Chapter 11 The Ancestral Tablet

One thing must be confirmed, the Indian police are the competitors of the Chinese police, but they are not enemies, so some methods are not suitable for the Indian police, after all, Roque wants to mix up under the British, and he can't do without the cooperation of the Indian police, otherwise there are more than 30 Chinese in the entire Cape Town, even if they are all Roque's subordinates, how much more can Roque do?

"Why? Why is this happening? "There are too many questions about Di Jean, why did he suddenly disappear when he saw the gold coin placed under the bowl by Luo Yi, why did Roque return the money that Di Rang had already lost, why these Chinese policemen in front of him who used to look annoying are so cute now-

It's really cute, when Roque returned the money to Di Jean, in Di Jean's eyes, Roque is more cute than an angel, this is a pound, and it has reached the pound in the hands of the Chinese who are known for being stingy, so it was easily returned by Roque, Di Jean's heart was instantly filled with a sense of happiness that was lost and regained.

"Let's go Luo Yi, let's get to work." Luo Ke patted Di Rang's shoulder and greeted Luo Yi, who looked lost like a mourner.

Although Luo Yi, who was born in the market, can understand why Luo Ke returned the money to Di Rang, Luo Yi is still unhappy, this is Luo Yi's first business, if Luo Yi does not return the money, then Luo Yi can at least get a shilling, which is very important for Luo Yi, who only has a salary of 24 shillings per month.

Fortunately, Luo Yi quickly came out of the loss, although the first business was yellow, but it has made Luo Yi see the huge prospects of this scam, before Luo Yi dared to find Chinese policemen to gamble money, those Chinese policemen did not have much salary, if they were accidentally caught when they were out of the thousand, they would be beaten, now it is okay, with the support of Luo Ke, and the protection of so many companions, Luo Yi can cheat those foreign devils of their money openly, thinking of those ocean-going sailors who are generous, Luo Yi feels that there is a fire burning in his heart.

For a port city, the wharf is always the most lively place, when night falls, the whole city is dimly lit, only the wharf is noisy, the shops here are open 24 hours a day, not only sailors, but also merchants and residents of Cape Town who come to have fun, Roque They are very familiar with everything about the wharf, after all, the wharf is the main work area of Roque and his patrolmen.

According to the prior arrangement, Luo Yi and Li De casually found a corner and started to do the game, Luo Ke and Anton found an open-air bar nearby to observe, there were six uniformed policemen in the bar, they looked like they had just come to have a drink after work, in fact, they were all waiting for Luo Ke and Anton's signal, as long as Luo Ke and Anton found that someone was making trouble, the police would come forward immediately.

In 1900, the city didn't have many entertainment facilities, and the bars and red light district were always the liveliest places in the city, and the docks were full of idlers who wanted to have fun.

"Buy and leave, willing to gamble and lose-" Luo Ke and Anton are not far from Luo Yi, they can clearly hear Luo Yi's loud voice, Luo Yi learned these two sentences of English in a minute, if Luo Yi can maintain this enthusiasm, then it won't be long before Luo Yi's English level will improve by leaps and bounds.

"I always felt like it was going to get us in trouble." Anton's personality is a bit forward-looking, and he has already set up a gambling game, and Anton is still chattering.

"There will always be trouble, and all we have to do is accumulate more capital so that we have more room to deal with it when it comes." Roque does not look ahead, hesitation will only lead to missed opportunities, and nothing will be gained.

"Yes, to accumulate capital, we signed a five-year contract, and my children and wives are still waiting for me to go home and buy a house." Anton has already started a family and set up his own door, and of course he is not as free and easy as Roque when he has concerns.

"If you can, or try to bring your wife and children to Cape Town, Lafayette declared war on the world, the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded China, I see that sooner or later it will be over, and then our Daqing Kingdom is in flames of war, even if we buy a house and buy land, we may not be able to keep it, not to mention how much is an acre of land in our hometown? How much is an acre of land in this Cape? If you have the money to go back to your hometown to buy a house and buy land, you can buy a farm in Cape, and the British don't collect much tax, and the food they send out is their own, so why do you have to go back? "Roque will definitely not return to the Qing Dynasty, the next few decades will be hellish for the Chinese, Roque does not want to go through all that, how good it is to stay in Cape Town and live a comfortable life, the sky is falling and there are British people to support it.

"Staying in Cape Town? No, no, the ancestral tablets are all in my hometown, and the ancestors can't be allowed to cut off the incense. "Anton's thinking is a bit old-fashioned, which is a good thing in Roque's opinion, but it won't work when he comes to Anton.

"How can you cut off the incense? Don't have a brother or sister back home? I really didn't hire someone to burn incense and go to the grave during the New Year's holidays, okay? Spend three or five taels of silver a year, and a lot of people are willing to be filial sons and grandchildren. Luo Ke doesn't care about this problem, the Chinese worship their ancestors to burn paper money and put tribute, and foreigners go to the grave to get bouquets of flowers at most, so it seems that the ancestors of foreigners are really poor and pitiful.

"How's that going to work? To worship the ancestors, you must be sincere and sincere, and hire someone to go to the grave, do you know whether he went to the grave or not? Anton's worries are also reasonable, there is no video mobile phone or anything these days, and hiring people is really unreliable.

"If you really don't feel at ease, please invite the ancestral tablet over, I'm afraid that if the ancestors know that our unscrupulous descendants work for foreigners, they won't even let us offer incense." Luo Ke's words directly shut up Anton, yes, in fact, they are all hypocritical, there are thousands of people in the Huayong camp, and all of them have stories behind them, but as long as there is a way, no one wants to be a second devil, they have all reached this point, and they are hypocritically unwilling to recognize the reality, and they deserve to return to the Qing Kingdom as cannon fodder.

Roque didn't expect to persuade Anton to immigrate in a few words, this kind of thing still has to make his own decisions, Roque has a way to influence Anton, and in a few days Roque is ready to go to the immigration bureau for naturalization, and then Roque has the qualifications to buy a house and land in Cape, not to mention more, if Roque buys a farm of thousands of acres in Cape, Roque will not believe that Anton and these people are not moved.

Just kidding, survival can't be guaranteed, and the ancestral tablet is no longer so important, what is the best filial piety to the ancestors?

It's not the paper money that is burned every year, but the branches and leaves make the family more prosperous, so that the ancestors can smile in the spirit of the sky, otherwise it is meaningless to burn more paper money, a person to honor the ancestors, it is definitely not as good as a dozen or dozens of people to be filial piety.