1840 Indian Rebirth

Chapter 174 [Take the train to Manchester]

Arriving in Liverpool, the horse sentry found a hotel for everyone to stay and rest.

It took him about a week to get used to the boat completely, but some people didn't get used to it for a month. They were tortured a lot by this trip, and they had to go ashore to rest for a while.

Then Horse Whistle asked Dr. Mayo as a guide, and took him and a few other people around Liverpool for a while.

As he expected, the British did not welcome the Indians, although the British occasionally blamed the United States on the topic of Indians.

Wherever he went, he would be greeted with strange and unfriendly eyes—he suspected that if it wasn't for his monster-like physique, someone might have come to trouble him.

"Obviously, that person just said 'savage'." Horse Whistle said, referring to a passerby who just passed by.

Sebastian: "Always, these arrogant fellows."

Mayo hesitated for a moment: "It's always inevitable to judge people by their appearance... Great Chief, I suggest you buy a suit, and you'd better adjust your hairstyle and headgear."

"We shouldn't accommodate these British people!" someone said unconvinced.

Ma Shao thought for a while but said: "No...we should accommodate, after all, we are here to learn. Mayo is right, we should change our appearance—do as the Romans do."

"Mayo, do you know any good suit shops in Liverpool?"

"Come with me, Great Chief." Dr. Mayo said, and then several people came to a suit shop under his leadership.

The shop owner frowned when he saw them: "Indians?"

Mayo stepped forward: "Sir, they are my friends and need some suits."

He looked refined and refined, like a complete gentleman, which made the store owner's brows stretch a little, but he still said: "I thought they were your slaves."

"..." Mayo was silent for a while.

A group of Apaches were naturally angry, but because the horse whistle didn't go off, they didn't say anything.

Horse whistle is not angry.

Only when the strength of the provocateur is similar to that of the person being provoked, the person being provoked will feel resentful and annoyed. If it is a child provoking an adult, the adult will just laugh it off.

The arrogant Englishman in front of him is like a child to him, no matter in terms of muscle, or in terms of knowledge and vision.

Although the shop owner looked down on Ma Shao and others, he didn't have trouble with the money: "Or to buy ready-made clothes? Let's choose first. If it's custom-made, I'll measure the size for you later."

The horse whistle didn't choose much, so he chose a black suit that was pleasing to the eye, and said, "That's it, give us two sets for each of us. I want a ready-made suit."

The popular suit of this era is not the most common style of later generations, but it is close.

Compared with the suits of later generations, the main difference of the suits at this time is that the coat is longer and belongs to the coat, or called a robe.

"Others can wear ready-made clothes, but you are too tall and can only be made to order." The shop owner said.

"Okay." Ma Shao was not surprised, "I bought a few sets of ready-made clothes first, how much is it?"

"Seventy shillings a set."

Seventy shillings is three pounds ten shillings.One pound is equal to twenty shillings, and one shilling is equal to twelve pence.

After paying the money, the tailor asked the tailor to measure himself, and asked at the same time, "How long will it take to make a custom order?"

The shop owner said lightly: "If you are alone, a week will be fine. But now you need to queue up, and it may take a month or two."

"A month or two?" Ma Shao frowned.

He may be leaving England in a month or two.

He immediately said: "I'll pay you double the price, can it be done within three days?"

"This..." The store owner hesitated.

Ma Shao said again: "If you can do it, I will buy at least twenty sets of clothes from you."

Three days later, Ma Shao got his own suit as he wished. At the same time, he also bought a total of more than 100 suits in several shops, and distributed two sets to each of the Apaches who traveled with him, spending a total of more than 300 pounds.

During this period, he also changed to a new hairstyle - short hair.

In fact, he had always had short hair in his previous life, and he wanted to change to short hair at the beginning of his rebirth, but the Indians lacked useful haircutting tools. Haircutting is to use a knife or even a stone ax to cut and chop. Cutting short hair is naturally troublesome, so he also Slowly get used to long hair.

It wasn't until now that he thought of restoring his short hair.

Simple short hair, a black coat and suit, and of course more importantly - a handsome face and a tall figure. If you wear sunglasses, the horse whistle may look similar to Neo in the movie "The Matrix".

Even if the whites look down on the Indians, they have to admit that the horses with this shape are handsome.

At least that's what white women think.

"Great chief, I feel that those women just wanted to eat you." When the horse whistle left the train ticket office, Luanfa couldn't help saying something.

"Really?" Horse Whistle said casually.

"Absolutely, that look... tsk tsk."

The horse whistle didn't say anything, looked at the train ticket in his hand, and asked, "Mayo, you know Joule's address, right?"

"Of course, we are all students of Mr. Dalton, and Joule is only one year older than me," said Dr. Mayo, "but he is much more accomplished in science than I am, although science is only his hobby. "

"What is his main business?" Ma Shao thought about it, but he didn't remember Joule's main business.

"Brewery." Mayo said, "Joule likes science very much, but it is his father's order that he must inherit his father's brewery and run it well."

After returning to the hotel where they stayed, the horse sentry gathered the clansmen.

Fifty people came to the UK with him, about 30 of them were 14-year-old teenagers who were going to study engineering in the UK, and the remaining 20 were basically soldiers.

"Boys, for the next period of time, you will stay in Liverpool with ten soldiers until I make arrangements for you to study abroad." Horse Whistle said to the clansmen.

"Of course, during this period, you are not idle. You should not only review your homework, but also take the initiative to contact the British to gain an in-depth understanding of their life and language, so as to prepare for future study abroad."

"...You must remember that the funds for your study abroad are all the blood and sweat of the Apache people. To waste your time is to live up to the labor and expectations of the people." At the end he urged.

Leaving about thirty teenagers and ten soldiers in Liverpool, Horse Whistle took the remaining ten to the railway station and boarded the train to Manchester.

In Manchester, there was a brewery owner named James Prescott Joule.

This is the first person the horse sentry will visit.

(End of this chapter)