Came to Singapore, a place where a large number of Chinese gathered, of course, Linfil had to go to Chinatown to save his family. Although it is almost entirely Chinese, there is still the largest and oldest Chinatown called "Chinatown". Because there was no running water at this time, the residents' drinking water had to be drawn from the wells of Anxiang Mountain and Spiring Road, and then transported to the settlement by ox carts, hence the name.

Linfield grew more and more watery, and it may not be too amazing in the eyes of Europeans and Americans, but in the Chinese community, for example, the rich Chinese businessmen who accompanied the governor to greet the Duke that day all praised the little beauty. Linfil is triumphant but not shy, and there is no rudeness at all, he likes to walk hand in hand with the Duke, not to mention in the Chinese community, in the conservative British are a great thing, everyone has to think that she is a little girl and is not sensible, and the Faraday couple will sometimes explain to people that before they adopted Linfil, Linfil was nominally the goddaughter of the Duke's family, so the relationship is very close. The adults seem to have deliberately forgotten Linfield's promise to "marry Downing when you have long hair and waist".

This time in Chinatown, Linfield even broke up the Faraday couple, on the grounds that "Didn't Downing say that his Chinese and looks can deceive the Chinese?" Today I want to see if he is bragging, Daddy, Mommy, you don't want to be with us today, lest the Chinese think that we are from Europe. Faraday seemed to feel that something was wrong with this eccentric pearl in her palm, but she still didn't think deeply, she was only 8 years old!

Tang Ning wore a Qing robe, a horse coat, and a small hat, and his former daughter came to Chinatown, looking at the bustling Chinese trend, looking at the big shop signs with square words, listening to all kinds of strange dialects in Guangdong and Fujian, I couldn't help but feel more cordial, finally back, hehe, my unenlightened compatriots, what should I do to save you? Or will you be left alone, like wild animals? After all, interfering in the process of my Qing Dynasty requires a lot of action, is he still suitable for this important task as a European nobleman?

Just as Tangning was immersed in nostalgia, Linfell's cold Chinese sentence came: "Tangning, you are a mixed race of Chinese and European, right?" ”

Tang Ning was startled at first, no one had mentioned this stubble for a long time, but it was brought up by a little girl, and her tone was very affirmative, this is really ...... However, he was shocked but not panicked, fat but not greasy, and then smiled: "What? Convinced, right? I'm like a chameleon, I can be Chinese or British. ”

It's true, after coming to Chinatown for so long, no Chinese seem to look at him with the eyes of foreigners.

Lin Fei pouted: "Looking at it left and right, it is even more confirmatory of your crime!" Don't worry, you are my most beloved person, and I will not expose you! ”

Downing: "You did well in biology, you can see it, but I won't admit it." Some secrets...... There will never be an answer. ”

An 8-year-old girl really looks like a little adult, and Tang Ning is less and less looking at her "small".

Linfield: "I like biology the most, especially evolution, I think 90% of the British are fools, so much obvious evidence there is still not to believe, and to bite the dogma of the Bible and laugh to death." ”

Downing: "Don't laugh, this is the ability of human beings to evolve as a social animal, which can be called the herd effect." Imagine that you are a sheep, in the middle of a large flock of sheep, it is impossible for you to see the surroundings very clearly, so, when you see your companions suddenly running, you better run as well, this may be the wolf. Although the theory of evolution is good, most people simply do not have the patience to look at it systematically and completely, they just need to follow the flock, and besides, there are many people in human beings who are not capable of logical thinking.

To use an analogy, let's take a classic syllogism: If all the sheep in Australia are merino sheep, and I see a flock of sheep in Melbourne, I infer that this flock of sheep is merinu. This seems to us to be a very simple reasoning, but some people just don't understand, and they ask, "Huh? What is Merinu? Melbourne? I haven't been!

In other words, human beings will be limited by their own knowledge, and they may not be sure of even the most basic reasoning, and they can only follow the masses. In England, the church is not only a faith, but also a political power, and many constituencies are divided by parishes. The church has a great incentive to defend itself as reasonably and legitimately as possible, to spread rumors, to distort understanding, and to do everything in its power that evolution and the church will have a long struggle, and there may be no end in a hundred years. ”

Linfield: "...... Hmph, give me another lesson, I'm grown up. Naturally, she took the arm of the Grand Duke beside her again.

Downing: "Let go!" How can a big girl who has grown up be casual...... Do men and women understand each other? ”

Lin Fei bit his lip, but he grabbed it tighter, and someone was quite helpless.

The little girl also had a question that she didn't understand, and asked openly: "I ask you, why can a 12-year-old girl get married?" ”

Downing: "Talent ......"

Linfil shook his arm: "Say! ”

Downing: "Where do you see the rules?" I didn't even pay attention, it seems, probably, because a 12-year-old girl is exactly the age of menarche, which means that the girl is sexually mature and can get pregnant. ”

Linfield: "Oh...... That person is 18 years old, why haven't you married her yet? ”

Downing: "That man ......"

Linfield: "The noble lady of Bavaria. ”

Downing: "It's all ...... Well, although you can get married at the age of 12, it seems that girls are over 20 years old, but I am already 30 years old, and I think I came to this world five years ago...... Ahem! ”

Linfield's little ears moved: "What? What does it mean to come into this world five years ago? ”

Tang Ning calmly bypassed: "I came to the flower world in Europe five years ago!" ”

The road surface in Chinatown was not very smooth, and Linfield kicked a raised old board, "Oops", indicating "Broken feet, you carry me." ”

Tang Ning was very skeptical, because the little girl was a female master who could kick football all over the sky, how could it be......

Anyway, he still became the little girl's mount, hoping that she would be a little more ladylike when she was two years old.

The little girl happily lay on the back of the eldest brother, and the little face was close to his back, and after a while, another question popped up: "Hey, I really don't know, what is a merinu?" ”

Downing: "This is an excellent breed of sheep, native to Spain, in the past, the Spaniards were very close to merin, smuggling was caught and beheaded!" However, it was later smuggled out. Just like when I stole Brazilian rubber seeds, someone did the business of killing heads, but no one did the business of losing money! Oh, the coat I gave you last year was Merinu. ”

The little girl was happier, her whole body was warm, and after a year, she said, "Thank you." ”

Tang Ning regarded her as a daughter, and said: "I remember an incident, when I was in India, I once reached a gentleman's agreement with a Shanxi merchant, I gave him half of the Tibetan antelope wool as raw materials, and he stayed in India to secretly learn to make an expensive shawl, called Shatush. The wool of the Tibetan antelope is more precious than that of merinou, and in the Kashmir region of India, it is the top dowry. European ladies also liked it. This businessman was actually reconnected with me, tsk, fate! He was on his way to Singapore, and it warmed his heart just thinking about it. When it's time for you to get married, I'll give you a shatush as a dowry, okay? ”

After a long time, the little girl said, "Thank you." ”

When he came to Tofu Street, Tang Ning suddenly thought, who invented pinyin like "tofu" in English? The British can read it when they see it, and the Chinese can probably understand it when they hear it, and they have to go back to find some Chinese people to ask, and maybe they can find talents who can pinyin Chinese characters.

When he came to the door of a theater, there was an interesting voice of Yi Yi, and Tang Ning asked the little girl, "Are you going to listen to the play?" ”

Little girl: "Don't go, noisy." ”

Okay, continue to move forward, see a shop that sells calligraphy and paintings, this elegant place will not be disgusted after all, I can't help but say, Tang Ning put down the little girl and walked into the store with her.

Tang Ning is still quite interested in calligraphy, but local tyrants are local tyrants, it is really difficult to be heroic but not dirty, most of the cursive script is not recognized, and even the calligraphy is difficult to recognize, and it is necessary to pretend to understand it completely in front of everyone.

Linfil was more earthy than the local tyrant, saying: "What's the point of writing with a brush so hard? It's going to be scrapped soon, right? ”

Tang Ning hurriedly made a silent gesture and said in a low-key manner: "This is the ...... of art"

An old scholar is very old, at first glance he thought he was so old that his ears were deaf, but he actually heard the little female tyrant speak, he was writing calligraphy, he raised his head, through his round reading glasses glared at the little female tyrant, and snorted: "Little girl, what do you use without a brush?" ”

The diligent and studious little female tyrant carried a pen and paper with her, she didn't say a word, and took out the "water-based pen" that Tang Ning invented not long ago but never took to heart: "Grandpa, take a look, what is this?" A pen that can write at any time is 10,000 times better than a brush. ”

The water-based pen is a combination of a ballpoint pen and a fountain pen, without the characteristics of the original ink of the ballpoint pen that is easy to stain the paper, and does not need to be filled with ink like a fountain pen, which has become popular in London, but backward Singapore, especially the Chinese community, has not yet been used on a large scale, and this old gentleman is actually the first time to see it.

The old gentleman laughed: "This little thing, where can I draw a pen?" He took it and scratched it on the paper a few times, "Huh? He added, "It's good to use it to keep accounts for Mr. Account." ”

Tang Ning apologized: "Old gentleman, don't be weird, the little girl is not sensible, this kind of pen is only used for sketching, the calligraphy is broad and profound, or you have to look at the ability of the brush, but I don't know much cursive, will you write simple and easy to understand?" ”

"No problem!" Seeing that the descendants were so polite, the old pedant waved his pen and wrote the rules and regulations, which was very recognizable, and Tang Ning loved it so much that he praised "This is the calligraphy I want." He asked the old gentleman to write more.

Well, reluctantly, the old gentleman came again: "Contentment and happiness, longevity and longevity".

To be honest, Tang Ning thinks that this kind of calligraphy is better than everyone else, and he is really a master in the people, I don't know why he "wandered" to Singapore, according to the view of this era, Nanyang must be a wild place.

Tang Ning: "Can you write Xiaokai and Song Ti?" ”

"Hey, boy, test me! For the sake of your official speech, I'll write two more! The old gentleman was in high spirits and showed off his skills in front of a strange pair of "father and daughter".

Tang Ning smiled and admired the performance of the old pedant, he was indeed examining the old man, he wanted him to find a designer to help him develop Chinese fonts, he also thought that he must go to the Great Qing Kingdom to have such a talent. （http：/／.）。

Tang Ning and the old gentleman talked further, it turned out that the old gentleman was still an official, because the "Hong Yang Fa Bandits" (Taiping Army, bandits with hair led by Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing) lost their jurisdiction and fled to Nanyang, of course, he would not say where he was a person and where the official, he did not trust Tang Ning enough. As for Mr. Sù, he told Mr. Sù that he worked for the East India Company, which was not a lie, and that he was still a director of the East India Company, and that he was becoming more and more director, because the harvest of the East India Company was getting worse and worse, and Wang Xiaoer's New Year, year after year, and the old shareholders of the company kept coming to him with a smile and asking: "Is the earl/duke interested in buying the shares of the East India Company in my hands?" Seeing that the price was good, he also bought it, plus some old friends of the East India Company, and now he has a very strong voice in the East India Company, and almost three or four percent of the choice of the Governor General of India is in his hands.

Speaking of which, he was actually the leader of the British and Dutch East India Company, and he could be said to be the most powerful person in the South Seas. He had to go to Batavia, which was Jakarta.

Before leaving, he bought a picture of a galloping horse by the old gentleman, this painting the old gentleman liked very much, he didn't know what the inscription was, and he was reluctant to sell it, but when he saw the young man talking about it like this, he decided to cut his love. Tang Ning mentioned yì, it is better to call it "Ma Stepping Feiyan", and the old gentleman called it "Miao", so he used the grass to mention these four big characters. The old man loved horses all his life, and even gave himself a fake name with the surname "Ma".

From beginning to end, the Duke of London did not reveal that he was "English", and Lynfield had to accept it, and she now had in her heart that Downing must be a half-race, whether he admitted it or not.