Li Mo is cleaning up the room. [Full text reading] This is an empty shophouse in Zichengji. Since Guo Yi returned to Guangzhou, he not only renovated the original property, but also opened a shop in the vacant wasteland formerly occupied by Huifu Street. A row of second-story shops was built to expand the business area.
One of the shops was used for this inspection. Sun Chang, the general affairs manager of Guangzhou Station, sent craftsmen to simply decorate it. The front is the registration and waiting area, the second floor is a diagnosis and treatment room, and the back is a simple operating room, which is paved with ceramic tiles. Of course, the conditions cannot be compared with hospitals in Lingao and other places, but it is considered the first in Guangzhou.
Li Mo packed up the medicines, equipment and various supplies transferred from Hong Kong and put them on the shelves one by one for ready access. She couldn't study medicine, but she was pretty good at doing these general affairs. In particular, Deng Bojun mainly "caught the boss" on weekdays. When it came to the details, she was responsible for implementing many of them - these things were learned from her parents who were housekeepers in their house in Macau in her early years. She was born with it. You can draw inferences from one instance. Over time, she became the "Sister Li" that everyone respected at Bairen General Hospital.
Li Mo is very satisfied with her current situation: her life is simple but fulfilling. Her daughter has entered an Australian master's school - it was originally available for boarding, but she still insists on letting her children go to and from school by themselves every day: anyway, from Fangcaodi to the Ministry of Health's residence The district is not far either. It's also safe on the road.
Li Mo used his salary plus a loan to buy a small house - called an "apartment" in Newspeak - in a residential area for naturalized residents. Because of her seniority, her income is much better than that of the newly assigned nurses.
Lingao is a place where there are more men than women. Li Mo is only thirty years old, and his appearance is not bad either. Besides, there is also a good income. Even though she was a widow with children, there were still many people proposing marriage to her. Some people had quite good conditions, but Li Mo refused them all and continued to live her single life. Therefore, there were rumors among the naturalized residents of the Ministry of Health that she hoped to marry the "eldest" and become a concubine. Some people also laughed at her wishful thinking - a widow with a child still wanted to climb a tall branch.
Li Mo laughed it off. After experiencing many things, she was no longer the young girl who could be tricked into elopement with a few sweet words. Nor will he change his mind just because of a few empty words from people around him.
Li Mo is now fully focused on his daughter. Li Quan entered Fangcaodi National School, and his academic performance was not bad - he was about to graduate from junior high school. The teacher at school suggested that she go to high school. Li Mo was still a little hesitant. Going to high school is another expense: Li Quan was not an orphan, nor was he a survivor of a martyr. According to the regulations: children of naturalized workers are exempted from paying tuition fees for primary school, but they have to pay miscellaneous fees and food expenses. My daughter is not the kind of child with outstanding academic performance: she can get a scholarship to make up for it.
Although the monthly miscellaneous expenses and food expenses are not much, they are still a bit burdensome for her as a single mother with a housing loan of 25 years and a daughter to support.
But before coming to Guangzhou this time, Chu Qing came to chat with her. After hearing about this, she asked her to relax: she would tell Mr. Wu and let him help.
This girl is still a kind-hearted child after all. Li Mo thought of the girl who called her "sister". Back then, she was bullied and had difficulty surviving in Goujiazhuang. Chu Qing is a girl from the inner courtyard, she is not very favored, and she is not even close to her.
From time to time, he secretly brought leftovers from the inner courtyard to her, so that they could survive until the day when Zhang Xingjiao brought them to Wu Chang.
After reuniting at the farm, the two have been living together and started the farm. From the elders to the farm workers who have just been recruited and taken in, everyone has to work. She also has a child, so when she is too busy, she relies on Chuqing for help. Even after she and Mr. Wu officially got married. He still treats mother and son with the same warmth as in the past. This makes Li Mo, who has seen a lot of the treacherous world, often sigh with emotion.
It was so glorious when I was entrusted by the head of the family to be Master Gou of Goujiazhuang. As soon as you go there is a separate small courtyard. Complete set of new furniture. The Gou family's wives and concubines all came to greet them, and they came every day to play cards and talk to relieve their boredom. The weather in Lingao was hot and Li Quan had a bad appetite, so the Gou family's small kitchen used various methods to prepare various light dishes. At that time, she really felt that her man was the best sea man in the world.
Unexpectedly, less than half a year later, the leader died at sea, and his brothers were scattered. The Gou brothers devoured the goods stored by the leader, and turned against each other and stopped recognizing each other. In less than a month, she fell from heaven to hell. First, she was occupied by the head of the Gou family's servants. After enough abuse, she was kicked out of Zhuangzi - and threatened not to allow other men to touch her. She and her daughter almost starved to death. If it weren’t for Chuqing’s generous helping hand, how would we be able to live like this now?
The days of "being like a human being" can return to Guangzhou.
Guangzhou is the place she dreams about - her parents are local aborigines, although she moved to Macau with her parents before she could remember it, and became a slave of Li Siya's family. However, when she was a child, she often came to Guangzhou sometimes with her parents who were working for the master, and sometimes with the young lady who was still learning to speak. Li Siya's mother was born in Guangzhou.
Li Mo sometimes misses her sister. However, even when she was in the most difficult situation and almost starved to death, she never thought of trying to return to Macau - she didn't want to be embarrassed and she didn't want to face the aftermath of her elopement. The tragic past of his parents passing away due to this.
But Guangzhou was a place that left her with only good memories. Now that she had some free time, she couldn't help but feel eager to try it. She hoped to walk around the streets she had walked since she was a child and buy some food she was familiar with.
But when they came to Guangzhou, they thought of the disciplines announced to them by the former General Administration of Political Security: The first rule is not that singles are not allowed to go out on the streets alone, especially young women. There were astonishingly many scams and abductions in ancient cities, and the abduction of women and children was a major problem. A huge industry. In the past, widowed women would be plotted against if there was no man in the family. They were often either abducted by hired wanderers or simply kidnapped while walking on the street.
Besides, although Australians have a prominent reputation in Guangzhou, there is no guarantee that someone is secretly spying on them. Therefore, the Political Security Bureau stipulates that if you want to go out on the streets to do business, you must first register, and secondly, you must be accompanied by guards from the bodyguard bureau.
Such troublesome procedures made Li Mo give up the idea of going out on the streets - there are still many days in Guangzhou anyway, so there will always be opportunities.
Shi Niaoren rested in Hong Kong for two days. The Hong Kong shipyard concentrated manpower and material resources to renovate the Octopus. Shi Caicai sailed to Guangzhou on the Octopus in great glory.
The waterway from Hong Kong to Guangzhou was completely under the control of the Hong Kong detachment of the Navy, so the Octopus had no escort ships. Although since the establishment of the trading station in Hong Kong, 621 tugboats and large boats have frequently traveled on the river between Whampoa and Hong Kong Island. To the indigenous people on the river and along the coast, steamships are no longer a rare diorama. However, this decorative ship The gorgeous ship was smoking and surging in the water, and it still attracted many eyes as it sailed upstream.
The cruise ship anchored at the "Guangzhou World" pier outside the Dadongmen of Guangzhou. This was originally a deserted river beach, but now both sides are busy construction sites: there are many scaffoldings, and workers are busy up and down like ants. Steam engines puffed out smoke, driving cranes, mixers, pile drivers and various other construction machinery. The most spectacular thing is a steam-powered tower crane with an all-iron structure and a height of 25 meters - much higher than the Guangzhou City Wall.
The Great World Wharf and the road leading to the Great East Gate were the first to be completed as the basic works of the project. Equipment and materials that must be transported from Lingao are unloaded directly here. The Octopus will also be used as a berth here.
Zhang Yikun, the project general manager of Great World, has already greeted them at the pier. A large banner "Welcome the Imperial Physician" has been displayed on the pier, and the welcoming crowd at Guangzhou Station is full. This is naturally Guo Yi's arrangement. The purpose is to build momentum for Dr. Shi and his party. At first, some people thought that "imperial physician" was a bit over the top, but in this time and space, it was regarded as an honorific title for doctors, and it was nothing.
According to the previous private propaganda conducted by the Guangzhou Station, Shi Xiaoren was originally an imperial physician and an official resident of the imperial hospital. Yu Eshui reminded that the head of the Imperial Medicine Hospital in the Song Dynasty was the eunuch, so Dr. Shi could only Become a court envoy. Because the Lord of the Song Dynasty was kind-hearted and could not bear the lack of medical treatment and medicine for the common people outside the country, he asked the imperial doctor of the time to come to the Ming Dynasty to help the world in Xuanhu.
Shi Niaoren exchanged a few words with him and got on the prepared Dongfeng carriage. The Great World is still under construction, and the ground is full of smoke and dust, making it inconvenient to stay for a long time. The patrol team was escorted by Qiwei and others to Guangzhou City.
The street leading to Dadongmen is wide and flat, and the sidewalks are all paved with stones - the standard and elevation are comparable. Street trees have been planted on both sides of the road, and bases for future installation of street lights and trenches for laying gas pipes have been reserved. According to the vision of a group of veterans of Guangzhou Station, this road in the future will be the Champs Elysées in Guangzhou. Although there is still wasteland on both sides of the street, a lot of the land has been occupied by Guangzhou Railway Station-preparing to continue to open after the Guangzhou World project becomes popular.
The group soon entered the city. Lu Yizhong rushed to Dadongmen early to take care of him - in fact, he didn't take care of it, and no one outside Guangzhou City dared to intercept the convoy of cars and sedans escorted by the unruly bodyguards. Lu Yizhong didn't come in order to express himself to the "chiefs" A "diligence and prudent" attitude.
But when he came to greet him like this, Shi Niaoren had to stop the car to say hello and say a few perfunctory words.
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