Chapter 57: Baptism
The Li Mansion in Wu Jinlu's colleagues has been happy recently, first saying that Mr. Li, who stayed abroad, was going to marry the second wife, and then said that Mr. Li had made meritorious contributions abroad, not only was he promoted, but he was also 'smoked' by the Nanjing Nationalist Government, and he was contaminated with a lot of nobility, and he would become a general in a few days. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info such a double happiness came to the door, making the tenants in the Li family's firewood room and pavilion uneasy - if the Li family was developed, they would definitely dislike these poor tenants, and maybe let everyone move out one day, so these people hurriedly bought gifts to congratulate. I don't know if it's because of the gift, or for some other reason, but I heard that Mrs. Li is going to be an official wife at the European Embassy, so these little people are relieved: as soon as Mrs. Li leaves, this house will definitely be rented, and she is finally stable.
Yes, I want to be an official's wife. In the bedroom, Mrs. Li, who was packing her clothes, put away her tears and burst into tears, of course she knew that her husband had let her go to Europe not for herself, but for the vixen. Her only hope now is that the vixen, the vixen who can sing and charm men, is unwilling to go to Germany, so that this family can be happy.
At this time, the radio was playing the song of the vixen, a song of 'dragon and man', as soon as this song came out last month, it was said that it sold like crazy -- when she went to the department store on the main road to buy the clothes and jewelry of the official's wife, she saw that the people who grabbed the record had squeezed the door of the Sincere company, and several other companies had to find patrols to stop people at the door, and the records of the vixen were all sold outside, and for a time the long queue on the road lined up from Zhejiang Road to Huangpu Beach, and the name "Xu Peipei" became famous at home and abroad in half a month, and the fire was particularly popular.
A popular singer robbed his man, Mrs. Li's only reliance was on her son Li Shizheng, but the fox spirit was also pregnant with her husband's species, she only asked Mazu to bless the fox spirit who could not give birth to a boy, but only a fox spirit. Mrs. Li cursed Xu Peipei in her heart, but she couldn't help humming along with the radio.
"What a vixen!" I didn't think that I was also tempted by the song and began to hum along with the tune, and Mrs. Li, who finished packing her clothes, couldn't help but scold.
Mrs. Li's curse Xu Peipei was not sensitive, and under the towering dome of the Lumur Hall in Tibet, she was surrounded by white-clad parishioners and soaked in solemn hymns.
"Praise the true God for his mercy on the world, and for sending His Son to save us;
I am now baptized into the Lord's fold with thanksgiving, praise, and praise for the Lord's grace.
Be baptized and converted to Christ with great joy and join the church in eternal fellowship
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The hymns were being sung, and the head of Moore Hall, Mr. Addison, who presided over the baptism, had a solemn face, and he knew exactly who the baptized person was and what weight it hadβonce the spirit of the Creator was baptized as the Lamb of the Lord, the fans who admired and loved her would join the church, which was the victory of the great Christ, the victory of the Moore church.
Mr. Addison suppressed his excitement, and his wife, Mrs. Anderson, who was very familiar with Xu Peipei, watched all this lovingly. However, there are still people who are unhappy in their hearts, Jiang Xiuyu, who is watching the ceremony in the church, feels that the church is a deception, and she can't figure out why Pepe wants to donate half of her income to the church? That's a lot of money! Pepe is now famous, not only in China, but also in the United States.
After a pause in the hymn, the baptismal pastor Anderson walked into the baptismal font, and Xu Peipei, dressed in church white and with a red cross on her left chest, slowly walked into the pool. The water in the pool was clear and cold, like her heart at the moment.
"Child, do you admit that all things in heaven and earth and human beings were created by God as we believe, and that we were created in the likeness of God?" Pastor Anderson begins with pre-baptism questions.
"I believe it." Xu Peipei replied without hesitation.
"Child, you confess that everyone is guilty and that the price of sin is death. Jesus is the only Savior of all mankind, and only Jesus can save all sinners. Are you willing to accept Jesus as the Savior of your personal life? Anderson asked again.
"I do." Xu Peipei replied without hesitation.
"Child, do you acknowledge the sovereignty of the Holy Spirit in your life, that the Holy Spirit enlightens you, guides you, moves you, and accepts Jesus as your Savior, and are you willing to follow the Holy Spirit's guidance and walk the way of God's will after baptism?" Anderson asked again.
"I do." Xu Peipei replied without hesitation.
"Child, after you are baptized, you will be a member of the church of Lord Moore and a member of the body of Christ, and after you are baptized, will you love the church as your own home, participate in the service of the church, and work together with all your brothers and sisters in the church to build the church of Lord Moore and glorify the name of the Lord more on earth?" Anderson finally asked.
"I do." Xu Peipei smiled without hesitation.
"Since you have thus promised, we now baptize with you as Christ commanded, and the church has sent you." As soon as Anderson spoke, he gently pressed Xu Peipei's head into the water. Now the hymn was sung aloud again, and the voice was louder and more cheerful than before. However, the world is not serene and harmonious, and just as the hymns are singing, 'boom...... Boom...' There were several loud explosions that frightened the choir so much that they forgot to sing, but Mrs. Anderson immediately led the chorus in a loud voice, and the choir began to sing again.
"It's scared to death." After the baptism, seeing Xu Peipei coming, Jiang Xiuyu kept patting her chest, her face was full of fear, "It's really a fight!" It's really a fight! Shanghai is going to war again. β
"Are you scared?" At this time, Xu Peipei was not as thin as in the previous two months, and her face was no longer pale, but ruddy and smooth.
"Aren't you afraid?" Jiang Xiuyu asked rhetorically, "The revolutionary army has come to Shanghai, Hongkou is ......" Jiang Xiuyu didn't finish speaking, there was another '......boom', this time it was closer, she immediately 'ah', so that the people in the church looked at her.
"As long as you have the Lord in your heart, you will not be afraid." Xu Peipei was also taken aback, but it was just a natural physical reaction.
"Who said that?" Jiang Xiuyu didn't believe it. "The first few times I went to a song workshop, they said that people are monkeys and ......"
The song research meeting was introduced by An Hong, the wife of An Hong, who worked in the song department of Baidai Company, Xu Peipei was reluctant to go, even if Wang Renmei came forward, she would not go on the excuse that she was pregnant. Jiang Xiuyu is different, she followed Wang Renmei, and when she came back, she went around saying that people were originally monkeys, and monkeys did more work, and they became people.
"Man was created by the Lord." Xu Peipei smiled, but she didn't insist, and said: "Why should we fight for this, I'm going to leave in a few days, I really can't bear you." β
"I can't bear you either." Jiang Xiuyu said. With the help of Xu Peipei, she also signed a contract with EMI, but it was only a meaningless short contract. "When you go to Germany, don't forget to ask your husband to write me two songs."
"I'll remember." Xu Peipei nodded. Jiang Xiuyu has a high voice, which is not suitable for singing affectionate songs.
"By the way, I'll tell you ......" Jiang Xiuyu, who was grateful in her heart, whispered, "That Ms. An, I have been asking Miss Wang Renmei to ask me to ask you to participate in the song research meeting, it was okay before, but you are more urgent to become famous during this time, she must have some conspiracy." β
"I'm not going." Xu Peipei didn't care about An Hong in the Baidai Song Department, "They believe that people are changed by monkeys, and I believe that people are created by the Lord, how can we talk about going together?" β
"Pei ......" Xu Peipei was chatting with Jiang Xiuyu, and Mrs. Anderson called her on the side, and she would invite Xu Peipei to lunch today. Poor child. Mrs. Anderson, who walked in, grabbed Xu Peipei's jade hand tightly, and stroked her back affectionately, "Child, I still have to say that it is too dangerous to go to Europe now, it is summer, and there are too many storms in summer, which is very unsafe." β
Xu Peipei came to Moore Hall every weekend to worship at Li Kongrong's instructions, and Mrs. Anderson fell in love with the English-speaking girl as soon as she saw her, and was even happier to hear that she would be baptized after reciting the Bible. Then, things changed to make her stunned, this poor girl actually became the most popular singer in the whole of China within a month, and her records were sold to the United States, she is really God's favorite.
"Mrs. Andrew, I think I can get through those storms." Thinking of getting together with her husband, Xu Peipei immediately had some perseverance in her eyebrows - no matter what it was, it couldn't stop her from being with her husband.
"Madam, let's go to the French Concession to avoid it first." Second Lieutenant Qiu Zhongming, who rushed back to Shanghai from Berlin, arranged for the two wives of the chief to go to Europe before Zhou Yingcong, and he had all the passports and ferry tickets in place, and they went with several naval officers who went to Europe on the ship on the 16th of this month. It was only later that he found out that the chief's two wives were at odds, and the younger one had not yet passed the door, so he had to change the ferry ticket and not let the two meet.
"I'm not going to the French Concession." When Mrs. Li thinks of the French Concession, she thinks of Xu Peipei, and she knows that Xu Peipei lives in the French Concession.
'Boom! There was another 150mm cannon explosion, and Wu Lilu was on the north bank of Suzhou Creek and Tongrenli to the north, closer to the battlefield. The explosion of the shells not only made a loud noise, but also shook the ground and shook the glass of the windows.
"Madam, then you will live in the British Concession for a few days, it is too ...... here" There was another 'boom', and a small box on the cupboard fell down, and Mrs. Li exclaimed. She called and thought that it was good that her father-in-law was not there, otherwise the old man would have been frightened.
"I'll go in the afternoon." The continuous explosions made Mrs. Li finally compromise, she did not worry about herself but also about her son, which was the only way for her to win favor. "I'll go to Mrs. Zhou's house, Mr. Zhou is not at home anyway." She said.
"Madame, is there anything you want to move over? Mr. Wang and I came to pick it up. Qiu Zhongming knew that Mr. Zhou was Major Zhou Yingcong, and he was actually most afraid that the commander's wife was still living here, in case the army's shells were crooked, it would be really terrible.
"I don't want you to come! I went over on my own. Mrs. Li thought that the driver surnamed Wang was cheeky, it was this person who matched her husband with the fox spirit, and she never gave him a good look.
"Then Mrs. should be careful, it's best not to go when there are a lot ......of people" Qiu Zhongming is a careful person, but Mrs. Li, who was unhappy when she heard Driver Wang, ignored him and got up and walked inside, which was tantamount to sending off a guest in disguise.
"Little brother, look there." In the Chevrolet taxi outside the door, the old driver who had been specially picked up by Li Kongrong on a monthly basis to pick up Xu Peipei pointed to the planes in the sky and shouted, "That's our plane." β
Qiu Zhongming's eyesight is of course better than that of the old driver, and he can even see the blue sky and white sun flag under the wings of the plane. "It's the country. Army aircraft. Qiu Zhongming said solemnly. Master, let's go to Moore Hall. The second wife should finish eating. β
"Okay, okay, go to Moore Hall." The old driver reluctantly looked at the planes in the sky, just now when he was eating on the side of the road, he also heard that he had shot down a few Japanese planes, but now he only saw his own plane, not the Japanese plane, and he didn't know how to fight the plane.
Xu Peipei had finished eating at this time, and was playing with Mrs. Anderson, and she even taught her youngest daughter to sing the descendants of the dragon together. But Mr. Anderson, who had disappeared for a few hours immediately after baptism, suddenly appeared, and said anxiously to his wife in English: "My dear, go and call, we will go at once to save the Lamb of the Lord." β
The lamb that Anderson is talking about is the refugees who fled into the concession since the exchange of fire between the Chinese and Japanese armies yesterday -- since the beginning of the Qing Xiaodaohui uprising, Shanghai has been a haven for refugees in all wars, and now that Shanghai is fighting again, thousands of people have poured into the concession again, because suddenly the war started, and many people did not even have luggage, and these people must have been taught for relief.
"Sir, this is a little bit of my heart." Before coming to the baptism, Xu Peipei brought the reward given by Baidai, which was her original promise, and Mr. Andrew was called away after the baptism, so she didn't take out the check until now.
"This ...... Too much. Andrew was shocked to see the number on the check. It says 13,000 fiat currency. This is the cost of Columbia Records' buyout of "Can't Lock the Melody", considering that her husband suddenly had a lot of money transferred to his account in HSBC, Xu Peipei decided to donate all the money to the church for relief.
"Sir, I believe those people need them more than I do. If that's not enough, I'll find a way to raise some more money. Xu Peipei's face was kind, and her ruddy face began to have a maternal glow.
"Pey, you are truly the angel of the Lord's favorite." Mr. Andrew, who rubbed his hands, was a little moved, he didn't pay attention to Xu Peipei before, and he only smiled at her previous promise to donate half of her income, but the world is impermanent, and this devout believer has suddenly become the most famous singer in China. Thank God she chose Moore Church over the Catholic Church.
"Pei, your butler has arrived." Mrs. Andrew also looked at Xu Peipei with gratitude, thanking her for supporting her husband's missionary cause. In a blink of an eye, the old driver appeared at the door, and she immediately reminded her kindly.
Following behind Qiu Zhongming, the old driver bowed his head and greeted the foreign priest first, and then said anxiously: "Second wife, there is a war outside now, it is best to go back immediately, if the tire gas is alarmed, it will not be good." β