Chapter 108: Hanama Pavilion
It was a very beautiful church, obviously not so long after it was built, and it looked brand new and shiny.
The main body of the church is a small two-story building, with an orange-red brick wall between a row of four pale gray pillars, and the walls on the pillars are clean and clean, and no superfluous decorative reliefs can be seen; On the roof of the building stands a large red cross, which is simply two pieces of wood, and there is no sculpture of the crucifixion.
In and out of the church, there were Westerners with high noses and deep eyes, and the men wore wigs, either long-tailed gowns or sailors' suits; The women wore long skirts with huge skirts around their waists, and carefully walked along the snow-covered roads with the corners of their skirts.
Behind the church is a large group of European-style buildings, which are very similar to the colorful European-style buildings in Qingdao in Chu Fan's impression.
"Villain, why does this church look weird," Yan Ruxue asked, staring at the church, with question marks written on her face, "It's different from the Chezhitan church I've seen." ”
Chu Fan was also wondering, it stands to reason that the shogunate had such a strict ban on religion, how could it be possible to allow the Kiritan Church to be built so blatantly on the streets of Nagasaki?
After watching for a long time, Chu Fan found a detail, that is, the people who entered and exited the church were all Westerners, and they didn't even see a single Japanese national.
"Ruxue, what was the Chechitan church you went to before?" Chu Fan thought for a while and asked in a low voice.
"It's all white, how can it be so colorful like this," Yan Ruxue said as she thought about it, "and there are reliefs everywhere, but it's beautiful, this church is bare, ugly and dead." ”
Chu Fan suddenly remembered, Yan Ruxue's description reminded him of the difference between the Catholic church and the Christian church in the previous life, and the colorful building in front of him was not the Protestant Christian church?
He just wanted to explain to Yan Ruxue, but the little girl's attention had already been diverted by other things, so he had to follow the back and continue to walk forward.
In this way, the group soon came to an inconspicuous gate by the Urakami River.
This is the biggest brothel in Nagasaki? Chu Fan looked at the door face, which could be said to be a little simple, and his heart was full of doubts.
I saw that the entire gate and even the fence next to the door were made of bamboo, neither tall nor open, the only thing that can be praised is that whether it is a bamboo pole or a bamboo leaf, and even the vines wrapped around it are all tender green, Chu Fan went up to take a look, and found that it was all cut out of green silk cloth, and this intention made Chu Fan dispel his doubts - this is the tone that literati and artists like, even in winter, they have to dress up the so-called "wild fun".
When I looked up, there was nothing on the lintel, only a small sign hung under the bamboo eaves, which simply read "Flower House", and I couldn't see it if I didn't pay attention.
Just as he was watching, a young man who was only as tall as Chu Fan's chest came out behind the door, and just by looking at his bony eyes, he knew that he was the kind of clever ghost who was full of news.
As soon as he came out and saw that it was a bright man in gorgeous clothes, his eyes suddenly lit up, and his face was immediately filled with flattering smiles, and at a glance, he saw Chen Shangren in the crowd, and immediately stepped forward to greet Chen Shangren familiarly, and in just a few minutes, he bowed at least a dozen times, and Chu Fan's eyes were dazzled.
After Chen Shangren finished greeting him, Chu Fan asked this guy to help find an interpreter, and then he stepped into the Flower Pavilion.
Only when I entered the door did I know that the outside of this flower pavilion did not look very good, but the inside was extremely ingenious, rockeries and strange stones, pavilions and pavilions, all of which were fine to the extreme, and it was obvious that a lot of silver was piled up, and there was a faint shadow of the Jiangnan courtyard, but the building was more magnificent and atmospheric - that was the legacy of the Tang Dynasty.
But the widows who flashed from time to time along the way suddenly exposed the essence of this meat selling place, and the drunken spring buyers had no scruples, chasing those prostitutes with ghosts painted on their faces in broad daylight, frolicking, making Chen Shangren muttered vigorously and insulted Sven.
Chu Fan was originally worried that Yan Ruxue would see something and be angry with herself, but she didn't expect that she was full of curiosity about this extremely beautiful flower pavilion dressed as a snow doll, and looked around vigorously, several times if it weren't for Chu Fan's quick eyes, she would have fallen into the water and turned into a soup chicken.
Seeing that they were about to reach the water pavilion arranged for them by the clever turtle prince, there was still an accident.
A Western man about thirty years old with a thick brown beard on his face walked towards Chu Fan and them with the support of two prostitutes.
Chu Fan knew at a glance that he was already too drunk, because the wig on his head could not be worn for a long time, and it was being held in the hands of the prostitute, and whether it was the tight sheepskin top he wore on the upper half of his body, or the leather shorts, or even the tightened leggings he tightened, there were spots of vomit stains everywhere; People are still far away, and the sky-high smell of wine has already made Chu Fan and them frown.
He was very tall, Chu Fan estimated that he was 1.8 meters, which made it even more obvious that the two prostitutes around him were short - the top of his head couldn't reach his armpits.
It was not so much the two prostitutes supporting him as he staggered forward with the two prostitutes, and almost fell off his horse several times.
When he walked to Chu Fan's side like this, he mixed garlic under his feet, and in the exclamation of the two prostitutes, his tall body smashed down towards Yan Ruxue!
"Be careful!"
Chu Fan, who was walking behind, shouted, trying to reach out to pull Yan Ruxue, who was already stupid, but it was too late.
Seeing that this Westerner was about to smash into Yan Ruxue's petite body, Chu Fan's eyes flickered, and the Westerner had already flown out far away, and fell to the ground on his back.
Chu Fan saw clearly at this time that it turned out that Liu Zhongwen had made a move, and he overthrew the Westerner who was half a head taller than him in one fell swoop.
The Westerner struggled to get up from the ground, staring at Liu Zhongwen fiercely with a pair of dark brown eyes, muttering and muttering, speaking in a language similar to that of Sidesa that Chu Fan had met in Tianjinyi.
He shook and pounced on Liu Zhongwen, this time Liu Zhongwen didn't use any more force, just pushed him away, but this guy didn't know what to do, yelled at Liu Zhongwen, and continued to attack Liu Zhongwen with his fist.
After dodging and giving way a few times, Liu Zhongwen gradually became a little angry, and the intensity of pushing the drunk man slowly increased, and finally pushed him to the ground again.
After crawling for a long time, the drunk man lay on the ground on all fours, muttering a word over and over again.
"Misunderstanding! Misunderstand! Don't do it! Don't do it! ”
The two sides were inexplicably confronting each other like this, when they heard the sound of hurried footsteps and voices with Min accents behind them.
Chu Fan turned his face to see that a twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old man with a short beard on his lips was shouting and running, panting and running in front of Chu Fan and kept talking, "I'm an interpreter, this is a misunderstanding, listen to my explanation." ”
Chu Fan didn't talk nonsense, pointed at the drunk man and asked, "What did he say?" Do you understand? ”
The interpreter looked bitter and hesitated for a long time before replying.
"He's going to ...... with this master Duel! ”