The seventeenth day of the first month. In the town of Sanjiangkou, the snow and ice on the eaves of many houses began to melt, and the rain melted, filling the smooth streets with mud. After the snow melts, the cold wind ferments in the town, makes a sharp whistling on the street corners, and then rushes into thousands of homes along the curtains.

In an inn in town, the curtain at the door was blown by the cold wind. The corner of the curtain was lifted by the wind, as if peeping at the people in the house.

At this time, Luan Yi was sitting in the lobby of this hotel. Beside him, two coal-fired fires burned brightly, reflecting the glow of the flames on his slightly drunken face.

He held bamboo chopsticks in his hand, put a slice of beef into his mouth, and tasted it with relish. With one hand, he brushed his sleeve and scooped out a spoonful of wine from the small ding on the charcoal stove beside him with the other hand, and poured it into the bowl. He handed Tao Wan to his mouth and poured a mouthful.

The warm brew flows down the throat and invigorates the chilly body.

"Good wine!" He praised loudly, raised his eyes, looked at the tall figure pacing back and forth in the hall, and from time to time looked at the direction of the port outside the door along the gap in the wind-blown curtain, and asked, "Third brother!" Would you like to eat a bowl? As he spoke, he used a wooden spoon to fill a bowl of wine with Zhang Fei, who was the third in line after the bow, and put it on the seat opposite.

Hearing this, Zhang Fei glanced out the door again, and sighed, "Hey! He strode across from Luan Yi, picked up the bowl and drank it cleanly. "It's been three days since I came, and there is still no ship." suffocated in the house all day, making my old Zhang almost stuffy with a bird. ”

Zhang Fei is in a hurry, and Luan Yi is more anxious than him. Deep down, he was still worried about the vigorous peasant movement in the late summer and early autumn of this year. No one in this world is looking forward to returning to Jinan sooner than him...... However, as fate of heaven, three days after arriving at the mouth of the Sanjiang River, there was not a single ship docked at the port to replenish or unload goods, which made him so anxious that the corners of his mouth blistered.

In a hurry, Luan Yi couldn't tell the story of the Yellow Turban Uprising, so he could only bury it secretly in his stomach, burying his eagerness deep in his stomach, pretending to be open-minded on the surface, and comforting Zhang Fei and said: "Third brother, don't panic, haven't you asked the Holy Mother with Brother Dian these days!" I believe that it will not be long before Our Lady will appear to the Lady and let the destined ships pass by and pick up our others. ”

"Will Our Lady really apparilate?" Zhang Fei was skeptical. After seeing the affirmative look from Luan Yi, he said, "Okay, let's wait a little longer." I don't know if the eldest brother and the second brother have found the boat! He never took his eyes off the doorway, as if he wanted to see through the thick curtain until the harbor went up. At this time, Dian Wei and Guan Yu were waiting there, looking forward to a ship docking in the cold wind. "No...... I can't sit still, I've got to go over and take a look......"

Zhang Fei was about to get up, and was pulled back by Luan Yi. Luan Yi persuaded: "Okay, third brother!" We just let the eldest brother and the second brother replace it, how can we go again. Besides, it's not that there are too many people to have a boat coming, and even if they go, it's useless. It's better to sit down and eat warm wine to warm up, rest for a while, and go later. ”

"I can't sit still!" Zhang Fei fidgeted, drank the water and wine that Luan Yi had just filled with in one gulp, wiped the remaining water and wine from the corner of his mouth, and stood up and paced in the hall, trampling the floor with a clang.

Seeing Zhang Fei's ant-like appearance on a hot pot, Luan Yi couldn't help laughing, and secretly sighed that Zhang Fei was really in a fiery temper. He said to Zhang Fei gently: "Third brother! It's useless to be in a hurry. Instead of walking around in a hurry, it is better to sit down and pray to Our Lady in silence. Maybe Our Lady heard your wish and immediately sent a boat to take us to Jiangnan? ”

"Huh?" Zhang Fei was stunned and asked, "What the fourth brother said about Lao Shizi's prayer really works?" ”

"I swear to Our Lady! It works! "The god stick has been working for a long time, Luan Yi doesn't blush or beat when he says this, and he doesn't even fight. Anyway, according to the logic of the Church of Our Lady, if Zhang Fei's oath is not fulfilled, it can also be explained that Zhang Fei is insincere, or Zhang Fei's murderous thoughts are too heavy, and Our Lady is too lazy to pay attention to it, etc...... There are dozens of reasons. If it is fulfilled, there will be miracles, and the Virgin Mary will be justified in both horizontal and vertical directions, and this is where the advanced nature of Christianity as a theological discipline in later generations has been studied by the world for a long time in universities.

"I'm going to pray!" Zhang Fei sat back in his chair, recalling the prayer steps and prayer format that Luan Yi taught him on the way here some time ago, and murmured: "My mother in heaven ......"

Just listening to this beginning, Luan Yi almost slipped out of the table without smiling...... "My mother in heaven!" The same words, how weird they sound in this Hebei dialect, invisibly add infinite comedy elements.

Zhang Fei seemed to notice that Luan Yi was wrong, opened a pair of big eyes like copper bells, looked at Luan Yi suspiciously, and asked, "What's wrong?" Am I doing something wrong? ”

"Yes, third brother, that's right. Continue, continue to ......" Luan Yi snorted and returned the opportunity to absorb spiritual food to Zhang Fei again.

Zhang Fei clicked his lips, closed his eyes again, crossed his hands and put them together on his beard, and muttered a prayer, "My mother in heaven." My fourth brother said, you are very effective, I don't believe it. Now it just so happens that we are in trouble, and we are trapped by this river and can't cross the river. If you can get us a boat within an hour and carry us over, I will believe you. In the future, I will serve you as my own mother, and I will hand over more than 200 catties of meat to your envoy. If you don't manifest yourself...... Don't blame me for not giving you incense money in the future, isn't it...... The fourth brother calls the incense money a dedication, and does not give it to you. So, I think it's more cost-effective for you to send a boat. Belch...... Okay, that's all! Ah, the gates! After speaking, Zhang Fei clicked his lips again, but saw Luan Yi staring at him dumbfounded, so he asked, "What's wrong?" Am I praying wrong? ”

Wrong? Of course not...... Luan Yi muttered in his heart, where could he pray in such a threatening tone? If the co-author of the Holy Mother does not manifest the spirit, he will suffer a big loss, if there is no boat passing by here, Zhang Fei will not believe in others?

Although he thought so in his heart, he couldn't say so, after all, this was Zhang Fei's first time praying, and it was forgivable to make some mistakes in principle, and more importantly, if you want to really pull Zhang Fei into the church, you need to encourage him to accept the daily habits of the church. "The third brother prayed right, rightly!"

"Then wait! I'd like to see if a ship will come in an hour! ”

The smile on Luan Yi's face suddenly froze when he heard this. He knew that this kind of tentative prayer was the most difficult thing for someone who was just starting out in church. If the prayer is fulfilled, then it will be enough. If there is no fulfillment, and the missionary does not explain it enough, it is easy to form a bad impression in people's minds that is difficult to dissolve, and it will certainly take a lot of work to pull it into the church in the future. And this is exactly what he least wants to happen to Zhang Fei!

Thinking of this, Luan Yi involuntarily swept his gaze towards the door, and kept assembling the draft in his mind, looking for the best way to explain to Zhang Fei when there was no boat coming for a while.

The curtain was still open and closed in the cold wind. The charcoal in the copper furnace was smoking, and the charcoal in the furnace slowly melted under the red halo under the scorching fire.

The waiting time always passes slowly, and the initial moment after moment seems to be longer than a year...... But when an hour was about to run out, the pace of time suddenly accelerated again, so fast that Luan Yi couldn't wait to hold it and not let it reach the final end so quickly.

However, time is always ethereal, and even the greatest man in the world cannot restrain its progress.

An hour is fleeting. Zhang Fei, who was walking around the hall, raised his eyes, and finally glanced at the sky, with a little depression and a little relief, and shook his head helplessly, "I'll just say it!" Our Lady is not as amazing as the fourth brother said! ”

Luan Yi's heart was puzzled, and he quickly explained: "Third brother don't be arbitrary. Your wish has just been issued, Our Lady receives hundreds of thousands of prayers every day, and it always takes a certain amount of time to deal with them one by one, and besides, ......" As soon as he said this, he felt a bright light set off at the door of the inn, and then a strong cold wind poured into the house along the door, freezing Luan Yi's spirit.

A large and strong hand held the half-opened curtain, and behind the curtain was Dian Wei's tall and majestic body.

An angelic smile bloomed on his devilish and ugly face, and the words he uttered were as warm as the sun. "Third brother, fourth brother, come to the boat!"

"Our Lady bless!" Luan Yi let out a long breath and kept drawing a cross on his chest.

Zhang Fei was stunned for a while, and then his face showed joy, "Good girl, it really worked." ”

"But...... The owner of the ship won't let us upload the ship! Dian Wei's next words were like three or nine days of snow, giving Luan Yi the feeling of entering the ice cave.

"Huh?" Zhang Fei was disappointed, and kept muttering: "Our Lady is not bright? No, no...... If it weren't for the coincidence of the light, the prayer said that the ship would come in an hour! But why don't you let it go when you come! He slapped his head and suddenly realized, "Could it be that the tone of disrespect when I prayed just now made Our Lady angry, so I deliberately used this to play tricks on my old Zhang?" The more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible, and he was suddenly ashamed...... "How is this good...... How to be good! ”

After chattering, he heard Dian Wei say again: "The shipowner didn't want me to wait for me to board the ship, but the second brother stepped forward to negotiate, and as soon as he reported the name of the sect leader, the shipowner immediately changed his mind. He said that he knew the Sect Leader and was very happy to be in the same boat with the Sect Leader. He also said that we don't have to worry, he is waiting by the river at any time! ”

"Huh?" The situation suddenly took a turn for the worse, and after Zhang Fei's great disappointment, he suddenly smiled again, and said to Dian Wei with dissatisfaction: "Oops! Big brother, don't pant when you talk! ”

Compared with Zhang Fei, Luan Yi was more concerned about who the so-called acquaintance on the ship was. "Big brother! Dare to ask the shipowner's last name? Where did you meet Yi? ”

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