Chapter 11 Instructions for Community Living

"If I don't come back, I won't be able to bring you food.

If you are really hungry, just walk west along Walker Street.

About 10 minutes walk, you will see a morning market on the roadside.

The morning market is open every morning from 5 to 6 o'clock, and there are poor people selling their own bread or paste.

Hmm...I also sell some coffee occasionally,

But the coffee they make has a lot of impurities, so if you want to drink it, you need to hold your nose."

Hey, do you know what coffee is...

"After 6 o'clock, the morning market is gone, because small vendors like them earn too little to pay taxes to the empire.

It also occupies the street and affects workers' commuting.

When the police go to work after 6 o'clock, they will be driven away."

Ogami and Nuomiguo listened to him carefully.

Chen Yan suddenly realized that even if they could find the morning market, they would not have money to buy food.

Could it be...

You want me to post it?!

He looked at the innocent eyes of the two of them.

It's too much!

I haven’t even found my own breakfast yet!

Chen Yan looked at them for a few seconds.

What is the saying that old immigrants often say?

A good person will do his best to send Buddha to the West.

He took a deep breath, took out some scattered coins worth about 20 pennies from his pocket, and placed them in Nuomiguo's hand.

"1 pound = 50 shillings,

1 shilling = 120 pence,

This is 20 pence, which can probably cover a few meals."

Chen Yan was so heartbroken that she couldn't breathe.

That’s half a week’s living expenses!

"Just use this to buy food first... When you earn money from working, you have to pay me back!"

Regardless of whether they understood or not, the two of them just nodded their heads.

Chen Yan opened his mouth, not knowing what to say. It took him a long time to calm down.

"besides."

He emphasized his tone because this was the key point he wanted to explain.

"If you encounter a choir coming to give alms, don't take their food!"

"It's an uncle or aunt who wears a white tall hat and a white robe with gold trim. He looks very charitable and peaceful."

Chen Yan said to Nuomi Guo in a very threatening tone:

"They like little girls like you best. Once you accept their charity, they will take you away in a few days."

"Because you ate the food they gave away - they called it [Holy Communion],

When you take [Holy Communion], you have completed their initiation ceremony and become one of theirs."

A look of surprise appeared on Nuomiguo's face.

She has been translating Chen Yan’s words to Ogami,

After hearing about the choir, Ogami frowned.

Chen Yan glanced at the two swords behind Ogami and warned in a gentle tone:

"Don't mess with the Chorus. They are the official religious organization of the empire. Well... they are the state religion. Do you understand?"

"They don't have guns, but they can stay outside the law."

"Besides the law, there are too many means that can be used..."

Under Nuomiguo's translation, Ogami nodded heavily.

When he nodded, Chen Yan felt that the temperature around his body had dropped significantly.

It was as if a burst of cold air covered the body.

After a moment of cooling down, Ogami returned to her normal expression.

The cold feeling also disappeared.

Chen Yan swallowed, looked at Ogami who was obviously serious, and said earnestly:

“When you’re in town, do as the Romans do.

If we Asians want to come to other people's territory to make a living, we must follow their rules.

There is nothing we can do about it, we are all just ordinary people...

An ordinary worker makes a living and is not shabby."

They both nodded at the same time.

Chen Yan looked at the two people who seemed to be "obedient", and countless thoughts flashed through his mind.

Before the two came, Chen Yan actually thought about it a lot.

Regarding the purpose of the tenants: do they want to settle in the empire, or do they simply work illegally?

Regarding the tenant’s personality: Is it easy to get along with, or is he a troublemaker all day long?

But when facing the two of them, Chen Yan realized that everything he had considered before was no longer working.

You can't ask the visitor's purpose, it's impolite.

Even if you know the guest's personality, you still have to find a way to get along with him and explore how the landlord and tenant get along.

Business is not easy to do.

Money is hard to make and X is hard to eat.

This is true everywhere.

While Chen Yan was stunned, Nuomiguo suddenly asked:

"Sir, why do you come to the Empire?"

well?

Why are you the guest?

However, Chen Yan already had an answer to this question.

"I'm desperate."

There was mockery in his words, and he inadvertently looked at the photo frame on the counter next to the sofa.

On the photo frame, the face of the girl leaning on Chen Yan's shoulder has been scratched.

He caught a glimpse of the girl's scratched face, and then subconsciously looked away pretending to be casual.

"Actually, to put it bluntly, the empire is easy to make money."

Chen Yan said.

"Now is different from previous years. The empire has a huge fleet, and those long-distance ferries have chimneys that are taller than buildings.

The empire's routes are spread all over the world, and all goods in the world are circulated in the empire's ports. Even simple tariffs have raised the level of the entire empire by a large margin.

The empire is rich and there are many opportunities to make money."

There was self-deprecation in his words.

"For a low-level wage earner like me, I come to the Empire just to live a better life."

There was confusion in Nuomiguo's eyes: "But as I walked along the way, I saw many people who had just gotten off work after 10 o'clock at night."

"Their clothes are very shabby, which means they have no money.

They looked bad, and Ogami told me that most of them suffered from back pain or muscle damage caused by long-term overwork.

It's already early in the morning, but it's still light over there."

The glutinous rice fruit points to a certain direction outside the window.

In that direction, there is the brightest place in the entire Yanan City at night - it is the industrial zone in the lower city of Yanan City, with rows of factories located there.
To be continued...