Chapter 106 Another role of the church

The missionary that began the next day indeed changed a certain way. The printing of leaflets continued to be done - without leaflets, there would be no listeners. When Lu Ruohua was preaching, he mentioned all the original sins, hell and other things, and talked about various "miracles" and "resurrection".

After a few days of talk, the results were actually achieved. An old lady came to Bai Duolu and asked where their temple was. Lu Ruohua was so happy that she immediately helped her to the third entrance of the ancestral hall, asking her about her well-being, and preparing to save her soul. But the old lady's body needs even more relief - she has been in poor health for a long time and wants to ask for medicine: take a handful of incense ash or talisman water.

Lu Ruohua is worthy of being a Jesuit, but he did not change his color. Instead, he took the opportunity to talk about the truth that as long as he firmly believed in God, he made the old lady dizzy and took away a small wooden cross when he left.

After a few days, I wondered whether God really planned to show his spirits or the effect of spiritual therapy on this barren land. The old lady came to the church again. This time she respectfully wanted to "invite" a big "cross" back. Lu Ruohua was so excited that she burst into tears - Matteo Ricci had not been baptized by a person in Panheng, China for many years. He opened up the situation so easily, and couldn't help but look at Bai Dulu, so the content of "reasoning" became more and more "conforming to China's national conditions". In the end, he baptized the dizzy old lady. Of course, whether to wash away the "original sin" or the "root of illness" was to express one thing separately.

From this day on, Lu Ruohua's missionary work opened up. Bai Duolu discovered that history has proved that middle-aged and elderly women have infinite vitality and are gold mines for various social activities to recruit activists. Under the strong advocacy and guidance of this old lady, many women and elderly people came to "listen to the truth". Although no one has yet to baptize, gradually many people gathered to listen to Father Lu's preaching at night - the long night is long, and it is also a kind of entertainment, not to mention that this red-haired man is also a diorama.

Lu Ruohua is very good at learning from one example. In addition to telling miracles as usual, he also talks about some biblical stories - of course, he should be "suggested" by Bai Duolu to avoid some of the most shocking and powerful news that is too shocking to the extraordinary.

"Father, now that someone has come to listen to the preaching, I think we can change the layout of the chapel a little." One day, Bai Dulu said humbly.

"How to change it."

"I remember in Europe, churches have always been a place for mass gatherings and socializing..."

"You're right." Lu Ruohua was very excited. "There are people doing business in the rural church in France. It is also a countryside, and there is no pastime or entertainment, and there is no suitable gathering place."

There were originally a gathering place. Under the big banyan tree at the entrance of the village, it was originally a natural gathering place. However, when the Party and the government returned to the tug-of-war, they chose the place where people were killed. So far, black stains could still be seen in the gaps in the bluestone slabs - blood stains from that year. The villagers now stay away from that place.

At Bai Dulu's suggestion, Lu Ruohua added some tables and chairs to the decorations of the third courtyard that had been converted into a chapel, prepared many torches, a large number of tea bowls and teapots bought from Lingao, and added a stove to specialize in boiling water. This place was made into an evening party place.

As for the cross worshipped, at the suggestion of Baithor, the cross that everyone thought was terrifying was changed to ordinary ones. The church also added a picture of the Virgin holding the Son in the arms of the Virgin - this is the same as why Guanyin was very popular in Chinese Buddhism. In European Catholic countries, the Virgin faith is also very popular.

After this careful modification, the church became a local social center: the priests lit a large number of lanterns every day without hesitation - so that Bai Dulu had to go back to Bairen to buy candles several times. Generally, farmers refused to light the lamps at night to save lamp oil. The church not only lighted the lamps but also lit it, which immediately attracted many women who wanted to work at night and young people who didn't want to go to bed early. They gathered together to talk, listened to Father Red-haired to tell a few Western stories, and some words to persuade him to be kind. Gradually, everyone was interested in his "reasoning". The postal inspection department of the General Administration of Security receives a letter written by Lu Ruohua to the president of the Jesuit in Macau almost every three or four days, with passion in his words.

Bai Dulu knew that it was difficult to get started in the countryside. However, once the situation was opened, it would often sweep the whole village quickly. So he advised Lu Ruohua not to worry, focus his work on the family of the first baptized believer, and first capture the next household as a "fortress". Lu Ruohua now relies on Bai Dulu as his right-hand man, obeying his advice and caring for Tai Po Mei, the family who was baptized first.

The church was bustling, which made Du Wen very upset. Several times, Dong Weiwei blamed her for not giving advice to Bai Dulu.

"Now! The masses have won the foreign church! How can we carry out the future work!"

"We can't fight for it, so let them fight for it first. It's better than those who are immortal." Dong Weiwei has worked in townships and knows that where the church has successfully preached, social order has generally improved significantly, and government work has been much easier.

"Besides, Mr. Wen said: This church is not a foreign church, but a church with Chinese characteristics."

Du Wen continued to object: "I am against this method of using religion to deceive the people."

"Okay, stop talking about these big principles." Dong Weiwei said, "Now everyone is gathered, and everyone has something to do every night, so it is much easier to understand the social situation."

With such a place where villagers gather, the team members of the lecture hall easily get into the public. It is easier and more convenient to collect social situations than before. Soon, mass work has made progress and the team members have collected a lot of basic information.

Unfortunately, Du Wen and Dong Weiwei, two time travelers, cannot get involved in this matter, and even women's work that women are most suitable for is difficult to carry out. This is not as good as Yanchang Village, where elders of the Tan family introduced them. Du Wen can easily talk to Tan Xiaoqin about the issue of women's liberation. They don't know how to needle and thread, and they can't speak in Lingao, and they can't talk to local women at all. They can't go to the church to sit and talk to people without success - everyone is a little afraid of them, after all, people are "female officials".

Dong Weiwei thought for a long time and decided to use her knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine to get close to the masses. She has several common medical manuals for traditional Chinese medicine. She is a family-born Chinese medicine doctor and has also learned some massage and acupuncture. Now she can use it.

Du Wen couldn't think of any way and acted as her assistant - she didn't have the strength, she still had the strength. Learning massage and other things was fine. The two women set up stalls in churches to practice medicine. This move was immediately very popular: there was a general lack of medical treatment and medicine in rural areas, and women rarely had the opportunity to see a doctor, and they had some illnesses. Dong Weiwei found that she had become a general practitioner, relying on the accumulation of the past to practice medicine, and she had to receive several female patients every day. This made her feel in panic from time to time, fearing that she would have ruined the patient.

After things were so far, she could not retreat, so she wrote a very earnest letter to the Ministry of Health, asking them to send Liu San, the only Chinese medicine talent, to help, at least solve the problem of drug treatment. Now she prescribes prescriptions and does not prescribe them - she has to go to the county town to get medicine, and farmers don’t always have cash.

But even so, the locals were very grateful for their actions. They were finally able to directly contact the local people.

The two women worked day and night. The lantern was often on all night, and they repeatedly studied the materials collected from various channels. The boxes Du Wen used to make a file cabinet have begun to pile up a lot of written materials. Her notebook was filled with some similar words:

"Liu Dazhu, a poor peasant, has a swaying attitude."

"Wang Wu, rich peasant, hates bandits and is not determined in fighting."

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The most important situation of the bandits in the village, they had some materials. Through the lecturers, they secretly contacted many victims of bandits. Every night, people secretly came in from behind the third church and talked secretly in the second courtyard. When it comes to sadness, there are always people crying, women are soft-hearted, and they are prone to cry when they see people crying, and unexpectedly it is easier to win people's hearts - everyone says that these two female officials are kind-hearted.

These victims were carefully chosen by the students - not to have a blood feud with the bandits. When it comes to the bandits, they all gritted their teeth and cried bitterly. However, even so, Du Wen's expectation to mobilize them to organize basic militias first and then mobilize the masses was still dashed.

Most of the victims' families died in young and middle-aged people, and bandits also understood the principle of eradicating the roots. Those who left behind were either elderly people or women and children. There were a few young and middle-aged people. The elderly at home were also afraid that this only seedling would suffer another accident and had a negative attitude.

Half a month has passed, and the situation has not made much progress. Daolu Village can still maintain its superficial calm. In other villages in the Thirteen Village area, a bandits rushed back to replenish food.

Although this bandit was quickly wiped out by the bandit suppression detachment that followed. However, the current situation in the Thirteen Village area was not consolidated, and the news also appeared in the internal notice. Du Wen was so anxious that Ma Qianzhuo's telegram just told them to pay attention to safety and had no intention of blame. However, the two women still felt heavy pressure.
Chapter completed!