Chapter 113
Yang Yuyan sat on the balcony and read.
Now that it was getting warmer by the day, the dampness in the house was getting heavier and heavier, and Zhang Ma was complaining every day that things were getting moldy again.
In the whole house, the balcony is the most comfortable place where the wind can blow.
She was holding a book in her hand, and she didn’t spend as much time reading as she did looking at the street.
Zhang Ma brought her a bottle of orange soda and laughed at her, saying, “You’ve been reading for an hour, right?”
Yang Yuyan sighed as she sucked on the soda, “Mrs. Zhang, are you willing to move to the Concession? It’s full of foreigners over there, how can we buy food?”
Zhang Ma doesn’t know any foreign languages, so she’d be even more uncomfortable there, wouldn’t she?
She didn’t know whether it was her own anxiety or her anxiety for Mrs. Zhang. Anyway, after mentioning that they would be moving to the concession today, it seemed that they would really have to move to the concession right away, and she started to worry about how she would live there.
She’d never left the building since she’d arrived. The building was like a safe shell, she was familiar with every step here, the smell of wood and mildew, accompanied by the loud whispers of the neighbors, the gossip of the families, she was too familiar with it, so familiar that she thought of it as home.
The rental world is just another place.
Zhang Ma look at her this frown lowered his head to the ground with the tip of the toe of the small look know, this child ah, afraid!
Ever since the scandalous incident with Yang’s family name, in which Yang Yuyan was ridiculed by her classmates at school, she no longer dared to go out of the house. All the students who spend time with each other, all of a sudden they are laughing at her, this child’s heart was broken through, the courage to follow the small, and now also not quite dare to see strangers, only to follow the family out, someone next to the courage, she can be a little generous, or else they shrink, with a small turtle like.
Zhang Ma sighed in her heart, and took off a necklace with body heat from her neck and hung it around her neck: “Don’t be afraid, God will bless you.”
Yang Yuyan held up the wooden cross on her chest, a bit unresponsive.
Mrs. Zhang said gently, “It’s okay, I heard the priest in the foreign temple say that nine times out of ten foreigners believe in this religion, and their emperors have to make offerings to this religion when they ascend to the throne, so we won’t be afraid to hang a cross in front of our house, and say long live God when we talk to them, and then we’ll become brothers and sisters with them.”
Yang Yuyan asked, “…… Should we shout long live God in church?” She had never been to church and really didn’t know that they actually shouted long live.
Zhang Ma said, “You child, net ask some meaningless.”
Zhang Ma also went back to the house and brought her a Bible, which was also given to her by the priest when she went to church, and the paper was quite good. Zhang Ma put the bible in her arms, “If each member of our family takes a copy of this bible, we will be able to hide in their foreign temples for crimes, and the soldiers will not be able to come and arrest us! If we move to the Concession, your mom won’t have to pay those people anymore!”
Zhang Ma thought that the biggest benefit of moving to the Concession was that the Fire Services Bureau, the Judges’ Bureau, and the Health Bureau couldn’t come to collect money! She kind of regretted that the Zhu family hadn’t moved there earlier.
Zhang Ma clasped her hands again and said, “Alas, but I see, the foreigner’s government offices are probably going to charge money as well.” However, she pointed to the Bible in Yang Yuyan’s arms and said, “This foreign religion, I think it’s still possible to believe in it.”
Zhang Ma comforted Yang Yuyan with God and told her not to worry about moving to the rented area and went on to her business.
Zhu Yanshu went out, I don’t know if he went to play cards.
Yang Yuyan sits on the balcony for a while with too much on her mind and goes to look for Yang Yucan with her Bible in her arms.
After the engagement was over, the family was much more relaxed, and Yang Yuchan didn’t have to settle accounts anymore. So now she wanted to summarize all the expenses she had incurred during the engagement.
When Yang Yuyan knocked on the door, she was going through the receipts left behind from the various expenditures and some bits and pieces of the expense accounts she had written down at the time.
Yang Yuchan looked up to see it was her and said, “Come in, what is it?”
Yang Yuyan put her bible on the table and saw that it was full of stapled up receipts and asked, “Sister, what else are you counting?”
Yang Yuchan: “I’m looking at how much money was spent. What’s this?” She took the Bible and flipped through it, “Where did you get this? Did Zhang Ma give it to you?”
Yang Yuyan nodded and said, “Sister, do you think we should pretend to believe in God after we move to the tenement?”
Yang Yucan reacted, first looking out, seeing that Zhang Ma wasn’t paying attention, she got up and went to cover the door gently, before coming back and saying, “Don’t let Zhang Ma hear you, or she’ll scold you again.” How can anyone pretend to believe in God? It’s all about real faith.
She saw the cross hanging on Yang Yuyan’s chest, it is a simple cross, there is no Jesus on it, and it looks like a cheap product given away by the church for nothing.
She took the cross and looked at it: “This is Zhang Ma’s one, right? Why is it hanging around your neck?”
Yang Yuyan: “She just put it on my neck. Do you think we should follow suit and believe?”
Yang Yu Cicada smiled and said, “There’s no harm in believing. The Emperor and Empress both believe in God, so it’s fine for us to follow suit. Let’s go to church together, donate some money, and ask the priest to give us a biblical name.”
Yang Yuyan: “Do we still need to be baptized?”
Yang Yuchan: “Donate some money and ask the priest to do the baptism ceremony, it’s quite simple.”
Yang Yuchan is no stranger to the book of the Bible. Because not many books have been translated into Western languages, the Bible occupies a pivotal position in Western society. They couldn’t get around the Bible and Christianity if they wanted to learn about Western culture.
However, when Yang Yucan learned it, she learned it purely as a subject, and she could still tell the love-hate relationship between Christianity and Protestantism, which she would not believe in.
Yang Yuchan was very interested in the complex relationship between civilization and enlightenment on the one hand, and the deep entanglement with the gods on the other, which also led to her inability to believe in Christianity, after all, when a religion has a deep connection with politics and secularism, and then enshrine its Lord on the altar of the gods, believing that it has transcendent power will be very difficult. Perhaps there is a God in this world, just as there are many gods and goddesses such as Erlangshen and Wangmu Niangniang, but it is by no means an earthly vicegerent. Man simply utilizes □□□ because of his selfish desires.
The two sisters simply sat down and chatted about Christ through and through, Yang Yuyan holding the Bible in her hand, Yang Yucan bringing out her class notes, the two of them started from the seven days of God’s creation, to Adam and Eve, to the jealousy of Cain and Abel’s brothers, to the real estate son of Maryamar, and so on.
Compared to Yang Yuchan, who was squarely led through the Bible by the professor in class, Yang Yuyan shook her head after reading only half of the storybook and said, “God’s jealousy is so strong.”
Yang Yucan stared, eager to have Zhang Ma come over and listen.
Yang Yuyan tsked, “He demands that all people can only love him, to love him more than they love their parents, children, husbands and wives, and when he comes out, his sons are thrown into the fire, his wives and husbands are instantly discarded, and his parents can’t be compared to him.”
Yang Yu Cicada: “Why do you look at things from such a strange angle?” But after she recalled it, she felt that what Yang Yuyan said was actually quite reasonable.
She said, “Actually, this is all something that Christianity came up with in order to expand its power, and the phrase “divine right of kings” has influenced the entire western society.”
Yang Yuyan said, “I find it very strange. In the early years, Christianity had its own crusaders, and it did rely on fighting to get power into their hands. But I haven’t heard that Christianity still has its own crusaders, so how did it keep its power until now? Why is it that the kings of those countries in England now have to let the pope be crowned when they ascend to the throne?”
Yang Yuchan couldn’t answer this question and pushed the pot, “You ask your teacher Su.”
Su Chunjun sneezed in his office, and a middle-aged man in a long shirt immediately asked as if he cared about his own father: “Aiya! Director Su, are you okay?”
Su Chunjun quickly waved his hand, “Don’t call me that, I’m just temporarily in charge of it, and when the head of the city comes back, everything will still be in charge of the head of the city, alas, such a big responsibility, how can I afford yo.”
The middle-aged man quietly asked, “Where is the long really seriously injured? I heard that it was the mayor who beat …… him.”
Yesterday, I heard that the mayor was reprimanded, and this morning the Finance Bureau even circulated a heartless rumor! Said where the chief was reprimanded at the mayor’s house, and was let down by the mayor to break his leg.
As a result, the mayor really didn’t show up for work today.
Now the main bureau deputy bureau are not in, the financial bureau only where the long is the pin, the result of where the long is not today, rumors spread, people are afraid.
The mayor’s chauffeur sent Su Chunjun in person at this very moment.
The mayor’s driver was sent by the mayor himself. Su Chunjun poked the door of the mayor’s office with his key in front of everyone, went in to make a phone call, looked for a file, and then sat down inside to do the business for the whole morning.
Then, Su Chunjun from the deputy section chief, became Su director, promotion speed than the emperor abdicated faster.
Director Su said, where the director is sick, sick body heavy, no way to come to work, he will temporarily on behalf of where the director tube a few days. As for the promotion is really because there are some work, not to the level can not be done, he can only be shy face position, if someone thinks he can not sit here, and so where the long after the return, he still go to do their work, will not always occupy the director of the position does not let go.
He said so, the office are all show loyalty, no one said he is not worthy of the position.
When the news spread, up and down the three levels of countless people door to door to express their loyalty and congratulate him on his engagement, ah ah while getting engaged at the same time to promote, Director Su is really smart ah! Brilliant! Great!
Director Su enjoyed a morning of boasting, finally the body can not stand, sneezed.
Director Su’s insistence on working through his illness is really something to behold.
Director Su helped the mayor to dispel the rumor that the mayor had by no means broken his leg.
Instead, he was hit by an ashtray thrown by the mayor and broke his nose.
The mayor was not hitting the mayor, the mayor was hitting someone else, but his aim was not good, and he hit the mayor who was standing in the corner by mistake. Where long with his face to catch the mayor threw out of the ashtray, filial piety is commendable, because the crystal ashtray is the mayor of the Jiang principal gift, if not the mayor angry dizzy head, would not have smashed this baby bump, really smashed it would be too bad, now sacrificed where long the nose, the ashtray was unharmed, is really congratulatory.
But where the long injured nose, after all, there is a loss of face, he also did not want to stay in the Finance Bureau every day to take the blame for others, take advantage of the opportunity to get out of the way, single-handedly arch Su Chunjun on the throne.
Su Chunjun in danger, obliged to suffer for where the long to come.
Alas, he is also hopeless ah.