Chapter 7 1909~1912: years of apprenticeship 1909~1912: years of apprenticeship -5

dear mom: The consulate is literally on the brink of crisis.Mr. Bunce was getting weaker and weaker, and I reckoned that he had not eaten or slept for two months, and would not listen to the doctor.Everyone was terrified by his face.This is especially true for me, because he has been unable to express his true feelings accurately and has said things that don't matter.So I wrote to Mr. Bertero.Dr. Muyak decided to use some drastic measures.He came to the consulate yesterday for a meeting, I will talk about this later.He went to the bedside and looked at Mr. Bunce, and asked him how long he would last in this state, and Bunce replied that it would make no difference to him to die here or anywhere else.Muyak said that he was a doctor and would not allow this to continue.Tomorrow (that is today), he will come to check and force him to take the medicine he prescribed.If he refused to take the medication, as it was likely to happen - Muyak would confer with Dr. Esseldo, and together they would telegraph the authorities to obtain a recall order for Mr. Bunce.Do we have to get there?According to Mr. Bunce's obstinacy, it might be so.Then in the whole of China, if there is a big transfer of diplomats, I am really afraid of being swallowed up.The most likely solution would be for Mr. Bodar to go to Chengdu to replace Bunce, however this is not interchangeable and I will not go to Chongqing to replace him!Although I kept telling myself that I was too young, but looking at the reality, I was only five days away from Chongqing by water, and I doubted that people would still consider me.Because it takes more than 20 days to travel from Hankou to Chongqing, and transferring people from Hankou is the greatest possibility, because other places are still farther away.Now, Mister Bordard may not come at all, and I will be Consul General in a few weeks, waiting for another agent from France to come.At last, too, Mr. Bunce may have recovered.I hope with all my heart that it is so, though I don't quite believe it.Anyway, let me tell you, the life of the consulate is not easy at these times.

We have moonlight in the night and sunshine in the day, which is really wonderful.Once the moonlight was interrupted by a lunar eclipse.The governor asked everyone to knock something to prevent wild dogs from eating the moon.The officials said they didn't believe it, but they knocked anyway!In the same line of thought, the imperial court appealed to officials to fight ideologically against the superstition of "feng shui".This word means "wind" and "water", which means that people can't hurt and order life spirits indiscriminately.It is because of "feng shui" and because people don't block the aircraft that people can't build buildings higher than bungalows for a long time.But even if it violates "feng shui", will it be serious?Ok?

Chengdu, December 1, 1909 dear mom: I feel like if you're shamed for thinking I'm a "journalist," you won't be offended that I'm an "author."It's really a matter of taste.I have no ambition at all to have my name printed on egg-yellow paper and appear in the windows of all bookstores.Because, if nothing new is discovered, I will certainly repeat what has been said before.Needs to be told in a different style, and mine... at least, I told you all the things that were fun and interesting to me.I actually hope that you will also pay attention to this in the chapters after the trip.

All kinds of tenderness Jules In 1910, the Seine River in Paris was flooded, and even the French Consulate in Chengdu launched a fund-raising campaign for the victims. Monday, January 7, 1910