Overgrown with weeds, like all the golden towns in the west, a main road connects all parts of the town: churches, houses, pubs, shops, etc., full of wooden houses and makeshift tents.

The mine, which Hamilton gradually controlled, was known as "placer mines", meaning that gold sand was scattered in the topsoil and needed water to separate the gold grains from the soil.

Zheng Aqiao and the others had already gone to the mining area to investigate, and Ye Zhao also chatted with a few Chinese laborers he met in the bar, but it was obvious that he and several laborers were Chinese artificials, and when they came to the town, they were looking for female fools, even if they were in their mouths, they didn't treat the "piglets" as sincere.

Sometimes Ye Zhao is also very helpless, but the real world is that many things below are not at all something you can control above, and many idealistic ideas often can't stir up a wave below.

When he returned to the wooden house, Ye Zhao was a little excited.

Suddenly, more than a hundred people came, and there were not enough cabins and tents in the town, so Christina asked Ye Zhao to share the same cabin with her, and Mr. Hamilton was bruised at that time, and he didn't speak for a long time, probably he wanted to take this opportunity to achieve good things with his fiancée.

was pinched by Christina's chin and puffed on a cigarette, Mr. Hamilton's bones immediately softened, and he agreed to Christina's request in a daze, but naturally regretted it greatly afterwards, and the communication with Zheng Aqiao was not enough, and he brought a Chinese laborer to find Ye Zhao, threatening Ye Zhao to touch Christina's finger, so he tied Ye Zhao to the Indian tribe and skinned them.

Almost never threatened in person, Ye Zhao had a fresh feeling, of course, Hamilton didn't know how close he was to death at that time, as long as Ye Zhao coughed, his head would immediately burst like a watermelon.

The hut is so narrow that you can see the outside through the gaps between the long planks, and if it's winter, it's snowy and cold, and the temperature is the same as outside.

Christina lay on the bed like a zombie, not caring about the culottes slipping off her snow-white thighs, she had a regenthorn in her hand, the barrel of the black hole in her mouth sticking into her mouth, and she slowly pulled the trigger, and with a click, the hammer sounded softly, and no bullets were fired.

Ye Zhao was not taken aback, this was not the first time she had done such a dangerous action, but now she was lazy, desperate, mysterious and sultry, so similar to the Bingyan noble lady in "Anna Karenina" who was in a desperate situation at the end.

Christina slowly pulled the barrel of the revolver out of her mouth, and with a shake of her hand, the metal cartridge bounced to the side, and then a bullet landed with a clatter.

Ye Zhao's head is big, "Russian roulette", and he is playing with himself? She, she really wanted to commit suicide, she was just looking for a reason for herself, God told her to leave, and she left.

Christina's icy blue eyes looked at Ye Zhao, a flirtatious, nonchalant smile rose from the corner of her lips, it was difficult to guess whether that face was more sad or lonely, but no matter how sad and lonely she was, she was so uncontrollable obsession, she turned these unhappy factors into indulgent beauty.

"Why, engaged?" Ye Zhao couldn't be indifferent, he couldn't watch her kill herself in front of his eyes.

Christina's ice eyes flashed with a hint of surprise, then she sat up, stretched out her seductive jade finger and lightly hooked at Ye Zhao, her ice eyes were blurred, her red lips were bright, and her tall nose was panting gently, a kind of teasing unique to Western limbs.

Obviously, she didn't care if the Chinese worker in front of her could speak clumsy English, nor would she think about why he could speak English, there was nothing worth thinking about in this world.

Ye Zhao smiled bitterly: "You hope that Mr. Hamilton will kill me?" ”

Christina's blue eyes flashed a trace of disdain, got up, and slowly came to Ye Zhao's body, high-heeled leather boots, slim, she was not much shorter than Ye Zhao, the seductive hand with red nails slowly stretched to the back of Ye Zhao's head with the unique provocative posture of the West, hugged Ye Zhao's neck, a beautiful leg in black stockings was raised, and it was extremely tempting to coil around Ye Zhao's waist, red lips were attached to Ye Zhao's ear, and he gasped gently, "Are you afraid of him?" ”

Ye Zhao smiled: "I'm afraid." Gently push her away.

"Cowardly Chinese pigs!" Christina's face was full of disdain, and a mouthful of saliva spit onto Ye Zhao's face.

Ye Zhao was stunned, and slapped him with a crisp sound, Christina took two steps back, this slap Ye Zhao's strength was not small, and a few blood marks immediately appeared on her snow-white cheeks, and a trace of blood came out of the corner of her mouth.

First, I was provoked by her words, and second, even if I had never been spit out in my previous life, who could stand this kind of shame? For the first time in two lifetimes, Ye Zhao hit a woman.

Christina covered her face, but there was no anger in her eyes, she stood for a moment, then turned and walked out.

Christina's face was as usual during dinner at the cabin restaurant, and it seemed that she didn't mention it to Hamilton, Ye Zhao thought that she would order herself to move out of her cabin, and she continued to look for the next substitute who would go to hell with her, who knew as if nothing had happened.

However, when the moon was in the sky, Hamilton brought a miner translator to find Ye Zhao, and viciously threatened Ye Zhao to sleep on the ground, otherwise he would cut Ye Zhao's throat.

And the miner lay outside the wooden house like a dog's skin plaster, since Hamilton's orders, the simple wooden house planks have a large gap, and the situation inside the house can be clearly seen from the gaps, and the miners left by Hamilton are watching Ye Zhao.

There was some pain in his arm, Ye Zhao rolled up his sleeves, and couldn't help but be surprised, there were faint signs of suppuration at the wound, which was scraped by thorn vines while walking in the dense forest in the afternoon, and he didn't care, according to his special physical fitness, some small abrasions would heal in less than half a day.

How can it suppurate? When Ye Zhao was examining the wound, Christina entered the wooden house, and when she saw Ye Zhao's wound, she took two steps, reached out and pinched it, Ye Zhao immediately gasped, and Christina giggled, as if she was very happy to see Ye Zhao's pain.

Ye Zhao didn't bother to pay attention to her, she was a crazy person, dead or alive, it had nothing to do with her.

Christina blinked her eyes, opened her small suitcase on the table, took out a metal box from it, and placed the scalpel, alcohol lamp, liquid medicine, tweezers, yarn cotton, etc. on the white cloth like a trick.

Ye Zhao was stunned, and then saw her use an alcohol lamp to boil water to disinfect the scalpel, and her movements were extremely sharp, where is this still the decadent and desperate noble lady?

When Christina came to Ye Zhao's side with a shiny scalpel, Ye Zhao was surprised: "What are you doing?" ”

"Don't move." Christina had already grabbed Ye Zhao's arm and said, "There are vine thorns in the wound, which are poisonous. ”

Without waiting for Ye Zhao to speak, the scalpel had already cut into the pus and blood, Ye Zhao gasped and hurriedly clenched his teeth.

Christina skillfully went under the knife, used small tweezers to remove a few burrs that were almost invisible to the naked eye from the wound, applied medicine again, and used gauze to help Ye Zhao tie up the wound, the whole process was amazingly fast, it didn't take more than two minutes.

At this moment, someone outside coughed lightly, and it was the guards who had sent Christina's information, which was taken out of the mouths of Hamilton's entourage.

Ye Zhao looked through the dim oil light on the wooden pole outside, and the miners who were left by Hamilton to "monitor" him also wanted to come over to see what it was, but the guards smiled and grabbed their shoulders and pulled them aside to chat.

Looking at these two rough pieces of papyrus, Ye Zhao couldn't imagine that he had already heard of Christina, the niece of Mrs. Fisher of Parkview Green Hotel.

Twenty-year-old Christina was a top student and genius at the Women's Medical University in New York, but because her father and uncle went bankrupt, she had to drop out of school and come to live in the West.

Three months earlier, Hamilton had met Christina by chance, and immediately fell under her pomegranate dress, and immediately forced Mrs. Fischer Jr. to marry Christina to him, and a month earlier, the two had been engaged.

I heard that Hamilton was abusing Mrs. Fischer Jr. in bed when he bumped into Christina, and even if he was engaged, every time he returned to San Francisco, Hamilton often called his "mother-in-law" to sleep with him.

It is conceivable why Christina is loveless and cares about everything, and the atmosphere of loneliness and despair that permeates her whole body is not deliberately contrived.

Back in the wooden house, seeing that Kirstina took out the wheel fire gun and fiddled carelessly, Ye Zhao said, "Do you want to die so much?" ”

Christina ignored Ye Zhao and sat on the edge of the wooden bed, one leg bent, and her posture was extremely beautiful.

Ye Zhao lit a cigarette, took two puffs, and said, "When you helped me treat my wound just now, you were like an angel." ”

The corners of Christina's lips showed a seductive smile again, hooked her hand at Ye Zhao, pointed to the bullet-loaded wheel, and said, "Come, play games with me, do you dare?" If you dare, I will listen to you. …… Listen to your ...... everything" The last sentence is soft and soft, charming to the bone, and makes people's hearts crispy.

Ye Zhao was speechless and ignored her. Lest you be scolded by Christina's contemptuous "coward".

…… The next day, Ye Zhao set off to return to the city, Zheng Aqiao had to stay for a night or two, and he definitely refused to buy Mr. Wild Boar's gold mine, for fear of the danger of conflict, Ye Zhao naturally went first.

When he went back, Ye Zhao took Christina's carriage again, and sat in the carriage, and the two were silent all the way.

"Chinese, are you a prince? Plutocrat? Christina suddenly asked, and said, "If you are a rich man in China, will you take me away?" Get me out of here. ”

Ye Zhao was surprised and said with a smile: "Do you look like me?" Cinderella's fairy tale too much? ”

Christina glanced at Ye Zhao with blue eyes, and said seriously: "I'm not Cinderella, I can be a very useful person, as long as you sponsor me to finish medical school, I will help you earn a lot of money, and I won't exchange my body for you, I don't like you." ”

Ye Zhaoxin said that you are not Cinderella, you are a crazy girl, but it is rare for her to be serious, spread her hands, and said: "It's a pity that I am not rich...... I was about to say but I can help you think of a way to find someone to sponsor you. Before the words could be spoken, Christina had already patted her forehead: "Oh, God, why should I ask this timid and cowardly Chinese for help, I must have a fever, it must be." ”

Ye Zhao was speechless, and swallowed the following words back into his stomach.

The sound of the horses' hooves clattered and became clearer, and the carriages no longer shook violently, and it was evident that they had entered the city and walked on the stone road.

Ye Zhao said: "Suicide will be abandoned by God, and the most cowardly people will choose to commit suicide to escape, because they don't have the courage to live......"

Before he could finish speaking, the curtain of the car was lifted, and a stout white cowboy held a revolver, and the muzzle of the gun was aimed at Christina. Almost subconsciously, Ye Zhao pulled Christina behind him violently, and at the same time snatched the firearm from Christina's hand.

"Bang bang bang", the first two shots were white cowboy bullets on the wall of the carriage, but the last shot was issued by Ye Zhao's hand, the cowboy was shot in the forehead, upside down, almost at the same time, several "Chinese laborers" jumped in the car, all of them were frightened and pale, and the white gunman who wanted to murder Christina was the carriage driver.

Seeing that the master was fine, several guards felt a little relieved, and jumped down one after another, there was a mess outside, thinking that it was the aftermath.

Ye Zhao was stunned for a while, and said in his heart that San Francisco is really a disorderly place now, and it is not appropriate to just conclude a treaty when negotiating with the Americans.

There was no movement behind him for a long time, Ye Zhao was slightly strange, according to the logic of this madman, he should blame himself for not letting her be assassinated, being murdered by someone would not prevent him from going to heaven.

When I turned around, I saw Christina just sitting quietly, her ice eyes full of confusion.

…… A few days later, Ye Zhao met with US Vice President Sherman aboard the Regent.

The "assassination" incident has been basically investigated, it was Hamilton's ex-wife who bribed the groom to do it, and if there were no "Chinese laborers" to obstruct it, this murder case would have become a headless public case, and the groom had already fled to the ends of the earth with a good reward after murdering Christina.

It wasn't for the emperor that the guards were a little relieved, but from now on, the defense measures will naturally be tighter.

Sherman had an in-depth exchange of views with Zou Kaizhi on the status of Chinese laborers and the introduction of Chinese laborers, and both affirmed the broad framework of the draft "Sino-US Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation" and the details needed to be further finalized by the negotiating teams of the two sides.

The Sino-US Treaty of Amity and Cooperation aims to solve the problem of the status of Chinese workers in the United States and the introduction of Chinese laborers, and China promises to recruit 100,000-150,000 laborers for American railroads in the next five years, and these laborers will sign formal foreign labor contracts with the United Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad. At the same time, the United States promises to treat Chinese laborers who came to the United States before the treaty came into force as U.S. citizens, and gradually recognize the U.S. citizenship of Chinese laborers.

Sherman also had a secret exchange of views with Zou Kaizhi on the situation in the Far East, and Zou Kaizhi said that the world order established by the old colonial powers had begun to hinder the development of the world economy, and that China would support the Americans' efforts to seek a new order on the American continent.

Zou Kaizhi's frank and forceful statement, the signal released was so clear that Sherman was surprised, but he also had to admit that the new Chinese political axe may be one of the few reliable allies in the world.

And when Sherman heard Zou Kai's words, the emperor actually came to San Francisco with the regent, he was shocked and speechless for a long time.

The young emperor of China, the legendary king of the East, at his age, could even imagine the unparalleled influence he would have in the Far East in the coming decades.

Although the British, the French and the Russians will cause him all kinds of problems, and even he may be defeated and expelled from the throne of the emperor, but in any case, this is a legendary figure, writing a legendary life, winning or losing, he is one of the heavyweights who can influence the world pattern, and I believe that no American president can compare with him.

In the United States, which advocates freedom and boiling, the democratically elected president always has a sense of restraint in the face of the British royal family, and the mysterious and brilliant royal family in the East, contact with it makes people feel an indescribable excitement.

Not to mention, the Emperor of China is about to be faced.

Today's meeting, Sherman regarded it as the most important event in his life, and he looked at the mirror over and over again early on, and there should not be a single flaw in the bow tie or dress.

In the conference room of the Regent, Sherman saw the young emperor sitting upright in the yellow mist, Sherman hurriedly walked up two steps and bowed slightly, a ritual he had practiced countless times.

Ye Zhao smiled and got up and shook hands with him, after all, Sherman was not a diplomatic envoy, but the second head of the country.

"America, a free country, I like it very much, but it's too free, so I have regrets, this San Francisco, it's really a bit messy."

Looking at the rare and exotic fruits from China on the table in front of him, listening to Ye Zhao's words, Sherman smiled and nodded in agreement, looking for clues of the emperor's true attitude towards the United States from the words of the emperor.

The meeting only lasted half an hour, Sherman was already satisfied, and Ye Zhao didn't say anything to him, just chatted a few words about San Francisco's perception, and talked a few words about hoping to get on the train on the Pacific Railway one day.

Ye Zhao will not exchange views on the current situation with Sherman, that is, President Johnson, who is preparing to come from Washington, Ye Zhao is only meeting with him with courtesy, and the set of things at the negotiation table, his own ideas, naturally have his officials and Americans to discuss.

Sherman has sent an urgent secret message to Washington, and US President Andrew ? Johnson, commander-in-chief of the coalition forces at the end of the war between the North and the South, Ulysses? Simpson? Grant, President pro tempore of the Senate, Charles of the Adams family, an American political family? Francis? The three Adams giants are now on their way.

However, at the request of the Chinese, the meeting was secret and would not be announced to the outside world until the Chinese emperor left San Francisco.

This is also certain, after all, it will take more than 20 days for the dignitaries in Washington to arrive in San Francisco, and if the whereabouts of the Chinese emperor are leaked during this period, I am afraid that it will cause unnecessary trouble.

Thinking of this, Sherman couldn't help but apologize: "Your Majesty, I will help you arrange the best hotel in San Francisco." Immediately, I was in a dilemma, the best hotel in San Francisco really couldn't be used to entertain the most honored guest since the American reading power.

Ye Zhao smiled and waved his hand, and said, "This doesn't bother you, during this time, I will take a look in the western city of your country." ”

…… In the following days, Zou Kaizhi and Sherman signed their first diplomatic agreement, mainly agreeing to the establishment of a Chinese consulate in San Francisco, among other things.

China's embassy in the United States, which used to have only an embassy in Washington, D.C., is now increasingly connected to San Francisco, and it is urgent to establish a consulate in San Francisco.

The site has already been chosen, on the Pacific Heights, with a bird's-eye view of the city and the mountains and sea, where many wealthy people have begun to build villas.

One of the luxury villa compounds that had just been completed was bought by Ye Zhao, and after Ye Zhao left, it would be temporarily used as the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco.

This is a house covering dozens of acres with gardens and lawns, with a Victorian-style three-story red brick structure, triangular attic eaves, stone steps, snow-white columns and a wooden door on top of the curved door constitute the purest European architectural beauty.

The soldiers' protection of the consulate was justified, and the low flower walls were quickly raised and barbed wire was pulled up.

Ye Zhaozi was also preparing to move into this villa named "Qinghe Garden", and asked Misaki and a few female guards to live in and decorate and clean it first, and he moved in after two days when he was ready.

On this evening, Ye Zhao came to Mrs. Fisher's cottage, Mr. Fisher and Mrs. Fisher were good people, and they were about to leave, and according to the Chinese custom, they always had a farewell banquet.

However, what Ye Zhao never expected was that Christina also came to see her uncle and aunt, in front of the Fisher couple, Christina seemed to be a different person, elegant plain long dress, simple style, but it made her ice skin and cold surname.

At the beginning, Mr. Fisher curiously asked Ye Zhao why he spoke English, and Mrs. Fisher helped Ye Zhao explain, saying that Ye Zhao had been a servant of a British businessman in Hong Kong, and later the British businessman went bankrupt, and Ye Zhao also owed a huge debt and had to buy a ticket to San Francisco.

This was originally made up by Ye Zhao to fool Mrs. Fisher, but Mrs. Fisher played by herself and added many details, which was simply impeccable.

Sitting at the small round table eating pumpkin pie, listening to Ye Zhao talk about leaving, Fisher and his wife were embarrassed, Ye Zhao did not shy away from it, saying that he would move to the newly built Chinese consulate, Mrs. Fisher sighed and said: "God bless you, child, this will always be your home." "I thought that Ye Zhao was one of the laborers who expanded the consulate.

When Christina heard Ye Zhao say that she was leaving, she was obviously concerned, and she seemed to be relieved when she heard that she was not leaving San Francisco, and then heard Ye Zhao say that she had moved to live in the consulate, Christina said: "We are neighbors. ”

Mrs. Fisher spread her hands and smiled, "Dear Chris, I'm sorry I forgot about your new clinic. He said to Ye Zhao: "Her new clinic is separated from your Chinese consulate by a thin wall, and the two of you will have to help each other in the future." ”

Christina said: "I will not be friends with timid Chinese. ”

Ye Zhao was quite surprised, but he had also seen the clinic in the two-story small wooden building next to the consulate, and he heard that it had been opened for a few days by Christina, which was really surprising.

"How did you think of opening a clinic?" Ye Zhao asked in surprise.

Christina said, "My uncle and aunt helped me rent the house. ”

Ye Zhao sighed, there must be equipment to open a clinic, even if it is second-hand, it is a huge expense, and the Fisher couple should have given everything they have.

"How's business?" Ye Zhaoke knows that female doctors are a new thing now, and many people can't believe it, at this point, Europe and the United States are not as good as China, in China, because Western medicine is completely new, patients who can accept Western medicine will not care whether the doctor is male or female, let alone think that the medical skills of female doctors are definitely inferior to male doctors, and if women see a doctor, especially when it comes to examinations such as removing shirts, as long as they are not particularly poor people, they will definitely not ask male doctors to see them.

But in Europe and the United States, female doctors have just been accepted by the world, and the sense of trust is far from enough, so Ye Zhao asked this question.

Christina said, "It's fine. "It's true that San Francisco has a population of more than 100,000 people, but there is no decent hospital, which is why Christina can open a clinic in San Francisco although she has not graduated and has no doctor's license.

Christina's clinic is the first clinic in the emerging rich area of the Pacific Highlands, she helped a patient successfully perform anesthetic tooth extraction surgery on the first day, and the start was a hit, not to mention that several wealthy businessmen living in the Pacific Highlands area like to invite her to the clinic, and the most sensational thing is that yesterday Christina successfully helped a reckless rich woman remove cataracts, but I am afraid that it has spread throughout the city this morning, although the real success will have to wait for the rich woman's eyes to be lifted with gauze, but there is no doubt, The surgery itself has earned her an excellent reputation.

Christina has hired a few nurses, all of whom are red-light district girls, but she can do simple nursing work.

When Ye Zhao said goodbye to the Fisher couple's house, he was stopped by Christina just after he went out, Ye Zhao looked at her and smiled: "Are you still playing suicide games?" ”

Christina said very seriously: "You come to the clinic to help me, how much they pay you, I will add ten percent." ”

Ye Zhao rubbed his nose and said, "How can I help?" Do you carry it? ”

Christina said, "Don't go to the gold mines, you'll die in it." Many, many people go to pan for gold, and never come back, you Chinese, will die. ”

Ye Zhao smiled: "It's not what you want?" He shook his hand and walked towards the hotel.

(To be continued)