"Ming cloth, Ming cloth, the good Ming cloth on the Fengdu Royal Weaving Bureau!"

"Foreign cloth is not as good as plain cloth, pull three feet to make new clothes for children!"

"Ming ginseng, the best Ming ginseng, the secret medicine of the former Ming court!"

"Big back door cigarettes, smoke one to relieve sleepiness, smoke two to strengthen muscles and bones, smoke three night kings and two women!"

……

Mo Guilan hugged the small cloth bag with one hand and her son with the other, listening to the shouts from the surrounding shops with a frightened expression.

Although it was Wu Nong's soft words, it was all thunder that fell in Mo Guilan's ears.

Has Shanghai changed?

But those shopkeepers still have braids!

Mo Guilan panicked and was stunned, but found that her son had run away.

When I looked up, I saw a young man crawling on a telephone pole, looking around curiously, and a large circle of peddlers and pawns applauded below.

Who else could it be if it wasn't his own son?

"Feihong, Feihong, you come down for me!"

"Okay, Mom!"

As soon as the young man turned over, he jumped off the telephone pole more than four meters high, and the onlookers who ate melons all applauded loudly and shouted good kung fu.

The boy also threw his braid behind his head in style, and hugged his fists around the field to thank him.

However, in less than three seconds, he was twisted by Mo Guilan's ears.

"Teng Teng Teng, mother, I know it's wrong!"

The young man hurriedly said goodbye and was dragged out of the crowd by Mo Guilan all the way.

"How did you promise me when you went out? You are so naughty, how dare I take you out to sea? ”

"Mom, you let go, I'm wrong, I'm wrong, can't I ......"

"This beach is really much more prosperous than Foshan and Guangzhou, and the children just want to climb high and look far away to see what kind of scenery it is."

"And what do you see?" Mo Guilan let go of her son's ears and asked angrily.

"I saw a big pier on the south side, and there were a lot of big boats on it!"

The young man said excitedly, "Those steamers will still smoke, is it what my uncle said, the ship of the Ming Sailor?" ”

"Shh

Hearing the words Da Ming, Mo Huilan instinctively wanted to cover her son's mouth.

But when I think about it, here, Daming doesn't seem to be a forbidden word at all, even hawkers dare to sell Mingbu Ming rice on the street, and it is regarded as a high-end imported product that is comparable to foreign goods.

"Feihong, your uncle said that he mixed up some inheritance outside, let's go to him now, we must have trouble, do you know?" Mo Huilan admonished again.

"Mother, don't worry, the child knows!"

The young man, or Huang Feihong, patted his chest and said, "But then again, what is Uncle Mo Bai doing in Daming?" ”

"Mother doesn't know."

Mo Huilan shook her head and said, "Let's walk the streets and alleys, there is no fixed place, it would be good if his letter could be delivered, the content was already a long time ago, anyway, he said that it was a hope." ”

Mo Huilan did not tell her son, and her brother said in the letter that he could earn 4 taels of silver a month.

In Mo Huilan's opinion, this is not nonsense!

4 taels of silver!

The imperial court silver of the county magistrate of Qipin County is only forty taels of silver a year, can he have more than the county magistrate's silver?

If it weren't for the fact that his younger brother has always been honest, and this letter was also written in the code words of the Mo family's dart bureau in the past, Mo Huilan would almost think that she had received a fake letter.

Mo Huilan is also not sure why her younger brother makes so much money, the only possibility she can think of is probably that he has done business, and the owner is more generous.

Judging from the date of writing the letter, the letter was written at the end of the second year of Tongzhi.

It's been more than two years since then.

I don't know if Mo Bai has become a shopkeeper.

Mo Huilan thinks that her younger brother Mo Bai is smart and dignified, and the owner values him so much, so he should be the shopkeeper of a store by now.

If that's the case, that's a good thing.

Originally, Mo Huilan didn't want to bother her younger brother.

But this time, his son Xia violated the ban with martial arts, and he played a young master of a banner man in Foshan, which caused a lot of trouble, so he thought of going overseas to avoid it.

sighed, to be honest, Mo Huilan felt that the future was really unpredictable.

……

"This poor master, may I ask if there is a sea ship going to Citigroup here......"

On the dock, Mo Huilan finally found a Huai Yong who looked more generous, and asked nervously.

The difference between Cantonese and Anhui dialect is really a bit far, and the two sides barely communicate with each other.

As soon as he heard that the other party was going to "Citigroup", Huai Yong's eyes immediately lit up, and he hurriedly told Mo Huilan and her son to stay here and not to move, while he ran away.

After about twenty minutes, just when Mo Huilan was at a loss and didn't know whether to leave, that Huai Yong nodded and brought back a short-haired sailor.

Although this sailor is not one of those terrible "Citigroup" sailors, he is also from Ming nationality!

Since the Ming-French War, the prestige of the Ming Dynasty has long resounded in Shanghai, and some people even call the former American Concession the Ming Concession.

In fact, American businessmen have been almost driven away, and now that place is basically Ming businessmen.

And the sailor in front of him is the sailor of the Daming Dolphin Shipping Company.

Dolphin Shipping Co., Ltd., registered in Xinhu, is a private shipping company in Daming.

Because his hands and feet were clean, he did not engage in evil deeds such as pigboats, but he survived the previous purge and grew stronger.

Although this sailor is not an officer and soldier of the naval division, he is still a man in Huaiyong's eyes.

In fact, it is not that Huai Yong thought that he would also cross the sea to become a Ming man, and even many people did this, Li Hongzhang personally took the lead in selling Huai Yong Xiang soldiers in the early years.

But the times are different, and now that he Lao Li is ready to rebuild the Tang Dynasty, where can he still let Huaiyong flee in a large area.

And the Ming Dynasty also needed the help of the Huai army to continuously raise immigrants, so he also signed a treaty with Li Hongzhang not to dig the wall.

But even so, Li Hongzhang could only give Huai Yong, who was in charge of the dock and handed over to Daming, a large salary increase.

Moreover, these Huaiyong recruit immigrants also have performance commissions.

That's why he helped Mo Huilan and her son go through the procedures for going abroad.

Although Mo Huilan is a little old and her skin is a little dark, she looks like she has no bound feet.

The Chinese girl who did not bind her feet gave a particularly high commission, which made Huaiyong very happy.

Likewise, the sailors of the Dolphin Company were delighted.

A Chinese woman who has given birth and raised, and she also brings a half-sized child, which is really not poked!

Daming is now short of such talents!

Just when both of them were very happy, Mo Huilan spoke again worriedly: "Two poor masters...... I don't have the money to buy a ferry ticket, can I use this kind of jiaozi......"

The sailor and Huai Yong laughed, and were about to say that they would go to Daming Bao to eat and live without spending a penny, when they suddenly saw the swarthy and poor old woman in front of them, silently taking out a Daming treasure banknote.

On the treasure banknote, the heroic posture of a heroic man riding a big horse is vivid.

And the denomination under the portrait is...... 50 RMB......