Chapter 213

The enthusiastic fellow nun was not some strange foreigner, but a young Chinese girl.

Her name was Shi Jingyi, now called Maria.

She was twenty-five years old.

In China, almost all girls of this age were married. Shi Jingyi did not get married, but chose to wear a white veil and marry God.

Her family has cut ties with her. After all, in the eyes of her parents, abandoning her parents and family to marry a foreign god and remain unmarried for the rest of her life was no different from being a psychopath.

However, there were still people in the school who knew about Shi Jingyi’s affair, and Prof. Dai was well aware of it.

Now Shi Jingyi is able to keep her chapel in the school, and also has some business dealings with outside churches, and the Vatican also recognizes her nun status, all of which cannot escape the school’s help.

The school’s help was not without the school’s help. The help in the dark can’t be in the open, and if it is in the open, it will be scolded to death.

Professor Dai heard that Shi Jingyi persuaded those prostitutes to join the church, sighed and said, “Shi student’s matter …… alas, I can’t tell you, if you have doubts about this, it’s better to ask her yourself.”

Shi Qiao’er also learned that the younger girls did not want to go to the factory as female laborers, but wanted to become nuns.

She didn’t know much about foreign religions, so she asked Yang Yuyan if they were like nuns.

Yang Yuyan didn’t know. If she didn’t know, she said she didn’t know. Finally, a large group of people went to the church.

The Catholic chapel inside the school was just a classroom with a cross hanging on the lintel of the door, a picture of God on the wall, and a picture of the Virgin Mary on the other side.

Inside were two rows of benches for believers to worship.

Shi Jingyi and a few believers who had come to help were doing handwork, grinding pieces of wood into the shape of a cross and nailing holes in them to string beads for distribution to the believers.

Seeing such a large group of people coming in, Shi Jingyi saw the girls at once, and approached them with warmth and courtesy, saying, “Sisters, welcome to this place, it’s just like home here, don’t be formal. You can stay here for lunch, we’ll have steamed potatoes and steamed sweet potatoes.”

Shi Jingyi led them all to the table where they were working without any strangers, Shi Qiao’er and the others all sat down smoothly to help out, even Shi Wuwei went to work naturally.

Yang Yu Cicada also followed, leaving only Yang Yu Yan who had no work in her eyes.

There was a thick layer of white ash floating down from the grinding wood on the table, and the rope was coarse hemp, which cut her hands at first glance.

Yang Yuyan pretended not to see everyone helping with the work, and smiled as she walked over to Shi Jingyi’s side, the cross cupped in her hand, as she said softly, “Sister Maria, I’d like to talk to you alone for a moment.”

Shi Jingyi said, “Okay.”

And she walked outside with her.

There were two bags of potatoes piled up on the ground outside, as if they had just been dug out of the ground and were still covered in mud.

Shi Jingyi squatted down and directly rubbed the mud off the potatoes with her hands.

Yang Yuyan: “……”

She had to squat down and also take a potato and slowly rub the mud.

Shi Jingyi: “What do you want to ask?”

Yang Yuyan: “You persuaded those children to become nuns with you, do you have the means to support them?”

Shi Jingyi could now say that she only needed to support herself. She had been a missionary in the school for so many years, and not a single nun had developed. And the school had sort of given her a lot of care so that she could buy potatoes and sweet potatoes at a very cheap price. The believers who worked with her looked like workers in the school anyhow, just like Zhang Ma who always went to church to socialize in the beginning; these believers believed in foreign gods just like they believed in Chinese gods, believing in a little bit of everything, and it would be unrealistic to say that they relied on the believers to support their lives.

The question Yang Yuyan posed was straightforward: can you afford to support them if you can lure them here?

Shi Jingyi smiled and said, “This, I don’t know right now. But after we sisters become more together, there will definitely be a way to survive.”

Yang Yuyan said, “Then you have no plan. I won’t allow them to become nuns with you then, it’s too unprotected.”

Shi Jingyi sighed softly when she heard her say this. But the conversation didn’t stop her from working, and after she rubbed out a field of potatoes, she found a basin and picked up the potatoes, carrying them over to the sink to rinse them.

Yang Yuyan had to follow her over to continue the conversation.

Shi Jingyi said, “I was just like them back then, I had no place to go and no way to live. One day at a time.”

Shi Jingyi told what happened to her back then.

She had an older sister who died after she married. Her husband’s side of the family then married another, and the step-sister she married back died as well. Her ex-brother-in-law’s family looked for a Taoist priest to calculate a fortune, the fortune-telling said that the stepchildren were haunted to death by her sister, her sister was unwilling to die, did not go to reincarnation, has been haunting her ex-husband, her ex-husband married one, she gave a death. In order to break this situation, we have to let her sister’s sister to marry over, not as a wife to marry over, but as a concubine to marry over, in order to break the situation.

Her ex-brother-in-law’s family came back to her, wanting to take Shi Jingyi as a concubine. The former brother-in-law said that he was a concubine, but in fact he was a wife, and he only wanted to have a son to pass on the family name, but he was also emotionally attached to his wife, so if he could marry Shi Jingyi, he would not marry again, and the two families would continue to be in-laws.

Shi Jingyi’s parents probably had a lot of water in their heads and agreed.

Not only did they agree, but they were also determined to trick Shi Jingyi into agreeing as well.

Shi Jingyi and her sister age difference of ten years, she fifteen, her former brother-in-law has thirty-nine.

The sisters of Shi Jingyi did not go to school, and this was not popular at that time. Shi Jingyi is the youngest daughter, was born late, her turn, society is civilized, they sent her to school, a gas to the university.

Although Shi Jingyi’s parents agreed to this matter with their brains in their heads, they also knew very well that Shi Jingyi would definitely not agree to go to her ex-brother-in-law as a concubine, so they thought of a crooked trick, under the pretext of giving Shi Jingyi’s older sister a birth offering, and took Shi Jingyi to that family.

During the day, they had a banquet, and at dusk, they made a great sacrifice for Shi Jingyi’s sister – in fact, it was a wedding.

But there were no guests, and the bride-Shi Jingyi didn’t know, she thought it was just her own family eating.

In the evening, Shi Jingyi drank a cup of prepared wine, got drunk, and was carried into the room by her ex-brother-in-law.

Shi’s parents then left.

When Shi Jingyi woke up the next day, her parents were gone, her body was not strong, and her ex-brother-in-law looked like he was making out.

Shi Jingyi: “At that time, I thought the sky had fallen.”

For Shi Jingyi, the sky had fallen to the ground.

Next, instead of seeking death or cursing with her ex-brother-in-law, Shi Jingyi found a way to return to school.

But schools can’t hide students. After hiding in school for three months, Shi Jingyi couldn’t hide any longer, so she hid in a church.

The Catholic Church was still very powerful in China. Shi Jingyi asked her teachers and classmates to help her get in touch with a church outside, and when the foreign priest there heard that there was a knowledgeable schoolgirl who wanted to believe in God and become a nun, he immediately rushed to baptize her and give her the name of the church.

With the foreign priest in the way, the Shi family and her ex-brother-in-law’s family didn’t dare to enter the church to rob her, so they had to give up.

Shi Jingyi said, “I only became a full-fledged nun this year, and I have been practicing for ten years in order to become a nun. The year before last, when my father died, my mother came to find me at home, saying that my ex-sister’s husband’s family had already moved away, so that I should not be afraid anymore, and she even apologized to me. But I went back to the house and came back. Even though I had everything at home, I was just too scared to go back.”

She doesn’t even have the guts to eat a meal or sleep at home now.

“I know what it’s like to have no place in the world for me. I hid in this small house, and now I’m willing to open the door and let them hide in with me.” Jingyi Shi said, “Even though there might be problems, even though we don’t have money, we can figure it out together! We’ll become a new family.”

Her eyes were glowing with excitement.

After Yang Yuyan heard her words, she surprisingly did not object to them in a strange way.

She still felt that Shi Jingyi might not be able to think of a way to feed so many people, but who said that there was no happiness in starvation? She couldn’t give Shi Qiao’er and the others a home or a place to live, she could only teach them life skills and help them find a way out. But can this make Shi Qiao Er feel secure?

Shi Qiaoer did not want to leave her sisters, and for that reason she preferred to enter the factory.

Because they are family. Maybe not everyone thinks that way, but Shi Qiao Er does. She wants family, and she treats her sisters, who are also going through a bad time, as family. Just like the sister who took them in, that sister also treated them like family.

But being in the factory didn’t mean they would always be family, someone was bound to leave. If everyone left, would Shi Qiao Er be able to stand it?

It was true that it might be hard here, but Shi Qiao’er wouldn’t be missing her family, at least as long as she didn’t leave, Shi Jingyi would always be her family.

Then there was only one question left.

Yang Yuyan whispered, “They are both prostitutes, have you ever thought that they might repeat their mistakes?”

That sister left the brothel and went back to her old profession. It was because she had no other life skills, and because the hardship of life made it necessary for her to work, and since she couldn’t find any other work, she went back to her old job so that she could at least rent an apartment and afford to eat.

Shi Jingyi’s life here was already not rich, after so many more people, it will become more difficult to see with the naked eye, and then there is a possibility that someone will pick up the old job.

Shi Jingyi also whispered, “Fear not, there are many words in my Lord’s teachings that teach people to be good, I will supervise them day in and day out to memorize them.”

Yang Yuyan revealed an expression of disbelief.

Shi Jingyi’s voice got even lower and said, “I’ve developed more than 500 believers in these ten years, and I’m not only in touch with the local churches, but I’ve also corresponded with the churches in Beijing and Tianjin. Believe me, I can control them.”

Yang Yuyan was impressed with Shi Jingyi.

This was not only a woman who had been hurt, but also an independent woman.

Shi Jingyi also honestly said that in these ten years, it wasn’t that she didn’t have the opportunity to develop a few more sisters, but there was a long period of time to become a nun, you couldn’t get married, you couldn’t see your family, and you better have a little bit of study because you had to learn the Bible, ah, and could you be a nun if you didn’t know how to memorize the Bible?

Most of the women in the school wanted either to be a career woman or to return to the family. Like Fu Peixian, she would never become a nun no matter what. Neither would the likes of Yang Yuyan. Wang Zhi’e, who was rescued before Shi Qiao’er and the others, wouldn’t either, because she was going to get married, and she couldn’t bear to suffer in poverty, couldn’t bear to live in such a small, closed-off place like the church all the time.

On the contrary, Shi Qiao’er and the girls, none of them wanted to get married and had no family to go back to, they all preferred to stay in a closed environment rather than go out into society.

Shi Jingyi: ”I think they’re all well suited to organize themselves here with me first. The novices have to be nuns for ten years, so they have plenty of time to repent. If they want to return to society later, I will be happy to send them away.”

Yang Yuyan: “What about a source of livelihood?”

Shi Jingyi: “I can take them to farm, I’ve asked the school, the school’s land can be contracted to me, I can’t grow it alone, but when there are more people, they can farm, and if there’s land to grow, they won’t starve.”

Good guy.

Yang Yuyan was convinced.