"Miss Helena, you told me today during the day that all of you Flemish people believe in God, right? You have to go to church every week to worship and listen to the priest's teachings, right?" Zhang Yanling suddenly asked.
Helena turned her head and nodded: "Yes. The vast majority of people in the Franconian country believe in God. Of course, there are some people who refuse to believe in the existence of God. We in the Franconian country have the Holy See Inquisition and regard them as
Heretics should be arrested and suppressed. I don’t think it’s necessary. Why do we have to make people believe them?”
Zhang Yanling said: "What you said is very true. It is unreasonable to force others to believe in religion. But that is not what I want to say. I want to ask you, if you have a church and a priest in the port of Malacca, will you preach locally?
"
Helena nodded and said: "Pass it. Father Markel is the bishop of the port of Malacca. He and my father are still good friends."
Zhang Yanling frowned and thought: "In other words, wherever you go, the church will follow you to preach. The local people will develop into believers just like you. However, these local believers also have to listen to sermons and worship every week just like you.
Yes or no?"
Helena nodded and said, "Yes."
Zhang Yanling nodded slowly, stood up, walked around and waved his hands and said: "As far as I know, there is only one church in Manchuria, and it is in the West District where you Buddhists gather. If the believers in the East District want to go to worship, how can it be done?
Aren’t you going to the West End?”
Helena was stunned for a moment, and finally understood what Zhang Yanling meant by asking these things.
"You mean, take advantage of people from the East End going to church in the West End to sneak into the West End?" Helena said.
"Exactly. Is this method feasible? There should be many believers going to the West District. You have occupied Manlajia for so long. The more people there are, the safer we will be among them." Zhang Yanling said excitedly.
Helena looked at Zhang Yanling with a wry smile, shrugged and spread her hands: "I admit that your idea is quite good, but... it cannot be realized because the churches in the West District are not open to the congregation in the East District."
Zhang Yanling said in surprise: "Where do the believers in the East District go to worship?"
Helena said: "The East District Church sends clergy to preach in the East District square. It's an open-air square. It's not in the church."
Zhang Yanling was stunned and cursed: "You son of a bitch, there are still different levels of religious belief? Are you not treating everyone equally? Aren't we all brothers and sisters after joining the church? Are you lying?"
Helena hurriedly said: "God, please forgive this man's nonsense. Don't blaspheme God, Lord Duke. In fact, a church was planned in the East District, but the money was not taken away. Because there are a large number of believers in the East District, perhaps five to six thousand people
, which cannot be accommodated by ordinary small churches. It would require building a large one or several small ones to accommodate it. It would cost a lot of money. So it has never been built."
Zhang Yanling didn't care about this, his thoughts were running rapidly.
"If that's the case, how many clergymen usually go to the East District to preach? There are carriages, horses, statues of Jesus, crosses, and so on. Do they have to be carried in vehicles? How many personnel are there? Is the defense tight?" Zhang Yanling asked.
Helena said: "There are only a dozen clergy members, including Father Markle and his assistants. In addition, there are some soldiers who protect and maintain order. By the way, every big week, the Governor goes to preach in person.
, my father has also been there. I went there twice with him. The team was quite large."
Zhang Yanling asked: "What is prostration?"
Helena said: "The first Sunday of every month is the Prayer Festival. Speaking of which, today is the fifth day of February, and the day after tomorrow is the Prayer Festival."
Zhang Yanling nodded happily and said: "Miss Helena, I think we should have a chance to sneak in."
Helena frowned and said, "Could it be that you want to take advantage of the opportunity of worship and take advantage of the chaos to sneak into the West District?"
Zhang Yanling nodded and said: "That's the only way. I've seen your church members all cover themselves with black robes and cloaks, right? Let's buy a black robe and wrap it up, and blend in among the clergy. More
Two people, they may not know."
Helena looked at Zhang Yanling speechlessly and said: "Do you think they are blind? If there are too many people, they won't know?"
Zhang Yanling waved her hand and said: "Don't worry. I think this is the only way to sneak in. If it doesn't work, just blend in with the entourage. If not, hide in the mezzanine of the carriage. In short, with such a big scene and so many people, there are many ways to sneak in.
.That’s it. We’ll talk about the specific method to sneak in the day after tomorrow when we get there. The first step is to sneak into the city first. I think we will enter the city at midnight tomorrow.”
Helena thought for a while and said, "Okay, I'll do whatever you want. In short, as long as you don't leave me behind, I'll do whatever you want."
…
The whole day's journey the next day was very easy. When we arrived north of the port of Manlajia in the afternoon and were still more than ten miles away from Manlajia in the mountains and forests, Zhang Yanling took Helena into the woods and took a ride.
Sleep in a simple tent.
According to Zhang Yanling's plan, he took advantage of the darkness before dawn after the moonlight set to sneak into Manlajia Port in the East District in the second half of the night. Therefore, most of the afternoon and evening were used to recharge and sleep.
How could Helena sleep? It was the first time that she followed someone to do such a thing, sneaking in to save her father, and she felt extremely nervous. Usually when she entered the port of Malacca, she would show off and everyone would pay attention to her.
She got through. But this time she had to sneak in secretly.
It would be fine if she didn't know about the security at the port, but she knew how strict the inspection and vigilance of the Folangji people were in the harbor. Although she didn't see it with her own eyes, she had been here from the country of Folangji for less than two days.
In the past few months, we have heard about dozens of incidents of Franco soldiers killing local people. It is said that they were directly arrested simply because they did not cooperate with the inspection, or suspected that the other party was working under the knife, or had attempts to sneak into the East District.
kill.
But the Duke of the Ming Dynasty seemed to have a good idea of his plan, and he didn't seem to be worried at all. He was able to sneak in with his men at first, but now he may not be able to do it. After they sneaked into the West District, their father issued an order
A stricter alert order. When the soldiers were negligent, many officers were dismissed and investigated. Therefore, the strictness of the alert now is no longer at the same level as before.
Zhang Yanling began to sleep in the evening and slept until midnight. She slept very soundly.
The more soundly Zhang Yanling slept, the more anxious Helena became. She heard Zhang Yanling snoring loudly, lying on the straw mat outside the tent and snoring in various patterns, and Helena couldn't sleep at all.
So she got up and got out of the tent, and walked around Zhang Yanling so as not to disturb him. Suddenly she saw the package Zhang Yanling unloaded from the horse, and she suddenly became interested. She sneaked closer and rummaged inside.
stand up.
Some gold and silver items, some medicines in clay pots, some precious pills that I had taken, and a box of cooling oil that I still carried in my arms. A miscellaneous mix of young and old.
Then he turned out a few silk embroidered brocade handkerchiefs. They were fragrant and looked like handkerchiefs embroidered by women. They must have been given to him by his wives and concubines. Helena turned these out and stuffed them in randomly.
, I don’t think it’s anything fun.
Suddenly, her eyes fell on a pile of leather bags placed by Zhang Yanling's side. Zhang Yanling wore these things on her body and stored various things. She had seen them and they looked cool.
Nothing happened, so Helena also wanted to try it on. So she sorted out the leather bag, put it on the outside of the skirt and put it on. It felt heavy, and the bag above was bulging.
I don't know what it contains.
He reached into the leather pouch on his largest waist and pulled out an exquisite short-handled fire gun. The wooden handle was engraved with patterns, and the copper wrench was in the shape of a dragon's head, exquisite and shiny. Helena was not only impressed.
It was the most beautiful firearm she had ever seen.
Helena fumbled around in various skin bags and found several round and heavy objects the size of eggs. There were also straw mesh covers on the outside. There was also a length of what looked like a string exposed next to it. She shook it.
, there was a rustling sound inside, as if there was something inside.
Helena felt strange, so she got closer to the bonfire and took a closer look. Suddenly, she saw that the small rope had sparks coming out of nowhere and was ignited when she got close to the bonfire.
Helena instinctively felt that something was wrong, and a sense of danger made her scream. At this moment, a person swooped up from behind, snatched the smoking golden melon and threw it away.
Then Helena was hugged and pushed to the ground.
"Boom!" The golden melon exploded in the air, sending smoke and dust flying into the sky. In her panic, Helena heard a muffled groan from the person pressing on her body.
The sound of the explosion was very loud at night, causing birds to fly up in the surrounding woods and small animals to gallop. Two horses also made a faint cry, and the camping ground was filled with smoke and dust. The originally quiet and peaceful night suddenly turned into chaos.
Make a group.
"Your Majesty the Duke, Your Majesty the Duke." Helena shouted in panic.
Zhang Yanling, who was pressed on her body, was silent. Helena was so surprised that she turned Zhang Yanling's body down with force, only to see Zhang Yanling's eyes closed tightly, lying motionless on the ground. His body was covered with dirt and dust.
"My lord Duke, are you okay? Are you okay? God, what have I done?" Helena was frightened to death and shook Zhang Yanling.
Zhang Yanling was motionless and unresponsive at all. Helena stretched out her hand to check his breath and found that there was no breath at all. She was immediately stunned. There was no breath at the end of Zhang Yanling's nose.
"Your Excellency, Zhang Yanling, you can't die. God, I'm so stupid. What have I done? Oh, oh, oh, what should I do?" Helena cried.
Zhang Yanling was lying on the ground, closing his eyes and holding his breath, pretending to be dead. He just wanted to scare Helena. He did get hit on the back a few times by flying stones, but it was not serious. He wanted to scare Helena by pretending to be dead.
Helena, let this little girl receive some small punishment. Listening to Helena's frightened and crying voice, Zhang Yanling was very proud.
"By the way, first aid...first aid...the method was taught by the teacher at Imperial College, it should...be like this." Helena suddenly remembered the first aid technique in the medical skills she learned at Imperial College. For sudden coma and breathlessness,
A temporary first aid method for people suffering from respiratory distress syndrome is to blow air from mouth to mouth.
Although the teacher who taught this method was quickly reported and fired, thinking that he was talking nonsense and had ulterior motives. However, this method was so impressive that Helena suddenly remembered it.
She picked up Zhang Yanling's head and pillowed it in her arms. While crying, she pressed her lips to Zhang Yanling's lips, puffed up her cheeks and began to blow.
Zhang Yanling realized what had happened only after her lips came together. He opened his eyes wide in shock, and looked into Helena's big eyes at close range. Helena screamed and dropped Zhang Yanling's head and rolled three feet away.
Far away.
Zhang Yanling's head hit the ground, which really hurt a little.
"Ouch, it hurts me so much." Zhang Yanling said.
Helena glared at Zhang Yanling and said, "You...are you okay? Did you lie to me?"
Zhang Yanling smiled and said: "You saved me, I didn't lie to you. You saved me with your breath of immortal energy."
Helena blushed and glared at Zhang Yanling: "Who are you lying to? Do you think I don't know? You opened your eyes as soon as I came up to you."
Zhang Yanling smiled and said: "Then thank you Miss Helena for the kiss. Did you know that you were so silly just now and almost killed us?"
Helena glared for a long time, with a blush on her face. She just thought in her mind: "This bad guy cheated on me with a kiss. I just took the initiative to kiss him, what should I do? I did it to save him, it doesn't count. But, I
I did kiss him. He deliberately tricked me into doing this. This guy is really bad. However, I took the initiative and he didn’t ask me to do it. I...I...can’t blame him."
When Zhang Yanling had already stood up and walked around to see if the explosion had caused any strange situation around her, Helena was sitting on the ground, her blond hair was scattered, and there were still a few grass clippings stuck there, dazed. The girl gave her first kiss in ignorance.
There is still a war between heaven and man in my heart. Sometimes I blame others, and sometimes I blame myself.