"Child of the Lord, your meeting me is God's guidance. Let me ask you, do you understand God? Do you know Christianity?" The big-nosed foreigner actually took out a small silver cross from the collar of his suit. "I am a pastor from the United States, my name is Lewis, and that black man is my follower, young Simon..."
"I know, I know. Of course I know that Christianity originated in Palestine and was originally a Jewish teaching. Later it spread to ancient Rome and split into Orthodox Christianity and Catholicism. I also know that you Americans believe in Protestantism a lot, and you Americans now Isn't it a civil war? Lincoln is about to win, and you still have the heart to preach?" Xiao Letian's mouth was like a machine gun, and Lewis was speechless.
"God, God, you actually know so much?" Lewis crossed himself desperately.
"Stop praying, solve my problem first, save me, if I am treated as a long hair, I won't survive..." Just as he was saying this, Mr. Qing had already left with more than a dozen domestic slaves. He came over and said, "Okay, stop pretending, you idiot. Knowing a few words in foreign language is amazing. Don't think that foreigners will help you. Did foreigners help you when you were making trouble in the south?"
After saying this, Mr. Qing shook his hands and said, "Come here, tie him up. I will interrogate him personally when I get to Yi County. Haha, I didn't expect that Mr. Qing could capture a Changmao alive. When the time comes, the Zongren Mansion will give him a hand." Once I report it, it will be a great achievement..."
Just when the slaves rushed up like wolves and wanted to tie up Xiao Letian, Pastor Lewis suddenly stood up and stretched out his hands to stop the aggressive slaves. "You can't do this. What you do is a violation of the "Beijing Treaty" and "Tianjin Treaty". Treaty, this young man is a parishioner, my believer..." After saying that, he actually took off the cross from his neck and hung it directly on Xiao Letian's neck.
Now Mr. Qing was dumbfounded. He didn't expect Pastor Liu to stand clearly on the side of this weirdo. The entire caravan was stunned. Now, after the Second Opium War, the Qing Dynasty has completely opened up the missionary and business rights in the interior to foreigners. This is when the people's fear of foreigners began.
"Yang... Mr. Yang... please don't joke with me. You didn't know this person just now. You just said a lot of nonsense and you accepted a disciple? Are you kidding me?" Mr. Qing Still wanting to work hard, he looked at how Xiao Letian looked like a moving credit card.
Unfortunately, Pastor Lewis rejected his request righteously. "A treaty is a treaty. Your emperor has recognized our conditions. Do you dare to disobey?"
"No, no, no, don't think too much, I just asked casually... Okay, please continue..." Mr. Qing brought out the emperor's name as soon as he heard it, so what else could he do? Hurry up and withdraw your troops.
When Lewis returned to the caravan, he didn't know what he was talking to Shopkeeper Fan. Anyway, the two of them looked very solemn, but Xiao Letian was safe in a short time. The black man Simon found some food for Xiao Letian, dry noodles. The cake was served with bacon and water. Xiao Letian was hungry, so he wolfed down the food, which was delicious and sweet.
However, while his mouth was busy eating, his eyes were not idle. This caravan of more than a hundred people looked strange. Shopkeeper Fan and his assistants were the largest in number, with more than ninety in number, and basically every one of them had a knife or a gun. It seemed that they were not just ordinary caravans, the assistants were more like bodyguards.
As for Mr. Qing, Simon just introduced him. He is some kind of captain under the Eight Banners. It sounds like he has a small hereditary title. Some of the thirty Eight Banners soldiers who guarded Third Master Qing were his children, and the other part were the guards of Xiling in Yi County.
It was weird enough that a group of businessmen and a group of Eight Banners soldiers were mixed together. Unexpectedly, there were two foreigners in this team, one of whom was a missionary, which was even more puzzling. However, what Xiao Letian was good at in his previous life was public relations, and he still had some ability to tell people's stories with sweet words. After a while, he got clues from Simon and a few bold guys.
It turned out that this caravan set out from Shanxi, from Taiyuan to Xinzhou, then to Daixian, Lingqiu, Laiyuan, Yixian, and finally to Baoding and then continued north to the capital. Please come to more and faster chapters. Shopkeeper Fan is a member of the famous Fan family among Shanxi merchants. This time he comes to the capital in late autumn to celebrate the New Year in Sijiu City.
As for Qing's third master, Fu Qing, he went to Shanxi on a business trip with the Ministry of Internal Affairs. On the way back, he happened to meet Shopkeeper Fan. It seemed that the two had some friendship before, so they went together on the way. This is also a common thing in the Taihang Mountains. There are many ferocious beasts and bandits in the deep mountains and old forests, but there is still strength in numbers.
Fortunately, this route passes through Yixian County, which was the territory governed by Xiling in the Qing Dynasty. The Qing government still had very strict control over this mountainous area. Except for some small thieves, there were really no big bandits who had set up strongholds. , so caravans on this line rarely hire escorts.
Yes, it would be extremely unfilial if the Qing government couldn't even protect the place where its ancestors slept.
As for the American missionary Lewis, this was purely a task forced on the old shopkeeper by the county government. The foreigner wandered around Shanxi for a long time. The local governments did not dare to be rude and sent people to take care of him throughout the process, for fear that the foreigner would be there. If something unexpected happened to his own territory, he wouldn't be able to bear the consequences and walk away.
Later, the foreign adults decided to spend the Spring Festival in Beijing, which made the local officials breathe a sigh of relief. The great plague god finally decided to leave. However, although the foreign master had a noble status, there was no reason to use the army to escort him. The elder of Dai County thought about it and gave this hot potato to the Fan family. Anyway, the Fan family has rich experience in taking this trade route, so nothing big should happen to them.
"Good guy, the caravan of the Fan family, the leader of the eight Shanxi merchant families, plus the nobles of the Eight Banners, and the American missionaries who traveled across the ocean to China? Darling, where did I travel to? They are all A big shot who can't afford to offend me, I want to keep a low profile..." Just as Xiao Letian was hypnotizing himself, someone behind him suddenly tapped his left shoulder like a prank. When he turned his head to the left, he found that no one was there. No.
Just when Xiao Letian turned his head, a grimace suddenly appeared in front of him, which shocked him. "Oh my God, what are you..." Before he could finish speaking, he took a closer look. , the grimace was actually made by a girl.
"Hahaha, you are what the guys call the Erjiizi? I heard that you can speak the language of foreigners? Tell me something and let me listen. And where are your braids? Aren't you afraid of beheading without braids? Hey, what's on your neck? What is the cross hanging on it? This is the Bodhisattva offered by your foreign religions..."
This little girl who makes faces has two dimples when she smiles and two tiger teeth when she smiles. She is really as lively as she wants. Xiao Letian was stunned at the time. He didn't expect that there would be such open-minded girls in the Qing Dynasty who would dare to make such a joke with a strange man. He was speechless for a moment.
Huya Girl was quite disappointed, "She looks pretty good-looking, how can she be such a fool? She can't even speak, it's really disappointing..." After that, she walked back.
"I, I'm not a fool. My name is Xiao Letian. Just now you kept showing off like that. It scared me..." Xiao Letian is no longer just trying to pick up girls. Beautiful girls take the initiative to show their affection to you. If you If you don't continue, Si's life will be doomed.
"Your name is Xiao Letian, my name is Huniu... Tell me, how did you learn what foreigners say? Oh, you have actually been to a foreign country, you have also been to the land of foreign devils... Tell me , what were the places in the West like for Buddhist scriptures back then? Is there really a Flame Mountain..." The little beauty kept talking, and she could say ten sentences about Xiao Letian Dingtian, and she could get in one sentence.
As he was talking, suddenly a yellow and thin little girl ran over, "Oh, Miss, why are you staying here, ah... ghost!" The little girl saw the black Simon and the yellow-haired Lewis at a glance. She had seen it once before and was still quite frightened.
When the little girl shouted, she alerted Shopkeeper Fan and Mr. Qing who were having a secret conversation in front of the caravan. The old shopkeeper saw that it was okay, why did his daughter run into the presence of the two Japanese soldiers? It was really worrying. .
"Hu Niu, you stinky girl, why are you so shameless? It's so embarrassing for a grown-up girl to talk to a strange man in broad daylight..." The old man rushed over and stretched out his hand to slap Huniu in the mouth. Unexpectedly, Huniu became even more aggressive and tilted her head. "You beat me, you forced my mother to death, and you still want to beat me to death? You beat me, you beat me..."
Shopkeeper Fan's face turned black with anger, and he couldn't move his raised hand down. It seemed that he usually doted on his daughter, but the girl he got was not afraid of her father at all. Xiao Letian was dumbfounded. Hey, this old shopkeeper must be in his sixties. How old can this girl be? Fifteen or sixteen? Your fighting ability is quite impressive.
Xiao Letian didn't dare to speak at this time. The old man didn't attack him, which was enough to give him face. However, in the chaos, Xiao Letian suddenly discovered to his surprise that this tiger girl actually had a pair of natural feet! Oops, it seems that the old man really doted on this girl. At this time in the Qing Dynasty, except for Manchu women and ethnic minorities who did not bind their feet, all Han people had three-inch golden lotuses. Without a pair of little feet, you can't hope to marry into a good family.
"Hey, how much dowry does the old shopkeeper have to prepare to marry off this big-footed girl? But it's not bad, it's to my taste, hehehe..." Xiao Letian is really an optimist, and everything is in chaos. This way, I can still secretly have fun in my heart.
In the end, Mr. Qing came over to smooth things over, and the old shopkeeper put down his hand. Huniu angrily returned to her black boxcar to complain, "Don't let me do this, don't let me do that, and won't even let me out of the carriage along the way. It's better to let me die..." It seemed that the little girl was not allowed to do this along the way. But I was holding it back.
"Third Master, I'm sorry. The lack of rules in my family really makes you laugh. I'll send this girl to Beijing and ask her cousin to teach her the rules..." The red-faced shopkeeper Fan handed over his hand. said.
"Where is it..." Mr. Qing said something perfunctory and turned around and stared at Xiao Letian again. "My friend, although Master Yang has saved you, your identity is also suspicious. You want to come with us?" Okay, then you have to cover your eyes and let us escort you..."
After speaking, Mr. Qing pouted, and two wolf-like slaves rushed over. One grabbed Xiao Letian's hand, and the other covered his head with a black cloth bag. "Boy, be honest, I won't kill you." It’s already to give face to the foreign master, don’t be ignorant..." After saying that, he tied up Xiao Letian’s hands.
