"How can it rain a few times in our Great Song month!"

Hearing this, comprador Sheila raised her perspective slightly. The Anatolian Peninsula is sunny in June in the Western calendar, and it rarely rains from the end of the rainy season in February. Sheila reacted only slightly to the complaints of the Great Song people about the weather, and the distant place where precipitation fell every month was a land that Sheila had never seen before. Even if Da Song really looked like that, she couldn't imagine what it would be like. Now Sheila only felt numbness, so she lowered her head numbly and continued her work.

The peppers have broken through the soil and are growing well, and now it's just a matter of continuing to take care of them. After a few more days of holding out and returning to Constantinople, Sheila was not excited, and after inspecting the fields assigned to her, she went to sit under the pergola. I picked up the kettle and poured a glass of water to drink, and the water soon poured out of my eyes. Picking up a towel and wiping her face, Sheila still couldn't stop the salted droplets from pouring out of her tear ducts. After crying many times, Sheila could only try not to choke and keep wiping away her tears.

When the urge wore off, Sheila got up again and continued her work. There is a big bamboo hat to shade the head, at least it doesn't feel so dazzling. Sheila finished inspecting two more large plots of land and finally finished her work for the day. After dinner in the evening, the squad met as usual. The captain looked full of energy, and he said loudly: "I'm going to change shifts soon, I'll talk about it first." Everyone has worked hard and I am very grateful. In our team, I'd like to mention Sheila, a little girl who works in this kind of place, works very seriously, and the work given to her is done very well. It surprised me. She cried several times, crying and crying, and doing and doing. We have to learn from her attitude, when a monk hits the clock for a day, and hits the bell seriously every day, or every day is as serious as ever, this is not easy. Comrades, in the future, everyone will come back to our Da Song Dynasty and no longer be ordinary cadres, and applaud Sheila. ”

Sheila knew that the captain was not the same officer as before, but another kind of officer called the 'Academy'. She didn't understand the specific difference, but she only knew that the society was the 'official' who handed over to these Song people how to be officials and how to behave. After the officials of the society finished speaking, the Song people applauded. Sheila wasn't happy, but she was encouraged by the atmosphere. I want to say thank you to everyone, and tears flowed out at this time. Not only tears, but she couldn't help choking.

The official of the society waved his hand, quieted everyone, and continued: "Comrades, the official said that if you want to do your job to your satisfaction, in addition to being familiar with it, you also have to have a little luck. But to get the job done, it's up to you. You have to know what tasks you have been assigned and follow the rules set by others, which I have to say. Since it is a rule set by others, we are neither happy nor disliked most of the time, and at this time our personal quality is revealed. I don't know or like it, and I can do it every day according to the regulations, that's the quality. This is a very important part of our Great Song Dynasty's assessment of officials. Everyone came overseas, and this momentum and bravery were basically qualified. With so many people qualified, who we choose depends on everyone's performance in their daily work. ”

Sheila choked up as she listened, and forgot to choke as she listened. The words of the officials of the society are so special, they can always describe the reality. Although Sheila knew that she would never be able to become an official cadre of the Great Song Dynasty in her life, she had some understanding of the cadre selection of the Great Song Dynasty and some yearnings. Song officials do not rely on birth or blood, and it is said that as long as they can pass the examination, they can become cadres. How to become an official after becoming a cadre, the officials of the society can always point out the direction and make sense.

The Song people discussed for a while and then broke up, and everyone was busy all day and went to bed early. The next day, I still finished the assigned task, and after completing the task I was assigned, the whole day passed. Sheila ate and went back to her bunk to sleep exhausted. Early on the third morning, Sheila was told to pack her things and get ready to go. By the time she had finished packing up the simple salute, the mule team was also ready to go. The cadres of the society explained a few words to Altai, the captain of the guard, and Sheila and other personnel who could leave set out on the way home.

Altai rode a Mongolian horse to the front of the line, and Sheila could see the guy's back. In the past, Sheila just wanted to find a guy to solve the problem from behind, and at this point she lost interest in everything. Altai's bastard is completely unimportant, what Sheila needs is to relax. The hat shades out the sun, allowing Sheila to look in all directions. Seeing the many farmers busy in the fields, and looking at these people bending over and waving farm tools, Sheila immediately recalled her experience. Even if sheila was exhausted by walking around the fields every day without waving her tools, the farmers who worked hard should have worked harder. Every time the peasants worked, they would stop and rest for a while. Sheila felt sympathy in her heart, and she also remembered how she felt when she saw this meeting before. Only by experiencing labor can you understand why those peasants take frequent breaks, they really feel tired.

The mule team went straight to the harbor without encountering anything, and the ships were already waiting in the harbor, and after everyone was on board, the ships set sail in the shadow of the sunset. Bright points of light flickered on the lighthouses along the coast, which were clearly visible before it was dark. I saw the observer standing behind the equipment and observing, reporting to the captain next to him. The captain kept giving orders in Chinese, and the ship sailed under the darkening sky.

The next morning, Sheila woke up from her cabin. Seeing that it was bright outside the porthole, rubbing his eyes and preparing to sleep for a while, he heard someone knocking on the doors of other cabins, shouting as he knocked on the door: "Get ready, it's almost time to reach Constantinople!" Prepare your luggage and get off the ship! ”

At noon, Sheila finally saw the familiar figure of Constantinople. The ships anchored in the Golden Horn are about the same as Sheila had left a month ago. Even the fleet of the Yuan Kingdom was moored in its original position. At this moment, Sheila only had the thought of going home, and she felt as if the ship was not moving. I can't wait to jump into the water and swim home.

As soon as the boat came to a stop, Sheila hurried to the entrance of the gangplank with her luggage. When everyone saw that the little girl was so anxious, they didn't fight with him. "Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow have two days off, and the day after tomorrow I will report to the office." The leader shouted to everyone. Sheila just waited for the barricade on the side of the boat to untie and then rushed down the gangplank.

As soon as he stood firmly at the dock, a few men immediately came up and asked, "Little girl, do you want to take the car?" ”

Constantinople originally traveled on foot, but later there were horse-drawn carriages. Now it is becoming more and more prosperous, and two-wheeled rickshaws have also appeared. In the past, Sheila thought that rickshaws were more expensive, and she couldn't care so much at this time, so she jumped on one casually and shouted, "Go!" ”

When the rickshaw arrived at the door, Sheila rushed into the house with her luggage. When the maid saw Sheila, she shouted in surprise, "Madam, Miss is back!" ”

Sheila looked a little strange as she looked at the familiar living room with a few pieces of furniture added to her more than a month away from home. Hearing the sound of footsteps, the mother and father appeared in the living room one after another, and Sheila jumped up and hugged her mother, and couldn't help crying.

"What's wrong?!" The mother's voice was all frightened, "You were bullied? ”

"What do you say?" Sheila was angry and funny, crying and complaining.

Ten minutes later, Sheila sat on her family's newly purchased couch. She leaned close to her mother and talked about the hardships of the business trip. The mother and father already knew that their daughter was fine, but they had to endure a lot of hardships outside. The father could only sigh, and the mother scolded the Europa Provincial Office for not doing things properly, where could a girl work so hard.

Sheila initially thought her mother's words were pleasant to hear, but after listening to them for a while, she felt that something was wrong. She sat up and said, "Mother, I can't go if I don't go." Wouldn't that be someone else's use of the concession? ”

The mother was stunned. She looked at Sheila for a moment and said sarcastically, "Now I think about money." Who is crying and saying that he will never go on a business trip again? ”

"Hmm...... Hmmm......" Sheila couldn't help but start to be coquettish. Looking at the mother's taunt, Sheila hugged her father's arm, "Father, you can't talk like that!" ”

Daddy sighed again, "Sheila, your brother is also working hard outside. I think you're right, but you can only hold one cup in one hand. ”

Feeling the atmosphere of home again, Sheila hummed and said, "Don't talk about business trips...... I won't talk about business trips. ”

After a night's rest at home, guests came to visit the next morning. Sheila got up from bed lazily, looking at the old lady's excited appearance, Sheila was sure that the old lady must have run out yesterday to spread the news of Sheila's return. What an uneasy mother! Can't you be a little more compassionate? Even the office knew that everyone would rest for two days, and the old lady really wanted to give Sheila a role immediately.

After freshening up and dressing up, I went downstairs and saw that the lady sitting in the living room was the aunt of the future sister-in-law Catherine, the noblewoman of the Leo family, Anna, and the whitebeard next to her was naturally Catherine's sister-in-law's uncle. Seeing Sheila appear, Anna stood up and asked, "How did you see on this trip to the east?" ”

Sheila almost rolled her eyes, but the old lady really knows how to blow. Did she understand what she said yesterday or not? However, Sheila didn't want to show weakness in front of the noble lady Anna at all, and the loser couldn't lose. Sheila said with a smile as much as she could: "I mainly inspected the lands near Ankara and did not visit the local nobles. ”

Anna's look of 'it should have been' made Sheila very unhappy. But she couldn't help it, even if the office gave Sheila full freedom of movement, even if she went to visit the nobles, she would not be able to be received. The upper nobles knew each other very well, and they would not have deigned to receive the minor nobles without a letter of introduction from Sheila of Anna's rank.