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Chapter two(1/3)

For Brother France and England, this free day was the easiest vacation he had ever spent in his life.

Nangang is definitely a heavenly place for someone who has free time and leisure.

In the early morning, the dock of Nangang was a great sight that should not be missed. At that time, the ships had not yet stopped at the dock and the porters had not started construction. Walking on the dock, standing, sitting were those who were waiting to watch the sunrise. Most of them were those who had some money but were not so wealthy. Like Brother France and England, they would never let go of the enjoyment of Nangang without spending money.

The Nangang Pier in the early morning is also lively.

There are small stalls filled with fresh fish and live shrimps everywhere.

The servants of wealthy families, ordinary housewives, and restaurant men gathered around and bargained.

When the sun rose high and the dock workers started working, the noisy crowds on the dock dispersed.

At noon, Nangang is the most energetic time of the day. Stores are open one after another, and restaurants are ready to welcome the first batch of customers in the morning.

In Nangang, a meal in the morning is not expensive. Brother France and Ying calculated the money in his pocket. Apart from the money for the post station carriage in Huilai, the part left was enough for him to have a good time.

Therefore, Brother France and England found a restaurant near the dock without saying a word.

For Brother France and England, who rarely eat seafood, this meal is definitely a top-notch delicacy.

Brother Faying, who had satisfied his taste, plans to satisfy his favor next.

There are many things in Nangang that you can enjoy without spending money.

Walking around the street is one of them, but the streets of Nangang were the most lively in the afternoon, and it was a little too early now.

There was a good pastime in the morning. Brother France and England saw from the advertising leaflets distributed by children on the street that several of the largest silk shops in Nangang were holding singing and dancing performances.

Brother Faying heard from the old man that those silk merchants often hold such performances. They find beautiful girls, dressed in clothes made of luxurious silk, and sang and danced on the stage.

Those songs and dances are not very good, but what is really worth appreciating are the novel and unique silk clothes.

Song and dance performances can also be watched without spending money, and sometimes you may even get gifts.

Brother France and England will not miss such a new thing.

The whole morning, Brother France and England spent their time in this kind of singing and dancing performance.

Although Brother France and Ying did not receive any gifts at the end, he was already quite satisfied.

After having a random lunch, the real biggest pastime in Nangang began.

For Brother France and England, because he needed to find new people yesterday, he focused on the young clerks.

He doesn't have to think about these things today.

It would be a pity if you don’t appreciate the strange and rare products that are usually rare.

These things can be seen in Nangang, because the five directions gather here, all the goods are transported from the distant shore and from overseas countries, and cannot be seen anywhere else.

It took France and England to travel from this store to that store and carefully look at the most prosperous streets in Nangang.

When evening came, Brother France and Ying came down with the guidance of passers-by to a place near the pier.

There is an indispensable location in every big city.

There were shouting sounds everywhere in a narrow alley, and there were prostitutes dressed in colorful clothes and made-up.

Brother France and England are very familiar with this kind of place.

Brother Faying didn't come to find a prostitute. The old man told him that playing this trick in Nangang is easy to get sick, and it is a helpless disease.

Brother France and Ying came for those casinos.

For a person who relies on his fingers to eat all day, gambling is really good.

Brother France and Ying likes to roll dice the most, and he decides to win and lose quickly. At the same time, he is quite confident in his skills. You should know that he is the boss in the golden finger.

In the casino, Brother Francisco specializes in those gamblers who dress strangely and come from overseas. They don’t gamble much each time, but they can always win some of them.

By the time he came out of a casino, his pockets had become even more bulging.

Brother France and Ying thought that it would be quite profitable to do this ticket deal in Nangang.

Maybe after the nest was split, I moved to Nangang and stopped working hard, so I just cheated foreigners for money.

After leaving one casino, it does not mean that Brother France and Ying will stop there. He walked into another casino.

By the time I came out of the alley, it was already late at night.

Brother Faying, who had money in his pocket, was not ready to go back to the shabby hotel.

He found a pretty good hotel near the dock to stay in.

The charges here are much more expensive, but Brother France and England are rich now and don’t care about this little money at all.

After spending a little money to exchange for a very satisfying enjoyment, Brother Faying returned to the room to rest.

The happy holiday is over.

When Brother Faying woke up the next day, he knew that it was time to work.

After breakfast, Brother France and Ying walked towards the store.

When he passed by a store that specializes in selling toys, Brother Faying entered the shop and took out a silver coin to buy a small bag of crystal clear glass beads.

He had seen a rich guy playing with this thing, but when he was a child, he could only rub small mud balls with mud and play with it.

This bag of glass beads can be regarded as a wish from childhood, Brother Faying thought to himself.

When he arrived at the door of the store, Brother Faying walked into the store.

There were no customers in the store. The boy was hanging a blanket on the wall. The hunchbacked shopkeeper was staring at the boy with his eyes slanted.

Brother France and Ying were afraid of being discovered, so he did not dare to act rashly, so he pretended to be there to admire the expensive goods.

After a while, three or five customers came into the store, and it seemed that they were going to buy something.

The second shopkeeper quickly walked up to greet the guests, and the young man was fighting.

Brother Faying took this opportunity to take out three glass beads from his pocket, stuffed them quickly and carefully under the ceramic plate, and then turned around and walked out of the store.

For Brother France and Ying, the next thing to do is wait. Although he knew that this was a stupid method, he could not guarantee when the expensive porcelain plate would fall and break, and although he didn't know if the unlucky person would be the boy, Brother France and Ying knew that this was the best method he could think of.

Waiting is nothing for a gold finger, and they often wait for a long time for a chance to start.

Brother France and Ying sat down on the bench next to the diagonal flower bed.

Time passed little by little, and Brother France and Ying were still staring at the store.

In Nangang, as long as you have money in your pocket, you won’t feel bored even if you sit still. From time to time, you will pass by one or two small vendors pushing small cars full of various goods.

There is no shortage of food and fun in those small cars.

Brother Faying took out a few silver coins and exchanged them for a bunch of gadgets used to spend time and a handful of copper coins he found.

As for what to eat, Brother Faying never stopped in his mouth, and in the end his stomach couldn't stand it anymore.

As time goes by, the sun gradually rises above the head, the crowds on the street gradually increase, and the golden moment of the day for the shops has arrived.

Suddenly, Brother Faying heard a "ping-pong" sound from the store, and he knew that the glass beads had finally worked.

Immediately afterwards, an angry voice came from the shop: "Damn it, you deserve to die. If you break such a precious porcelain, you have to pay, you have to pay all of them. Even if you work as a lifelong worker, you can't pay them all."

As soon as he heard this, the door of the shop suddenly opened. The boy escaped from the shop crying and ran towards the back street.

Behind him, there were bursts of roars: "You run away, I see where you will escape. I will report you and put you in prison. You should be hanged!"

With the curse, the hunchbacked shopkeeper rushed out of the shop, and saw him full of anger and dancing his fists, as if he was going to find someone to swallow it alive.

Seeing that his arrangement was successful, Brother Faying rolled up the pile of entertainment items, wrapped them into a ball, then left the bench and chased closely in the direction of the boy's escape.

When he chased him to a secluded place, Brother Faying threw the miscellaneous things in his hand into the corner where no one noticed it.

In Nangang, finding someone is not easy.

However, Brother Faying guessed that the boy should have no place to go, so he could only run to his own home. This is a natural reaction of a person - once something happens, the first place for refuge people think of is their own home. That is the place they are most familiar with and think the safest.

Brother Fa Ying chased along the road in his memory.

Sure enough, it didn't take long to see the boy walking while crying.

The boy walked and stopped, obviously no idea.

Brother France and Ying took two steps quickly and gently patted the boy behind the back.

The boy suddenly jumped up, which scared Brother Faying very much.

I saw the boy with panicked eyes, his pale and blood-free face tensed because of fear, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly due to fear.

Brother Faying knew that the boy was very scared now.

In order to make the boy follow him obediently, Brother Faying planned to further scare the boy.

He said, "I just saw you running out of a store. What did you do? After I saw you run away, a guy immediately recruited a sheriff, and several sheriffs came in one go. What did you do? Did you steal things from that store? If that's the case, you have to go with me to see the sheriff, and I can get one-fifth of the reward."

"No, no, I didn't steal anything, I didn't steal anything. Please, let me go." The boy burst into tears when he said this.

Brother Faying looked at the boy and found it very interesting. He was so old that he still cried at any time. I remember that he had forgotten how to cry before following the old man.

If it were normal, Brother Faying would never do anything except laugh at him, but now he had to find a way to comfort the newcomer in front of him.

"If you didn't steal things from the store, then even if I drag you to the government, I won't get any reward. Hello, what a pity!" As he said these words, Brother Faying looked at the boy.

Sure enough, the young man felt a little relieved when he heard that he would not be sent to see the sheriff.

Brother Faying knew that it was time to let the boy take the bait, and he said, "But, I think it's a matter of time before you get caught. I heard that person tell the sheriff that you will definitely escape back to your home. He asked the sheriff to go directly to your house and wait to arrest you."

"What should I do?" the young man shouted to himself with a sad face.

Seeing the boy feeling panicked and seemed to be about to cry again, Brother Faying took the opportunity to say, "Why don't you, go to somewhere outside for a while, and wait until the limelight comes over before coming back."

"But I have no place to go." The boy cried, and he said while crying.
To be continued...
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