A few days later, Maria found Liu Chang alone.

"Are you sure?" Liu Chang asked Mary solemnly: "You must know that this is a road with glory and hardship. Even though you are the only volunteer, you still have the right to give up. We have the option to choose volunteers from the world, so you don't have to worry about it. ”

"I have made up my mind" Maria was resolute, her eyes resolute, and her tone resolute.

"Good. You don't have to say goodbye to anyone, you can leave on your own. A year later, the program was launched. Looking at the back of Mary's departure, Liu Chang felt sour and admired in his heart: take himself as a boat and lead the Holy Child.

Why don't you let Maria say goodbye to everyone, this is the only way Liu Chang can leave for Maria, that is, to give her a year of regret time.

Mary, a young Jewish girl, is standing in a cave in Nazareth's house. A year ago she had come here from the Himalayas in the East to restore her former identity as a shepherdess.

Her parents have long since passed away, and this cave was the residence of her parents when they were alive, and they bought forty sheep and made a living by shepherding sheep, which is also regarded as inheriting her father's business.

There was a young man who often visited her, and his name was Arthur, and he was a carpenter. At that time, when repairing the sheepfold, Maria found him, a young man, tall and handsome, cheerful and sunny, with very good carpentry skills, and quite famous in the local area.

In order to find a favorable platform for the savior's advent, Liu Chang exchanged views with several messengers, but only his eyes lit up with the conversation with Mary, who spoke about her birthplace, about their faith, and about Judaism.

"We believe in Yahweh," Mary said to Liu Chang at the time: "We worship him as the Creator, the One God, and the Creator of the universe." ”

"The God we believe in is an all-pervasive, omnipotent, formless spirit who created and dominated the world. But it does not deny the existence of other spiritual beings such as angels, demons, etc.; It is only believed that other spirit bodies are not "creators" but "creatures", so they cannot be called "gods" and are not objects of worship. ”

"Dear Mary, why are you in a daze again? Your flock is scattered" A sweet voice came from afar, Arthur returned.

Mary jumped up for joy, ran to Arthur's side, and took his carpenter's tools: "You're here?" I'll prepare dinner right away. ”

Arthur and Maria had already made a marriage contract three months ago, and Maria is now his fiancée.

Mary's helplessness now is that there must be a man, and he must be a man without stains, why did she choose Arthur, because Arthur's ancestor was David.

She still has to play the role of a young girl from time to time, and she has to paint the old cucumber with green paint - pretending to be tender, and she has to pretend to be innocent, even if her real age is a hundred years old.

It's not that I'm sorry for this man, a carpenter. In this day and age, what is the least valuable? Person! People who have no status, whether men or women, are untouchables!

Maria's helplessness is that she must always be on high alert, Arthur is here, brush it, the neighbor is here, brush it, even if a stranger comes, you have to brush it. Brush it for outsiders, brush it for Arthur, brush it for everyone, brush it around, just for his son, the future savior has a perfect mother in the eyes of everyone!

After hastily completing a sloppy dinner with twelve points of enthusiasm, Arthur was sent away with reluctant eyes.

Judaism, while not strictly forbidden to cohabit before marriage, divides women into two categories: goddesses and prostitutes.

Obviously, cohabitants before marriage belong to the ranks of prostitutes, which is the best reason for Mary to reject Arthur. But in fact, there was really no language to communicate, and she was not interested in him making a few tables and stools a day, earning a few as, a few dinars, and not the slightest. She would now rather be alone in a dark cave than with anyone.

Calculating the time was Mary's daily lesson. This year, Mary felt that it was longer than a hundred years, a real hundred years. As of today, in two hours, it should be a full year.

As night fell, Mary checked the sheepfold, closed the door, and sat alone at the mouth of the cave, staring blankly at the stars. A bean-like oil lamp in the cave emitted a dim light, and I couldn't help but think about the bright life of the base.

When she was fourteen years old, she was chosen as an al-Qaeda emissary. Before that, her memory was living in this cave with her mother, shepherding sheep for a living. Father, I don't remember anymore, my mother said that my father was a businessman, economic real estate, a fire, my father's own fire brigade could not arrive in time, and refused to sell the house to the city lord's fire brigade, and all the property was wiped out.

The owners around him sold them to the lord of the castle at one percent of the original price before the fire burned. No, there is no conspiracy here, everything is providential. If there is a plan to be found, the lord of the castle will be judged.

The city lord's fire brigade was professional, and it was on alert almost all day, and the horses pulling water looked calm in the face of the fire. And the horse, who pulled the water cart by his own fire brigade, had never seen a fire, got out of control, and his father went bankrupt.

These were memories of her mother's leisure that Mary had never experienced, and after her father's death, they left Bethlehem and came to Nazareth to live by shepherding sheep. Mary's memories are only of herding sheep and milking them.

Memories are colorful, memories are colorful, memories are also delicious, I am recalling milking the sheep, and there is a sheep cry of "baa, baa" in my ears. Is this sheep a sperm? Do they even feel the idea of milking themselves?

As soon as I came back to my senses, there was a round thing not far away, shining fleshy in the candlelight, as well as eyes and nose.

"Thank God, it should be God. When you wake up, your sheep have not been stolen, and you are blessed by God. Meatball's eyes moved, and the mouth below spoke.

Ignoring the bald head, Mary got up and ran to the sheepfold not far away, and in the darkness three figures worked together neatly, two of them carrying the two horns of the sheep, one of them grasping the tail of the sheep, and the whole sheep was carried over on all four feet in the air.

"Gee, when did you guys get here?" Maria clenched her fists and stomped on the ground.

"Seeing that you are dreaming in spring, saliva is flowing out, so I didn't bother you" The aunt is still the same aunt, the aunt who grabbed the sheep's tail, and she is not afraid of the sheep pooping and pulling it on her hands.

"Hurry up, we have traveled tens of thousands of miles, and we haven't even eaten, just to taste the taste of your Rome." The brunette said unceremoniously.

Without saying a word, Mary ran back to the cave, brought out a cauldron, supported it with stones, and filled it with water. He brought a pile of wood and put it at the bottom of the pot and started a fire. The water is boiling.

The three of them did the work of killing the sheep, peeling the skin, removing the internal organs, dividing it into several pieces and putting the lamb in a saucepan with chopped onions and coriander. Mash pepper, ravac, cumin, boiled in dashi oil and wine.

The work of adding wood to the fire is Liu Chang's, and he can't do the rest, it's not that he doesn't do it, it's that he gets in the way, in case one accidentally falls into the pot, this pot of mutton will be ruined.

A meal of effort, a real meal of effort, lamb is cooked. One piece per person, put on a plate and beat with cheese batter. Wine is a must, wine, a Roman-style feast ready.

"I've heard that the Roman aristocracy had to eat on their stomachs in order to have status. Where are you lying here? Lying on the ground? Liu Chang held the plate and looked around but didn't find a place to lie down.

"Who do you listen to, how do you eat on your stomach?" This is the former eldest princess Liu Ling.

"Really? It's so much fun to eat on your stomach. Let's give it a try. "This is Black Thunderbolt Jones.

"Get on the ground."

"Forget it, there is sheep on the ground, and it will be troublesome to get it on the plate and eat it as beans"

"How's it going? How does it feel to be in love, isn't it exciting, exciting? When he couldn't find a place to lie down, Jones took a plate and huddled around Maria, continuing the Roman tradition, grabbing a large piece of lamb and chewing it in his mouth, while asking excitedly.

"It's exciting, why don't you give it a try?"

"Really? I'll forget it, I don't want to be a mother to others, and I'll and pee for a while. But how about I be a stepmother to your son? The righteous mother, the second righteous godmother, I will be the third righteous mother. ”

"Then I'll be a father-in-law"

"Go, go, what's going on with you, look at yourself, how can you be a father. Where to go in the future, I still have to hold my son. ”

The meal ended quickly, mainly because everyone didn't care about any Roman dinner, mainly because they hadn't seen each other for a year, and when they met, they talked a lot, holding empty plates one by one, and kept chattering. The content of the twitter, Liu Chang basically couldn't interject.

"Okay, now let's get down to business... Liu Chang clapped his little hands and stopped everyone's conversation. If you don't let me be a righteous father, I won't let you be a righteous mother, and you will be a righteous mother, a second righteous mother, and a third righteous mother, this villain is so stingy.

Liu Chang stood on a high stone platform, with a solemn expression, his eyes were level, and there was no sadness or joy:

"Mary, a full year has passed now. It's too late for you to regret it. Ben villain... Wrong wrong; Ben-sama? It doesn't seem right, no matter what it is, please come to me. ”

Maria also stood up, walked in front of Liu Chang, knelt on one knee, and crossed her hands in front of her chest.

began to get down to business, and the other three also restrained their expressions and stood solemnly aside.

"I ask you now, do you still insist? After tonight, there's no room for you to turn back. This is not a game, it is a formal inquiry. The whole process will be documented, and you will be asked to answer it officially. ”

"I swear by my faith: I am willing to use my body as a boat to bring the Lord to come, and I will never repent."

"Good vows. From this moment on, you, as the Virgin, everything in the base will be at your disposal" Liu Chang stepped down from the high platform and helped Mary up with his own hands.

The three people who watched the ceremony applauded and saluted.