Chapter 124: The Noose (I)

After the New Year, the footsteps of the new year are quietly coming, the climate in the south is warm, but on the night of early spring, the yard will still be a little cold. But for www.biquge.info most of the poor people, they are not qualified to say cold or other feelings, which is what only the rich are qualified to say. This is especially true of those blind girls in Yipinxiang.

It is a physically disabled person, and it is more difficult to make a living than ordinary people, and they are mixed to the point of selling themselves, and they have actually reached the bottom of the social environment. For them, there are no such things as personal security or basic power.

Guangzhou is a city with no shortage of opportunities, and in this city, there are people who find a way to survive every day, but there are also people who starve to death every day. And these blind girls, who have neither physical strength nor means of survival, are the most vulnerable part even in the beggars.

No matter how filthy and filthy a man may be, he can take possession of their bodies, and unless the food is eaten quickly, it will be taken away by other hungry people. Although they are not very old, they have already understood what it means to be the strong.

A person like Ah Qiao who is lucky enough to keep his innocence, when the family is really unable to provide for her and has to sell her, in fact, fate is like that. Towns and other inferior places will buy such women specifically for men with special fetishes.

Beating, scolding, abusing hunger and even physical aggression are commonplace, and for these women, since the moment they were traded, they are actually ready to meet their fate. You can eat enough every day, and occasionally there is meat, you won't be beaten and scolded, and the male owner won't come to violate them, if it weren't for personal experience, no one would believe such a story for a few women, let alone believe that such good luck would fall on them. After all, for them, fate has taken away all the light in their lives, and they never thought that they would leave the last light.

Whether it is out of survival needs or out of repayment, even if the male owner really wants them to sacrifice themselves now, a few girls will not hesitate at all. What's more, what they have to do now is not so shameful, just to ask them to remember some identities, lines, and appropriate performances, for them, there is no easier job than this.

The man's voice echoed in the ears of several women, "What you have to remember is your identity. Ah Xiu, how many acres of land and how many cows did you have at home? ”

"More than 800 acres of land, Niu never remembered, grew up in the boudoir, where do you remember such vulgar things?"

"Very good, listen, what Ah Xiu said is very good, and it is very in line with his identity. And she cried just right, much like a lady. Ah Zhi, you're almost there. can't pretend to be a daughter, so she has to say that she is a girl from a peasant family. ”

"A slave is a farmer's daughter......"

"Yes, but your dad owes money to the casino loan shark for gambling, so he sells you to pay back. And what you are going to say in the future is that you were forced to go bankrupt by the servants, and you were forced to sell yourself to pay off your debts, remember? It's all the same debt, for different reasons, and the reason that drives you into bankruptcy is the servitude! Your family used to have a house, a field, and an old cow, but because of the poor power of sending your father, there was nothing. Remember well, if you remember wrong, you will be hungry, you eat so much, see if you remember it by then. Learn more from your Sister Aqiao, not only do you learn tunes quickly, but you also remember things quickly, and you can perform the best. Yesterday I cried, and there was a show who wanted to marry her as a child. ”

Then, an unfamiliar voice suddenly interjected, "Well, it's white and clean, and it's very delicate, of course those shows like it, in fact, I like it too." Then, Ah Qiao felt a hand touch his face, which was full of calluses, and when he touched it, his face was numb and itchy, which made him extremely sad. Even more sad was this unbridled contact, and then I felt something hot on my face, sucking on something.

The speaker's voice is not good, a little hoarse, and the voice cannot be heard by men and women, but it must be a man who is so presumptuous. Even if he was prepared for the body not to belong to him, the goal of Ah Qiao's dedication in his heart was only the head of the family, and this one who spoke was obviously not. She screamed in surprise, screaming for help, and stretched her hands forward wildly, trying to push away the disciple who came from nowhere.

Immediately, I heard the man stop the hoarse voice in a timely manner, "On my ground, can you restrain yourself?" Go back to your room, practice hard, and I'll teach you a new tune tomorrow." ”

A few blind girls left as if they were amnestied, Ah Qiao walked last, his eyes were blind, his ears were brighter than ordinary people, and he vaguely heard a few laughs in the wind. The laughter was like a silver bell, like a woman, and Ah Qiao secretly wondered in his heart: When did a woman come to this courtyard again, why had she never heard the sound?

Dressed in a very ordinary short shirt, with a hat buttoned on his head, Lin Haishan looked like a martial artist who walked the rivers and lakes. Compared with the first meeting, the woman is still wild and neutral, but in the rough style, she is a little more calm. It's just that some of the preferences haven't changed, and even after I stretched out my hand, I didn't feel wrong, but I had a lot of criticism about Fan Jin.

"Can you do it, can't two women handle it, and let so many young women not touch? You can do whatever you want, and you won't be in trouble. In fact, if you want me to say, they still want you to them, so that they can climb the branches and become a phoenix, and change from a singer to a boss lady. ”

"Come on, don't hurt people anymore, you yourself are more restrained, now that you are a big boss, you have to look like a master, you like those things not that you can't do, but you have to pay attention to the influence."

"Ball! Am I a pirate, robbing men and women is what should be done, pay attention to what impact. Lin Haishan scolded very proudly, then sat down in the courtyard, picked up the wine jar and poured a bowl of wine by himself, "Scholar, why didn't I know you could cook?" Like this, what kind of double skin milk, and that shrimp dumpling siu mai, I haven't eaten it before. And the fan fish you got just now, did you really come up with it yourself? It's delicious. ”

"This is what you don't understand, Su Dongpo knows, he was also exiled to Guangzhou at the beginning, and he also studied Dongpo meat, it is normal for us scholars to study some food and drink, after all, do you have time. How is it, after seeing Lin Feng, how is your complexion? I also specially sent him rice balls for the Chinese New Year, which is the right thing to live for him. ”

"It's okay, it's much better than in prison, you can talk a little, you can eat something. The tooth was knocked out, and I couldn't eat hard food, but I could drink double skin milk. Brother Dafeng is very thrifty, even if he is the leader, he rarely eats food, and among the things he has eaten, there are few high-quality dishes, and it can be seen that he likes it very much. ”

"Then I'll just send it to him every day from now on. How are you doing now? ”

"It's not great, but the most difficult time is over. In the end, my sister-in-law's life was not in vain, and the people who ran away before came to me again, and those who broke through from South Australia later, most of them also returned to the team, and now they have more than 4,000 people. But it's still far from what you said about being in charge of the two oceans. ”

"If you have the heart, you can achieve it, what's the hurry? I'm glad you can come out of the shadow of my sister-in-law's death. In the past, you fought alone, but this time, with the government to help you, and the people of the eighteen shops to trade with you, there are places to help with food, cloth and even weapons, so it will not be as hard as in the past. If you have any difficulties, just tell me, I will try my best to help you, as for what you want to do, is to help the army and block the waterway of Luoshan. ”

Lin Haishan nodded and said, "I understand." Now the people of Luoshan regard me as a bodhisattva, because I sell a lot of food on the waterway, and it is cheaper than the food that comes by land. They were all happy to do business with me, including some tribes, I had been there and knew the roads. According to what you said, your own people were put in, and outsiders came to grab the food, and they were all cut with a knife, and the business went very smoothly. When the army gives the order, I will seal off their waterways to ensure that not a grain of rice or a tael of salt will flow into the water. ”

"What's more important is cinchona bark, this thing is very important, don't forget."

"Rest assured, we can't do without that ourselves, how can I relax? But this time, do you really want to let Luo Shanman die? ”

"Almost, Luo Shan is immortal, how can Luo Shan decide? Yin Zhengmao was a scholar in Nanjing, and Ling Zhijun was now the governor of Liangguang with the rank of squire of the Ministry of War, and he always felt that he was three points shorter. Sichuan's Zeng Xingwu wiped out the Nine Silk Barbarians, and now he has entered Beijing as a squire in the military department, if it weren't for Tan Zili above him, maybe he might have become a big Sima. Ling Lao's goal is the location of the main hall of the six departments in the capital, and if the governor wants to turn to the main hall, he has to fight a good battle. Luo Ding Luo Ding, this time it is to be completely stable, they don't die, how can they be called stable. You can't bear it, do you? ”

Lin Haishan sneered, "Compassion? Save it, if we had this heart, we would have sunk into the sea a long time ago, there is no compassion, if there is a beautiful little lady, you can catch a few, it is better than cheap officers and soldiers. She looked at Fan Jin and asked, "Then can I really open the killing ring?" ”

"Of course it's okay, you are ordered to kill, as long as you are not the governor's person, you can kill it, you have to pull the flag and call yourself the forest witch, how can you do it if you don't set up a witch this time?"

Lin Haishan said again: "Then I have an idea, send a few people to work in your store, can you arrange it." ”

"It's okay to arrange, but I don't know what you're doing?"

"Easy to contact, I don't recognize the governor, only you, a scholar. Whoever kills and releases whom, listen to your word. Without your words, even if I have the Governor's military order, I will cut it down. In the future, it will be more convenient for me to find you for something. At least until you get into the Jinshi, we can't get in touch, we always have to have someone to communicate. Besides, now that I am doing business with people in Xiguan, it is good to keep a few people in contact. ”

Fan Jin thought for a while, "There's nothing wrong with this, you can arrange it, it's better to be a little better, and you can be a female bodyguard." It's best to have someone who can cook, and I'm short of a cook. ”

The two laughed a few more words, and Lin Haishan asked again: "I also heard someone talk about a whip method at sea, what is that?" It seems that many people have been affected, some people are looking forward to it, some people are scolding, and some people are helping us, just wanting us to make trouble for Ling Yunyi and drive him out of Liangguang. ”

Seeing that her eyes were full of expectation, Fan Jin knew that she wanted to steal the teacher again, and said with a smile: "It's useless for you to learn this." Like I said last time, the Ming Dynasty was a big ship, and some places were broken and had to be repaired. A whip method is a means of repair. It is not objective to say that it is good or bad, it can only be said that some places are suitable and some places are not suitable. Autumn is the best time for city dwellers, because everything is abundant and food is cheap. But for the villagers, cheap rice hurts the farmers. The rent had to be paid, the debts had to be paid, and they all counted on the harvest to find a way. When the partial crops were harvested, the price of rice was lower. In the past, you always asked for rice, and if you took the rice and handed it over, you could pay the tax. Now it is to ask for silver, and when the people beat the grain, they have to sell the grain and pay taxes, but the grain merchants are lowering the price at this time. In the past, a stone of rice could be paid in taxes, but now it has to be sold for one and a half stones before the tax amount can be raised, ostensibly to reduce the burden, but in fact it is to increase taxes for the people. And this, still in Guangdong. If it's in the north, it's even worse, where silver is expensive and copper is cheap, and the common people sell grain for copper money, and then use copper money to buy silver, think about it, how can you get it like this? Sooner or later, when all the harvest of the people is not enough to pay taxes, what will happen then? ”

"Huh? Isn't that bad government? ”

"I can't say that, Foshan welcomes this policy. They all went to the fields to mine iron when they had land, and if they wanted silver, they didn't have food, so they naturally hoped to pay silver. The Ming Dynasty is too big to have a decree that people everywhere support. Some people like it, some people hate it, and that's pretty much it. If everyone hates it, then you can't do it, everyone likes it and is destined to be dreaming, the big ship is like this, you can't think about everything. For those who are officials, in fact, it is simpler to think, this is the decree that the first assistant wants to implement, and whoever works against the first assistant is not happy for himself, so it must be implemented. As for whether the people like it or not, the officials don't care, it is the gentry who can really interfere in all this. Therefore, we want to win a battle in Luoshan, just to make a compromise with the gentry. Ceded some power to Rodin, in exchange for them to give in to a whip. Fortunately, the gentry in Guangzhou were generally easy to deal with, and the governor admitted the truth, and they had to bow their heads. ”

Lin Haishan said: "Then it's better to look at it like a boat." There won't be so much trouble, and there won't be so many ways to get in the way. ”

"It's the same with any new ship, but sooner or later a small boat will become a big ship, and a new ship will become old, and then there will be the same problems. As for whether you can survive the past, it depends on whether the sailors you train are qualified or not. ”

Lin Haishan's arm was on Fan Jin's shoulder, holding him into his arms, deliberately using the majestic mountain peak to hit Fan Jin's arm. "Brother Qi, if you want to train sailors, you are the best at it, right? In fact, the examination is nothing more than to make a fortune, you come to me, I will give you a chair to sit on, how about you help me train sailors? ”

"Yes, when I have no hope of taking the seventy or eighty imperial examinations, I may think about it, now, forget it." Fan Jin grabbed Lin Haishan's chest unceremoniously as he spoke, "Also, you have to pay the tuition fee if you ask questions, don't pay the bill." ”

The two laughed and played for a while, but Lin Haishan repeatedly pondered what Lin Feng said to herself, "Little sister, as you said, Fan Jin has something in his heart, and he should be pulled over, so that there will be hope for our overseas country." As for how to pull, you have to figure out your own way, in short, you have all visited the church, learn to be his wife, people are helping their own people, as long as you are good to him, he will definitely be good to you. Give him a son, are you afraid that he won't join the gang? ”

Pirates are one of the most realistic groups, identifying with the power and following the strong. If Fan Jin didn't matter to the Lin Clan's fleet, even if he visited the hall, Lin Haishan would only treat it as a joke and wouldn't really care about anything. However, this is not the case at the moment, and after the defeat of Nanao, the Lin fleet can be maintained at present, and Fan Jin is the most important factor.

The merchants of Xiguan traded with themselves, and the support of the government, allowed the Lin family fleet to survive the most difficult period, and now it can also obtain a stable supply of materials from the land. These are all things that can only be done by relying on Fan Jin as a bridge. Coupled with the management methods of his professors, although the scale of the Lin Clan's fleet is small today, its strength may not be much weaker than that of the Lin Feng period.

This kind of practical and reliable benefit can impress Lin Haishan more than ethereal love, so she won't be annoyed if she is touched a few times, but she is thinking about how to completely tie this scholar to herself in the same boat and let him use it for his own use.