After walking a few miles from the shantytown where Xia Gong gathered a series of wooden houses, the vision in front of him gradually broadened.

The sea and sky are magnificent, with hovering seabirds flying in the sky, and the calm seaside is full of large ships with white sails and smoke.

Pei Chu remembered that when he came to Jinshan City, he sat on the big smoking boat, hundreds of people were crammed into a small cabin, and many people vomited and vented on the way, so there was no need to mention the smell.

During this period, Pei Chu remembered that the crew and sailors carried a lot of people out of the cabin who couldn't hold on, and it was self-evident where they went, but fortunately, he was still young and his body could endure it. Rao is like this, after being picked up by Fang Yunhu in Jinshan City, he still lay down for two or three days before he recovered.

"Damn it, you pigs, move fast! If you don't finish loading this morning, I tell you, don't take a penny from me this month, this month! ”

In front of the Varna Shipping Company, Pei Chu and Fang Yunhu had just arrived outside the warehouse outside the door, when they heard a sharp voice like a night crow shouting in the federal language from a distance.

It was Christopher Varner, a short, stocky middle-aged white man with a rosacea, a big belly, and a freight supervisor at the Varna Shipping Company, standing on a wooden crate in the doorway, foaming at the workers below.

From the door of the warehouse of the Varna Shipping Company, twenty or thirty summer laborers were carrying wooden boxes half a person high from the warehouse in pairs on their shoulders and carrying them to a steam cargo ship on the edge of the dock.

Pei Chu remembered that this was the cargo that had just been unloaded from the steel rail car a few days ago, when a box of goods was overturned, he took a quick look, it should be cotton cloth and gauze, and some tobacco and the like.

"This ship is for the Empire."

Fang Yunhu glanced at the steam cargo ship parked on the edge of the dock from a distance, turned his head and whispered to Pei Chu.

Pei Chu immediately understood that those goods should also be sold to the empire, the empire has not been peaceful over the years, there are many foreign merchants, although the hometown is remote, but because of the sea, I have also seen a lot of foreign cloth produced by the federation.

"Hey, what are you two still doing there, don't you see that the others have already started?"

While Pei Chu and Fang Yunhu were looking at the steamship, Christopher Varner, who was standing on the tall wooden box, noticed the two of them at some point, and immediately yelled angrily.

"Good morning, Mr. Varner!"

With a smile on his face, Pei Chu bowed slightly to Varna and bowed slightly to the bow he had learned from the sailors. His federal language was already able to cope with simple communication.

"It's already a quarter past seven in the morning, so it's not early." Christopher Varner took out a linked watch from his arms, glanced at it, and then looked at Pei Chu and Fang Yunhu, grinning and revealing a mouthful of jagged yellow teeth, hehe sneered, "Fifteen minutes late, your salary will be halved this morning." ”

"Old Val, you dare to withhold my wages?"

As soon as Christopher Varner's words fell, Fang Yunhu's eyes were already wide with anger, and he rushed in front of the other party in a few steps, and the half-human-high wooden box stepped up in one step, grabbed the other party's collar with both hands, and asked sharply.

Varna was obviously taken aback by Fang Yunhu's movements, although he was obese, he was grabbed by the collar by a strong man of 1.9 meters, he was still worried that the other party would beat him, and hurriedly said: "Fang, you have been late three times this month, this is the company's rule......"

"your grandma's rules!" Fang Yunhu scolded, "If you want to calculate this, first make up for last month's overtime pay for me." ”

"Fang, there is no overtime pay for summer workers." Varna explained, then looked at Fang Yunhu's appearance of wanting to eat people, his tone was a little weaker, and his eyes rolled slightly, "Okay, Fang, I won't count your tardiness for you, so I will make up your overtime pay." ”

"Humph!" Fang Yunhu saw that Varna had softened, and suddenly snorted coldly, let go of the other party's collar and jumped off the wooden box.

He knew that Varner was right, on the dock side of Jinshan City, the white and black employees of the Federation had overtime pay, but the Xia people did not. Although he is not angry with this rule, as long as he still wants to make a living here, he can't compete with this convention.

"Mr. Varner, I wish you a good mood today!"

After Pei Chu watched Fang Yunhu jump off the wooden box, he followed in a few steps, and before leaving, he didn't forget to say a nice word to Varna.

"Damn pigs, I don't feel good when I see you."

Varna looked at the backs of Fang Yunhu and Pei Chu, spat at the mouth and scolded in a low voice.

As he spoke, he turned his head to the other Xia Gong, who were watching the excitement, and yelled viciously: "Look at what, hurry up and work!" ”

Entering the company's warehouse, many Xia Gong and other dock workers of different colors who were carrying goods along the way greeted Fang Yunhu with Pei Chu in with a smile.

Fang Yunhu and those Xia workers all nodded with a smile, snorted coldly at the dock workers of other skin colors, and said to Pei Chu as they walked:

"Achu, people are in a foreign country, you can't be weak, these white skins and black skins are bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, if you keep silent, you will be bullied."

"Got it, Uncle Fang."

Pei Chu nodded, from the empire to the Federation, he had seen many scenes that he had never seen in a small village before. Especially on the dock side of Jinshan City, there are thousands of dock workers, and there are all kinds of gangs, not to mention the law of the jungle, but if you are weak, you will definitely be bullied.

On the contrary, if you are vicious enough, most people will respect you.

It is precisely because of Fang Yunhu's boldness and righteousness that he dares to stand up for his co-workers and argue with the whites of some freight companies, which makes him have some prestige among Xia Gong.

Although a white freight manager like Varna is not really afraid of Fang Yunhu, many times he can not offend and choose not to offend, and the strength of the Xia people's gang at Jinshan Wharf is also not small.

Although Fang Yunhu is a peripheral member, he has a wide range of people, and he can still bring some trouble to the shipping company.

It's not just Xia Gong and blacks who sink in the Sisko Sea, there are also many whites who have disappeared inexplicably, and every year the missing person notice in the police station can fill an entire Jinshan Times.

"Fang, you're late!"

Entering the warehouse, there was a fat black man in uniform standing at the door, holding a swarthy stick in his hand, and greeted Fang Yunhu with a smile.

"Keston, can you still walk now?" Fang Yunhu smiled and pointed at the other party's big belly.

"Of course, you know, the community I live in is five miles from here."

The fat black man replied with a smile, then glanced left and right, leaned slightly closer to Fang Yunhu's ear, and whispered, "Fang, Mr. Bliss has a job tonight, and he needs twenty people, can you come?" ”

"Bliss?" Fang Yunhu frowned slightly, then shook his head, "Keston, you know that our Xia Gong will not help him with his work. ”

"Okay." The black man named Keston spread his hands, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, and pouted, "That's why I'm a security guard now, and you're still doing labor." ”

Fang Yunhu didn't pay any attention to the black man's slightly mocking tone, he had been in Jinshan City for a long time, and he knew that there were some things that would not have any good results for them to get involved with Xia Gong, who had traveled across the ocean.

"Let's go, Achu, let's get to work!"

"Okay, Uncle Fang."

Pei Chu watched the huge black man and Fang Yunhu exchange a few words briefly, and did not explore who Mr. Bliss was in the mouths of the two.

Jinshan Wharf is mixed, all kinds of gang forces and hometown associations have a lot of influence, because the empire has lost wars in recent years, Xia Gong's status is lower than that of people of other skin colors and countries, and it is not particularly easy to live in peace and stability at the wharf.

Workers in the warehouse are busy moving boxes of goods out, and then immediately the workers come forward, tied with hemp rope in pairs, and carry them from the warehouse to the cargo ship outside the dock.

Pei Chu and Fang Yunhu were naturally a group, a huge wooden box half a person high, one meter wide, and almost two meters long.

Pei Chu walked in front and could feel the wooden stick on his shoulder, which made his steps tremble a little, but he still gritted his teeth and walked forward step by step. This is still Fang Yunhu's order to take care of him, the wooden stick in front of him has to grow a little, and the weight he bears is also a little smaller.

Each box of goods is about two or three hundred catties, and few ordinary strong laborers can carry it, not to mention the clothes that are moved from the warehouse to the dock are more than two miles away, plus the box is huge, even these dock workers are not easy.

"Achu, are you tired?"

After walking for almost four or five hundred meters, Fang Yunhu, who was behind, could obviously feel that Pei Chu's footsteps were a little staggering, and he moved his shoulders slightly towards the wooden stick in front of him, and asked.

"I didn't ...... It's okay, Uncle Fang, I can hold on. A lot of sweat broke out on Pei Chu's forehead, but he still gritted his teeth and walked forward.

"Hmm."

Fang Yunhu nodded silently, and did not say to rest. When he first came to work at the wharf, his shoulders were also worn out of the skin, scabbed and broken, broken and knotted, and after a few months, the strength was also trained.

After walking the section from the warehouse to the dock with difficulty, I soon saw a large steam ship three or four stories high parked at the dock by the sea, the ship was very large, especially when you look at it closely, and anyone who sees such a large ship for the first time will have a shocking feeling.

This is one of the main cargo ships of Vallena Cargo, and although the draft is not shallow, the side of the ship is still five or six meters above the ground.

A wooden bridge about half a meter wide and more than 20 meters long was lowered from the side of the ship, and dock workers carried goods from the wooden bridge and got onto the ship tremblingly.

Came to the wooden bridge under the ship, at this time, the front was really strong and patted the team, carrying boxes of goods on the ship, Fang Yunhu asked Pei Chu to put down a box of goods to take a breath, and instructed: "Wait for the bridge to slow down, every step is steady." ”

Fang Yunhu's face is not red or panting, he is already strong, and his perennial dock coolie career has given him a good job. A laborer like him has to make dozens of trips a day, and there are hundreds of trips when he is busy.

Pei Chu already felt that his waist and knees were sore, and he was about to lose his legs, but he knew that there was no other choice at this time, and he crossed the ocean to Jinshan, not only to earn food for himself, but also to earn money to send back to his family in the empire.

"Ugh yo ......"

At this moment, two laborers on the wooden bridge in front of them were carrying a large box of goods, walking on the wooden bridge, and suddenly a person seemed to stumble on the rivets used for anti-slip fixation on the wooden bridge, and the box of goods fell off.

"Be careful!"

"Get out of the way!"

Pei Chu only had time to turn around, when he suddenly saw a huge black shadow smashing down towards his location.