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"Aunt, I'm Li Yaoyang, remember me? Is Xiao Er here? Li Yaoyang tried his best to keep his tone flat and not let the other party worry.

"Bright Sun? Eh~ Remember, remember, ah~ Hello Mr. Li, I am..."

Li Yaoyang reluctantly interrupted the other party:

"Auntie, I'm sorry, I have something urgent to find Xiao Er, can you help me call him?"

"Huh? Little two? He's out, what do you have to do with him? I asked my neighbors to help me find it? ”

"Out of the house? When did you leave? Where did it go? Where can I find him? Li Yaoyang hurriedly asked.

"Been walking for a while, 20 minutes? I don't know where to go, this kid doesn't tell us anything. ”

"Oh, okay, I see, aunt, you pay attention to rest, I'll go see you when I'm free."

Hung up the phone, Li Yaoyang finally became nervous, what Long Ye said so eagerly must something happen, could it be that the Anliang Chamber of Commerce wants to retaliate?

Damn it! Now how he misses the days of mobile phones.

Chinatown is so big, so far away, where can I find someone?

Where can the key junior two go? This morning, you can't go to the Chamber of Commerce again to find faults, right?

There is no better way, but to find a needle in a haystack, mobilize all the brothers in Chinatown to find someone, and finally, one brother knows the whereabouts of Xiao Er.

While asking the brother to find someone, he called Ron.

Xiao Er went to the factory in Soho, and Ron should be there.

After connecting, Li Yaoyang asked with a split face:

"Has Xiao Er arrived?"

"Little two? No, he's coming? ”

"Listen, when Xiao Er arrives later, let him take someone back to Atlantic City as soon as possible, don't be in a hurry to ask why, I'll explain to you later, be fast, the sooner the better!"

"Huh? Something went wrong? ”

"Yes!"

"Oh oh ~ Okay, I saw him and immediately asked him to go back."

Ron is sometimes unreliable, but he has never been ambiguous in major matters, and Li Yaoyang is still willing to trust him.

However, luck is sometimes so mysterious, Li Yaoyang has made all the efforts, but after all, he is still a step slower, Xiao Er was arrested, and there were four brothers who were arrested with him.

Who took it? Li Yaoyang didn't know, Long Ye definitely knew.

That night, Li Yaoyang appeared in Chinatown, and after he learned that Xiao Er was missing, he rushed back as soon as possible.

"Bright Sun!" Long Ye shouted.

"Master Long, what the hell is going on?"

Without taking a break, Li Yaoyang asked directly.

"Come in and talk about it."

Long Ye let him into the office, closed the door, and said in a deep voice:

"Do you know the Six Great Halls?"

"Of course!"

Stunned, Li Yaoyang was excited:

"Aren't they in San Francisco? Can they take care of New York? ”

"Hehe, they are in the highest institution of the ugly Chinese, what can't they do?"

Long Ye always felt a little awkward about this, did he have any grudges with the other party?

"So Xiao Er was captured by them? An agency in charge of mediation actually went down to arrest people in person, is it true that Li Yaoyang has no gun in his hand and no bullets in the gun? His face was gloomy and watery.

"It should be King Jimmy who asked the guild hall for help, why did you let Xiao Er go to the Anliang Chamber of Commerce to demonstrate?" Long Ye didn't figure it out, why did he get in touch with the Anliang Chamber of Commerce for no reason?

Li Yaoyang also did not hide it:

"King Jimmy's kid is cowardly, the woman who has repeatedly harassed me, and his family, I will let Xiao Er warn the other party."

"I see, since it's easy to say, let's wait, wait for the letter from the guild hall, I'll go with you."

Li Yaoyang squinted:

"In any case, they're crossing the line!"

"And what about you? They are used to being domineering, they have been working together for so many years, the west has been controlled by them, some people have guns and bullets, and now they can only see if my old face can still be worth some money! ”

Li Yaoyang sighed:

"Master Long, I'm sorry for your trouble."

"Don't say that, Guangjitang and Dongxing are both prosperous and lossy, and they don't give me face when they do this."

Speaking of San Francisco, it is definitely a place that overseas Chinese have to mention, and it is also the first gathering point for Chinese people to go to the American continent, witnessing the twists and turns, hardships and even enslavement of the early Chinese, and it is also the history of one of the most distinctive communities in overseas diverse societies.

San Francisco's Chinatown, located on the west side of the densely populated Manhattan neighborhood, is located in the heart of San Francisco's history, the Garden Corner Plaza.

Compared to other countries' immigrant enclaves, such as Neon Street and Mexican neighborhoods, Chinatown is both large and recognizable.

San Francisco's Chinatown is about 1 kilometer long and wide, with 16 streets, and is known as the "city within a city".

Everywhere you can see Chinese-style buildings, storefronts, Chinese character signs, pennants hanging in mid-air, and red lanterns, and people mainly speak Mandarin, Cantonese, and Hakka.

The Nevada section of the intercontinental railway, which runs from east to west of the country, was the most difficult, and the whole line was completed by Chinese workers, and many Chinese froze to death at the construction site in the ice and snow.

The entrance to Chinatown is located on Tupan Street, and there is a green tiled archway.

Because there are double dragons playing with pearls on the top of the archway, the local Chinese also call it "Dragon Gate".

Walking through this door, there is a long street, lined with Chinese restaurants, supermarkets, calligraphy and painting shops, and from time to time neighbors go in to find goods from their hometown.

In early 1848, news of the discovery of gold in California's rivers spread far and wide, attracting people from all over the world who dreamed of becoming rich overnight.

The Port of San Francisco became a gateway for immigrants entering California, and it quickly ushered in a wave of population growth.

Among them are hundreds of thousands of Chinese.

At that time, the abolitionist movement was emerging in the country, and the contradiction between the great development of industry and the "labor shortage" was becoming increasingly acute.

As a result, many foreigners colluded with the Chinese compradors to recruit a large number of landless peasants to work as coolies in Lingnan and other areas.

The comprador painted to them the prospect of going to the ugly country, and after paying the very low money and goods, they put them in prison and waited for them to be "loaded" on the sea ship bound for the ugly country, a transaction called "selling piglets".

After departing from China, the laborers were confined to the lower decks of the suffocating, dimly lit cabins, eating the worst of the food, and the germs spread among the population, and about 3 to 50 percent of the Chinese laborers died of heat stroke, cholera, and other diseases.

As a result, these ships have also been likened to "floating hells".

In 1848, the ship "Condor" sailed into the port of San Francisco, and three Chinese laborers, two men and one woman, disembarked from the ship, which also became the first batch of Chinese laborers to go to the United States recorded in history.

Since then, the number of Chinese workers has gradually climbed.

Twenty years later, the Treaty of Anson was signed, which clearly stated that the two countries respected the freedom of immigration, further opened the door to Chinese immigration, and continued to set off an immigration boom.

According to the archives of the Chouguo Customs, in the 30 years after 1848, more than 200,000 and nearly 300,000 Chinese entered the Chouguo through San Francisco, and 93,000 Chinese left from here.

For those Chinese who have survived the difficult journey and are lucky enough to make it to San Francisco, they are greeted by heavy manual labor and inhuman living conditions.

A large number of Chinese entered the ranks of gold panning, and after the gold mines were dug up, they built railways, opened mines, farmed fields, caught sea fish, washed clothes, and they were at peace with what they encountered, and they supported themselves in various ways.

In particular, in order to build a large railway connecting the east and west coasts of the ugly country, countless Chinese workers died.

By 1870, 28 percent of California miners were Chinese.

Because the Chinese have heavy work and are in a highly dangerous state, there was once a popular Cantonese song at that time, "There is a woman who does not marry Jin Shanlang, and she has been in an empty house for ten years and nine years".

After paying the capitation fee for the "snakeheads", the Chinese saved up money to buy land and build houses, gradually settled down in San Francisco, and moved their domestic living customs and cultural habits here.

At that time, the Chinese on the streets of San Francisco wore long robes, horse coats, and embroidered shoes, and children wore Chinese-style gowns and tiger head shoes, and their lives were not much different from those in China.

Even every year during the Lunar New Year, there will be a New Year parade, this activity has been preserved to this day, every Spring Festival to dance dragon and lion dances, set off firecrackers, worship the gods and pray for blessings, lively and extraordinary, full of traditional New Year's flavor.

As the influence of Chinese immigrants in San Francisco continued to expand in some industries, which had a certain impact on the dominance of whites in these industries, and the economic crisis led to fewer jobs, the contradictions between Chinese and foreign countries became increasingly intense.

Angry at the loss of their jobs, white people formed the "Workers' Party", shouting that "the Chinese must go back", and frequently launched violent attacks against the Chinese.

The Chinese Exclusion Act was born, and Chinese workers were not allowed to enter the country for 10 years, and all ugly Chinese could not be naturalized, could not buy property, could not testify in court, could not marry with other ethnic groups, and many public services were not provided to Chinese.

As a result, the life of the ugly Chinese entered the darkest period.

The Chinese in San Francisco were herded into a fixed area enclosed by four streets, as if they were in a cage surrounded by high walls.

Once the Chinese crossed the border and came to the white-populated North Shore district, they would be savagely driven back by the whites with knives.

The Chinese who suffered from the strict blockade set up overseas Chinese groups, public offices, charity halls, and clan associations one after another, raising funds to build their own hospitals, Chinese schools, garment factories, shops, jewelry stores, etc., huddling together to keep warm in the "cold winter", and forced themselves to break a road of self-reliance.

Externally, they are cautious and swallow their anger, avoid causing trouble, and find life in the cracks.

Chinese generally attach great importance to the education of their children, but it was very difficult for Chinese children in the early days to study in public schools in California.

Although San Francisco established its first Chinese public school decades ago, the administration has a deep-seated hatred of Chinese discrimination and adopts discriminatory policies such as segregation, and the school has closed its doors several times before reopening in the face of Chinese protests and struggles.

In this regard, the Chinese can only send their children to private schools, or hire teachers to tutor them, or send them back to China for education, and some children transfer between schools one after another.

Chinatown is full of various associations, halls, associations and service centers.

The San Francisco Chinese Association, which developed in the early days of immigration, is a grassroots organization spontaneously formed by Chinese in San Francisco, and it is also the biggest 'support' of the ugly Chinese.

At a time when the Qing Dynasty was unable to protect its overseas subjects, the Guild Kwan always campaigned for the interests of the Chinese and gradually developed into a transnational non-governmental organization leading the overseas Chinese.

At the beginning of the 20th century, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale hit San Francisco, becoming one of the most serious disasters in the history of the country.

The earthquake brought about a fire that burned almost the entire Chinatown to rubble, with only the old St. Mary's Cathedral remaining.

In the aftermath of the earthquake, some property developers took a fancy to the well-located Chinatown and wanted to use it for commercial development, preparing to drive the Chinese to the desolate southeast district.

After hearing the news, the local Chinese quickly took action and built buildings with distinctive Chinese style on the site of Chinatown.

After more than ten years of large-scale construction, the scope of Chinatown has not only not been reduced, but has also been expanded.

Sheng Cheong Building was the first building built by Chinese people after the disaster, and it is located on the busiest corner of Chinatown.

The four-storey building has a beige façade and a three-story pagoda on the corner roof.

In addition, a traditional Chinese eaves have been added to each floor, which is particularly eye-catching from a distance.

However, the designer of the building is a designer of Scottish origin, and it can be seen that this gentleman is not too familiar with traditional Chinese culture, the combination of Chinese and Western is obviously blunt, and Chinese style is only reduced to decoration.

From San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf, you can take a ferry to an island called Angel Island.

This is the largest of the three islands in San Francisco Bay, isolated, fragrant with flowers and pleasant scenery, and it is a complete pleasure to walk in, which belongs to the future

For hundreds of thousands of Chinese who once waited for identity verification and looked forward to immigrating to an ugly country, they spent the most humiliating, dark, and desperate time of their lives here.

The introduction of the Chinese Exclusion Act could not stop young Chinese who were eager to make a living in an ugly country or return to the United States to reunite with their families.

They came to San Francisco on a steamer, claiming that they were born in the country of Chou, that they automatically had the nationality of the country of Chou according to the laws of the country, that their parents sent him back to China after he was born, and that he was now returning to the United States.

Later, the famous Bruce Lee is an example, he returned to Xiangjiang shortly after he was born, and when he grew up, he was able to return to the ugly country with the birth certificate of Tung Wah Hospital.

In the early days, the immigration review scale was looser, and as long as the identity of the sponsor was more reliable, the review would be passed.

But later, the entry control of ugly countries became strict and even strict, and it was very difficult to pass the examination.

Corresponding to the Alice Island immigration station on the east coast, the main function of the West Coast immigration station on Angel Island is to screen the identity of Asians who are mainly Chinese, and make a decision on whether to allow immigrants.

A scholar once made a very vivid evaluation - the existence of Alice Island is to let Europeans in, and the existence of Angel Island is to let the Chinese get out.

"Brother Shen!"

"Hmm!"

Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.

But it doesn't matter who it is.

There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.

on this.

Shen Changqing is used to it.

Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.

Arguably.

In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.

When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.

The Demon Suppression Division is huge.

The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.

Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.

Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.

Have memories of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.

Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.

Access to the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.

The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.