Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2107 Flower dispute (fifteen)

   One after another, the "boats" shuttle back and forth, surrounding the small island.

   The commander-in-chief leading the fleet intends to deliver a message to Macau officials. The message may not be important because the messenger is just a navigator, so Nick seizes this opportunity to go to Macau. The navigator put him on a wooden boat with six paddlers and two apprentice sailors, one of whom was also a cook.

It can be seen that they are very afraid of the waters, as can be seen from the tributes dedicated to the "Queen of Heaven", the greater the risk, the more the tributes. Decorated with flowers, silk, sequins, an oil lamp burns day and night in front of the shrine.

  People use this lamp to light incense made of fragrant wood powder or to burn paper. There are many kinds of paper products, including gilded, oiled, and scented. Sooner or later, they have to put tribute to Mazu in front of the shrine, but whether it is an egg or a large piece of pork, the result is the same, the tribute that Mazu does not accept will become the food of the devout believers, and nothing will be wasted.

  After arriving in Macau, the boat stopped in front of a row of fishermen's huts. Women were busy doing housework, men were smoking in the shade of trees, and buffaloes were pedaling back and forth. Sometimes it would raise its head and cast confused eyes around it.

   The navigator put Nick down here and left the boat to continue his mission. The surrounding fishermen wished the navigator a safe journey.

Opposite Macau is Hong Kong, and you can see Lantou Mountain, or Lantau Island. It is 15 miles long and 5-5.5 miles wide. Kap Shuimen is located at the northeast end of Lantou Mountain. Clippers from Europe meet every July to October. Yue anchored in the winding waterway between the mainland and Mount Lantou to avoid a destructive typhoon in that area.

Nick found a priest at the St. Ghazashi Hospital near St. Paul's Church. At that time, China's human pox technology had been greatly improved, but the cowpox, whose efficacy was not yet clear, aroused the resistance of traditional human pox practitioners and the suspicion of ordinary people. And this technology comes from the East India Company, which makes them have a rather complicated psychological shadow on cowpox.

   In order to feel the effect, the priest himself accepted the vaccination, and then developed a low-grade fever. For safety, he had to be quarantined for two days. Nick visited Macau during this time and also went to Hong Kong.

  The East India Company's smuggling express ships would unload British goods on "barges", and as long as they did not pay high tariffs, the price would be much lower. Clippers are large ships with a carrying capacity of about 300 tons. There are many small boats hanging on board. They usually sail fast with full sails and are not even afraid of typhoons.

Of course   Nick will not miss this opportunity to communicate with the smugglers. He wants to find out who threatened Captain Yao not to take him out of Guangzhou.

   Judging from the information received by the smugglers at present, there is indeed a possibility that there will be a major operation recently, whether it is a pirate or a White Lotus Sect. In order to survive, the pirates will be broken into pieces and divided into several small fleets. The entire coastal area is shrouded in terror. Every town must pay tribute to the pirates. When the pirate ships pass by the nearby waters, the local residents will pay tribute to the fleet. Towns that refuse to pay tribute will be looted by pirates, who kill old people and children, rob women, dig up graves and take the bones of the dead in exchange for ransom. This behavior seems extremely absurd to foreigners, but in China a The filial piety will surely pay a hefty sum to redeem the remains of their deceased great-grandparents, even more than their own brothers.

Since Jiaqing was enthroned, there have been white lotus believers in the border areas of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Henan, and Hubei armed against the Qing Dynasty. The chaotic army also caused many stragglers to flee.

  The terrain in the south is complex and mountainous, and the insurgent army also received the support of people from all over the country, providing them with houses to live in and hide. Simply military means cannot quickly win the war.

  Nick still doesn't understand where the note came from. It is said that "ghosts" can get into the body, so will it get into the statue of the Bodhisattva?

   China's Pantheon is already full of various gods and Buddhas from India, and Yama is also listed among the gods. In order to get rid of the horror brought by the Buddha statue, Nick drew a lot of sketches of the church, and then returned to Guangzhou by boat after the priest finished the isolation.

  The street is still very lively, no one is talking about gossip, as if everything Nick experienced in that temple before was just a nightmare.

  Lao Juren came back the next day after they came back. He came to ask Nick when he was leaving, so that he could quit the rent. Not long after he came, the Admiral sent someone to invite Nick and the priest to the house.

   After Cao Xi and Nick left, the admiral lived in anxiety and worry every day. His fever did not improve. Currently, he has lost confidence in Chinese medicine. Wanning is taking care of him, which is also part of "filial piety".

   There are unfavored concubines like the Xilin Jue Luo clan and E Changzai, and there are favored concubines. For example, the biological mother of Emperor Jiaqing, Concubine Ling, became the third empress of Emperor Qianlong after her death.

   She was a Han Chinese, so Emperor Jiaqing was a Manchu-Han half-blood, and he was not the eldest son. Emperors in history sometimes made princes who should not be emperors become heirs because of their preference for their mothers.

  Fortunately, the brothers of Emperor Jiaqing did not fight for their legal inheritance, or they had a fight, but Guangzhou was too far away from BJ to feel it.

   "Oh~" Georgiana complained.

   "What's the matter?" he asked perfunctorily.

   "Nick didn't say how he felt when he saw Wanning." She put the book in front of Bonaparte, he turned his head to the side, as if he didn't want to read "What's the point of writing a love story like this?"

   "This is Nick Polo's 'Travels'."

   "So, can't you write about love?" she asked rhetorically.

   Bonaparte shook his head, as if unable to communicate with her.

   "What about the French who are good at sweet talk?"

   He still didn't speak.

   "There is no way for him to please girls like this." She patted the page and said.

   "Are you going to continue reading?" he asked impatiently.

   So she started reading this "wonderful" story again.

In the Buddha ceremony, fairies sat on colorful platforms, some of which were decorated with green plants, although their faces were smeared with rouge, their eyebrows were painted black, and their lips were covered with thick red paint, making them look like Not ugly. Their tiaras were beautiful, inlaid with flowers, gold, and gems, with pearl knots hanging from silk tassels, which were all the more beautiful with silk embroidered skirts.

   Their eyes had a calm and composed look, wearing such bright clothes and such beautiful accessories, which woman would dare to do this if she did not have the courage? Besides, the thick rouge covers their blushing faces, how can people guess their inner emotions?

   Bonaparte laughed again.

  This time he didn't say anything, and Georgiana knew what he was laughing at.

  Nick kept staring at the girl, of course she blushed.

   "Neither of them spoke." Georgiana muttered.

   Bonaparte was still smiling, but said nothing.

  Georgiana thought about the insurance problem Nick mentioned earlier, can it really solve the pirate problem?

   She turned to the next page, and the whole page was painted with three women, holding umbrellas and fans in their hands, looking like the daughters of wealthy people. It's just that their umbrellas are very strange. They look like they are open, but they don't. They cover their faces and look like they are wearing a pointed hat, revealing a pale chin, and their eyes are hidden in the umbrella. A monster called the Paper Umbrella Demon.

   (end of this chapter)