"NO, NO, it's not right for the sleeping lion to sleep, our propaganda for many years is to wake up the sleeping lion, at least welcome this male lion to really take a look at the world, to understand how the world came to this day, only in this way, can it be beneficial to the world and mankind."

Owen kept saying, "The more people sleep, the more misunderstandings will be formed among people, and they will be full of increasingly serious prejudices between each other, and what is more terrible is that everyone is hostile to each other, which is the prelude to destruction, and Europe is currently suffering from the devastation of war, these are all hostilities caused by misunderstanding and prejudice, so that everyone quickly and inexplicably walked into the disaster of war." ”

"The war is really brutal, and I heard that since the Battle of Verdun, the deaths have been even worse." Meizi said lamentingly, "The wars in European countries have extended to Africa and Asia, except for the East of Asia, which is relatively better. ”

"It's far away, but it's not unaffected." Owen said, "The French workers have gone to the battlefield, so a large number of Chinese laborers have passed over and replaced the jobs of the French workers, which basically ensures production in the rear, and these are all influences, and the impact is pervasive." ”

"The world is already one." Meizi concluded, "Whoever wants to stay away will have only one result, and that is poverty and disaster." ”

"Yes, yes, Mr. Meizi, you said it so well." Owen praised, "I really hope that you Oriental elites can go to England to study, oh, Cambridge and Oxford, and of course Manchester." ”

Meizi nodded at Mr. Owen, and then turned her head to ask Li Keding, "Do you have this plan?" In two years, let's go to the UK. ”

Li Keding didn't think about this, so he had to say: "When the time comes, it depends on the situation." ”

"Haha..."Owen raised his head and laughed first, then shook his head slightly, like a person with a slight Parkinson's disease, but said with a solemn expression, "Mr. Li, you make me feel that you lack a spirit of pursuing the outside world, and you may not realize it yourself." ”

Owen spoke directly, Li Keding felt that he was so good, a famous disciple of Confucius back then, named Zhong You, the word was Zilu, this person was happy when he heard it, and he was praised by future generations. Why don't I learn the way of a student, so I said, "Sir is so right, I am indeed drawing the ground as a prison." ”

"Oh, Mr. Li's words are really amazing, painting the ground as a prison is to put a shackle on himself." Owen grabbed his wrists with both hands, acting out the situation of being restrained, "I have discovered that in you Chinese, you lack the spirit of courage to face challenges, and you are too nostalgic for the comfort you already have." ”

"Chinese people are generally nostalgic for their homeland, perhaps because of thousands of years of clan society, and the conservative thinking formed by habit has long dissolved into the bone marrow of this nation." Li Keding is looking for the root of the disease.

When Owen heard this, he lit another cigar, took two deep breaths, seemed to have matured his thoughts, and said: "Yes, this is the inevitability of a clan society, an agrarian society and a great unification of government, conservative but arrogant, self-respecting but fragile. So you don't want to go outside, or even want to know about the outside, one is the inferiority caused by self-esteem, and the other is the timidity caused by backwardness. ”

"Mr. Owen, thank you for your analysis, but now that China's clan society is disintegrating, I believe that it will be able to keep up with the pace of world development in the future, and it will no longer be so easy to be prejudiced and paranoid." After Li Keding finished speaking, he looked at Meizi, "The Chinese will not always be more closed than the Japanese." ”

Suzuki Meizi listened to him talk about this, and lost no time in smiling: "Look at it, you understand everything, so, you have to get out of the closure first, I'll give you a chance, accompany you to the UK, why don't you agree?" Li Keding listened very carefully, closure was a stubborn disease he had hated for a long time, and now it was his turn, but he was still nostalgic for his hometown, and even had a trace of fear of going out. He knew that he was wrong, and in line with the principle that if there was a mistake, he promised Meizi on the spot: "Okay, I'll go to England with you." ”

Meizi smiled again, her eyes crooked, revealing her white and neat teeth, "Let's high-five and swear, within four years, we will go together." ”

Saying that, Meizi stretched out her white and tender little hand, Li Keding high-fived him and said, "A word is not decided." ”

"Oh my God, it's really good." After Owen finished speaking, he took another deep puff of his cigar and exhaled a heavy smoke, "England welcomes two gentlemen from the East, please remember to tell me this sinner of God before you apply to university, and let me write you a long letter of recommendation." I hope that you will soon set foot on the soil of England and promote all kinds of exchanges between the East and the West. I can introduce you to England to study, and I will surely atone for some of my sins that I was born with. ”

"Sins born with." Li Keding listened thoughtlessly.

"Of course, each of us comes with original sin and must atone for it." Mr. Owen said, "I have to go to the new church every week to confess to God Almighty. ”

Li Keding didn't want to understand these things yet, Meizi had already seen it, took Mr. Owen's words, and said, "Mr. Owen, you are really a pious person, God will forgive you." You said you were going to write us a letter of recommendation, thank you very much, you are a good person. ”

"Oh yes, I am a pious man, and only piety and repentance can be forgiven by God." Owen said.

"Sir, I fully agree with you that we should all be pious people." After expressing her approval of him, Meizi said, "Mr. Owen, my father has asked me to visit you, and I have asked you a question. ”

"If you have any problems, please tell me, you know, I am the person who loves to help others the most, let alone the children of old friends." Owen said.

Meizi took a sip of coffee and slowly put down the cup, "In 1860, when the British and French troops entered Beijing, at that time, your father was a colonel, and he once told my grandfather about an incident that his French friend took a file from Beijing, and your father should have told you about it." ”

"Oh! I understand. The smile on Owen's face disappeared and was replaced by seriousness, "When my father told me about this, he was very sorry for the ignition of the war, oh, that war could have been completely avoided, but..., let's not talk about it." Let's talk about my father's French friend, the file he took was from the Ming Dynasty, yes, from the time of the Jiajing Emperor, and the things recorded on it were very, very bizarre, as if God was telling the great prophets. ”