Chapter 553

The words of the Wulanala clan are true or false, but they are not worried that the Qi family will not believe it, and the big Li family is impersonated by the small Li family, which is also a secret that is not spoken to the outside world in the royal family, so even if the Qi family has suspicions, there is no place to verify it.

Even one day, when Pearl enters the mansion, the Ulanala clan is not worried that her words will be exposed, because the servants who served the Da Li clan before were either sold out, or sent back to the Internal Affairs Office for rearrangement, and the old people who are now in the mansion are only later.

"Thank you aunt and grandmother for reminding me, your cousin will be more careful, and I will urge her to learn the rules of the house. Sure enough, after hearing this, Qi's face changed, and he bowed and said, "It's not too early, my cousin won't delay you, and I'll lead your cousin back first." ”

Saying that, the Qi clan was also happy to be a favor, and returned the private seal of the Ulanala clan to the hands of the Ulanala clan, refused the good intentions of the Ulanala clan to stay for dinner, and directly led the pearl back.

Wulanala sent them out of the courtyard with a smile, turned around and looked at the private seal in Qi Xiang's hand with disgust, and said coldly: "Smash this thing for me and throw it out, find another good material, and ask the craftsman to carve another piece!"

After saying that, she returned to the inner room and continued to write to her mother.

On the contrary, it was Qi Xiang, holding the private seal, and for a while she didn't know what to do, or Mama Fu reminded her, so she took the private seal to the backyard nervously, and smashed the high-grade Tian Huangshi small seal with a hammer, wrapped it in a handkerchief, and went back to the Wulanala clan.

"Don't let me see it, since I let you do it, I trust you. It's just that the Ulanala clan only glanced at it, then waved his hand and asked Qi Xiang to take out the crumbs and powder and throw them away, and continued to bow his head and write letters.

With the experience of the past, this time, the Wulanala clan did not write in plain text, but chose the secret method she had set with Eniang before, even if this letter fell into the hands of others, it was impossible to see what it was.

"Mama Fu, you take my name card to the Internal Affairs Office, find two new grandmothers from the palace to send back to your parents' house, and help me hand over this letter to Eniang by the way. After writing the letter, the Ulanala clan sealed it carefully, and left a mark, and then greeted Mama Fu, who was busy outside, and commanded softly.

When Mama Fu heard this, she hurriedly bowed down to take the letter and reminded: "Master, over there with Pearl Gege, it is better to invite the two of you from Zhuangzi to teach." ”

"No need, those two are not young, I can't bear to let them work hard!" Ulanala shook his head with a dark face, and said coldly, "I and Pearl are destined to become an alliance, rather than let her learn to be clever and make trouble for me, let her be so stupid, and when I want to use her in the future, I can feel more at ease." ”

Originally, the Ulanala clan didn't want to make these words clear to Mama Fu, but she was not afraid that Mama Fu would be smart, and carefully selected the capable Mama to send to the pearl, and let the pearl get the benefits, then she would really be angry.

Mama Fu is a smart person, she understands the meaning of the words of the Wulanala clan, and she was slightly stunned, so she received the letter into the sleeve, took the name card handed over by the Wulanala clan, and went out of the fourth master's mansion.

"Let Guixi prepare a table of plain meals. After arranging the matter of selecting and nurturing the mother for the pearl, the Wulanala clan pinched his eyebrows a little tiredly, drank all the slightly cold strong tea in the tea bowl at hand in one go, grew a breath of turbidity, greeted Qi Xiang, and commanded in a low voice, "Then, you personally go to the front yard, and say that I have something to discuss with the fourth master, please come over." ”

After saying this, Wulanala asked her to go to the Tibetan medicine courtyard in the front yard and prescribe a few decoctions to dispel fire and smooth qi, and then sighed, and half lay on the Luohan bed, squinting her eyes to recuperate.

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Just when Pearl and Qi's were making trouble in the main courtyard, Erfu who stayed up late to read the book for a night, comfortably made up for sleep, and didn't crawl out of the bed again until noon, and saw that the weather outside was good, lukewarm, and the sun was warm, so he changed into an inconspicuous semi-long flag suit, wearing a horse-faced skirt, like an ordinary woman in an ordinary family, and went out of the house from the side door with Yaoqin and Guzheng.

Erfu sat on the two people hired from the corner of the street to carry a small sedan chair, casually lifted the sedan curtain, listened to the noisy cries on the street, looked at the weaving peddlers and pawns, and rarely felt free to joke with Yaoqin and Guzheng, two somewhat restrained palace maids, and from time to time also asked them to buy some street snacks, like children to steal a few sweet candied fruits, the depression that had been pressed on the heart in the past also dissipated a lot.

As the capital, the street market in the capital is very lively, and there are many places with excellent scenery outside the city, but although this Erfu is a temporary rise, it also has its own purpose, so I only walked around the market, and then pulled the uncomfortable Yaoqin and Guzheng duo, and got into a ready-to-wear shop that looked like a business, and each bought an ordinary muslin cloth to change into, wearing well-fitting embroidered shoes, carrying a basket bought on the street on his wrist, and went straight to the church opened by Westerners.

Don't look at those Westerners who have not been in Beijing for a long time, but there are many believers.

As soon as Erf and the others turned into the alley pointed by the porter, they saw two women dressed in coarse linen clothes, leading children out of the church that had been converted from a house bought by Westerners.

A few people walking on the opposite side, whether it was a woman or a child, were all smiling and in a good mood, Erfu hurriedly stepped forward and asked with a smile: "Eldest sister, I heard that there is a place for children to study for free, but I have been around for a long time, and I don't know which family it is, I don't know if the eldest sister knows?"

"This is the house!" The woman who was stopped by Erfu looked Erf up and down, smiled and pointed to the wide open wooden door behind her, and said loudly, "You also came here after listening to others, and so did I, look at this stupid boy of my family, I originally planned to send him to the carpenter shop in the city to learn the trade, but I heard that the strange people here teach people to read, and they didn't restrain themselves, so they came to try their luck, and it was true."

If you want me to say, these yellow-haired and blue-eyed Fanbang people are really weird, and they actually teach people to read for free. As she spoke, the woman pulled the little boy by her hand, and smiled and asked the little boy to give her a salute.

"This kid looks like a clever and tiger-minded!" Erf said softly to the two women, rubbing the little boy's head with a smile.

"Hey, a stupid boy in the countryside who is rough and rough has the strength to do it. The woman waved her hand humbly and whispered.

Erfu exchanged a few more words with the two women, and after gossiping for a while, she smiled goodbye to the others, led Yaoqin and the two into the wide open wooden door.

The place where Erfu came here today is a new church in Beijing, different from the four churches in the east, west, north and south that have been repaired and expanded by the imperial court with a large sum of silver, the building is gorgeous and majestic, it seems to be very nondescript, in the wooden door, the standard small courtyard, the main house, the wing room, on the northwest corner, there is a well surrounded by blue bricks, two priests in black robes, at this time are rolling their arms and sleeves to draw water, which is particularly down-to-earth.

"This lady, what are you doing here?" Hearing the footsteps of Erf and the others, one of the blonde priests turned around, hurriedly lowered his sleeves, dusted off the hem of his robe, and asked word by word in a non-standard official language.

"I heard that there was a church here, so I was a little curious and came to check it out. Erf looked at the priest in front of him, wiped his neck a little uncomfortably, and said with a dry smile.

"Oh, we are priests who have crossed from the other side of the sea, and it is rare to meet someone like a lady who is not afraid of my strange appearance. At this time, another man who was fetching water, who had already tidied up his robe, came to Erfu's side, and said with a smile.

Compared with the previous man's crooked Mandarin, this man's Chinese is much better, if you don't look at the face, but listen to the voice, I'm afraid even Erfu won't think he is a crooked nut, "A few people come with me to visit our church, although this is only the beginning, but it is still a little different from your building here." As he spoke, the man, who called himself James, raised his hand and let Erf walk towards the main room.

From the outside, the buildings are similar, and the rooms are really different.

As soon as you enter the door, there is a gilded bronze statue of Jesus crucified, and a pulpit three feet above the ground, and in front of and on both sides of the pulpit, there are tables and chairs that are common in later generations in classrooms, which are obviously a place of worship, and close to the base of the west wall, there are two independent small rooms no more than one square meter, which should be a place of confession to the priest.

Looking at the different from the later generations, and some of the same arrangement, Erfu's eyes were a little red, although there was also a cathedral in Beijing, but she had never had a chance to see it, but here she found a trace of a modern feeling, if she didn't remember the bitter situation of the people who were despised everywhere in the past, she was afraid that she would not want to implement her plan.

"Ma'am, please drink water.

This is where we spread the ideas of our church and where we give lectures to poor children who cannot afford to go to school. The man who called himself James came to Erf with a glass of water in his hand and whispered.

"Thank you, it's rare that you outsiders still have this kindness, but you have no relatives here, and you don't have any money-making industry, what do you live on?" Erff took the glass of water, thanked her softly, and then raised the doubts in her heart.

As she said to the fourth master before, these Westerners came from afar, even if they brought some money, there shouldn't be much, it stands to reason that they can't be allowed to squander like this, otherwise it will be a problem for them to eat by themselves, so what are they taking and giving food, and teaching poor children to read!

She thought hard for a long time, but she didn't come up with a result, so as soon as she saw James, she couldn't wait to ask a question, and James, who was asked, didn't expect that this seemingly ordinary woman would actually ask such a question, she couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and a strange look flashed in her eyes, but she quickly retracted it, and replied with a smile: "My archbishop has been developing in your country for many years, and he has a lot of savings, and he also has a lot of land outside the city, so he won't sit on the mountain." ”

Immediately, he talked about their development history.

The church here is Protestant, as early as the Yuan Dynasty, there have been missionaries to this continent, after hundreds of years of development, with the efforts of some people, there are also some believers in China, including some powerful people, especially the old man Kangxi's treatment of these outsiders, but also let the church take root here, and James is a member of the Archbishop's order to expand believers here.

It was only because of the problem of philosophy that although they were of the same origin as the bishops of the four churches of the East, West, South and South, they could not expand the believers there, so they could only find a courtyard and rebuild this Protestant church.

James, as the presiding officer of this church, was also a well-known bishop abroad.

"I see!" Don't look at Erfu from modern times, and she has spent Christmas and Christmas Eve with her friends several times, but she really has no research on this kind of religious belief, and she can't even tell the relationship between Christianity and Catholicism, let alone bishops and archbishops.

However, she believed that most of the people here didn't understand, so she didn't have anything to be embarrassed about, so she nodded as if she didn't understand, and said with a smile: "Then I don't know what the requirements are for studying here? Although you have not been here for a long time, you should also know that we want our children to study, and we hope that they can enter the imperial examination, but I think you should not be able to teach our children to learn the Four Books and the Five Classics and the art of making!"

"The question raised by the lady is really beyond our means, but we just hope that those poor children can learn some knowledge, so that they will not be illiterate, and not only that, but we can also teach them other knowledge, such as arithmetic, medicine, and so on. Speaking of this question, a trace of disdain flashed in James's eyes, don't look at what he said is official, in his speech and demeanor, he also learns from the people of this country, and even drags a few words of colloquialism, ancient sayings, etc., but he really doesn't think that the imperial examination system in this country is of any use, and those words that he doesn't understand at all, how can he elect officials who contribute to the country, but he said something else.

But this is not a problem for him to solve, he is a pure religious person, he just wants to promote his church and attract more believers.

"That's good.

Yiduo is not pressing, if there is a chance, I really hope to send my two unsuccessful children. Erfu didn't think that the eight-strand text was of any use to rule over the people, so he didn't get angry because of the disdain that flashed in James's eyes, but smiled as if he hadn't seen it, and said softly.

"We have a group activity of the believers here every day, and the school starts every five days, so if the ladies are interested, they can come and see it when the time comes. As he spoke, James handed Erph a palm-sized pamphlet, which was a promotional pamphlet they had compiled to attract believers, and it was not uncommon for curious people to come to see the diorama on weekdays, but also for the children of poor families who came to study here to distribute it on the streets.

(To be continued.) )