Hearing Guo Tu question himself, Li Xin was not impatient or impatient, and explained gently: "Brother Guo, have you thought about it?" What if all the people in the world lived forever? He put on an exaggerated expression and asked himself, "In a few hundred years, the earth will be full of people if the children and grandchildren continue!" When the time comes, let alone growing grain and grazing, you will have to stand even to sleep. Can you imagine that? ”

A scene of rubbing shoulders one after another, a sea of people immediately appeared in front of Guo Tu's eyes. He hurriedly nodded yes.

Li Xin put on an exaggerated expression again, spread his hand and gestured: "You must know that the earth has an end, and the sky is boundless. In the vast sky, no matter how many people live, they can live. And not only can they live, but everyone can get a large piece of land. Can you imagine it? ”

The reason Li Xin said is very much in line with people's understanding of heaven and earth in the second century AD. In the eyes of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the sky is round. The earth has limits, but the heavens are vast.

Therefore, Guo Tu was convinced of Li Xin's statement.

Li Xin said: "In order to let the people I have created can continue to live without living in a congested environment. So Our Lady of Mercy opened her kingdom in heaven for the people to live there. ”

Li Xin continued: "But the problem is here again. Man is not like a bird, he has no wings, and his body is heavy, so he can't fly to the sky. If you can't go to heaven, you can't enter the kingdom of eternal heaven. What to do? ”

"What should I do?"

Li Xin said mysteriously: "Our Lady knows that people can't fly by relying on their bodies, so she exerts great power to gather people's thoughts, spirits, ideas and other items together, and combine them into an energy that is difficult to distinguish with the naked eye. This energy is what we call the soul. When our bodies die, the soul is not only not gone, but is stripped from the body. The human soul is as light as nothing, like ......," he thought, "like a leaf, which can fly with the wind." If you are a believer, the thoughts of the Holy Spirit in your soul will guide you to the gates of heaven and into heaven, where you can achieve what we call immortality. Do you understand? ”

"Got it in general!" Guo Tu lowered his head and pondered for a while, and concluded: "The patriarch is saying that people can't fly to heaven when they are alive. If you can't enter the kingdom of heaven, you can't live forever. But after death, things will be different. The most essential part of the human body, that is, the soul, can fly, and by the ability to fly, the soul can go to heaven with the wind and enjoy eternal bliss in the vast realm of Our Lady. ”

"It's easy to talk to smart people." Li Xin patted the horse by the way, and continued: "Therefore, for the Catholics of Our Lady, the death of the body is also the beginning of the birth of the soul, the body can be destroyed, but the soul can be immortalized. ”

"I see!" Guo Tu nodded again and again, "But...... Figure has a question, Patriarch is not strange? ”

"Although."

Guo Tu asked: "The soul is ethereal, and no one has ever seen it." Does it really exist? ”

Li Xin replied without hesitation, "Of course there is." Otherwise, where did the ghost come from? A ghost is a form of the soul. Those who do not believe in Our Lady, do not respect Our Lady's way, and are bewitched by the devil, Our Lady will not allow their souls to fly into the gates of heaven after their bodies are destroyed. So, these souls wander around the world, and they are what we call ghosts. Some of these sinful demons, the sinister part of their souls, will attract demons and drag them to hell. You know? ”

"Oh, I see! But ......" Guo Tu thought about it again and questioned, "I have only heard of this ghost mentioned by others, and I have never seen it." ”

"Uh......" Li Xin organized his language slightly, "It doesn't matter if you haven't seen a ghost." I still have evidence that souls exist. ”

Guo Tu asked, "What evidence?" ”

"I did an experiment in the Holy Cross Medical Science Hall."

"Experiments? What is an experiment? Guo Tu was puzzled.

"It's just ......" Li Xin rummaged through his mind, and finally found a word that could be replaced, "It's an attempt." He continued: "The subject of the experiment was an old man surnamed Ding in Jinan, whose life was in danger. Before he died, the priest of the church weighed him at ninety pounds. An hour after he died, he weighed him again. You know what? ”

"What's wrong?" Guo Tu's heart rose to his throat.

"Ding Laohan's weight after his death became eighty-nine pounds and fourteen taels." Li Xin's eyes flashed with fantastical brilliance, and asked Guo Tu, "The weight is less than when he was alive by two taels (in ancient times, the hexadecimal unit of measurement was used, as the so-called half a catty and eight taels, and one catty was sixteen taels. In this way, one catty minus two taels is fourteen taels). Where did the missing weight go? You can't say that a dead man starved for two taels of meat, right? ”

"Where's that?" Guo Tu was very surprised.

"Don't panic, and listen to me slowly talk to you." Li Xin said: "In order to avoid deviations in the experiment. The students of the Holy Cross Medical Science then found an elderly man who was seriously ill. The old man's surname is Sun, and his family is richer than Ding Laohan, so when he was alive, he was heavier than Ding Laohan, weighing 170 pounds, and he should be a big fat man. An hour after he died, the students of the medical hall weighed him again. You know what? ”

Guo Tu was hung up on his appetite, "What's the matter?" ”

Li Xin said: "The weight has become 169 pounds and 14 taels." It's also 2 taels lighter. Where did these two taels of meat go? ”

Guo Tu nodded again and again, "If people die, they will definitely not starve for two taels of meat." ”

"That's right! Later, the students of the School of Medicine conducted experiments on countless endangered elderly people, and the answer was that whether the gender was male or female, whether the age was 5 or 50 years old, and whether the weight was heavy or light, the weight before death was about two taels heavier than after death. Li Xin threw the question to Guo Tu again, "Then let me ask you, where did these two taels of meat go?" ”

Guo Tu suddenly realized, "What does the patriarch mean? The two taels had to be human souls, and because they were stripped from the body after death, they were lighter. ”

"Exactly."

"Wow!" Guo Tu was shocked, "What the patriarch said is true? ”

"I would like to swear to Our Lady in my own honor, this matter can never be more true." The more Li Xin spoke, the more excited he became, so he simply opened the drawer, rummaged through the stacks of documents, and found a pile of Shencai paper sewn with needles and threads and threw it in front of Guo Tu, "Look, what is this?" ”

Guo Tu took a closer look and saw a line of large characters printed on the title page of the Shencai paper - Document No. 9 of the Second Year of the Holy Yuan of the Holy Mother of the Holy Mother Sect "On the Examination of the Weight of the Soul".

Li Xin spat and said, "This document is an internal document of the church, and it was sent to all the churches directly under the church last year. All of what I have just said is recorded in it, and the more than 100 teachers and students of the Holy Cross Medical University have all witnessed this miracle and have sworn to ensure that the conclusions contained in it are true and not adulterated in the slightest. ”

Guo Tu brushed the saliva squirted out by Li Xin on the paper with the back of his hand and looked back and forth. The article recorded the weight data and results observed by the teachers and students of the Holy Cross Medical University on more than 100 subjects of different ages in the past year. As Li Xin said, no matter how old or how much weight he weighs, the weight lost after death is unexpectedly consistent, which is two or two.

This is clearly not a coincidence......

In fact, it is indeed not a coincidence that in the 21st century, science has proved that people will weigh about 7 grams less after death than before death. Theologians believe that the lost 7 grams of weight are the soul; Natural scientists explain that after death, the body loses some of its water for a short period of time due to the cessation of metabolism. The mass of this part of the moisture is exactly around 7 grams.

As for how exactly the 7 grams of weight was lost, there are different opinions, and there is no conclusive conclusion. However, for Luan Yi now, he prefers to believe that it is the latter-a soul that is beyond the world.

Guo Tu didn't know any natural science, so he naturally linked the lost weight with the soul. Pleasantly surprised. He was shocked that there really is a soul in the world, and the soul has a definite weight - two taels. Happily, I really didn't choose the wrong path, threw myself into the arms of Our Lady's Church, and realized the ideal of immortality after death. He couldn't help but draw a cross on his chest, "Our Lady is merciful, merciful! This voice is more reverent than ever.

Li Xin and Lu Ji also drew a cross, "Ah...... Heaven's Gate! ”

To solve the mystery in his heart, Guo Tu completely worshiped under the Holy Mother's door, and he solemnly promised Li Xin that he would make more meritorious contributions in the next time and consolidate the path to heaven after death.

Looking at the immediate backs of Guo Tu and his wife, Li Xin smiled. With Guo Tu's support, the church's power on the ground in Jizhou has been stabilized a little. In addition, he can also use Guo Tu's power to create a lot of trouble for Yuan Shao in the rear.

As it turned out, in the days that followed, Guo Tu did make a great contribution to the church.

For half a year in a row, the main battle generals such as the trial and matching, the frustration and Zhang He, Gao Ran and other main battle generals repeatedly asked Yuan Shao to send troops to Youzhou, but they were all frustrated by Guo Tu's side knock on the side and talk about Luan Yi's threat theory.

At the same time, Guo Tu also united with the powerful ministers Feng Ji to use all their conspiracies and tricks to suppress Yuan Shao's subordinate generals such as Fu Zhu, Tian Feng, and Zhang He. As a result, Yuan Shao's capable people were marginalized and could not be reused, while he and Feng Ji were in Hebei thriving.

For a time, Yuan Shao's account was full of complaints, and many people of insight took this opportunity to see the essence of Yuan Shao's stupidity. Those who had foresight predicted Yuan Shao's future outcome in advance. And began to prepare for the search for a way out.

Obviously, Luan Yi, who is next to them by the river, is the best choice.

At the same time that the court in Hebei fell into endless infighting, on the eighth day of the ninth month of the third year of Shengyuan, the news came from Henan that Luan Yi had captured Xuzhou and Liu Xuande had died on the battlefield.

"What?" Hearing this, Yuan Shao was shocked. "Luan Yi is already powerful, and now there are more Xuzhou than others, how can this be good?"