"What's wrong?" Hearing the noise here, a strong old man with a gray beard on the opposite side of the field turned around and looked here.
Backstage, Li Xuanying also walked out, followed by a bear in a robe.
"Oh, you two are here." He greeted: "What's wrong? Are you ready to watch the show?"
"It's not that..." Guo Kang didn't know what to say for a moment: "It's mainly because I was shocked just now."
"It's nothing." Li Xuanying said, walked over and patted the saddle on the wild boar's back: "Nurhachi is a well-trained professional pig, don't worry."
"I'm not worried about problems with the pigs..." Guo Kang hesitated.
"Hey, what are you so confused about? Isn't the circus just for fun?" Li Xuanying looked at them and said nonchalantly: "It doesn't matter if you're late, I'll treat you to a special show."
"Nikita!" he turned to the bear and shouted: "Come on, give a speech!"
However, Xiong still just looked at Guo Kang and Zhu Wenkui curiously without any reaction.
"This won't work, it won't understand, sir." The old man with a gray beard next to him spoke Greek with a heavy accent. He came over, stood opposite the bear, pointed to a box in the middle of the field, and said in a deliberately long and exaggerated tone: "Nikita, give a speech!"
When the bear heard the command, he immediately stood up on his feet, rubbed his paws, then strutted towards the box and climbed up. Then, without further orders, it stood up straight, imitating the movements of Greek politicians, howling and gesticulating with its paws, looking quite charming and making people laugh.
"This is the bear named Nikita that I mentioned before." Guo Kang came back to his senses and introduced Zhu Wenkui: "This is the animal trainer Ivan."
"Nikita is very smart and good at imitating Greek politicians. Sometimes, I forget that he is just a bear." Ivan said with a smile: "However, you have to give him the Greek password before he can get into the state."
Everyone watched the performance happily, and Jeanne also drove the wild boar over. However, Nikita performed for a while, then stopped again, lazily motionless.
"Mr. Nikita needs encouragement." Old Ivan told everyone: "Come on, please give him a round of applause!"
Although I don’t know why Mr. Xiong still has such a need, Ivan Lao is very good at mobilizing the atmosphere, and Guo Kang still clapped along with interest.
"good!"
"good!"
"good!"
"Hmph!"
The only audience members also cheered.
This time, Nikita actually became energetic. It stood up straight again, gesticulating with one paw in mid-air, pressing another paw on its chest, howling, looking around at everyone, and changing its movements from time to time. Everyone was laughing, and Nikita looked even more excited.
After a while, it made a bowing motion. Old Ivan told everyone that the performance was over. But Nikita still stood on the box and did not leave, as if waiting for something.
Old Ivan walked over, stretched out his hand, shook its paws, picked up a grass ring from the side and put it on its head. Only then did Nikita let out a low growl, climbed down from the box with satisfaction, and walked backstage.
It was not the first time for Jeanne and Li Xuanying to watch it, but they still burst out laughing. Zhu Wenkui tried to maintain his expression at first, but in the end he couldn't hold back and laughed with them.
"Now you can understand why the soldiers like it." Guo Kang said cheerfully.
"I think he can play an ancient Greek official in a comedy, better than those in the theater troupe." Li Xuanying was also very happy: "The only drawback is that he can't memorize his lines and can't say meaningful words. "
"It's okay. If the news I heard about the Ming Dynasty before is similar, then it is not necessarily a shortcoming." Jeanne interjected: "Aren't you lacking people to visit the Ming Dynasty? I even think Nikki A tower will do.”
"But Nikita can't speak human language, it's just a performance." Guo Kang turned around and said.
"It's okay. It is said that the civil servants in the Ministry of Etiquette can only perform and never say meaningful human words." Jeanne said.
"..." Guo Kang and Zhu Wenkui were speechless for a moment.
"Hmph!" Nurhaci said.
"Okay, let's stop here today." Li Xuanying stood up and smoothed things over. He looked around and found that Jeanne didn't seem to have enough fun, so he said to Old Ivan: "Leave the chores here to others. Let's take Nurhachi and go out to play with the little princess."
Old Ivan nodded, left the matter to his assistant, fed the wild boar a few handfuls of chaff, and then led it over. Jeanne wanted to ride again, but Zhu Wenkui firmly disagreed, saying that it would be too embarrassing to do this in front of everyone.
"Actually, you don't need to be so particular." Guo Kang advised: "There are too many rules in different places. If you follow them all, I'm afraid you won't be able to do anything."
"Yes. She was born in France, and is a relative of the French King. She is still a French noble. But according to the rules there, it is illegal for a little girl to wear pants, let alone practice riding a horse and shooting like this every day." Li Xuanying pointed out. : "So, don't worry about it so much. Just treat it as a holiday today and let my little sister have fun."
Zhu Wenkui had no choice but to nod, indicating that he accepted his fate.
Guo Kang asked Old Ivan to hold the pig and follow them to the other side of the training ground.
"What are you going to see?" Li Xuanying asked.
"Let's go take a look at the chariots." Guo Kang said: "There are also a lot of iron and wooden equipment over there. The prince should be interested. It just so happens that the old mercenaries recommended by Wu Wanggang are also there, so you can check the progress. how's it going."
"Oh?" Zhu Wenkui became more interested and nodded, indicating that he was indeed happy.
The chariot camp was nearby and was soon reached.
"Lao Yang! The prince is here, come out and introduce him!" Guo Kang shouted.
A young man in priest clothes and an elderly man with one eye came out from behind several large cars and bowed to them.
"This is Brother Zelik, our translator." Guo Kang introduced: "That is Captain Jan Jeschka, the commander of the mercenaries. But he doesn't know Greek yet, and Zelik is needed. Please help me, sir."
Jessica and Zhu Wenkui met once, but they only handed over Zhu Yunwen's letters and didn't talk much. I don't know Zhu Rangna at all. After the introduction, he said hello to the brothers and sisters, and looked at Guo Kang again, as if he wanted to ask him what he needed to do.
"Let me introduce the general situation first, and then you will take the prince to visit the weapons and ordnance here." Guo Kang continued: "The prince has a lot of experience in this area. I plan to let him supervise the workshop and also involve it. I’ll get the equipment you need. If you have specific questions, you can ask him for more instructions and communicate with him later.”
He was worried that, based on the Ming Dynasty's style, directly asking Zhu Wenkui to be the head blacksmith would cause him to resist, so he kept emphasizing "involvement" and "supervision" to show that he had other serious identities and was not just a craftsman. .
But at present, it seems that he may be thinking too much. Zhu Wenkui surprisingly didn't put on any airs about this. Instead, he was very interested and had no intention of objecting.
"By the way, Crown Prince, this Lao Yang is also a powerful person." While Zelik was translating for Jashka, Guo Kang whispered to Zhu Wenkui in a special voice: "If he needs anything, just try to help him. This man is an experienced veteran, and his opinions are not out of touch with reality, so they shouldn’t be any difficult problems.”
"Do you know him?" Zhu Wenkui asked curiously: "My father's letter did not detail his achievements."
"I happened to have heard about it from other places." Guo Kang could only say mysteriously: "This man has won several miraculous battles, so he is called a genius commander rare in a century by the locals. Known as... uh, 'Magician Young'. It's just that there is civil strife in Shinra and they are in despair, so they ended up here. In short, we must keep this talent."
"I understand." Although Zhu Wenkui still didn't understand, he still nodded seriously and agreed.
