In January 1855, outside the Haijing, the capital of Haisong.

It was late at night, but the port area outside Haijing City was still brightly lit. There were shops and hotels on the shore. Although the streets were still narrow, they were no longer full of potholes. If you look from the sky, the lights at the port outside the city were brighter than those in the city walls. There were cargo or passenger sampans cruising on the rivers. I don’t know who started, but the boats were hung with a red lantern, reflecting the big river and small streams into a red stream, just like blood flowing in the human body.

This is no longer a place of sin for prostitutes, robbers, thieves, and beggars. Although it is still very chaotic, the streets are full of merchants and sailors from foreign lands, as well as hypocritical Chinese and foreign businessmen.

No one would know that more than a year ago, a pirate named Sha Baozai came here to "exploration" with the now famous "one-eyed dragon".

The taxi carriage drove out of the city gate in the dark and stopped at a ferry outside the city. After the blonde young foreigner Nicholas Wolf jumped out of the carriage, he was facing a small boat lined up waiting to pick up the passengers.

"Master, where are sir (English), bonjour, monsieur (French)? Copper, silver dollars, cents, francs, and pounds are all fine!" The boatmen shouted at the bow of the boat and attracted guests.

Nicholas jumped onto a small sampan, took out a copper from his pants and handed it to the boatman, and shouted in a skillful Cantonese language: "Go to the Pirates Bar."

"Guest," the boatman counted the number of copper plates and frowned, "Sir, sorry, the 'pie money' has been deprecated. You may add 20 more, or you may pay with francs or silver slots."

Nicholas was stunned for a moment and immediately shouted: "You won't fool me, right! This is the price three days ago."

The boatman was not angry, shrugged and said, "It's not that I cheated you, we don't want to be so troublesome. Anyway, the braid money is depreciated so we don't like to collect it. Now if you pay the bill with copper coins, you just add money."

"It's easy," Nicholas took out another cent coin and handed it to the boatman. The boatman took it away, and suddenly held the pole, and the small boat with a red lantern immediately sailed into the river.

"Sir, are you a person who makes opium?" On the river, the dark Guangdong boatman asked Nicholas, who seemed absent-minded in the boat while lying on the boat.

Nicholas was startled and asked, "How do you know?"

The boatman smiled. The city was still swaying here in the middle of the night. If it were either the slut who came to the brothel here for fun, or the owner or the boat owner, she spit out a circle and pointed at the outsider and said, "This store is strictly forbidden to fight, and now it is strictly forbidden to commit suicide. I want to die if I want to die!"

The man with a braided hair that was smashed to the floor came to his senses and rushed out of the store with a gun. As everyone was watching, his friend also exclaimed and followed him out, and then a gunshot came from outside the door.
Chapter completed!