It seems that it is the place where the poor people live in Nanjing, there is a bad smell floating in the air, except for the occasional cat and dog barking, there is no other sound, the poor people worry about their livelihood during the day, and they should rest at night, so as not to have the mental and physical strength to make a living the next day.

Fortunately, Li Meng's gang brought lanterns, and Dunglas obviously lived here, so he turned left and right and came to the door of a dilapidated house. Dunglas turned around and slammed on the door.

Li Meng returned and dismounted, and the servant next to him followed with a lantern, the dilapidated house was a rammed adobe grass house, which was already dilapidated and not decent, but by the light of the lantern, Li Meng noticed that there was a cross hanging on the door, it should be a cross, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will see this as two wooden strips plugging the leak and nailed like this.

Seeing this, Li Meng thought of the "sheep temple" mentioned during the day, it seems that it is not for the worship of evil gods, it should be a "foreign temple", which is the so-called church!

In modern times, Qingdao has several very good churches, from the modern Catholic Cathedral to several new churches built by Koreans, which look very solemn and magnificent. I didn't expect that at the end of the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago, there were still such dilapidated churches in the city of Nanjing, and several people from the town guard on the side laughed in a low voice:

"Compared to those Dayang temples in the city, this is purely a land hall!"

It seems that this is a very unsatisfactory church, not that foreign religion is not popular in the Ming Dynasty in this era.

Philip. Dunglas banged on the door, and shouted loudly in foreign language there, shouting a few words, and the residents of several houses on the side shouted and cursed loudly, and some came out to find trouble, and when they saw Li Meng's gang, they immediately shrank back.

Among the guards of the Jiaozhou battalion, a few of them were awake, and they had already turned to the back of the house to see if anyone took the opportunity to escape. Who would have thought that it would be. I heard someone inside shouting timidly:

"Uncle Deng, I'll open the door for you."

This voice is also the official dialect of Nanjing. It was also a little boy's voice, Li Meng turned his head to observe the surrounding terrain, but saw that the faces of the guards and the subordinates of the town guard were a little strange. He suddenly thought of one thing, the so-called "elephant aunt" in Kaifeng, and the modern news newspapers once mentioned that the Catholic Church in the United States paid a huge amount of money for molesting boys.

Thinking of this, Li Meng's face also became ugly, thinking that such a dilapidated place could be hiding dirt and dirt, the broken door was opened with a "squeak", a small face was exposed, and the probe looked outside, it was a little boy of the Han people. It's a very delicate appearance, it looks very cute, and when I saw so many people, I was obviously a little scared, and I shrank back.

When Dunglas saw the child, he squatted down lovingly, took out the dry food and pickles from his bosom, and said softly:

"Anqi, I haven't eaten for a day, I'm hungry, this is a bit of a pancake. Let's eat it!

The child, who was a little cowering, saw the dry food and pickles in Dunglass's hand, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he was no longer afraid of the people standing on the side, he happily took the dry food, but remembered something. Hesitantly asked:

"Uncle Deng. Have you eaten? ”

Dunglas smiled and touched Angel's head, and said:

"Uncle is full of food. Eat it! ”

The little boy shouted for joy, and as he put the bread in his mouth, he turned and ran toward the house, and said in a slurred voice:

"The priest hasn't eaten it yet, so I'll send it to him."

Dunglas straightened up, looked back and smiled a little embarrassed, but Li Meng was a little uncomfortable, especially when he saw the child's expression looking at the food, which made him even more sad, cleared his throat, and asked slowly:

"And a priest? What's going on with this kid? ”

While speaking, Li Meng walked straight into the grass house, and now the place where he entered the door was a small hall, arranged in the shape of a chapel, and there was a cross in front of the door.

The house was very clean, there was no smell outside, and I could hear the sound of a hut inside, and Angel's voice was talking excitedly:

"Priest, Uncle Deng has come back with food, you can eat some together."

There was also a deeper voice that said:

"Good boy, you eat first, I'll go outside to take a look, there should be a guest coming."

Seeing Li Meng come in, Dunglas opened his mouth behind him to explain, there were many missionaries who came to Daming to preach in this era, and this priest was also one of them.

However, the difference is that this priest is a Calvinist priest, that is, the so-called Protestant priest, and in all parts of the Ming Dynasty, including the city of Nanjing, it is the Catholic Church that occupies the absolute predominance, more precisely the Jesuits, who occupy the absolute mainstream.

These missionaries corresponded with the scholars and officials of the Ming Dynasty, and obtained all kinds of conveniences from the government, and these priests themselves became the upper echelons of the Ming Dynasty.

The Calvinist Church is a Protestant denomination, very popular in the Netherlands, among the missionaries of the Ming Dynasty, most of them are believers in the Catholic Church, and they are all Francoisians, Spain's war to suppress the independence movement in the Netherlands is extremely tragic, and part of the cause of this war is also the Catholic Church's identification of the Protestant faith in the Kingdom of Spain and the Netherlands.

This contradiction also existed in the Ming Dynasty, this Calvinist priest was excluded and suppressed by these nominal colleagues, no one gave alms and donations, the government was always looking for trouble, and could not show believers, so he could only find a grass house in this corner as a church.

Fortunately, the priest's mentality is quite resolute, of course, the missionaries who came to Daming to preach thousands of miles away are very persistent and persevering people. Although he fell into such an embarrassing situation, he still insisted, but the residents of this place are busy with their livelihood every day, who still has the strength to be willing to believe in religion, and seeing that this foreign monk seems to be worse than them, and he has no religious intentions As a result, after a few years, except for the same down-and-out Philip. Dungrass came to defect, that is, to adopt Su Anqi, whose parents died.

Although these three people are all religious, they have a very difficult life, the priest's health is a little bad, no matter how sensible Su Anqi is, after all, he is a child, and he relies on Dunglas to maintain himself outside. It sounds like a modern soap opera, but this Dunglas is relying on gambling money to deceive Zhang Luo outside, which really makes people not very good at evaluating his actions.

That kid Su Anqi is very likeable, everyone's impression of this Dungrass is much better, thinking that this person is not an obscene person, and the behavior of stealing food and trying to run away has also been forgiven.

As he spoke, the child walked out with a thin man in his arms, the lantern shifted slightly, and Li Meng saw a "foreigner" dressed in black. The clothes worn by this "foreigner" were a robe of some white starch and a cross hanging from it.

This priest should be quite old, but if you look closely, he looks very haggard because of his illness, his eyes are deep-set, and his nose is high, but he is a very standard image of a little foreign old man. After he saw Li Meng and his party, his expression and eyes immediately became eager.

If you want to preach in such a civilized place as the Ming Dynasty, it is one of the most convenient ways to catch up with the local elites, and the Jesuits are this way, but it will be very difficult for this Protestant priest to do this, but today someone sent it to the door, and it looks like there is some kindness, can you not make him happy?

"Distinguished guest, I am the priest of this church: Rodriguez. Federer, may God bless you. “

The priest first said a few words, drew a cross on his chest, and then bowed respectfully, while Su Anqi hid behind the priest, showing his head and peeking at Li Meng and those entourages who were standing in the room, but Dunglas, who was standing on the side, was more observant, and hurriedly pulled Su Anqi and said with a smile:

"Kowtow to the lord and say hello."

Na Su Anqi walked out with her head down, kowtowed to Li Meng, and said in a low voice in the tone of Father Deller:

"May God bless you, sir."

Hearing this, Li Meng was a little emotional, Li Meng didn't believe in religion, but he felt that he had finally heard the words of the translation, which was like a foreigner, or it always made people look awkward.

After the three people in the church said hello, Li Meng didn't speak, which made the atmosphere in the room very awkward, and the three of them were also worried, thinking that there was something wrong. Li Meng is recalling some things in the modern era, and various media have commented on the missionaries of this era, although they have various purposes, they still objectively promote cultural exchanges between the East and the West, and the current culturally educated class in the West is currently only nobles and clergy.

In general, this missionary is very useful to himself, and Dunglas is also of great use, no matter what their beliefs are and what their purpose is in China, knowing that it is useful to themselves, and that is enough.

Li Meng looked around again, and suddenly asked:

"Do you have anything important in this church?"

Father Federer and Dungras looked at each other, not knowing the meaning of Li Meng's question, and after hesitating for a moment, Dunglas replied respectfully:

"Sir, the little people are poor, and there is nothing superfluous."

"Okay, come with me, find a car to get the priest up, Deng Yangren, you hold the child, and you will be my Li Meng's subordinate in the future."

Li Meng nodded and said indifferently, after finishing speaking, his own subordinates stepped forward to do it, and Su Anqi shook his head, not knowing what was going on, but after Father Federer and Dunglas looked at each other a few times, they finally reacted, crossed excitedly, and praised in a low voice:

"Heavenly Father, are your followers finally over their trials, the hard days are over."

The official language of the Ming Dynasty is correct and round.