Chapter 439: Return to California

"If you really can't bear it, just take a puff."

Liang Weiming wiped the wet corners of his eyes and handed the pipe to Liang Shaochen.

Although Liang Weiming often scolded Liang Shaochen for being useless and useless, and felt very disappointed with him.

But after seeing Liang Shaochen screaming and rolling on the ground due to his addiction to smoking for several consecutive days, Liang Weiming couldn't bear to see Liang Shaochen suffer.

Liang Yao didn't have a deep father-son relationship with this father. He just stood aside and watched coldly.

If Liang Shaochen hadn't made too much noise and disturbed him from reading, he wouldn't even bother to come over and take a look.

Compared with the various drug rehabilitation methods in later generations, the drug rehabilitation methods in the world are very simple, almost only one.

That is the natural withdrawal method, which is a drug rehabilitation method that forcibly cuts off the drug supply of the drug user, so that the withdrawal symptoms naturally subside and achieve the purpose of detoxification.

When Lin Zexu banned smoking in Guangdong, he also used this simple and crude method to help many drug addicts quit their drug addiction.

However, most of the drug addicts who successfully quit using this method are light smokers who have just started smoking or are smoking for the first time. And it cannot guarantee 100% success.

Liang Shaochen, who has smoked opium for several years, is obviously not a light smoker.

If he wants to successfully quit this addiction, he needs to endure more pain and have a stronger willpower.

Liang Yao did not have much hope for Liang Shaochen's drug addiction.

Liang Shaochen bit his lip and looked at Liang Yao, then at the cigarette in Liang Weiming's hand.

He resolutely slapped Liang Weiming's hand, and his eyes became firm.

Liang Yao and his future grandson have become Liang Shaochen's strongest spiritual support for quitting opium.

Liang Shaochen stretched out his hand to Liang Weiming and said, "Quit smoking pills!"

Liang Weiming sighed and took out a few quit smoking pills from the bag.

Liang Shaochen took the smoking cessation pills without hesitation and stuffed them into his mouth, but the smoking cessation pills could not relieve his pain.

Liang Yao walked forward, squatted down and helped Liang Shaochen up, turned to Liang Weiming and said: "Grandpa, get ready, let's board the ship to California."

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It was October 1855 when Liang Yao returned to San Francisco.

California has diverse terrain and the temperature varies greatly from place to place.

For example, although the temperature of more than ten degrees in San Francisco now makes people feel very comfortable.

But at this time, the temperature in the high-altitude areas of the Coast Mountains is much lower, and the Nevada Mountains are now even frozen.

The second gubernatorial election in California has ended.

Not surprisingly, Fremont was successfully elected as the second governor of California without Liang Yao participating in the election.

Fremont is the founding father of California, and this military expedition to Borneo has greatly increased Fremont's reputation.

In this election, Fremont can be said to have an advantage.

Not only did the upper class in California support Fremont's election, but the middle and lower classes in California, especially the old Californians before 1851, also strongly supported Fremont's election as the second governor.

Fremont still has a high reputation in the eyes of these old Californians.

As for the former governor Robinson, he went to Kansas.

Robinson told Liang Yao that he wanted to bring the influence of the Civic Party to other places, and Kansas was Robinson's first stop out of California.

Liang Yao just felt that Robinson was a little bit too optimistic. Why did he go to Kansas, a powder keg, when there were no good places to go.

Liang Yao did not understand Robinson's brain circuit, and he did not think Robinson could achieve any results in Kansas, where the folk customs were more simple than California.

It would be better to do some business in Oregon with this time. If Oregon became a state in a few years, he could break Oregon's virginity again and become the first governor of Oregon.

However, everyone has their own ambitions, and everyone has their own pursuits. Liang Yao still respects Robinson's choice even if he does not understand it.

Liang Weiming is Liang Yao's grandfather after all, and his arrival still brought a big shock to California.

In order to welcome Liang Weiming's arrival, the upper class in California decided to hold a banquet to welcome Liang Weiming.

Since it was autumn, it was a good season for hunting, and everyone unanimously decided to hold a wild feast, where they could hunt and eat meat.

San Francisco was the earliest developed place in California and the most densely populated place.

There were either residential houses or factories nearby, or farmland. Even if there were some prey occasionally, they had been hunted by local farmers and their employees.

Therefore, the location of the wild feast was finally chosen in the forest of Sutter's Fort in Sacramento.

Thousands of acres of land near Sutter's Fort were Sutter's private territory. Except for Sutter himself, no one dared to hunt in Sutter's private forest, where there were more prey.

Sutter also sincerely invited Liang Weiming to visit Sacramento.

"Grandpa, we postponed the banquet in Japan, but we can't postpone this banquet in California anyway." Liang Yao said to Liang Weiming with a smile.

"Your grandpa is not unreasonable, but where is Sacramento?" Liang Weiming asked curiously.

"I heard from Sartre that his mountains and forests are full of beasts and birds. A place with so many beasts must be very remote and sparsely populated."

"Not far, Sacramento is only three or four hundred miles away from us." Liang Yao said.

"Three or four hundred miles is not far? Three or four hundred miles, even if you ride a horse, it will take two or three days." Liang Weiming frowned.

"We don't ride horses. Jinshan (San Francisco) and Sacramento have a train connection. It only takes two hours to get to Sacramento by train.

You should rest well tonight, and we will set off tomorrow." Liang Yao asked the servants of Tingtao Garden to take Liang Weiming down to rest.

Three or four hundred miles, two hours to get there?

Liang Weiming felt incredible about this amazing speed, and was very curious about what a train was, and how it could run so fast.

Hearing that Liang Yao was going to Sacramento to attend a wild feast, Connie came to Tingtao Garden to find Liang Yao with two guns of a strange appearance.

As soon as they met, Connie asked with a smile: "Are we still having a picnic at this wild feast?"

"What gun are you carrying? A lever gun?" Liang Yao ignored Connie's joke, and his attention was attracted by the two guns on Connie's back.

Judging from the appearance, these seem to be two lever-action rifles.

"This is the latest model of gun produced by my company. How do you know it is a lever-action rifle?" Connie was a little surprised. He unloaded the gun and placed the two guns on the table.

"I heard that you are going to Sacramento to hunt. Hunting always requires a handy weapon. This is a handy hunting rifle I prepared for you."

"I have seen the drawings of the lever-action rifle drawn by Walter." Liang Yao carefully looked at the two lever-action rifles on the table and said, "You want to take this opportunity to sell your guns? Do you hope that I can give you an order?"