Chapter 32 Chapter Thirty-Two

The Mohe teaching plan in the fifth year of Guangxu has been brewing for a long time. As early as in Chunshang, there were rumors in and outside the city that the foreign-haired boys in the church had no good intentions and went around abducting babies and killing them to make foreign medicines.Rumor has it that there are noses and eyes, and it is said that what kind of medicine is prepared by the baby's heart, and what kind of medicine is prepared by the baby's liver.In the summer, there were posts in the city, even on the street across from the county government office, there was also a post. It was a very long book and song. Apart from the old saying of kidnapping and killing babies, it had been publicly put forward——

In the autumn of September, great chaos suddenly broke out. The villagers around Mohe and the people in the city surrounded the church overnight with torches, demanding that Pastor Peter, who was in charge of the church, hand over the adopted baby.Pastor Peter saw that the situation was not good, and wanted to see the county magistrate, but he couldn't see him in the middle of the night, so he closed the door.The crowd made a noise and set fire to it.After Pastor Peter was burned out, people hacked him alive with kitchen knives.When Mr. Wang arrived the next morning, Pastor Peter had no good flesh in his body, his stomach had been cut open, and his gray intestines were dragged all over the floor.

Mr. Wang didn't take it seriously at the time. Although he sent someone to arrest the mob murderer pretendingly, he said in the report that foreigners and foreign churches have committed illegal activities, which aroused the anger of the people. The occurrence of teaching plans began.Mr. Wang never expected that this mere teaching case that only a foreigner died would alarm the Beijing court, attract the governor and the consuls of the Western powers, and he would be dismissed and exiled... Qiaotou Town is only 40 miles away from Mohe City. The news of the Mohe religious case spread to Qiaotou Town the day after the incident.The news came out again, saying that Pastor Peter was concocting the elixir of immortality with the brains of living babies that night, but was captured by the righteous people on the spot and killed with a stick.He also said that after learning about the incident, the official king not only did not punish the righteous people, but instead praised the righteous people for eliminating one evil for the local area.

Tian Zongxiang, a scholar who is full of knowledge and knowledge, was excited when he heard the news, and concluded that there was something wrong with the foreign medicine that Pastor James used to treat the disease.Master Xiucai thought that his knowledge was the biggest in Qiaotou Town, so he decided to take the lead and be the master of the place.Master Xiucai first conspired with a group of adults and gentlemen who talked about the world in Juren Hall, and then went around to gather righteous people.There were 20 or 30 righteous people here, most of them were decent people who knew a little about "Zi Yue" and some ancient principles, and they were also disliked by cults just like Master Xiucai.

Master Xiucai saw that many righteous people came, and he was more energetic. Standing at the gate of Jurentang, he danced and said: "...Everyone has heard about it? Yesterday the righteous people of Mohe killed that Maozi, and Mohe was killed. Get rid of it. What about our Qiaotou town? Do you want to get rid of Zhan Maozi? I think we should get rid of it. He Maozi in Mohe killed infants and made foreign medicines, and Zhan Maozi in Qiaotou town opened a clinic to sell foreign medicines. They must be the same breed! Think about it, why is Zhan Maozi’s foreign medicine so effective? He can cure all diseases that Ju Rentang can’t treat. Is he a god?! Is his foreign medicine an elixir?! Not really. His There is a baby's flesh and blood essence in most foreign medicines. This Zhan Maozi is probably worse than Mohe's other Maozi. He gave us the baby's flesh and blood essence and tricked us into believing in his God."

The righteous people followed suit and discussed—— Someone confirmed: "...Yes, Zhan Maozi always said 'God, Amen' to everyone. He didn't ask the poor for money, and only persuaded them to believe in his cult." Another person said: "This Zhan Maozi is not only selling medicine, but also abducting babies. I saw him go to Mohe City on a donkey with a baby in his hand half a year ago." Master Xiucai became more and more excited, and said clearly: "This Zhan Maozi has come to an end today! There are righteous people in Mohe, and we also have righteous people in Qiaotou Town. Who are the righteous people? It is us. We can no longer let Zhan Maozi They used cults and foreign medicines to harm our Qiaotou Town. Anyone who has the guts will follow me to the foreign clinic, and take this Zhan Maozi to see our Lord Wang."

Someone shouted loudly: "Master Xiucai, you are so pedantic! Seeing Mr. Wang, foreigners are not serious people in the final analysis. Look at their foreigners, with yellow hair and blue eyes, which one is not born by ghosts?! Let's just fight, fight!" Death counts!" Many people followed suit—— "Yes, killing counts!" "It's true, Maozi has killed so many of our babies, even if you kill him a few times, it's not too much." "Hit, hit, hit them all..." So, they all went to beat the hair. Master Xiucai was solemn and sacred, leading a group of righteous people to walk in the front. When passing by the gate of his own house, he saw his father, Mrs. Tian, ​​who also hated cults.Mrs. Tian didn't know at first that Xiucai's son was going to eliminate harm for the people of Qiaotou Town. He thought that Xiucai's son was making a fuss for no reason, so he went up to pull Xiucai's braid as usual, and said, "...you evil son, why are you so angry?" Why don't you learn well?!"

Mr. Xiucai was caught by Mrs. Tian and lost his freedom. He tilted his head and struggled and said, "Father, I... I have learned today—we are going...to beat hair!" Hearing that he was going to beat the hair, the old man Tian had a smile on his face, let go of the scholar's son's braid, paused the crutches in his hands on the ground frequently, and said to everyone: "Okay, you are very good at beating hair—the kind of hair Things are due to beating, if we don’t beat them away, we don’t want to be quiet. Think about it, Maozi wants us to believe in God. What is God? It’s Maozi’s foreign ancestors. Our uncivilized people are only greedy for Maozi. Small advantage, I believe in other people's foreign ancestors, don't think about it, believe in Maozi's foreign ancestors, where will our ancestors be placed? Our emperor, our mother and queen mother? You all go to fight, put Send Maozi back to their Maozi country!" At last, pointing at his unbelievable scholar son, Mrs. Tian said again: "You scoundrel, you have done something serious today..."

Even Mrs. Tian thought it was a serious matter, and Mr. Xiucai and dozens of righteous people who came forward believed that they had the truth, and their arrogance became more and more fierce. They searched for the objects they could find along the way, and prepared to use them .Even though Master Xiucai was the leader of the righteous people, he still found the root and held it in his hands regardless of his status. This is the happiest day for Master Xiucai in many years.On this day, everyone in Qiaotou Town saw the only talented man in the town leading a group of men, women and children to beat the hair immediately, so that in the future, the talented man would not be able to blame him even if he wanted to.

Since the death of Third Master Zhang, the life of Master Xiucai has become more and more boring. No one will buy the free flower wine, and the flower boat and the girls on the flower boat are out of reach.Sometimes he boldly stole the family's silver and went to play on the flower boat, but Mrs. Tian made him make a fool of himself in front of his wife and children.His official career prospects are even more bleak. He thinks he is good at learning, but he is always unlucky. He takes the examination and returns to the name of Sun Shan.From the eighth year of Tongzhi to today, there has been no progress, neither getting in the middle school nor studying.Mrs. Tian was extremely frustrated, and no longer had any hope of repaying his education. Years ago, he planned to donate half of his family's wealth to him for fame.

This time is good, Master Xiucai thought, although he didn't go to school, he still has a bit of righteousness to be loyal to the emperor and protect the country.The old man got it right, Maozi's heresy does not want the emperor or the Queen Mother, and he leads the righteous people to beat Maozi to drive out evil spirits for the country. Unexpectedly, this time it didn't work out.Zhan Maozi was alarmed by the loud noises along the way, and when the talented scholar and righteous people arrived at Zhan Maozi's foreign clinic, Zhan Maozi had disappeared.The door of the foreign clinic was also closed, with a big iron lock hanging on the door. Master Xiucai broke the lock with the volunteers, kicked open the door, and rushed into the room, smashing and beating.The Gospel Hall where the large cross was hung was smashed, and several righteous people were made to urinate on the cross.The facade of the clinic was also smashed, and foreign medicines were scattered all over the floor.In order to find evidence of Maozi's harm, Master Xiucai and the righteous people searched carefully after smashing it, trying to find the bodies of one or two murdered babies, but they couldn't find them after searching for a long time. While regretting, someone said that Zhan Maozi fled to Wang Dadupi's casino. Master Xiucai rushed to the Sankong Bridge with his righteous people, men and women... At this moment, Pastor James was really in Wang Dabel's casino. Pastor James didn’t know about the church incident in Mohe. When Master Xiucai blatantly encouraged the righteous people in front of Jurentang, two church members rushed to the clinic to report that Pastor Peter had been killed in Mohe County. I'm going to kill him soon.Pastor James was so shocked that he didn't know what to do for a moment. Now that a murder has happened in Mohe, it is impossible to flee to Mohe.The clinic is too small to hide people.In desperation, Pastor James thought of Wang Dadupi, the earliest church member.There are quite a few rogue brothers under Wang Dadupi, and they have been so arrogant these past few years. Apart from this person in Qiaotou Town, I am afraid that no one can provide more reliable protection.So Pastor James, escorted by two church members, went along the back street of Shengping Road to the gambling house of Wang Dabel at Sankongqiaotou. Wang Dabel is not bad, although he was tempted by the devil Satan, he is not a devout believer, but he still knows how to repay kindness.At this time of crisis, he took Pastor James to hide in his room behind the gambling house, and said in a big way: "...Master Zhan, you are right to come to me at this time. With me here, Not to mention the scholar, even the Juren and the number one scholar don’t even want to touch your finger! Damn, today I want to see who dares to come to me and make trouble with our God!" After saying that, Wang Dadu told his brothers Made tea for Pastor James, and confessed to the brothers, "Uncle Zhan is a good man who does good deeds. We have received a lot of benefits from Mr. Zhan over the years. My dick broke several times, and it was all treated by Mr. Zhan's foreign medicine. Okay, we have to be loyal. Therefore, we have to protect Uncle Zhan, and if we really want to fight with the gang of Master Xiucai, everyone has to work hard!" Pastor James quickly said: "Don't hit, don't hit, I think this is a misunderstanding. It is absolutely unacceptable to say that we abduct and kill babies. You should reason with these lost lambs and use the omnipotent and omnipresent Lord to inspire them. .” Wang Dapi waved his hands again and again and said, "Uncle Zhan, you don't understand, you don't understand, they are all from the side of the devil, Satan, and if they don't believe in our God, we will treat them the same way, beat them up! Like that talented man, don't you When you beat his shit out, he'll be sour - damn it, even if he abducts and kills a baby, it's none of his business..." Pastor James hurriedly argued, "The Lord wants us to love others with love. We...how could we do the thing of abducting and killing babies? Our church adopts abandoned babies just to reflect the omnipresent love of the Lord..." Wang Dadu said: "Forget it, forget it, Uncle Zhan, what do you love? You love them, but they don't love you. Brother, if I don't save you today, you will die, so, so, your love? If you love, don't say it again..." Facing the righteous people outside and the uneducable devils in front of Wang Dadupi, Pastor James had no choice but to shrug his shoulders and sigh, and said nothing more to Wang Dadupi. But Wang Dadu still said: "...Uncle Zhan, don't worry, brother, I am on God's side, and you are also on God's side. I can't write two gods in one stroke. I will do whatever you do, sir." No matter, I knew we were all together..." At this point, Master Xiucai and the gang of righteous men and women rushed to the door of the gambling house, and the noise passed through the gambling room and penetrated into Wang Dabel's house, and Pastor James couldn't help turning pale. Amidst a burst of noise, Tian Qi ran to report to Wang Dadupi: "Brother, Master Xiucai has really brought a group of grandsons here!" Like a big hero with a big belly, he said with great arrogance: "Well done, bro, I'll go meet them—all of you prepare me for the fight!" Before leaving, he said to Pastor James, "Mr. Zhan , don’t be afraid, just drink tea and stay in my room. Just in case, I will lock the door from the outside and let you out after we finish the fight.” Pastor James was still afraid that Wang Dabel would cause trouble, so he confessed again: "It's better not...don't fight, they are a group of lost lambs..." Wang Dadu said: "Don't worry about it, don't worry about it, even if you kill someone, it has nothing to do with you, Uncle Zhan!" When he left James's face and walked into the gambling room, Wang Dadupi's attitude changed, and he whispered to Tian Qi: "Tell the brothers, don't really fight—the scholar is a Wenqu star, can we fight casually? Let's just block Lock the door and prevent them from breaking into the casino." Tian Qi asked: "What if they enter the gambling house?" Wang Dadu said, "That's not going to be done—they wouldn't dare to break the lock on the door of my house, would they?!" When he arrived at the entrance of the gambling hall, Wang Dabel smiled at the volunteers, and clasped his fists at Master Xiucai, "Master Xiucai, why do you bring so many people to take care of my business?" Master Xiucai also clenched his fists at Wang Dabel: "Uncle Wang, this time I'm not here to gamble, but to... to find someone." Wang Dadu asked, "Which brat?" Master Xiucai said: "Which Maozi is there? It's Maozi Zhan - the righteous people in Mohe City beat him. We beat Maozi today, but we couldn't find him in the foreign clinic. Some people said that Maozi Zhan came to you." gone." Wang Dabel laughed straight: "It's nonsense, it's nonsense, Zhan Maozi always calls me the devil Satan, will he run to me? Even if he does, I won't hide it. Think about it, Mr. Xiucai, I will I am not a person who really eats foreign religions, besides asking Zhan Maozi to treat my illness, when did I go to him and kneel before God?" Master Xiucai admitted, "That's true." Wang Dadu said again: "Since your master Xiucai said that foreign religion is a cult, brother, I know that this cult cannot be believed--as the people of the Qing Dynasty, how can we not believe in our ancestors, so we have to go to Believe in heresy?!" Master Xiucai said: "Since that's the case, let's go in and have a look." Wang Dadu said: "Brother, can you enter casually? If my business breaks down, who is to blame?" Master Xiucai knew that Wang Dadu was not an ordinary person, his head was not easy to shave, and seeing the scoundrels in front of the door all raised eyebrows, he lost his confidence and dared not force himself, so he discussed with Wang Dadu and said: "They I’m not going in anymore, I’m the only one going in to have a look—the beating is to eliminate harm for the local area, and it’s not anyone’s business, sir, you are also a sensible person, so you won’t let everyone doubt you, right?!” Wang Dadu said, "It's not too bad if you say so." After all, let the rogue brothers under him dodge a way and let the talented scholar into the room. Master Xiucai looked around in the three gambling rooms, except for some kiln brothers pushing Pai Gow and throwing dice, there was no sign of Zhan Maozi at all.I thought to myself, the person who reported the letter must have missed his eyes and made the king's belly wrong.So I didn't dare to talk too much, and said goodbye to Wang Dadu with a fistful of hands. But Wang Dadu cried out: "Hey, Master Xiucai, since you are here, you should take a gamble anyway!" Master Xiucai wanted to gamble very much, but firstly he had the heavy responsibility of beating hair, and secondly he was shy, so he shied away with a blushing face.In front of the gambling hall, Master Xiucai discussed with the volunteers for a while, and decided that it was necessary to conduct a more careful search of the foreign clinic, and then returned to the foreign clinic along the same road in a mess. The righteous people in front of the gate dispersed, and Wang Dadu got excited again.The brothers who led his subordinates beat their chests, stamped their feet, yelled and yelled, knocked on the table and smashed the benches and made noise for a long time before unlocking the door of the house, and ran to Pastor James out of breath and said: Uncle Zhan, God bless, this... this gang of devils was finally beaten...by my brothers and me." Pastor James called out Amen in relief. Wang Dadu said again: "However, these devils will come again, so, Mr. Zhan, do you think you should go to hide elsewhere first—it's not brother, I don't want to keep you, but it's just... But I'm afraid that I will hide you next time." My brothers can't beat them, let you, Uncle Zhan, suffer..." Pastor James noticed that Wang Dapi didn't want to keep himself at home, so he thought for a while and said, "Then...then you send me to Zazipo, there are many of our church members there..." For Pastor James, this was really a smart choice.This clever choice saved Pastor James from being martyred in the persecution launched by the scholar.In the fifth year of Guangxu's reign, Qiaotou Town, where people's desires were rampant, was a hell, but the desolate Kazipo was really a pure land. Pastor James later recorded in "The Far Gospel"—— …A group of northern Chinese refugees who spoke different accents from the locals lived in Zhangzipo. I didn’t know until a long time later that they belonged to the West Road Nian Army who resisted the Qing government.It was after losing the battle with the government forces that he turned into a coal miner.They used to be allies of the famous Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army who worshiped God. Although they were poor, they were kind-hearted and God-fearing.Because of their help, I was able to survive the persecution and testify to the greatness of the Lord...