Chapter 466

Zhu Yuyan set foot on British soil for the first time in her two lives, full of unrealistic imagination about this legendary British gentleman’s country, but after getting off the ship, she was defeated by the filth of the dock.

The slums adjacent to the pier were even more than she could accept.

She looked at the people sleeping on the curtains and always suspected that they were corpses ……

And when she did, she saw bodies on the banks of the sewer that ran alongside the docks, floating in the sewage with the garbage.

The stench of garbage coming from her nose dazzled her.

She and Su Chunjun rode in a horse-drawn carriage to the train station, where they were to catch a train to Shi Wuwei and Yang Yucan.

They didn’t stop for another day to recuperate.

When Zhu Yuyan arrived in England, she was filled with the desire to see Yang Yucan as soon as possible.

The trouble was that they didn’t know Shi Wuwei and Yang Yucan’s exact address.

Since putting them on the ship, the two sides had never passed messages.

Su Chunjun: “Wouwei and the others should have written a letter, but the Japanese had already taken control of the dock at that time, and that’s probably why we didn’t receive their letter.”

This was most likely.

They could only find George Middle School first, then Shi Wuwei.

Fortunately, George’s High School is relatively easy to find, it is in the northwestern part of England, not too far from Liverpool, by train can be directly past, it is one of the stations of the train.

Carriage all the way through, in the slums of the time, there have been beggars followed by the car begging, they followed the car, kept saying: “kind lady, charity point, charity point it.”

As long as the police patrol will come over to drive them away, the carriage driver will also use the whip to whip them, and will drive the car faster.

There were nimble beggars who would reach out and grab the people in the car.

Luckily, the doors and windows were locked from the inside, but some people were also grabbed by the beggars to take away the bags or hats in their hands.

Su Chunjun let her sit on the inside and he sat on the outside, keeping a tight grip on the gun in his hand.

The others in the same carriage were also constantly urging the carriage driver to move faster.

The carriage was pulling eight people, only two were women, the rest were men.

Zhu Yuyan and Su Chunjun were dressed very decently, and did not attract any side glances or reports, and when they met the police, the police on horseback did not notice them.

And called Zhu Yuyan surprised, pickpocket car and chasing the car beggars are almost all white.

There are also a lot of black slaves at the pier–yes, black slaves. It was the first time she saw so many black slaves. She had thought that Britain had already abolished slavery, and that it would take another twenty years before the United States would completely abolish slavery on a national scale. Now it looked like England hadn’t completely abolished slaves at this point either.

It was the Negroes who had jobs on the docks and the whites who were begging in town.

This is a strange phenomenon.

When we arrived at the train station, Su Chunjun bought an upper class compartment with US dollars – this was the last US dollar Zhu Yuyan had left, and the pounds had already been spent.

The pounds had already been spent, and the francs would have to be used next.

A waiter in a suit and white gloves brought their luggage into the compartment, which had a toilet, a bathroom, a bedroom, a living room, and a servant’s room.

After entering the carriage, Su Chunjun first asked the waiter to bring the menu of the restaurant and the recent newspaper.

Su Chunjun: “Send all the newspapers of the recent week.”

Then slipped the waiter a one dollar tip.

Zhu Yuyan watched him spend money like water and felt that his nobleman’s style was really steady.

The good thing was that from the time they got off the ship until now, no matter if they were renting a carriage or buying a train ticket, no one asked them for identification or anything like that.

However, there seems to be a not-explicit rule in England that one can tell if a person is a gentleman (rich and well established) just by looking at his appearance and conversation.

Even if they looked like they were yellow, I don’t know if the British weren’t really able to tell, or if they just didn’t care.

The waiter quickly brought the newspaper.

Zhu Yuyan also ordered afternoon tea. They ate almost only potatoes on the ship and hadn’t eaten anything since they got off the ship. Right now this afternoon tea was the only thing they could eat.

The afternoon tea was unexpectedly rich.

Zhu Yuyan thought that there were only potatoes here, but she didn’t realize that the afternoon tea in the train restaurant had all kinds of cakes, cookies, muffins, sandwiches, pies and cream.

It seems that there is no shortage of flour in England.

There was also tea and coffee and milk. Sugar was also given in a tin.

They cleaned up their afternoon tea. Then they exchanged to take a bath, then exchanged to read the newspaper, and made a reservation for dinner.

At eight o’clock in the evening Zhu Yuyan and Su Chunjun each put on their best clothes, and she wore a sapphire necklace, and walked into the restaurant together, carrying each other.

The dining room on the train was like any fine restaurant. There were only sixteen seats, booked by the hotel merits of the upper class carriages. Velvet high-class sofas, tables covered with white napkins, in the middle and rear of the dining car even set up a small performance stage, there are three performers playing on it.

Zhu Yuyan was a million times glad that Su Chunjun had given her a newly made dress and leather shoes, and that the money spent on these had not gone to waste.

Once they were seated, the waiter came up and whispered about the chef and today’s dishes, as well as asking if their reservations needed to be changed.

Waiter: “There are fresh oysters.”

Zhu Yuyan said as if no one else was there, “No, I’ve always felt that oysters have an earthy flavor, I’d rather just eat chicken.”

Su Chunjun looks at her with a smile, “Of course, you’re right about everything, dear.”

Ever since the reunion, Mr. Su had always treated her this way, as if she had suddenly become that unreasonable and willful little girl again, needing him to let and coax her.

She felt that he just hadn’t gotten back to his senses yet, and that’s why he was treating her like this. Maybe the separation had made him forget that she was already an adult and could do many great things on her own.

They enjoyed dinner, during which they spoke in English the entire time.

He also attempted to carry out French teaching at the dinner table, which was good for their persona.

Zhu Yuyan followed suit, picking up the French that she hadn’t familiarized herself with in a long time again, and playing with him word for word at the dinner table.

They ate from eight to eleven, ate fifteen courses, and enjoyed two pieces of music at the end.

The next morning they were visited by the same guests from the upper carriage.

This showed that last night’s appearance in the dining car had been a great success.

Su Chunjun took the opportunity to bring out the story of their persona once again.

They had come to look for their sister and future brother-in-law who had eloped and left home back then.

It’s a scandal, so just don’t mind that they won’t make it too clear what their last name is and where their hometown is.

Su Chunjun is the brother-in-law, and the one who came to look for her sister is Zhu Yuyan, who couldn’t help her sister back then, and has been depressed since she got married, and in the end, the man she loved couldn’t bear to see her miss her sister all the time, so he brought her here to look for someone.

And the one who tricked her sister into eloping back then was the youngest son of a nobleman’s family.

He lived outside and was very unruly – a bastard.

Her sister was gentle and kind, and she was cheated by him just like that.

Su Chunjun: “All we know is that the man was supposedly sponsored by his relatives to attend George High School. His name is Tehran.”

A lie told a thousand times becomes true, and Zhu Yuyan was now able to tell this part of the story by heart.

Soon the story was circulating on the train.

Then they soon got the not-so-wonderful news.

George High School was supposed to have been requisitioned, it was now supposed to be a military camp used to train soldiers.

And if there were no accidents, all the male students in the school should have enlisted in the army nearby.

Su Chunjun: “……”

Zhu Yuyan: “……”

This is really unexpected.