Guide
This article is a missionary reference to Matteo Ricci, but it is really a magic change.
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This is an adventure saga in China.
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Congratulations, you've been fooled!
It's just a private diary.
- White
gospel
Author: Lu Yi
Qualifier: Angels descend to earth
01
Four artillery ranges away, our destination rises from sea level. Huge towers, boats coming and going. A huge empire is just around the corner!
We followed Father Brown and boarded the boat. The Gospel of the Lord will be preached throughout this new land.
Fat Lauder and Skinny Jack huddled together like two stupid quails. Father Barlow, who had just finished arguing with Father Brown, was pulling a loud voice, and the poor boatman and groom carefully carried the wooden boxes full of treasures into the carriage. God forbid, I hope these Chinese don't think of us as crazy.
A little boy bumped into Father Brown, and the boy's mother rushed out to grab him and shrink into the crowd, only to hear a few sharp threats: "Look for death you!" Beware of being eaten by youkai! The surrounding crowd also echoed: "Chunsheng and his mother remember to go back and cross the brazier." "Yeah, these monks look weird, their eyes are still green, and they're sure to be magical." "I want to say that they must be traitors sent by the Wokou, and isn't That how Licheng was lost?" They wanted to take advantage of General Liu's absence and kill a rifle. "Okay, let's all be quiet, they seem to understand."
……
These superstitious poor people, we sympathize with them. Gracious Lord, save them so that they may see a glimmer of Christian light from darkness.
02
With his kind smile and wise mind, Father Brown conquered the rich man here, Guan Ming.
Of course, it is inseparable from the help of Portuguese merchants. The tall and magnificent Western clock (according to Chinese), the glass prism, the bronze pocket watch and other treasures are worth more than two thousand gold coins.
The rich man had a very beautiful daughter. When we first met, she was wearing a military uniform, and at first glance I thought she was a young master, but her face was too bright and fresh, so that people would not be mistaken for gender. Most of the Chinese women seen on the road are subtle, like the silent ceramics in the corner of the room, but this Miss Guan is more like a pearl on the queen's crown, laughing and shining, and will never let people ignore her brilliance.
Standard Chinese is still very difficult for me, and the difference between the five different tones is very small. This made me make a joke in front of the beautiful lady.
I learned to curl my hands in my wide sleeves and bowed my head to say hello to her: "Miss Guan Yin." The emerald earrings in his hand had not yet been handed over. I saw her laughing incessantly, I couldn't stop laughing, and I laughed out loud when I saw my clumsy performance.
She corrected me to say that her name was "Guan Ying" and drew it in the palm of her hand as she spoke. That's a more complicated word.
According to her, "Guanyin" is a god in China, and I am disrespectful to God. Before I could react to such a pagan remark, she said to herself, but leave him alone.
The swing in the garden stopped swinging, and Miss Guan's light green skirt disappeared behind the moon gate. Only the clear pendant that had been left still lay quietly in the palm of my hand.
03
The rich man was an avid mathematician, and With the help of Father Brown, he decided to translate the Geometric Primitives. He also taught his magical method of memory to the rich man.
Father Barlow quarreled again with Father Brown over this, and he felt that Father Brown had been wasting time, especially the monk who had shaved his hair and pretended to be more familiar with Chinese, saying that he only wanted to spend the rest of his life here in the prestige of the Empire, so as to reduce the Chinese wariness.
Fortunately, we won their favor through the homemade celestial instruments, globes, sand and water timer, telescopes, navigation maps and other items given to local officials by the Guan Ming rich man. We have also used the opportunity to explain these things to spread the gospel of the Lord.
With the help of these officials, we built a small temple about two miles west of the city. Yes, temples, it still takes time for these gifted Chinese to bathe in the Holy Light. Statues of Christ were hung in the temples, and during the worship, not only the chiefs came to kneel, but some monks also came.
Poor Fat Lauder has become Skinny Lauder, and Skinny Jack is bedridden. Fortunately, they didn't have to hear the rumors outside. Doctors in China say they are overwhelmed with anxiety, but I suspect it may be a sequelae to the ship's fever. God bless me and the priests, they healed early, otherwise I feared that our divine cause would be ruined.
04
The bold lady asked me if the rumors were true or false. I smiled and asked her, "Then do you dare to look me in the eye?" ”
She stared at me very unconvincingly: "What's not to dare, if you really know what magic, my father would have beaten you out a long time ago..., and your eyes are even more beautiful than my most beautiful emerald, look at it twice or I earned it!" ”
It is not that I have not heard more blunt words, but it seems that this flower blossoming in the introverted land of the East is even more dazzling.
"Oh -- back to God!" She lowered her voice slightly, and her curious eyes slammed closer, like a pair of black butterflies, beautiful wings shining with the sun's brilliance, "You secretly told me, so can you really turn mercury into silver?" ”
"No, where did you hear that?" "It's all being said outside, how can you possibly have a steady stream of treasure if you're not wizards?"
"Of course not. Everything is a gift from the Lord Jesus. ”
"That... Are you really a traitor that wokou planted in the city? ”
“……”
"Don't talk, if this is true, my father and I will immediately go to the police!"
“...... I'll go ahead and tell you the Bible. "How can you be like this?" Okay... Last time I talked about it... Speaking of the fifth plague! God sent an angel to earth, and the angel was going to travel all over Egypt, and then what? ”
God is the lord of everything, and naturally angels have come to the beautiful East.
I forgot to return the lost emerald to her.
05
China used printing slightly earlier than we did. They in turn carved the words on very small woodblocks, which were very suitable for Chinese fonts and could be saved and modified at any time once they were made.
We learned this simple printing technique, and the doctrinal and scientific books that we translated into Chinese were printed in the temple: such as the Ten Commandments, The Prayer of the Lord, and the first two volumes of the Primitives.
We distributed free doctrinal books to nearby villagers, and some of them came to participate in the prostrations out of curiosity during the prayer.
In the evening, I finished packing up my newly printed books and getting ready to rest. A gang of robbers burst in with hoes, and Father Barlow, awakened by the noise, grabbed his stick and rushed out. I couldn't stop climbing up to the roof to help throw the table and stool down, Skinny Lauder and Jack were caught among several servants shouting for help, and Father Brown was rummaging out of the window and out of town to find the police.
The possible swiftness of sticks, loud noises, unbroken doors, and sloping wooden objects frightened the robbers, and the police withdrew before they could reach them.
In the panic, everyone was injured, but fortunately it was not serious. After dawn, the police caught the robbers in the middle of the night, and it was actually a nearby neighbor who kept clamoring for chaotic slogans such as "Down with the wizards", "Drive out the evil devils", and "Eliminate the traitors". Father Brown came forward to ask the governor to forgive these neighbors who had only been hoodwinked by rumors, but the governor dismissed our request in a serious manner.
The skinny Lauder and Jack, who had just picked up recently, deteriorated sharply at noon, and the doctor said that the fright of the night had ruined all their previous achievements. As soon as the sun turned west, they joined hands in heaven to report this holy cause to the Lord Jesus.
According to Chinese law, after simple burial and sabbatical services, we can only bury them near the temple and use simple crosses as signs.
May the Lord forgive, Amen.
06
Knowing what happened to us, the rich man and Miss Guan drove to come.
As soon as the young lady came, I had to ask the servant to prepare the juice from the bitter leaves. Fortunately, the sweet fruit snack brought by the lady can dilute the bitter taste of the tip of the tongue.
In addition to the medicine, Miss Guan also took out a cloth cover thing, saying that it was used to relieve the boredom during the recuperation period.
An imposing parrot with soft, jewel-like green feathers.
But it wasn't long before it never came back one night. A few days later, the servants found its intact body in the grass near the temple. There is one more small cross next to the two large crosses.
God always saves His faithful servants from fire and water.
Father Brown successfully predicted the arrival of the eclipse, so he was invited to give a lecture at the city's famous academy. From there, he brought back and began to study the Four Books. According to Miss Guan, this is a Confucian classic, and only those who study will work hard to study it, which is very difficult.
Father Brown's attempt to combine the theories of the sage Confucius to proclaim doctrine, combined with previous casualties, angered the conservative Father Barlow. This time his flames rushed to the top, his loud voice, his blood-red face, and my persuasion did not work at all.
Eventually Father Barlow embarked on the ship back to Europe with his luggage.
At this point, only Father Brown and I were left on our journey.
Bless the Lord, Amen.
07
Father Brown combined the Chinese theory to spread the gospel of God more into people's hearts. Members of the royal family and officials of all levels in the nearby cities were attracted to come.
We left the temple and moved into a house in the city.
Father Brown decided to hold a grand "popular science" exhibition. At the meeting, we showed these upper-class intellectuals and aristocrats glassware, prisms, Western clocks, And Western-bound books that they were very interested in.
The priest once again demonstrated his advanced methods of memory in public, and at the same time distributed the book "The Western Kingdom", which he had just summarized in Chinese, and these educated people enthusiastically expressed their desire to learn. There is also a printed "Map of Mountains and Seas", which makes them eye-opening and amazed.
Through these novelties, through the royal nobility we took the opportunity to obtain their verbal promises, and we will have the opportunity to go to the core capital of China, meet the Chinese emperor, and preach our teachings.
If we can thus gain the approval of the Chinese emperor, from top to bottom, then we will be able to spread the gospel of the Lord Jesus in this land without hindrance.
The Wokou stirred up a storm in the sea of the nearby city, and the defenses on the city walls were reinforced again. But Miss Guan advised me not to worry, general Liu and his brave Liu family army who were patrolling outside would guard the city.
08
We headed to Sekiyomi to say goodbye.
Miss Guan rarely has it been so quiet. She sat on the swing where we met for the second time and said lowly, "I knew there was such a day, but I didn't expect it to come so quickly." ”
I watched the two butterflies chasing each other in the garden, green and black, fluttering in the sun. Don't know what to say.
In a moment of silence, I watched her silky smooth, thick black hair, jewels dotted among them, hands raised uncontrollably.
"Can we see each other again?" Her eyes flickered with a fine light, and my hand fell again.
"Obey God's will." I heard myself answer her like this.
I finally remembered and took the emerald pendant out of my arms. Tiny, with a little bit of my body temperature.
"Huh? It turned out that you really picked it up, and I obviously remember how I couldn't find it when I fell in the garden. "She seems to have discovered something incredible, and she is overjoyed.
I smiled bitterly and handed it out, and she deftly removed the pendant from my hand and cast the legendary fixation spell on me.
"Nerd." She laughed and scolded, and then tucked the little pendant into my arms, touching it as if she had taken something away, and the paused time resumed operation. "In exchange, the cross around your neck belongs to me!"
"What, don't you want to?"
No.
09
Rumors of wokou in the city grew stronger. The atmosphere is also getting more and more tense.
At first, it was said that General Liu successfully intercepted the Wokou at sea without fail, and gradually it was said that General Liu lured the enemy deep into the coastal archipelago to a hundred secrets, and later said that the Wokou were ready to go to the sunset...
Now rumors have begun to circulate that Father Brown and I are spies lurking in the city.
It is also said that Father Barlow, who left, actually returned to the base camp of the Wokou to warn of the city's defenses, and even said that Lauder and Jack, who had gone to heaven, were also pretending to be dead and escaping.
The situation in the market was very noisy, not only when Father Brown and I were walking outside, we were slightly insulted and heavy, but also our poor servants, who often came home with either bruises on their faces or vegetable leaves and eggs, of course, sometimes both.
We fired them and allowed them to pick and choose some treasures.
But in order to persuade the nobles, we went all the way, but unfortunately our efforts did not work, and they reneged on their promises and left on their own.
Under the protection of the rich man and the lady, Father Brown and I moved into the Guan Mansion, and their lives were temporarily saved.
But the bad thing is that poor Lauder and Jack are not at peace. The young lady told me that she was late, that the temple had been smashed badly, and that the large and small crosses next to the temple had been torn down and looted.
Bless your faithful people, O merciful Lord.
10
God once again demonstrated His great gospel in the vast land of the East.
Thanks to the Lord, the brave general once again maintained his legend, and the city he guarded once again survived the crisis safely.
We had to repent, our lofty thoughts, and almost set this great cause on fire.
I need to repent again, and I have to confess that I fell for the beautiful angel of the East without knowing it.
I know that my body and mind should belong only to the great Father, and that I will serve you all my life. But for a second, it beats for the angel you have blessed this land with.
But it seems that the disaster of the city is not over.
First, in the village closest to the abandoned temple, livestock died one after another, and then the area around the temple became almost a livestock vacuum, and then gradually spread to the urban area. Because they were all intact and uninjured, doctors suspected it was an epidemic that had never been seen before, but fortunately there were no deaths from infections in the population.
But such a massive death of livestock has caused panic among these residents, and more and more people are willing to believe that it is a curse, a curse originating from a green-eyed wizard.
Otherwise, why the earliest outbreak site was closest to the temple, and why every animal died so inexplicably.
Just kill them and it's all over.
11
Like the fifth plague in Egypt, isn't it?
"God sent an angel to earth, and the angel will travel throughout Egypt, and this is an angel who dies... Every family's livestock has been killed..." Miss Guan held the cross hanging from her chest and whispered with me.
We faced each other, silently, and prayed.
Things got worse so quickly that the idle inhabitants of the city gathered outside the closed house every day, shouting for Father Brown and me to get out. With torches in hand, they are about to break through the door and burn our two evil monsters to ashes.
No one noticed that the plague did not appear to have spread in the city inhabited by the two green-eyed wizards, and it appeared that no livestock had died in the house.
Soon, doctors from all over the city were mobilized, and of course, royal doctors from the core capital of China. They fought day and night.
The rich man and the lady also worried about us all day long, running for our help, but those treasures seemed to have entered a bottomless pit.
Some people go to the police every day to shout and demonstrate, some people risk being crippled to death, some people beat drums and call for injustice, and some people write jointly, and the white silk is soaked with dark red scars...
The city's governors put away their novel western objects, the treasures were locked in the dark basement, and the gates of the closed houses were in jeopardy.
Lord, this great cause is also at stake.
We were thrown into a cell and were not allowed to visit. Just kneel on the damp dry grass and pray quietly.
The police brought the order of the commander and we would be expelled from the city.
Tiny emeralds burned in my arms.
12
We left the cell, and it didn't seem to be.
The outside world is also dark, the streets are silent, only the chains that bind us are rubbing on the stone slabs.
In the thick fog, a small boat was parked.
Before leaving, the police warned us that the will of the Chinese emperor had come from the far north, and the sea ban would be imposed again.
We can't come back in any way.
Heavy chains were removed from the body, but the heart was forgotten.
We were rudely pushed into small boats, piled together with several bags of solid stuff.
The fog faded and we grew farther and farther away from the shore. It was where we first came ashore.
I laboriously glanced at Father Brown, who simply closed his wrinkled eyes, his gray whiskers writhing in the sea breeze.
White --
It seems to be Miss Guan's voice, it seems to be not, and I can't tell for a moment whether this is auditory hallucinations or not.
But the ship was so far from the shoreline that I couldn't see anything, not even a faint black shadow.
It's too late, nothing is too late.
concentrate:
*This article is an excerpt from White's Diary. Due to its age, the cover of the original manuscript is mottled, and only the words "Jesus" can be seen, which is now named according to the contents of the title page.
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Comments section
Tang Dynasty
Accustomed to the feudal China written by compatriots, it is rare to come into contact with the perspective of an outsider to examine and depict the Chinese customs and customs of that period, the teacher's angle is unique, the description is detailed and interesting, and the image of the missionary is too vivid and appropriate; finally there is a question: the article mentioned "police" earlier, there are two paragraphs written as "official", and finally changed back to "police", I don't know if the teacher's name is an ulterior motive.
Lu Yi (Author): Thank you Teacher Tang Dynasty!! In fact, there is no other intention, simply in the concept of missionaries, "officers and soldiers" is "police", in the middle of the people shouting in front of the official palace that there is a "official palace" that I wrote smoothly (confession) did not notice, I will read it a few more times next time to reduce this mistake, thank you again for the Tang Dynasty Teacher!
Mid-autumn twenty-eight
The language style of this article is my favorite! It is simple but slightly sad, and it feels very difficult to grasp. My heart aches over the feelings of the missionary and Miss Guan, the "gospel" is god's, and it is also two people's, but not the people's... Will we still see each other in our dreams? Woohoo was knifed
Deng Xiaofang
This looks like a story that happened in a rich merchant compound in Yangzhou in the Qing Dynasty, where the enlightened lady and the missionary were eventually separated... Personally, I feel that the storytelling is a little weak. Is the emerald that has been emphasized the meaning of a promise letter? I thought there would be a mutation...
Lu Yi (Author): Thank you Teacher Xiaofang! Yes, it probably happened in a coastal city in the south during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and when I wrote it, I felt that missionary and love were pulling me, so it was a bit scattered in presentation. Emerald I really only set as a thought left by White, is there any suggestion about the mutant little teacher?