Changchun Garden Qingxi Book House, although it is still the bitter cold of early spring outside the door, but a mink curtain on the door of the Warm Pavilion Hall has left this melting warmth in it. In the afternoon, the Qingxi Book House was exceptionally quiet, and there was no official Hou Xuan who introduced or performed the matter, but he could see Luo Luo looking at Kangxi helplessly, shrugging his shoulders and spreading his hands, and still sincerely persuaded, "Your Majesty, but your beard covers all the affected areas, and I am afraid that the minister will not be able to apply medicine for you." ”

Kangxi looked at Rhodes suspiciously, then turned to look in the mirror, carefully looked at a red and swollen boil on his chin, thought about it, and still frowned and said, "Why can't I apply it?" I remember that on the way to the siege last year, I sent an orthopedic doctor to see Ma Guoxian (an Italian missionary) to see the injury, but I didn't see that he had to shave his hair before giving it to the doctor because he had broken his head. ”

Although Rhodes is proficient in Chinese, but with his understanding of Chinese culture, he really doesn't know how to answer, whether it is argumentation or persuasion, and for him, the great emperor in front of him, who is extremely noble and controls the billions of living beings in this vast empire, may be because of their strange customs? Following the habit of most missionaries to worship the royal family, such details of oriental culture that they do not know, he did not want to be offended, paused, but still insisted, "The minister heard about it, but the minister didn't know the doctor's treatment, maybe we had a different way. However, the minister still believed that if the medicine could be applied comprehensively, the ointment would be beneficial to eliminate His Majesty's sores, so he asked His Majesty to allow the minister to cut off a few of your beards. In the end, for fear that Kangxi wouldn't understand what he meant, he gestured, "It's just a few, and it can grow after a while." ”

"'The body is skinned, and the parents who receive it dare not destroy it.'" I will say this to you, and I will not understand it. The axe is added to the body, because of disrespect and filial piety, thinking that Cao Cao cut his beard and abandoned his robe in the past, and he was ashamed of the defeated soldiers. I don't mean to blame you for being disrespectful, but even if you are a Westerner, you should also save this important thing that must happen to people. Kangxi stared intently at the mirror, ignoring Rode, who was confused, and then leaned back on the bench with a cashmere felt blanket, rubbing his long beard, his eyes turned away, and asked the consultant who was waiting on the side, "It's so swollen that it hurts, you say, I won't let him cut it?"

What a clever consultant, Kangxi was willing to ask in front of Rhodes, he had a seven-point permission, and he saw that Kangxi was in a good mood all day, and he was more amiable than a few days ago, so he laughed at the moment, bowed down and replied, "Long live the master, the slave just counted, only three or four dragon whiskers occupy the position, and it is not obvious if it is cut." As he spoke, he raised his head carefully, and when he saw Rhodes' grateful bow, he added another compliment, "Rhodes is still a surgeon appointed by the master, and the master is relieved." ”

"Well, you can cut it. After half an hour of ups and downs, Kangxi finally nodded reluctantly, pointed to a little eunuch standing behind the advisor with his hands down, and looked at the age of fifteen or sixteen, who served Kangxi only on weekdays to comb his hair and braid his hair, and he was quite smart. Under Rod's gaze, the little eunuch knelt beside Kangxi, with a yellow satin handkerchief in his left hand and a small silver scissors in his right hand.

After the cut, Kangxi sat up straight on the chair, took the mirror and looked at it carefully, I don't know whether it was looking at the gray hair in the mirror, or the few cut off for Shicai, his eyes were full of deep sadness, and the corners of his lips were also pursed into a line, with a look of regret. However, Kangxi only glanced at it, and his brows were habitually frowned, and the consultant wanted to say something to be relieved, when he heard a sharp reprimand: "Look at you, you are usually a clever minion, why are you so careless! How many have you cut?"

This sudden surprise really shocked the consultant, the little eunuch originally knelt straight, and he was so frightened that he immediately fell to the ground, and was urged twice by the consultant, and then he replied tremblingly: "Return, return to the master, four ......"

"Three is enough! Kangxi also reprimanded him with a small voice, there were few people in the warm pavilion to serve, the sleeves of his shirt and his boots fluttered for a while, and he was no longer silent. The consultant was originally holding a handkerchief, but when it was his turn, he immediately knelt down and whispered, "Whoa, whoa." The slave should die, the master is angry, and ...... "While speaking, he lifted his spirits, and when he saw Kangxi waving his hand, he also understood, and hurriedly got up and urged the stunned Rod to apply medicine, and then turned around and whispered to the little eunuch, "Long live the grace, don't go down yet!"

Looking at Rhodes' tall physique, towering nose bridge, and immersed in the panic just now, Kangxi was obviously accustomed to the reactions of these missionaries as offerings to the inner court, and the small episode of Shicai was nothing, which would have made him a little comforting, and said to Rhodes with a smile, "When you came to Daqing, it was not short, you obeyed my customs and people, and served the people, and you were the same as the Chinese." I will treat you as one, and I remember that I had told Xu Risheng (a Portuguese missionary) that if your king of education summoned you back in the future, I would not allow you to do so. ”

After completely dressing the medicine for Kangxi, Rhodes breathed a sigh of relief, just when he heard Kangxi say this, he took two steps back, couldn't help but scratch his chest with literacy, and bowed deeply, "Thank you for your kindness, you can support us in conveying the gospel of the Lord in such a great empire with a generous heart." It is a great joy to hear His Majesty say this today, and I think that the European priests who have now become subjects of the Qing Empire like me are all very grateful to His Majesty. ”

I believe this, and Ma Guoxian also told me that he was grateful for my kindness. I treat you, just talk about a heart of Haina, your king of education is far inferior to me, I can't help but wait for you to preach in China, it is out of a heart of tolerance for all things in heaven and earth. Kangxi pushed the small low table at hand, supported by the consultant, stood up on the bench, pointed to the rest of the folds, and showed the advisor to hug it, this box picked up the top fold, walked to the side of the kang and sat cross-legged, and the words followed: "But it is not indulged in your nonsense: missionaries are scattered everywhere, for the sake of harming the local affairs, since the forty-second year of Kangxi, the governors of the provinces have repeatedly heard of it, you and other Westerners have true deeds, and there are false deeds, I allow you to live in China, but you are not allowed to shake people's hearts everywhere." It will be very easy for me to send you back, and as for whether or not there is this grace mentioned first, it is necessary for you to wait for peace and abidement of the law. ”

"Your Majesty......"

Kangxi didn't intend to listen to what Rhodes said, so he only raised his hand to interrupt him, and continued: "Before the past, I toured the north with the autumn of the missionaries, and the missionaries served servants, chariots and horses along the way, and ate and drank expenses. After all, you and other missionaries, after all, should not be restrained by the principle of a king, a minister, a father and a son, and I do not need to parrot you and say anything to repay your dedicatedness, but you should be very careful to figure out who this grace comes from and what you are relying on for the current situation! ”