66 Dasha
According to Lin Yilong's requirements, the inside of the church burned warmly.
An elderly priest in a black robe first recites a scripture to the effect that the Holy Spirit will dispel all evil during baptism and asks the baptized to be free from evil influences. After this step was completed, Mrs. Mary, who was the godmother, held Tanya in her arms and faced the direction of the setting sun to the west, and blew out the candles to show her rejection of the darkness. After the "rejection of darkness" was completed, Tanya and her grandmother once again faced the east to welcome the rising sun, declaring their acceptance of Jesus as their Savior, their acceptance of God, the Holy See, and their salvation.
This is only the beginning of the baptism ceremony.
At the beginning of the ceremony, after the recitation of the prayers and scriptures, the priest smeared some olive oil on Tanya's head to signal the reconnection with God. Then came the formal baptism, in which Tanya was immersed in the water three times by her grandmother, and was blessed again under the "gaze of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit". However, the newborn did not wear all white clothes like this, and saw Tanyana's still wet body being covered with holy oil by the priest's hands, which was considered to have completed the word "washing" in the baptism. The priest then carefully and quickly dried Tanya's body, took out a small pair of scissors, and shaved a small handful of fetal hair from Tanya's head as a sign of wholehearted dedication. Mrs. Yeon, who was standing aside, took out a small ring and placed it next to Tanya's swaddling clothes, while the priest took out a small metal Byzantine cross as a emblem and proof of faith.
Now, Tanya, who has been wiped clean, can put on a white dress and be accepted into Orthodoxy and become a minor believer.
Natasha's baptism is exactly the same as Tanya's, almost indistinguishable from each other.
Lin Yilong's family watched Tanya and Natasha's baptism ceremony a little nervously. When he saw the mother of the Yeon sisters dimmer the two children in the water and cry, Lin Yilong almost stepped forward to ask the ceremony to stop;
Thrillingly, the baptism ceremony ended with a sound of blessings.
At the end of the service, Mr. Yeon gave the priest and the nuns who assisted him with a thank-you gift of about 30,000 roubles, and another 50,000 roubles to the priest for the church to give to the poor, and then left the church with everyone.
The priest on duty wanted to say something to the three members of the Lin family who were sitting on the bench in the church, and Lin Yilong estimated that it was probably related to the propaganda of faith. Although he believed in God, he could not believe in any of the teachings – for him God could be Buddha, Lord, Allah, or anything else.
In addition, it should be noted that these clergy also came here from the city for a short time. Да́ча does not mean a permanent place to live: by the real-world definition, if Lin was still working in London and made his Riverside Street home his main home, he would have bought a weekend house in the Surrey countryside, rather than Brecken Farm, which is very far from London. Dasha has the nature of a holiday villa in a purer way, closer to a buitenplaats than an Ansitz (an Alp's cottage), and necessarily near a big city. The clergy in the city sometimes run out of town on Sundays to perform Sunday services with the local village churches.
The nature of Dasha meant that it would not be frequented, and the retired Iaon couple, persuaded by the Iaon sisters, planned to settle in the more "warmer" Wales. The inside of the house, which had not been visited for a long time, was like an ice cellar, and the temperature was lower than that outside where it was still minus 5 degrees, which was not suitable for two newborns.
Plans for a trip to the East have also suffered some minor changes.
The route between the two families was originally operated by the commercial aircraft leasing company "Jet Fly", and the Cessna Citation X was chosen. The original price of a direct flight from Cardiff to Moscow was around £120,000, but the Yeon sisters found an empty flight from Bristol to Moscow on the website – chartered for around £40,000 and paid a modest additional transfer fee to Cardiff. Considering the £5,500 fare for a direct flight from Heathrow to Sheremetyevo in the first class, it can be summed up as a business charter flight for the price of first class.
There are limits to the benefits of fitting both your wallet size and your schedule, and if a customer on the main itinerary cancels the order, the customer on the empty itinerary also cancels the order, and there is no additional compensation option in addition to a refund. The latter part of the journey to Blagoveshchensk was subject to such restrictions, which were only known by the Yeon sisters after arriving in Moscow. When the private charter account manager heard that the two families were returning to Lin Yilong's hometown, they offered a compensation package that they could help book a connecting flight in Irkutsk to get there.
In this way, when the sun had just risen on Chinese New Year's Eve, the two families came to Lin Yilong's hometown that year, ending a three-day and two-night tossing trip.
Lin Yilong didn't understand why Father Lin insisted on returning to his hometown. There are no relatives in his hometown: Lin Yilong's great-grandfather fled here because of famine, and Lin Yilong's grandfather and aunt have a son and a daughter - Lin's father's predecessor and grandparents are no longer there - there are four people in Lin's father's generation, namely Lin's father and three brothers and sisters, and Uncle Jieying, who lived a hard life in Edmonton. If it is said that the ancestor worship on Chinese New Year's Eve, Lin Yilong's grandfather has successfully recognized the ancestor and returned to the ancestor, and should be placed in his hometown.
As for the reunification of relatives, that is even more unlikely. This is still the case on Lin's father's side, and Lin's mother's side is even more scattered - the two cousins have been going back and forth between London and Yanjing, and their parents, that is, Lin Yilong's uncle and aunt, although they receive pensions in China, they are still working hard outside after retirement, and do not live in their hometown.
"What the hell are we doing here?" If Lin Yilong wants to say that he is not nervous, this is a lie, although the last two insider trading cases ended with Mr. Wang committing suicide in the Lion City, but once the case is not closed, then he himself is still on the watch list of insider suspects in the inspection bureau, and some restraining orders against him may be issued at any time. Generally speaking, Lin Yilong is now very cautious about returning to China.