Chapter 214

Being a laborer or a nun was fine with Shi Qiao Er, as long as she was not separated from her sisters.

Shi Jingyi successfully led them all back to her little world, and the simple church with the hanging cross finally welcomed the newcomers.

Everything went unexpectedly smoothly.

Shi Qiao’er and the others were used to living in small groups, with no lights, little food, no entertainment, and hardship.

Shi Jingyi had not saved enough food and was about to run out, so Yang Yuyan and the others immediately sent it to her!

But after Shi Jingyi received it, she still demanded that Shi Qiao’er and the others must live with insufficient food, and except for those who were sick, the rest of them could only have one meal a day, one piece of cake, and one glass of water.

She said that with the lack of food, they could not take the food they received as a matter of course, they could not think that every day in the future they would have such an abundance of food, they could not think that good people would send them food every time, they had to be prepared to starve now.

Yang Yuyan and the others had long ago promised Shi Jingyi that they wouldn’t interfere with her, so none of them said anything either.

Shi Qiao’er and the others then literally lived on one meal a day.

They didn’t complain, but instead seemed to be very used to it.

There were no electric lights in the church, not even candles could be lit, and of course, there were no oil lamps.

Prof. Dai also took the opportunity to give Yang Yuyan and the others a few lessons on Catholicism.

For example, asceticism. This is a lot in all religions, Buddhism, Taoism, and Catholicism, all advocate asceticism among practitioners.

What is asceticism? Prof. Dai says, in layman’s terms, it means to suffer.

If you don’t eat, you starve.

If you don’t wear clothes, you will freeze.

If you don’t live in a house, you get wet.

If you don’t light a lamp, you stay in the dark.

If you feel that such torture is not bitter enough, you can whip yourself, you can walk thousands of miles without shoes, you can also self-mutilation, broken tongue, digging eyes, cut off arms and legs, stabbing knives at their own body can be, really dead is the Lord’s favor recruited, did not die on the continuation of the practice.

Electric light has been from the United States to China, according to the United States and Britain’s churches should have long been installed electric light, right? But no!

The Catholics have always been very much against electric lights. They believe that electricity, which is the power of God, is not something that can be controlled by human beings. If man uses electric light, he is against the Lord, against God.

Prof. Dai said in a complicated way that the strongest opposition to the modern technological revolution is religion. For it is amazing that the power of foreign religions has regressed for the first time in centuries because of the development of science and technology.

The myth of God’s creation of man began to break down when scientists used microscopes to search for the origin of life.

If man can use electricity, where is the difference between man and God?

So, when the churches in Chinese universities began to use electric lights, the foreign churches were actually not allowed to pull wires to hang electric lights, and they insisted on using candles for lighting.

But on our side, we use less electricity and less candles, actually because we don’t have money.

If you have money, you must use it.

Shi Jingyi pulled wires and hung lights in the chapel because she had to teach Shi Qiao’er and the others, so how could she light the chapel without pulling wires? She herself was going to read books.

Shi Qiaoer and others used to live in the small building is also the same, no electric light, nor oil lamps, nor candles, all rely on daylight lighting, can not shine the sun in the house is dark.

This is to prevent prostitutes from killing themselves, in case any of them can’t stand the torture, what if they take a candle and light it on fire in the middle of the night when no one is around? It’s not like there weren’t any prostitutes who did that.

There are customers who like to torture people, so how dare they let there be a fire in the house? There are many crazy people who love to burn people for fun, the more people scream, the happier he is.

Open the door to do business, but also the skin business, what guests have, into the door is a guest, wearing a human skin, who do not know this guest is what temperament.

Therefore, Shi Qiaoer when they first arrived at the school found that there is an electric light in the dormitory is quite rare, are avoiding the electric light – afraid that it will fall down and burn people.

Now finally returned to the familiar darkness, surprisingly do not feel civilization degradation feel unsatisfied, but instead they are all at ease, and there are also people told Yang Yuyan that after arriving at the church sleep are better.

Yang Yuyan: “……”

She is more comfortable starving and happier in the dark.

She wouldn’t be surprised if anything else happened.

Shi Jingyi also issued many new rules for Shi Qiao’er and the others to follow one by one.

In the past, she was the only one here, and there wasn’t a nun to “abuse” her, so there were no rules. She just wrote a weekly letter to an outside priest who taught her the Ten Commandments and the Bible, and after three years, the priest declared her a devout nun.

Reading the Bible was not difficult at all for Shi Jingyi, who had gone to college, and she also had her own understanding of the Bible, and would not take it at face value.

This was certainly not the case for Shi Qiaoer and the others, so she gave them a targeted Bible talk. The first day Shi Qiao Er and the others arrived, they heard the story of Mary Magdalene.

The name Mary is very common in the Bible.

The Blessed Mother was also called Mary, and a prostitute was also called Mary. Shi Jingyi was baptized with a Christian name also called Maria.

Shi Qiao Er and the girls used to live in the shadows of society, no one ever cared about them, it was like they didn’t exist in everyone’s eyes. They were never recognized by the mainstream.

So when Shi Jingyi told this story and said that it was written in the Bible, Shi Qiao’er and the girls were all interested!

Being the first time to preach the Bible, there was nothing better than this.

Yang Yuyan and the others also sat down and listened to this sermon together.

Although the profession of prostitute was ancient, except for a particular period of time, it was believed that through the body of a prostitute one could reach the realm of God – hehe. That’s why divine temples would have divine prostitutes, and folk worshiped prostitutes, and the troupe of prostitutes that roamed from city to city was like an orgy of song and dance.

Most of the time, prostitutes were a symbol of sin in any country.

Prostitutes were also discriminated against.

The Mary Magdalene is the story of a prostitute who was found by villagers, smeared with poop, and then the villagers had to stump her to death.

Whether or not any of these villagers had ever patronized her, at this point they all transformed into messengers of justice, as if by standing on the other side of the fence and abusing Maria and throwing a stone with their own hands, they were pure and innocent.

At this point the Son of God then says that if anyone thinks they are innocent from birth to the present day, then they can bash Maria.

The subtext is that if you are guilty, then you can’t go and bash Maria to judge whether she is guilty or not.

Who in life has not told a little lie without thinking, and who has not done a little wrong?

So the villagers all involuntarily put down the stones in their hands at the words of the Son of God. By looking into their hearts, they could not punish Maria and condemn her in place of justice.

Maria naturally bathed in the light of the Son of God and was saved.

Shi Jingyi said, “The name Maria is available to the Blessed Mother, and also to prostitutes. If someone thinks that Maria means prostitute, then he has not heard the name of the Blessed Mother, and he is a person without faith or knowledge. And if he is educated and has faith, then he should have heard the name of the Blessed Mother, and he would not think that anyone named Mary is a prostitute.” And she said to the Schichol girls, “If anyone insults you, they are ignorant people who have no education or knowledge, you can tell them this and teach them to understand that you are not born a whore, but that you are born pure, just like the Blessed Virgin.”

In other words, if people choose to treat Shi Qiao Er and the others as pure and innocent, then that person is a good person; if someone treats them as evil, then that person is an ignorant person.

I don’t know how much of Shi Qiao Er’s story they believed, but they were certainly willing to believe it.

They were also willing to be baptized, take up the name of their religion, and be a person of faith from then on.

Shi Jingyi took the opportunity to take out the Ten Commandments, and there were more rules than the Ten Commandments that she designed for Shi Qiao’er and the girls to follow.

These included no loud talking, no arguing or fighting, no going out without a reason, and so on. There was also the rule that they must get up early in the morning to memorize their books, and that they must go to bed after dark every day.

Shi Jingyi began to bring them to bitter cultivation.

Although Yang Yuyan felt that asceticism was insane, Prof. Dai said that asceticism was actually a psychological need.

Prof. Dai: “People have a sense that the more they give, the more they get. So those who have money give money, and those who don’t have money what to give? It is to spend time and energy. Suppose it still doesn’t feel like enough? Then austerity.”

There are devotees who go on pilgrimage by kowtowing one step at a time, why? Because he feels that the more he kowtows, the more devout he is, and the more he gives, the more God and Buddha will like him, and will give him more than they give to other devotees.

Of course, whether or not he would kowtow and get a concussion was another story that could be answered by a medical student.

Shi Jingyi let Shi Qiao’er and the others starve and work in the dark, and used many rules to restrict their freedom, all in order to increase their sense of “I’ve paid”.

She couldn’t make Shi Qiao’er and the others pay, so she had to use this method to make them feel dependent on this place – I’ve suffered so much for this place, it must be something important!

To put it more bluntly: Stockholm.

When Shi Jingyi brought Shi Qiaoer they went to open up the land and planting, but also refused to Yang Yuyan they help, a few carrying a hoe are afraid that they smashed the foot of the weak women, step by step a gasp to open up the hoeing, calling people on the side to look at all pinch a cold sweat.

Suffering is cultivation, after paying labor, sweat is sweet.

Shi Wuwei sighed, “…… going to be unable to catch up with the farming season.”

This crop of wheat is not going to be able to catch up.

Yang Yuyan: “It’s okay, they still have vegetables planted, that one is definitely edible.”

Shi Wuwei’s hands were itching to go back and forth around the edge of the field, or Yang Yuchan pulled him back, otherwise he really couldn’t help but want to go over and help.

Yang Yuyan watched Shi Qiao’er and the girls become healthier and happier as they were “tortured” day after day.