Ning Yi has been staying in the palace since she came back from the banquet and has not gone out, but she was originally that indifferent temperament, and Qiu Lu and the others didn't find anything strange, but they found that their own Gege was more diligent in caring about real-time these days, and the newspapers in the daily newspaper told them to buy it back.

Chunya walked in from the door and glanced at Qiu Lu who was standing on the side, how was it?

Qiu Lu shook her head helplessly, still the same.

Chunya sent today's new newspaper.

Ning Yi took it, turned it over in unison, and then sat on the side, frowning.

It's been almost a month, and there hasn't been any movement? Didn't they rush for human life?

Ning Yi didn't know what she wanted to see, it stands to reason that nothing happening is the best thing for her, and the more time passes, the clearer she and the woman will be.

Qiu Lu looked at her own Gege worriedly, although Ning Yi's performance was not obvious these days, she still noticed that her own Gege seemed to be a little impatient for something, even if she was reading, her heart had not been calm.

"Gege, what the hell are you looking for?"

Ning Yi put the newspaper to the side, shook his head, and didn't speak.

Seeing this, Haruka on the side relayed the words of the messenger who bumped into him at the door.

"Gege, Teacher Maria sent a letter saying that she would be returning home in three days."

Ning Yi was woken up from her thoughts by Chunya's words, and was stunned for a few seconds before she suddenly realized, "She's leaving." ”

Three days later, the dock.

This is Ning Yi's second time to this place, the first time is to pick up people, the second time is to give people away, although the two of them have not been together for a long time, but Ning Yi likes this girl who was born in a foreign country and grew up in China, and there is always a certain quality in her body that makes her think of Chinese girls in the future more than a hundred years later.

Although Yunliu is also lively and outgoing and grew up with Western education, she still has the nobility and pride of the royal family, and Maria is different, except for her appearance, she is completely like a Chinese, and because she lives in a simple environment such as a church, she is more like a person in Ning Yi's former world.

There were many people who came to see Mary off, many of them children who lived in the church.

"Sister Maria, I can't bear you." With tears in their eyes, the children surrounded Mary and hugged her legs, trying to keep her in this way.

Maria was also very sad, but she was made to cry and laugh by their trick, so she had no choice but to tear them off one by one, and wiped off the little faces of the crying flowers one by one, "Sister is reluctant to let you go, but my sister must go, you must be obedient, and my sister will come back to see you." ”

"My sister is a liar." A little girl who looked less than ten years old interrupted her with a hoarse crying voice, "My mother also told me so, but she never came back to see me, and my sister will definitely be the same as A-Niang, never coming back." The little girl bit her lip and tried to hold back her cry, but she still leaked a whimper. That year, there was an extra brother in the family, and her mother coaxed her out to do work, and threw her at the door of the church in the winter, just coaxing her to come back to pick her up immediately, but she never came back, and she was also taken in by the church. My sister will definitely be the same as A-Niang, I don't want them anymore.

Ning Yi stood aside and looked at these innocent and innocent children, and felt a little sad.

Just when Maria was at a loss for what to say to comfort the children, a thin boy grabbed the girl, who seemed to be the tallest and probably the oldest.

He touched the little girl's head, trying to make his voice softer.

"Fubao, don't you keep saying that you are homesick, my sister has been here for so long, she must be homesick too, let's let my sister go home, okay?"

When Mary heard this, she turned her head outside, wiped away her tears, and then turned back with a smile and looked at the children, one by one, trying to engrave them firmly in her heart.

She squatted down and comforted them one by one, promising them that she would be able to talk and talk, and that she would write back every month before she finally coaxed the children well.

"Maria, I hope we'll see each other again." Ning Yi walked over from the side and handed her a box and smiled.

Maria didn't refuse, and thanked with a smile: "Thank you, Ning Yi." ”

The children were coaxed back by Maria, and Ning Yi stood here to accompany her and wait for the boat.

The two men stood by the railing and looked at the water, and the breeze blew across the water, breaking up the reflection inside, and slowly scattered.

"Maria, can you tell me the real reason why you're leaving?"

For a long time, when Ning Yi thought that Mary would not speak.

"Ning Yi, you know what? On February 15, in Nanchang, there was a mass riot in which the masses poured into the streets, burning churches and beating the clergy. Maria turned her head to look at her, Ning Yi clearly saw the pain and sadness in her eyes, she seemed to see something broken, "Ning Yi, the Chinese are not yet xenophobic, even if I regard myself as a Qing citizen, but their eyes are always reminding me that I am not." Ningyi, I don't want to leave here, but I have to. ”

She paused before she said desolately, "Here..... I don't see hope. ”

There is no hope in sight ... Ning Yi's heart seemed to have been hit hard, and she retorted: "It's not like this, it was the French who forced Nanchang to expand its missionary privileges. Jiang Zhaotang was not allowed to be stabbed to death to cause public anger, and they only relied on their own strength to pursue an axiom. You can't blame all the faults on the Chinese xenophobia, they are not wrong. ”

In the end, she wanted to tell her that there is hope for China, just like a phoenix bathing in fire, and he will shine even brighter in the future.

But these words reached the throat but did not come out.

Maria knew that she would react in this way, and she smiled bitterly: "Ning Yi, you have seen more than I imagined, I am not for these truths on the surface, I am not unable to see what the foreigners behind this are doing, I am not for the matter itself, but for the way the Qing court dealt with this matter after this incident." Ning Yi Even if you are Gege, I still have to say that this country has decayed, and it is full of holes under the bright and bright exterior, and I can't see the future here. ”。

Maria looked at the ship that was getting closer and closer to the dock in front of her, and exhaled, "The ship is coming, I'm leaving." She looked back at Ning Yi, reached out to hug her, and whispered in her ear, "Goodbye." ”