Chapter 82 Life-saving Straw
"What did you say?" Although Jones didn't understand Chinese, he could feel the murderous intent in Feng Qi's eyes.
Luo Jiu coughed lightly and translated, "She said that with such a small amount of money, the workers would die. They work long hours every day and suffer from major and minor injuries. Twenty pence is not enough to buy medicine."
Jones spread his hands. "That's their own problem. Maybe they can't even make 20 pence in your country. Otherwise, why would they come here across the ocean?"
Jones leaned back in his seat and lit a cigar.
"Young ladies, I know what you want to say. Fairness or justice are things that people are qualified to talk about when countries are equal.
Now, the British Empire is number one in the world, and the Qing Dynasty is number one.
When the emperor of the Qing Dynasty can sit at the same table with our king as an equal, then you can make demands on behalf of those workers. "
How could the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty have the chance to sit at the same table with the King of the British Empire?
Besides, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty would soon die. If the next emperor was unlucky, the Qing Dynasty would fall soon after he took office.
well.
The four of them sat in the square, feeling quite depressed. It turned out that if you lag behind, you will be beaten, and the people of a weak country cannot get a fair income.
Fan Shun and others came over and saw their expressions. They knew the result of the negotiation without asking.
He had expected this and comforted them instead, "It doesn't matter if it doesn't work out. Once we enter the labor camp, it's like entering a noble family, and from now on, they will make the decisions for us."
Luo Jiu sighed and looked up at the sky of this foreign country, "Are you just going to accept your fate and be exploited here for the rest of your life?"
"What can we do if we don't accept our fate?" Fan Shun scratched his forehead. "Second boss, look at the high walls and guards here. If you want to escape, you may lose your life. You bosses all have your own abilities, and the rest of us can only be shot."
Luo Jiu shook his head, "No, if we can solve the security problem, will you come with us?"
Fan Shun said, "Follow! Of course! Even if we go back to the countryside to farm, it's better than being subjected to these evil spirits here, but... but how can we go back?"
Yes, so many people have escaped secretly, without legal identity, and the road back home is thousands of miles away. How can they go back?
The business card flashed through Luo Jiu's mind. Although the business card was not handed to her, she took a glance at it at that time.
I think I'm remembering it correctly?
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Jones was out for work that day and would not be back until the next day. When Zhong Jialing gave Marian medicine, she added some sleeping pills, and everyone in the room fell asleep quickly.
Cheng Yaoyao stood at Annie's door and made an OK gesture downwards.
Luo Jiu walked quickly to the living room and picked up the Jones family's phone for the first time.
At this time, the phone still needs to dial the number pad, and in the silent night, the sound is particularly harsh.
Luo Jiu's heart was pounding with nervousness. Feng Qi stood at the door with a gun in his hand, ready to deal with any emergency at any time.
Luo Jiu dialed the ten-digit number according to the numbers he remembered and waited nervously for the other party to answer.
Ring…ring…ring…
Luo Jiu clenched his knuckles and prayed silently, "Answer the phone, please, answer the phone."
Perhaps God heard her prayers, because a dozen seconds later, a lazy response came from the receiver: "Hello."
The other party spoke in English, and Luo Jiu tried to say something in Chinese: "Hello."
The other party paused and asked her in Chinese, "Who?"
Luo Jiu hurriedly said: "It's me, sister. We met at the Chinese medicine store. Do you remember me?"
"Remember, the little sister in the labor camp."
"Yes, you said last time that you could help us. There are many of us here. If we escape...if we get out, can you take us in temporarily?"
The other party was silent for a moment, "A lot, how much?"
Luo Jiu: "8,000 to 20,000, I'm not sure of the exact number right now."
The other party smiled and said, "Sister, you think too highly of me. I am just a small businessman who was forced to leave my hometown and do a little cargo business. If I could hide so many people, I would have returned to my hometown long ago. Why would I be here in this hellhole?"
Luo Jiu pursed his lips, "Then... forty-five people will be ok? We are four sisters and forty-one children."
"Sure." The other party answered without hesitation.
Luo Jiu could hardly believe his ears. It was just like a person falling into the sea and grabbing a life-saving straw with just his hand.
She had to confirm, "What did you say?"
The other party smiled heartily and said, "I agree. I can still afford to support this number of people."
"Great! Thank you, sister. Your name is Lu...Lu..."
"Hey, how come you remembered my phone number but not my name?"
Luo Jiu was helpless, "Your finger happened to be on the name at that time."
The other party laughed again, "My name is Lu Fengchun, but I have to tell you that my reputation in the Chinese community is not very good. I don't want to hide this from you."
Luo Jiu said disdainfully: "What is reputation? It's just someone's upper lip touching their lower lip and spitting out some saliva.
Sister Lu has extraordinary courage, so why should she care about these things? "
Lu Fengchun was silent for a few seconds, then nodded secretly, "Okay, when will you come? I'll be ready to pick you up."
Luo Jiu hurriedly said: "We don't have a specific plan yet. I think if you don't take us in, we don't have to make a plan."
"I'll take you in, you can make plans now."
"Okay, I'll contact you when things are finalized."
Luo Jiu hung up the phone excitedly, waved his hand to withdraw the three people who were standing guard upstairs and downstairs, and went back to the room to discuss this big plan together.
At this time, it has been a month since they traveled to this time and space.
The system released the upgrade conditions a few days ago, killing 8,000 enemies.
When Feng Qi saw the upgrade conditions, he immediately said, "The total number of foreign devils here is less than 8,000. We can't be so cruel as to kill all our brothers to make up the number, right?"
Zhong Jialing was lying on the bed, laughing until tears came out, "We won't kill those old, weak, sick and disabled people."
Luo Jiu said: "The international situation is not peaceful, and sooner or later we will have a war. Sixteen million people died in the first war, are you still worried that we can't spare eight thousand?
When the time comes, we can just find a place to hide, and when they start fighting, we can throw a few grenades at them. "
There is no rush for upgrading, what is urgent is ideological education.
Judging from Jones's attitude, as long as they leave, these children will be sold the next day. They must take the children away, and it is important to have a unified mind at this time.
The next day after confirming that Lu Fengchun could take over, Luo Jiu began to take time to give ideological and political lessons to the children.
From my country's ancient history to the Opium War, from the current international situation to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Every day, the children would quietly run to the utility room and listen quietly to Sister Luo Jiu telling stories.
Sometimes they were excited, sometimes they cried bitterly, sometimes they were proud, and sometimes they sighed.
After one month of ideological and political classes, Luo Jiu has a much better understanding of each child, because when talking about modern history, they can always use their personal experiences to supplement some content that will not be written in history books.
Ordinary people are like duckweed in the tide of the times. Life and death are all determined by fate and are beyond human control.
These children are living people, but they were sold here for a few dollars.
If these four people hadn't appeared, I'm afraid the children would be living an unimaginable miserable life now.
When talking about the last lesson, Luo Jiu raised a question for us to think about: What should we do in the face of such troubled times?
There is a child in the class named Meng Hu, who is a little dull, but has a good character. It’s just that she learns things slowly. This time she was the first to raise her hand.
Luo Jiu was quite surprised, "Xiao Hu said."
Meng Hu said seriously: "We should kill Jones."
Luo Jiu was dumbfounded for a few seconds, "How...how did you come to this conclusion?"
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