Chapter 39: The Red Cross
Taking advantage of the excitement and going back, Liu Yun finally woke up, he himself is a mortal, and he can't become a grandmaster like Zhang Sanfeng, so he secretly made up his mind that he must learn from a teacher, otherwise the spiritual power obtained by accident will not advance but retreat.
At breakfast, Kong Yuling accidentally learned that Dr. Liu would have three days to spare, and immediately asked him to accompany him to worship at Yang Gefei Church.
A large group of people eat and live in the Kong family, and it seems that it can't be said if they don't help Miss Kong do some trivial things, Liu Yun is fine anyway, and it's not bad to go out for a walk, but I didn't expect Pang Yuyan to want to go too, and Master Pang is going to the Sichuan Hall to meet old friends, and everyone is happy.
It's only been two days, Pang Xuezhong wants to see his old friends again, shouldn't he report work, Liu Yun doesn't talk much, speaking of which, everyone is related to the Liu family in Xikang, especially Master Pang, who has been a master for Liu Shuai for ten years, and now he is doing things for Nanjing, and he doesn't report much, and it seems that he can't say anything.
For the Templars, Liu Yun is very interested, since he saw the eldest grandson Mingyue, he pays special attention to some ancient legends, I remember that there is a game in the 21st century, I seem to have played it, what is it called the Magic Continent, there is a profession that is good at defense, it is the Templars, relying on the holy light given by the goddess, with the most powerful defense ability on the battlefield, is the soul of the combat team, sworn to fight the evil forces.
Kong Yuling has nothing to shy away from, she is a real knight, not only a Christian church knight, but also a British royal knight, and it is said that she is also a knight of the Holy Spirit recognized by the Pope of Rome, well, there are still a few acres of knightly fiefdom in Scotland, as for Liu Yun said that he bought Yunyun with money, the eldest lady smiled silently.
Seeing that Liu Yun was very interested, the eldest lady briefly talked about it, the Templars originated from the Templars during the "Crusades", and they had obeyed the Pope of Rome and made great contributions to the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages, and of course they also accumulated a lot of wealth, and in the 14th century, they were jointly exterminated by Pope Lyment V and Philip IV of France.
In the 16th century, the rise of the Reformation, the emergence of new Christianity in England, in order to combat the old forces in France and Rome at that time, the current Knights Templar, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, was established to protect the new Christianity, but in the 19th century, the religious struggle became weaker and weaker, and gradually became a force to supervise the operation of churches in various places.
In the late 19th century, the Manchu Dynasty was decaying, and churches in Europe and the United States were all over China, and since 1840, all kinds of teaching plans emerged one after another, and even indirectly led to the Second Opium War, the Boxer Rebellion and the Eight-Nation Alliance.
During the period of the Eight-Nation Alliance, Kong Caishen inadvertently rescued some of the church people who were in distress, so Kong Yuling was taken care of by the church since she was a child, and when she went to Edinburgh, England to study theology, she was accepted as a Templar by the Knights of Edinburgh.
I see, the holy light, magic, and superpowers are all gone, Liu Yun's interest in the Templars suddenly decreased, and he was about to urge everyone to act quickly, so that he could go early and return early, only to find out in a blink of an eye that Pang Yuyan beside him was actually shaking her head, and seemed to have a lot of experience, your sister, brother is so eager to vomit when she hears it, you still have a lot of experience, is there any reason for this.
Liu Yun wanted to knock a violent chestnut over, but he thought of Pang Yuyan, but he was a big beauty, and if he was rude, he was afraid that Master Pang would have to fight with him, so he smiled hypocritically and said, "Sister Yuyan, what are you doing in the church, do you also believe in religion."
"I won't tell you", Pang Yuyan smiled mysteriously and gave him a roll of his eyes.
"Naughty", seeing that her man was deflated, Miss Kong suddenly stopped, smiled and took out the cross necklace on her body, and asked Liu Yun with a funny look, "Look at it, what is the difference between this cross and the one on Yu Yan's body."
Liu Yun was immediately embarrassed, the cross on Pang Yuyan's body, but it was a personal thing of other girls' families, he was a big man, and he had nothing to do to stare at that thing, it was too unreasonable, what does this Miss Kong mean, she changed her tricks and said that her brother is messing with flowers and grass.
Pang Yuyan was not shy, she was generous, took out her own cross necklace, and put it together with Kong Yuling, so that Liu Yun and Kong Yuling could read it together.
The two necklaces were placed in front of him, Liu Yun was afraid of being mistaken for a prodigal son, so he didn't dare to reach out to take it, so he had to stare at the bull's eye and look carefully, the size and style are almost the same, well, what's the difference, suddenly clapped his hands and shouted happily, "I understand, Yu Yan, your one is made of silver, Yuling, your one is made of ivory."
"Ouch", before Liu Yun finished speaking, he was knocked on a popping chestnut by Miss Kong, and screamed in pain, but when he turned his head and saw the royal sister who seemed to be smiling, he knew that he was wrong, so he had to touch his head and laugh, at this time Pang Yuyan was already laughing so much that he couldn't straighten his waist.
Sister Kong didn't say much, took Pang Yuyan's necklace, combined it with the one in her hand, and then showed it to Liu Yun, at this time Liu Yun really found the difference between the two, the cross on the necklace of the royal sister has a aspect ratio of 3:2, while Yu Yan's one is 1:1.
Why is it different? By the way, liberal arts students suddenly remembered that in the hospitals that can be seen everywhere in the 21st century, isn't the symbol a 1:1 red cross, Pang Yuyan is a graduate of Sendai Medical College in Japan, and it is normal for the necklace to be a positive cross, but what is the relationship between the two?
Sister Kong didn't laugh at Liu Yun, but only put the cross on her necklace upside down, like a small cross sword, and said very carefully, "Yicheng, you have to pay attention, try not to stand upside down in front of Christians in the future, this is a symbol of the devil."
Liu Yun has heard as early as the 21st century that the cross is a symbol of God and Christ, and it looks like a cross sword stuck in the ground. And the devil has always been the opposite of God, also known as the antichrist, but I didn't expect that the sign is also the opposite of Christ, as long as the cross is upside down is the devil's sign. Well, it's no wonder that in many films, the knights always stick their cross swords on the ground before the battle, and mutter prayers.
Pang Yuyan, who was still a little smiling, also came over to educate Liu Yun, "Brother Liu, we used to focus on traditional Chinese medicine in the East, and when I was studying at Sendai Medical College, I learned that whether it is China or Japan, modern medicine is derived from the West, many hospitals and medical schools are inextricably linked with the church, and several official hospitals in Hankou, such as Catholic Church Hospital and Renji Hospital, are basically all church hospitals."
Before Pang Yuyan finished speaking, she was dragged away by Miss Kong, a group of three, driven by Kong Yuling, galloped towards Yang Gefei Church, along the way, everyone was afraid of affecting the royal sister's driving, no one said anything more, Liu Yun just closed his eyes and recuperated.
In fact, there is no need for Pang Yuyan to elaborate, Liu Yun himself combined with the network information of the 21st century, and also roughly understood that people who practice medicine, whether they are doctors or nurses, will inevitably deal with all kinds of patients, and even more terrifying, dealing with corpses, after all, they are all people, how can they not panic and fear, in order to overcome this negative emotion, they will inevitably seek refuge from the gods, so those who study medicine will naturally have a relationship with the church.
As for the 1:1 red cross, it is better explained, it is the meaning of "neither bias towards God nor favoring the devil", because in the eyes of doctors, there is no difference between God and demons, only between patients and doctors, in other words, if the antichrist and the devil are injured, the doctor will heal first, this is the so-called "humanitarian" spirit.
Yang Gefei Church was built in 1931, located in Yunqiao Road (now Huangshi Road) in the model district of Hankou Special City, in honor of Yang Gefei, the earliest British missionary of the London Church in Wuhan, and named Yang Gefei Church.
Fortunately, the two sides are relatively close, it didn't take long to arrive at the destination, get off the car, you will see the towering bell tower, and a three-storey clear water red brick church, the red tile two slopes are divided by the cross, the whole building appears simple and generous, covering an area of about one acre, with a construction area of nearly 2,000 square meters, only to find when you walk in, the ground floor is the corridor-style office room, the second floor is the worship hall, which can accommodate more than 1,000 people to worship, and the third floor is an open small viewing platform.
Kong Yuling and Pang Yuyan went to the hall to worship first, Liu Yun lacked interest, so he walked around the ground floor, looked at the flowers and fountains, touched the little angels on the stone carvings, and enjoyed himself, and suddenly there was a burst of women's cries and men's scolding nearby.
When Liu Yun was about to make a detour, a woman rushed out and happened to bump into Liu Yun's side, looking about thirty or forty years old, hiding her face and sobbing, tears flowing, her face was black and thin, her clothes were shabby, a pair of mud-stained cloth shoes on her feet, and a Sichuan accent in southwest official dialect, as if she had been bullied.
No matter how you say it, she is also from her hometown, Liu Yun, who didn't want to meddle in things, still decided to ask about the situation, and in the intermittent crying, I learned that this woman's name is Wang Pinggu, a native of Yibin, Sichuan, and her man's name is Sun Zhixiong, who is also a native of Sichuan, and in 1915 he was a soldier with Wu Peifu in Sichuan, and later the Wu army was defeated in the Northern Expedition, and followed Zhang Zuolin.
At the time of the September 18 Incident in 1931, Sun was serving as the battalion commander of a garrison regiment in Heilongjiang, and was coerced by the rebels who surrendered, so he joined the Japanese puppet army in a daze. In 1933, the Great Wall War of Resistance broke out, Sun attacked Rehe with the traitor Zhang Haipeng, because he was dissatisfied with the brutality of the Japanese puppet, defected to the GUO Kuomintang troops, and also took the initiative to participate in the war against Japan, as a result, hundreds of people in the department were almost lost, and he himself was missing an arm.
Seeing that Sun Zhixiong had no guns and no one left, the chief symbolically paid him a severance pay and asked him to return to his hometown, which he had originally planned to return to Sichuan, and brought a dozen or so disabled brothers all the way to the west. I don't know why, Sun didn't move his nest when he walked to Wuhan, and he went into Yang Gefei's church for more than a year, seeing that his savings were about to be exhausted, his wife Wang Pinggu of course made a noise, and didn't want Sun to be crippled, but he had a big temper, and told her to get out after a slap.