For new immigrants, getting a farm is just the first step. Whether they can manage it well in the next step depends on their own efforts and whether God will give them face.
When the colonial pioneer team first entered area 1065, Liu Zhen's family had just arrived at Liu Zhen's farm in Johannesburg, 900 kilometers away.
Liu Zhen is a native of Suining, Shaanxi and Gansu. He came to Johannesburg as a miner five years ago and then purchased a 150-acre farm in Crocodile Bay Reservoir through Locke Gold Mine.
After buying the farm, Liu Zhen sent a telegram to his family in the Qing Dynasty, hoping that they could come to southern Africa and run the farm together.
But for some unknown reason, Liu Zhen’s family never heard back. It was not until the beginning of this year that Liu Zhen remitted ten pounds to his family who were still in the Qing Dynasty through Rand Bank, and Liu Zhen’s family successfully boarded the ship.
Even after coming to Johannesburg and seeing Yujin's farm with his own eyes, Yujin's father still couldn't believe it.
"It's Zhen's father, these 900 acres of land belong to me -" Liu Zhen emphasized again. The Boer wife next to him gave Liu Zhen's father a glass of milk and brought two children who had just learned to walk over to Liu Zhen.
The father kowtows.
Liu Zhen's father was immediately stunned.
"Hello grandpa, hello grandma, hello uncle, hello aunt, hello third uncle, hello third aunt, hello fifth uncle -" After a round of kowtows, the two children did not receive any greeting gifts, but their eyes that broke into eight petals were.
Quite a few.
"This -" A large group of people gasped, and then they all waited for Liu Zhen to explain.
"Dad, this is my aunt--" Liu Zhen took the initiative to introduce. Although his expression was magnanimous, he was still nervous inside.
"Dad, my name is Zora——" Liu Zhen's wife was finally able to greet her father-in-law when she met her for the first time in Chinese.
Before Liu Zhen's father had time to speak, Liu Zhen's mother pulled the two children to her side, and then her eyes were filled with tears and she kept shouting "darlings, darlings".
The two children are still more like Liu Zhen, with black hair and dark eyes, and their skin is fairer than Liu Zhen's. However, in the eyes of Liu Zhen's mother, this is not a disadvantage, but an advantage.
Just cover up the three ugliness.
"Dad, the hot water is ready. You can take a shower first, and then change clothes -" Liu Zhen's wife was very thoughtful. The journey was so long that Liu Zhen's family was also exhausted both physically and mentally.
Compared with their mental state, the health condition of Liu Zhen's family is more worrying. All thirteen people, including six children, are sallow and thin and dressed in rags. This is in stark contrast to Liu Zhen, who is strong and neatly dressed.
Contrast.
When he first arrived in Johannesburg, a land of foreigners, and faced with Zora, a foreign wife, Liu Zhen's father obviously needed a buffering stage.
But this was no problem for Liu Zhen's brothers. Liu Zhen's father and mother were taking a bath at home, so Liu Zhen simply took a few brothers to the fish pond not far from the house, and then the brothers took a bath at home.
Started talking nonsense.
"Boy, do you really have 900 acres of land?"
"Second brother, where did you get so much money?"
"Second brother, didn't you rob the rich man?"
"Don't be impatient, just listen to me slowly -" Liu Zhen simply explained his experiences over the years clearly.
Then there are more questions.
"Is that Rand Bank really that kind?"
"The boss of Rand Bank is our Lord. Of course, borrowing money also has interest, but only we Chinese can successfully borrow money from Rand Bank. It is very difficult for white people to borrow money. Africans cannot borrow money at all. This is Lord
I will give us unique benefits to Chinese people——"
"How big an official is your lordship?"
"The Viscount of the British Empire, the Minister of Defense and the Minister of Justice of the federal government, if placed in the Qing Dynasty, they would be one person below ten thousand people."
"No one who is an official is a good person. Our hometown has suffered a lot from those officials -"
"Lao Wu, you can't say this. We are just at home. If you dare to say this when you go out, you may be beaten to death——"
"Second brother, tell me, Sir Sir Alex has given us so many benefits, why do you want us?" The boss said thoughtfully.
"What do we have to gain? Without Sir Alex, our lives are worthless. One day I will take you to the gold mine to see those African miners and you will know. Humans are really inferior to dogs. Even our dogs can't live like this."
How about -" When Liu Zhen was talking, two strong South African mastiffs were also swimming in the fish pond. There were also a few South African mastiffs on the river bank that looked like they were just one month old and did not dare to go into the water. They were wagging their tails desperately and using their immature tongues.
Voice to express your dissatisfaction.
"Your dogs are really fat. Let's make one stew for dinner tonight -" Lao Wu, who was not yet an adult, was obviously salivating.
"If you don't want to eat dogs, we have sheep. Let's kill a sheep and eat it at night -" Liu Zhen didn't correct him. People even eat people when they are very hungry. Eating a dog is nothing. All the dogs in his hometown have been eaten.
.
"Don't kill the sheep, keep them and sell them for money -" the boss immediately corrected Liu Zhen's wasteful behavior.
"Brother, our family has more than 160 sheep-" Liu Zhen's words immediately startled the eldest brother.
"More than one hundred and sixty——"
"What a big group that is!"
"Where did they come from?" The three new brothers are three hundred thousand why.
"Where else can I get it? I raise it myself. It's not stolen or robbed. It's not from our family. There are hundreds of sheep on any farm in Johannesburg. Those big farms can have thousands. Just selling wool can make a profit every year."
Tens of thousands of rands." Liu Zhen was telling the truth, but the three new brothers were half-convinced.
"Aren't they all rich people——"
If you don’t believe it, Ryuzhen’s farm is right here, but if you believe it——
It’s unbelievable!
"Based on our hometown, everyone in Johannesburg is indeed a rich man. When my farm is busy, I have to hire more than a dozen Africans to help, otherwise the work will not be completed at all." Liu Zhen is still proud.
, without stealing or robbing, I have accumulated such a large fortune in a few years, and anyone would be proud of it.
"You stupid Liu Laocai, when you sent the telegram, Liu Laocai insisted on saying that you were deceived by the Nanyang people. This was to trick our whole family into going to Nanyang to work as long-term workers. If you hadn't remitted a hundred oceans, my father and mother would have
I don’t dare to come, because his bastard Liu Laocai wants us to work as long-term workers for the rest of our lives—" Boss Liu cursed loudly. If it hadn’t been for the money, the Liu family would not have believed it.
Even if the swindlers set up a trap, they would not spend such a large amount of money. In the Qing Dynasty, every member of the Liu family would not be able to sell it for a hundred oceans.
"Tiedan, how are Gou Sheng and the others?" Only then did Liu Zhen think of his childhood playmates.
"Tiedan Niang died of hunger the year before last, so Tiedan went to the city to carry work. Now, God knows where, Gou Sheng is still working for Liu Laocai in the village. He married the daughter of Liu Si's family in the east of the village and gave birth to her four years ago.
Only one of the four children was saved. My wife was going crazy all day long, and her hair was all white for a man in his twenties. Before we left, I asked him if he wanted to come with us. His mother-in-law was still alive, so I didn’t dare—" Liu
The boss had a sad expression, he might never have the chance to meet him again in this life.
"It's okay. I will go back next year, bring out all the people in the village, and let Liu Laocai farm the land by himself." Liu Zhen's eyes turned red. Johannesburg newspapers often reported news about the Qing Dynasty. Liu Zhen knew that the situation in the Qing Dynasty was very bad, but
I didn't expect it to be so bad.
"There are not many people in the village now. When you left, there were still more than 200 people in the village. Now there are only 100 people left. Liu Laocai's life is not easy either. In recent years, there have been either droughts or floods. The fields
The harvest was not good. Liu Laocai's family was robbed during the Chinese New Year. His wife and daughter were snatched away by the bandits. When they were redeemed, they were all very pregnant. I don't know whether they were the seeds of that bandit - "Lao Liu smiled bitterly,
The wrinkles on his forehead are half as deep as a finger, and he is actually less than thirty years old. He is too old to be true.
It's good to be alive at last.
After taking a shower and putting on clean clothes, although the clothes were a bit shabby, the Liu family was still overjoyed. In the words of Mr. Liu, it was the first time in his life to wear clothes without patches.
When they got home, Zora had already prepared dinner. Liu Zhen’s mother and Boss Liu’s wife were very embarrassed because there were many things in the kitchen that the two women who had been cooking all their lives didn’t know how to use, so they couldn’t help much.
, basically this meal was prepared by Zora alone.
However, this also effectively shortened the distance between Zora and her mother-in-law and sister-in-law. When Brother Liu Zhen came back, several women were already talking and laughing, but Old Man Liu was nowhere to be seen.
"Over there in the cowshed, I have been farming all my life and have never even raised a cow. I can't afford to buy one--" Liu Zhen's mother said with red circles in her eyes again.
When we arrived at the bullpen, it turned out that Old Man Liu was wiping tears.
There are more than twenty Angus cattle in the cowshed. There are four draft horses and two mixed-breed horses in the stable next to it. One horse is still pregnant. There are more than a hundred sheep in the sheepfold next to it.
Old Man Liu has never seen so many animals in his entire life.
Now these are all owned by the family. Liu Laocai has been a landlord all his life and has never accumulated so much wealth.
"Dad, our family will have more and more land, and we will have more and more livestock. By then, you won't even be able to count them." Liu Zhen is extremely confident about the future.
"Okay, okay -" Old Man Liu could only burst into tears. He had never seen such a scene in his dreams.
In the opinion of the Liu family, the standard of the dinner was that even the New Year's Eve dinner of the Liu Laocai family had never been so sumptuous.
Zora really wanted to kill the sheep, but Liu Zhen's mother and sister-in-law firmly stopped her. Then Zora killed two chickens and stewed a pot full of potatoes and corn.
In addition to chickens, there were fish and various eggs on the table, as well as beef that the Liu family had only heard of but had never eaten, and a large basin of freshly boiled milk, which made the children salivate.
Although the food is sumptuous, it is not something you can eat casually. In this regard, the Johannesburg City Government has repeatedly reminded people who have been malnourished for a long time not to indulge in big meals, otherwise tragedies will occur.
Many such tragedies have occurred in Johannesburg, and these are lessons learned from blood and tears.
