[4] Pawnshop

Yao Fan went out of the mansion and looked around, and saw two standing cages erected in the open space of the square at the entrance, and his body, which had just felt relaxed, suddenly trembled again.

"Fortunately, I reacted quickly, and my skin looked quite clean, so I didn't have an unclear lawsuit this time, otherwise I would have been standing in this cage at this moment.

I read the book that the Qing Dynasty this station cage is the most vicious, seemingly simple but actually cruel, people are stuck in the neck of the flail and hung in it, generally can't hold two or three days to die. Rather than being beheaded by the Autumn Queen, who needed to be reported to the Criminal Department, Qing Dynasty officials preferred to directly kill people in this way, without having to bear the blame......

Yao Fan's heart was sad and frightened, and he couldn't help but shudder, and quickly took his eyes off the two standing cages that had been stained with an unknown number of lives, and walked around the city with heavy steps.

At this time, Qingdaokou was still just a small fishing village and a small port, with low city walls, messy housing plans in the city, and conservative Chinese-style courtyards with black tiles and white walls lined up one after another.

"The Qing Dynasty in 1875 was like this, it was so boring, I didn't want to stay here. I want to seize the opportunity to quickly dump some things in the two planes and make money to become a rich man. And then...... I'm in 2o11! God knows when my ability to travel through time and space will be gone. Yao Fan thought as he walked on the dirt road paved with a mixture of loess and blue-striped stones in the city.

The people who were visible along the way were dressed in tatters, and people with yellow faces and thin muscles abounded, Yao Fan returned at dusk, and there were always people staring at him after he appeared.

While being observed, Yao Fan was also observing the people here.

Most of the poor here look malnourished, all of them are very dark and yellow, and there are very few tall people. Yao Fan estimates that their average height is about less than one meter six. A height of 1.85 meters like Yao Fan is about the tallest in the city.

The poor people here don't seem to need to lose weight, but they are thin, but they don't have any look, everyone exudes a kind of numbness and humility from the inside out, and the word poverty seems to be engraved on the body, and there is an indescribable sadness in the cloudy eyes.

The men all wore a withered yellow pig's tail tied to the back of their heads, and a pickled object that did not belong to China at all was extremely dirty, twisted and tangled and hung down from the very top of the scalp on the back of the head, a sign of shame that had lasted for more than 200 years. The men's foreheads, temples, and the back of their necks were all shaved together, revealing short black and yellow dirty scalps. Yao Fan knew that they had adapted to this type and the identity of this slave nation.

Yao Fan is now in the Qing Dynasty can very simple "judge people by their appearance", those who look at the better life have a clean scalp, wearing crumpled coarse cotton or coarse linen spun homespun cloth, and those who live better are wearing silk horse coats, as for the poor, Yao Fan really can't tell whether the oily and dirty clothes on their bodies are originally cotton or linen, probably they have been living like this for more than 200 years, and they don't care anymore.

When Yao Fan, who was dressed in strange clothes and clean and tidy, curiously observed the people here, the people around him also observed him as a monster, and several children followed Yao Fan with snot like tails from afar, watching every move of this fake foreign devil with curiosity. In their eyes, Yao Fan not only had strange clothes, but also walked strangely, holding his chest high and shaking his hands as if singing, and before he knew it, the children behind him were giggling and learning Yao Fan's strange movements, and deliberately shook his hands and walked up. The children soon realized that they were very proud, arrogant, abnormal, and rude to walk like this, so they stopped going on.

The gaze of passers-by did not make Yao Fan feel uncomfortable, he smiled and walked into a busy street in the city.

At the entrance of this street stands a wooden archway painted with vermilion, and there are wooden signs on the archway, which depict some allusions that Yao Fan can not understand and flowers and birds that can be understood, Yao Fan is not interested in allusions and flowers and birds, he has no interest in the culture of a backward country.

There were some wriggling rags piled on the ground on both sides of the archway, and Yao Fan looked closely, and now it turned out to be a group of barefoot and ragged black beggars, who were gathered here to ask for food.

Yao Fan subconsciously felt that these beggars were disgusting, they looked half-dead, dirty and couldn't distinguish the original color of the skin, one by one kneeling or lying, like a group of abscesses growing from the mud, the beggars only the whites of their eyes were white, but this made their eyes look like demented dried corpses, which was terrifying and disgusting, some of them knelt on the ground, and the bowl made of gourd was held high by half of the arms of the dried corpse, and some knocked on the bamboo sticks, singing a song that Yao Fan didn't understand. In addition, there are many people with different disabilities, these people are also chanting and begging, in short, these choirs who are blind or lame and describe the ugly and dirty to the extreme, it is really terrifying, at this moment they are lying on the mud ground, their eyes are sticking to Yao Fan, and they try their best to squeeze out the voice in their mouths, "Uncle is good, enjoy the food...... The Queen Mother bless the uncle, uncle give me something to eat......".

Yao Fan is very sympathetic to beggars, and he also dislikes beggars, sympathy is nature, disgust is habit, one is innate, and the other is acquired. He was wary of these dead spirits, secretly reminding himself that he was not here to do charity, and walked away quickly with a sense of guilt.

Along the way, Yao Fan can see that this street should be the most prosperous place in Qingdaokou, where there are poor men squatting in the corner of the roadside with grass marks on their heads to sell themselves, and some of them are dirty children who can't distinguish their genders and have grass marks on their heads, it seems that it is not illegal for people to be easy here.

Where you can afford to buy slaves, there must be rich people, and where there are rich people, you can do business, Yao Fan's logic is very simple.

There are still some women on this street, although the number is small, the influence is not small, at least it scared Yao Fan.

They wore red faces, scattered chests and plackets, and solicited customers on the street, obviously wild prostitutes.

Yao Fan's curious gaze attracted the attention of the wild prostitutes, and the two vulgar and ugly women shouted to Yao Fan: "Uncle, come and sit, there is good tea and melon seeds to entertain you." As he spoke, he deliberately stretched the placket of his shirt and tore it open, revealing the front breast of Bai Huahua.

Yao Fan smiled, he admired the other party's enthusiasm for selling himself, but he was not interested in the goods. The skin and meat business is the most humble service a country can provide.

Yao Fan quickened his pace and walked quickly across the street, although he was still a little strange and afraid of the local area in his heart at this moment, but he had already found a feeling, after all, this is still China, although it looks weird, and barbaric, backward unimaginable, but after all, it is still China.

This street is not long, and Yao Fan has a bottom in his heart after a trip. Although Jiaozhou is not as prosperous as Shanghai now, it has already taken the shape of a city.

Along the way, there are ready-to-wear shops, clothing shops, shaving shops, bamboo shops, butcher shops, fish shops, fish weaving net shops, salt shops, rice shops, grocery stores, hat shops, leather shops, pawnshops, porcelain shops, pharmacies, taverns, rice shops, pastry shops, tea shops, carpentry shops, and carriage shops...... The various shops pù of the storage zài clearly told Yao Fan that this is already a bustling small town.

In short, Yao Fan opened his eyes and showed the commercial structure of a small town in the Qing Dynasty.

"It seems that the city was inhabited mainly by merchants and craftsmen, as well as wealthy landowners. As for the peasants and fishermen, of course, they do not live in the city. It is also a lively place to walk around, and it is no wonder that the imperial court has set up 9 various agencies and customs here. ”

He thought about it again, and he had to have dinner with Sun Maowen, the state judge, at night, and immediately muttered in his heart————There is no money!"

"You can't have to pay for me to be an official for this meal, right? But I'm a time traveler, how can I have the silver circulating here? I didn't even bring the necessary watch and other artifacts with me, this is only to blame me for usually using my mobile phone to look at the time, never considering the possibility of crossing, it is really a loss of the face of the Northern Dynasty Longkong and other cadres to cross the party, how is this good. ”

Yao Fan, who was overstretched after thinking about it, decided to cheat first no matter what.

As a modern person from the 21st century, you can't waste your own blood for a little money, right? If you have to force yourself to cross again for a meal, how can you have a face to mess with the forum in the future.

Thinking of this, Yao Fan raised his head and straightened his chest, like a 100-meter runner preparing for the gun, shook his head left and right, shook his shoulders, patted his clothes, twisted his legs, and killed a pawn shop called Wannian Dang with vigor.

"I really can't deceive, I'll run away." Yao Fan thought inexplicably.

This pawnshop called "Wan Nian Dang" is not very large, but it is already a bright façade on this street, and the hollow window grille is pasted with clear paper, and there is no such extravagant thing as glass, which makes people look at it and feel a kind of old vicissitudes.

Yao Fan hesitated in front of the door, adjusted his mentality to a hooligan, and then his heart was horizontal, he stretched out his legs and strode in, and when he entered, he saw the guy standing behind the tall black lacquered wooden counter, looking at him in surprise as a two-devil dressed as a ghost.

After entering the shop, Yao Fan's eyes were purring, and he first looked at the shop, and then found a chair by the window, and sat down with two long legs, and howled energetically: "Come here, man!" Uncle has treasures! I'm going to send it to you for some money! ”

The guy saw that the person who came was very big, and he was dressed as a glamorous foreign devil, full of official words, but he was afraid that he was a fake foreign devil with a background, so he had to make an exception to open the cabinet door, turn out from behind the high platform that can bring psychological advantages, and carefully walked in front of Yao Fan and asked, "This guest, what do you want to be?" ”

Yao Fan rolled up the sleeves of his suit, took out his mobile phone like a treasure, solemnly held it high in his hand, and sang with a tense face: "When 10,000 taels!" ”

The guy almost laughed, and his face twitched: "The guest said that he laughed, how can this box be worth ten thousand taels." Besides, even if it's worth it, I can't be the master, and I have to ask the boss to decide. ”

Yao Fan didn't give him a good face, but turned his face black, and shouted loudly with double his middle qi: "Then what are you talking about!" Call your boss out! ”

The guy was helpless, and he didn't dare to offend the two devils of Shenjing Bing, who seemed to be very scored, and hurriedly went to the back hall to call out the boss.

After the boss came out, Yao Fan was now a decent fake foreign devil, and his attitude immediately straightened up, and he was busy watching tea.

Yao Fan looked at this boss, this person was wearing a robe of lake silk, and he was not afraid of heat, and he was also covered with a navy blue vest, and his clothes were clean. The thick eyebrows with a rich and noble appearance are close to a pair of thin eyes, the mustache on the lips is carefully trimmed into two willow leaves, which are in line with the corners of the mouth, the pale green hair under the chin is about a handful, sparsely long on the chin, and the loyal Zitang face looks like it makes people feel shrewd and honest.

After the two sides introduced themselves, Yao Fan knew that the boss's name was He Wannian, so Yao Fan took out the nonsense he had said to Sun Maowen again and reviewed it again, so He Wannian also knew that Yao Fan was a maritime merchant with a great background.

Hearing that Yao Fan was born in a Western giant merchant family, He Wannian's expression was obviously more attentive, and it was Brother Yao who opened and closed his mouth.

Yao Fanxin said: Since you are called brother and brother, then I can start deceiving.

"Boss He, please look, I'll show you this computer."

Yao Fan rolled up his sleeves, clicked on the calculator function of the mobile phone, and continuously clicked the index finger of his right hand like flying, and began to use the mobile phone to do four calculations.

He Wannian knew Arabic numerals, knew that foreigners used this method to count, looking at the Arabic numerals on the screen in the tens of millions, the calculability did not even need to blink an eye, and this jade plate called the light of the screen was so magical......

He Wannian had seen all kinds of foreign goods more than once before, such as matches, clocks, and wool...... No matter how strange it is, it will not get out of human cognitive common sense after all, but it is the first time he has seen such a rare foreign goods in Yao Fan's hands. He Wannian really felt that this computer was simply a treasure in the sky, and it was incredibly clever.

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