Chapter 42: The Doctors of the Jewish Province

"You eat first...... Again......

In the mud house, a young man who looked to be no more than thirty years old was patiently admonishing the patient in front of him, a typical Jewish peasant, dressed in rough clothes and with strong arms, who at first glance was a good hand at farm work, but in the presence of young people much younger than him, he behaved very submissively.

There was no other reason, because there was a large area of pus and rot on his bare calf, and the blood scabs left by repeated scratching were cascading, which was not recent, and it was a good thing for him to have a doctor willing to solve the disease that kept him awake at night, and how dare he disrespect it.

After the young man finished speaking, in front of him, the five big and three rough Jewish peasants were inexplicably a little restrained at the moment, and whispered:

"Doctor, I don't have any money...... What to do?"

No money? The young man was stunned for a moment, but then smiled and said:

"It's okay, you just have to give me a small bag of barley. ”

In this era, many low-level civilians had never seen metal money at all, and usually bartered for goods, so young people were not surprised by what the peasants said.

"Thank you, thank you......"

Under the agitated gaze of the Jewish peasants, the young man simply smiled, and after applying the medicine and receiving the payment, he continued to carry his bag, mounted his donkey, and went to other places to help the sick.

......

The night is dark, wild.

Next to the bright campfire, the young man sat beside the campfire, and it was dark all around, except for the fire in front of him, crackling, adding some firewood to the middle from time to time to prevent the fire from being extinguished, while the tied donkey barked from time to time.

While it was still dawn, the young man visited the sick in several places, some of whom his family members had heard of his reputation, and begged him to treat his seriously ill parents, children, and brothers, and some of whom he had cured by the way, and he would always do his best to treat them, regardless of the severity of the disease, but because of this, he delayed so much that he could not return to the city before dark.

However, when he goes out to practice medicine, these things are commonplace, and he doesn't think so.

Looking at the night sky overhead, the sky full of bright stars, the night sky seems quiet and vast, and people can't help but feel awe. In this chaotic world, only occasionally looking up at the stars in the night sky can make this young man feel more relaxed.

It is said that the gods dwell in this starry sky, but if the gods really exist, why should the world be filled with so many sufferings?

The young man was silent, and he couldn't help but sigh at the sights he had seen during the day, those who had broken their hands and feet because of accidents, or those who had been disabled by wild beasts, or who had suffered from illness. As a doctor, he has seen many lives and deaths, but every time he sees life and death, he still feels mixed feelings.

"Why...... Why do people have to die? ”

All kinds of confusion haunted his heart, but these questions were silent even for the scholars of the time, let alone such a small doctor.

Suddenly, the light flickered beside him, and before he could react, several people jumped out of the bushes.

"Stop!"

With this loud shout, the doctor, who was about to get up, froze, because it was right next to him...... Several men with swords had surrounded him.

The leader was a sturdy man with brown hair and a scar on his cheek, he looked at him with a gloomy face, and pressed the long sword in his hand against the young man's throat, the cold blade brushed his skin, and the sharp edge was like nothing, so that the muscles up and down the young man's body froze, and he didn't dare to move again.

"Hand over your things and let you not die. ”

A deep voice spoke, and a man beside him had already rummaged through the young man's bag to see what was there.

Met a robber......

The young man's heart rose to his throat, and he secretly complained bitterly, and his palms oozed sweat, but he didn't dare to move, so he could only stammer.

"I ...... I'm a doctor, so I don't have anything to grab ......."

"Head, here are a few small bags of barley and a few garlic and some dinars. ”

But at this moment, a man shouted, and immediately, the sturdy man in front of him looked at the young man with a gloomy face.

Finished......

The young man sighed in his heart, but at this moment......

"Hanna, are you Hanna?"

A startled and suspicious young voice sounded, and then a thin man walked out of the crowd, looked carefully at the young man in front of him, and said in surprise.

The voice struck a little familiar to the young man, and then the young man looked at the face in front of him, and old memories began to recall...... It's just that in his impression, it was a shy young man, which was completely inconsistent with the image of a bandit holding a sword at the moment, he said hesitantly.

"Lieber?"

"Yes! It's me. ”

The excited thin man said excitedly, and then he hurriedly explained to the sturdy man beside him.

"This is Hanna, Hanna of Nazareth, who was a physician who had saved my father's and my lives in the past. ”

Immediately after, the thin man turned his head and looked at Hana in front of him, and he couldn't help but say.

"God, I pointed my sword at my benefactor......

......

The campfire continued to burn, only this time, there were a few more people around the campfire, and Hanna, who was originally alone, also had one more person to talk to, Lieber.

“...... Since Pilate became governor, it has been a difficult day. ”

Burleigh shook his head as he said to Hanna.

The Roman Empire was vast, but it was also difficult to manage local affairs, so many places were nominally the territory of the Roman Empire, but in reality they were still governed by local kings, and these kingdoms existed in the form of vassals, and the Jewish kingdom on the border of the Roman Empire, close to the Patilan Empire, was ruled by King Elo, who had the blood of the Jewish king.

However, around the time of Hanna's birth, Caesar's adopted son Octavian, as emperor, weakened the Jewish kingdom and consolidated most of the region into a province of Judea, leaving only King Eloh with the fiefdom of Galilee, and Pondo Pilate was appointed governor of Judea by Tiberius, the second emperor after Octavian's death.

The governor of the empire was a Roman citizen of the Empire, who had a deep sense of superiority over Rome itself and the Italian provinces, not to mention the frontier provinces, which were far inferior to the Italian provinces. Since he became the governor of Judea, he has tried to strengthen the worship of Caesar in the region, and the Jews do not like idolatry and oppose the erection of statues, but he insists on erecting statues of Caesar everywhere, which arouses the resentment of the Jewish population and causes repeated religious conflicts.

The city of Nazareth, where Hanna lived, was a small city in the Jewish kingdom, belonging to the region of Galilee under the territory of King Eloh, and was not under the jurisdiction of Pilate, and not much is known about it.

During the conversation, Hana learned that they were all dissatisfied with and rebelled against Pilate's rule, so that they were violently suppressed by Pilate and had to be forced to flee their original homeland, gather together, and make a living by robbing passers-by.

"What about your father. ”

As he spoke, Hana asked casually, but then he realized that he had asked the wrong question, and in front of him, Lieber's face darkened, and he did not speak again, but shook his head bitterly.

With that Zhang Zhang, he finally sighed silently.

How difficult the world is, where can he blame them, in this era when human life is as cheap as mustard, everyone is just duckweed on the water, and they can't help themselves.

Since then, nothing has been said for a night.

It's just that after dawn, Lieber deliberately sent Hana to a short distance outside the city of Nazareth with a few companions, until Hana walked away, he looked back, and in the distance, the shy young man who was already like a black spot seemed to be waving to him vaguely......