Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 794 Li Yongxun's Reconnaissance
After Lin Ming got up in the morning, he took a comfortable flower petal bath under the service of two maids, and he was refreshed.After changing clothes, I walked slowly to the main room-an appropriate amount of pleasant sex life is beneficial to the body and mind.Lin Ming was now physically and mentally happy. Seeing that a complete set of fine porcelain dishes had been placed on the mahogany round table for breakfast, his mood became even happier.

However, Li Yongxun seemed full of worries, and he didn't even finish a bowl of good fish porridge.Because of the "war" last night, Lin Ming's desires were fully satisfied, and today's "family affection" for his sister-in-law has greatly increased, and he asked with concern:
"Does your foot still hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt." Li Yongxun tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep after returning to his room last night: thinking about how to deal with the Kun thief.She wanted to call her brother-in-law up overnight to arrest him, but she was also afraid that her brother-in-law would blame him--she knew a little about men's bad temper now: "a moment of spring festival is worth a thousand gold", and the consequences of interrupting her brother-in-law's spring festival by herself would be very serious.

"Brother-in-law." Li Yongxun hesitantly said, "Master Huang must be secretly dealing with the Kun thief."

"Of course. Where did you get the food you ate yesterday?" Lin Ming said relaxedly.

"But the kun thieves are overseas barbarians who have stolen prefectures and counties... Mr. Wang has even attacked..." Li Yongxun felt that his brother-in-law was not very enthusiastic about catching the kun thieves, "I saw last night that there were kun thieves at Huang's house In the house. How about taking it and sending 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: "I took it and sent it to Guangzhou——do you want to recruit the thief's navy to come down to Guangzhou city again? A woman's opinion!"

The Kun bandit navy invaded Guangzhou, although they withdrew in the end.But everyone knew that this was the result of Governor Li's "payment", and it wasn't that the gangster had lost a battle or was afraid of the court, so he had nothing to do to tease the tiger's beard.

Seeing the boss's displeasure on his sister-in-law's face, Lin Ming felt that his words were too serious.Immediately he said patiently: "What's the use of catching the thieves? If you want to catch them, Dongzhu Guo, the big boss of the thieves, will return to Guangzhou grandiosely in a few days—Governor Li will probably send congratulatory gifts—who dares to catch the thieves right now? "

"But—" Li Yongxun's love for the imperial court and his desire to avenge himself are intertwined, and he still wants to make one last effort.

"The Kun thief has never offended us, so there's no point in making enemies with them—and besides, if you take him, you'll still have to release him if you send him to Guangzhou."

"Don't let it go." Li Yongxun was eager to try, "If you don't hand it over to the yamen, take it back to the Baihu Office for interrogation—I don't believe that the thieves have iron teeth and copper teeth, and they can't recognize their conspiracy..."

Lin Ming drank the porridge slowly, letting her talk nonsense.After she finished speaking, she said slowly, "You eat your breakfast first, and I'll take you out for a walk after dinner."

Li Yongxun was immediately discouraged. Knowing that her brother-in-law had no intention of dealing with the robbers, she was so indignant that she even refused to eat breakfast in anger.Even her brother-in-law refused to take her out after dinner.

"I'm not feeling well." Li Yongxun assumed a cold attitude.Lin Ming knew she was having a temper tantrum, so he simply ignored it. It happened that Huang Shunlong invited him to talk about something, and he left after making a few foolish words.

As soon as Lin Ming left, Li Yongxun felt that his passion for loving the imperial court was not only not supported, but was also ridiculed by his brother-in-law. He felt depressed and lay down on the bed and began to cry—— After crying for a while, his ears felt quiet, and he felt that he was crying No one listens, no one persuades, it is better not to cry.

"Hmph, if you don't arrest me, I'll arrest you! I, Li Yongxun, am a true confidant of the imperial court!" Li Yongxun came forward with all his strength.Immediately, he changed into men's clothes again, and hung up his small embroidered spring knife with him.Back then, the Jinyiwei waist badge that came along had already been returned to the family members who followed him, but in Foshan, Lin Ming couldn't resist her request, and felt that it would be safer to have a waist badge with him.So she gave her the badge of a school lieutenant who had been vacant for a long time in the Baihu Institute.Li Yongxun hung the badge on his waist, held the knife in one hand, and stood in the middle of the main room with his head held high and his chest held high.
Li Yongxun gave up the plan to learn about the situation from the servants of Huang's family: since Huang Shunlong is doing a shady black business, most of his subordinates have been taught not to talk to outsiders casually-now that she has no official status, she can neither intimidate nor intimidate. You can't use torture, you can only inquire secretly.Her feet are already healed. Although she can't run, she can walk without hindrance.At that moment, he quietly climbed out of a low wall in the backyard.

She didn't know the way at all—fortunately, Haojinghao is a small place.Huang Shunlong is also a well-known person, if he gets lost, he can get a sedan chair to go back.After climbing over the wall, Li Yongxun walked around the alley, and soon learned from a talkative and boring clerk in a grocery store in the alley: There was indeed a sedan chair last night, and seven or eight people entered the Huang's house through the back door.Several of them were still carrying rattan boxes on their backs, which looked very heavy.

She also knew that these people came from the direction of Seventh Lane.Li Yongxun went towards the seventh alley, which was no different from the fifth alley she walked yesterday.When she found that she saw the same pointed roof that she had seen yesterday, she suddenly realized that the group of people should have come from the direction of the pier—the fifth lane and the seventh lane should be parallel.The Yellow House is actually not far from the pier.

Li Yongxun slowly followed the alley towards the pier. There were a little more pedestrians in this alley—from time to time, there were small traders, porters, and some wild-looking overseas people in strange clothes: red-skinned, yellow-haired, and blue-eyed Nordic people, A Latino with light brown skin and black hair, a Southeast Asian native with short stature and yellow eyes, a short Japanese with disheveled hair shaved into a semicircle, a dark-skinned Asan, who is black all over and only the whites of his eyes are authentic Black Africans... you can almost see a few here.The grotesque appearance made Li Yongxun feel very nervous-many horror stories about overseas barbarians are widely circulated in Guangdong.

Fortunately, no one paid attention to her along the way.Li Yongxun walked all the way and looked around.She heard the cries of seagulls not far away, and the wind carried the salty smell of the sea, and she knew that she was almost at the sea.

Sure enough, it suddenly became clear at the end of the alley, and the residential area had come to an end here.Here is a large area of ​​compacted mud.Several wooden trestles extend into the bay, where many ships are moored.There were many sails and masts—and many ships she had never seen before.In particular, several large Galen ships, with huge hulls, towering masts, and shining cannons in the gun windows... made Li Yongxun amazed when he saw European ships for the first time.Regardless of the large and small mud puddles on the muddy ground, she kept walking forward, trying to get a closer look.

Bundles of goods were piled on the ground, covered with reed mats.Teams of coolies carried their shoulders and shoulders, chanting chant, and a steady stream of goods packed in straw sacks and sacks were being loaded onto the ship.Some packages are torn, revealing the straw ropes that bound the porcelain inside or the coarse cloth wrapped with silk.

Li Yongxun was almost stunned - where had she seen such a large-scale overseas trade scene?He had already forgotten most of what he wanted to track down the Kun thief.I just walked all the way and looked around, wishing to have a few more pairs of eyes.

She was curious about almost everything in front of her eyes, even the damaged boat abandoned on the mud, the wreckage of the ship destroyed by the storm, and a stone anchor deeply sunk in the mud all aroused her interest.While watching and walking, I unconsciously walked to the other side of the pier, at the end of which was a silted bay with stagnant water. The surface of the water was covered with all kinds of garbage and gave off all kinds of foul smells.Li Yongxun covered his nose unconsciously, and hurried back.I found a tea stall on the pier and asked for a pot of tea to rest my feet, and asked if there was any boat coming from Lingao.

"Yes, yes." The tea stand was set up by a middle-aged woman.It is said to be a tea stand, but in fact it can only make some money for hot water - her business targets are coolies on the wharf, they can't afford tea at all, but they can buy some "herbal tea" without tea leaves for a penny or two. moisture.It seems very enthusiastic to be able to sell a pot of tea today.

"Lingao's boat comes every ten days. There are three or four boats." The middle-aged woman pointed to a boat not far away, "Isn't that their boat?"

Li Yongxun followed her finger and looked: it was just an ordinary-looking brigantine, nothing special about it.It's just that the boats looked neater and cleaner than ordinary boats, and she was a little disappointed - she had heard that the thieves had big iron boats, and she thought she would see a different boat.

On Lingao's boat, there is a man at the bow and stern, looking around from time to time.Li Yongxun knew that this was mostly "watching the wind"-it seemed that they were very careful and didn't know what they were doing.

"Is it a delivery?"

"Of course it's for delivery." The tea seller wiped the table and sat down opposite Li Yongxun.She has no guests at the moment, and she is happy to have someone to chat with, "It takes a long time for the coolies to unload the cargo. The cargo is unloaded and transported to the warehouse—I heard that they are all valuable goods. Lingao's Who doesn’t know about Australian products, I still want to buy their small mirror compact! It’s a pity that it costs two taels of silver!”

"Where is the warehouse?"

"It's at the corner of the fifth alley." The tea seller said that the warehouse was specially rented by Lingao people to store transshipment goods, and merchants and sailors who usually come and go lived in it.

Li Yongxun's heart skipped a beat.He looked towards the entrance of the alley—but saw a group of people coming out of the entrance of the fifth alley, seven or eight big men surrounded by a two-person sedan chair, walking in a hurry.

"Is this someone from Lingao?" she asked.

"Probably." The tea seller looked at it and nodded, "Do you see how many of them have hairy hair? Who else could they be?"

(End of this chapter)