After getting up in the morning, Lin Ming took a comfortable flower petal bath under the care of two maids. He felt refreshed. After changing his clothes, he slowly came to the main room - an appropriate amount of pleasant sex is good for the body and mind. Lin Ming felt happy both physically and mentally at this time.
Seeing that a full set of fine porcelain dishes had been placed on the round mahogany table for breakfast, I felt even happier.
However, Li Yongxun seemed to be full of worries, and he didn't even finish a bowl of good fish porridge. Because of the "battle" last night, Lin Ming's desire was fully satisfied. Today, his "family affection" for his sister-in-law has greatly increased, and he asked with concern.
road:
"Does your foot still hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt." Li Yongxun couldn't fall asleep after returning to the room last night: thinking about how to deal with the thief. She wanted to wake up her brother-in-law overnight to arrest him, but she was also afraid that her brother-in-law would blame him - the man's bad temper. She now
He also knew a little bit about the saying: "A moment of spring night is worth a thousand pieces of gold." The consequences of interrupting his brother-in-law's spring night would be very serious.
"Brother-in-law." Li Yongxun said hesitantly, "Mr. Huang must have some dealings with the thief Kun secretly."
"Of course. Where did you get the food you ate yesterday?" Lin Ming said easily.
"But the Kun thieves are overseas barbarians who stole from Yuzhou County... Mr. Wang also went to suppress them..." Li Yongxun felt that his brother-in-law was not very enthusiastic about catching the Kun thieves. "I saw it last night. There was a Kun thieves in Huang's house.
In his house. It’s better to take it and send it to Guangzhou, it’s also thanks to my brother-in-law..."
Lin Ming put down the porridge bowl and scolded in a low voice: "Take it and send it to Guangzhou - and then recruit the navy to come down to Guangzhou City again? A woman's opinion!"
The Kun thief navy invaded Guangzhou, and although they finally withdrew, everyone knew that this was the result of Governor Li's "money". It was not that the Kun thief had suffered a defeat or was afraid of the court, so he had nothing to do to tease the tiger's beard.
What.
Seeing the boss' displeasure on his sister-in-law's face, Lin Ming felt that these words were too serious. He then said patiently: "What's the use of catching the Kun thief? If you have to catch him, in a few days, Dongzhu Guo, the leader of the Kun thief, will come back openly.
It’s Guangzhou—Governor Li probably wants to send congratulatory gifts—who dares to catch the bandits now?”
"But -" Li Yongxun's love for the court and his desire for personal revenge were intertwined, and he wanted to make a last-ditch effort.
"The thieves have never offended us, so there is no need to make enemies with them - besides, if you take him and send him to Guangzhou, you will still have to let him go."
"No need to let go." Li Yongxun was eager to give it a try, "If you don't hand it over to the Yamen, take it back to the Hundred Household Office and interrogate it yourself - I don't believe that the thieves are all iron teeth and have copper teeth, and they can't be recognized for their rebellion..."
Lin Ming drank the porridge slowly, letting her talk nonsense. When she finished speaking, he said slowly: "You have breakfast first, and I will take you out for a walk after dinner."
Li Yongxun was immediately discouraged. Knowing that his brother-in-law had no intention of dealing with the thief, he felt so angry that he even stopped eating breakfast. After the meal, he even refused his brother-in-law's offer to take her out for a walk.
"I'm not feeling well." Li Yongxun put on an attitude that he thought was very cold. Lin Ming knew that she was losing her temper, so he simply ignored her. Just then, Huang Shunlong invited him to talk about something, and he made a few random remarks and left.
As soon as Lin Ming left, Li Yongxun felt that not only was his passion for the court not supported, but he was also laughed at by his brother-in-law. He felt depressed and lay on the bed and cried. After crying for a while, he felt quiet in his ears and felt that he was crying.
No one listened, no one tried to persuade me, so it was better not to cry.
"Humph, if you don't catch me, I will catch you! I, Li Yongxun, am a true confidant of the imperial court!" Li Yongxun became determined. He changed into men's clothes and hung up his small embroidered spring knife with him.
Shun Lai's Jinyiwei waist badge had long been returned to the family members who followed her, but in Foshan, Lin Ming couldn't resist her request, and he felt that it would be safer to have a waist badge with him. So he assigned a school with a long-term vacancy in the Hundred Household School to a school that was not bad.
Li Yongxun gave her the lieutenant's waistband. Li Yongxun hung the waistband on his waist, held the knife in one hand, and put his hands on his hips with the other. He stood in the middle of the hall with his head held high, and suddenly felt that the commanders of the imperial guards of all dynasties were possessed!
Li Yongxun gave up his plan to learn about the situation from the Huang family's maids and slaves: since Huang Shunlong was engaged in a shady black business, most of his subordinates had been taught not to talk to outsiders casually - now that she had no official status, she could not intimidate or intimidate anyone.
She couldn't torture her, so she could only pry secretly. Her feet had healed, and although she couldn't run, it was not in the way of walking. She then quietly climbed out of a low fence in the backyard.
She didn't know the road at all - fortunately, Haojinghao was a small place. Huang Shunlong was a famous figure. If he got lost, he could just call a sedan and go back. After Li Yongxun climbed over the wall, he walked around in the alley.
, and soon learned from the talkative boring clerk at a grocery store in the alley: There was indeed a sedan last night, and seven or eight people entered the Huang family's house through the back door. Several of them were still carrying heavy rattan boxes on their backs.
It looks very heavy.
She also knew that these people came from the direction of Alley 7. Li Yongxun went to Alley 7. Alley 7 was no different from Alley 5 that she walked through yesterday. When she found that she also saw the sharp point she had seen yesterday.
While on the roof, she suddenly realized that this group of people should have come from the direction of the pier - Lane 5 and Lane 7 should be parallel. In fact, Huangzhai is not far from the pier.
Li Yongxun slowly followed the alley towards the dock. There were a lot more pedestrians in this alley - from time to time there were small vendors, porters and some overseas people who looked barbaric and dressed in strange clothes: Nordic people with red skin, yellow hair and blue eyes,
A Latino with light brown skin and black hair, a short Southeast Asian native with yellow eyes, a short Japanese with unkempt hair shaved into a semicircle, Ah San with dark skin, a completely black body with only the whites of his eyes white.
Black Africans...you can almost see a few here. The strange appearance made Li Yongxun feel very nervous - many horrific stories about overseas barbarians are widely circulated in Guangdong.
Fortunately, no one paid attention to her along the way. Li Yongxun walked and observed her surroundings. She heard the cry of seagulls not far away, and the wind also carried the salty smell of the seaside, and knew that she was almost at the seaside.
Sure enough, the end of the alley suddenly opened up, and the residential area has ended here. It is a large area of compacted mud. Several wooden trestles extend into the bay, where many ships are moored. There are many sails and rafts - and
Many of them were ships she had never seen before. In particular, several large galenic ships, with huge hulls, towering masts, and shining cannons in the gun windows... Li Yongxun saw European ships for the first time.
She was amazed. She ignored the large and small mire puddles on the muddy ground and kept walking forward, wanting to get closer and see more clearly.
There are bundles of goods piled on the ground, covered with reed mats. Teams of coolies carry them on their shoulders, shouting slogans, and a steady stream of goods packed in straw bags and sacks are being shipped to the ship. Some of the packages are damaged.
, revealing the straw ropes binding the porcelain inside or the coarse cloth wrapped in silk.
Li Yongxun was almost stunned - where had she seen such a large-scale overseas trade scene? She had already forgotten most of her plan to track down the thief. She just looked around as she walked, wishing she could have a few more pairs of eyes.
.
She was curious about almost everything in front of her. Even the damaged boat abandoned on the mud, the wreckage of the ship destroyed by the storm, and a stone anchor deeply sunk into the mud all aroused her interest. While watching,
As he walked, he unknowingly reached the other side of the pier. At the end was a shallow backwater bay. The water was filled with all kinds of garbage and emitted various foul smells. Li Yongxun covered his nose without realizing it and hurried back.
We found a tea stall on the pier and ordered a pot of tea to rest, and asked if there were any ships coming from Lingao.
"Yes, yes." The person setting up the tea stall is a middle-aged woman. It is said to be a tea stall, but in fact she can only earn some money for hot water - her business targets are the coolies on the dock. They can't afford tea at all, but they only give a
I spent two cents on crab shells to buy some "herbal tea" without tea leaves to rehydrate me. I was able to sell a pot of tea today, which seemed very enthusiastic.
"The ships from Lingao come every ten days or so. There are three or four ships at a time." The middle-aged woman pointed to a ship not far away, "Isn't that their ship?"
Li Yongxun looked along her fingers: it was just an ordinary two-masted ship, nothing special. But it looked neater and cleaner than ordinary ships. She was a little disappointed - she had heard about Kun a long time ago.
The thief had a big iron boat, and she originally thought she would see a different kind of boat.
On the Lingao boat, there was a man at the bow and stern, looking around from time to time. Li Yongxun knew that this was probably a "lookout" - it seemed that they were very careful and didn't know what they were doing.
"Is it a freight transporter?"
"Of course it's for transporting goods." The tea seller wiped the table and sat down opposite Li Yongxun. She had no customers at the moment, so she was happy to have someone to talk to. "It would take the coolies most of the day to unload the shiploads of goods."
Finished. The goods were unloaded and transported to the warehouse - I heard they are all valuable goods. Who knows about Lingao's Australian goods? I also want to buy their small mirror compact! Unfortunately, it still costs two taels of silver!
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"Where is the warehouse?"
"It's at the entrance of the fifth lane." The tea seller said that the warehouse is a house rented by Lingao people specifically to store transshipment goods, and the merchants and sailors who usually come and go also live in it.
Li Yongxun's heart skipped a beat. He looked towards the entrance of the alley - only to see a group of people coming out of the entrance of the fifth alley. Seven or eight big men were surrounded by a two-person sedan, walking in a hurry.
"Is this someone from Lingao?" she asked.
"That's about it." The tea lady looked at it and nodded, "Look at how many of them have Kun hair. Who else could they be if they weren't from Kun?"