Chapter 49 Riding in China

[49] Cycling in China

Li Hainiu listened to the story of the rich man and beggar, patted his thigh and scolded, "Bastard! Unkindness and injustice!"

Guys were also angry when they heard this story, scolding the rich man for being unkind! Unexpectedly, he took the hardships of beggars as a pleasure and played with the poor for fun!

Yao Fan waited for everyone to scold and said, "As long as you understand the truth, I will tell you what will happen next in the world in the future.

After I leave, the daily meeting will still be held, but everyone will report the progress of the work on the construction site without telling me a story.

But I have a request that everyone learn to read some words with the third sister. If you don't ask too much, just write your own name. The third sister will also teach you how to count. After all, we are a business. If we can't even calculate a simple account, it won't work.

As soon as they heard that they wanted to learn to read, many people were dumbfounded and beat their hearts.

Yao Fan quickly comforted him when he saw this: "You don't need to learn more. You can learn five words a day. You can also learn simplified words, which are specially used for bookkeeping in business names. This is not to ask you to do any moral articles in the future, but to ask you to be outside the business in the future, understand the notes I sent you, and write a note back to me.

Yao Fan also explained: "Because the account management in our business is confidential, naturally we can't let outsiders know it, so of course, you can't find someone to write and read it on your behalf, so you must learn basic reading.

It is not difficult for us to understand and write more than a thousand commonly used words, and we can travel all over the world. Think about it, if you learn five words a day, won't you learn more than a thousand words in a year?

When everyone heard that Yao Fan's words made sense, they didn't think it was difficult.

So Yao Fan ordered the third sister to come in and send everyone the prepared notebook and pencils, and asked everyone to salute the third sister.

Hearing that the third sister will be their literacy teacher in the future, the guys hurriedly got up to bow to the third sister with great respect.

Yao Fan smiled and said, "Hainiu and Wang Gui, you also know a few words. You two need to help the third sister. During my time when I go out, urge everyone to learn these simplified words. Five a day, it's not difficult.

Li Hainiu and Wang Gui hurriedly said, "We must help the third sister well and urge everyone to recognize a few words every night."

So everyone dispersed, leaving only the guys who were going to go to Jinan with Yao Fan to help prepare the burdens needed to go on the road. After a little, they also went back to rest, so they were speechless all night.

The next morning, Yao Fan took his guys to the Yaojiazhuang construction site and was busy with the things he wanted to bring. He worked all morning before he prepared all the cargo boxes.

Previously, according to Yao Fan's guidance, the bicycle shelves made by the carpentry team were firmly tied to the back of 30 agricultural bicycles. After loading goods on both sides, they were like bicycles with pure water in 2011.

Each bicycle contains a large number of pancakes and dried shrimps for dry food, as well as a batch of goods Yao Fan wants to take to Jinan. Each guy carried the green military kettle brought by Yao Fan from 2011 and straddled a bag with a change of laundry.

Seeing that the preparations were ready, it was already midday. Yao Fan and the guys had lunch on the construction site, then rode bicycles and were ready to set off.

He Wannian and several old men in the business came to see him off and explain the things to pay attention to on the journey. He Wannian even urged Yao Fanqian for fear of something unexpected on Yao Fan's road.

"Brother Yao, remember, don't show off your wealth on the road, otherwise it's hard to protect yourself from being remembered."

"I didn't bring anything valuable such as cash. What did the horse bandits do to rob me?"

He Wannian continued to nagging: "Brother Yao, remember that in case you meet a bandit, you will immediately pull out a stick, surround the iron car, and ask the clerk to run to the nearby state capital to report the bandit news. Of course, it's best if you can give money to leave. Brother Yao remembers to ask the guys to put some pieces of silver. Generally, according to the head of the horse bandits, five taels per person will be more expensive. If it is ten taels per person, it will be awesome! With ten taels of money per person, no bandit is willing to come up and fight for his life.

Yao Fan said impatiently, "What's the use of the stick? I brought a 70kg folding crossbow to each of the ten big guys this time."

"What! 70 kg... crossbow? But the military crossbow!?" He Wannian was shocked.

"Brother Yao, be careful! According to my Qing law, except for hunting outdoors, private individuals are not allowed to bring crossbows, let alone military crossbows! If Brother Yao must bring it, you must remember it along the way, * Don't show it to others!"

Yao Fan said, "It's not 70 pounds, brother, have you forgotten it? One kilogram is equal to two catties, and 70 kilograms of crossbow is 140 catties.

When He Wannian saw Yao Fan's disapproving appearance, he scratched his head anxiously: "Brother Yao can't be careless! This 140 catty crossbow is more than a stone! Today's military crossbow is just one stone. You are no longer *. You are already more powerful than the military crossbow. If you catch it, you will behead according to the law!"

Yao Fan didn't take it seriously and said, "Brother Wannian thought it was fake for me to send 10,000 taels of silver to Wei Guofu early in the morning? Since there is a seal opened by the guard government, which proves that my crossbow is given by the guard government and used for self-defense on the journey, who will care about me? Nowadays, the Qing Dynasty is only afraid of foreign guns and birds, and the bow and crossbow has opened and closed a glance.

He Wannian wiped his cold sweat and said, "Anyway, you still have to be careful!" Don't force it in case of trouble! If you can spend money in the past, you must spend money to do it!"

After saying that, He Wannian quickly pulled He Shicheng, Zhou No. 4 and other guys, and ordered, "You all follow your master well!" Don't talk about fighting and killing. If Brother Yao has any shortcomings, I'll skin you when you come back!"

Yao Fan sighed and shook his head and said, "Brother He has thought too much. It will take only ten days to arrive. What will happen? I just bring some folding crossbows, but I'm just prepared."

Seeing Yao Fan's arrogant power, He Wannian desperately told Yao Fan to be careful. Yao Fan just laughed and said goodbye.

This time, Yao Fan did not ride his own colorful mountain bike, but rode the agricultural 28 uniformly like his guys.

Because there was no decent cement or asphalt road in the Qing Dynasty, it was impossible for the bicycle team to achieve a speed of more than 150 kilometers a day like the 2011 bicycle tour. On the dirt road of the Qing Dynasty, it could only move at a speed of about 60 kilometers a day. Even so, the speed of 120 miles per day. It also excited all the guys.

After listening to He Wannian's advice, Yao Fan modified his itinerary and did not take the difficult mountain route through Jiaozhou, Zhucheng, Laiwu, Tai'an and Jinan. According to He Wannian, this route is not only mountainous, but also bandit. Instead, he took the north road through Jiaozhou, Gaomi, Weifang, Zibo, Zhangqiu and Jinan. After arriving in Jinan, he planned to arrange a clerk to send money to Tai'an to implement his household registration.

These 31 bicycle fleets led by Yao Fan have traveled for three days and have arrived in Weifang.

Yao Fan was very satisfied with the speed of these three days, and the guys also smiled.

Standing outside Weifang County, He Shicheng said, "Although I haven't been far away, I also know that ordinary businesses come from Qingdao and have to walk for five or six days anyway. In terms, we rode bicycles, but we set out at noon three days ago and arrived in Weifang at noon today!"

Yao Fan said, "For good, there are merchants and inns on this way to ask for directions. I walked through Jinan Prefecture before the fourth week, otherwise it would be troublesome if I got lost."

Zhou's fourth face was dusty, grinned like a mud monkey and smiled, "It's better to say that it's the owner's foreign car. It's more than a hundred miles a day, otherwise it's better to know it. How can it come so fast?"

Next, the motorcade entered the city, which caused another period of ** as usual, and was surrounded by the residents of Weifang City to watch the 'two-wheeled iron car'. When crossing the city gate, it was lucky that Yao Fan had a road guide issued by Sun Maowen and a handwritten letter with Wei Guofu's guard seal, proving that Yao Fan went to Jinan Prefecture to give gifts to the governor, so he did not tax the goods brought by Yao Fan, but the rest of the city gate tax and other miscellaneous donations still had to be paid.

After entering the city, Yao Fan found an inn to stay. A large group of men pulled bicycles into the yard of the inn as usual and unloaded the goods into the room.

Seeing Yao Fan and his party living in the inn, a small man with braids on his head in the distance turned around and left.

Not far from Zibo City, behind a barren hillside, there are more than 50 people with knives but without officers and soldiers uniforms. They either lie down, take care of horses, or sit on the ground in a circle of three or five people.

The little man who followed Yao Fan's motorcade into the city just now had already rode a horse with another person and jumped off his horse with his legs skillfully behind him. It seemed that he was used to begging for life on the horse.

After dismounted, the little man immediately ran to a group of people, led by a man and a woman, all like other knife wearers here, with a single knife hanging in their waist and a painted white horse head mark at the tip of the scabbard.

"Jiaxiang returned to his elder brother and sister-in-law!

I have figured it out! After the two-wheeled iron caravan with us entered the city, they rested in the Huile Inn by the city gate and did not enter the local business to unload the goods. It seems that the eldest brother guessed that these people still have to leave! I think these people will wake up and continue to go on the road about early tomorrow morning.

The man known as the eldest brother is not tall, with round shoulders, thick chest, and a dark square face with distinct edges.

"I knew it! These people inquired all the way to Jinan Prefecture. How could they not leave when they arrived in Weifang?

To be tomorrow, we will intercept them in the pit ten miles away! The officials planted on both sides of the road are all red sorghum that are as tall as one person. We will ambush in the sorghum field. When they are shortlisted, we will rush up and do it!"

I saw the woman next to the eldest brother, who was called the eldest sister-in-law, with a pair of black and white eyes on a silver disk-like face. She looked like a meteor, heroic and beautiful. She raised the horse whip in her hand and drew a chic circle and said, "Now that the government is chasing hard, let's try not to cause trouble. In a word, if you can't hurt people, you won't hurt others.

You know, these businessmen are also used to walking around the world and coming out to make a living. It's not easy to travel thousands of miles to earn a few hard money. Since there is no trouble with the darts bureau this time, let's make this ticket. After that, I quickly sold the goods for herbs and grain, and immediately went back to the stone ditch. It has been half a month since we came out this time, and the family is probably very hungry.

When the red-faced man heard the words, his face was suddenly unhappy. He raised his hand angrily and said, "Sister-in-law, you are also kind! Don't look at this caravan riding an iron car. Why do they look like ordinary traders? Even when the clerk came to the leader, all he ate on the way was pancakes, green onions wrapped in bacon, and dried shrimp! The last time in Yinma Town, I saw clearly that even the green gourd with water on them was made of iron! Damn, how can ordinary businessmen be so rich! Even the guys give meat? This is obviously a big ticket!

According to me, let's just kill him! Peel it back from head to toe.

I dare to say that the back of the two rail cars are full of silver! Our brothers have seen it. After the car rollers pressed the ground, the marks left were deep!"