167: Reincarnation does not stop
What does it look like after death, when a person dies like a lamp goes out, or does he enter reincarnation and come back?
Is life and death reincarnated?
Citigroup, Montana.
In 1888...
Inside the foul-smelling, musty-smelling, filthy, rudimentary tent sat a young man who looked like a beggar.
This young man's name is Lin Yao, and his ancestors are coastal residents on the Tang side.
In 1856, a large gold mine was discovered in Colorado, and a merchant named Hoggs recruited miners in the port of Tang and gave a sky-high price of ten taels of silver a month.
After a few years, Lin Zhizhou settled down in Citigroup, became a small rancher, and married a blonde wife.
The two later had a child and named the child Lin Yao.
"I'm alive again!"
Lin Yao sat in the tent and looked blankly at himself in the mirror.
He who was allowed to go said that this was his third life.
In his first life, he was an assistant police officer and died in a car accident.
In the second life, he was an undercover agent in the icebreaker operation, and he tried his best to win away Uncle Dong's trust and cut off the entire tower in one fell swoop.
In the end, he became famous, and when he was about to go to the peak of his life, he was hit by a car and died on the way to office.
This was a premeditated retaliation, and the person who did it was a villager from Tazhai Village, this person Lin Yao was very familiar with, his name was Lin Shengwen.
Lin Shengwen did not die, he hid after being rescued.
He attributed all the faults to Lin Yao, thinking that if it weren't for Lin Yao's appearance, Tazhai would not have moved around today.
Eventually, he planned the attack, using a dirt truck and crashing into Lin Yao, who was driving to work.
Hate?
No, Lin Yao recalled it at this time and found that he didn't hate Lin Shengwen at all.
In any case, Tazhai is his home, where there are his people, and his surname is Lin.
Because of his undercover operations, thousands of people were arrested and dozens were shot.
It's just that he didn't expect that the person who attacked him was Lin Shengwen, and he would be resurrected for the second time after death.
He vaguely remembered that he was floating like a weightless hydrogen balloon.
Soon, a blue light flashed in the sky, and when he came to his senses, he changed from Lin Yao in Tazhai to Lin Yao now.
A young man who was born in Citigroup and came to Montana to earn a living because he couldn't get along in his hometown.
"It's started, it's started, hurry up and come out you slackers!"
Just as he was thinking about it, there was a commotion outside.
The man who spoke was Taylor, a heavy drinker who was in charge of a tanner.
Speaking of which, Lin Yao is also one of the tanners, he was hired by the furrier Henry, as a tanner's apprentice, and followed everyone to this Indian reserve.
Their purpose was simple, to hunt wild beasts, collect their furs, and sell them to the big merchants on the French side.
"Lin Yao, are you awake?"
The tent was lifted, and a tall, middle-aged man in a fur hat burst in with a flask.
Seeing that Lin Yao woke up, he had a little more smile on his face, and said: "Thank God, you can be regarded as awake, you have been in a coma for two days, and if you continue to be in such a coma, we can only give up on you." ”
"Good morning Mr. Taylor, I'm feeling better, just a little headache."
Lin Yao got up from the bed and touched the gauze on his head.
Taylor took a sip of wine and said in a peculiarly loud voice: "Since you are awake, then get ready to work, for God's sake, I will arrange some easy work for you today." ”
Listening to Taylor's tone of "I'm taking care of you", Lin Yao really wanted to punch him in the nose.
If it weren't for his reincarnation, the real Lin Yao would have died.
Two days ago, the poor boy had been ordered to go to the mountains to cut wood for a makeshift camp.
On the way back from pulling the log, his feet slipped and rolled down the hill and hit his head on the stones.
These people bandaged him, and then left him in the tent to die, if it weren't for Lin Yaojiu occupying the magpie's nest, it is estimated that the predecessor would be cold.
"Why don't you speak, you won't want to rest for another day, will you?"
"My God, you've been off for two days, and everyone has been working for the past two days, don't forget that you're on a payroll, and you should stay at home if you want to rest."
Seeing that Lin Yao didn't speak, Taylor's attitude immediately changed.
It looks like the boss of a black-hearted factory, when he is discussing wages with employees.
"Thank you for your kindness, I'll go to work."
Lin Yao sorted out the memories of his predecessor and replied nonchalantly.
"It was better to do so."
Taylor took a deep look at him before leaving, and in his impression, this kid with half Tang blood was as docile as a little sheep.
What's the matter today, there was a perfunctory tone in his tone, and he didn't dare to come out in front of him before.
"21 years old, living in Texas, there is a childhood sweetheart named Emma, because the woman's mother objected, vowed to go out and make a name for himself and go back."
"After three years of mixing around outside and achieving nothing, I am now an apprentice tanner under Henry Fur."
"In terms of personality, I don't like to talk, I lack self-confidence, I have no friends, and I am always bullied."
"My family has a small pasture, but there are not many cattle and sheep, and it is better off than the poor in the local area, but it is not as good as the middle-class family."
After briefly sorting out the memories of his predecessor, Lin Yao found that he had come to Citigroup before World War I.
At this time, Citi was recovering from the Civil War.
Oil tycoon, John Rockefeller
Banker, J.P. Morgan.
Railroad tycoon, Cornelius Vanderbilt.
The Iron King, Andrew Carnegie.
The car king, Henry Ford.
They were a group of people who changed the times, and now, except for the railway king, everyone else is active in the business kingdom.
Among them, Carnegie Steel has not yet reached its peak, and JP Morgan has not yet reached the White House.
Rockefeller was preparing to expand overseas, and Henry Ford was still an engineer at the time, and he wanted to work for Edison.
And he is a small splash under the tide of the big times, and he has achieved nothing after a few years of mixing outside.
"Lin Yao, Taylor asked me to call you to help in the kitchen."
A cold wind blew in, and it was Taylor's nephew William, a fifteen-year-old man with a freckled face who liked to listen to stories and couldn't tell whether others were bragging or what was true.
"Okay, let's go."
Lin Yao did not refuse, because he was paid.
The Henry Fur Company offered them a very high price, and an apprentice tanner, like him, was $30 a month.
Don't underestimate this figure, it's 1888, and Citi's GDP per capita is only $500.
In fact, the monthly income is 30 US dollars, 360 US dollars a year, which is definitely the upper middle income in Citigroup at the moment.
If you don't believe me, you can calculate that 1 dollar is 100 cents. $30 is 3,000 cents.
A glass of regular beer is 2 cents, a pound of flour is 5 cents, a pound of vegetables is 4-8 cents, and a cream cake is 5 cents.
For an ordinary family of five, five pounds of flour and three pounds of vegetables a day are calculated, and fifty cents is enough.
Lin Yao's income can completely support his family, and the surplus money can also allow him to go to the bar for a drink at night, or save some savings to add a table and chair to the family.
This is still the salary of an apprentice, and the master is even more, at least $50 a month.
Of course, it is not these workers who make the most money, but the hunting teams responsible for protecting the workers and hunting wild beasts.
Those who eat with guns can get $80 a month, and there are bonuses for hunting grizzly bears, timberwolves, foxes, leopards, and the like.
When he first joined Henry Fur, he was ready to be a hunter, but his marksmanship was unreliable.
I had no choice but to become an apprentice tanner, and my daily task was to help the masters clean the fur of their prey, and then the masters would make the fur to prevent it from rotting.
Five days ago, they came to the area, ready to go on a big job.
If nothing else, they will stay here for three months and will not leave until winter.