59 domino effect
As the old saying goes, if an animal is hungry, whoever gives it a bite to eat, it will go. In fact, if people are extremely hungry, they are not much different from livestock, so the sentence "If you have milk, you are a mother." ”
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the people of Jinan were the weaned children. For a long time, they have been exploited by the deaf court, the greedy nobles, and the evil witch cult in the country. After a year's hard work on the earth, after being divided up layer by layer, there is not much left in their hands. Not to mention the surplus in an ordinary year, not even a year's ration is enough, let alone a disaster year.
At a time when the lives of the people were extremely short and difficult, and they were so difficult that they could barely live. The Church of Our Lady appeared, as if the winter sun gave warmth.
Within five days, the sect leader Luan Yi distributed food and porridge to the people, and treated the sick...... Do all kinds of good deeds. Countless families in Licheng County who could not eat received rations and new clothes from the church, and many of them were poor families who were more or less proficient in carpentry and bricklayer skills and got a well-paid job in the Luanjia factory.
In addition, more than 200 patients who were seriously ill but could not afford to see a doctor were sent to the Holy Virgin Church Alexandra for free treatment with the help of the divine servants.
Gradually, there were also scholars, landlords, and wealthy merchants who believed in the Church of Mary to do good deeds, building roads, bridges, reducing land rents and rents, and giving tenants, longbows, handymen, householders, and nurses to take turns on each Sunday of the Notre Dame.
Less than a month after the establishment of the Church of Our Lady, the people clearly felt that life was more comfortable and happier than before. What about two months, three months, or even a year from now?
Wouldn't it be like a fairy life then?
Out of the yearning for a better life, more and more commoners are willing to become believers in the Church of Our Lady.
The servants of God gave them answers similar to those at the opening ceremony, the only difference was that the poor people were almost literate, so they lowered the requirements for reading the Bible, and let them listen more to the servants of God reading the Bible.
The priest explained the process of initiation, saying, "It is okay to become a believer, but there are conditions. First of all, you must pray before and after meals, and go to the Notre Dame service in your village every Sunday, and if there is no one in your village, go to the nearest village or town. If you persist in this way for three months, you will be able to make a vow to confess Our Lady as Lord. Secondly, as I said earlier, after continuing to pray and engage in activities for three months, and through worship and study, and mastering the content of the Sutra of Our Lady, it is time to apply for religious membership. After passing the oral examination, you can go to the Church of Our Lady of Mary to be baptized by the head of the church and finally become a full member of the Church of Our Lady. ”
With the deepening of the promotion of the Divine Religion in Licheng County, some "miracles" from the folk have spread.
For example, in the northeast of Licheng County, Jinan, there is a village named Wujiabao, and the largest local Haoqiang family is the Wu family.
Five generations of the Wu family have been passed down. By the time Wu Tian's generation was over thirty years old, there was still no movement in his wife's belly. The family is so anxious that they can't do it. Parents and other elders felt that the reason why they had not given birth to children until now was because his wife Wu Liusheng could not have children, so they suggested that Wu Tian simply marry another concubine to inherit the family lineage.
Wu Tian and his wife are deeply affectionate, and they hope to live in a two-person world of double accommodation and amphibious, and they don't want to have another concubine in the family. However, it is not easy to refuse the words of the elders directly, so I can only find various reasons to delay it again and again.
They knew that it was impossible to entrust the matter of taking a concubine for a lifetime, and the key to permanently solving the problem was whether Wu Liu's family could give birth to a son. In this regard, they tried their best, saw all the famous doctors, and visited the temple. The money is not spent, the medicine is not eaten, the incense is not less, the love is not less, they almost spend all their energy on creating people, but they have been busy for more than half a year and there is still no movement.
The matter of taking a concubine, the family is getting tighter and tighter, and they can't hide from it. By chance, Wu Tian and his wife heard that a temple called the church had just opened at the foot of Lishan. The leader of the temple who presides over the religious affairs is Luan Ziqi, the god of the dynasty, and his magic power is unfathomable......
Wu Tian didn't say a word, got into a carriage and pulled his daughter-in-law to the main church of Our Lady of Mary.
When I arrived at the church, I went straight to Luan Yi and told her about the obstruction of childbirth.
Luan Yi first led Wu Tian and his wife to the second hospital medical hall and asked the doctor to give them a pulse, and after learning that the couple had no physical diseases, he smiled and said to them: "It is not impossible to give birth if you want to." However, from now on, you and your wife will have to pray to Our Lady every day before and after dinner and during love, asking her to bring you an offspring. Remember, Our Lady of Great Mercy only listens to prayers. This means that the stronger your faith in Our Lady the two of you are in prayer, the more likely you are to conceive a child. In addition to this, doing more good deeds will win the joy of Our Lady and will also increase the probability of pregnancy. Finally, in order to help you conceive a child as soon as possible, all the clergy of the Church of Our Lady of Mary will fast for three days and collectively pray to Our Lady for the delivery of the child. ”
The couple were grateful to Dade and left joyfully after learning how to pray.
After returning to Wujiabao, Wu Tian and his wife first asked their families to reduce the rent of the tenants, and then rewarded the tenant farmers with money, in order to accumulate good karma. At the same time, they insisted on praying before and after two meals a day, went to bed at night and stripped naked, and prayed before doing errands. After persisting like this for more than two months, Wu Liu's family really miraculously conceived a child.
The couple was so surprised and delighted that they would visit Our Lady of Mary to learn how to pray and eventually conceive a child. The family members are all strange, calling out "Our Lady of the Fairy." He became convinced of Our Lady and spontaneously proclaimed it as a miracle.
But they don't know. In fact, Wu Liu's pregnancy is related to both the Church of Our Lady and the Religion of Our Lady. The reason why I say that it is not related is because the pregnancy is not a fairy at all. The reason why I say it is related is because the Church of Our Lady did play a great role in promoting pregnancy.
Later scientific practice has proved that when a man loves a woman, the mood of both men and women has a greater impact on whether they can successfully conceive. Both: When you're in a good mood, you're more likely to conceive.
On the other hand, Wu Tian and his wife. For a long time, they have taken on too much pressure on sexual affairs because of the heavy responsibility of family inheritance. For them, love is a task of great responsibility, not a happy communion. Without the pleasure of physical and mental pleasure, coupled with negative emotions such as anxiety and worry, the possibility of conceiving a child is greatly reduced. This is why no matter how hard they tried, they never had a child.
Our Lady solves precisely this problem. When Mr. and Mrs. Wu Tian believed in Our Lady, after praying, they firmly believed that Our Lady would give them the child. With this belief, the pressure is suddenly removed, and the pleasure of love between men and women returns to their senses. In this way, pregnancy becomes a matter of course.
Of course, in the era of the Eastern Han Dynasty, only Luan Yi knew the above physiological and health knowledge. The vast majority of people from the bottom of their hearts regard Wu Liu's pregnancy as a "apparition of the Virgin". After hearing about this, the number of believers increased, and Wu Tian and his wife became die-hard loyalists of the Church of Our Lady, and went to the Lishan Church of Our Lady all day long to clean up the main hall and serve the Holy Mother with practical actions.
Coincidentally, Wu Biao, a tenant farmer in Wujiabao, also believed in the Church of Our Lady after experiencing some stories.
This Wu Biao gave birth to a son. Last year, he asked someone to give his son a daughter-in-law in a neighboring village. He had secretly gone to see the girl, who was tall, with a straight breast, and a big buttocks. It looks like it has the strength of a handle and can do its job. The butt is big and can give birth. Wu Biao was very satisfied. But the dowry that the other party asked for was a little too high - fifty yuan, plus a sheep and ten buckets of rice.
Wu Biao hesitated in his heart, thinking about simply giving up this marriage and finding someone to see another girl. But every time I want to give up, I always feel that the girl in this house is good, such a good girl has no store in this village, in case she can't find a better one, wouldn't it be a pity that this girl married again?
After tossing and turning for a long time at night, he finally made up his mind and decided to pay the bride price. He held the money jar and secretly calculated: "In the past few years, the year was good, and I saved some money. This year, tighten your belt and live frugally, and at the same time, no matter how hard you sell your hand, you can still get the bride price money that the woman's family wants. ”
However, things didn't go as planned. In mid-September this year, seeing that the bride price money was about to be gathered, my mother-in-law had braided her hair.
As a son-in-law, that is, half a son, he can't help but pay for his mother-in-law's funeral! Otherwise, the villagers said that he was not filial, how could he still behave!
On the day of the burial, according to the strong request of the eldest brother, the mother-in-law was buried in a beautiful manner, and the flowing water mat was placed for two days and two nights. During the wake, Wu Biao cried worse than his mother-in-law's own son, and everyone said that he was filial. It's just that everyone doesn't know that what he is crying about is not the death of his mother-in-law, but the ten times of funeral money spent. His heart was dripping blood, and without these ten dollars, the bride price for his son's daughter-in-law would not be enough. If there is no bride price, there will be no daughter-in-law, and if there is no daughter-in-law, there will be no daughter-in-law...... He is 52 years old this year, and he doesn't know if he can hold his grandson in this life.
Just when Wu Biao was worried about his son's marriage, the servants of the Holy Mother came to Wujiabao to preach the gospel. Wu Biao followed the villagers to several meetings, at which he asked the servant, "Does Our Lady really care about everything?" ”
The servant smiled and nodded yes.
"Can my son's marriage be resolved?"
The Servant nodded again, "Of course! Then, the servant told Wu Biao how to pray to Our Lady.
At first, Wu Biao didn't believe it. But if you think about it, prayer doesn't cost money or effort anyway, so why not try it.
So from such a day on, Wu Biao insisted on talking about his son's marriage to the Virgin sooner or later, but he didn't think about it, only a week later, and it really worked - Wu Tian, the young owner of Wujiabao, somehow showed mercy, reduced the rent to the tenant farmers by one-tenth, not to mention, and rewarded each tenant farmer with 20 yuan.
That's 20 yuan of money, not only does it make up for the bride price of his son's engagement, but the extra 10 yuan can also build another house, so that the young couple can live in a new house.
Thinking of this, Wu Biaole blossomed, and secretly admired the true God of the Holy Mother Sect.
Combining the two stories of Wu Tian and his wife raising a child and Wu Biao marrying a daughter-in-law, a discerning person can see at a glance that there is actually a generational relationship between the two stories. In other words, it was precisely because Wu Tian and his wife gave money to the tenant farmers in order to conceive a child, so that Wu Biao had the bride price money for marrying his daughter-in-law.
However, in Jinan at that time, because the two stories were circulated separately, people did not think of them together, and they were all regarded as the grace of the Virgin.
Stories like this are playing out in Jinan all the time, like dominoes, one after another, falling crookedly, and finally spreading into a lifelike portrait of the Virgin Mary.
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