Three hundred and fifteenth day brothers and sisters
"I didn't expect that it would not be easy to go to Lingao. Since I was a child, the farthest I've known is Jinan Prefecture and Tianjin Wei. Apart from knowing that Lingao is in Qiongzhou Prefecture in the south, I don't know how far it is." Wang Xinglong was very talkative and added
Lin Ming deliberately induced him and talked a lot about what he had seen along the way.
It turns out that Wang Xinglong didn't go all the way to Lingao by himself - he simply couldn't afford the expense of such a long journey, and he didn't know which way to go to Lingao. He only knew that there were many Australian business partners in Jiangnan.
There were still ships coming and going, so a large number of refugees took the food ships returning from the air and went south along the canal. They ran all the way to the south of the Yangtze River. In Shanghai, they met the owner of the Haixing, and then they took the boat to Lingao for free.
"When it comes to making a living, it's easy to stay in Jiangnan. But I've always heard that the Australians here are known for their uncanny skills and rich knowledge of miscellaneous things. I was so excited that I came to Lingao." Wang Xinglong said with great interest, "I didn't realize it until I came here.
It’s so nice here, peaceful and prosperous!”
Lin Ming secretly cursed: Another one who drank Kunthi** soup! Seeing that Wang Xinglong had not shaved his head to change clothes, and was still wearing Ming Dynasty clothes, he asked: "You didn't shave your head?"
"My body, hair, and skin are all inherited by my parents." Wang Xinglong sighed, "Now that my family has been destroyed, I only have these memories left, and I dare not change them casually."
"Brother Wang is still a filial son." Lin Ming praised. He refused to cut off his hair and change clothes. It seemed that he still had the Hua-Yi argument in his heart that he could fight for. "These are my Chinese clothes, how can I change them easily? Otherwise, I will die.
You can’t even see your ancestors.”
Wang Xinglong didn't know that Lin Ming was full of twists and turns. He was a scholar, even though he was still young. This concept had been instilled in him since childhood. Lin Ming praised him as a filial son and couldn't help but nod in agreement.
"Thanks to shopkeeper Qian's willingness to take me in. I brought my brother to Gao. If he had taken the Australian refugee ship, he would have had to shave his head." Wang Xinglong sighed.
"It is indeed a peaceful and prosperous age under the rule of the Australians, but it seems a little inappropriate to have to shave your hair and change clothes... Hey, after all, it is from overseas..." Lin Ming said deliberately.
"The Australians didn't say that they had to shave their heads and change their clothes, but it's a pity that you can't enter their school. Fortunately, there are many books and newspapers on the market, and there are libraries - but I can't hear the teachings of the great Australian sages in person." Wang Xinglong was a little regretful.
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The two chatted. Soon they went to the Dongmen City Police Station and completed the registration procedures. On the way back, Wang Xinglong took him to the store and bought bedding and toiletries.
"These are considered advances. You will pay them back after you get your salary," Wang Xinglong said.
Returning to the Haixing, Wang Xinglong led him to the back: it was a small brick courtyard, with two-story buildings on all sides, and a well in the middle. Next to the well was a large bluestone. A man in Tsing Yi with two servant girls
The woman's back was turned to them, her sleeves rolled up high, and she was washing the clothes vigorously. The wooden basin on the ground was full of clothes to be washed.
"This is my sister-in-law." Wang Xinglong introduced, and called out again: "Jinchun!"
The young woman turned around and saw her cousin bringing a strange man over. She didn't think it was strange. She wiped her hands, which were red from the well water, on her apron and felt blessed.
Lin Ming hurriedly returned the gift. He cursed in his heart that Wang Xinglong's book had been read into the dog's belly. Why did he just let his sister come out to see the gift if she was not a relative? Don't you know whether men and women are close to each other? Could it be that he has fallen in love with her?
He wants to betroth the girl to him...
I looked at the girl carefully. She didn't look bad at all. I could tell she was a girl from a middle-class family or above. She was just a little out of shape from overwork. Her figure was a bit thick, and her arms were exposed without caring... She was really a good girl.
The girl was wasted in vain...
While he was thinking wildly, he heard Wang Xinglong say: "My sister-in-law also works in Haixing. She specializes in general affairs and can be regarded as a colleague of my generation. If Brother Lin has clothes and quilts that need to be washed, just leave them to her."
"How does this make..."
"Brother Lin, please don't be polite." Wang Jinchun didn't care. "This is my job. The shopkeeper paid me to do the laundry and sweep for everyone. If you don't do the laundry for me, wouldn't I become a shopkeeper?"
Are there extra people?”
Wang Xinglong said: "Jinchun, Brother Lin has only been off the ship for a few days, so he doesn't know much about the rules here. You will get used to it if you stay for a while." After that, he took Lin Ming to a small room on the second floor.
"Brother Lin, just live in this room." Wang Xinglong helped him put down the bedding: "This courtyard is full of male shop assistants. The shower is downstairs in the south building, and the washroom and toilet are also there.
, very convenient.”
"Are there any female waiters here?" Lin Ming saw that this room was almost carved out of the same mold as the room in Weimin Hotel, even the furniture was exactly the same.
In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, large-scale stores had no female employees, and clerks were not allowed to bring their families. Even shopkeepers had to be single. The hiring of female clerks was a shocking thing.
"Exactly, the roommate is one. Besides her, there are three or four female clerks." Wang Xinglong said with a smile, "Brother Lin, you are new here, and you don't know the Australian customs: women have to work a lot, and there are
People are still working in Australian factories.”
"It's not just work, there are also officials." Following a high-pitched female voice, Wang Jinchun had pushed the door open and walked in. He was holding a tray with a teapot and teacup in one hand, and a rattan shell in the other.
Big Bottle, "If my brother hadn't allowed me to purify, I would have become a cadre..."
"Purification requires shaving one's hair, which is absolutely not allowed." Wang Xinglong's head shook like a drum, "What kind of decency does it have to be, what decency does it have to have."
But the girl didn't care and complained: "Brother, you are the one who said how good Australians are. You have to go to Lingao to get here. After all the hard work, you don't want to follow the local customs. Now you can only be a clerk here."
You see, Mr. Liu, who came to Gao together with us, was the first to have his head shaved, and he has become the section chief..."
Wang Xinglong had a smile on his face and did not refute. He just said: "Have the clothes been washed? Brother will help you dry them later." Then he took out a towel from his pocket and said, "Look, you have finished washing the clothes."
I don’t know how to wipe my arms dry, my arms will hurt when I get old..." Then he took Jinchun's arm and wiped it carefully.
Lin Ming secretly shouted: "Indecent! Indecent!" But he saw that Wang Jinchun didn't care and let him wipe it with a smile on his face. Lin Ming only felt that the two of them were having sex, and cursed in his heart: "It's really worse than a beast! He really knows how to surrender to Kun.
!" He immediately had great contempt for the Wang Xinglong brothers and sisters. However, he did not dare to show it on his face and just turned his face away.
When he was embarrassed, he heard Wang Jinchun say: "Brother Lin, this is tea. Just leave the tea set in your room for use. Just go to the kitchen to get hot water. This is a thermos. If you have any clothes to mend, give them to me.
That’s right. It’s all within one’s duties.”
Lin Ming said a few polite words and sent the two of them out. His luggage was still at the inn, and he was not in a hurry to move it over. He took a closer look at the room and the yard. Although the layout was small, it was very clean and tidy.
However, he took a cursory look and found that there were more than ten rooms in this small courtyard. Excluding the toilets, washrooms and shower rooms on the first floor, even if there was one room for one person, there would be at least seven or eight "reputable" guys here. Wang Xinglong said
There are also "four or five female waiters", plus there must be some waiters and apprentices who sleep in the open shop and do menial work, so there must be more than 20 people... There must be too many people in this shop!
Lin Ming was full of doubts, so he unfolded the bedding he bought and laid it out. Then he poured a cup of tea and took a few sips to calm down. He was now settled down, he had work to do, a place to live, and was not afraid of being "caught in trouble".
You can sort out your current thoughts.
Judging from what he has seen and heard so far, Kun Thief attaches great importance to "Jing Hua", and the core of "Jing Hua" is "to shave your hair and change clothes" - to eat directly under Kun Thief's hands, this is
Necessary conditions. Along the way, whether it is Kunthi's government, Baojia, shops or workshops... all kinds of people from top to bottom are like this - by the way, Wang Xinglong said, this is called "naturalized people"
, hum "naturalization", "naturalization", can you barbarians deserve it?! Ordinary people, it seems, are willing to do as they please. There are many naturalized people on the street who shave their hair and change clothes, and they have Ming Dynasty hair.
There are also many well-dressed people,
The blessings of the Ming Dynasty for three hundred years are still there. Lin Ming thought, it seems that even in Lingao, the hometown of the Kun thieves, there are still many people who love the Ming Dynasty. Even Wang Xinglong, who took the initiative to surrender to the Kun, did not take it seriously.
, it seems that things can be done.
Lin Ming resigned from the Haixing No. 1 and went to the labor agency to complete the formalities. Then he arrived at the Weimin Hotel. It was already late, so he rested for the night in the hotel and had a comfortable sleep: Here
The bedding in the room is clean and tidy, especially without fleas or bedbugs. This is one of the things that Lin Baihu admits that Daming is far inferior to Lingao.
Early the next morning, Lin Ming checked out of the room, moved his luggage to the Haixing, and started working as a "copywriter".
Contrary to what he thought, the copywriter was quite busy at work. Every day, the boy who ran errands would take out a lot of notes from Shopkeeper Qian's accounting room, with only a few sentences on them. Lin Ming had to follow the instructions on this note.
The content of the letters is written. The contents of the letters are varied, but they are all business transactions: there are inquiries and quotations, there are instructions to buy and sell, there are also personnel changes, financial transfers... all kinds of things, very complicated. Lin Ming can also be regarded as handling it.
A veteran of official documents, he had never seen this set of things before. Fortunately, with Wang Xinglong's guidance, he soon roughly figured out the joints and wrote much faster.
After writing these letters, seal them in special envelopes and write the names and addresses of the recipients - in addition to some places in Guangdong and Fujian, they also go to Nanzhi, Zhejiang and even Tianjin Wei, Capital and other places. Some places he doesn't know about at all. Where, after asking Wang Xinglong, I found out that they are all counties under the jurisdiction of Qiongzhou Prefecture. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!