Harry Potter’s Morning Light

   Chapter 2113 Flower dispute (twenty-one)

  The idea of ​​the Indians is to divide the human habitation into four islands or four continents, and the continents are all centered on Mount Sumeru and are arranged in four directions.

   However, the real world is not what they imagined, which can be seen from the maps drawn by the navigators. There is a world map hanging in Nick's room. The places marked on it are all places he has been to. Cao Xi is standing in front of this map at the moment, as if admiring.

  An intellectual like Juren still has a certain concept of "world". He knows about Japan, Ryukyu, Malaysia, Persia, and the Western Regions. But even if it is a man or a sailor, the world map they draw is still centered on China, and the map they draw is not accurate.

   During the Qianlong period, Aisin Gioro Hongli also organized a large-scale map survey to clarify the boundaries of the Qing Dynasty. This is not his personal initiative, Kangxi and Yongzheng have also surveyed and mapped, which is very different from the Ming Dynasty's idea of ​​​​distinguishing between Yi and Xia.

After appreciating Nick's map, Cao Xi began to visit Nick's room again. As a temporary residence, the furnishings inside were very simple, with only a bed, a chair, a table, and a wood-carved coat rack. , in addition to the luggage has not had time to open.

  Nick is ready to leave at any time to continue his next journey. He has no plans to stay in one place for a long time.

   Cao Xi stared at his suitcase, walked back and forth several times, and seemed to want to open it.

   "What do you want, Cao Zuoling." Nick asked in blunt Mandarin.

  Cao Xi looked at Nick in surprise.

   "I'm learning Chinese." Nick pointed to the document on the table, but Cao Xi was not interested.

   "Remember the temple we went to last time?" Cao Xi asked.

  Nick suddenly remembered the ghost statue guarding the gate of the temple that painted the eyes with the blood of animals, and nodded.

"Liu Zongbing interrogated a list of conspirators." Cao Xi suddenly paused for no reason at this point, and then he said, "But he encountered an accident on the way back, the ship sank, and the people on board All died, and the list on him disappeared."

  Nick was alert.

   "Guess who's name is on that list?" Cao Xi really asked.

   From the moment he picked up the note in the bedroom, Nick felt that he was in trouble, and now this sense of crisis is even stronger.

  The Chinese seem to have magical magic, and they can change the pearls inside the box when the box is sealed. Could it be that someone stuffed the note with the white lotus flower into his room?

   "I don't know, sir," Nick said firmly.

   "Someone saw that you were in contact with people from the East India Company. What are you plotting?" Cao Xi asked again.

   "A business thing."

   "I can find him to confront him." Cao Xi said unwillingly.

   "Are you doubting me?" Nick asked.

   "Tell me, where did you get that note?"

   "I can't answer your question."

   "Are you protecting your accomplices?"

   "One morning, when I got up, the note was on the floor beside the bed. I picked it up and handed it to the Admiral." Because he was a little anxious, Nick's Mandarin became more jerky.

  Cao Xi obviously didn't believe what Nick said.

   "It's true," Nick said hastily.

Cao Xi stared at Nick for a long time with scrutiny eyes, and then said, "You are the benefactor of the admiral and the young lady, that's why I am so polite to you, but you don't want to toast or eat fine wine, how did that note come from? ?"

  Nick's breathing became rapid, Cao Xi looked into Nick's eyes intently, then clasped his fists with both hands, said "offend", and then let the soldiers at the door enter Nick's room to search.

   As soon as the two soldiers came in, they started rummaging through the boxes, not even under the bed. Of course, Nick’s luggage was forcibly opened. After a thorough inspection, they found Nick’s picture album and gave it to Cao Xi.

  Cao Xi flipped through the album for a while, then looked up at Nick.

   "Are you mapping a map?"

   "No!" Nick said immediately.

  Cao Xi ignored what Nick said and ordered someone to take Nick away.

   "You don't have the right to do that!" Nick struggled to shout after being grabbed by the two men.

  Cao Xi walked out of Nick's room directly.

   When they came to the courtyard, the priest and servant were there, but they did not stop Cao Xi from taking Nick away.

   "At least tell me what my crime is!" Nick yelled.

  Cao Xi glared at him.

   At this moment, a middle-aged man in a soft hat suddenly appeared. Nick had seen this man at the Admiral's house.

   He walked to Cao Xi's side, whispered something in his ear, and Cao Xi ordered the two soldiers to release Nick.

   "The two of you are here to watch him." After Cao Xi finished speaking, he left the hospital with the team, while Nick was "invited" by two soldiers to return to his room for house arrest.

  Nick looked at the messy room and couldn't calm down for a long time.

   He thanked Juren for the "story" he told him before. Even though Nick is a foreigner, he has no "fame", and he encountered a case of treason, and he is likely to be beaten into a trick.

Someone once compiled an almanac to show the torture in **** to Buddhists. For a long time, this collection of rough prints was regarded by Europeans as a microcosm of the torture of the Chinese, until Ma Li. It was only after Xun translated the captions of the engravings into English that European prejudices were broken.

   In the prints, the procedure of Lord Yama's judgment is almost the same as in real life, only the form of punishment is different.

  A person who fulfills the canon and who, after years of meditation and practice, can suppress his inner desires and enter the realm of a saint, will also be rewarded by the way of heaven. In addition to fairies, there are also all kinds of happiness that people can feel in the Buddhist country. The body of the saints is extremely pure, without stains, and exudes a wonderful fragrance. Their faces are beautiful, and any affection will not disturb them. A mind full of wisdom, so they have no worries, no anger, no disease, eternal youth is their creation, and they have been meditating in front of lotus flowers and under the vajra bodhi tree.

   They looked up, and blossoming Buddha Lisadhara flowers floated down from the sky like fragrant rain. This is the official scene of the blissful world, which is also known as the Western Pure Land of bliss.

  Nick looked back at the door. The priest was standing outside the door. Although the hospital was his place, he could not enter Nick's room because of the guards at the door.

   It may have been the commotion outside that disturbed the sleeping baby, who started crying.

   "Do you think he will regret it? Give that note to the Admiral?" asked Bonaparte of Georgiana.

   Bonaparte stared at the ceiling, as if in contemplation, as if caught in some kind of memory.

  Georgianna turned to the next page, almost all of which are illustrations, depicting a very lively scene, a buddhist team is walking through the streets of Guangzhou.

   Unlike what Nick described before, when the woman on the second floor looked down at the passing queue downstairs, the men downstairs looked up at the woman upstairs, as if wishing they could smile at themselves.

However, this is impossible. That is a storyline only in Jin Ping Mei Li. When Pan Jinlian opened the window to dry clothes, the bamboo pole accidentally hit the head of the senior official of Ximen. He covered the hurt head, Looking up angrily, he happened to see Pan Jinlian who was smiling and apologizing to him.

   It is inappropriate to smile at strange men, so that these women have serious faces and look like bodhisattvas in temples.

   Even if he was joking, he covered his face with a fan and whispered to his companions. The men downstairs not only couldn't see it, but couldn't hear it, what else could they do other than imagine what they were saying?

   (end of this chapter)