Foreign soap is used by foreigners, and Chinese people don't know if they can use it Han Xiufeng, but they only know that Zhang Guangsheng can't harm him, so he took a bath last night and wiped it with foreign soap a few times, but he didn't expect that not only was it really foaming, but also his body was really refreshing after washing it with foreign soap.

In the morning, I looked at the skin that had been rubbed with foreign soap, there was no rash and no ringworm, Han Xiufeng felt that the things of foreigners were not all harmful like opium, so he simply tried to brush his teeth and rinse his mouth with foreigners' tooth powder, and after rinsing it, he found that his mouth was not only refreshing, but also sweet, unlike using salt to make his mouth salty to death.

Foreign soap, tooth powder, these things, Su Jueming, Datou, Ren Yu'er, and Yu Sangu all have a share, but they don't dare to use them easily, and even their eyes are weird, and Ren Yu'er wants to stop talking.

"It's okay, it's really okay!" Han Xiufeng knew what they were worried about, rolled up his sleeves to expose his arms, then opened his mouth to reveal his white and neat teeth, and said with a smile: "Look, nothing, nothing." Foreigners are the same as people, why can't we use foreigners if they can use them? If you don't dare to use it, keep it all for me, and I'll use it slowly. ”

"Fourth brother, are you itching here?" The big head couldn't help but touch his arm.

"I said it's fine, it's not itchy or painful, why don't you believe it!" Han Xiufeng pushed away his big bear-like hand, and said with a smile: "Eat, finish eating and get down to business!" ”

Yu Sangu thought that she had used the foreigner's things, and being okay today did not mean that she would be fine in the future, but she didn't dare to say it, but when she thought that Master Han would cross the river to the foreigner's concession later, she asked worriedly: "Master Han, do you really want to find a foreigner later?" ”

"Where can I buy foreign guns if I don't look for foreigners?"

"What if the foreigners don't let me go?"

"What are foreigners doing with me, I'm not a big girl, and besides, I'm just talking to foreigners today, and I won't bring much money with me."

Yu Sangu looked back at Zhang Guangsheng and Su Jueming, and said worriedly: "I heard that foreigners like to harvest and cut people, and kill people like killing pigs, and take out the internal organs to refine medicine. Maybe this foreign soap was made from a big living person! ”

"Really!" The big head was startled.

"Falsehood is not true." Han Xiufeng put down the dishes and chopsticks, picked up a towel to wipe his mouth, got up and said with a smile: "Although the other side of the strait is a foreigner's concession, it is still my place in the Qing Dynasty, and it is just rented to them." taxes, collected by the imperial court; If someone commits a crime, the court will arrest him; Besides, I passed in broad daylight, so I don't believe that they dare to do anything wrong in broad daylight. ”

Zhang Guangsheng couldn't help but smile: "Yes, Sangu, there's nothing to worry about, I've been to the concession, foreigners are sometimes unreasonable, but sometimes they are quite reasonable." ”

"That'...... Then be careful. ”

Ren Yu'er knew that Master Han was going to do big things, although she was worried, she didn't dare to say it like Yu Sangu, thinking that today was the fourth day of the eighth month, she couldn't help asking: "Fourth brother, count the days my dad should be in office, why didn't you say he came to pick us up." ”

Han Xiufeng secretly thought that it was time for your father to take office, but Jiading was not peaceful, the former county lord was beaten away by a group of villagers who resisted grain and traitors who took advantage of the fire to rob, the county government was smashed, and the county school and the teaching were estimated to be scared away, and your father is not a melon baby, and he should not rush into the city when he finds that Jiading is not peaceful.

I didn't know how to explain it to her, but Xiao Wuzi of "Rishengchang" arrived, and brought a man in his early thirties wearing a blue silk gown. There is a jade pendant hanging on his waist, holding a folding fan, which looks very bright, but it feels very frivolous, and he looks around as soon as he enters the door, and his eyes flicker like a thief.

"Fourth master, this is Mr. Lin Qingyuan, whom Shopkeeper Wu mentioned to you yesterday afternoon. Mr. Lin's ancestral home is Quanzhou, Fujian, his ancestors have been up and down Nanyang, Mr. Lin has also been to Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macau, and is familiar with the words of Yingyi, Fayi, Meiyi, Portuguese and Xiyi. Xiao Wuzi bowed and made a wave, and then turned around and said, "Mr. Lin, this is the fourth master Han that our shopkeeper Wu told you." ”

"It turned out to be Mr. Lin, disrespectful and disrespectful." Han Xiufeng got up and smiled.

Lin Qingyuan has passed by the door more than once in this house, and he knows very well that foreigners have long wanted to buy this house, and he thought that the person who could rent it here is unlikely to be a high-ranking official but must be a rich boss, but he didn't expect it to be a young man in his twenties, wearing a crumpled homespun robe, stepping on a pair of old cloth shoes, how do he look like a poor showman, anyway, he doesn't look like a rich man.

How could there be such a poor customer in the big business done by "Rishengchang", Lin Qingyuan was very strange and disappointed, and gave his hand perfunctorily: "Qingyuan has seen Han Siye, I don't know what foreign goods Han Siye wants to buy." ”

Han Xiufeng was not unhappy because he was looked down upon, but smiled meaningfully: "Mr. Lin, Han asked the shopkeeper Wu to ask for an interpreter, not a comprador." ”

"Fourth Master Han, are you planning to go directly to a foreign store to find a foreigner to buy?"

"Exactly."

"Fourth Master Han, the dealings with foreigners are not so easy to fight, not to be alarmist, if you just go, not to mention that you may not be able to buy the goods you want to buy, even if you can buy them, it will not be cheap. In the following opinion, you can tell you what foreign goods you want to buy. Whether it's foreign cloth or opium smoke, there is nothing that you can't buy, if you don't believe it, you can go to the city and inquire. Lin Qingyun sat down with a big grin, and shook the folding fan as if no one was around.

Sure enough, it was mercenary, Han Xiufeng was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, and said lightly: "Guangsheng, send off!" ”

"Fourth Master Han, this business is negotiated, you don't talk about it...... "The city is not close to here, and he got up early in the morning to do this business, Lin Qingyuan didn't want to run in vain, so he turned around and asked: "Little brother, didn't you shopkeeper Wu tell me that, did you tell Han Fourth Master yesterday?" ”

Xiao Wuzi thought to himself that our shopkeeper Wu told you very clearly, but not only kicked his nose and face in front of Master Han, but also wanted to eat Master Han's business in one bite, and immediately arched his hand and said: "Mr. Lin, Fourth Master Han said that he would send off the guests, let you run for nothing, I'm sorry." ”

"You...... What are you doing, how can you do this business! ”

"Our fourth master just wants to ask for an interpreter who speaks when he should speak, it's too aggrieved to let a big boss like Mr. Lin do the interpreter, Mr. Lin, please go back." Zhang Guangsheng said with a gloomy face.

Lin Qingyuan looked at Han Xiufeng, who was serving a teacup, turned around and peeked at the fierce and vicious big head, hurriedly put down the folding fan and arched his hand: "Fourth Master Han, it's not impossible to only do a translation in the future, but the translation is the price of the translation." ”

"How much does an interpreter cost?" Han Xiufeng asked lightly.

"Ten silver dollars a day, Fourth Master Han, it's not a lion opening his mouth in Xia, don't look at a lot of compradors in the city, but in terms of being proficient in foreign languages, you can't find a few like this."

"Do you really understand the words of the Citi, the English, the French and the Portuguese?"

To do business with sincerity, Lin Qingyuan felt that he should show some sincerity, and said sincerely: "Han Siye doesn't know, Citigroup was originally under the rule of England, so Citi and English people talk about the same. Portugal and Spain are next to each other, and the accents of the two places are similar, so they only know English and French, while Portuguese is only slightly understood. ”

"If you can understand the words of Yingyi, Meiyi and Fayi, then you say their words, can they understand them?"

"It's natural, if they can't understand what they're saying, then what's it called."

"Do you recognize the words Yingyi, Meiyi and Fayi?"

"Recognize, if you don't recognize, how to make a contract."

Seeing that Xiao Wuzi nodded slightly, Han Xiufeng got up and said, "In this case, two silver dollars a day, if Mr. Lin is willing, he will go to the concession with Han." ”

"It's only two pieces a day, Fourth Master Han, this is too little!"

"Mr. Lin, Han respects you for knowing several languages and being a capable person, so he offered this price. If you're too little, go back. ”

Zhang Guangsheng wasted no time in saying: "Mr. Lin, you also said just now, there are compradors in Shanghai, and there are not ten but eight of them that I recognize." The price given by Fourth Master Han is very fair, if you are too little, then we can only ask Gao Ming. ”

As Zhang Guangsheng said, there are too many compradors in the city, and this business is becoming more and more difficult to do, how can Lin Qingyuan not make money without making money, and hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, two pieces are two pieces, but you have to settle it first!" ”

Han Xiufeng smiled: "That's easy to say, Guangsheng, I don't have a silver dollar here, do you have it?" ”

Without waiting for Zhang Guangsheng to speak, Xiao Wuzi took out two silver dollars: "Fourth master, I have it here!" ”

"Okay, help me put it on first."

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After negotiating the price, Han Xiufeng, Zhang Guangsheng and Xiao Wuzi followed Lin Qingyuan, walked south along the river for about half a mile, stuffed dozens of dollars for the errand guards at the head of the Xiaoshi Bridge, and crossed the bridge into the British Concession.

The imperial court was worried about the foreigners' lives, so they confined the foreigners in the concession, and the Chinese and foreign people lived separately, and ordinary people were not allowed to enter at will, and there were only five or six hundred households in the concession except for the foreigners, who originally lived here. Because of this, compared to other places, the concession seems to be a bit deserted. There were not a few figures on the road built by foreigners, and they didn't see a few foreigners walking horses until they reached the door of the horse racing hall.

It's already hot, and it's even hotter after a few laps.

The foreigner who had just dismounted unbuttoned his clothes, revealing his hairy chest, and the tall horse he was holding in his hand was also covered with sweat.

Lin Qingyuan seemed to recognize the foreigner, nodded from a distance, and greeted the foreigner with a grunt, and the foreigner laughed, looking at Han Xiufeng and other Chinese curiously while laughing.

Han Xiufeng was secretly frightened that the foreigner had so much hair on his body, and the foreigner's horse was so tall and secretly frightened, Zhang Guangsheng couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Lin, who is this foreigner, what do you tell him?" ”

"That is Mr. John of England, who has a foreign company on the Bund, which deals in tobacco, cloth, tea, and raw silk. Han Siye, if you want to buy tobacco and foreign cloth, you can find him, and if you have tea and raw silk, you can also sell it to him. ”

"Really?" Han Xiufeng relieved himself, and subconsciously bowed his hand to the foreigner who was wiping the sweat on the horse's back with a towel, and asked lightly as he moved forward: "What if I want to buy a foreign gun?" ”

Lin Qingyuan was stunned, and after a long pause, he asked suspiciously: "Fourth Master Han, what are you buying foreign guns for?" ”

"You don't care what the fourth master does when he buys a gun, you just need to tell the fourth master if he can buy it!" Zhang Guangsheng reminded.

"It's not that you can't buy this foreign gun, but there aren't many people who buy it." Lin Qingyuan explained as he walked: "The officials and masters all know that foreigners are strong and artillery, and they all know that foreign guns and foreign cannons are sharp, but the government will not buy them from foreigners!" The business of foreign guns and foreign guns is not good, if it were not for the bandits, some big families wanted to buy a few rods to watch the home and nursing home, and almost no one cared about it. Now there are big buyers, but only foreigners can do this business, because others can't ship the goods even if they have them. ”

"Big buyer?" Han Xiufeng asked knowingly.

"Long hair, long hair likes to use foreign guns and foreign cannons," Speaking of this, Lin Qingyuan chuckled in his heart, secretly thinking that the person next to him would not be from Jiangning.

Han Xiufeng looked at him with a smile and said, "Long hair likes to use foreign guns, and this is the first time I've heard of it." ”

Lin Qingyuan was furious when he saw it, and hurriedly changed the topic: "Fourth Master Han, if you want to make a lot of money or do tobacco trading, as long as you have the capital, you can buy as much as you want, and you can sell it no matter how much you buy." There are so many foreign goods in the concession, and the tobacco is the best to sell. ”

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