The scenery of Gusu City is excellent, the air is pleasant, the water and lakes are dotted, and it is still a big city with electricity, which is a good place to travel and live.

When he received Bao Guowei's letter, Young Master Chu didn't really want to leave, money was nothing to him, and he was never stingy with scattered wealth, but time was precious.

"I don't know how much it's worth?"

What was said in this letter was really a bit rampant, and Chu Zeben didn't believe it very much, but considering that after all, he was a person who had invested, and Gusu was not far away, so it didn't hurt to go there.

Even if what the letter says is of little value, it is not a loss to observe the beautiful scenery of the Hanshan Ancient Temple outside Gusu City, and the new train passes, and it will not take long for the two cities to go back and forth now.

The new railway between Shanghai and Suzhou can easily reach speeds of 40 to 60 kilometers per hour, and the two cities can be reached in only three to four hours.

At noon, the Shanghai train station was crowded with people, waving tickets in their hands and trying to rush to the departing train.

There are trained pickpockets stealing from the crowd, people getting caught on the train with forged tickets, and of course women scratching their heads at train stations, waiting to solicit customers.

Tickets are also divided into grades, and passengers sitting in different classes are very different from "traveling" in "clothing, food, housing and transportation".

The brand-new trains are painted with black paint, and the locomotives are starting to "mist", and even the new trains are still driven by steam.

As the whining sounds, the train starts slowly, and the powerful power of the steam makes it faster and faster, and the passengers can see the scene outside the window speeding backwards.

……

On the way back, Bao Guowei saw a juggling child again, he was performing a pottery swallowing piece, but it seemed that nothing happened, as if all the previous fears were faked.

I have to say that the skills of the rivers and lakes at this time are really powerful, I don't know if there is any mechanism in it.

But after all, I didn't see the scene of the child lying on the ground struggling with his neck covered and spurting blood, which is not bad.

"Dang dang dang."

Bao Guowei casually threw five cents into the field, just as a cheer, the master who watched the field saw someone throwing money, arched his hand towards Bao Guowei, and showed a flattering smile.

"Thank you for the show, thank you for the show!"

Although this kid looks a little dangerous to do things, Bao Guowei can't control it, this is the livelihood that people rely on for their livelihood, and those who make money from this can't teach others to starve to death.

Seeing this child, Bao Guowei was still a little lucky, glad that Lao Bao didn't send him to learn these skills.

However, whether it is from the perspective of Lao Bao's salary or personality, it is impossible to do such a thing as sending his children to Jianghu masters to learn skills.

……

It cost more than a dozen yuan to come out on this trip, and Bao Guowei had three big silver dollars left on him, and there was some change.

Originally, I brought eighteen yuan, which was enough to buy more than 500 catties of rice, which was equivalent to more than 1,000 yuan according to the price of two yuan and one catty of rice in later generations.

However, it only took one morning to spend almost all of them, nothing more than to buy a few thick books and some stationery drafts—except for the beautiful seven-cent mahjong cards.

But all the books that want to get involved with real learning are more expensive than ordinary literary books.

The money spent in a day, a sturdy laborer can't earn it by doing it so hard that he faints to the ground.

Thinking about it this way, although the tuition fee paid by the new school is more than forty yuan a year, a bunch of books adds up to twenty or thirty catties, including things such as uniform fees, which are probably subsidized by the above?

Of course, with or without subsidies, civilian families simply cannot afford it.

In addition to buying some manuscript paper, ordinary people have to work hard for half a year's salary, so it is gone, it has become a paper that can be lifted with one hand, people are not as expensive as some paper, dozens of catties of books can be sold for dozens of yuan, but dozens of catties of people can be sold for a few dollars?

"Money money, money, in a few days, I won't be short of money anymore."

……

The Qin family compound, located in the south of the city, is located in the old street of Baocheng Road in the south of the city - there is a street three zhang wide, even if several cars pass side by side, it will not look crowded.

There are only a dozen houses on a long row of streets, most of them are people with some money in the family, but the Qin family occupies the most extensive area, more than ten zhang long horizontally, and it is a six-foot high wall gate, and there are two gilded door knockers on the Zhu door.

Recently, the wall of the Qin family seems to have been renovated, and the exterior wall seems to have been repainted with lime mortar, which is used to reflect that the family still has surplus wealth to renovate and has abundant vitality.

However, the Qin family has never been short of money, after all, its main business income comes from land - since it is a family with a long heritage, and it flourished during the wild boar skin period, naturally there will be no shortage of land.

If you want to live in the countryside, you need to support dozens of families to protect yourself.

The world was chaotic, and there were many bandits outside, and there were groups of them, plundering everywhere with black iron spears.

Although it is a group of poor things, there are always guns, even if it is a small workshop of the earthen gun, if it is not shot coldly, no matter how many skills and thousands of family fortunes are there, they have to be closed in the ghost gate.

The so-called bandits are mostly people who can't survive, they have an unknown amount of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, their land is gone, they are in debt, and they are already dead, so they naturally will not be stingy to do desperate things.

How many bandits are there outside the city? Some landlords even equipped their homes with heavy firepower such as machine guns to guard their courtyards.

……

Bao Guowei didn't need to enter the door, he could see a large multi-storey attic inside, which was a foot higher than the surrounding stone walls.

The roof is tilted 30 degrees, the eaves of the flying sky are upturned, and the red tiles and bricks are lined up one after another, looking like an old-school old house.

On the second floor, there is a man in a top hat, he is wearing a black tunic, he looks quite handsome, one hand on the mahogany railing, looking into the distance.

The breeze is coming, the red maple leaves, yellow plum blossoms, and green pine leaves are fluttering with the wind, and the noon sun is sprinkled on the ground, golden,

Outside, there were rice, chickens and ducks, sitting on wooden benches and fanning and chattering, pulling rickshaws, and sometimes a small car with a bag on its head "roaring" past.

People everywhere are walking around the streets to "earn a living", and some people who are walking fast have already driven cars.

The sun shines on the leaves, and the grasshoppers in late autumn have long been frozen, or perhaps reduced to some rations, so there is no annoying chirping.

The yellow hair hangs down, and it is really comfortable!

"A scene of national peace and security, Section Chief Gao, do you say?"

Master Qin said to Section Chief Gao's people with laughter, but the kind smile on his face also revealed some gloom.

Today he wears a brown brocade robe, with a mille-feuille bottom on his feet, and a hat on his head, all brown, even the hat is brown, with gold trim embroidered on the edge, and a small pimple on the top.

The old man has a square face and big ears, and he has a big belly, according to the aesthetics of this era - it is good to be able to eat white and fat, and he undoubtedly looks like a real broad man.

When Section Chief Gao heard Master Qin's words, he smiled on his face and nodded sideways:

"What Master Qin said is right, it is really the peace of the country and the people."

"Section Chief Gao, I have invited the child you want to see, and it won't be long before you can see it."

(End of chapter)