1855 United States Tycoon

"Ah, George Bush...what? Is this a person's name? How come there is such a name?" The shopkeeper was taken aback, raised his head, held the reading glasses, and looked seriously outside the counter. The few people in, this look immediately shocked him-there were a group of animals standing outside the counter with colorful eyes or dark skin like black charcoal heads, which seemed to be human.

The frightened shopkeeper almost leaned back and fell to the ground. He asked suspiciously: "You, who are they?"

"Don't be afraid of the shopkeeper." Chen Bachi said, "It's just foreigners."

"Foreigners?" The shopkeeper remembered, as if he had heard those merchants in the past mentioned foreigners, who also had such red beard and green eyes. Moreover, although Jiangkou Town is a small place, the shopkeeper has never seen foreigners before, but foreign goods have also been used a lot. For example, the foreign oil lamp that is lit at night, the foreign cloth that is usually worn by the foreign fire.

The shopkeeper has also heard of how foreigners are powerful and unreasonable. It is said that the foreigners even burnt the garden of the emperor daddy. Now even if a high official meets a foreigner, there is nothing not afraid of it. The shopkeeper is naturally even more afraid.

"How many...Who want to stay in the store?" The voice of the shopkeeper was a little trembling.

"Yes." Chen Bachi said, "The shopkeeper's last name?"

"Menggui, the little surname is Wang." The shopkeeper replied.

"Boss Wang." Chen Bachi arched his cupped hands.

"Don't dare to be." The shopkeeper Wang also hurriedly returned the courtesy.

At this time, a San moved a bench and Chen Bachi sat down on the bench.

"Boss Wang, please sit down." Chen Bachi said, "I remember this store used to be named Li."

"Mr., has been to Jiangkou before?" Shopkeeper Wang asked, "The original owner of this shop was named Li, but when he got into trouble, he didn't know what happened, so he said that the owner was a gangster, and then he took it in. , Said she was going to ask to cut it. The lady of the Li family hurriedly took care of it, but when this sort of thing is managed, it really costs money and water. Boss Li’s shop is only a small business, how much money can it have? The lady of the Li family has to do this The shop sold it, and I borrowed a lot of stamp money..."

"What happened later?" Chen Bachi still remembered the lady of the Li family, a tall and thin woman with her feet wrapped and always wearing a blue-flowered homespun dress.

"Later the money was delivered, and it was naturally released. In fact, most of those people just wanted to take this opportunity to get some money. It's just that Boss Li was tortured in the prison and got sick again. It won't work after a month... …Later, Boss Li’s son didn’t make progress, so he followed others to learn to smoke opium. Alas, it didn’t take long for his mother to die..." Boss Wang said with a sigh.

"Hey..." Chen Bachi also sighed. He also recognizes Boss Li's son, and he often dealt with him when he was still in the town. At that time, he was still a very honest and obedient person. Boss Li himself is also a very cautious person. When Nan Wang was preaching here, Chen Bachi also tried to take his son to listen to it, but Boss Li found out and beat his son badly. From then on Until Chen Bachi and the others left, his son never said a word to Chen Bachi and the others.

"It's really people sitting in the house, and disaster comes from the sky." Chen Bachi said.

"Isn't it?" The shopkeeper Wang also agreed.

"It's still because those people are too bad. People who want to eat and drink at will. No wonder Hong Xiuquan is going to rebel." Li Chongguang suddenly said such a sentence.

As soon as this sentence came out, the shopkeeper Wang was so scared that he hurriedly said: "Keye, this meal can be eaten indiscriminately, but you can't talk indiscriminately. The misfortune comes out of your mouth! Look at this place." He used his fingers. To a sign. Li Chongguang looked over and saw the words "Don't talk about national affairs" written on it, so he smiled contemptuously, but stopped talking.

Li Chongguang's words scared the shopkeeper Wang enough, he didn't dare to say anything to these people anymore. So he stood up and said to Chen Bachi and the others: "Would you like to go to the back to see the house?"

...

A few people stayed in the inn, and the foreigners gathered in a group and played poker. Only Ah San was left. No one let him go to the poker table, so they could only watch from one side.

At this time, Chen Bachi brought a top hat and was going out with Li Chongguang. The Asan named Singh saw it and immediately greeted him and asked, "Mr. Chen, are you going out?"

The others also raised their heads to look at Chen Bachi. Chen Bachi is their employer. If he wants to go to the streets, then according to reason, they should follow.

"You continue to play cards. Mr. Li and I went out for a walk, it would be too conspicuous to take you." Chen Bachi said.

"Well, everyone, go on." George Bush shrugged and said, these people are not regular bodyguards, and they don't have much sense of responsibility. Hearing Chen Bachi's words, he turned around and continued playing cards. Only Singh went on playing cards. Two steps followed. But Chen Bachi frowned at him, and he stopped.

Chen Bachi and Li Chongguang walked in the familiar lanes of his hometown. I didn't bring those foreigners in order to avoid being too conspicuous. But Chen Bachi immediately realized that even without the foreign devils, he and Li Chongguang were already conspicuous enough. First of all, both of them wore fancy outfits (suits), and more importantly, neither of them had braids behind their heads.

Chen Bachi has long been holding United States nationality, and as a former "hair bandit", he has no resistance to cutting his braids or anything. Besides, Heishui's rules have always been that mercenaries need to shave their heads. So of course Chen Bachi has no braids. As for Li Chongguang, he is a Hong Kong native. Some of the Hong Kong people still have braids, but there are also some who drink more foreign ink and have their braids cut off. Li Chongguang belongs to this kind.

So Chen Bachi found that wherever he went, there were people staring at them and whispering, but when you turned around, they immediately stopped, without saying a word, but still stared with frightened and curious eyes. look. Fortunately, Chen Bachi was used to seeing big scenes, and he didn't feel much about it.

The two of them kept walking forward and came to a corner of the roadway in front, not far from the dock, and Chen Bachi stopped. That's where their house was. But now, the old house in his memory is gone, and it has been replaced with a warehouse.

"This place was originally my house." Chen Bachi said to Li Chongguang, "Later, my Big Brother and I rebelled with Nan Wang and the others. Naturally, this house was left unattended. Probably it was abandoned a long time ago, and then it was built. Got it."

"Mr. Chen was really a hero back then." Li Chongguang said, "I just hate that I was born too late and I can't do big things with the gentlemen."

"What a big deal?" Chen Bachi shook his head. After spending so many years in the United States and seeing so many things, his view of the world now is completely different from before. "Nan Wang, Tian Wang and their stuff It's just a lie, and it's not much different from the horns in the Three Kingdoms. It's just that the times are different now, and doing big things like that is no longer possible.""Yes, to do major things now, we must learn from foreigners. Japan is not a small country. Learning from foreigners and reforming and strengthening itself, not only can stand on its own in the world, but also defeat the decadent Manchu. And the people of Manqin would rather perish the country. I don’t want to change the law. This is to drag China to sink with them and serve as funerals for them. Therefore, we must do great things, to save China, to revolutionize, to overthrow the Qing Dynasty, and to establish a republic like United States." Li Chongguang lowered his voice and said, but Chen Bachi could still hear the uncontrollable excitement in his voice.

"What a young man." Chen Bachi's head somehow came up with such a sentence.

"Chongguang, after all, this is the place of Qingyao, you still have to be careful when speaking." Chen Bachi reminded in a low voice, although he was not afraid of Manqing at all, even in the presence of senior officials of Manqing, he also said, "You These clear demons are stupid." With his current status, it is no longer something that Qing Yao can handle casually.

Since the former residence is no longer there, Chen Bachi did not stay too much. He just looked at the warehouse for a few times, then sighed and went back.

Early the next morning, Chen Bachi left the foreigners again and took Li Chongguang to find his ancestral grave. However, it was discovered that his parents' cemetery was missing. After returning, Chen Bachi stopped an old man on the street. This man Chen Bachi recognized that he was from their neighbourhood in the past, whose surname was Fan, and ranked fourth, so they called him Fan Laosi. After so many years, Fan Laosi is so old that he could not recognize it, but Fan’s house has not changed. After Fan Laosi came out, they called him Fourth Grandpa, Chen Bachi. It can be judged that this person is Fan Laosi.

"This fellow, can I ask you something?" It's a big deal that the parents' graves are gone, so Chen Bachi must ask to understand.

...

"Master, Chen Guang, who was a hairy bandit, is back. I'm looking around where his daddy's grave is." A cyan birthmark on his right cheek, and a handful of long-haired dog legs on it. Reporting to Master Juren, a prominent figure in the town.

Master Juren's surname is Zhao, so he should normally be called Master Zhao, but there is only one Juren in these ten miles and eight townships, so everyone omitted the word Zhao and called him Master Juren directly.

"Oh?" Master Juren didn't respond much when lying on the cigarette couch, he just kept tasting the pleasure brought by the smoke there. And the dog leg continued to stand by and wait.

"Jia San, what did you just say?" After a long while, Master Juren, who had been addicted to cigarettes, asked slowly.

"Master, Chen Guang, who used to be a gangster in our town, is back again, with a young man. I don't know if it is his son. I heard he is asking who dug the grave of his dead ghost father. ,I worry……"

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