Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1505 Brother and Sister
"I didn't think it would be easy to go to Lingao. The farthest I knew when I was young was Jinan Prefecture and Tianjin Wei. Apart from knowing that Lingao is in the south of Qiongzhou Prefecture, I don't know the distance." Wang Xinglong is very talkative, and Lin Ming deliberately induced, and babbled a lot of what he had seen and heard along the way.

It turned out that Wang Xinglong didn't go all the way to Lingao by himself - he couldn't afford 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 also boats coming and going, so they followed a large number of refugees on the grain boats returning by air and went south along the canal, running all the way to the south of the Yangtze River, and met the treasurer of the Haixing in Shanghai, and then took the boat to Lingao for free.

"To make a living, it's easy to stay in Jiangnan. It's just that I've always heard that the Australians here are known for their extraordinary skills, and they are rich in miscellaneous knowledge. They are very itchy, so they came to Lingao." Wang Xinglong was full of enthusiasm, "I didn't realize it until I came here. It’s so good here, it’s a peaceful and prosperous world!”

Lin Ming cursed secretly: Another one who drank the ecstasy soup!Seeing that Wang Xinglong didn't shave his hair and change his clothes, but still wore the clothes of Daming, he asked, "You didn't shave your head?"

"Body and skin, I owe it to my parents." Wang Xinglong sighed, "Now that my family is ruined, I only keep these memories, and I dare not change them casually."

"Brother Wang is still a dutiful son." Lin Ming boasted. He refused to shave his hair and change his clothes. It seemed that he still had a dispute between Huaxia and Barbarians in his heart, which he could fight for. "This is my Huaxia clothes, how can I change it easily? Otherwise, I would die. You can't even see your ancestors."

Wang Xinglong didn't know the twists and turns in Lin Ming's stomach. He was born as a scholar. Although he was still young, this kind of concept had been absorbed since he was a child. Lin Ming praised him as a dutiful son, so he couldn't help but nodded in agreement.

"It's also thanks to Shopkeeper Qian's willingness to take him in, and then bring his brother to Laigao. If he was on the Australian refugee boat, he would have to be shaved if he didn't." Wang Xinglong sighed.

"Under the Australian rule, it is indeed a peaceful and prosperous world, but it is a bit inappropriate to have to shave your hair and change clothes... Sigh, after all, it is overseas..." Lin Ming said intentionally.

"Australians didn't say they had to shave their heads and change their clothes, but it's a pity that they couldn't get into their school. Fortunately, there are many books and newspapers in the market, and there are libraries—it's just that they can't get the teachings of the great Australian sages." Wang Xinglong felt a little regretful. added.

The two talked and chatted, and soon went to the Dongmen City Police Station to complete the registration procedures. On the way back, Wang Xinglong took him to the store and bought bedding and toilet utensils.

"These are all paid in advance, and you can pay them back after you get your wages," Wang Xinglong said.

Back at the Haixing, Wang Xinglong led him to the back: it was a small courtyard with brick curtains, surrounded by two-storey buildings, with a well in the middle, and a big bluestone propped beside the well, a man in blue and double maids The woman turned her back to them, her sleeves were rolled up, and she was vigorously washing her clothes.The wooden basin on the ground is full of clothes to be washed.

"This is Shemei." Wang Xinglong introduced, and called out again: "Jinchun!"

The young woman turned her head and saw her cousin bringing a strange man over, she didn't think it was strange, she wiped her red hands from the well water on her apron, and she was blessed.

Lin Ming hurriedly returned the gift, secretly cursing in his heart that Wang Xinglong's book had been read into the stomach of a dog.How can someone who is not relatives or friends just let his sister come out to see the ceremony?Don't you hear whether men and women give or receive kisses?Could it be that he has taken a fancy to him and wants to betroth his sister to him...

Looking at the girl carefully, her appearance is not bad. It can be seen that she is a girl from a middle-class family or above, but she is a bit overworked and somewhat out of shape, with a thick body, and her arms are exposed outside... What a good girl My girl, wasted in vain...

I was thinking wildly, but I heard Wang Xinglong say: "Sister She is also working in Haixing. She is in charge of general affairs, and she can be regarded as a colleague of my generation. Brother Lin has clothes and quilts to be washed, so I leave it to her."
"How does this make..."

"Brother Lin, don't be polite," Wang Jinchun didn't care. "This is my job. The shopkeeper pays me to do the laundry for everyone. If you don't wash for me, I won't be a shopkeeper. Are there any extra people?"

Wang Xinglong said: "Jinchun, Brother Lin has only been off the boat for a few days, so he doesn't know much about the rules here. Stay a little longer and you'll get used to it." He said and brought 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 men from the shop, the shower is downstairs of the building to the south, and the washroom and toilet are also there , very convenient."

"There's still a female buddy here?" Lin Ming saw that this room was almost carved out of the same mold as the Weimin Hotel's room, even the furniture was exactly the same.

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were absolutely no female employees in the large shops, and the shop assistants were not allowed to bring their family members, and even the shopkeeper had to go to the post alone.Such a thing as hiring a female buddy can be called shocking.

"Exactly, Sister She is one, besides her, there are three or four female buddies." Wang Xinglong laughed, "Brother Lin, you are new here, and you don't know the customs of Australians: women have to come out to do a lot of work, and some People are still working in Australian factories."

"Not only for work, but also for officials." Following a high-pitched female voice, Wang Jinchun had already opened the door and came in, holding a tray with teapots and cups on it in one hand, and a rattan case in the other. Big bottle, "If my brother didn't allow me to purify, I would have been a cadre a long time ago..."

"Purification requires shaving, that's absolutely impossible." Wang Xinglong's head shook like a drum, "What's the proper way, what's the proper way."

The girl didn't care, and complained: "Brother, you said that the Australians are so good. You have to go to Lingao to get here. After all the hard work, you don't want to do as the Romans do. Now you can only be a guy here. You see, Liu Xianggong, who came to the high school together, was the first to shave his head, and he has become the section chief..."

Wang Xinglong had a smile on his face, and he didn't refute, just said: "The clothes are all washed? My brother will help you to dry them later." Then he took out a towel from his pocket, "Look at you after washing your clothes I don't know how to dry my arm, it hurts when I get old..." As he spoke, he took Jinchun's arm and began to wipe it carefully.

Lin Ming secretly called out: "Indecent! Indecent!" Seeing that Wang Jinchun didn't care, he let him wipe it off with a smile on his face.Lin Ming only felt that the two of them had sex, and cursed secretly in his heart: "It's really not as good as a beast! As expected, I will throw myself!" He immediately looked down on Wang Xinglong and his sister.But he didn't dare to show it on his face, he just turned his face sideways.

I was embarrassed, but I heard Wang Jinchun say: "Brother Lin, this is tea. Leave the tea set in your room and use it—the hot water can be picked up in the kitchen—this is a hot water bottle. If you have any clothes to mend, leave them to me That's right. It's all part of the job."

Lin Ming said a few words politely, and sent the two of them out.His luggage was still in the inn, and he was not in a hurry to move it over.Then he took a closer look at the room and the yard.Although the layout is small, it is very clean and tidy.However, he took a rough look and found that there are more than ten rooms in this small courtyard. Excluding the toilet, washroom and shower room on the first floor, even if there is one room for each person, there are at least seven or eight "reputable" guys here.Wang Xinglong said that there are "four or five female assistants", and there must be some assistants and apprentices who sleep through the 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 first and spread it out.He poured another cup of tea and took a few sips to calm himself down.Now that he has settled down, he has a job to do, a place to live, and he is not afraid of being "caught in the waves", so he can organize his current thoughts well.

Judging from what he has seen and heard so far, the Kun thief attaches great importance to "Jinghua", and the core of "Jinghua" is "shaving hair and making clothes easier"-to eat directly under the hands of the Kun thief, this is necessary conditions.Along the way, whether it is the government office, Baojia, shops or workshops of the Kun bandits... all kinds of people from top to bottom are like this-by the way, Wang Xinglong said, this is called "naturalized people", hehe " "Naturalization", "Naturalization", can you and other barbarians afford it? !Ordinary people seem to be doing what they want. There are many naturalized people with shaved hair and easy clothes on the street, and there are also many people wearing Ming clothes.

The 300-year grace of Ming Dynasty is still there.Lin Ming thought, it seems that even in Lingao, the lair of gangsters, there are still many people who love Daming. Even Wang Xinglong, who took the initiative to surrender his hair, doesn't take it seriously for shaving his hair and making clothes easier.

Lin Ming resigned from the Haixing company, first went to the labor agency to go through the formalities, and then went to the Weimin Hotel.It was late, so he rested in the hotel for one night and slept comfortably: the room and bedding here were clean, especially free of fleas and bedbugs.This is one of the places Lin Baihu admits that Daming is far inferior to Lingao.

In the early morning of the second day, Lin Ming checked out of the room, moved his luggage to the Haixing, and started working as his "copywriter master".

Contrary to what he thought, this copywriter was quite busy with his work. Every day, the guy who ran errands would take out a lot of notes from the accountant of the shopkeeper Qian, with only a few sentences on it.Lin Ming wanted to write a letter based on the contents of this note.The contents of the letters are varied, but they are all commercial exchanges: there are inquiries and quotations, instructions to buy and sell, personnel changes, and financial transactions... All kinds of things are very complicated.Lin Ming was also considered a veteran in handling official documents, and he had never seen this set of things before. Fortunately, Wang Xinglong was there to guide him, and soon he roughly figured out the joints, and the writing was much faster.

After writing these letters, seal them in a special envelope, and write the recipient's name and address—in addition to some places in Guangdong and Fujian, they also went to Nanzhi, Zhejiang, and even Tianjin Wei, Jingshi and other places.He didn't even know where some places were. He asked Wang Xinglong only to find out that they were all counties under the jurisdiction of Qiongzhou Prefecture.

(End of this chapter)