British writer

Gu Hongming fainted, and the rush to his heart was just the inducement, the main reason was the exhaustion of the journey,

It is too far from Foshan to London.

For the next week, he was recuperating in a hotel in London.

Lu Shi got angry with him, so he naturally wanted to go to condolences more. Every time, he called Natsume Soseki, and the three of them fought the landlord together, fighting happily all day long.

"bomb!"

"Depend on!"

"You play your cards really well!"

...

After another game, Gu Hongming smiled happily.

Natsume Soseki always felt that Gu Hongming's luck was ridiculously good, and this good luck lasted for several days, which could not be explained by science.

He couldn't help looking at Lu Shi, with a hint of questioning in his eyes.

Lu Shi secretly blinked, his eyes were sly,

it is more than words.

Gu Hongming didn't notice the eye contact between the two, and excitedly said: "Shuffle the cards! Shuffle the cards!"

The rule of the three is that whoever loses shuffles the cards.

Lu Shi hurriedly shuffled the cards, and at the same time pretended to be careless and said, "Mr. Gu, I think you are much better. There are fewer wrinkles on your face, and you look younger than when we first met. Well, young Ten years old!"

Gu Hongming was supposed to travel from London to Edinburgh, to visit his alma mater, the University of Edinburgh, to show his face, and to promote the Confucian classics he translated.

This is also in line with his long-standing insistence that "Chinese traditional culture is not inferior to Western thought".

But for some reason, he never mentioned the past to Edinburgh after he woke up.

Lu Shi just wanted to send him away now.

Gu Hongming shook his head,

"I'm old, and my legs and feet are bad. You see, I haven't gotten tired after resting for so long. I'm afraid I won't be able to go far for a while."

The two looked at each other and smiled,

Lu Shi: Old fox!

Gu Hongming: Little fox!

Natsume Soseki couldn't help shivering, feeling that the air in the room seemed to be a few degrees colder.

Gu Hongming stretched his waist and said, "Mr. Lu, Doudizhu is really fun, more interesting than the bridge played by British gentlemen. But this game is obviously unfair, why is it still addictive?"

Lu Shi laughed,

"This is what you said, Mr. Gu, why is gambling addictive?"

Gu Hongming spread his hands,

"But we don't have any money to play."

This is true.

They didn't gamble, not because of their high moral standards, but because Natsume Soseki was too poor.

Moreover, Lu Shi's purpose is to make Gu Hongming happy, the cost of gambling is too high.

Lu Shi thought for a while, and said, "I think there are two reasons. First, the asymmetrical game has its own charm. The exhilaration brought by the landlord's one-on-two game is much greater than that of bridge, a card game that focuses on strategy. many."

Gu Hongming nodded in agreement,

"What about the second one?"

Lu Shi said: "Secondly, many things require us to work hard for many years to get the pleasure of success, but in Fighting the Landlords, we can get it very quickly, which is why many gambling games are designed to see the winners and losers on the flop. Strategy The simpler it is, the more addictive it is."

Gu Hongming looked at Lu Shi strangely,

This young man, just to amuse himself, invented such an interesting card game,

What kind of genius is this?

Gu Hongming said: "Mr. Lu, it's not that I haven't seen young talents, such as... um... Cai Yuanpei, have you heard of this name?"

Another bigwig in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China,

Lu Shi didn't dare to make rash comments, and kept silent honestly.

Gu Hongming laughed,

"This Cai Yuanpei is actually nothing. He is just a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, and his grades in the palace examination are only 34th and 2nd."

What's wrong with the 2nd and 34th?

How dare I say it.

Lu Shi didn't dare to speak anymore.

Gu Hongming continued: "With Cai Yuanpei's achievements, it is impossible for me to remember him. But this young man is different. After the Sino-Japanese War broke out, he started to learn about Western learning. He sympathized with the Restoration and wrote many articles advocating new learning. As a result, I remembered it immediately, thinking that this person is useless. You know, I look down on the Kang (Youwei) Party the most. Don’t be a scholar. What is the creed of his Confucius reform exam? Speculation, Ambition, adventure, destruction! The creed of the French Jacobins..."

There is no end to this matter.

Lu Shi interrupted with a dry smile: "Mr. Gu is devoted to the Qing court and is loyal."

Gu Hongming waved his hand and said more.

At this time, there was a knock on the door from the waiter outside.

"Room service."

The room service that Gu Hongming ordered was to deliver newspapers only.

Lu Shi went to open the door, brought in a stack of thick newspapers, put them on Gu Hongming's desk, and took out a copy of "Manchester Guardian" to read.

The strange thing is that Gu Hongming doesn't seem to really want to read the newspaper,

He flipped through it quickly, as if he was looking for something.

Lu Shi hadn't finished reading the first edition, but Gu Hongming flipped through everything that should be read, and stretched out his hand and said, "Mr. Lu, show me your copy."

Lu Shi handed over the newspaper.

Gu Hongming is at that kind of browsing speed again,

After a while, his eyes suddenly stopped on a certain page,

a long time,

"Huh~"

He let out a long breath, put down the newspaper, and said, "Only the Manchester Guardian will report on China."

Lu Shi cast his eyes curiously and found that it was the international version.

The headline of the international edition has a lengthy report on the Anglo-Boer War, occupying three quarters of the entire page.

The remaining quarter is divided into multiple small boxes, one of which mentions China.

Gu Hongming said in a weak voice like a dying person: "Mr. Lu, as you predicted, the emperor returned to Beijing, and the queen mother asked him to prepare a seat to follow the court. He listened to the government behind the curtain to deceive the world. This Chinese , there is no king."

This thing is iconic,

For Han Chen who was loyal to the Qing government, it was undoubtedly a fatal blow.

Whether it is the defenders of feudal rule or the reformers who support the constitutional monarchy, they all need a monarch who can jump,

Today's incident can be regarded as shattering the dreams of two groups of people at the same time.

But Lu Shi knew the history a long time ago, and knew that Guangxu had become a puppet emperor after the failure of the Hundred Days Reform, so he didn't feel much.

He didn't know how to comfort Gu Hongming,

"Mr. Gu, you..."

Suddenly, Gu Hongming closed the newspaper, got out of bed,

"Let's go~ let's go~"

Lu Shi is happy,

"Are you finally leaving?"

Gu Hongming gave him a dissatisfied look, and then said: "I stayed in London just to witness this incident."

Since the word "witness" is used, it means that Gu Hongming has no doubts about Lu Shi's prophecy, and is just waiting for today's result.

Gu Hongming said: "What did Mr. Lu say last time? 'If you live with your old lady, you can't decide who you sleep with every night. Do you still dare to say that you are the head of the family?', I I think this is true, it is simply the most reasonable thing in the world.”

Lu Shi was dumbfounded,

"How many concubines does Mr. Gu have?"

Gu Hongming laughed out loud and didn't answer.

Although he advocates the integration of Chinese and Western cultures, he is a staunch supporter of polygamy and disrespects the old.

Lu Shi thought for a while and asked, "Where is Mr. Gu going? Back to China?"