open sea

Chapter 1002 Thunderbolt
Since Shi Xiaolou returned to Changsheng, in the days that followed, there was always a head sticking out from the courtyard wall of the Shiyi Linguan, looking at the horses and horses passing by the street to the port with a complicated look of envy.

Francis Bacon originally thought that he had established himself in Changsheng. Now he has three jobs, and his monthly salary of 1 to [-] Tongbao is enough to live a relatively affluent life.

Now he still lives in Siyi Linguan most of the time. Due to the control of Changsheng horses, donkeys, and mules, he finally bought a little donkey until last month, but he was in the city as early as four months ago. I bought a small courtyard with one entrance.

The yard is not far from the lumber yard, and at the corner sixty steps away, there is a garrison booth set up by the inspectorate outside the city. The neighbor on the left is an old priest from the original tribe in this land, who returned from a Spanish mine. , became a jade craftsman with the skill of carving sacrificial utensils, and worked as an apprentice in a jade shop in the city. When the smoke rose in the evening, he always complained to the young master from the south of the Yangtze River that he was not skilled enough.

The family of six on the right are immigrants from Daming. The village in the south of the city was allocated a thousand-acre forest farm, which is now leased to a timber yard. They steamed corn buns and turkey buns at home. Gao's daughter-in-law pushed a cart to deliver the steaming cages to the lumberyard. This simple business earned them twelve hundred tongbao a day.

There is no young man in the family, and the two extremely tall sons of their family stayed in Chengnan Village. The eldest son was a musketeer in Bacon's understanding, and the second son was an officer named "Ma Kuaishou" in the Ming Dynasty, so He was selected as a deputy lieutenant by the military government when he immigrated to divide the fields.

The two sons never go home at the same time, but they both have brand new Jinghai suits and carry arquebus guns. The second son who has a set of chain mail sometimes does not carry a long musket, and wears a short gun with two barrels in his waist. The musket, I heard that the pistol was given by the officer who admired him, and none of the other lieutenants had it.

At the end of every month, the lumberyard had to count the goods and calculate the accounts. As the accountant, Bacon would be busy until late, and this house could provide him with a good rest.

Bacon has also saved a sum of money, and recently he is trying to discuss with his immediate superior, the accountant of the timber factory, to find a way to buy a piece of land at the gate of the factory, and then go to the county government for approval as a shop.

He wants to use his savings to invest in a neighbor's business, and things are beginning to take shape.

This makes Bacon can't help thinking about the beautiful life in the future. This is probably the most attractive place in Changsheng. All people's expectations are clearly in front of them. need to make yourself better
Everything is full of hope. .

But at this moment, the news came like a bolt from the blue——he was fired.

The reason is not that his job is not good, nor is it because he wants to buy a small piece of land at the gate of the factory to make a shop.

It was his employer, Shi Xiaolou. To be precise, Shi Xiaolou was not Bacon's employer. His employer was the brother of Shi Xiaolou's adoptive son who managed Changsheng's business. The owner of the lumber yard was the employer.

Apparently they all had to obey Shi Xiaolou's orders. Because of this, the fair-faced, short-sighted lumber yard owner found Bacon in person, praised him for his hard work, gave him two months' salary, and told him mercilessly He, the lumberyard doesn't need him to work here anymore.

The days of bacon are over.

As eager as he is to figure out why, no one will tell him why, and everyone he can come into contact with just does what he is told.

The huge setback made Bacon ignore the surrounding changes for a period of time, but at a certain moment, wandering in Changsheng Market, he suddenly found that there were more horses and carriages on the street.

The streets of Changsheng are very lively on weekdays, but they are all locals. Even people from the villages outside the city only rush to the market in the north of the city for one or two days when the market is open on three days a month. This is clearly not the case.

By chance, he saw the neighbor's second son who was a lieutenant in the village on the street. The former Ma Kuaishou rode a variegated Mongolian horse and rested at home for three days. At the order of the governor, together with eight lieutenants, he followed a hundred households across the border into New Spain, and escorted a batch of goods at Port Wei on the east coast.

Hence the rare vacation.

The owner of the cargo was Shi Xiaolou, and the news quickly spread as the place where the escort took part in Baojia went to the city on vacation. People said that Shi Xiaolou's fleet went to Europa and returned safely, and this trip could earn at least a million taels of silver!
The common people in the city tried their best to use words to describe the goods they had never seen before. From the descriptions of the common people, Bacon had a general understanding of the goods brought back by Shi Xiaolou's voyage.

Others don't know what those goods are, but Bacon knows.

Later, the flag soldier on duty at the Changsheng Guards Cavalry School in the south of the city found a sneaky figure. After being locked in a cell, Bacon finally fulfilled his wish to see his old friend, but his friend might not want to see him.

"Why are you looking for me? You have already paid off the money you owed me."

Bacon, who was sleeping on the corn stalks, got up when he heard footsteps through the wooden cage. The shaken stalks on his body flew all over the sky in the small cell, and he grabbed the fence and looked towards the brightly lit cell exit. .

The silhouette of the visitor against the light was strong and strong, with a red horsetail helmet and iron Ye Dunneck under his ribs. The collision sound was crisp and clear when it rubbed against the breastplate while walking, and the sound of riding boots stepping on the ground echoed in the deep corridor .

There is also the eye-catching banner on the back.

Hearing the familiar voice, Bacon didn't even notice that Ying Ming's legs were a little crooked, and hurriedly said, "Dragon and Tiger Lord, where have you been? Just because I took a look at the wall, they locked me up for six days. Quickly think of a way to let me out... What happened to your leg?"

The closer you get, the easier it is to see that Ying Ming's other hand that is not holding the helmet is not pressed on the handle of the waist knife like many officers and soldiers, but is behind the buttocks.

Hearing Bacon's words, Ying Ming didn't answer, but asked the Banner Army to open the cell, and said angrily, "I'd rather be locked in prison for six days, Xiaoqi is hard to do!"

"I have nothing to do to hack the wall of the barracks, and I'll have some fun if I don't shoot you." Taking Bacon out of the cell, Ying Ming, who was standing at the gate of the barracks, no longer supported his buttocks with his hands, but walked slowly. Some: "It's useless for you to look for me, I can't help you, you are all dead ends in front of you."

Before Bacon could open his mouth, his request to speak had already been answered by Ying Ming.

Just as he was dumbfounded, Jian Yingming looked into the distance with some irritability, and finally sighed: "God has the virtue of being good at life, so I'll just say one more thing, don't care what you hear or know - don't do anything .”

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)