After Lin Ming got up in the morning, he took a comfortable petal bath under the service of the two maids, and was refreshed. After changing clothes, I walked slowly to the hall - a moderate amount of pleasant sex is good for the body and mind. Lin Ming was physically and mentally happy at this time, and when he saw that a full set of fine porcelain guys had been placed on the mahogany round table for breakfast, his mood became more and more happy.

Li Yongxun seemed to be full of worries, and he didn't finish a bowl of haode fish porridge. Lin Ming's desire was fully satisfied because of last night's "big war", and today's "family affection" for his sister-in-law has risen greatly, and he asked with concern:

"Does your foot still hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt." Li Yongxun has been tossing and turning since returning to the room last night and has not been able to sleep: thinking about how to deal with the thief. She had the heart to call her brother-in-law up overnight to arrest people, and she was afraid that her brother-in-law would blame her - she now knows a little bit about a man's stinky temper: "*A night is worth a thousand gold", and the consequences of interrupting her brother-in-law's *night are very serious.

"Brother-in-law." Li Yongxun slurred, "This old man Huang secretly has a relationship with the thief." ”

"Of course. Where did you get what you ate yesterday? Lin Ming said lightly.

"But the thief is an overseas barbarian who steals from Zhou County...... Lord Wang has also been in the ......" Li Yongxun felt that his brother-in-law was not very enthusiastic about catching thieves, "I saw it last night, and there was a thief in the Huang family's house." It's better to take it and send it to Guangzhou, which is also the credit of my brother-in-law......"

Lin Ming put down the porridge bowl and scolded in a low voice: "Take it and send it to Guangzhou-will you recruit the thief's sailor to come down to Guangzhou City again?" A woman's view"

The thief sailor invaded Guangzhou, although Zuihou was retired. But everyone up and down knew that this was the result of Governor Li's "line money", but it was not that the thief had lost the battle or was afraid of the imperial court, so he had nothing to do to do to provoke the tiger to do.

Seeing the boss's displeasure on his sister-in-law's face, Lin Ming felt that this was too serious. At that moment, he patiently said: "What's the use of catching a thief?" If you want to arrest it, in a few days, Guo Dongzhu, the big leader of the thieves, will return to Guangzhou in a grand manner -- Governor Li will probably have to give a congratulatory gift -- who dares to arrest the thieves now? ”

"But-" Li Yongxun's love for the court and his desire for personal revenge are intertwined, and he still wants to do a zuihou effort.

"The thief has not offended us, and he can't make a feud with them -- besides, if you take him, you will still have to release him if you send him to Guangzhou."

"You don't have to." Li Yongxun was eager to try, "If you don't hand it over to the yamen, take it back to the hundred households for interrogation by yourself -- I don't believe that the thieves are all iron teeth and bronze teeth, can I not confess their rebellion......"

Lin Ming slowly drank the porridge and let her talk nonsense. As soon as her voice fell, she said slowly: "You eat breakfast first, and I'll take you out for a walk after dinner." ”

Li Yongxun was suddenly discouraged, knowing that his brother-in-law had no intention of dealing with the thief, he was indignant in his heart, and he simply didn't even eat breakfast. After the meal, even her brother-in-law's request to take her out for a walk refused to be.

"I'm not feeling well." Li Yongxun put on a self-righteous attitude. Lin Ming knew that she was having a temper, so he simply ignored it, and it happened that Huang Shunlong invited him to talk about things, so he left after a few words.

As soon as Lin Ming left, Li Yongxun felt that his enthusiasm for loving the court was not only not supported, but also ridiculed by his brother-in-law, and he was depressed in his heart, so he lay on the bed and cried - after crying for a while, his ears felt quiet, and he felt that no one listened to him when he cried, and no one persuaded him, so it was better not to cry.

"Hmph, if you don't catch it, I'll arrest me Li Yongxun is a real henchman of the court" Li Yongxun came up with a lot of energy. At the moment, he changed into men's clothes again, and hung up his small embroidered spring knife with him. At the beginning, the Jinyi Wei waist card was returned to the family who followed the chase, but in Foshan, Lin Ming couldn't resist her request, and felt that it was safer to have a waist card with him. gave her the waist card of a lieutenant who had been vacant for a long time in the hundred households. Li Yongxun hung the waist card on his waist, held the knife in one hand, crossed his waist with the other, and stood in the middle of the hall with his head held high

Li Yongxun gave up his plan to learn about the situation from the Huang family's maids and servants: since Huang Shunlong was doing shady black business, most of his subordinates had been taught not to talk to outsiders casually - now she has no official status, that is, she cannot be intimidated or tortured, and can only secretly investigate. Her feet were healed, and although she couldn't run, she couldn't walk. At that moment, he quietly climbed out of a low fence in the backyard.

She didn't know the road at all—but it was a small place. Huang Shunlong is also a famous figure, in case he gets lost, it's a big deal to call a sedan chair to go back. Li Yongxun went around the alley after climbing over the wall, and soon learned from the mouths of the boring guys in a grocery store in the alley: There was indeed a sedan chair 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 and heavy.

She also knew that the men were coming from the direction of Lane 7. Li Yongxun went in the direction of Lane 7, which was no different from the Fifth Lane she had walked through yesterday. When she noticed that she had also seen a pointed roof that she had seen yesterday, she suddenly realized that the group must have come from the direction of the docks—Fifth and Seventh Lanes should be parallel. And the Yellow House is actually not far from the dock.

Li Yongxun slowly followed the alley in the direction of the wharf, and there were a little more pedestrians in this alley - from time to time there were small traders, porters, and some savage-looking foreigners in strange costumes: red-skinned, yellow-haired, blue-eyed Nordics, light-brown-skinned and black-haired Latinos, short, yellow-eyed Southeast Asian natives, diminutive Japanese with unkempt hair shaved into a semicircle, dark-skinned Ah San, and authentic black Africans with only the whites of their eyes...... There are almost a few of them here. Li Yongxun's strange appearance made Li Yongxun feel very nervous -- many terrifying stories about overseas barbarians were widely circulated in Guangdong.

Fortunately, no one paid attention to her at all along the way. Li Yongxun walked all the way and observed the surroundings all the way. She heard the cries of seagulls not far away, and the salty smell of the seaside in the wind, and knew that she was almost at the beach.

Sure enough, the end of the alley suddenly opened up, and the residential area had come to an end. It's a large area of compacted mud. A few wooden trestles extend into the bay, where many boats are moored. There were many sails like a forest - and many ships she had never seen before. In particular, several large Galen ships, with huge hulls, towering masts, and glittering cannons in the gun windows...... Lee Yong-hoon, who saw a European ship for the first time, was amazed. She didn't care that there were still some large and small mud puddles on the mud floor, and walked forward vigorously, trying to get closer and see more clearly.

Bundles of goods were piled on the ground, and reed mats were covered outside. Groups of coolies carried their shoulders and shouted the trumpet, and a steady stream of goods packed in straw bags and sacks were being loaded onto the ship. Some of the packaging was torn, revealing the straw rope that binds the porcelain or the coarse cloth wrapped in silk.

Li Yongxun was almost stunned - where had she ever seen such a large-scale scene of overseas trade? I've forgotten most of what I'm going to do to track down the thief. Just looking around all the way, I can't wait to have a few more pairs of eyes.

She was curious about almost everything in front of her, even the wrecked dinghy that had been abandoned in the mud, the wreckage of the ship's hull that had been destroyed in a storm, and a stone anchor that had sunk deep into the mud piqued her interest. As I watched and walked, I had come to the other side of the pier, and at the end was a shallow backwater bay, which was covered with all kinds of garbage and smelled of all kinds of foul smells. Li Yongxun didn't cover his nose and hurriedly walked back. I found a tea stall on the pier and asked for a pot of tea to rest, and by the way, I asked if there was a boat from Lingao.

"The one with the tea stall is a middle-aged woman. Said to be a tea stall, in fact, she can only make some hot water money - her business is for the coolies on the docks, who can't afford to drink tea at all, but they give one or two crab shells to buy some "herbal tea" without tea leaves. I was able to sell a pot of tea today, which seemed very enthusiastic.

"Lingao's ship comes every ten days. One came three or four ships. The middle-aged woman pointed to a boat not far away, "Isn't that their boat?" ”

Li Yongxun followed her finger and looked: it was just an ordinary-looking two-masted ship, nothing special. However, she was a little disappointed that the ship seemed to be neater and cleaner than the average ship—she had heard that the thieves had large iron ships, and she had expected to see a different ship.

On the high boat, there was a man in the bow and stern, looking around from time to time. Li Yongxun knew that most of this was "taking advantage of the wind" -- it seemed that they were very cautious and did not know what they were doing.

"Is it a shipment?"

"Of course it's a shipment." The tea seller wiped the table and sat down opposite Li Yongxun. She has no guests at the moment, and she is happy to have someone to talk and chat, "A shipload of goods, it takes a lot of time for coolies to unload it." The goods were unloaded and transported to the warehouse—I heard that they were all valuable goods. Who doesn't know about the Australian goods in Lingao, I still want to buy a small mirror powder box from them, but unfortunately it costs two taels of silver."

"Where's the warehouse?"

"Right at the mouth of Fifth Lane." The tea seller said that the inn was rented by the Lingao people to hoard and transfer goods, and the merchants and sailors who usually came and went also lived in it.

Li Yongxun's heart fluttered. Looking at the mouth of the alley, I saw a group of people coming out of the mouth of the fifth alley, and seven or eight big men were hugging a small sedan chair carried by two people, and they were walking in a hurry.

"Is this a person from Lingaolai?" She asked.

"Approximately." The tea lady looked at it and nodded, "You see how many of them are haired, who can they be if they are not hairy?" ”。

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