Chapter 649 Can't Come For Nothing
Why pretend? Because she may have found a more suitable man than herself. At least it seems that this possibility is very high. It is also possible that she doesn't want to leave here. Here she is a complete person, and her life is brand new. When she returns to the capital, she seems to be half a person, and her other half is blocked by her own shadow.
This is her traditional side. She has personal ideas and pursuits, but she doesn't want to be criticized by others. If she doesn't mention this, she will probably buried all this in her heart. By next spring, she will return to China with her diploma and degree certificate and marry herself, and spend the rest of her life safely.
Even if she knows that she has other women outside or even children, as long as she doesn't break the window paper, she will still accept it. Because she feels that she owes her, it's not love, nor husband and wife, but a debt.
"Duke, can you order a dinner for me? Tomorrow is my birthday, and I will spend it with my fiancée tonight. It is best to be seafood, I like to eat big lobsters!" After Jin Yue walked into the school gate, Hong Tao came out of the restaurant and walked back to the hotel. At the door, he saw the black guy from last night. He said nothing, he would pay another ten yuan, and he would not have to work for one thing.
"No problem, there is a United Oyster House behind Quincy Market. It has been open for more than two hundred years and has a dedicated box for the Kennedy family. My brother is the waiter there. How about 8:30? You can eat while watching the night view. Sir, do you need to order a gift car for you, which has the bar. I think your fiancée will be happier in this way." The black guy is really a service industry material. Not only should the customer be told, but there are better suggestions.
"Isn't it your brother who drove the gift car? "Hong Tao smiled, gave him another five dollars, and then turned around and left.
Don't believe that black people tell you who is his brother. In their minds, all black people in the world are brothers and sisters. If you meet and live in the same neighborhood, you will be a real brother.
Why are you going? There is still a long time before the afternoon. Hong Tao stayed in the hotel without thinking. Wouldn't that be a waste of time? He had to go for a walk.
Forget it, after reading it for more than an hour just now, I came to the conclusion that the quality of Boston girls is worrying, which may be related to race. Anyone who has been to the British Isles will definitely agree with this view. There are very few beauties in that place. Suddenly I saw one, but when I got close, I still had a small face.
If you can't see the big white legs, then look at the scenery and humanities. Boston is known as the microcosm of the founding history of the United States and a river next to it. There is definitely no shortage of this aspect.
Hong Tao's scenic tour starts on the Charles River. Like New York, there are special cruises to take tourists to visit the river, but the destination is slightly different. The cruises in New York are for the Statue of Liberty, and the cruises in Boston are for the Charles Town Naval Shipyard to see the Constitution Iron Craft.
Hong Tao likes sail warships very much because he not only drove but also built them. When he saw layers of masts, dense cables like fishing nets, and sails like clouds, he would think of the past and the thrilling passion that had spread all over the world.
Unfortunately, this three-masted warship has been parked on the shore all year round, and only came out for a walk on the National Day of the United States. Now it can only go to the Constitution Museum on the shore. Since it is not allowed to board the ship, Hong Tao has no interest and took the boat back to the south bank of the Charles River and landed from the north corner.
When getting off the boat, Hong Tao asked the bearded captain what to transfer here. Without saying a word, the bearded captain picked up a free map distributed to tourists, brushed a few strokes on it, drew a twist and twisty route, and also indicated it next to it, freed trail.
The Road to Freedom! As soon as you hear the name Hong Tao, you will know that the scenery has been finished, and now the journey of humanities and history has begun.
Fortunately, the real city of Boston is not big, just four or five square kilometers in radius. It’s almost done with two legs to see the flowers in half a day.
In this regard, Boston's urban planning is somewhat similar to Paris, called the Paris region and the Boston region. Looking at the map, the real city is only a small circle in the middle, and the others are satellite cities. For example, Harvard University is strictly speaking not in Boston. The place is called Cambridge, which has nothing to do with Boston.
With a map, Hong Tao is not afraid of anyone. Walking according to the map is a basic skill. In fact, there is no need to be afraid of not having a map. This so-called free road has a red brick line on the sidewalk along the way. You won’t be wrong to walk along this line.
The first stop was quite unlucky. It was a cemetery called Rich Mountain. The name was reliable, but this mountain was not reliable at all. The Americans were really thick-skinned and had a total of three-story high land parcels, so they dared to call it Shan. If we follow this algorithm, Jingshan would be called Jingfeng in the future, and it would sound like it would be several thousand meters.
Hong Tao didn't know whether it was reliable or not. He didn't even go up and passed by. By the way, he bought a large ice cream roll next to him, which cost two yuan. It was so big that he was almost caught up with the torch of the Olympics. This thing must be licked and eaten, and the children passing by were greedy!
The second stop is also interesting, called Gerville's former residence. Gerville is a celebrity in the United States, similar to the protagonist in the Chinese Chicken Feather Letter. However, he did not die at that time and was later promoted.
What did he do when he was promoted and famous? In fact, he didn't do anything. He just rode a horse to send a letter to tell the American militia at that time that the British lobster soldiers were coming to attack, and the villagers quickly searched the guys and buried mines to blow them up!
Delivering letters is indeed a heroic act, but Hong Tao feels that he has a more glorious side. Because he has a big house and is a gold and silver smith with good skills.
The second-story steeplechase has at least seven or eight rooms and a loft, which is considered a middle class in the New World in the 18th century. If you have nothing to do, make some gold and silverware to sell, you will have no worries about food and drink. If you are more diligent and have some vision, you will have to become rich in every minute.
But he resolutely abandoned his family and property to deliver letters to the militia. This means that the colonial people will win in the end. What if the British won? His fate would be very miserable. No matter what era, everyone hated those who informed the enemy.
Therefore, he is much nobler than a poor man who has no food to fight and is forced to rebel. This is the person with ideals.
There is a steeple cathedral just south of his house, which is also a historical relics, and it is related to Gerville. When he rode a horse, he was not sending letters, but inquiring about the facts of the British army and seeing whether the lobster soldiers came from land or from water. But how could he tell the militia this time? The answer lies on the steeple of this church.
This church is called Laobei Church. It has a red base and a white spire, which is very tall. At that time, two red lanterns were hung at the highest point of the church. This is Gerville's long-distance lighting signal system.
The British hang a lantern when they attacked from the water and two when they came from the land. To this day, two lanterns are hung on the church spire all year round to commemorate the moment hundreds of years ago.
Going further south is Faniel Hall and Quincy Market, which is the American version of the Munich Beer Tavern. Samuel Adams and his group delivered speeches here, calling on the colonial people to become independent.
Hong Tao was not interested in him, but went straight to the United Oyster House where he wanted to have a meal with Jin Yue at night. He was not very worried about the black guy's mouth, so he happened to pass by, so he would conduct a field investigation first.
The result was still very satisfied. There were more than ten timbers here at noon and the business was good. The wooden three-story restaurant was obviously old items and the grade was enough.
In fact, there are many Italian-style seafood restaurants around, but it has its own characteristics and good business. If it weren't for too many people, Hong Tao would like to go in and try it first. But look at the watch, forget it. I can buy a hot dog to cushion on the roadside, so I can eat seafood at night with my stomach.
From here, the red line on the sidewalk began to turn westward, and Hong Tao chewed the hot dog and turned around. Walking through a street, it was the old parliamentary hall, and the Declaration of Independence was read on its balcony.
A little further north, there will be a huge manhole cover on the ground. Of course, this is not a manhole cover, but a sign of the Boston Holocaust site, and it is also the fuse of the American War of Independence.
Guess how many people were killed inhumanely by British lobster soldiers in this massacre? After reading the introduction on the travel map in his hand, Hong Tao felt something was wrong. The things distributed for free must be easy to make mistakes. He went to the sign next to the site to read it carefully, and then turned around and left.
Isn't this nonsense? What a fuse or a massacre? The British were so unfair. A total of five people were killed in the riots, and they were called the massacre by the Americans. They were so petty.
Not to mention this kind of thing, not to mention the era in the 18th century when human lives were worse than dogs, even in the 21st century, there would be a random campus shooting, and even if there were no more than ten or eight people who died, they would be embarrassed to go to the news.
Damn it was Adams who deliberately made excuses to make trouble at that time. Like ancient China, no matter who rebelled, he had to find a reasonable reason. He couldn't say that I was annoyed in the morning and then had to rebel with a gun.
So this so-called massacre is an excuse. If the British did not shoot at that time, the Americans would have to stab a few of them to death, and then calculate the accounts on the British, which would have become the fuse again.
Hong Tao was bothering others to fool him. After leaving the site of the Holocaust, he was no longer interested in this road of freedom. But it was still early and he had no place to go, so he might as well continue to move around. But he was not so serious. At most, he would take a look at the introduction, and if he was interested, he would go over and take a few more glances, and if he was not interested, he would just skip it.
As I walked, I saw a copper donkey on the side of the road, one to one size, and there was a sign in front of the donkey. I looked over and saw an elephant on the sign. Donkeys and elephants, the symbols of the Democratic and Republican Party, and their origins are here.
Chapter completed!