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Chapter 253 Learning foreign language

With Chen Danxia's help, Kretien temporarily moved into the inn next to the county government and no longer had to find a remote corner to squat overnight. Cheng Jue sent someone to the street to find someone from the Philip Trading Company. Chen Danxia asked Kretien to write to the yamen runners, "I am the county magistrate, I know Mr. Kretien is there, please follow me."

Cheng Jue nodded with a smile. The yamen runners don’t know how to speak foreign languages ​​and cannot communicate even if they find someone. Xiao Jiumei’s arrangements are very thorough.

Kretien couldn't use a brush and shrugged with headache: "Oh, beautiful lady, I can't write this with this."

Chen Dan thought for a while and said to the yamen runner standing beside him: "Go and find a short and slender piece of charcoal."

The yamen runner went to find the charcoal as he said. Chen Danxia took out a handkerchief and wrapped it up, handed it to Kretien, and said, "Write it with this."

Kretien took the simple charcoal pen and wrote the letters on the paper. After writing, he praised: "Oh, beautiful lady, you are so smart."

"Thank you for the praise." Chen Danxia smiled slightly.

"What is this?" Cheng Jue asked, looking at the letters on the paper that looked like tadpoles.

"The text of their country." Chen Danxia explained the confusion.

"If Xiao Jiumei is free, can she teach me?" Cheng Jue will stay in Kui County for at least three years and will definitely deal with foreigners in the future. It is very troublesome to not understand foreign documents.

"Of course." Chen Danxia smiled.

After Kretien wrote a few more pictures, Chen Danxia asked the yamen runners to take them out to find someone and asked the captain to take Kretien to the inn next to him. Kretien pressed his stomach and said, "Beautiful lady, can you treat me to a meal? I am almost hungry and fainted."

"Captain Zeng, Mr. Kretien is hungry. You take him to eat something and take him to the inn to rest." Chen Danxia switched from the official language to French. "Mr. Kretien, I have agreed with Chief Zeng, you go with him, he will make you have a full meal."

"Beautiful lady, thank you. Can I kiss your hand and express my gratitude?" asked Cretien.

"Mr. Cretien, keep a distance between men and women in our country, and you cannot give a kissing gift. You have to follow the customs of the country, otherwise you will be beaten by others." Chen Danxia knew the kissing gift, but this is not suitable for use here. She did not want to shock the world, and she did not want people to mistakenly think that she was unfaithful.

Cretien made a deep regret expression and left with the captain.

Xu Xu, who had been watching, breathed a sigh of relief and said, "San Sister-in-law, you are so awesome!"

"But I can only speak a few words of foreign languages, so how can I be so powerful? The French linguistics is much simpler than our official language." Chen Danxia smiled faintly. Unexpectedly, after living in this ancient world for more than ten years, one day he would use the foreign language he learned in his previous life. Things in the world are so wonderful.

"San Sister-in-law, you are too modest." Xu Xu smiled.

Chen Dan laughed but didn't speak. She was not humble. She was telling the truth. There was no Han Dynasty in this era, but the Mandarin used was no different from Chinese. Chinese is definitely one of the most difficult languages ​​to learn in the world.

"Little Jiumei, it's okay, go back to the backyard to rest." Cheng Jue said with a smile.

Chen Danxia said something for so long, but he was a little tired. He listened to Cheng Jue's words, accompanied by Xu Xu and Tian, ​​and went back to the backyard to rest.

Kretien was speechless, and it was difficult for him to find people to go to the sky. It was much easier for the yamen runners to find people, and the faces of foreigners were quite impressive. In the afternoon, the yamen runners led four foreigners with different appearances to the county yamen.

Captain Zeng gestured with them for a long time, and it was a chicken and duck talking, and no one could understand what the other party was saying. Captain Zeng shouted, "Go to Yuelai Inn and bring that foreigner to me. Go and invite the adults and the young grandma out."

At this time, Chen Danxia had not yet gotten up at a nap. Cheng Jue was invited to the front hall. When he entered the door, he saw a few foreigners hugging and talking, chattering. Cheng Jue couldn't understand at all, so he saw those people put their right hands on their chests and bowing to him, probably expressing their gratitude to him.

After sending these foreigners away, Cheng Jue returned to his inner house to see Chen Danxia. This foreign language must be learned. Chen Danxia is not a good teacher, but Cheng Jue wants to learn, and she will not hide her own personal information. "Brother Cheng, do you want to learn English or French?" In this era, Chen Danxia didn't know if it was called English and French, so I don't care, so let it go.

"English? French?" Cheng Jue looked at Chen Danxia with deep eyes, "Little Jiu Mei, you know a lot."

Chen Danxia lightly bit his lower lip, drooping his eyelids to avoid Cheng Jue's eyes, and said, "I'm idle and have nothing to do, so I'll learn more things, and I won't suppress myself if I have more skills."

Cheng Jue smiled and said, "Little Jiumei, thank you for trusting me so much." It is obvious that Chen Danxia's words used to fool Xu Xu and Tian's family cannot win Cheng Jue's trust; and Cheng Jue had long noticed Chen Danxia's premature wisdom, which was different from his premature wisdom. Chen Danxia's premature wisdom is full of secrets, which makes people unable to understand.

Chen Danxia was stunned and smiled and said, "Because I know you won't hurt me." Although she was a child when she was a child and she had pretended to be a child in front of him for a long time, there were always times when people beat him up, not to mention that Cheng Jue treated him gently, like a brother or a friend, which made her reveal herself unknowingly.

Cheng Jue smiled and asked, "What is Mr. Ke saying?"

"He is not named Ke, Kretien is his name, and he speaks it in French." Chen Danxia smiled.

"Then learn French first." Cheng Jue made a decision.

Chen Danxia took the paper and pen and wrote, "French and English are composed of twenty-six letters. The two have many similarities, but there are also quite different differences. Compared with English, the pronunciation of French is simpler. English is gentle and soft, French is romantic and gorgeous, English sentences are ups and downs, and French sentences are gentler..."

That evening, Kretien came over with a box of gifts to thank Chen Danxia and Cheng Jue, "Beautiful lady, respectful and responsible lord, this is my little care. Thank you for your help to me so that I can return to my companions."

"Mr. Cretien, you are so kind to you, thank you." Chen Dan laughed.

Cheng Jue thanked him in official words. Cretien was confused and Chen Danxia smiled and said, "Mr. Cretien, Lord Cheng is thanking you. If you want to stay in our country for a long time, it is better to find someone to teach you some official words."

"Beautiful lady, you are right. I am learning your country's words from the general translations in the business, but it is really difficult to learn your country's words." Kretien said with a sad face.

"Mr. Kretien, as long as you listen, remember and say more, I believe you will learn it soon." Chen Danxia smiled.

"Oh, thank you, beautiful lady, you are such an angel. If you have the chance, I really want to invite you to visit our country." Kretien said with his arms spreading.

"I also want to go to your country for a walk." Chen Danxia smiled.

After a few more polite words, Cretien said goodbye and left. The people from the Philip Trading Company will leave Kui County early tomorrow morning and take a boat to Huzhou. They will rest in Huzhou for a day and continue north to Jindu. Cheng Jue sent Chen Danxia back to his inner house, "I'll take an hour every day to learn French from you?"

"I'm fine, are you free?" Chen Danxia asked.

"Yes, there must be." Cheng Jue said with a smile.

Chen Danxia raised his eyebrows, "That's right, time is always going to be squeezed."

"It's reasonable." Cheng Jue said with a smile.

Tutorial on Cheng Jue French is a very fulfilling thing. Cheng Jue learned it very quickly. In just a few days, he was able to have a simple conversation with Shen Danxia.

"Good morning, handsome Mr. Cheng." Chen Danxia greeted in French with a slight joking.

Cheng Jue smiled and said stiffly in French: "Good morning, beautiful Mrs. Xu."

"Say it again, it's not very fluent." Chen Danxia smiled.

"Good morning, beautiful Mrs. Xu." Cheng Jue repeated.

"Not bad." Chen Danxia's bright eyes flowed, "Mr. Cheng, how does the lean meat porridge taste in the morning?"

Cheng Jue thought for a while and asked in Mandarin: "How do you say delicious food in French?"

"c''estbon." Chen Danxia told him the simplest answer.

"The lean meat porridge c''estbon this morning." Cheng Jue smiled.

Chen Danxia continued to speak with him in French for a few words. There was a sound of drumbeats outside. Someone complained. Chen Danxia asked with a smile: "Brother Cheng, can I hide in the back hall and listen to your trial?"

Cheng Jue said righteously: "No, you should have a six-game body, and you should cultivate your heart and cultivate your nature. You must be careful when you restrain yourself and return to your rituals. Therefore, you do not listen to bad sounds, make noises and make noises, and do not hear right and wrong words. Do not listen to bad words..."

"Brother Cheng Er, don't read it anymore. I won't go, just don't go." Chen Danxia said, covering his ears.

Cheng Jue turned around and changed his official uniform to go to the room to investigate the case. Chen Danxia held his stomach and continued to wander around the garden. Chen Danxia didn't know how the case was being tried, and he didn't ask. At noon, Cheng Jue was busy with official business and did not return to the inner house for lunch.

After lunch, Chen Danxia went to bed and went to bed for a nap. I don’t know if it was a pregnancy reaction. She is now very sleepy. After sleeping for an hour, she walked around the yard for a while. The maid brought the pastries and juices for the afternoon. Chen Danxia ate the pastries and drink the juices, and listened leisurely to Xu Qi reading the poetry collection. I was afraid that Xu Qi would be bored and would be bored, Chen Danxia specially found her for her to do this and asked her to read poetry as an aunt for her nephew. Xu Qi was very happy to do this and came over with the poetry collection on time every day.

Shen Shizheng, Cheng Jue came back from outside and came back with a few rolls of drawings. Chen Danxia knew that Old Master Cheng liked to buy paintings and Cheng Jue liked to buy chess and books, so he thought he had bought a few paintings, but he didn't expect that Cheng Jue had brought a few artillery drawings. These drawings were obtained by Japanese pirates robbing a merchant ship, and spies hidden in the Japanese pirates stole them and were just sent to Cheng Jue today.

"Little Jiumei, come and take a look at this." Cheng Jue recognized the letters on it, but he was still a little short of learning French and couldn't understand the drawings. After getting the drawings, he rushed back.

Chen Danxia glanced at it and said, "This is a drawing for making artillery. If the cannons made according to this drawing can be installed on the ship, it is best to deal with Japanese pirates."

"The words on it don't look like French." Cheng Jue found that he couldn't spell out the pronunciation method by Chen Danxia.

"This is English, I can translate it into official language, but I don't know gunpowder and casting. Brother Cheng's second brother has to find a professional." Chen Danxia smiled. If it were French, she might not be able to translate it, but fortunately it was English.

"Just just translate them. How many days will it take to translate them?" Cheng Jue asked.

Chen Danxia looked around and said, "Five days."

"Don't work too hard, don't worry about this." Cheng Jue said again.

"Don't worry, I know I won't be tired of myself." Chen Danxia smiled while touching his stomach.

When Shen Danxia was concentrating on translating the English on the drawings, Cheng Jue's confidant sent to Jindu to meet Tao successfully; he went to the Xu family first, but Mrs. Xu was still in Changping County, and the one who controlled the Xu family was Chen Gun. Because Cheng Jue had told him not to disturb Chen Gun, he turned to the Shen family to find Tao.

Tao learned that Chen Danxia had escaped from the bad guys. Now in Kui County, Cheng Jue was taken care of. He clasped his hands together and recited, "Amitabha, Bodhisattva bless him."

After chanting the Buddha's name, Tao felt embarrassed. Now, Xu Lang is still looking for Chen Danxia everywhere. Shen Baimi and Shen Baiyu have to keep a guard in the mourning hall every day and cannot go to Kui County to pick up people. Chen Danxia is pregnant with twins and is kidnapped by bad people. Fortunately, nothing happened on the road. When they came back, the bad people knew Chen Danxia's whereabouts. What should they do on the road?

But Chen Danxia couldn't come back. She died as her biological father. Although her married daughter did not have to be filial to three years, she could not always appear in the mourning hall! In a moment, Tao realized that her daughter was much more important than the dead ghost. Fame was important, but it was nothing compared to life.

Tao settled down the confidant who came to send the message, and found Shen Baimi, saying, "The master has been away for so many days. Let him be buried in peace. After the funeral, you and Baiyu took the pretext of Fuling back to Lutai and went out of Beijing to find your sister. I don't know how Jiuer is? She is still pregnant." In order to get Shen Baimi to agree to the funeral, Tao played a trick and did not tell him the whereabouts of Chen Danxia.

The dead are gone, and the living are of course more important. Shen Bomi held Tao's hand and said, "Mother, don't worry, I will definitely find my sister back."

Tao and Shen Bo secretly agreed to send Chen Muke's coffin back to Lutai, but Chen's mother disagreed, "Why haven't Jiu Yao come back yet? Her father is dead, will she not come back to wear mourning and cry? "

"Old lady, Jiuer is a daughter of the Shen family, but she is married and a wife of the Xu family. Now that Mrs. Xu is injured and stays in Changping, Jiuer wants to take care of her there, and she has no way to come back. This is a natural disaster and cannot be twisted by human power. Please understand the old lady." Tao said mournfully.

The people next to them felt it was reasonable and persuaded Mother Chen to come.

Chen's mother could not do so, so she had to agree to the funeral.

Chen Muke was a third-rank official when he died, but according to the rules of the Dafeng Dynasty, the funeral ceremony was upgraded to the first level. Therefore, the funeral team was the second-rank official's ceremony, which was spectacular and slowly moved forward in a low cry. Shen Baimi and Shen Baiyu and his wife were both wearing slashing and hats made of burlap on their heads. They walked in front of the team, followed by Deng Jianye and his son and nephew of Shen.
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