Jesus Christ

The platform was kneeling and crying with disheveled hair. Dr. Li was dumbfounded and at a loss. The people under the platform were motionless like Dr. Li: they opened their mouths and listened to the sound of a high and low hoarse girl coming from the platform.

Although Miss Wang was a little incoherent and even cried while speaking, her general intention was clearly expressed after the audience listened with breath holding their breath.

Here's the thing:

Wang Xiuzhu is from Chaozhou, Guangdong. Her mother died early and her family was on a boat. When she was 14 years old, she followed her father, who was a sailor, to Longchuan County with a cargo. After finishing the water transportation work, her father did not go home. With a relative in Longchuan, she settled in Longchuan and opened a grocery store to support her family. Wang Xiuzhu also became a green jade among the poor and settled in Longchuan.

When she was 15 years old, two men who affected her fate came to Longchuan at the same time.

One is Dr. Li, who was named John Lee at the time. He was a young man wearing cloth clothes, wearing straw sandals, an umbrella under his arms, carrying a medicine box and a Bible. He came to Longchuan alone in a dusty manner.

Although he looked poor, he was full of energy and always smiled. As a preacher, he was ordered to establish a church in a backward county on the border of Longchuan, a Guangdong-Jiangxi. Soon, he caused a sensation in the whole city because he cured the eye disease of Mr. Huang, a famous local family. He heard that he learned medical skills from foreign devils.

Dr. Li quickly became a household name with his superb Western medicine and the free act of curing the poor, and he achieved his goal: to let Jesus Christ go deep into thousands of households to find Protestant Presbyterian believers. Because Longchuan had only a magnificent Catholic church at that time, and the locals only Catholics, and knew very little about the Protestant churches and churches without fancy rituals and decorations.

Back then, the courtyard he rented as a church meeting place and clinic was on Wang Xiuzhu's street; and Wang Xiuzhu also met this person very quickly.

Because Dr. Li always wanders around the city without any trouble, giving medical help to any poor person he can help, and also preaching the gospel;

Years of hard work and poverty have caused Wang Xiuzhu's father to be sick. He is still an old smoker and has used all his money to smoke opium. As a result, Wang Xiuzhu has grown taller and her clothes are from a few years ago, which can't cover her round arms and calves at all. Such a family is naturally the target of Dr. Li's focus on diagnosis and preaching.

At that time, Wang Xiuzhu was the first group of Mudao to follow her father to the neighbor's church. She sat in a simple mud house with her back against the wall, watching Dr. Li preaching passionately in front of her in the crowd.

At this time, she didn't understand Jesus, but just dreamed of marrying a person like Dr. Li: although she was talented and skilled, she was poor. Although she was poor, she looked as confident as noble, and her character was even more needless to say. Just looking at those clear spring eyes made people feel extremely safe.

Soon, Wang Xiuzhu sat in the grocery store, amid the coughing and choking smell of opium behind the curtain of the inner room, hoping that Dr. Li's door would preach or treat the disease, so that he could see the young preacher a few more glances. Perhaps he would also accept the handkerchief embroidered for him, and there would be a white cross there.

"He will definitely like it." Wang Xiuzhu sat behind the counter and looked shyly at the unfinished embroidery.

But it was not Dr. Li who entered her life, but another person.

Zhong Erzai.

Zhong Erzai and Dr. Li are completely different:

Dr. Li is always simple, and he will not change his clothes even if he torn. He will continue to wear them after repairing them. He uses money to buy medicines and the Bible. Zhong Erzai is always luxurious and shiny, wearing a silk robe, wearing Western-style pants and leather shoes underneath, and wearing sunglasses in his eyes. At first glance, the poor people will bow to him;

Dr. Li is always busy. Except when he preached on Sunday, Wang Xiuzhu felt that this man was always carrying his shiny wooden box, sometimes taking out medical tools from it, sometimes taking out Bibles, and sometimes even taking out buns or rice balls for the poor. Zhong Erzai always looked very leisurely. Wang Xiuzhu felt that this young man seemed to have no need to work, and always passed by the store door in broad daylight with a folding fan. He was either a bird cage or a silk, and his money fell from the sky like rain.

But Wang Xiuzhu met Zhong Erzai very quickly because her father smoked opium and was very familiar with everyone in the foreign medicine industry. When she saw Zhong Erzai, she always jumped out and said hello like a flattering person.

Wang Xiuzhu is only in her twenties. She is the deputy manager who has recently been transferred from Beijing to the local opium restaurant. She is said to be the relative of the richest man.

From time to time, maybe it was when the door asked for opium on credit, and when he saw Wang Xiuzhu who had no choice but to kneel down and pray for his father, Zhong Erzai was very moved.

He is rich and powerful, of course he has a family early, but his family is still in his hometown. He is alone in this small county town. The old man lives in the house rented by the Opium Pavilion every day, and he is inevitably lonely and empty. Therefore, when he sees Miss Wang Xiuzhu, he will inevitably become lustful.

With his wealth and life experience of 24 or 5 years old, he was naturally able to win a 15-year-old girl from a poor family.

So Wang Xiuzhu's father made good luck. He didn't know that he was rich and seemed to like him very much. He always gave him some easy-to-make jobs, such as delivering some goods to the door and sending a few customers on a boat, and then giving a high price. With money in his hand, Dad Wang was so happy that he praised all kinds of gods.

However, what he didn't mean was that after he left the store, Zhong Erzai would "stumble past" the grocery store. At that time, only Wang Xiuzhu looked at the store, and Zhong Erzai was inseparable from the store: food, fabrics, and beautiful printing paintings, I always couldn't forget to "stumble" to Wang Xiuzhu. In the store, he chatted sweetly, and from time to time, he would come to seemingly unintentional.

After a while, Zhong Erzai captured Wang Xiuzhu's heart.

Wang Xiuzhu no longer objected to her father going out to smoke opium. On the contrary, she hoped that her father would faint in the opium restaurant. That would be better for her lover. She no longer embroidered the cross on coarse cloth. She embroidered the "mandarin duck" for her lover on an expensive piece of silk.

But the flowers didn't bloom often. After half a year, Wang Xiuzhu, who was still immersed in sweetness, was shocked and her stomach gradually grew bigger.

She is pregnant with Zhong Erzai's child.

The one who confirmed her was Dr. Li. Her father invited her from the next door. She knew it was not good. She called Dr. Li while there was no one.

As soon as Dr. Li took off his stethoscope, he just said something. Dad Wang howled and fucked the hammer beside the bed and wanted to smash Wang Xiuzhu's head.

Dr. Li stopped him tightly, and both father and daughter were in tears.

After Dr. Li left, her father beat her up, then sat on the edge of the bed and covered her face and cried loudly: Whether it is the deep-rooted traditional culture or the booming Christian culture, in any culture, Wang Xiuzhu's pregnancy before marriage has brought her family to the extreme shame.

When asked who her adulterer was, Wang Xiuzhu just didn't say it.

The next morning, her father left Wang Xiuzhu, who was covered in bruises, and went to Dr. Li's place. He asked Dr. Li to write a letter to his cousin in Chaozhou.

For ten minutes, her father stared at her with tears in her eyes. Doctor Li actually chased her and asked Wang Xiuzhu to go out for a walk and close the door to talk to her father. Wang Xiuzhu wanted to talk about her. When he heard it, he was so scared that he was so scared that he didn't want Wang Xiuzhu to let the relatives on Longchuan's side have a true story, so he planned to call his cousin and directly soak Wang Xiuzhu, a yin woman who shamed her ancestral grave in Dongjiang.

Dr. Li naturally tried hard to persuade him that although the Bible does not allow pregnancy before marriage, it will not be like the patriarchal law in traditional culture, and it will definitely be a corpse and two lives.

Wang Xiuzhu was so scared that her hands and feet were weak. She was only 15 years old. If something happened like this, who could she ask for help in Longchuan, who was migrating?

I can only go to find Zhong Erzai.

But when Zhong Erzai heard that she was pregnant, she was surprised and angry, and stomped her feet and scolded Wang Xiuzhu for causing trouble for her.

In fact, as early as a month or two ago, Zhong Erzai was tired of playing with this kind of roadside wild flower. For him, Wang Xiuzhu was just a little yin woman who was shameless and uneducated in a poor family and used to relieve the fire.

Now that his wife has followed him to Longchuan, he doesn't want to cause trouble because of such a bad wild flower, because he has a bright future and the environment of the empire is changing.

With diplomatic wisdom and iron fire offensive, the Haisong Dynasty has already gained a foothold in the territory and quickly transformed from a bunch of thieves to a country. It is precisely because it has gained a foothold and has become an iron fist in the rule of the people. It no longer seeks to give you some small favors and bribe you to rebel against the Qing Dynasty. Instead, it has pulled off the veil of affection and fired directly at traditional culture without restraint, trying to subtly influence the people with Western ideology, and the so-called sanctification has begun.

One of the most important aspects on the people is the law.

New imperial laws began to emerge one after another, most of which came from the Bible and the West, and many were incompatible with traditional culture.

For example, it is a lifeline for men.

If a man from the Qing Dynasty had money, he would have a happy life. Not only did he say that his wife and four concubines were mentioned, there were small wild flowers for collecting money to trade everywhere, and the restaurants were very common. In a word, only you would not think of it, but you would not be able to buy it.

But Hai Song is not allowed to do so

People who have a decay in their private life are not allowed to become officials or be granted titles.

Officials are the gem of the crown of traditional culture, the ultimate redeemer of Confucianism. The dreams that are not allowed to be officials have glass ceilings, because everyone dreams of becoming officials.

Zhong Erzai is still young and has a great future, so he dares to think about it. Since he has joined the Foreign Medicine Guild, he also fantasized that one day the imperial court might be reorganized and he would be considered an official in the Qing Dynasty's salt farm.

For Wang Xiuzhu's identity, if you are dying, you will be considered a concubine, but Hai Song is not allowed to take a concubine.

The backstage is not too hard. The distance between the genealogy and Zhong Jialiang is too far away. To be honest, it is useless to squeeze into Zhong Jialiang's genealogy. He burns incense and kowtow to beg his grandfather to sue. He then found a foreign medicine errand in a small county town. How dare he cause trouble? If the maid takes Wang Xiuzhu in a way, then explain that the child she gave birth to inexplicably? Isn't this a shame to the face?

And since she is so undecisive, she just slept with him. Do you dare to feel at ease when you stay by your side? You can't even take a concubine.

Zhong Erzai didn't want to pay attention to Wang Xiuzhu anymore, and wanted to pay dozens of yuan to pass this, forget it, let her not talk around everywhere.

However, what Wang Xiuzhu is seeking for now is already a matter of status, and what she seeks is to save her life

In the traditional Qing Dynasty culture, it is legal for a family to execute people like Wang Xiuzhu, who are indecent and unconventional. When they are baptized, thousands of people will applaud and applaud. This is the supplement to the administrative power of the Qing Dynasty government - the patriarchal system of family slavery originated from Confucianism.

So when Wang Xiuzhu was at a critical moment of life and death, she didn't care about her face and tore her face with her lover, proclaiming: If Zhong Erzai doesn't save her, she will go to the yamen to sue Zhong Erzai.

Zhong Erzai was also scared. He was also from another place. He was unfamiliar with the land. He might win a lawsuit. But after just coming to the Longchuan Opium Pavilion, he was sued by a big belly a few days ago. He was still in the company? Who wouldn't Zhong Jialiang be a loyal minister of the empire and followed the court. Although he was not an official, he was more loyal than an official. Hai Song established his country as a god. If this happened, let alone the position was gone, he might go to jail.

In desperation, Zhong Erzai had to find the local tyrants to rescue him.

I found a good friend after coming here, and I was a local big family member named Huang.

Unexpectedly, the wealthy man surnamed Huang did not think: he gave some money to find a coolie to recognize the adulterer's name, and he had other plans.

The one who is planning is Dr. Li.

Although Dr. Li used Western medicine to cure the diseases of many people in his family, now Huang's wealthy family is not only not grateful to Dr. Li, but on the contrary hates this person very much.

Because this person's bones are filled with evil spirits.

Longchuan is located at the junction of Guangdong and Jiangxi Province. It is considered a remote area. It is a vassal of Huizhou Prefecture. It has no special military value. It belongs to a completely powerless area where Huizhou surrenders and Huizhou surrenders. Therefore, the Divine Emperor did not sweep away the clan clans here when he entered Guangdong. Therefore, compared with other areas that were swept by blood and fire, there are still several wealthy families in the Qing Dynasty. Others see it as conservative, but they still think it is called righteousness, and of course it is Confucian righteousness.

The Huang family is one of the backbones of Confucian righteousness.

Dr. Li is indeed skilled in medical skills, which makes them who have only seen Chinese medicine cheating and cheating. They think that it was Bian Que's rebirth of Hua Tuo, but Dr. Li is preaching through medical skills.

If there was a Catholic Church that had been around for a long time, the Huang family didn't say that this was the royal religion that Zhao Sangui also believed in. The backstage was France, and the backstage was strong. Even the priest in charge was a yellow-haired and blue-eyed Frenchman, so they didn't have the courage to flirt with Catholic Church.

But they don’t understand that Dr. Li, a pure-bred Chinese, could create a ragged church?

Their Protestant church is not as magnificent as Catholicism. It is scary to see the sculptures on the exterior wall. Their church is a yard that is usually rented from the Sihe Courtyard;

Their pastors were not as gorgeous as Catholics, holding gold and silver sacrificial instruments, and their every move was full of majestic; the pastor of the Protestant church was Dr. Li, a doctor who thought he was a poor scholar at first glance, and preached in a cloth robe;

The Presbyterian Church is obviously more energetic than the Catholic Church, because Dr. Li tried his best to recruit people into the church, but he all pulled some people: Dock Coolie, former gang member, opium-sucking bankrupt, thieves who were discounted and unable to steal, beggars, and even prostitutes who were too old and had no customers on the verge of starvation.

Almost the scumbag at the bottom of the county town.

Not to mention the first batch of believers, such as the Huang family who have been arrogant in Longchuan for a hundred years, looked down on them, the common people, and even scumbags, they all looked down on them. Many of them have lost their ability to make a living, and a piece of shit is worth more than them.

However, it was the scum among these scums. Dr. Li happily gathered them up and formed a big family of people in his courtyard. Everyone united and helped each other, worked hard, worked together, and worked hard to survive in the praises to Jesus.

Isn’t this another way of organizing the Beggars’ Gang? Isn’t this embarrassing?

The wealthy people in the Huang family were increasingly disgusting this group of Protestants, and they long suspected that they were a cult in the form of White Lotus Sect.

However, those who have consulted for advice and seen the world have received an answer they don’t want to hear: This is the authentic Christian Protestantism.

?Are the legendary "Is this kind of garbage scumbag society in the country that is invincible in the world"? Confucius said that wealth and honor are in heaven - this group of scumbags are obviously abandoned by God. Will Jesus care about these bastards killed by heaven?

The wealthy man surnamed Huang doesn't believe it.

However, Dr. Li's influence became increasingly greater, and even their families were affected: their servants, tenants and even their young children believed in Dr. Li's teachings or expressed great favor.

Gradually, the county town was divided by Dr. Li. The Confucian elites looked at the miracle doctor who controlled the life and death of others to save more and more people they despise. Moreover, this group of people seemed to think they were individuals, and their eyes changed. They were not the same as the gaze of stray dogs who saw people, and they all seemed to smile at the wealthy people in Huang. Do you smile at me? Are you worthy of it?

The wealthy family in Huang had long wanted to find an opportunity to stop this kind of chaos in the lower ranks and inferiority.

When he found out that Wang Xiuzhu was gritting her teeth and not telling who the child's father was, the wealthy family surnamed Huang felt panicked and Zhong Erzai happened to give him a stone.
To be continued...