Chapter 3: Missionaries

In addition to Juan and his wife, there is also a cook sister-in-law, Sister-in-law, and a rough little girl, Mei'er. There is also a close-fitting big girl named Caixia next to Fucha's side, a grandmother surnamed Fang. Anwar also has a small guy by his side. Hetai and Yuxiang are usually carried by Mama Fang and the nurse Wang.

In recent years, Anwar has been relatively peaceful, neither taking concubines nor accepting a room. This is also due to the skill of the Fucha family, and for Comrade Anwar, the Fucha family is usually strict and treats him severely. All possible derailments must be nipped in the bud.

For example, Juan's daughter Hu Fang, who is very delicate and sweet, used to do some sweeping work in the house, and when she was just fourteen years old, the Fucha clan had to help to say a relative. You said that if you say hello to someone, you have to find a better one. But she didn't, she helped introduce a few family affairs, either to be a concubine for this one, or to make a room for that one, or to match a small servant, and finally found a little steward, and she was still a slave of the family. And she also put on a face of charity. I felt that it was a great honor for Juan's family to put down his body and help say goodbye. also complained to Juan and his wife: "If it weren't for the face of her wife, how could the lord of those big families accept a little girl like Hu Fang?" "But Juan's family is not uncommon at all, right?

Although Anwar is small, the government is also small. Juan and his family are also loyal people, but they are both shrewd and sober. After the matter of Lianxiang is compared there, plus the people who are sent to the house on weekdays, and I am used to seeing some flies and dogs in these houses, of course, I don't want my daughter to be small. The two of them are also quite high-spirited. is even more reluctant to let her daughter be a servant, a steward, and a slave for life.

But the words of the housewife are not so easy to refuse. This can make the two of them worry to death, and they can't force it back, so they gave Hu Fang to Tian Daniu, who set up a snack stall in front of Huguo Temple. hurriedly made a marriage for the two, and Hu Fang married when he reached the age of fifteen. Fortunately, Tian Daniu is alone, has no father to support, and is also very kind and righteous. I have a room, and I still have some savings in my hands. is a full ten years older than Hu Fang. But it's very good to Hu Fang and Juan, and it's quite caring.

Shuyun is like this, silently observing everyone in the mansion while collecting some information outside. Wait slowly~~~

Shuyun's house is in Ganyu Hutong, the courtyard of the two entrances. Next to Wangfu Street. "Wangfu Street" was called "Shiwang Street" in the Ming Dynasty and "T-shaped Street" in the Yuan Dynasty.

"Wangfu Street", "Eight Sided Groove" and "Wangfujing" next to the sweet well were synthesized into the "Wangfujing Street" of later generations. There is a brand-new Catholic church on the north side of the alley, called East Church, also called St. Joseph's Church. In the twelfth year of Shunzhi (1655 AD), Emperor Shunzhi gave two priests, Tang Ruowang and Nan Huairen, the homestead land, and the two built this church here. The Romanesque architectural style, with its stout pilasters and its high and low domes, incorporates many elements of traditional Chinese architecture.

Usually, except for Ju'an's family, no one pays attention to Shuyun. So Shuyun always runs to Dongtang, and Juan's sister-in-law Osmanthus usually has a lot of work to do, so she can't always look at Shuyun, and she is more relieved that Shuyun went there. So Shuyun spends most of the day in the East Hall.

There was no one in Dongtang during the day, and Tang Ruowang and Nan Huairen had to go to work in Qintianjian or Nantang. The South Church is the earliest Catholic church in China, located in the Xuanwu Gate of Beijing, it was founded by the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci in 1605 (during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty), and the current South Church is still the seventh year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1650), when the imperial court commended John Tang for compiling the "Shixian Calendar". So he was given a thousand taels of gold to build a lobby on the side of the old site. It is much larger than the East Hall, and it is said that there are facilities such as an observatory, a library, an instrument room, and a missionary residence. Therefore, the missionaries in Beijing are usually in Nantang.

As a result, only one young missionary, Tom, of German Jesuits, was left to run the East Church. Tom was tall, blue-eyed, brown-haired, and very polite. At first glance, it is a very typical Germanic people.

In the Qing Dynasty, there were really very few people in Beijing who believed in foreign religions, and they were pitifully few. Shuyun has been coming to the East Hall regularly since she was two years old, and no more than 10 believers come to the East Hall in three years. At some times, such as Christmas Eve, people come here more to receive some Mass bread. Usually there aren't many people here, so Tom is usually free

So-yun came here almost every day, and even though he couldn't speak, Tom was still happy that he finally had someone to accompany him every day. Tom is very caring, and every time Shuyun comes, he will bring some bread, candy and the like to Shuyun, who is already very white. always watched Shuyun eat with a kind of pity. Then Tom would happily pick up Sook-yun and kiss her cheek gently.

When Shuyun first met Tom, he spoke very lame Chinese, and there were always a few German and Latin sentences in between, with gestures. Whenever this time Shuyun would pretend not to understand, tilt her little head, blink her big eyes, and look at Tom seriously. This made Tom a little angry.

After a few contacts, Tom found that So-yun was really well-behaved and obedient. Sook-woon was allowed to move freely around the church. Sook Yun saw the opportunity and ran to Tom's room as Tom once again taunted his broken Chinese. Shuyun also blinked her searching eyes again, meaning "I really don't understand what you say". Tom explained again and again, but Shuyun still blinked and shook her head, indicating that she didn't understand. No matter what Tom explained, Shuyun just looked at him innocently and shook his head. This made Tom sweat in a hurry.

At this moment, Shuyun suddenly walked to the desk of Huanghuali, which was painted dark red, pointed to a German version of the Bible on the table, and made another gesture of writing. Tom's eyes lit up when he saw it, "Are you asking me to teach you German?" Then you can write it to me, right? Then he shook his head in disappointment, "How old are you?" Can you learn it?"

At this time, Shuyun stretched out three fingers and nodded again. It's very against my will to report an extra year old.

"Oh God, you're only three years old, can you really learn? Okay, okay, for God's sake, I hope you can learn it, so let's start with the simple ones. Tom looked at Shuyun, who kept nodding and holding his hand and kept shaking, still said lamely.

"Let's start with the letters, then." Tom casually picked up a quill pen from the table and wrote on the spread paper.

German is really difficult, at least more difficult than English, it has a lot of tongue curls and small tongue sounds, the same kind of verb will have different changes after different people, and there are also many changes in the forward fall of nouns. So Shuyun studied very seriously. When no one is around, he always runs to the home of the space to work hard. But in front of Tom, Shuyun didn't dare to be too prominent. Fortunately, Shuyun pretended to be dumb and didn't need to speak, Tom was in a hurry to teach a lot of the time, although he wouldn't ask Shuyun too many questions, but he taught very seriously and was very strict with Shuyun. The rigorous style of the Germanic people is vividly reflected in him. Despite this, Tom would often nag "Oh my God, you're so smart." ”

Slowly, Tom taught Sook-yun some simple math and geometry. Although Tom was young, he was very erudite, although he was not as good as John Tong and Nan Huairen, but he was very good at mathematics, geometry, chemistry, medicine, astronomy, geography, music, clock-making techniques, meteorology, and hydraulics. What it lacks is only social experience, but his simplicity is even more valuable.

In her previous life, Shuyun liked to drink tea very much, and she loved the "big red robe of Wuyi Mountain". In the previous life, since the nineties, the No. 1 head of the central government would send one or two "big red robes" produced by the Jiulong mother tea tree to the old man in the family. When the old man drank, Shuyun would always rub two cups when he met him. A rich scent of osmanthus spreads in the mouth, and the aftertaste is long. I fell in love with it ever since. But every time I get a few rolls of the old man's eyes. It's no wonder that there is no place to buy this tea if you have money, and it is specially supplied to the central government. It was only in 98 that the annual auction of 20 grams began, and it soared from nearly 160,000 to almost 210,000 in 05.

After Shuyun got the space, she obtained two branches from the Tea Research Institute of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences from the Tea Research Institute of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and transplanted them into the space. At the same time, Shuyun also got West Lake Longjing, Dongting Biluochun, Huangshan Maofeng, Lushan Yunwu Tea, Lu'an Gua Pian, Junshan Silver Needle, Xinyang Maojian, Anxi Tieguanyin, Qimen Black Tea, Fuding White Tea, Taiwan High Mountain Tea, and Frozen Top Oolong Tea. Two seedlings of each type, a total of 26 seedlings. All of them are the most authentic masterpieces, and they have also been transplanted into the space. Sook-yun planted them next to the house on the side of the freshwater pond.

For Shuyun in the previous life, it is not difficult to collect all the seedlings of these famous teas, the difficulty is the method of frying, different varieties of tea need different frying methods, and even the picking methods are exquisite. Even if it is collected, it is very troublesome to stir-fry. It took Shuyun a full decade, through slow learning and exploration, to completely learn to make these thirteen kinds of tea on her own.

The existing thirteen kinds of tea already include five varieties of green, yellow, red, white, and oolong, and Shuyun also has a collection of some good aged Pu'er, all of which are nearly 40 years old. In this way, there is also black tea. China's six major categories of tea, the top ten famous teas, Shuyun has all collected.

In fact, except for the two "Wuyi Mountain Da Hong Pao", the other twelve kinds are almost the same, but because of different production methods and different flavors and cultures, the reason why Shuyun wants to collect them all, one is because the famous species are rare, since the conditions allow, why not. And then Shuyun really likes tea, tea trees, tea leaves, camellias, tea culture... Different teas have different tastes, and when you taste them carefully, they seem to contain different philosophies of life.

What's more, Shuyun herself likes to collect all kinds of things. This kind of collecting and buying fetish may be a woman's innate possessiveness, or it may be related to Shuyun's experience in her previous life when she was young, and the long and difficult years of separation made her unusually insecure. It is said that people who are generally insecure will have some of this kind of habit.

Tea trees thrive in the space, and the quality has not decreased due to changes in the environment and region, but has improved. In particular, the "big red robe" grows very well, and now it is almost three meters tall, even better than the mother tree, and the taste is even better.

Now Shuyun has finally tasted the sweetness, and she hides in the space without anything, drinking the big red robe and learning German. Eat some fruits from the space, as comfortable as you want. The only fly in the ointment is that I don't dare to eat too much, and now I am very white and fat, in case it attracts the attention of the people in the house, it will be bad. In extraordinary times, we still have to endure it.