Chapter 383: Hand over the power ring
The cardinal of New York thought to himself that it was finally his turn to speak tonight, the scenes just now were simply too exciting, hurry up and finish the work and go back, no matter how good it is outside, it is not as good as home!
Bishop Edward Egin sat forward and said to Zheng Xudong through Hillary: "Mr. Zheng, I have come this time to welcome back the fisherman's ring. I have brought with me a letter from the Pope!" he said, taking out a large envelope from his suit, the mouth of which was sealed with a piece of gold lacquer the size of a one-dollar coin, and on the gold lacquer there was also an imprint of a fisherman's ring, which seemed to have melted and dripped onto the mouth of the envelope, and then pressed it on the gold lacquer with a power ring. This is the oldest way to seal letters in Europe, and of course only the Pope can afford to use gold lacquer, and European aristocrats usually use a red cement heated and sealed.
After Zheng Xudong took the envelope, he carefully opened the envelope from the gold lacquer, and pulled out the yellowed parchment letter inside, the words on the letter paper should be written with a quill pen, the blue-black ink flashed an indescribable fragrance, the text was written in Latin in flower style, which happened to be known to Zheng Xudong.
The entire letter is not long, less than 300 words, and it begins with a meal of God's gospel and ends with a letter thanking Zheng Xudong of China for his contribution to the protection of fishermen's precepts, and may God bless him!
Zheng Xudong didn't know whether the letter was true or not, so he handed it to Hillary and said, "Aunt Hillary, do me a favor to see if this letter was written by the Pope and his old man?"
Hillary didn't say anything, but took the letter and glanced at the font and the inscription on it, and then returned the letter to Zheng Xudong, and said: "Child, you are so lucky that you can find the long-lost fisherman's ring, which is indeed written by Pope John Paul II, don't worry, our United States has archived his words." And keep this letter well, and it will be a cultural relic in the future. The Pope rarely writes letters, and usually calls to deal with things. Writing a letter is very formal, and the Holy See will keep a record of every letter written by the Pope. I'm a little envious of you now. ”
"Then this cardinal of New York is also true!" Zheng Xudong asked again.
"Yes, he's real, and it seems you're pretty careful. Hillary looked at Zheng Xudong with some appreciation.
Just a few days ago, an envoy claiming to be from the Vatican also said that he had come to ask for this fisherman's ring with a letter from the Pope, and I couldn't know whether he was a real messenger or a fake, so I didn't dare to give him the fisherman's ring. Of course, I'm also here to keep the fisherman's precepts from disappearing into the long river of history again, can you understand? Zheng Xudong said with emotion.
"Mr. Zheng, we fully understand and thank you very much for your efforts to protect the fishermen's precepts, in fact, it was indeed our Vatican colleagues who came to your house a few days ago. Edward Igan said.
"Alright then, Sean, how much is the price of this last ring?" Zheng Xudong said.
Before Sean could say the price, Bishop Edward Eggen said, "Wait, wait a minute, Mr. Zheng, are you going to sell us our former pope's fisherman's ring?"
Zheng Xudong scratched his head, thinking to himself how to say this without hurting people, after all, God (Christian) Christianity is one of the three major religions in the world (Buddhism, Islam), and the fanatics are definitely no less than the Islans, and he has not cultivated to the point of being invulnerable to fire and water, and a large human bomb explodes next to him, and he will die like everyone else!
After thinking about it, he said, "Sean, you should tell me the highest price of this power ring!"
Sean said, "Five hundred and fifty million dollars, including the Ring of Power and five gold coins. ”
No one in the house expected this Fisherman's Ring to be so valuable, and even more so Edward Yi!
After saying the offer, Zheng Xudong said: "Mr. Edward Yigen, let me say this, I will not sell the ring to the Vatican, but I will never give it to you for nothing, after all, there is no relationship between us, and even if there is a favor, what kind of favor do you think can be worth 550 million US dollars? In this way, I can give you the fisherman's ring and gold coins first, and you go and talk to Pope John Paul II to see what way or something can be exchanged for this ring." ”
In fact, Zheng Xudong has been thinking about what he wants now for the past few days, but he doesn't lack anything now, and he can't think of anything worth 550 million, so he simply handed this question to the Pope and his old man to have a headache, he believes that the Vatican will never take back the fisherman's precept and treat it as if it was nothing, and then he didn't mention it in black and white.
Since he had decided, Zheng Xudong reached into the pocket of his suit, took out a ring and five gold coins, put them in the palm of his hand, and stretched them out towards Edward Yigen.
The people in the house didn't expect that he would put such an important thing in his pocket, and he was not afraid of being stolen or robbed, it was something worth 550 million dollars, what a lot of confidence!
Seeing the archbishop kneeling, Zheng Xudong hurriedly put the fisherman's ring on the small table next to the chair, and he flashed to the side, he would not accept such a high-level bishop to bow down in front of him, and it was easy for people to find fault and criticize him afterwards.
Bishop Edward Igen knelt down and came to the small table, and then even Hillary stood up and stood aside, and all of them watched as the archbishop held the two holy relics in the palm of his hand, and then looked at the owner of the place, Wendi Deng, who immediately reacted, pointed to the wall next to the gate and said, "That's the west side." ”
Bishop Edward Edward turned to the west on his knees, then folded his hands, put the relics in his palms and bowed three times to the west.
Except for Zheng Xudong and Zhang Ye, who do not believe in Catholicism, they are all Catholics, and they also bowed three times to the west, and then watched the archbishop stand up and walk in front of Zheng Xudong, draw a cross with his hand on Zheng Xudong's face, and then said: "Mr. Zheng, may God bless you and be with you!" Bishop Yi was stunned for a moment, because it was usually like this, and today this kid in front of him was indifferent, and he immediately reacted, people don't believe in Catholicism, people believe in Ma, En, Lie, Si, Mao, Deng, Jiang, Hu. He had no choice but to continue: "I will bring your words to the Holy See as they are to report to the Pope, and I am sure that the Vatican will quickly express its gratitude to you." Goodbye!" After saying that, he clasped his hands together and walked out of the room.
"Okay, tonight's party was really exciting, I loved it, I had a pretty good time, I should go back. Hillary Clinton said to the crowd.
"Your Excellency, I'm sending you!" Wendi Deng said.
"Please wait a minute!" Zheng Xudong said.
"Anything else, kid?" Hillary found that she was beginning to like the boy with character.
"Your Excellency, can I say a few words to you on my own?" asked Zheng Xudong.
Hilary didn't know what he was going to say to her, and neither did the people in the room, they all watched Hillary wait for her to make a decision.
"Okay, what do you want to say?" Hillary decided to listen to Zheng Xudong first, there were too many "surprises" he brought this night. After speaking, he and Zheng Xudong walked towards a corner of the room.
"Say whatever you want, say it, I don't have much time!" Hillary said, running her hand through her hair.
"Your Excellency Secretary of State, do you want to know what is in the military computer of the Japanese spy that makes the Japanese side so nervous?" Zheng Xudong directly threw out this big "bomb".
"Oh!? So you know!" Hillary was certainly interested in this, and she was too interested in it, otherwise she wouldn't be able to compete with Japan and China for the notebook.
"I know, I've unlocked its code. ”
Hearing this, Hillary tapped Zheng Xudong's forehead with her finger, "You, isn't it so bad, when you grow up, will you be able to pay it back! Tell me, what's in the computer?"
"In the computer is a list of spies sent to Chiyo Suzuki by the Japanese Benzene Intelligence Headquarters, which is hiding in various states, major companies and government agencies in the United States, I think I hope that this agent can seek help from these people when he is in danger, and this is also an insurance for the father of the lieutenant general to entertain his daughter!"
Hillary Clinton immediately became interested when she heard this, this is simply great, if she has this list, she can "clean up" all the spies that have been lurking in the United States at all levels for so many years. If the Japanese want to get these spies back, they will have to exchange what the United States wants. A smile appeared on the corner of her mouth at the thought of this.
It was from this smile that Zheng Xudong seemed to see a large amount of dollars beckoning to him.
Hillary also knew that trying to impress this kid with her personal feelings at this time was completely "pulling calves", which was tantamount to a fool's dream, so she simply went straight to the point, "How much do you want?"
"At least $100 million. Zheng Xudong was afraid that Hillary would not give it and said: "This is a list of no less than 100 people." Think about it!"
"How many more days are you going to stay in the United States?" Mrs. Clinton asked.
"At least three more days. Zheng Xudong replied considering that he would have to go to New York to participate in Andrea's activities.
"Keep the phone open and wait for my news. After the two whispered, Hilariha... laughed, took Zheng Xudong's hand and walked back and said, "You kid, I like you more and more now." ”
Although the other people in the room were also talking, they didn't actually know what they were talking about, and their energy was on the two people in the corner of the house, watching the two of them talking with their eyebrows fluttering, and everyone wanted to know what the two were talking about? Seeing Hillary Clinton personally holding Zheng Xudong's hand and coming back, and also talking and laughing, I knew that the atmosphere of this meeting was still relatively friendly. Everyone also walked over, and at this time, the door of the meeting room was opened, and Hillary, Deng Wendi, Ambassador Zhang Ye, Zheng Xudong, Ivanka, and Sean walked out of the meeting room in turn.
Coming to the door of the villa, Ivanka whispered to Zheng Xudong: "I'm thirsty!"
Zheng Xudong snapped his fingers at the waiter in a white suit who was shuttling among the guests, and a waitress immediately walked over with a tray, "Sir, what do you want to drink?"