When Chen Baifu went to look for Anthony, Dongmenqing was working not far away, but his mind was on the two who were talking.

"Hey! What are you doing! Lazy again! At some point, Hideyoshi Sato noticed Dongmen Qing's actions and came over and shouted.

There are two completely different classes in this fleet, the Franc Man and the Oriental, and the dozen or so Franc Pirates are naturally high above the rest of the Oriental heretics. Of course, Anthony, who had converted to God and knew Portuguese, could barely get their approval. The Franco-machine people came thousands of miles away, for various needs, along the way constantly recruited sailors from all over the country to rule at levels, under the Franco-machine, there were some Chinese like Anthony who went to the South Seas to make a living, below the Chinese, there were other Indian and Nanyang natives, although the sailors of the Guangdong merchant ship that surrendered recently were mostly Chinese, but because they were the latest to serve, their status was the lowest. There is also a group between the Francos and the Oriental sailors, that is, a group of Chinese and Nanyangs who are more loyal to these Francous pirates, and a common characteristic of these people is that they have a certain degree of Portuguese mastery, so they can communicate directly with Mendoza and others. It is this group of two devils that the Franc Pirates rely on to maintain his rule.

Sato Hideyoshi is very smart, he figured out this relationship within two days of joining this fleet, he knows that in this environment he can only get out by squeezing into the two devil group, and he soon had the opportunity, that is, he won the appreciation of the Franco pirate Lasso who was in charge of carpentry work with his excellent carpentry skills, although he didn't know Portuguese yet, so he hadn't been able to enter the two devil group, but Lasso's appreciation had made him feel that his status was far away from Dongmen Qing and others, which brought him a little self-esteem. But on this day, he suddenly saw Chen Baifu, the Ryukyuan man who often mingled with Dongmen Qing, suddenly went to find Anthony, a Chinese with the highest status in the fleet, and felt faintly bad in his heart.

Dongmen Qing glanced at him, ignored him, and continued to do the work in his hands. Sato Hideyoshi accused him repeatedly, saying that he didn't do well here and didn't do it right, Li Chun came over and said, "Brother Wang is doing well or not, it's your turn to take care of it!" "In the past few days, Chen Baifu, who knows some Korean, has been in the middle of the exchange, and Dongmen Qing has asked Li Chun not to call himself master but to call him big brother.

Sato Hideyoshi was furious after hearing Li Chun's words, and was about to beat him, but Dongmen Qingheng came over and stopped between the two, and wrote four words on the sand: "Fox fake tiger might"! Hideyoshi Sato was angry in his chest, and he was about to have a seizure, when suddenly a person said, "What a beautiful word." As soon as he turned his head and saw that it was Anthony, he quickly bowed down and took two steps back.

Anthony looked at the four words written by Dongmen Qing and asked him, "Have you read a book?" Seeing that Dongmen Qing nodded in agreement, he said, "Don't do the work here, come with me." Then he said to the Franc Pirate who was overseeing the work in the distance, "Lasso, I will use this man." Then he took Dongmen Qing and walked to the main ship.

At this time, Chen Baifu had already returned, and Sato Hideyoshi glared at him and said, "What did you go to tell Lord Anthony?" ”

Chen Baifu smiled and didn't answer, Li Chun smiled: "Are you afraid?" Actually, what are you doing so excited? You know that no matter where you are, no matter what environment, as long as you have the opportunity, Brother Wang will always overpower you! ”

Sato Hideyoshi's face turned blue when he heard this, but he couldn't say half a sentence, as if Li Chun's words hit his vital point.

Sato Hideyoshi cares about Tomen Kei very much, but Tomen Kei doesn't seem to take Sato Hideyoshi very seriously, as soon as he leaves the construction site, he leaves the other party behind and follows Anthony to the accounting room of the main ship.

Anthony took out a set of pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and asked Dongmenqing to write a few words, Dongmenqing casually wrote a poem "Silent Night Thoughts", Anthony praised after reading this word, knowing that he was indeed a reader, and asked him if he could use a quill pen.

It will be easy to use a hard pen again for a soft writer, it will be difficult for a hard writer to turn a brush, Dongmen Qing has a lot of Western goods at home, and he used to be greedy for a few days of fresh goose quills, so he picked it up and tried it, and wrote a few very beautiful Chinese characters. Anthony saw that he was even more appreciative, so he took out a document full of essays and asked him to copy it. Dongmen Qing couldn't understand half of those Latin characters, but he just depicted them as if they were paintings, and they were even decent.

Anthony was overjoyed and said, "There is no shortage of strength on our ship, but there is no shortage of those who can use the pen." Xu Qijin Franc said fluently, but he couldn't hold a pen; Zhou Dafu can be regarded as able to write, but unfortunately his words are too ugly. You are so smart, as long as you practice, even Latin will definitely be able to write beautifully. ”

Dongmen Qing saw that he had the intention of lifting, so he wrote on the paper: "In the future, I will ask Brother An for more guidance." ”

"Brother An?" Anthony laughed, then a little gloomy, and said, "I don't have a surname Ann, Anthony is a name." Well, my surname is Huang and my Chinese name is Rulin. This Anthony is the name the pastor gave me. He touched the cross on his chest and said, "I can see that you are a very wise man, and I will tell you the teachings of my Lord when I have time, so that you can enter the world of truth." ”

Dongmenqing had also heard that there was a cross religion overseas, and the ancestor of its religion was the god worshiped by the Buddhas, and when he saw Anthony touching the cross, he smiled slightly, and did not refuse, but he was not very interested in his heart.

In the days that followed, Dongmenqing walked with Anthony and studied those twisted and twisted texts under Anthony's guidance.

It takes more than ten days and a half to master a language, but in order to learn a language quickly, in addition to the learner's own talent, the environment and needs are also very important. Dongmen Qing has an extraordinary talent in language ability, and the southeast officials have always attached importance to various dialects in order to deceive the superiors and subordinates, so the Dongmen family also attaches great importance to this, plus there are all kinds of people in and out of Dongmen Mansion all year round, Dongmen Qing has dealt with these people since childhood, and the dialects of the southern provinces have become commonplace for him, and he is also very proficient in Japanese dialects, even the language of Liuqiu and Siamese also know a little bit about it.

However, Portuguese is completely different from the other languages that Dongmenqing has learned in the past, not only in pronunciation, grammar, but also in writing. The countries of the Han cultural circle in the East inherited the legacy of the Han and Tang dynasties, and the languages used in Japan, Vietnam, and Korea were all Chinese. Especially in Dongmenqing's era, the intellectuals of these countries were closer to the Chinese native intellectuals in terms of written language. In his opinion, learning Japanese is similar to learning the Cantonese dialect, and after mastering the spoken language, there is almost no need to learn the written language, just know some key rule changes.

However, learning a European language at this time was a different situation, and the bitterness and difficulties in the process were subtle and difficult to speak, and only the scholars knew it, but in terms of progress, it was much slower than that of Dongmen Qingxue. And at this time, Dongmen Qing still has a major obstacle to learning Franc's words, that is, he is dumb. Language learning, speaking and listening are very important, speaking is not only a means of expression, but also a means of memorization, many times, with the mouth to remember than with the brain to remember faster, deeper, longer. Dongmen Qing couldn't repeat the words Anthony told him with his mouth at this time, and it was difficult to memorize them with his brain just by silently reading, so during this time, he didn't learn the words of the Franc machine as fast as Sato Hideyoshi and Li Chun, especially Sato Hideyoshi, three days after joining this fleet, he knew at least dozens of simple words, although he often spoke Portuguese in Japanese language habits, and the grammar was full of errors, but where did the Franc machine pirates care about these? As long as you can roughly understand what he says.

Although Dongmenqing was not yet proficient in Portuguese and Latin, Anthony still arranged some copying work for him, Dongmenqing just copied according to the book, and did not know what it meant, but because of the good foundation of calligraphy, after practicing for more than ten days, a Latin script has been described. In addition, he is also a caring person, so during this time, he still memorized one or two hundred words that appeared more frequently, of which dozens were able to read them silently, and the rest relied on rote memorization.

Ironically, in this era, Dongfang and Taixi did not study each other's languages deeply, but they often learned each other's languages faster than hundreds of years later. Of course, this is due to the continuous enrichment of vocabulary over the centuries, but the detours in learning methods in later generations may be even more crucial.

Dongmen Qing was originally just a mute with a very low status on the ship, and no one paid attention to him even in the Oriental circle. After following Anthony to become the writer of the Franc ship, his status suddenly became different. Although he was dumb, after a few pen talks, Anthony felt that although Wang Qing was a few years younger than himself, his cultural level was higher than his own, not only could he write and calculate, but also had a strong acceptance of new knowledge, so he respected him and did not regard him as a dispensable subordinate.

When he had free time, Anthony often talked about Jesus to Dongmenqing, who was not interested in this set of strange things, but Anthony preached to him so actively, and he didn't want to show bad feelings. Soon Anthony gave him another cross, and because he saw that his figure was similar to his own, he gave him a set of Franc machine clothes, and Dongmen Qing put the clothes on, and then put on the cross, and in the eyes of the Franc machine man, who did not have a good ability to distinguish the faces of Orientals, he was another Anthony.

"If I have the chance, I will definitely introduce you to a pastor to baptize you!" Anthony felt that a person as good as Dongmenqing would soon accept the gospel and throw himself into the arms of God.

But Dongmen Qing didn't react to his words, just stared blankly at the west, Anthony was stunned, and then reacted, he also knew that the fleet was close to the sea of Fujian at this time, and that place was the common hometown of the two of them.

"Well, I don't know when I'll be able to go back...... Anthony suddenly forgot to preach at this moment, and was guilty of homesickness. At this time, there were no churches in Fujian, and there were no Catholic priests, but the call of the hometown was perhaps more important than that.

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In the next chapter, "Li Dayong's Attack", let's vote for two more flowers......