Xiao Lori refused to let go, stood in front of Dali, and looked up at Xuan Yuemeng, "Wait, the song just now may be a little more difficult for you, I'll give you a simple one, you can only leave." ”

Xuan Yuemeng: "Are you annoyed, I don't know a single poem, I said that I am not a prodigy, you are a prodigy, I said that you are the best, what else?" ”

Little Lori almost went crazy, this is the first time someone has talked to herself like this, who is not obedient to herself? Is this a straw bale? "Come down, you bale."

Xuan Yuemeng sighed, I really don't understand, is it that no matter what era, as long as it is a young lady from a big official's family, she is this kind of arrogant and domineering personality, regardless of age! "Dali, let's go, this is called ugly people."

Vigorously: "......"

Although it was two children quarreling, but at the level of children, it was already the top, and the listening force was fresh with the girl.

Little Lori heard Xuan Yuemeng say that she was ugly, and she was angry at the time, ugly, this is her taboo, not to mention that since she is sensible, everyone who sees her says that she is beautiful, "Straw bag, you dare to scold me!?" Everybody says I'm the best-looking, you come down!! ”

Dali hesitated and looked back at Xuan Yuemeng, Xuan Yuemeng was on Dali's back, and said very calmly: "You don't plan to let me quarrel with this ugly monster, right?" Still not leaving? ”

With a strong sigh, he walked around the little Lori and ran towards the mouth of the alley with Xuan Yuemeng.

Xuan Yuemeng crouched on Dali's back, only to hear a series of straw bales behind him, straw bales,...... Pack!

Xuan Yuemeng sighed, "Do you know that kid just now?" ”

Dali: "I know, but I don't know what the name is, it should be the daughter of Lord Zeng Jize, it seems that Lord Zeng Jize only has such a daughter now, and she loves it very much." ”

Xuan Yuemeng snorted, and didn't take a five-year-old child to heart.

Xuan Yuemeng didn't say that he hadn't touched a woman in modern times, he had touched several, but since his first love got married, he didn't care much about love or something, only little men are in love, love, men have money, ten or eight are normal, seventy or eighty are normal, and seven or eight hundred are as usual.

Not to mention a girl as big as Little Lori, in Xuan Yuemeng's standards, she is less than sixteen years old, and she is not a woman, right?

The two men came to the concession and walked around, but there was no accurate destination.

"Hello, sir." A foreigner in his thirties, with a high nose, blue eyes and yellow hair, wearing a black robe and looking like a priest, stood in front of Dali and Xuan Yuemeng.

The foreigner's Chinese is very lame, but Xuan Yuemeng probably figured it out, and said in English: "Hello, is there something wrong?" ”

Dali was stunned, and the foreigner was also stunned, Dali's surprise was definitely not as big as that of a foreigner, because Dali had heard Dazhi say that Xuan Yuemeng had been to the concession and loved to listen to foreigners' speeches, but he didn't expect that Xuan Yuemeng, such a small person, would actually speak the words of foreigners. The foreigner couldn't figure out how a person as young as Xuan Yuemeng could speak such good English.

In fact, Xuan Yuemeng's spoken language is very poor, and she can only say a few words that are most commonly used.

After being surprised, the foreigner looked at Xuan Yuemeng with a smile, and said a long list of foreign words to Xuan Dali, the foreigner thought that the child could understand him, and there was no problem for the adult carrying the child on his back.

Xuan Dali took a step back in fright, "Less...... Young master, what is this foreigner going to do? Shall we go back? I heard that foreign devils are very bad! ”

In fact, even Xuan Yuemeng didn't understand such a long list of words from the foreigner, "Don't worry, don't worry, with me, this foreigner doesn't look like he's going to be nervous." ”

Xuan Yuemeng asked again in English: "Are you okay?" Is there anything we can do to help you? ”

The foreigner looked at the big and small two people in front of him suspiciously, and couldn't figure it out, it seemed that the adults couldn't speak their words, but the children could understand a little English, and it turned out that the foreigner just said a lot of German.

The foreigner was serious and introduced himself in English, "You don't have to be afraid, my name is Timothy Lee, it's nice to meet you, I want to ask, do you want to come with me to the church?" ”

Xuan Yuemeng understood the first half of the words, but didn't understand what the foreigner meant by the second half, "Your name is Timothy Lee?" Are you happy to meet us? What do you want us to do for you? ”

The foreigner danced with his hands: "The church, faith, God will help you, the world needs God." ”

Xuan Yuemeng sweated profusely, finally understood, took out a piece of silver, and gestured with a smile: "No, no, no, we don't need to, we're just here to play, my family is in business, we don't need to believe in your god, we only believe in this." ”

The foreigner was very happy to see that he could communicate with Xuan Yuemeng, "Ao, very good, very good, in fact, I'm not a priest, I'm just temporarily helping in the church, it's nice to know you, in fact, I'm also a businessman, what's your name with him?" ”

Xuan Yuemeng: "My name is Xuan Yuemeng, his name is Xuan Dali, he is my servant, what business do you do?" What country are you from? Which country did you just say? ”

Timothy Lee: "Ao, Xuan Yuemeng, Xuan Dali, you are a ...... You say nobles here, yes, yes, you must be a nobleman, me? I just spoke German, I'm a German, but I have British nationality, you can also think I'm British, I just spoke German because I thought you could understand it, I do everything, all kinds of industries. ”

Xuan Yuemeng's words didn't take much effort to understand, and I was very happy, I didn't expect that I could communicate with a real foreign devil without a translator and without reading subtitles, he used to work in a foreign company, most of the time was in the design department to draw, and he also worked as a customs broker assistant for a period of time, but he didn't contact foreigners, even if he was in contact with foreigners, he was limited to sending and sending mailboxes, receiving and receiving mail. "Various industries? Awesome, awesome, very powerful. Then you must be very rich, why do you still work in the church? ”

Timothy Li was a little embarrassed: "I'm not good at all, I've been here for more than two years, I haven't done a single business successfully, my Chinese is very bad, I don't know how to deal with Chinese, if I don't help in the church, I have no place to live and no food." ”

It took Xuan Yuemeng a long time to understand this, Da Khan, I dared to meet a poor foreign ghost, and then I noticed that this Timothy Li was not only a little newer than the black priest's robe outside, but also the pants inside were very old, the leather shoes were also peeled, and there was even a little opening in the front, obviously in a bad situation.

Xuan Yuemeng: "Then you can also go to work in other foreign firms, right?" Wouldn't that be more earning than helping out at church? ”

It took Timothy Lee a long time to understand Xuan Yuemeng's meaning this time, mainly because Xuan Yuemeng's grammar is incorrect, and there are also problems with the words, Xuan Yuemeng's modern English is mainly based on American accents, and the popular in this era is orthodox British English, "I am very embarrassed to say, I have worked in several foreign firms, and the people here basically know me, they call me stupid, say that I am too honest in business, and they don't want me." ”

Xuan Yuemeng sighed and understood, "Then why don't you go back to China?" You must have a lot of opportunities in China, right? If you don't mix well, you should change the environment? ”

Timothy Lee suddenly realized that he had said so much to a stranger or to such a young child, and smiled politely, "Go play, I still have to go to work, goodbye, it's nice to meet you." ”

Xuan Yuemeng realized that his problem was a little hurtful, and smiled apologetically, finally there was a foreigner who could talk to him together, how could he let it go easily, and patted Xuan Dali's body, "Mr. Timothy Lee, don't worry, this way, I'll invite you to lunch, this friend of mine is very interested in joining the church, let's talk, chat, I want to be friends with you, I let this friend of mine believe in religion with you!" ”

Timothy Lee was very happy when he heard that Xuan Yuemeng had found someone to teach with him, in fact, he had been this pastor's assistant for several months and almost half a year, and he had not found a single believer, and if he continued like this, he would not even be able to eat the church's idle food. "Mr. Yuemeng, is this true? Will you let your servant join me? Does he have time for baptism, time for worship? ”

Xuan Yuemeng didn't understand, but she guessed the general meaning, and pointed at Xuan Dali, "Yes, he listens to me for everything, and he will do whatever I tell him to do." But I have one condition, you have to be friends with me and talk to me every day. ”

Timothy Lee cheered, clenched his fists, raised them and shook them twice, "Oh, my friend, thank God, you are really my good friend, if you don't invite me to lunch, I will only starve at noon." ”

Xuan Dali asked nervously: "Young master, what did you say to this stupid foreigner just now?" What is he doing now? Besides, what did you just point at me? You're not going to sell me America, are you? I heard that there are foreigners who are looking for our people from the Qing Dynasty and selling them to the Americas to dig for gold, and if they go, they will die. ”

Xuan Yuemeng smiled, "I didn't say anything, I introduced you, do you still know America?" How do you know? ”

Xuan Dali: "Who doesn't know? Foreigners often come to deceive people to go to the Americas, fifty taels of silver for a person, and when they hear that they go, they can't come back, and they are all tired to death over there. ”

Xuan Yuemeng sweated, so cheap? Fifty taels of silver is almost equivalent to 20,000 yuan in later generations, right? 20,000 yuan can buy the life of a strong laborer? "Don't worry, I'm reluctant to sell you. Did you go out with money? ”

Xuan Dali said nervously: "Young Master, what are you going to do?" I don't have any money. ”

Xuan Yuemeng smiled at Timothy Li: "Let's go, take us to a place that is not too expensive, I only brought more than two taels of silver." Can silver be used directly here? Or are we going to exchange it for pounds? ”

It took Timothy Li a long time to understand what Xuan Yuemeng meant, and smiled, "You know a lot of things, it costs more than ten taels of silver to exchange for one pound, and you can exchange two shillings here at most, and you can get a few pennies more." It was indeed inconvenient to use silver taels in the concession, and only when foreign firms and Chinese merchants traded with them, they were used. If you want to use it conveniently, you need to exchange some shillings and pennies first. ”

After Xuan Yuemeng understood what Timothy Li meant, she asked Timothy Li to take her with her.

Xuan Yuemeng changed it all, and the two taels of silver became two shillings, and eight pence.

Timothy Lee: "This Gaolin foreign firm was opened by the British, and their exchange procedures here are simple and the credit is good. ”

Xuan Yuemeng nodded, looking at the pile of shillings and pennies in her little chubby paws, two one shillings, one fivepence, one twopence, and one penny, a total of five coins.

Xuan Dali: "Young Master, can you show me?" You're just going to exchange all the money for this foreign thing, huh? This is like a copper coin, and it seems to be a little better than our copper coin, are these worth more than two taels of silver? Don't be fooled by foreigners. ”

Timothy Li understood Xuan Dali's words and was very angry, "Mr. Yuemeng, your servant is insulting me. ”

Xuan Yuemeng didn't understand Timothy Lee's words, but combined with what Xuan Dali said just now, combined with Timothy Lee's current expression, she probably guessed something, "Mr. Timothy Lee, don't be angry with him, he didn't mean to." ”

Xuan Yuemeng said to Dali again: "Will your young master be deceived so easily?" You have wronged this Mr. Timothy Lee, and I will ask you to apologize to them now. ”

Xuan Dali looked at Timothy Li who was angry, and said reluctantly, "It's so easy to get angry, this Mr. Yang, I'm sorry." ”

Xuan Yuemeng said: "Mr. Timothy Li, he apologized to you, please forgive him." ”

Timothy Lee glanced at Xuan Dali and stretched out his hand.

Xuan Dali was startled and took a step back, "Young Master, what did you say?" What do foreigners do? Want to do it with me? ”