Chapter 171: Cotton picking in the American countryside?
The farmland near the town of Salem has begun to be harvested, but the main crop of this town is cotton.
Levi came here to live for a few days. During these days, he lived in the church of the priest's family and simply practiced spiritual power every day. In such a slow-paced town, two little girls came to him at 6 o'clock every night. Deliver meals.
He doesn't smoke, drinks only lightly, goes to bed at 10 p.m., and sleeps eight hours a day.
Before the 9 o'clock curfew, the little girls would go upstairs to deliver a glass of warm milk.
Levi fell asleep shortly after drinking the warm milk, and did not leave his fatigue for the next day. The priest always said that he was very healthy.
However, such a peaceful life made Levi feel very awkward. After a few days of such a peaceful and ordinary life, he seemed to feel that his mental internal friction had been cured, and he even fell in love with this town.
The priest always went out in the morning to provide prayers and blessings to the little boys nearby, and came back in the evening. He had been providing food and accommodation to Li Wei these days, and never made any requests, which also made Li Wei feel very puzzled. .
Li Wei later gave the priest a silver piece, and the priest accepted it without any polite words.
They would accept money from Li Wei, but they would not drive him away even if he kept eating and drinking for free. Anyway, for some unknown reason, Li Wei stayed here.
The priest's family only has an old nun in her fifties and two girls. The older girl is called Abigail, who is eleven years old. I heard she is the priest's niece. The younger girl is called Betty, who is only nine years old and is the priest's niece. 's niece.
However, I heard from the old nun that Betty might be the priest's biological daughter, who accidentally lost control of her lower body and ended up living outside...
The old nun also said that since the priest took the two girls with him, he basically only prayed for the little boy and tried his best not to attend other church activities.
Therefore, the two little girls have become the people Li Wei has the most contact with these days. Sometimes after delivering bread and milk, they will ask Li Wei for stories from the outside world.
It's not easy for Levi to tell these two Hispanic girls some stories from the outside world. After all, there are no heroic stories in the Age of Discovery, just some bad bandits, not even as good as the stuff in "One Piece".
So Li Wei pondered and told them Greek myths for several days.
Of course, this is Greek mythology excluding the deeds of the three breeding pigs, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades, otherwise it would have caused great psychological trauma to the two girls.
After he learned about the authentic Greek mythology in his previous life, he was amazed by the pig breeding behavior of the three brothers, which cast an indelible shadow on his young mind.
Occasionally, Levi would patrol the entire town and chat with the only Sheriff in the entire town of Salem. The Sheriff was a Dutch drunkard with a big beard who looked like a descendant of the Vikings.
The cotton harvest in the town has begun, and businessmen often drive carriages to collect cotton. This period is also the busiest time for the Sheriff.
This peaceful rural life seemed like poison. Levi even forgot about the mission of coming to this world and lived peacefully every day.
Today, when Levi was on duty with the Sheriff, he discovered a carriage. A businessman who looked like a driver was bargaining with someone in front of a house. The voices of several people were so loud that they seemed to be quarreling. .
"Hey, Mr. Ying, when you are harvesting cotton, you can harvest cotton with peace of mind. Don't let me catch you." The Sheriff said to the businessman who was leading the business.
This is actually due to the times. The Spanish Armada had just defeated the Spanish Armada, and now they were on the same level as the Dutch. Naturally, the Spanish and Dutch people couldn't stand these "gentlemen".
However, the businessman who brings the goods is often the one who bids the highest when receiving the goods, so no matter how unhappy he is, business is still business, so don’t be afraid.
"Don't be nervous, brother, I just saw that in your town you still pick and peel cotton by hand. I recommend you a slave who automatically picks cotton." The businessman led the businessman completely ignored the Sheriff's bad words and came directly to sell his products.
"Look at other places now, they are using these slaves to work in the fields, but here you still pick cotton by yourself, how tiring it is, isn't it?"
"This kind of slave has a strong skin and only needs a bowl of chaff a day. He will work very hard under the whip."
The golden back of the businessman's back seemed to be reflecting light in the sun, and his smile was particularly bright.
"How much?" the sheriff asked.
"6 pounds per person." The businessman smiled, showing his yellow teeth.
"Six pounds! Why don't you go and grab it!" the Sheriff yelled.
In this era, the purchasing power of 6 pounds can even support a family of several people for half a year to a year.
"If you don't have enough money, you can use cotton as a mortgage. Just exchange 200 kilograms of cotton for a slave. If you don't have enough cotton, you can sign a loan. Just give me 50 kilograms of cotton first, and give me 30 kilograms of cotton in installments every year for the rest. I can pay it off in ten years.
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"Look at these slaves, it is estimated that they can make back the money they paid for them in a few years, and the rest is pure profit. At worst, you can make these slaves work harder. They can make it back in less than a year if they work 25 hours a day.
Cost?"
The merchant was still introducing the slave trade incessantly, but the sheriff waved his hand impatiently.
"After harvesting the cotton, hurry up and get out. No one here can afford your stuff. Get out as far as you can. The smell of copper on your body is even more disgusting than the stench of Fran."
"If a family can't afford it, the whole town can pool their money and buy a few... By the way, I also have a stone that's more powerful than hemp. Putting one of it around can make people feel ecstasy. Do you want to consider it?
Just a moment..." The businessman still didn't give up the promotion.
"roll roll roll……"
The Chinese merchant left after harvesting the cotton. At least no one in this town wants his goods now.
Li Wei was standing by, watching this magical scene without stopping or participating.
There were too many problems left over from this period of history, and it was not easy for him to participate, so he simply became a bystander.
"These old people from the country should be sent to hell. They are really more evil than the devil." After the businessman left, the sheriff spat in the direction of the businessman and said,
"Sooner or later, those people will go to hell, and Satan will make them understand the pain of hell. No, if those people go to hell and let Satan know that they can exploit the bottom class in this way, then will hell also end?"
The Sheriff kept complaining.
Levi looked at the back of the leaving businessman, and he increasingly wondered why this mission would only be in this peaceful town.
Logically speaking, this era should be the era of great navigation and the development of bloody capital. Why is the task in this era not to become the Pirate King, but to "end the root of heresy" in a very simple way?
If you really can't do it, you can go to rebel against Qing Dynasty and restore Ming Dynasty, or you can go to the Far East to kill those reformers in their cradle.
"Outlander, let's go have a few drinks together today. It's said that our whole town has become a lot richer since you came." The Sheriff said bluntly.