Chapter 119 The Church Reopens
Chapter 119 The Church Reopens
"Is it tasty?"
Lin Yi smiled as he looked at Long Kui who was pretending to eat the barbecued pork package.
She is a spirit, so she just needs to submit. That’s why she can’t eat the barbecued pork buns.
"delicious!"
Long Kui took small sips of air and gave Lin Yi a sweet smile, which was very cute.
Uncle Jiu looked at Long Kui meaningfully and said lightly.
"This church in Jiuquan Town was built on the Sansha site of Jiuquan Town."
Ah Xing and Xiao Yue were both confused.
The same is true for Lin Yi.
Although he had seen the movie, he didn't know what the Three Evils meant.
"Master, what does the Three Evils Position mean?"
Ah Xing asked curiously.
"I told you to read more books, but you didn't. Now you realize how ignorant you are."
Uncle Jiu looked at Ah Xing unhappily.
There are many professional books at home. When he is not here, he reminds Axing and Xiaoyue to read more books. If they read more books in their daily lives, how could they not know what the Three Evil Positions are.
Ah Xing scratched his head in embarrassment.
Because of this incident, my laziness was discovered.
"The three evil spirits are the robbery evil spirit, the disaster evil spirit and the annual evil spirit!"
"Breaking ground on the Sansha position will disturb the three evil spirits, which is not only unlucky for the homeowner, but also harmful to the workers during the construction."
"When the church was being built, there were several accidents. Workers were either injured or had accidents. After the church was finally completed, the foreign priest disappeared overnight."
“Then the church was sealed.”
"But it's precisely because of this that the evil spirit in the church lingers. Over the years, the evil spirit inside has become very fierce."
"If someone opened a church, wouldn't that be dangerous?"
"That's right. So when I was here, I went to the trouble of going there every morning to relieve myself, so that everyone would think that was the toilet and no one would think of running in."
"I see, Master, you are truly great."
Lin Yi gave Uncle Jiu a thumbs up, but he was laughing in his heart.
Uncle Jiu, you are narrow-minded. You can't stand the fact that the foreign church is more luxurious than your own dojo, and you come up with this kind of excuse.
Uncle Jiu picked up the teacup, smiled and said nothing.
thump—
A clear bell sound suddenly resounded throughout the town.
Uncle Jiu, who was about to drink tea, paused and looked outside in confusion.
There is no temple in the town, so how could the bell be ringing?
Bells are usually rung in places like Taoist temples and Buddhist monasteries.
But suddenly, Uncle Jiu's expression changed, and he thought of a very bad possibility.
The church in Jiuquan Town has reopened!
At this time, not only the people in the teahouse, but also the townspeople on the street were looking in the direction of the bell with strange expressions.
Everyone seemed to be paused, staring blankly in the direction of the church.
It has been many years since the church bells rang.
Now it's been knocked again.
Could it be that the church is open?
thump—
thump—
"The church has reopened and is distributing supplies!"
The patrol horses in the town beat gongs and galloped through the streets, shouting these two sentences.
hiss!
The church has reopened!
This is not the point. The point is that the church is distributing supplies!
If there are benefits, you can believe it. If there are no benefits, who are you?
Most people in China think this way.
Once the eggs stop, faith returns to zero.
Soon, a large number of villagers flocked towards the church in twos and threes.
"Master, listen to the shouting outside. The church has reopened."
Lin Yi didn't expect that it would be such a coincidence. They had just talked about the church when the church outside reopened.
Doesn’t this mean that he can sign in again in the evening!
If I remember correctly, in the movie The Exorcist, there was a dragon-slaying Taoist priest who came to Jiuquan Town under the pretext of transporting contraband. He parked the team of "fake customers" in the church, and then they were bitten to death by real vampire zombies and all turned into vampires.
Tsk tsk, this is a huge wave of "danger"!
If you can sign in a wave, you should be able to withdraw money.
It would be nice to refine these vampire zombies into corpse servants afterwards. It would add new forces to the corpse servant army, so we don’t have to fight by ourselves in the future.
"Yeah, I heard it. Let's go and take a look!"
Uncle Jiu's face was as gloomy as water. He didn't care about eating at this moment. He took out the money and put it on the table, then stood up and walked out.
Seeing this, Axing and Xiaoyue picked up the food on the table and followed Uncle Jiu, eating as they walked.
Qingqing and Hua Ling followed suit, especially Qingqing, who held a barbecued pork bun in each hand.
After leaving the teahouse, many people on the street were running towards the church, all going there to take advantage of the situation.
It's been years since something good like this has happened.
Unexpectedly white hair supplies.
You can get something just by shouting a few slogans. It would be a waste not to do such a good thing.
However, there is no free lunch in the world. This church distributes supplies and preaches openly, but who knows what dirty things it does in secret.
For example, David planned to use the church to do illegal activities.
Soon, Uncle Jiu and his companions followed the crowd to the front of the church.
I saw a banner hung in front of the church with the words "Believe in the Lord and you will have eternal life, Believe in the Lord and you will be saved" written on it.
More and more people gathered around, discussing the reopening of the church.
When some people saw Uncle Jiu coming, they came up to greet him.
"Uncle Jiu, these people are going to reopen the church. Where are you going to go in the mornings?"
"Yeah, Uncle Jiu, now you have nowhere to go to the bathroom."
"Who said that? Even if the church reopens, Uncle Jiu can still go there every morning to relieve himself."
The surrounding villagers laughed and joked.
Uncle Jiu smiled reluctantly, nodded to the people around him, and looked at the missionaries in front of him wearing brown robes.
Seeing that more and more people were gathering around, the leading priest started to do something.
"I come here again today in the name of the Almighty Lord to lead you out of sin. This world is too terrible. Friends don't trust friends, relatives don't trust relatives, and people don't trust people.
Therefore, you must believe in me, because I am the Son of Heavenly Father, and as long as you believe in me, you will also become the children of Heavenly Father. "
The person who spoke was Father Wu, the leader of these people in missionary work.
He looks somewhat similar to Master Ikkyu, with a circle of white hair on his head. Why do I say "a circle"? Because the top of his head is bald.
In the early Middle Ages, Christian monks also practiced the shaving of their heads like Buddhists. Initially, they simply shaved their heads bald. Later, when the church organization developed to Western Europe, the peasants there also shaved their hair short. In this way, the bald head of the priest lost its symbolic function, so the so-called "St. Peter's hairstyle" in the shape of a crown was invented.
Wearing thick-lens glasses, he looks very funny.
"Please accept our humble gifts and prayers, and grant us the strength to do good. Have faith, be pious, and give. May the Lord be with us."
Father Wu was still speaking, but the crowd below was already scrambling to grab supplies, fearing that if they acted too late, the supplies would be gone.
"Hey, don't grab it!"
"Everyone has it, don't grab it!"
But no matter how the people maintaining order shouted, it was of no use.
Milk powder, clothes, and various other supplies were looted.
Those who got the supplies were afraid that they would be robbed, so they just walked away with the supplies. When the people behind saw this, they squeezed forward to get the supplies.
As for what Father Wu said above, who cares about you?
If it weren't for your supplies, who would be willing to come?
However, as more and more people got the supplies, and they saw that these foreigners didn't seem to have any intention of taking them back, they gradually relaxed.
More people wanted to see what these people were doing and whether they could take advantage of them, so they didn't rush to leave and gathered around to watch Father Wu perform.
At this moment, Uncle Jiu pushed through the crowd and shouted, "The church cannot reopen!"
Just this one shout attracted everyone's attention.
When they saw that it was Uncle Jiu who came out, everyone had a playful smile on their faces.
"Haha, now we're going to have some fun."
"That's right. The church is about to reopen. How will Uncle Jiu be able to go out in the morning?"
"That's right, I heard that people can't pee unless Uncle Jiu is outside the church door."
The crowd was buzzing with discussion, all of them just there to watch the show.
Lin Yi held Long Kui and squeezed to the front with Qingqing and Hua Ling, occupying the best position to eat the melon.
Axing and Xiaoyue followed closely behind.
"Sir, who are you? Why are you trying to stop the church from reopening?"
Father Wu pushed his glasses on his nose and asked.
"Father Wu, this is the Taoist priest in town, Uncle Jiu!"
At this time, David, who had also received the news and rushed over, squeezed out of the crowd and introduced Father Wu.
"Uncle Jiu! Oh! Angkonai!"
Father Wu gave a simple translation that left Uncle Jiu completely bewildered.
What is this foreigner talking about?
"I don't care what you say, this church cannot be reopened!"
Uncle Jiu frowned and said loudly.
"Uncle Jiu, this church has been allowed to reopen after the town's decision. You'd better not stop it."
David looked at Uncle Jiu with a smile, but that smile looked a little sinister.
Uncle Jiu had a sharp eye and had long seen that David was not a good person.
It’s just that this guy’s father is the mayor, so it’s not easy to offend him.
"That won't work! This church is built on a dangerous spot. Once the church reopens, the people in the town will be in trouble!"
"I ask you, can you bear this responsibility?"
Uncle Jiu looked at David coldly.
However, David didn't care at all.
"I will take responsibility for it!"
"What's the point of the Three Evils? Uncle Jiu, what era is this? Feudal superstitions are out of the question. We must believe in science! Foreign guns and cannons have been proven to be effective. Talk about gods, Buddhas, ghosts, and monsters is all just bullshit."
Uncle Jiu was not angry at all, he just looked at Father Wu coldly.
"So you still want to reopen the church?"
So what you mean is that what I am talking about is feudal superstition, and you can believe what Father Wu says!
You are really double-standard.
Uh, how could I have forgotten about this.
David felt a little embarrassed, but he was not panicked.
"Haha, Uncle Jiu, the church and your gym are actually the same. It's just a place for preaching."
"You can choose not to believe it, but you can't deny its existence."
"You are so forceful in preventing the church from reopening. I have reason to believe that you don't want the priests to steal your business."
David chuckled.
The people around heard a lot of discussion.
Is it really so?
It seems that this is what Uncle Jiu has been doing in recent years. He hates being taught by foreigners and urinates in front of other people's doorsteps every day.
You can't say that urination is to ward off evil spirits.
But it’s true, Uncle Jiu is a boy, and his first urine every morning has the strongest yang energy, which is the best for dispelling evil energy.
Urinating every morning is definitely Uncle Jiu’s greatest contribution to Jiuquan Town.
Make sure that nothing goes wrong with the church on the Sansha site over the years.
But now, some people want to reopen the church!
"I don't care what you say, as long as I'm here, this church can't be opened!"
Uncle Jiu said with a frown in annoyance.
“Why can’t it be opened?”
Someone else is coming on stage!
The person who spoke walked out from the crowd. It turned out to be An's daughter, Annie!
Anne was wearing a red dress with delicate makeup on her face. Her figure was shown to the fullest, and she became the most beautiful focus of the audience as soon as she appeared.
Many people were stunned when they saw it.
Including Ah Xing, their eyes were about to pop out.
Xiaoyue, who was standing by, saw this and stepped on him in annoyance.
This senior brother is so disappointing. He becomes a fool when he sees a beautiful girl. He really brings shame to the master and to me.
"Ouch!"
Ah Xing grimaced in pain and looked at Xiaoyue aggrievedly, but was glared back by Xiaoyue.
"She's Shopkeeper An's daughter!"
"Why is Miss An here too?"
"You're stupid! Miss An just returned from studying abroad. She must have come here to reopen the church."
"It seems that the An family also supports the reopening of the church."
In the crowd, Shopkeeper An looked at his daughter helplessly.
He wanted to hold Annie back, but failed.
Manager An had heard about what happened in the church that year. Although so many years had passed, nothing had happened since the church was sealed.
But who knows if there will be problems after the church reopens.
Uncle Jiu must have his reasons for preventing the church from reopening.
Why is this girl so disobedient?
"Uncle Nine!"
Anne walked over to David and Father Wu and greeted Uncle Jiu.
"Ah."
Uncle Jiu responded reluctantly, his expression still looking somewhat ugly.
"Uncle Jiu, the church makes people do good, which is obviously a good thing. Why are you trying to stop it, Uncle Jiu?"
Uncle Jiu sneered, "Good thing! Do you have to see Jiuquan Town become a river of blood because of this church before you will regret it?"
"I don't care if these foreign monks want to preach, but this church cannot be opened!"
"Once the church reopens, Jiuquan Town will be in turmoil!"
"I'm putting my words here. If you insist, then I have nothing to say!"
It's hard to persuade a damn ghost with good words.
What's more, no matter what he says now, it seems to be useless.
As soon as the people from the church arrived, they used supplies to silence the townspeople and also won over the influential people in the town to speak for them.
Now the church seems to be open.
"Uncle Jiu, we respect you as a senior and you have done a lot for the town, but you should not speak without thinking."
"What's the harm in reopening the church? It's just scaring yourself."
David said with a smile, suddenly raising his voice.
"Don't worry, Father Wu is very powerful. Even if there is something dirty in the church, he can get rid of it."
"Also, everyone knows about the situation at Zhaoji Winery. I've already bought it and will ask a priest to perform an exorcism tomorrow. I believe everything will be fine soon."
The crowd became more lively now, and no longer took Uncle Jiu's words about not allowing the church to reopen and saying that reopening the church would cause trouble in the town seriously.
Uncle Jiu looked at the townspeople around him and shook his head helplessly.
I really tried my best.
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