After Lin Ming got up in the morning, he took a comfortable flower petal bath under the care of two maids, and felt refreshed. [Read the full text] After changing clothes, I slowly came to the main room - a moderate amount of pleasant sex is good for the body and mind. Lin Ming was feeling happy both physically and mentally at this moment. When he saw that a full set of fine porcelain breakfast dishes had been placed on the mahogany round table, he felt even happier.
However, Li Yongxun seemed to be full of worries and didn't even finish a bowl of good fish porridge. Because of last night's "battle", Lin Ming's sexual desire was fully satisfied. Today, his "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 couldn't fall asleep after returning to the room last night: thinking about how to deal with Kun Thief. She deliberately woke her brother-in-law up overnight to arrest him, but she was also afraid that he would blame him - she now knew a thing or two about men's bad tempers: "One moment of the night is worth a thousand pieces of gold." The consequences of interrupting her brother-in-law's night were very serious.
"Brother-in-law." Li Yongxun said hesitantly, "This Mr. Huang must have some dealings with the Kun thief 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 bowl of porridge and scolded in a low voice: "Take it and send it to Guangzhou - will the navy recruit the bandits come to Guangzhou again? A woman's opinion."
The Kun Thief Navy invaded Guangzhou, although they eventually retreated. But everyone at the top and bottom knew that this was the result of Governor Li's "payment", and it was not that the Kun thieves were defeated or were afraid of the court, so they 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 these words were too serious. At that moment, he said patiently: "What's the use of catching the Kun thief? We need to catch him. In a few days, Guo Dongzhu, the leader of the Kun thief, will return to Guangzhou in a grand manner - Governor Li will probably send a congratulatory gift - who dares to catch the Kun thief now?" "
"But -" Li Yongxun's love for the court was intertwined with his desire for personal revenge, 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, you will still have to let him go if you send him to Guangzhou."
"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 Baihu Station and interrogate it yourself - I don't believe that the thieves are all iron-toothed and have copper teeth, so they can avoid recognizing their rebellion..."
Lin Ming drank the porridge slowly and allowed her to talk nonsense. After she finished speaking, she 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 indignant that he even stopped eating breakfast in anger. After dinner, even her brother-in-law refused 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. Huang Shunlong happened to invite him to talk about something, so he made a few random remarks and left.
As soon as Lin Ming left, Li Yongxun felt that not only was his enthusiasm 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 arrest me, I will arrest me. Li Yongxun is a true confidant of the imperial court." Li Yongxun became fierce. At that moment, he changed into men's clothes again and hung up his small embroidered spring knife with him. Shun Lai's Jin Yiwei waist badge had already been returned to Chai Lai's family, but in Foshan, Lin Ming couldn't resist her request, and he felt it was safer to have a waist badge with him. So he gave her the badge of a school lieutenant who had been vacant for a long time in Baihu Institute. Li Yongxun hung his badge 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 chest held high, and suddenly felt that the commanders of the imperial guards of all dynasties were possessed.
Li Yongxun gave up the plan to learn about the situation from the Huang family's maids and slaves: since Huang Shunlong was engaged in a shady and shady 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. You can't use torture, you can only secretly inquire. Her feet have healed, and although she can't run, it's not a problem for her to walk. Now he quietly climbed out of a low fence in the backyard.
She didn't know the road at all - fortunately, Hao Jinghao was a small place. Huang Shunlong is also a famous person. If he gets lost, he can just call a sedan and he can go back. After climbing over the wall, Li Yongxun walked around the alley, and soon learned from a boring and talkative 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 rattan boxes on their backs, which looked heavy.
She also knew that these people came from the direction of Lane 7. Li Yongxun went to the seventh lane. The seventh lane was no different from the fifth lane she walked through yesterday. When she found that she also saw a pointed roof that she had seen yesterday, she suddenly realized that this group of people should have come from the direction of the dock - Lane 5 and Lane 7 should be parallel. And Huangzhai is actually 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 vendors, porters and some barbaric-looking overseas people in strange clothes: Nordic people with red skin, yellow and blue eyes. , a Latino with light brown skin and black hair, a short Southeast Asian native with yellow eyes, a short Japanese with a disheveled head 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 were widely circulated in Guangdong.
Fortunately, no one paid any attention to her along the way. Li Yongxun walked and observed his surroundings. She heard the cry of seagulls not far away, and the wind carried the salty smell of the seaside, and knew that she was almost to the seaside.
Sure enough, the end of the alley suddenly opened up, and the residential area had ended here. This is a large area of compacted mud. Several wooden trestles extend into the bay, where many ships are moored. There were trees of sails—and many ships she had never seen before. In particular, several large galenic ships, with their huge hulls, towering masts, and shining cannons in the gun windows... Li Yongxun was amazed when he saw European ships for the first time. She ignored the large and small quagmire puddles on the muddy ground and kept walking forward, wanting to get closer and see more clearly.
There were bundles of goods piled on the ground, covered with reed mats. Teams of coolies carried the goods on their shoulders and shouted slogans, and an endless stream of goods packed in straw bags and sacks were being loaded onto the ship. Some packages have been damaged, revealing the straw ropes binding the porcelain or the coarse cloth wrapped in silk.
Li Yongxun was almost stunned - where had she seen such a large-scale overseas trade scene? He had already forgotten most of his plan to track down the Kun thief. I just kept looking around as I walked, wishing I 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. As I watched and walked, I unknowingly reached the other side of the pier. At the end was a shallow backwater bay, with all kinds of garbage floating on the water and all kinds of stench. Li Yongxun unconsciously covered his nose and walked back quickly. We found a tea stall on the pier and asked for a pot of tea to rest, and asked if there were any ships coming from Lingao.
"The owner of 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 cannot afford tea at all, but they only pay one or two yuan for crab shells. Buy some "herbal tea" without tea leaves to rehydrate. I was able to sell a pot of tea today, which seemed very enthusiastic.
"Lingao's ship comes 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-looking two-masted ship, nothing special about it. It's just that the boats looked neater and neater than ordinary boats, and she was a little disappointed - she had long heard that Kun Thief had a big iron boat, and she originally thought she would see something different.
On the high-level 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 guests at the moment, so she was happy to have someone to talk to. "It took the coolies most of the day to unload the shiploads of goods. Once the goods were unloaded, they were transported to the warehouse - I heard they were all valuable goods. Lingao's Who doesn’t know about Australian products? I also want to buy their small mirror compact, but it’s a pity that it only costs two taels of silver.”
"Where is the warehouse?"
"It's at the entrance of the fifth lane." The tea seller said that the warehouse was a house rented by Lingao people specifically to store transshipment goods, and the merchants and sailors who usually came and went also lived in it.
Li Yongxun's heart skipped a beat. Looking towards the entrance of the alley - I saw a group of people coming out of the entrance of the fifth alley. Seven or eight big men were walking in a hurry, surrounded by a two-person sedan.
"Is this someone from Lingao?" she asked.
"That's about it." The tea lady looked at them and nodded, "Look at how many of them are from Kun. Who else could they be if they weren't from Kun?" ..
