When Shalily woke up, she was in an empty room.

She glanced out of the corner of her half-open eyes alertly, knowing that there was no threat to her life.

She was lying on a large bed, snow-white bedding, snow-white walls, bright ceiling lamps, and a quiet and unusual environment.

She finally remembered that it was a mansion, and she was resting by the door in the darkness. But then her consciousness stopped in a sudden confusion.

And now, beside her bed, stood two strangely dressed Western women, blonde, blue-eyed and white-skinned, both in plain black robes, snow-white collars, and black hair scarves. The eyes of the two were blazing, and they looked at her so directly that she was about to jump up.

She was still calm, because the two nuns in front of her would not pose the slightest threat to her.

Then I remembered that when I first came to this mansion, I found that this Gothic building was supposed to be a monastery.

Standing in front of her were two nuns, one with gray sideburns exposed at the turban, and the other a young girl.

She knew that there were several foreign Catholic monasteries in the capital, and based on her previous impressions, this should be the Roman monastery, and there were consulates of various countries, including the Roman State, in its vicinity.

When she woke up, the old nun smiled kindly, and said to her:

"Hello little angel, God bless you, we are so happy to see you wake up. Welcome!"

The old man spoke English, and the young girl acted as her interpreter, and then she translated what the old man said into three languages, including Chinese, and introduced the identity of the old man, who was the abbot of the Roman monastery.

In fact, she didn't need a translator, she already understood everything. Sha Lili is a national high school English master and has won awards in competitions. But now, she still sensed that the danger was not leaving her, and she decided not to say a word, then she had to play dumb.

The most obvious difference between a deaf person and a normal person is his eyes and expressions, a normal person does not need to speak, and his expression or eyes can express his attitude towards other people's conversations, whether they are for or against, while deaf people can't do it, because they don't hear what others say, how can they express their attitudes?

However, this was not difficult for her, who had been intensively trained, and she quickly adjusted her suspicious expression to the outside world, her expression became confused, and her eyes were extremely demented.

She looked at the dean with demented eyes, and then at the translation nun, without any expression that could be expressed, and the whole one was numb and stupid.

The dean muttered a few words to the translator, and the young girl went out.

The old dean nun gestured at her, reached out and helped her up, sat her on the edge of the bed, and pulled over a small table.

Soon, two young nuns came in with a tray in their hands, and when the tray was lowered, the dean gave her a gesture of his hand to let her eat.

There was very little food in the two trays, a small bowl the size of a teacup with a thin rice porridge, an egg-sized toast on a small plate, and two slices of flooded cucumber in the other. There are also knives, forks and spoons used to eat Western food on the tray.

The dean told her by hand that she was not going to overeat for the first time because she was in a state of extreme hunger.

She quickly nodded her head in understanding, and then eagerly reached out and grabbed the small bowl and bread, swallowed the bread the size of an egg in one gulp, and sent it into her stomach with gruel. Then he made two loud burps and poured all the remaining gruel from the small bowl into his mouth.

I didn't use a knife and fork, I stuffed two slices of submerged cucumbers into my mouth together, and finally opened my mouth to lick ~ the remaining rice residues in the small bowl with my tongue.

The dean nodded at Sha Lili and walked out.

Two little nuns were tidying up the dishes and trays, and one of them indicated that she could rest.

She slept very deeply, and she woke up after dawn, only to find that her clothes were gone.

As soon as the door opened, the little nun who had brought her food yesterday came in, holding a set of nun clothes in her hand, smiling and smiling, indicating that her clothes had been washed and had not yet dried, and the dean asked her to put on a nun dress first.

It was a brand new nun dress, and the little nun instructed her to put on her underwear first, and then led her into the bathroom, freshened up, and came back to put on the full costume:

Wear a black robe and a white-collared coat, tie a silk belt, and wear a turban that is white inside and black outside.

The little nun nodded at her and led her into the prayer hall on the first floor, where the morning prayer began. She knelt down among the nuns, imitating the shape of the mouth, pretending to be dumb.

After the morning prayer, she went to the cafeteria for breakfast, and since she had only eaten a little in her hunger last night, she was already hungry, so she began to eat heavily. The nun eats completely self-help, taking as much as she wants, so she eats to her heart's content.

When she returned to the rest place, she was still thinking about her clothes, not knowing whether to dry them or not, and thinking about lifting martial law at dawn and leaving the city as soon as possible.

Sha Lili had eaten her heart's content, and when she was thinking about leaving the monastery and leaving the city, the martial law in the capital was not over.

At eight o'clock in the morning, a heavily armed search party came and knocked on the large iron doors of the Roman monastery.

Soon, two nuns, one old and one young, came out, and the little nun, who was the interpreter, came forward to introduce the older nun, who was the prime minister's butler here, and asked why they were knocking on the door.

A soldier with a sword in his hand who looked like an official kept glancing at the courtyard with a pair of thief eyes, and then asked:

"Do you have a girl dressed in Persian clothes here? She is a key criminal of the Republican Tripolar Company, and she is not to be covered!"

As soon as the interpreter said this to the chief administrator, he heard the words of the chief nun and almost turned the chief official upside down.

The words of the Governor translated:

"You shit soldiers, what are you supposed to do, what are you going to do! I don't know what you are Persian glass pineapple spinach, there are nuns here except nuns. Hmph!"

After saying that, the chief turned around and left, leaving the soldiers out of the door.

This foreign monastery is something that the Chinese dare not provoke, not to mention a few Qiu Ba, that is, the emperor or the queen mother were very afraid of the monastery and Christian church of Shenma, for fear of offending the foreigners, and the ten-nation alliance army will enter the capital again.

What's more, this Roman monastery is also adjacent to the Consulate Street, where more than a dozen foreign consulates are stationed.

The chief of the Pu Dao was scolded and his face turned blue with anger, but he still did not dare to enter the gate of the monastery.

No matter what the monastery or Christ church is, the door can be said to be never bolted, but only closed at night, and left open during the day. But the rebel officers and soldiers did not dare to take a single step inside.

The reason for this is the fear of foreigners.

The monastery room was so quiet that it seemed as if a needle had dropped on the ground and could be heard.

Sha Lili was thinking about how to get out of here and escape from the capital. She was still waiting for her washed clothes, feeling that the gypsy national costume had already dried and should be delivered soon.

In the silence, she wanted to find something to do, so she picked up a Bible on the small table, and halfway through it, she had read through the previous part.

However, she couldn't read quietly, so she put it on the small table again. After thinking about it, he wanted to look outside, got up and walked out of the room, and went downstairs to the outside.

As she walked through the trees, she heard the sound of speech at the monastery gate, and saw the butler and a nun of interpreters standing inside the door, and beyond the open door, a group of heavily armed soldiers appeared.

Not good, it's a rebel search party!

She hid in the shade of the trees, and saw clearly how the nun had sent the soldiers away.

The searching soldiers left in a huff, knowing that the monastery was protecting her and not handing her over to the rebel troops—and with a burst of excitement, she hurried back to her room.

According to her judgment, I believe that the dean's mother will come soon. Her identity will be revealed here based on the description of the searching soldiers.

Sure enough, not long after, the door of the living room opened softly, and the interpreter nun walked in first, then the dean's mother, and behind the dean was a little nun, holding in her hand the cleanly washed gypsy costume of Shalily.

Sha Lili hurriedly stood up and bowed deeply to the dean and the others.

"Oh, haha!" said the dean with a kind smile at her, and sat down on one of the chairs that the little nun had moved for her, motioning for Lily to sit down as well.

When she sat down, she heard the dean say:

"My child, Mommy knows you want to leave, and if you insist on leaving here, I won't force you to stay. However, do you know that this capital has been tightly sealed by the rebel Beiyang Army, and not only has martial law not been lifted, but it is still searching everywhere. Just now, a group of soldiers who were sent away by our housekeeper's mother kept saying that they wanted to search for a young lady dressed in Persian clothes, saying that she was a key criminal of the Republican Tripolar Company. ”

As he spoke, the dean reached out and took Sha Lili's outfit, pointed to her and asked:

"When they say Persian clothing, are they referring to this set?"

It seems that the dean really knows who she is, how to answer her? I heard the dean's mother smile and said:

"My child, is it necessary for you to continue to pretend to be deaf and dumb in this Roman monastery whose purpose is fraternity? In fact you are a clever maiden, not only deaf nor dumb, but also proficient in English, aren't you?" asked the abbot, his eyes still releasing a loving gaze.

Do you want to pretend to be deaf and dumb? What a stupid thing that a fool would have done!

People are trying to protect you, but you don't trust them, and that's not what Sha Lili usually does.

Tears were rolling in the corners of her eyes, and her heart was sour, and the tears rolled down from the corners of her eyes.

Plopping, Sha Lili knelt down in front of the dean's mother, and shouted tremblingly:

"Thank you for saving your life!"

"Haha, my sweet little mute. We don't mean anything else, I just want to tell you that if you leave here now, you will be in danger immediately, and you will be in danger of your life. ”

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