After leaving the natural residence, it didn't take long for Li Xiake to arrive at the British consulate, and the doorman guarding the door was so impressed with him that he didn't ask much at all, so he opened the door and let him in.

As soon as he entered the consulate, he heard a burst of chanting coming from inside, and Li Xiake followed the singing to enter, and saw a group of children standing in front of a cross in the lobby and singing softly, and several foreigners holding musical instruments to accompany them.

Lu Haodong and Sun Wen also stood next to the choir and watched, the children's voices were pure, and although the singing was gentle, it was very pleasant.

Li Xiake looked at the crucifixion of the foreign god in front of the hall, sighed, and walked to Lu Haodong's side: "What's the matter? Brother Haodong also believes this?"

Lu Haodong was looking at the time with his pocket watch, and when he heard this, he raised his head, looked surprised, and said softly: "Brother Li, are you here?"

He looked left and right for a while, and said to Li Xiake: "Come, let's go and talk to the side!"

Li Xiake followed him to a corner of the hall, and Sun Wen followed him when he saw this.

"I've heard people say that yesterday someone broke into the Chaotian Temple in anger and killed several important people in the White Lotus Sect, even the sect leader. Brother Li, is that person you?"

Lu Haodong looked at Li Xiake and admired with a face: "Your name is Li Xiake, what you do is much more powerful than the heroes of ancient times!"

Hearing this, Li Xiake glanced at Sun Wen next to him, and said with a smile: "I only went to Chaotianguan last night, you know this morning? I didn't expect that there are also your people in Chaotianguan, hehe, admire, admire!"

Sun Wen was stared at by Li Xiake, uncomfortable, and said with a dry smile: "It's just a coincidence that I heard about it, Brother Li, don't think about it." ”

Li Xiake laughed a few times, no longer dwelling on this matter, turned his head to look at the child who was singing, and asked Lu Haodong: "Brother Haodong, do you also believe this?"

Lu Haodong shook his head and said: "Yixian believes this, as for me, ......"

He paused slightly, and said: "I used to have a mythical character in my heart, but when I grew up, I realized that no matter what myth is, it is just a bunch of lies, hehe, since then, I don't believe in God." If there really are gods in this world, then why is China so full of disasters and difficulties? The emperor enslaves the people, and the gods enslave all living beings, hehe......"

Sun Wen next to him frowned and said, "Brother Haodong, you are a little extreme!"

Lu Haodong glanced at Sun Wen and said, "Yixian, yesterday a missionary was very confused, and he told me that he had come to China to spread the gospel, why did the Chinese still shout and kill him? I told him that if he could make their country's soldiers in China put away their foreign guns and cannons, the Chinese people would naturally not be so hostile to them. Chinese people have their own religious beliefs, so why should they use interests and sticks to preach?"

When Lu Haodong said this, he said softly: "The enemy not only enslaves our bodies, but even disintegrates our culture and beliefs, this is the real destruction of the country and the extinction of the species!"

Li Xiake glanced at Lu Haodong with a smile: "Brother Haodong, what you said, I'm afraid Brother Sun Wen doesn't like to listen to it!"

Sun Wen next to him smiled awkwardly and wisely did not accept this topic.

Li Xiake looked at these children who sang with the teacher and sighed: "Brother Haodong, why are there so many students in the consulate?"

Lu Haodong said: "These are all students of the Tongwen Pavilion, the White Lotus Sect has made a lot of trouble recently, I am a little worried about them, after you left yesterday, I asked some people from the consulate to bring these children here, regardless of the position, at least it is relatively safe here." ”

Li Xiake nodded: "Now that the sect leader of the White Lotus Sect has been killed by me, the slogan of "driving pigs and killing sheep" has been eliminated by me, and there should be no problem with Tongwen Pavilion." It's okay for children to go to school, but please don't give them compulsory religious propaganda, because our children learn culture, not religious knowledge. When they grow up and have their own mature worldview and outlook on life, let them choose their own beliefs, and don't interfere too much now!"

Lu Haodong thought thoughtfully: "Yes, we are here to learn knowledge, and the religion and culture should wait for the children to grow up and let them choose for themselves." ”

At this time, there was a commotion outside the consulate, Li Xiake looked out through the window, and saw a group of Qing soldiers standing outside the gate, and the leader turned out to be Nalan Yuanshu, who was injured by him yesterday.

This person is also tough, he has been so seriously injured, and now he can still insist on leading the troops, he can be regarded as a man.

"We suspect that you have a secret party here, and we hope you can let us go in and search for it, or you can hand them over yourself!"

Patting away a few foreign guards blocking the road, Nalan Yuanshu led the soldiers to stride to the consulate hall and said to the British counselor who greeted him: "Please cooperate with our search!"

The bearded British counselor stood on the stairs, looked at Nalan Yuanshu condescendingly, his shoulders trembled, and his hands spread: "I'm sorry sir, this is the consulate of our British Empire, you don't have the right to search here!"

Nalan Yuanshu stared at the counselor's pale blue eyes: "This is our Chinese land, why can't we search it?"

The counselor smiled: "If you have any grievances, you can go to your government to complain, please don't be angry with us." Sir, venting your anger on innocent people is a very uneducated sign!"

As he spoke, a group of foreign soldiers in the hall appeared from all corners, raised their rifles, and aimed at Nalan Yuanshu and others, and when Nalan Yuanshu saw this, more than a dozen soldiers around Nalan Yuanshu also raised their muskets and aimed at each other with these foreigners.

Nalan Yuanshu looked serious.

The British Counsellor was smiling.

As the two looked at each other, the hall slowly fell silent.

After looking at each other for a moment, Nalan Yuanshu snorted coldly, waved at his subordinates and said, "Let's go! Since we can't search, then surround the consulate outside! Don't miss a suspicious person! Mr. Counselor, you'd better let those few chaotic parties not come out for the rest of their lives, come out one, we'll arrest one!"

Seeing Nalan Yuanshu leading the soldiers away angrily, the British counselor breathed a sigh of relief, and when he faced Nalan Yuanshu just now, he was also very nervous. After all, no matter how strong he is in the British, but in the face of persecution by local Chinese officials, that pressure is extraordinary.

"Mr. Lu and Mr. Sun, you'd better find a way to get out of here, we can't protect you for long, the new admiral of your country is very strong, very different from the previous officials. ”

The British counselor looked at Sun Wen and Lu Haodong: "This can only be used as a temporary shelter, you can't stay here forever, right?"

When Nalan Yuanshu brought people over, Sun Wen and Lu Haodong's faces were very unsightly, and now after hearing the counselor's words, the two of them looked even more bitter, if the Qing soldiers outside really besieged the consulate for a long time, then they would delay a lot of things.

"Haodong, I have already bought a ticket to Hong Kong tomorrow morning, board the boat from Shamian Wharf, and go directly to Tangjiawan. ”

Sun Wen said to Lu Haodong with a bitter face: "But in today's situation, how can we arrive at the port on time?"

Lu Haodong looked out the window and said softly: "Nalan Yuanshu will not let us go, if they really surround the consulate, it will be really difficult for us to get out, unless we ......"

He looked up at Li Xiake: "Brother Li, can you escort the two of us out of here?"

He opened his pocket watch and looked at it again: "We've wasted so much time!" 8)