Chapter 391: The Expansion of Catholicism
In the past few days when Jingxin Temple has been closed, there has been more wind and waves outside. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
After a brief silence in the diocese of the Catholic Church, there was a sudden expansion of the country.
They arranged for a large number of missionaries and volunteers to take to the streets to give small items to the elderly and spread the teachings.
It also organizes new believers on a small scale, but at high frequency.
At first, they did this with little success, but instead of reining in, they transferred some personnel from abroad, and slowly opened up the situation.
After all, the Xinhua Empire had three religions, and they were cautious in their missionary work at the beginning, and they have been developing steadily for hundreds of years. But after this time, it seems that it was stimulated, and the movements immediately became louder and more aggressive.
The island city of Lu Province is one of the four major dioceses of Catholicism in China, and now their personnel have begun to spread throughout Lu Province, and even the East China Sea can already see the presence of Catholicism.
Their followers have more frequent frictions with followers of both Buddhism and Taoism.
Occasionally, the layman who went up the mountain talked about it with the monks in the temple.
When several laymen from the East China Sea were chatting in the hotel, they all said that they were the reincarnation of the true Buddha, otherwise how could there be so many miracles.
Not far away were a few Catholics, who immediately stood up and said, "Except for my lord, everyone else is a false god." ”
The voice was very loud, attracting the eyes of many people around, and the Catholic still looked at the few laymen at this table with his eyes, and the meaning of the provocation was self-evident.
"And then was killed by thunder?" said a layman surnamed Lu with a sneer.
"The Father is merciful, and He does not punish you for not believing in Him and for believing in false gods. But this is the mercy of the Father, but it is not a basis for you to doubt Him. The cultist's face was not good-looking, but he still spoke loudly.
"And then was killed by thunder?" The layman surnamed Lu still said the same sentence, and several laymen around him couldn't help but laugh out loud.
I have to say that this layman's mouth surnamed Lu is really a bit poisonous.
The so-called beating does not slap people in the face, and scolding people does not expose shortcomings.
But now, no matter what the other party says, it is a sentence of "and then killed by thunder?" thrown over, and a few words turned the face of the other party blue.
I almost got into a fight on the spot.
"Bang" The Catholic slammed the table and stood up from the table, and there were two young people among the six people.
There are two more than the four Buddhist laymen on this side, especially those two young people, who are strong and strong, and they are about to suffer at this point.
"Bang" "Bang" "Bang"
As if they were slapping the table louder, several tables immediately stood up around them, of all ages, looking at them with fierce eyes.
Looking at this scene, the six people didn't say a word, and just checked out and left.
The layman surnamed Lu said: "Thank you to the old neighbors and neighbors, for giving me a face, I invite you today." ”
Everyone in the hotel burst into laughter.
A fight almost started, but it was eliminated like this.
However, Lu Jushi and the others felt a little strange, like there has been no Catholicism in the East China Sea, why did these people come here?
In addition, they had long known about the Catholics' attacks on Buddhists and Taoists on the Internet, and they had encountered it themselves today, so they kept it in mind.
After two days, he saw that his wife brought back some towels and other small things from outside, and the word "gospel" was written on them, and when he asked, his wife said that in the past two days, someone in the neighborhood had sent towels, toothbrushes, paper towels, and oil, and told them a lot about God.
Lao Lu pondered and said to his wife: "Don't go to these in the future, it's not a good way." ”
"It's just you. The wife said casually, and the matter was over.
However, Lao Lu summed it up, and the next day he went up the mountain and told Su Wen about it.
"Thank you for telling me, but it's good not to get into trouble with them. Whatever they want, let them be. The human heart cannot ask for it. Su Wen said with a smile.
He was aware of the recent movements of the Catholic Church.
This kind of small favor is indeed easy for ordinary people to accept them.
However, the Pure Heart Temple has been rising for a year, and it is not easy for them to stir up the wind and rain in the East China Sea, so they can just wait and see.
Before it was my turn to be anxious, the Pure Heart Temple had already established its position in the East China Sea, and it had also developed a lot of good faith.
In two months, the Taoist temple in the east will be completed, and there will still be drama to be sung between them and the Catholics.
Just watch for yourself.
Sending Lu Jushi away, Su Wen continued to spend his days leisurely on the mountain.
These days, there are fewer pilgrims and tourists, and it is rare to find quiet in the temple. When the mountain gate opens again, I am afraid it will not be like this.
These days, after harvesting the rice, the temple cleans and sifts, and then begins to scoop the rice.
Although there is now extremely advanced equipment, Suwen still asks everyone to use the old method. First, he found an open space outside the hall, and then asked a stonemason to build two stone mortars the size of a grinding disc to fix on the ground, and then put a wooden pole on it, and installed a wooden pestle at the end of the pole.
In this way, someone can move the wooden pole with his foot, and he can make the pestle rise and fall and shed the threshing.
This work is a hard work, and several monks in the temple are arranged to take turns to cook rice.
At first, everyone was a little interested in this thing, but they soon got tired.
At first, Su Wen planned to let Yilong and others do this, but after thinking about it, he felt that he should let the monks in the temple do it.
Like farming, this is also a practice.
The grains of Itsumata rice are much larger than ordinary rice, and they are much more slender.
The beaten rice does not need to go through other processes, and it is already extremely snow-white, and there is a transparent feeling under the sun, as if there is a flow of mist in the rice grains.
After the rice was just beaten, let the restaurant make a pot. As soon as it is done, there is a pungent aroma when the lid is lifted, and the rice grains are white and crystalline, and there is no slightest sticking to each grain.
When you eat it, it is full of fragrance and sweetness, and the taste is moderately soft and hard, and you can eat several bowls of rice alone.
The monks in the temple were amazed by this kind of rice, and they didn't know where the abbot got it. There is also Zen cabbage from a few days ago, which looks no different from cabbage, but it is also fragrant and attractive.
There is also the temple purifying tea, which can be regarded as a specialty. At least they hadn't heard of it anywhere else.
Jingxin tea can be said to be the best tea in the country, and those two tea trees are now taken care of every day.
And these rices, anyone who has eaten them dare to pat their chests and say, this must be the best rice in the world.
Li Tianlang also said with an aftertaste on his face after eating this meal: "Even the palace is probably not as good as the food here." ”
Although there are not many types, they are not available in the outside world.
For this kind of talk, Su Wen just smiled.
This into the rice, regular consumption can prolong life, through the nine tricks, open wisdom, is not comparable to ordinary things.
These things are really not eaten by the palace, because they are not from this world in the first place. But that's all he knows.