Li Mu didn't go to find Tamara, and from Zhang Leye's mouth, Li Mu learned that Tamara, who was from Florida and had just come to Springfield, lived alone in Springfield and had no other family, which lost the meaning of looking. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

It was not without gains, Li Mu finally met the Chinese American community, which was an unexpected joy.

Zhang Leye's place of residence is not far from here, walking along the deep and dirty alley, twisting and turning around to the door of Zhang Leye's house.

The Chinese are indeed social attributes, and when they arrived near Zhang Leye's house, they obviously saw an increase in Chinese faces, most of them were young and middle-aged, and only a few seemed to be running out.

"Lao Cheng is a native of Huguang, he came to the United States 20 years ago, and he didn't have a family here, and he was very miserable."

"This is Lao Xie, a native of Guangdong, who came to the United States twelve years ago and became a family here, his wife is an Indian, has three children, Lao Xie has to work two jobs in order to support the family, and life is very hard."

"The family's original surname was Liu, not long after they moved here, his wife and children were in Qingguo, Lao Liu was frugal all day long, and wanted to send the saved money back to Qingguo, but last month the money was robbed by those scoundrels, and Lao Liu couldn't think of it and hanged himself——"

Along the way, in Zhang Leye's introduction, Li Mu gradually had a general impression of the living conditions of Chinese Americans.

"Tell me about you, how did you get into the Springfield Arsenal?" Li Mu was curious about Zhang Leye's experience, even if it was a pure white Westerner, it was not easy to enter the Springfield Arsenal.

"I've been in the U.S. for ten years, originally to build the railroad, but after the railroad was repaired, the money I earned was not enough to get a ticket home, so I stayed in Springfield, three years ago the Springfield Arsenal was recruiting, I went to sign up, first as a porter, then as a mechanic, and then as a turner." Zhang Leye said very simply, but he could hear the sadness in it, he had built the railway for seven years, but he hadn't earned a ticket money, and the sadness was not enough for outsiders.

"It seems that your level is not very good, otherwise it would not be possible to only have two dollars a week." Li Mu half-jokingly wanted to get more information.

That's right, from the moment Li Mu knew that Zhang Leye was Chinese, Li Mu decided to help Zhang Leye, and when he knew that Zhang Leye was still a worker at the Springfield Arsenal, this desire for help was even stronger.

Of course, medicine and medicine do not die, even if Li Mu can help, it depends on whether Zhang Leye is worth it, if Zhang Leye himself is worthless, and there is no desire to change the status quo, then Li Mu's help will be limited.

"Foreigners are all dogs look down on people, deliberately suppress the wages of our Qing people, really talk about the level, we are no worse than foreigners, when the railroad was built, it is still like this, just say that in the Springfield Arsenal, the same working hours, we Qing people do more work than foreigners, and the work is more beautiful than foreigners, but they just can't get the wages they deserve, and they don't even have as many foreign devils, just those foreigners still see that our Qing people are not pleasing to the eye, saying that we robbed them of their jobs, I'm wow, that's a group of stinky shameless." Zhang Leye was angry, although he was scolding in his mouth, the expression on his face was more helpless.

This is also normal, there are hundreds of people, there are strange people like little fat people in the Qing Dynasty, and there are many shameless people among the Americans.

Some of Will's actions are quite shameful.

"Are there many of us in the arsenal?" Li Mu began to find out, hoping that the more this number would be, the better.

"It's not much, there are more than 3,000 workers in the Springfield Arsenal, and there are only more than 100 of our Qing people, which is actually no wonder for us, if it weren't for those foreigners arguing all day long, we would have been able to squeeze out none of those foreign devils." Zhang Leye's expression changed to pride at this time, and it can be seen that although Zhang Leye's salary is not high, he is very confident in his skills.

More than 100 people, which is already very good, even if only half of it is dug up, it is enough for Li Mu to start the arsenal.

Li Mu now has limited funds on hand, even if he is involved in industry, it will not be too large-scale at the beginning, dozens of people are enough, and when the factory is on the right track, the scale can be gradually expanded.

While speaking, Zhang Leye led Li Mu to the door of his house, and when he entered the door, Zhang Leye's expression was a little worried: "Brother Mu, the family is a little simple, don't be surprised if you neglect it." ”

It's all at the door, and there's no point in talking about this anymore, Li Mu still smiled gently: "It's okay, how many people are in your family?" ”

There is no need for Zhang Leye to answer, after the door opened, a room full of people were waiting at home, three old people, a white woman, two children, the older one snuggled up to the woman's lap, and the smaller one was in the woman's arms.

"God, what's wrong with you?" As soon as the woman saw Zhang Leye's tragic condition, she exclaimed in surprise, stumbling over with the child in her arms, and the tears in her eyes were obvious.

"Don't worry Kate, I'm fine, I met Norman's gang of miscellaneous crumbs when I came back just now, fortunately, this shepherd brother came to the rescue." Zhang Leye didn't pick up the child, for fear that the blood on his body would be stained on the child.

"Thank you, dear sir." Kate curtsy to Li Mu, and then hurriedly pulled Zhang Leye to wash.

There were only Li Mu and the three old men left in the courtyard, and Li Mu had the heart to look at this small courtyard.

It is indeed a bit small, there are only two houses in total, both low and dilapidated, and the roof of one of the houses is obviously repaired, and it is covered with something like straw, which is not waterproof, and it is limited in strength compared to nothing.

There are still windows on the wall, but the glass is broken a lot, and it has not been repaired, and it has been casually pasted with paper, but there is no clutter in the yard, and the ground is very clean, and the clothes on the three old men who are basking in the sun by the wall are shabby but relatively clean, and it seems that this is all Kate's credit.

"I don't know what to call a few people?" Li Mu tried to communicate with the three old men.

The three old men are obviously Chinese, when they saw Li Mu coming in with Zhang Leye, the expressions of the three people were more vigilant, this would have completely relaxed, hearing Li Mu's question, the three of them glanced at each other, and an old man with a missing leg in the middle bowed his hand: "Old decay Cao Anran, thank you Brother Mu for saving your life." ”

"When I see that the road is uneven, I can't afford to thank you." Li Mu half-jokingly relaxed the atmosphere, he really didn't mean to be arrogant, and even if he was thankful, it would not be the turn of these old people.

"Deserve it-Brother Mu, you may not know, a few of us old immortals are not related to Leye, Leye saw that we were pitiful and took us in, and if you saved Leye, it was equivalent to saving our family-" Cao Anran's expression was serious, and he slammed to the ground again.

If you really want to tell Cao Anran, this thank you is really worth it.