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Chapter One(4/4)

Nangang is a prosperous city. Most people walking on the streets wear very brightly. The clothes on Brother France and Ying don’t look very conspicuous in this place.

There are people coming and going on the streets, and gorgeous silk and precious animal fur are nothing in this place.

Those foreigners wearing strange costumes are the most conspicuous groups.

There is no water accumulation in the docks and bustling commercial streets of Nangang, but Nangang does not welcome horse-drawn carriages because horse-drawn carriages will bring water accumulation elsewhere to these places.

In the most prosperous places in Nangang, you can see long strings of public cars slowly advancing.

That's free.

I remember the first time I came to Nangang, and Brother France and England were quite surprised by this new thing.

But now Brother France and England are not as unsightly as before, so he jumped onto a slow public carriage.

As the carriage slowly moved forward, Brother France and Ying comfortably enjoyed the scenery on both sides.

On both sides of the bustling streets of Nangang, in addition to shops selling scaryly expensive goods, there are also many restaurants decorated with luxurious and elegant decorations.

Brother France and England got off the carriage in the most prosperous commercial center and wandered around.

If the shops in Nangang are not open, the clerk will not take the initiative to greet them. Even if you don’t buy anything, it will not cause dissatisfaction from the clerk.

Therefore, it is quite common to visit this store to that store in Nangang, which is called "Shopping on the Road" in Nangang.

Brother France and Ying temporarily joined the crowds of people walking around the streets. Every time he went to a shop, Brother France and Ying had to go in and have a good time.

Most of the shops in Nangang are decorated in luxury, and the clerks hired are also very outstanding. In the eyes of Brother France and Ying, everyone is suitable for the role of newcomers.

If you want to gain a foothold in the most prosperous store in Nangang, be clever and know how to adapt to customers is definitely the minimum requirement. A neat appearance is also indispensable.

But Brother France and Ying don’t know what their personality is like? Is it easy to control, and whether the courage is enough to play the role of a newcomer, but he dare not betray it.

At the same time, people who have worked in this kind of place for a long time are also inappropriate. Although the old man said it would be fine to look for nearby, if the person around the role he was going to play came to Nangang, the possibility of making mistakes would be quite high.

Just when Brother France and Ying looked around, there was never a single one who was particularly satisfied.

Suddenly I heard someone scolding behind my back: "You are lazy again. You don't listen after saying it a few times. Be careful that I will drive you out."

Brother Fa Ying looked back and saw a slightly hunched middle-aged man standing behind him, sternly scolding a fifteen or sixteen-year-old child.

The child's fearful eyes attracted the attention of Brother France and Ying.

The child's innocent face showed a panic and fearful expression. His body shrank back as if he wanted to hide in the darkness behind him. He held his hands tightly in front of his chest, twisted uneasyly, lowered his head and stared at the ground with his eyes, avoiding the middle-aged man's gaze.

"What's wrong?" A bald fat man turned out from behind the counter. The fat man was dressed very neatly, although it was not luxurious, it was not cheap.

"I just asked him to move the porcelain into the window. It was a batch of goods that I just arrived this month. This kid was slowing down for a long time." The middle-aged man said respectfully.

"There is no need to scream. What if the customer is shocked?" said the fat man.

"Yes, yes, yes, but this kid is lazy all day long. I think it's better to find another one." The middle-aged man said.

"Besides, this child is quite diligent in addition to sometimes being dazed." The fat man replied casually to the middle-aged man, then turned around and said to the child with a stern face: "It is your blessing to work here. The old boss sees you pitiful. If you take you in, you must be careful and repay your old boss. You have to find a way to get rid of the old boss. If something really happens, I can only drive you away. You must know that if you leave here, you have no place to go, do you know? Go to work."

After saying this, the fat man turned around and said to the middle-aged man: "No matter what happens in the future, don't yell. Do you understand that kindness brings wealth? You have been here for more than ten years and don't even understand this principle."

As he said that, the fat man went back to the counter to do his own thing.

"Go back to work!" the middle-aged man shouted at the child.

Brother France and Ying saw the matter before and after, thinking that this child was a very suitable candidate.

However, he was not in a hurry to make a decision. He turned around and walked out of the store to remember the sign of the store clearly, and then went around the street.

Anyway, there are three days left, Brother France and Ying are not in a hurry to get things done.

It is rare to come to Nangang. Brother Faying gave himself a vacation. He left the commercial street and walked around the two small streets next to him for a few times.

The streets are full of water, so there are not many pedestrians and there are no rich people, but after searching for a long time, you will always gain something.

When Brother Faying came out of the street, his pocket was already full of coins.

Brother France and Britain were quite satisfied with such gains. He did not plan to continue to attack, but he was not worried about revealing the situation.

If you lose your wallet on a small street where water is everywhere, most people will first look for it, which will be very time-consuming.

And Brother France and England are completely sure that there are not many plainclothes in that kind of place.

The only thing to do now is to change your clothes, and this is quite easy.

Brother Faying, who was casually dressed in clothes on the street, no longer had to worry about the two wallets. He wandered around the street until late at night, most of the shops closed.

While closing the door, Brother Faying returned to the shop he wrote down again.

Sure enough, he saw the child working hard to decorate the sign in front of the store alone, and then closed the heavy iron fence door.

Following the child quietly, Brother Faying came to the places where civilians stayed on the edge of the South City.

It was a wet and muddy alley, and the air was filled with a sour and vinegar smell. Brother Faying thought to himself that this place should be where Nangang processed leather.

Brother France and Ying didn't want to expose his target too early, and the muddy roads made him not need to follow him tightly.

He stared at the footprints on the ground and came to a small courtyard.

There are three bungalows in the courtyard. A wisp of smoke floats out from the house to the west, and bursts of voices come from it.

Brother Faying came up and listened.

It was indeed the child who was talking, and he heard him shouting happily: "Auntie Betty, do you know? Today, there were a lot of porcelain in the store. Those porcelains were so exquisite, as white as milk, as bright as the moon, and beautiful patterns on the bottom of the porcelain. The fish was like living, and the strange and beautiful aquatic plants that I had never seen before. This plant often appears in artworks from the east, but we don't have them here, round and wide leaves, long straight poles, bright and huge flowers, which are so beautiful."

"You were scolded by the second shopkeeper again today." An old woman said in the voice of her.

"How did you guess?" the child asked.

"You get distracted as soon as you see these things. Besides, the hunchback is eager to drive you out, so he can put his nephew in." At this point, the woman paused: "Hey, how many times have I said that those things are not what you should pay attention to. Those porcelain must be very expensive. You can never afford one in your life. Even if you are the boss, you are considered a rich person. For him, those porcelains can only be seen.

"Even if you are your boss, he is just using such good things. It's not that he can't afford it. He can't bear to use them himself. Those things are specially collected by the nobles and wealthy families. You should work hard and gain a foothold first, so that the camel can't drive you away, and then stay for seven or eight years, read some books, learn how to settle the accounts after you are familiar with it, and get promoted to the position of purchasing or accounting. At that time, the smelly camel will have no choice but to deal with you."

"I know, Aunt Betty, but why don't you let me go to the boat with my uncle? I really want to be a sailor, go to Xibai, to Yile, and even further east."

"Forget it, you are young and don't know how powerful you are. I am frightened by your uncle. As long as he comes back safely, I am happier than anything else. Running a boat is quite dangerous. You can hear news of a ship sinking on the dock every day. "In addition to the shipwreck, go to the dock to see which sailor has worked for more than ten years and has a good body? The sailor is prone to illness, and once he gets sick, there is no way to treat it, your uncle is injured, and he will wait a few years before the ship owner transfers him to the warehouse on the dock to take care of the goods in and out, and eat a bite of peace of mind."

"Auntie Betty, I still want to go to the sea to see it."

"Then you can tell your boss that when you survive for seven or eight years, your boss may let you follow him to run a business offshore, which is much better than being a sailor. This is for your own good. Your parents have passed away, and your uncle and I have no children. We have watched you grow up and treat you as our own children. Your uncle and I don't want you to follow the path that the uncle has walked. Your uncle knows the sailor business very well. It is a difficult, dangerous, and no way out."

"I know you are for my own good, I know..."

Brother Fa Ying, who was eavesdropping by the wall, roughly learned about the child's life experience from these words.

For a newcomer, this kind of life experience is perfect. Without parents, there are only two relatives who are not considered relatives, and one of them is still running on the sea all year round.

Brother France and Ying made up his mind and returned to the street with satisfaction.

Nangang is where merchants from all over the world gather, so hotels are naturally an extremely developed business here.

Any kind of hotel can be found here. For someone like Brother France and Ying who can even live in a prison cell, he will not care about the simple hotel room.

Before the sky was completely dark, Brother Franco found a cheap hotel with a single room outside Nangang. This was a hotel for small businessmen and shop owners who operated small books.

Unexpectedly, such a simple hotel can actually take a hot bath.

Brother France and England will never miss this kind of enjoyment.

While soaking comfortably in the big pool, Brother Faying was thinking about everything he saw and heard today. That child was a pretty good candidate, and it depends on how to act next.

However, for Brother France and England, it is rare to come to Nangang, which requires some fun, especially when his pocket is filled with money, how to use the next day to have some leisure time has become the most thoughtful issue in Brother France and England's mind.

Nangang is a place that is quite easy to spend money, and it is also a place that can be spent without spending a penny but has a very pleasant time.

Brother Faying, who came out of the pool, felt relaxed all over. He went to the counter to melt a silver coin and bought a large glass of beer, and then went back to his room to rest.

When the next morning, just dawn, Brother Faying forced himself to get up from the bed.

Brother France and Ying are not a person who likes to get up early, and none of them like to get up early.

Morning is definitely not a good time to get a lot of money.

However, when you arrive in Nangang, France and England definitely don’t want to waste every hour.
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