It was the Golden Retriever Prince who walked in accompanied by an official from the Li Fan Academy.

The golden retriever said dissatisfied: "Jia, please don't say such polite words to me.

I regard you as a friend, there is no need to be so polite between friends!
It has been almost half a year since I came to Dachu, and I don't have a friend yet, I am very lonely.You helped me last time, and you are a very interesting and smart person, I like you very much, and I want to be friends with you..."

The others smiled strangely after hearing Jin Mao's confession to Jia Qing.Jia Qing couldn't take it any longer, and interrupted:

"Okay, Prince Allie the Golden Retriever, I recognize you as a friend, please take a seat..."

After hearing this, the golden retriever was very happy and said:

"No, listen to me. I heard that today is your big day, and I'm here to congratulate you. Since we are friends, I have a gift for you, and you must accept it."

Jia Qing was a little curious, and couldn't care less about whether he was overjoyed or not, and asked, "Oh, what is it, take it out and have a look?"

The golden retriever mysteriously took a rectangular box from the entourage behind him, and opened it.

"ah!"

The few people standing on the sidelines couldn't help taking a step back.After Gein Golden Retriever opened the box, he found a purple-red pistol seven or eight inches long, no, it should be said to be a firecracker lying quietly on the golden cloth inside the box.

Jin Mao seemed very satisfied with his firecracker. Seeing that Xie Guowei and others retreated, he said proudly: "There is no ammunition in it, so please don't be afraid, my friends."

Xie Guowei and others heard that it was not useful, and stepped forward again.

It's not like they don't recognize the firecracker.

The golden retriever continued: "This is an adult gift from my father, the great Peter the Great. In the Russian Empire, each of our princes only got one handle! How about it, Jia, do you like it?"

Jia Qing kept frowning.He thinks a little more than the others.

It’s not that Dachu doesn’t have muskets, but due to many factors such as slow loading, easy misfire, inconvenient use (fear of water), short range (far less than standard bows and arrows), and many other factors, the army is almost never equipped with firearms.

So far, Dachu's army is almost all cold weapons.

And looking at this firecracker, although I don't know how it is, but judging by its fine workmanship, I'm afraid it is not comparable to Da Chu.

Ningguo Mansion started with military exploits, and the ancestral hall still houses all kinds of combat weapons, among which are two long spears.

Jia Qing secretly took a look at it, then, maybe it can only be called a shotgun!
Now, Jia Qing only hopes that after nearly a hundred years of changes, Da Chu's firearms can become more mature.Jia Qing knows that the era when cold weapons dominated wars is not long.

With these thoughts in mind, Jia Qing smiled and said: "I like it, but it's too expensive, and it's your coming-of-age gift, so I dare not accept it!"

Hearing that Jia Qing liked it, Jin Mao immediately showed a smile on his face, and said, "Jia, you're out of touch again! Aren't we friends? Why don't you dare to accept gifts from friends!"

Perhaps it was due to differences in humanities, and it was easy for everyone in the hall to see that the Golden Retriever was indeed happy because the gift he sent was satisfied by the owner.Some people thought: Isn't it just a gun, what's so strange, this doesn't look like the second master's style!

Jia Qing smiled and said: "So, thank you friend for your kindness!"

After finishing speaking and asking Lai Sheng to put it away, Jinmao hurriedly said: "Wait, the ammunition is here." He handed Lai Sheng another box, and Jinmao turned to Jia Qing and said: "It's not very useful, it's just for fun. I still play rabbits occasionally. It’s just that I haven’t tried it when I’m here with you.”

Golden Retriever speaks Chinese very slowly and not clearly. Many people have become impatient after listening to it for a long time, but they just didn't make a sound.So Jia Qing interrupted Jin Mao's words with a smile:

"Please take a seat, the wine is already cold."

Then he said to the official of Lifan Academy who accompanied Jin Mao: "My lord, please take a seat quickly."

The official said with a smile: "General Jia doesn't need to be too polite, just let me be an official."

As he said that, instead of going to the main table, he found a seat at another table and sat down.

Jia Qing didn't force it either. Ordinary officials were indeed not considered distinguished guests in the Jia family.

Lead the golden retriever forward.Xie Guowei had already given up the main position and sat next to him.No matter what feeling he has for the golden retriever in his heart, he is the prince of a country, and with his etiquette, he will naturally not consider himself superior.

So Jia Qing let Golden Retriever sit on the side seat.It's not that Jia Qing doesn't know how to be polite and respectful, but because he is afraid that Golden Retriever is not familiar with the Central Plains culture, if he lets him sit in the chief seat, maybe Golden Retriever will really sit on it
Finally, Jia Qing sat down as the proprietor.

A maidservant had warmed the wine and brought it up again, and the play that had been rested across the hallway in the hall was also sung again.

There are many maids in the hall, and everyone is drinking and talking and laughing. Through the five wide-open doors and the drizzle, you can also see the hard-working actors on the opposite stage singing.

The Golden Retriever Prince sighed, "Jia, your family is so rich! My palace in the south of the empire is not as beautiful as yours!"

Jia Qing smiled.Although Golden Retriever may have the subjective idea that "the moon in foreign countries is rounder" is at work, but he also knows that the development of humanities and culture in foreign countries is far inferior to that of the Central Plains.What's more, the century-old prosperity of Great Chu has developed it to its peak on the original basis.

There is nothing wrong with comparing a palace built by the emperor to a foreign prince's palace.

"You're joking. Actually, I want to see the palace of your great Peter the Great more. I don't know how powerful and domineering it is." Jia Qing said.

The golden retriever said happily: "Then I will invite you to our Russia as a guest in the future. How about I take you to see it? It's just that it takes a long, long way to go, and it's very cold in our place. Jia, I'm afraid your body won't work." "

Before Jia Qing got angry, Jin Mao was slightly disappointed and said: "Actually, I have only visited my father's palace a few times, not only me, many of our brothers will be assigned to Russia when they are very young." Everywhere, my father said it was to prevent us from losing the blood of heroes."

Jia Qing was amused, and thought to himself: Why don't you look bloody in a free range like you?So docile.

While talking, Lai Sheng came over quietly, and whispered to Jia Qing: "The old lady in the West Mansion is here, Grandma asked Second Master to come in some time."

(End of this chapter)