Chapter 57: Pondering Warmly
On the evening of his return to the docks, the long-lost gambling game was reopened, and in just half an hour, Roque received £120, and the rotten gamblers on the docks were much more generous than the British.
"Hehe, head, let's do a few more votes, and the brothers will be able to buy a house in Cape Town." Luo Yi's dividend today is 5 pounds, and almost a month's salary is so easy to get, this money is really easy to earn.
"Save money well, when the money is not enough, I will lend it to you, after a while, we may still have a group of brothers to come over, then there is no need for us to speak, let them see what kind of life we are doing, they will take the initiative to come over." Roque has always encouraged everyone to buy houses and land, and only when they have assets in their names can they have the motivation to struggle.
"Do we have any brothers?"
"How many brothers?"
"Are there any sisters?"
Except for Roque, no one else knew that Cape Town was going to hire more Hua Yong, and after listening to Roque's words, the brothers talked a lot, and soon crooked the building, and it was really full of warm thoughts.
"Sister-it's not impossible, but we can't let the British handle it, what the British like, we may not see, wait for the opportunity." There is no way for Roque in this regard, Henry can ask for more Chinese police officers, he can ask for Chinese cooks, what banner should he wear if he wants a woman? You can't hire female workers from the Qing Kingdom to wash clothes.
What's more, Roque expressed serious doubts about the mentality of the British, and the reason why it is "mentality" rather than "aesthetics" is because Roque found that the aesthetic of the East is not much different from the aesthetic of the West, but where the East thinks is beautiful, the view of the West is similar to that of the Eastern.
It's the same with people, Roque thinks Ida is a beauty, Henry thinks so, Roque thinks Phyllis is a beauty, and Henry seriously agrees, men are the same in this regard, and there is no huge difference in aesthetics.
So why is it that in the 21st century, there are many women on the Internet who are seriously not in line with the aesthetics of the East, and they will be considered by the West as Oriental beauties?
Roque concluded that Westerners were harboring evil intentions, and they deliberately hyped up women who were not beautiful even in the East, in order to scandalize the aesthetics of the Orientals, slander the image of women in the East, and then undermine the national self-confidence of the Orientals.
Maybe the British in this era are not so insidious, but Roque can't pin his hopes on the British, if there is no accident, the Chinese in Cape Town still prefer to form a family with Chinese women, so Roque doesn't want to see the second generation of Chinese in Cape grow up like Winston's father in the future.
It's really not a curse, Winston and his father, he is indeed ugly.
"Opportunity, it's not for nothing, isn't Lao Liang going back to China?" Anton suddenly interjected, and Roque was stunned, really, he almost forgot about this stubble.
When the Cape Town Police Department hired Hua Yong to come to Cape Town as a policeman, he hired Liang Dingxin because he was worried about communication problems, and now the English level of the Chinese police has improved by leaps and bounds, and Liang Dingxin has lost his role, so Liang Dingxin is about to return to Qingguo and continue to work as a translator in the Huayong Battalion.
"Where is Lao Liang?" Luo Ke was overjoyed, as long as Lao Liang was willing to cooperate, this problem would not be difficult to solve.
Unlike the 21st century, the end of the 19th century was a standard patriarchal society, the British wanted to hire Hua Yong as a policeman, and they had to continue to pay Hua Yong's salary, if Hua Yong wanted to marry a wife from the Qing Dynasty, he could buy it directly, and the price was very cheap, 80 silver dollars a piece, which was equivalent to about eight pounds, which was more than a month's salary.
"Lao Liang, in the dormitory, we don't need him to translate now, where else can he go if he is not in the dormitory?" Anton didn't know that Roque didn't think about Lao Liang at all.
"Let's go and go back to Lao Liang." Roque was very anxious and solved the problem of his wife, believing that the vast majority of Chinese police officers would set up their homes in Cape Town, so that Cape Town would have a Chinese community, and Roque would have a basic plate.
In the dormitory, Liang Dingxin was undecided, and the psychological struggle was fierce.
Luo Ke forgot about Liang Dingxin, but Liang Dingxin did not forget Luo Ke, for Luo Ke, the only police chief among the Chinese police, Liang Dingxin has always kept a concern, starting from Luo Ke's naturalization, Liang Dingxin watched Luo Ke be promoted to sergeant, watched Luo Ke settle down and buy a home, watched other Chinese police officers naturalize one after another, and get a high salary of five pounds a month, it is impossible to say that Liang Dingxin is not moved, Liang Dingxin takes the same salary as a Chinese officer in Huayong Camp, 135 yuan a year, Equivalent to 13.5 pounds, when he arrived in Cape Town, Liang Dingxin's salary increased, but it was only two pounds a month, and now even the ordinary soldiers of the Huayong battalion got five pounds, but Liang Dingxin, who was pretentious in the past, still got a salary of two pounds, which made Liang Dingxin really unwilling.
But there is no way to be unwilling, the Cape Town Police Department needs Chinese police, and does not need Chinese translators, the reason why Liang Dingxin gets a monthly salary of two pounds is to provide services for Chinese police, and now with the improvement of the English level of Chinese police, Liang Dingxin has gradually lost his role, so let alone five pounds a month, the existing two pounds are about to be unable to keep.
The world is declining, and people's hearts are not ancient!
In the face of such a predicament, Liang Dingxin does not have the ability to break the game like Luo Ke, so he can only be sad.
"Liang Tongyi, Liang Tongyi, are you in the house?" Outside the door was Li De's voice, Liang Dingxin knew that Li De was Roque's little follower, so he hurriedly got up and opened the door.
"Officer Reed, I'm here, what's the matter with me?" Liang Dingxin felt aggrieved for a reason, before the Chinese police did not start learning English, a big soldier like Li De wanted to nod his head when he saw Liang Dingxin, and now the times have changed, and in the face of Officer Reed, who has become a naturalized Cape Town, Liang Dingxin can only make compromises.
"The head is looking for you." Li De didn't talk much, and didn't leave after finishing speaking, it seemed that he was going back with Liang Dingxin.
A very interesting fact is that in the entire Cape Town Police Department, all the Chinese police officers only use the whole word "boss" when they call Roque, and they call everyone else by name and official position, such as Sergeant Henry, no, now Inspector Henry, and Chief Russell.
"Okay, okay, wait, wait." Liang Dingxin didn't dare to slack off, so he took the door and followed Li De to see Luo Ke.
"What is Luo Ye looking for me?" Liang Dingxin was a little apprehensive, he didn't know what Luo Ke was looking for him, and tried to get something out of Li De's words.
"Hehe, you'll know when you see the head." Li De doesn't talk nonsense, hehe laughs and interrupts just doesn't pick up the stubble, and still wants to talk? Dream on.