The sun never sets in America

Chapter 74 Immigration 2
A house where workers live outside the Macau Port Terminal is already full of people at this moment.

Everyone looked at the young man in front who used a black slate as a blackboard and held a lime pen to teach them how to read.

"Come, read with me, benevolence..." Wu Shiwu pointed at the word benevolence on the polished black stone slab with a wooden stick, and said to the workers around him.

"Benevolence……"

"Benevolence……"

In the room, I suddenly remembered the sound of reading words. At first, these workers were actually unwilling to come to study and learn to read. However, when the king paid out the monthly money, he deliberately changed some words to make them, poor illiterate workers, After losing a lot of money, everyone realized the importance of words and even knowledge...

This is also the main reason why Wu Shiwu is so popular among the labor group. Not only because Wu Shiwu is a scholar and treats these workers like relatives, but most importantly, these workers feel uneducated. The benefits brought about by it are damaged...

The so-called active learning culture is nothing more than a self-protection mentality after one is uneducated and his interests are damaged.

"Mr. Wu, what is benevolence?" Suddenly a tall boy wearing patchwork clothes stood up, "Is that that person?" The boy pointed at himself and other people around him and asked Wu Shiwu.

"Lin Zhi, this is not the person you said." Wu Shiwu looked at the laborer's child in front of him. Lin Zhi shook his head and retorted with a smile, "Benevolence means kindness and kindness. "Wu Shiwu continued to explain the meaning of the word benevolence to Lin Zhi and the workers around him who didn't understand.

"Then why did my father say that good people are bullied, and good horses are ridiculed?" After hearing this, Lin Zhi thought for a while, and then asked Wu Shiwu, "If a person pays attention to benevolence and is kind to others, but he I have been bullied, what should I do?" Lin Zhi continued to ask Wu Shiwu, with a clear light in his eyes.

"Lin Zhi, let me ask you, if you met a person who was about to die, would you save him or not?" Wu Shiwu was a little surprised that Lin Zhi could ask such a question, and then asked Lin Zhi in return.

"It depends on who he is. If he is a good person, I will save him. If he is a bad person, it is better to just let him die and save other people..." Lin Zhi thought for a moment. , replied Wu Shiwu.

"Okay, let me ask you again, what should you do if your Ren meets a bad guy?" Wu Shiwu looked at Lin Zhi with satisfaction, and then continued to ask.

"I will find a way to get rid of him and prevent him from doing evil!!" Lin Zhi replied to Wu Shiwu without hesitation, with a look of determination on his face.

"So tell me now, what is benevolence?" Wu Shiwu looked at Lin Zhizhui and asked with an expectant expression on his face.

"I understand, Mr. Wu." Lin Zhi bowed his hands to Wu Shiwu as a disciple, "loving others is benevolence, punishing evil and protecting the people is also benevolence." Lin Zhi's unswerving loyalty to Wu Shiwu He replied, his youthful face showing perseverance, bravery, and even wisdom.

"Okay, okay..." After hearing this, Wu Shiwu said three good words to Lin Zhilian, his expression was extremely happy, as if he had seen a great person in the future...

“Everyone, continue to chant after me…Jen!!”

"Benevolence……"

The whole room once again recalled the uneven sound of reading words and the voice of Wu Shiwu reading.

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In a village in Guangzhou Prefecture, China, several handsomely dressed men sitting in bamboo sedans passed by the village entrance, arousing the envy of the whole village.

"Look at other people, and then look at you, do you have any potential? You know how to farm all day long. With just a few acres of mountain land, I can't eat meat until I die!!" Li Zhang, who looked sallow and skinny, looked through the window of a house. Shi looked at the sedan that had just passed by outside and the people on it. The envy in her heart was beyond words. She was furious with her husband who was cleaning the house and scolded him everywhere.

"When have you not eaten meat? Didn't I catch some frogs in the field the day before yesterday and stew them for you?" Li Datou put down the broom in his hand and replied angrily to his wife Li Zhang , in his opinion, Mrs. Li Zhang is just messing around. It’s not like she doesn’t know what’s going on at home. My mother passed away two years ago and she had no money to buy a coffin and organize the funeral. The villagers pooled money to do it. Li Datou has always been concerned about this. Keep this in mind, and once I save some extra money, I will go from house to house to pay it back, not daring to have any arrears...

Just for peace of mind! !

But what he did, in the eyes of Mrs. Li and Zhang, was like cheating. In the early years, bandits came to the village, and it was her father-in-law who reported the letter and escaped. Therefore, these are all things the villagers owe to their family. Asking them for the rest is already a big honor... There are many more and so on. Li Datou laments every time he thinks about it, how could he marry such a wife! !
"Well, Li Datou, thank you for what you said. Frogs are also meat. Who are you fooling?" After hearing this, Li Zhang immediately became furious and cursed Li Datou, "I will follow you and I won't be able to live for a day." After that, look at me, how thin I have become. If I hadn't seen you as an honest person, I would have married Mr. Zhao." Mrs. Li Zhang touched her yellow sales face and said to Li in tears. Datou said with a crying tone, full of unwillingness.

"Don't be joking when you marry Mr. Zhao. When you go to Mr. Zhao's house, you are just a concubine. Mr. Zhao is already the fifth wife..." Li Datou was furious at this time and directly made a fuss at Mrs. Li Zhang. After scolding him, his chest rose and fell, as if he was venting his resentment.

"Okay, you Li Datou, now you start to look down on me. Why didn't you say this when you chased me?" Mrs. Li Zhang said incredulously when she heard what her husband Li Datou said to her. , "I think you are just jealous that others are richer and more promising than you, so you take your anger out on me... you are a worthless man." Mrs. Li Zhang looked at Li Datou and continued to scold, this time He was even more ruthless, almost without directly saying that Li Datou was no longer useful to other men.

"You..." Li Datou was so angry that he couldn't speak. "You are making trouble unreasonably." It took Li Datou a long time to reorganize his words and scold Li Zhang back, with a helpless expression on his face.

"Am I making trouble unreasonably?" Li Zhang heard this, as if hearing the biggest joke in the world, and said incredulously, "If you were promising, you wouldn't be standing here, a grown man, like a woman Hiding at home, if you have the ability, you bring money back. If you bring money back, I will obey you from now on!!" Li Zhang looked at Li Datou with a sarcastic face and said, in his opinion, it is impossible for Li Datou to get it. Money, in the end, he went home obediently and admitted his mistake like before.

"Okay, just wait, I'll get the money right now." Li Datou saw his wife Li Zhang's look of disdain on him, and immediately became angry. With a harsh word, he hurriedly left the house.

"Hmph, let's see what you are capable of." Mrs. Li Zhang stood outside the door, looking at Li Datou who was walking towards the village, and murmured to herself with a smile.

Li Datou, who walked out of the house, walked quickly towards the village, passing one house after another, and finally stopped in front of a magnificent courtyard and wrote: Jiang Mansion! !

"Hey, what are you doing? Do you know where this place is?" Li Datou was stopped by several servants just as he was about to go in. "This is Mr. Jiang, the home of Mr. Jiang Dashan. Who do you think you are? You deserve it." Go in." The servant looked at Li Datou's patched clothes with a look of disdain on his face. From his point of view, poor people like Li Datou should not appear at the door of Jiang Mansion. There is no other reason than that the servant felt that Bad luck.A poor man's misfortune! !
"I am Li Datou. I once worked as a long-term worker for Mr. Jiang for a period of time. I have something to ask Mr. Jiang." Li Datou explained to his servant eagerly.

"It's a joke. If you just want to see our master, then our Jiang Mansion will stop messing up." Hearing this, the servant sneered at Li Datou, "Get out of here, don't let me see you again..." The servant then drove Li Datou out. , he kept urging.

"Oh... I really have something to see Mr. Jiang. I really have something to do." Li Datou was pushed by the servant and shouted into the yard.

"Okay, let him go."

Just when the servant was about to beat Li Datou, a voice came from behind.

"Steward Luo..."

After several servants saw the person behind them, they immediately let go of Li Datou and greeted him respectfully.

"You, come here." Butler Luo greeted the trembling Li Datou.

After Li Datou heard this, he immediately came to Butler Luo and looked at him awkwardly.

"Are you really in a hurry?" Butler Luo looked at Li Datou and asked, with warning in his eyes, as if Li Datou would throw him into the river if he told lies.

"Yes, yes, it's absolutely true. I don't dare to tell a lie." Li Datou answered respectfully to Butler Luo, his tone full of respect and fear.

"Okay, come with me." Butler Luo glanced at Li Datou, and then led Li Datou into the Jiang Mansion.

Although he had worked in Jiang Mansion before, Li Datou thought that he was still very familiar with everything in Jiang Mansion. However, when he came to Jiang Mansion, he was still shocked by the luxury in Jiang Mansion.

Rows of houses formed courtyards. There were servants and maids coming and going in the courtyards. According to Li Datou, there were at least more than 100 servants and maids working along the way.

"How much does it cost to raise these people, and how much food do they eat?" Li Datou thought to himself in surprise.

I thought so, but my pace was not slow at all. After passing through several courtyards, I finally came to the inner courtyard where Mr. Jiang lived, also called Qingyuan... which means full of vitality.

"Wait here for a moment." Butler Luo looked at Li Datou and ordered, and then walked into the Spring Garden.

Li Datou was looking around outside, especially when he saw those graceful maids. His envy for Mr. Jiang had reached the extreme, especially when compared with the yellow-faced woman in his own family, they were completely different... …

"The master is waiting for you inside, you can go in." After a while, Butler Luo came out and told Li Datou.

"Alas..." Li Datou responded and followed Butler Luo into the Spring Garden.

Walking into Chunyuan, he stopped in front of a room door. Butler Luo then opened the door and took Li Datou in.

I saw a middle-aged man with a sinewy face sitting inside, and behind him was a maid who was squeezing his shoulders.

"Master Jiang..." After Li Datou saw the man, he bowed down to greet him respectfully, with a sincere look on his face.

"I heard that you have something important to ask me. What is it?" Mr. Jiang looked at Li Datou opposite, and opened his mouth with gold teeth.

"Master Jiang, I heard someone say two days ago that you want to recruit people to go overseas. One person will go to sea, and he will be given three taels of silver. The whole family will go to sea, and he will be given ten taels of silver. Is it true?" Li Datou asked Master Jiang, When he was inquiring about the news at the village head two days ago, he said that he was going to Miaozhou. It was already moldy, so how could he still go there? At that time, Li Datou couldn't figure it out.

"Why, you want to go to America too?" Mr. Jiang heard this and immediately became interested. "Let me tell you, now is a good opportunity. If you miss this village, you won't have this store..." Mr. Jiang looked at it. Li Datou was like looking at money in vain. Unknowingly, even his attitude became polite.

"I wonder where this America is?" Li Datou asked cautiously. After all, if it was too far away, he might not be able to come back in this life.

"America?" When Li Datou asked where America was, Mr. Jiang was actually confused. After all, he only served people and got commissions. How could he really know where America was? "This America is right here." Next to Macau, you know Macau, right?" But when Mr. Jiang saw Li Datou's expectant and anxious eyes, he panicked.

"I know, I know." Li Datou still knew about Macau. There were people in the town who came to Macau to work for foreigners and made a lot of money (of course, most of them were buried in other places).

"Now that you know it, don't hesitate, just sign and pledge it, and take the money." Mr. Jiang didn't give Li Datou a chance to continue asking, and immediately asked someone to bring an agreement and an ink pad next to it, and in the ink pad Next to it, there is a bright and shining silver ingot, which weighs twelve tons.

"Come on, sign quickly. What are you waiting for? Once you sign, these ten taels of silver will be yours." Mr. Jiang looked at Li Datou who was still hesitating and urged impatiently, "Why, you want me to give it to you personally?" You can't..." Looking at Li Datou who was still hesitating, Mr. Jiang increased his intensity in speaking and said to Li Datou in a serious tone.

"Alas..." Li Datou sighed, pressed his thumb on the red ink pad, and then pressed it heavily on the agreement he had just drafted. After pressing it, his whole body felt empty until he saw the silver ink in front of him. The shining silver ingot breathed a sigh of relief.

(End of this chapter)