In the poor West End, pawnshop owners are sympathetic to their customers and are willing to meet their needs. For example, the pawnshop established near the dock accepts carpenter tools, and the pawnshop opened near the gathering place of wandering warblers allows men to redeem the pawned jewelry for one night. To make women happy.
A similar situation happened in the East District. The pawn shop clerk exposed the unspoken rules of the industry on the spot and showed goodwill and friendship to Lu Li. People couldn't help but believe that there is true love in the world... How strange!
Everything is for profit. It cannot be said that all people engaged in small businesses are philistines, but people who open pawn shops definitely try their best to squeeze the last coin out of customers' pockets.
"Sir, if you encounter financial difficulties, you must consider our store."
While selling the alchemist's small stove, the man was pleasantly surprised to find that the mysterious gentleman was not that rich. The wallet was made of ordinary material and did not contain many pounds.
So he persuaded again.
Frankly speaking, the guy in front of me doesn't know how to hide his greed. Even a child who is not familiar with the world should have noticed the other person's little thoughts now.
Therefore, Lu Li was particularly curious about what the other party wanted. Two thousand pounds was enough to buy a pure gold cane, right?
In the eyes of ordinary people, this deal is too absurd, and they may even sigh:
The world is becoming more and more outrageous. A platinum or silver-plated cane can be sold for a sky-high price, and the bidder is a pawn shop.
Sure enough, this world is not simple.
If he hadn't put the case first, Lu Li would have wanted to stop temporarily and investigate the whole story.
"Lets see."
Lu Li looked like he was hesitating to speak, and then pretended to be helpless and said: "It's getting harder and harder to do business during this time, and I like to collect weird cultural relics."
"So, this cane is your personal collection?"
"That's right, I bought it from a Polish man with a poor family. I spent a lot of money to get it."
After deliberately revealing some personal information, Lu Li turned around and left the pawn shop, still holding an oil paper bag in his hand.
He didn't know yet whether the stove inside had any special function.
Maybe it was missed?
After all, it does have a long history.
"Dear madam, our store provides door-to-door delivery service, please leave a detailed address."
Not far from the pawn shop, there is a luxury store that sells coats made of various animal skins, as well as various leather products——
Wallets made from Mississippi alligator abdominal skin are definitely high-end goods because only that area has a natural pattern called bamboo knuckles, and each adult alligator can produce up to three wallets.
A shoulder bag strap made from Nile monitor lizard skin, which can be dyed to reveal bright and beautiful colors.
In addition, there are more common diamond python skins, shark skins, and ostrich skins.
The countess took her two best friends to shop here, and then bought belts and bags worth more than five hundred pounds.
In order to retain big customers, the boss decided to let the clerk deliver goods to his door. In fact, this is an unspoken rule of Pantheon Market——
As long as the amount of consumption reaches a certain amount, the clerk or even the boss himself will put on a small top hat and an oversized suit with shiny buttons to run errands for customers.
"Garrett Mansion."
After some shopping, the Baroness calmed down a lot, and she was even thinking about whether to go to a jewelry store next.
Next to them, Mrs. Ivens and Mrs. Akers were no longer too nervous. The bustling market, respectful shop assistants, and investigators secretly protecting them gave them a sense of security.
Of course, this feeling is unreliable.
From Lu Li to Officer Wensley, the biggest concern was whether he could fish out the mastermind behind the scenes.
For this reason, it is worth sacrificing two or three more innocent citizens, not to mention that they are not innocent, and keeping them will only corrupt the social atmosphere.
"Garrett Mansion, right? I'll send someone to deliver the things there."
The boss repeated it in his mouth. After confirming that it was correct, he quickly waved his hand and signaled the clerk to send the goods away.
The reason why we need to confirm is because the boss was born in the East District, and his language habits have not been completely changed, so it is difficult to understand the West District dialect.
In East London, people like to switch the "W" and "V" places, use the past tense freely, and like to leave out the "G" sound.
In West London, gentlemen and ladies enjoy a stammering accent, or, rather, the creation of syllables.
Lu Li had some feelings about this.
At the dinner a few hours ago, he confirmed one thing. The accent is used to divide classes and has little to do with the city or living habits.
Ladies of noble birth speak like this:
Like music - peace - blue - sky.
Teacher - An - Shan - Liang.
Sophisticated gentlemen:
In the afternoon, I went out to the West and England to go to Wodun Lewu Road to listen to opera or go to the horse racing.
Not only that, but Spanish and French were also mixed in. If Lu Li didn't have the aura of language talent that the actor has, it would be really difficult for him to understand what these people are saying.
Enclosure to be cute?
This word may not be appropriate, but it does reflect the behavior of upper-class people.
Everyone is talking in a way that can be used across the country. There may be some pronunciation problems, but it can be guaranteed that anyone can understand it.
Only the nobles added a lot of tricks on this basis, just to distinguish who is their own and who is a country bumpkin.
In order to smoothly integrate into the upper class circle, the baroness from the countryside hired an accent teacher, and she would also ask her best friends for advice.
"Where to go next?"
As she said that, Mrs. Ivens turned around subconsciously. She saw Lu Li mixed in the crowd watching the sideshow, and then she saw the man in front of her who was deceiving her feelings.
Facts have proved that the three of them are always under protection and surveillance.
"Let's take a stroll. Didn't Mr. Lu say that he would leave here in the middle of the night and go to a nearby alley with few people?"
There was undisguised dissatisfaction in her tone, but the Countess had no choice but to pity herself for being targeted by a crazy criminal organization.
A beautiful woman has a bad life.
Although Vanessa didn't know this Eastern word, she had a similar state of mind.
However, Lu Li would not pay attention to what a chess piece was thinking, especially since the opponent's character and behavior did not deserve sympathy.
Time passes slowly.
The group of people walked out of the Pantheon unknowingly and arrived at Regent Street.
Augustus of Rome is famous for his construction,
He inherited a Rome of bricks,
What remains is the great historical Rome,
But isn’t our Nash also a master?
He found all the bricks and left us the plaster too!
This is a nursery rhyme. Officer Wensley often listened to his friends singing it when he was a child. Over time, he also learned this song.
At that time, Master Nash was responsible for the street improvement work. He demolished and built many gardens, squares, and several crescent-shaped buildings——
To please His Excellency the Regent.
It was expected that the royal family would live here, a large country house surrounded by a simple, reliable middle class.
Specifically, it ended with Carlton House, and St. Margaret's Church and Westminster Abbey were built at the rear to highlight the power between the royal family, Christianity and the government.
However, due to various reasons, the street was not built according to the preset settings. Instead, it became simple. A series of stairs extended from the street to the tree-lined path and St. James Garden. The main structure was white stucco.
It certainly caused an uproar at the time, taking Prince Regent Street to a new level of ugliness in the eyes of the public.
Nearly forty years have passed, and with the changes in aesthetic concepts, the street left behind by the master, which is less than one-fifth of the expected completion, has been called "one of the greatest roads in the world" by the public and described by foreign visitors as " It has a majestic and majestic temperament.”
It can only be said that the master is too avant-garde and his design concept is beyond the world for nearly an era.
As Lu Li walked on Regent Street, he couldn't help but admire the greening in West London. There was a garden or market almost every few hundred steps.
However, who would have thought that heaven and hell are only separated by the Thames River and a financial city.
It's brightly lit, there are street lamps everywhere, the ground is paved with gravel, and a Moorish-style band is playing at the end of the garden.
Gentlemen and ladies sat on the grass, drinking ginger beer and tea, and eating snails and shrimps, surrounded by well-trained servants and next to stalls selling snack boxes.
Nobles can enjoy a peaceful life without having to work, while workers still stick to their posts at this time in exchange for a meager salary.
Every day, people would jump into the Thames without hesitation. Seeing this scene, Lu Li thought of Ai Songen, the girl who provided him with clues in the tavern, hoping to jump out of the quagmire.
After the timeline and causality changed, her life changed. The girl who was supposed to be rescued by Mr. Holmes and get a serious job is still staying in the pub and being randomly selected by drunken guests.
As for the final outcome...
In a deformed era where openness and conservatism coexist, the suicide rate of Orioles remains high, just as described in Dickens——
Little Dolly and her companion Maggie were walking across London Bridge at night when they met a prostitute walking east, towards Granby Street and Waterloo Road.
Maggie asked her, "What are you going to do?"
The prostitute said bluntly: "Suicide."
This is a metaphor for the ultimate destination of her profession.
Thinking of this, Lu Li couldn't help but feel guilty. He was so busy that he almost forgot that there was a kind-hearted but inconspicuous girl who was in urgent need of rescue.
"Dude."
After scanning the crowd for a few times, Lu Li quickly walked up to Wensley and said in a deep voice, "Go to the nearby police station and make a call to help me with a personal matter."
Seeing Lu Li's serious look, Wensley also became serious, "You say it."
"Go to the Whitechapel district...the street...the pub...find a girl...give her a sum of money, ten pounds is enough, and send two police officers to escort...don't reveal anything, just say these are what she should Something to gain.”
"this."
Wensley was a little confused, but out of friendship, he promised, "I understand. The tracking work will be left to you four. I will go to the nearby headquarters to make arrangements for you."
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of neat footsteps could be heard on Regent Street.
"Royal Guards?"
Looking at the conspicuous uniform, Wensley stopped. Not far away, the gentleman and lady who were enjoying the nightlife stopped in unison.
All activities on the street came to a halt, as if the pause button had been pressed.
"Oh, the big shot is traveling."
Bai Yu whistled and after confirming that the three target persons were not lost, he immediately turned his attention to the guards. To be precise, it was the carriage surrounded by the guards.
"Which royal will it be?"
Zhao Feng pinched his chin, and a name flashed in his mind that lacked relevant knowledge:
Prince of Wales.
It’s not like I’ve done my homework in advance. If I had, I wouldn’t have just one name popping up in my mind.
The fact is that after passing the first entrance exam, he took a brief look at the information and knew that after the death of Queen Victoria, her son, the Prince of Wales, would succeed as the United King of Great Britain and Ireland and the Emperor of India.
Unfortunately, Zhao Feng is still not bold enough.
In the carriage sat the elderly Queen Victoria. She traveled late at night, hoping not to cause too much of a sensation, but the number of guards and various ritual utensils made the knowledgeable men go crazy.
Officer Wensley is no exception.
He arranged his clothes, took off the high hat on his head, and saluted the monarch's chariot.
The ladies also reacted and expressed respect to this great monarch.
Decades ago, when the young Queen Victoria just ascended the throne, she set off from Kensington Palace to St. James's Park. The whole process did not stir up any excitement and the public was not interested in her.
At Royal Ascot, the gentlemen refused to salute her, and until a courtier pressed her, the Queen managed to receive a perfunctory welcome.
Later, on the Queen's big day, the citizens stood in the rain watching the ceremony, still unwilling to cheer. Among the people, her husband was jokingly called a bratwurst, a term that contained contempt.
But as time went by, the situation began to change. When the first royal family was born, guns were fired in the park to celebrate. When the third child was born, "God Save the Queen" was played in the theater, and a few rude people refused to take off their hats. As a result, he was besieged by a large number of patriots.
There are many reasons for this.
First of all, during the Queen's reign, the British Empire reached its peak and stood at the top of the world. All citizens, rich or poor, felt proud.
Secondly, the Queen has survived seven assassination attempts, and the public has developed a strong admiration and sympathy for her, which then turned into affection.
Now, as Queen Victoria enters her old age, the original group of unruly young men have become old-school figures, with a large amount of social resources in their hands. At this moment, they have developed respect for this monarch who has been in office for a very long time. .
Under the influence, the aristocratic young people and the middle class all respected the queen.
Black to deep natural pink.
Once the powder reaches a deep level, it will turn black again.
Public favorability comes so quickly, peaks, and then falls at the same rate.
Because the queen is slacking off.
The death of her husband caused Victoria to live an isolated life. She grieved privately for a year or even two years, which is worthy of the world's respect. However, she was too extreme. She stubbornly lived in Windsor Castle and her own private palace, refusing to live in the city. district, or perform duties.
"Tonight, the Queen appears in the city, which is really a good thing." A happy smile appeared on Wensley's face. "It seems that the big shots' advice has had an effect. She is willing to start over and perform her official duties bit by bit..."
Before he finished speaking, a discordant voice suddenly came from further away, especially clear——
Poke hot sand in her eyes,
Put firecrackers in her nose,
Roast her until she turns to scorched earth,
Victoria went to see the old King of Hell.
