Qing Jialu

Shen Jia and Xiao Yi took turns to look at it for a while, and studied the binoculars thoroughly.Xiao Yi couldn't put it down, and Shen Jia was delighted when he saw it.

"How about Wei Ming, the things I gave you should be to your liking." Shen Jia asked.

"Very good." Xiao Yi suddenly thought of a question, raised his head and asked, "Isn't the binoculars expensive, where did you get the money from?"

The one who knows Shen Jia best is indeed Xiao Yi.But this time Shen Jia was very stubborn, and proudly replied: "Of course it's expensive, I can't afford it even if I lose all my money. However, the seller made a request. If I can fulfill it, he will give it to me for free."

"Oh?" Xiao Yi asked curiously when he heard that it was still possible to do business like this for the first time, "What are the seller's requirements?"

"He hopes to be able to face the saint and let me introduce it for him."

"See me?" Xiao Yi asked, "Who is this seller?"

"He is a missionary who traveled across the ocean and came to Daliang. He hopes to meet the emperor of Daliang and preach here."

There were one or two missionaries who came to Daliang before, but due to the small number of them, little is known about them.Xiao Yi was a little cautious about this, and asked: "Changqing, what do you think of this person, is it worth seeing?"

"He is a very interesting person. Even if you don't agree to his request, you can still listen to him talk about the outside world. It's not bad." Shen Jia said happily, "And I saw many strange things in his house. , in addition to the telescope, there are also chiming clocks, lyra, etc. By the way, I have also seen many books, which are not the same as our books."

Seeing the excited look on Shen Jia's face, Xiao Yi laughed and said, "Seeing that you've blown up that seller, then I'll go and see."

The husband and wife hit it off and left as soon as they said it.Under the service of the little eunuch, Xiao Yi changed into a literati's Taoist robe. He looked at Shen Jia a few times, frowned and said, "You have to take off your official uniform, we will visit in private."

Shen Jia was so excited that she almost forgot, and hurriedly said, "I'll go home and change it."

"It's too late." Xiao Yi grabbed him, looked Shen Jia up and down, "Your stature is about the same as mine, so just wear my clothes."

After finishing speaking, Xiao Yi called Xiao Qin Zi and asked him to bring Shen Jia his casual clothes.

After Shen Jia picked out the clothes and put them on, Xiao Yi's eyes lit up, and he praised, "Sure enough, people rely on clothes and horses rely on saddles. The clothes you usually wear are too plain."

The clothes Shen Jia wore when she lived in Yanju were mostly black, white and gray, and the fabrics were also very common.But at this moment, he was wearing a blue tasseled four-season flower-pattern cross-neck Taoist robe and a black square scarf on his head, looking like a nobleman.

Shen Jia was embarrassed by Xiao Yi's sizing up. He lowered his head and straightened his clothes, touched the fabric and said, "This is Song Jin from Suzhou."

"Yes." Xiao Yi replied.His clothes are all made of high-quality cloth donated from various places.

Shen Jia felt that she couldn't bear it, and said anxiously: "It's too expensive, I don't dress properly, it feels so strange."

"There is indeed something missing." Xiao Yi said, took off the jade pendant from his waist, and gestured back and forth on Shen Jia's body.

This jade pendant is much more valuable than clothes, Shen Jia wanted to stop it, but Xiao Yi slapped off his paws and hung it on his waist forcefully.

"Weiming, you gave me a jade pendant again." Shen Jia declined, "You gave me too many things, I can't ask for any more."

Xiao Yi rolled his eyes at him, "If you think too much, I'll just lend you to wear it for a day. You see, this is perfect."

Shen Jia looked up at herself in the mirror, sure enough, it was perfect.

Xiao Yi and Shen Jia left the palace in a carriage, driven by Wei Hanming.Now, Wei Hanming not only has to protect the elder Shen Ge, but also protects the safety of His Majesty the Emperor, and he feels the pressure doubled.

Fortunately, Shen Ge didn't take His Majesty to any crowded place, instead he walked further and further away, and came to a quiet alley.

"Your Majesty, be careful." Wei Hanming helped Xiao Yi get out of the carriage, "The alley ahead is narrow, so you can only walk with Your Majesty and Shen Ge."

"In the future, don't be called an official title outside." Shen Jia heard it from behind, and told Wei Hanming, "You should call you Mr. Xiao, Mr. Shen."

"Yes, Mr. Shen." Wei Hanming glanced at Shen Jia, and thought that Shen Ge's attire today is very different from the past.Look at this fabric, this pattern, this jade pendant, it really looks like a son of a famous family in the capital.

After getting off the car, Shen Jia took on the important task of leading the way, leading Xiao Yi and Wei Hanming into a strange residential house.The style of this house seemed out of place with its surroundings. It was not a courtyard house that they often saw, but a two-story building that they had never seen before.

Shen Jia knocked on the door a few times, and immediately a boy welcomed them into the room.Xiao Yi and Wei Hanming were even more surprised when they saw the inside of the house.Especially in the center of the hall is a hanging statue of a man, Xiao Yi stared at the statue for a long time.

"That's my Lord Jesus." A voice came from behind.

The three turned their heads, and Shen Jia introduced Xiao Yi in a low voice: "This is the seller."

Xiao Yi looked at the person who came, and saw that the seller was a man with a beard, about 50 to [-] years old.His nose was straight and his eyes were deep-set and blue.

"He looks... so weird?" Wei Hanming couldn't help muttering.

Xiao Yi didn't show too much surprise, he nodded at the seller: "I took the liberty to come here, I just heard from my friend that you have good things here, and I want to see them."

"So it's Mr. Shen's friend." The seller said with a substandard accent, "Welcome, welcome."

"Excuse me, what's your name?" Xiao Yi asked.

"My name is very long, you can call me John."

"John, John?" Xiao Yi smiled, "What a strange name."

John said: "It's very common in our place, many people are named John."

Xiao Yi thought to himself that the sky is different for ten miles, and the customs are different for hundreds of miles, let alone thousands of miles?He looked at the statue again and asked, "You just said that he is your Lord, similar to our god here?"

"Exactly."

Xiao Yi became even more curious, "Since he is a god, why was he stripped naked and hung on the torture rack, and treated so cruelly?"

John explained: "It's a long story. This thing is called a cross. My Lord was sentenced to death. He was crucified and tortured to death."

"Is he dead?" Xiao Yi asked.

"Three days later, my Lord will be resurrected." John said with bright eyes, "The Lord made atonement for us."

"Oh, is that so?" Xiao Yi looked at Shen Jia with disbelief in his eyes.

John also saw it, and he said to Xiao Yi: "I am a missionary, from Germany, and I came here across the river and sea on a big ship, just to spread the teachings of my Lord."

As John said, he took out a thick book and gave it to Xiao Yi.Xiao Yi flipped it over casually, with a look of embarrassment on his face.

Seeing this, Shen Jia also moved over curiously to have a look, only to see that the words in the book were crooked, like a scripture from heaven.

Shen Jia couldn't help asking: "John, you are a bible, we can't understand a single word."

"I also really want to write our books in your language, but I really can't do it alone." John frowned, "I still have a lot of books here, about calendars, mathematics, geometry, etc."

What are these things? Shen Jia was confused, "John, we don't understand what you said. How about this, can you take out your chime clock and let my friend open his eyes first?"

"It's easy to say, everyone, please follow me." John said, and took them to the second floor.