After a burst of whistles, a white cruise ship docked at the 16 Mile Pu Wharf, and the passengers on the cruise ship walked down one by one with suitcases.

Although there was a major arms explosion at the wharf some time ago, the authorities of the French Concession sent people to carry out emergency repairs to the wharf the day after the explosion accident, and within a few days, the wharf was restored to its original state, and it was more prosperous than before.

When the passengers on the cruise ship were about to get down, a foreigner in his thirties wearing a rolled-up gray denim hat, a denim jacket and jeans, a pair of pointed scalp shoes on his feet, and a long suitcase stepped off the cruise ship.

This foreigner was very tall, but not very strong, and there were spurs on the heels of his leather shoes, and there was no expression on his face, and he walked into the crowd with his suitcase to follow the flow of people out of the dock.

At this time, there were already many people waiting here to greet relatives and friends, in addition to these people who greeted relatives and friends, there were also many rickshaw drivers, men from the surrounding hotels, and some idle bastards who wanted to earn a few pocket money by being guides for foreigners who had just arrived in Shanghai.

"Hey sir, sir, I'm Iverson and I'm familiar with Shanghai Beach, where are you going? I can show you the way, it's no problem to go anywhere, you just have to pay me five dollars! Iverson, dressed in a very crumpled Brazilian suit, saw that the compatriot who was obviously an American did not look around after getting off the boat with the suitcase, but was about to walk out of the dock with the flow of people, and he knew that the American compatriot must have no one to greet him, so he immediately walked over quickly and said that with the speed of machine gun fire.

Jack didn't stop with his suitcase, and as he walked, he turned his head to look at the guy next to him, who claimed to be Iverson. Judging by what this guy is wearing, it's obvious that he doesn't mix well in Shanghai, otherwise this guy wouldn't have come to the dock to do this kind of work to lead the way.

"Five dollars? I think you're poor and crazy! Jack coldly spat out a word and looked away at the exit of the dock.

Iverson hurriedly said, "Oh. Okay, okay, man. You just came to Shanghai, and it seems that no one came to pick up the ship, so I will suffer a little loss, and it will be cheaper, four dollars, how about it, very cheap, right? Okay, okay, that's it, you give the money and I'll lead the way! ”

Jack paused, turned his head to look at Iverson again. His eyes were full of fierceness, and he coldly spit out two words: "Get out!" ”

Iverson looked at Jack's eyes, and suddenly felt a twitch in his heart, such a look was terrible, he dared to swear that he had never seen such an emotionless look, but he didn't want to let go of this opportunity to make money, because he hadn't eaten for a day, although there were many rich foreigners in Shanghai, but more people were miserable foreigners. Most of them have to travel around for three meals a day, and foreigners in the concession generally do not go to the rental area when they are not necessary, because the Qing people in the Chinese are not very friendly to them.

"Okay, I'll be less. Three dollars, it really couldn't be cheaper??????".

With a "whoosh", Jack's hand pinched Iverson's neck. The process was unimaginably fast, and Iverson felt his neck pinched without even looking at it. Can't breathe at all.

"Ahem, ahem??????" Iverson was pinched by the neck. His face turned red, and then he began to turn purple, and his tongue was about to stick out.

Jack saw that he couldn't stand it and let go of his hand, Iverson immediately bent down and coughed loudly, gasping for breath, and when he recovered his strength, he found that the crowd on the dock had become very small, most of the people had left the dock, and the guy who had pinched his neck just now was gone.

In fact, Iverson also knew that his asking price was a bit high, just to lead the way, he would charge others a few dollars, but he just wanted to make more money, and he also wanted to see if the Americans who came to Shanghai Beach knew the level of consumption here, five dollars was nothing in the United States, but here it could be exchanged for twenty oceans, and he could live a month by saving some flowers. Hey, I had to drink cold water for lunch today, and Iverson could only walk towards the exit of the dock with his head down.

As soon as he walked out of the dock, a dead face suddenly appeared in front of him, Iverson was startled, he was almost pinched by the guy in front of him just now, and now he saw Jack involuntarily frightened and retreated, "You, hey, hey, don't, don't come, what do you want to do?" ”

Jack stopped with his suitcase and said, "Be my guide, three dollars a day, on call, do you want to do it?" ”

Iverson thought that this guy was coming to teach him a lesson again, but he didn't expect that this guy wanted him to be a guide, he just wanted to agree, but greed made him change his mind immediately, "It's no problem if you want to ask me to be a guide, with my familiarity with China, I can show you anywhere in China, and even if you want to go to the Chinese palace for a walk, I have a way to let you in, but you only give me three dollars a day, isn't it too little?" Or five dollars? ”

Jack didn't think about it and turned away.

"Hey, hey, hey! How did you go? Iverson thought that this business was going to be yellow again, so he was in a hurry, and immediately chased after him and hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, man, three dollars is three dollars, I'll make you a friend, who made me too kind?" But you have to take care of the food."

Looking at the outstretched hand, Jack stopped and hesitated with the box or stretched out his hand to shake hands with Iverson, Iverson saw that the two had reached an agreement, and immediately entered the state and asked: "My name is Iverson, what is your name?" Where are you going now? ”

"Jack! Let's find a hotel to stay in first! Jack said and put down the box, took out a stack of money from his pocket, counted three dollars and handed it to Iverson: "This is your reward for today, take it, you don't want to take the money and run away, if I catch you, I will let you know what regret is!" ”

"Of course, I, I, Iverson, am a man with a work ethic!" Iverson took the money from Jack's hand, happily collected it in his pocket, and then walked around to pick up Jack's box, but was stopped by Jack, and he lifted it himself.

Seeing that Jack didn't let him carry the suitcase, Iverson shrugged his shoulders to hide his embarrassment, and quickly changed the subject: "Man, come with me, now I'll take you to a good hotel to stay, if you want to eat, I can also take you over!" ”

Jack followed up and said coldly: "I've already sued you, my name is Jack, not a buddy, and I'm not your buddy!" ”

"Oh!" Iverson was taken aback again, and hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, Jack, oh, your father is so talented, he even named you Jack, and there are 80,000 people who call Jack in the whole of America!" ”

Feeling a chill in his back, Iverson knew that the monster Jack was about to get angry again, so he quickly shut up and hurriedly waved to the rickshaw driver running in front, "Hey, coachman, come here!" ”

Under Iverson's guidance, he soon found a hotel, and since Jack didn't like to go to more luxurious hotels, Iverson could only find a slightly cleaner and better service, which was in the public concession.

After settling in the hotel, Jack took a bath, after taking the bath, it was almost time to eat, he didn't know much about the diet here, he didn't dare to guarantee whether his stomach could adapt to the Chinese diet, in order to keep his body in the best condition at all times, he decided to eat Western food, after all, Western food is his staple food.

I had a hasty meal at a Western restaurant, and although the taste was not authentic compared to what I ate in the United States, it was a good filling.

"What are you going to do now? Are you going back to the hotel to rest? Iverson asked after coming out of the restaurant.

Jack shook his head: "No, I've rested enough on the boat, now let's find a car, carriage or car, but it's better to rent it, if you don't have these, a bicycle will do!" ”

"Hey, Jack, don't be funny, how can there be no carriages and cars on the beach? Do you think the world-famous Shanghai is the countryside of the United States? I tell you, anything you can find anywhere else in Shanghai can be found in Shanghai, including the Ford you mentioned that it was only produced last year! In Shanghai, as long as you have money, you can enjoy the treatment of the emperor, the treatment of the emperor and not the president, understand? Oh, okay, okay, you see I'm going to talk endlessly, okay, I'll take you to the car now."

For a whole afternoon, the two drove around the concession and the French concession in a carriage rented from the carriage and horse point, and along the way Iverson showed his talent as a guide to Jack, who was an American who could introduce the name of every street and every building to Jack in very precise Shanghainese.

When it was almost dark, Jack took a note from his pocket and handed it to Iverson: "Where is this?" ”

Iverson took it, "Oh, we've already walked this street, didn't I just introduce you to it?" ”

Jack said expressionlessly, "Turn around and go to this place!" ”

"Okay!" Iverson saw that Jack put on a dead face again, and just drove the carriage back, and finally the carriage stopped diagonally opposite the street in front of Liu Fubiao's mansion.

"This is it!" Iverson pointed to Liu Fubiao's house and said.

Jack looked around for a moment and observed the situation in the surrounding houses before he said, "Let's go, find a place to have dinner!" ”

Late at night, Jack wore a white short-sleeved shirt and still wore the gray rolled-edge cowboy hat on his head and quietly came to the door of Liu Fubiao's mansion.

After a while, the door opened, and a head sticking out of the crack in the door, "Who are you looking for?" ”

Jack didn't understand what the other party said, but that didn't stop him from coming here, he took out a letter from his pocket and handed it over, the little guy took the letter suspiciously, looked at the words on the envelope, and dropped a sentence: "Wait a minute, I'll go and hand it over to the master!" (To be continued......) R1292