Chapter 2113 Flower Fight (21)

The Indian idea is to divide human settlements into four islands or four continents, with the continents centered on Mount Sumeru and arranged in four directions.

However, the real world is not what they imagined. This can be seen from the maps drawn by the navigators. There is a world map hanging in Nick's room, and the marked places on it are all places he has been to.

, Cao Xi was standing in front of this map at this moment, as if admiring it.

Intellectuals like Juren still have a certain concept of the "world". He knows about Japan, Ryukyu, Malaysia, Persia and the Western Regions. Unlike country folk, their world is limited to the scope of their lives. But even Juren knows

, or sailors, the world map they drew was still centered on China, and the map they drew was not accurate.

During the Qianlong period, Aixinjueluo Hongli also organized a large-scale map survey to clarify the territorial boundaries of the Qing Dynasty. This was not his own initiative. Kangxi and Yongzheng had also surveyed and mapped, which was consistent with the strict rules of the Ming Dynasty.

The ideas of distinguishing between Yi and Xia are very different.

After admiring Nick's map, Cao Xi began to visit Nick's room. As a temporary residence, the furnishings were very simple, with only a bed, a chair, a table, and a carved wooden coat rack.

, in addition to the suitcase that I haven't had time to open yet.

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

Cao Xi stared at his suitcase and walked back and forth several times, as if he wanted to open it.

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

Cao Xi looked at Nick with some surprise.

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

"Do you still remember the temple we went to last time?" Cao Xi asked.

Nick suddenly thought of the ghost sculptures that smeared their eyes with animal blood and guarded the temple doors, and then nodded.

"General Liu interrogated and produced a list of rebels." Cao Xi suddenly paused inexplicably when he said this, and then he said, "But he encountered an accident on the way back. The ship sank, and all the people on board

All died, and the list on his body disappeared."

Nick became alert.

"Guess whose name is on that list?" Cao Xi asked as expected.

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

The Chinese seem to have miraculous magic and can repackage the pearls inside the box while it is sealed. So could someone have stuffed the note with the white lotus into his room?

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

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

"Business matters."

"I can confront him." Cao Xi said unwilling to give up.

"Are you doubting me?" Nick asked.

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

"I can't answer your question."

"Are you protecting your accomplice?"

"One morning, I got up and the note was on the ground beside my bed. I picked it up and gave it to the admiral." Because he was a little anxious, Nick's Mandarin became even more raw.

Cao Xi obviously didn't believe what Nick said.

"It's true." Nick said quickly.

Cao Xi stared at Nick with a scrutinizing gaze for a long time, and then said, "You are the benefactor of the admiral and the lady, that's why I am so polite to you, but you don't want to drink a toast or eat as a penalty. Where did that note come from?"

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

As soon as the two soldiers came in, they started rummaging through the boxes and cabinets, even leaving them under the bed. Of course, Nick's luggage was also forced to open. After an inspection, they found Nick's picture album and gave it to Cao Xi.

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

"Are you mapping?"

"No!" Nick said immediately.

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

"You have no right to do that!" Nick struggled and yelled after being grabbed by two people.

Cao Xi walked out of Nick's room directly.

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

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

Cao Xi glared at him.

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

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

"You two are watching him here." After Cao Xi said that, he left the hospital with a large group of people, while Nick was "invited" by two soldiers to go back 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 had told him before. Even though Nick was a foreigner, he had no "reputation" and was dealing with a treason case, so he would most likely be beaten.

Someone once specially compiled an almanac to show Buddhists the torture in hell. For a long time, this crudely produced album of prints was regarded by Europeans as a microcosm of the torture suffered by the Chinese until Ma Li

It was only after Xun translated the print captions into English that European prejudices were broken.

In the prints, the procedures used by the Lord of Hell to judge cases are almost exactly the same as in real life, only the form of punishment is different.

A person who fulfills the religious rules, and after years of meditation and practice, can suppress his inner desires and enter the realm of a saint, he will also be rewarded by heaven. In addition to fairies, there are also all kinds of happiness that people can feel in the Buddhist kingdom.

The bodies of saints are extremely pure, without stains, and emit wonderful fragrance. Their faces are beautiful, and no affection will disturb their wise hearts. Therefore, they are carefree, free from anger, and eternally

Youth is their creation, they have been meditating in front of the lotus and under the Rudraksha tree.

They looked up and saw blossoming Vrishedara flowers floating down from the sky, like bursts of fragrant rain. This was the official scene of the Paradise, which is also known as the Western Pure Land of Paradise.

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 guard at the door.

Maybe the commotion outside disturbed the sleeping baby, and he started crying loudly.

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

Bonaparte stared at the ceiling, as if deep in thought or lost in some kind of memory.

Georgiana turned to the next page. This entire page was almost entirely filled with illustrations, depicting a very lively scene in which a Buddhist worship team was walking through the streets of Guangzhou.

Different from what Nick described before, when the women on the second floor looked down at the queue passing by downstairs, the men downstairs looked up at the women upstairs, as if they wished they could smile at them.

However, this is impossible to happen. That is a storyline unique to Jin Ping Meili. When Pan Jinlian opened the window to dry her clothes, the bamboo pole accidentally hit Ximen Daguan's head. He covered his painful head,

He looked up angrily and saw Pan Jinlian smiling and apologizing to him.

It is not polite to smile at strange men, so these women have serious faces and look like bodhisattvas in the temple.

Even those who were joking covered their faces with their fans and whispered to their companions. The men downstairs not only couldn't see but also couldn't hear. What else could they do except imagine what they were talking about?
Chapter completed!