Dr. Li was shocked by the old lady's words: Christian doctrines point out that the world is fighting light and dark all the time until the day when Jesus comes to the end of the day; and darkness is not only evil in human hearts, but also things that transcend humans. Those evil spirits that can fly and escape from the earth are even longer than human history, and their power is beyond humans. Before the moment Jesus came in the first year of AD, we were kings of this world, and humans were at their feet.

Now I heard that someone actually has divine power and is hostile to Christians, so he may be a liar or an enemy.

Dr. Li asked in detail about the situation, but the old lady of the landlord was dependent on the fisherman's son. She couldn't explain some things clearly. Dr. Li had to go out to find a few old residents who had been hiding around Shuibei Village for many years. After inquiring, there was indeed a great master who recently came. He claimed that he was the Dragon King, who could cure diseases, tell fortunes, keep water and fire invading, and could also make friends with ghosts. He would mention whoever his dead relatives wanted;

After staying in Niutang Village in the north, I stayed for only a few days and shocked a large number of people. Many people followed him and their reputation spread to Shuibei Village. Many people also went there to see the name of the name. They all said it was amazing after they came back.

Niutang Village is located on the north side of the county town and Liannan Village. Shuibei Village forms a right triangle. Liannan Village is a right angle vertex. Shuibei Village is nailed to the riverside, while Niutang Village faces the railway and forms a diagonal edge facing the county town. Because Longchuan is not big, Niutang is not far from Shuibei Village.

He had no intention of preaching, so Dr. Li immediately discussed with Elder Hou.

"I heard that this person lives in seclusion near Niu Tang. I think he should go and have a look. This looks like an evil spirit." Dr. Li said.

Elder Hou was stunned when he heard this, spread his hands and said, "When will you go?"

Dr. Li replied, "Anyway, the awesome? The pond is not far away. I'll run over to take a look. Let's leave now?"

"Let's go now? What time is it now?" Elder Hou was shocked. He was sitting on the small stool and looked out the door. He saw that the light rain was still falling. The sun could not tell the time. He had to turn his head and ask the old lady who was changing her wife's pants to Zhang Bicheng and said, "Grandma Luo, what time is it now? Do you know who has a watch?"

Grandma Luo curled her lips, put down her front and walked outside, caught her cat, and pushed the cat's eyes away in front of the three preachers and handed them to them, saying, "I have a bad look. Look at what time the cat's eyes are saying?"

Dr. Li and Elder Hou, with Zhang Bicheng with suspicious faces, stretched their heads to look at the cat's eyes. After looking at it, Dr. Li and Elder Hou nodded and said, "It's about twelve o'clock in the afternoon."

Zhang Bicheng was so angry that he asked, "Why do you know the time after looking at that cat?"

Elder Hou smiled and explained, "Because the cat's eyes narrowed into a line by noon, the cat's eyes just now were a line, and it was probably noon."

"This is OK? What scientific paper has mentioned that cats can separate hours?" Zhang Bicheng looked like a ghost.

Dr. Li laughed: "It's not very accurate, it's normal to be apart two or three hours. Think about it, the poor people here don't have sundials or water clocks, and they didn't even have clocks before. How can they distinguish the hours on rainy days? Just rely on the cat's eyes."

"A magical kingdom." Zhang Bicheng murmured to himself.

Doctor Li ignored the shocked brother Yang who was muttering to his dreams and turned to Elder Hou and said, "It's noon now, and I must have walked to Niu Tang in the evening. I'll go now, right?"

"You go now? What should I do if I preach? The nurses and preachers from Liannan Village will come tomorrow. Can you come back tomorrow?" Elder Hou said helplessly.

"Then it depends on your command. I'll go by myself, you stay behind. Anyway, my nurses can handle the patients here," said Dr. Li.

Elder Hou waved his hand and said, "I'd better go with you. What if the real evil spirit is on the upper body? I have to exorcise ghosts. I have never exorcised ghosts."

Dr. Li smiled and said, "I have never done this, but it doesn't matter. God is with us, and I'm afraid of them? I guess he's just a liar again. But I have to go and see, so you can stay here."

Elder Hou nodded, Zhang Bicheng behind him put on Grandma Luo’s daughter-in-law’s pants, exposed his calf and said, “I’ll go with you too.”

"Brother, you are wearing women's clothes!" Elder Hou laughed.

Zhang Bicheng looked down in confusion and asked back, "Is there any difference between men and women in this traditional Chinese clothing? Why can't I see it?"

Elder Hou choked: Because Zhang Bicheng was very tall, wearing women's clothes was just like a man wearing a short dress that exposed his wrists and calves.

"Brother Zhang is also a very curious person. He likes to wander around, I can see it. Okay, let's go and have a look." Dr. Li smiled, then pointed to Zhang Bicheng's big feet and said, "I'll find you a pair of straw sandals. The straw sandals may be as big as yours."

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After an hour of struggle, Dr. Li and Zhang Bicheng bid farewell to Elder Hou and left Shuibei Village where they had fought for a whole morning...

Zhang Bicheng carried a medicine box and a straw hat, while Dr. Li was carrying a broken oil umbrella bought by a dime. The two of them staggered and stepped on the mud and went on the road. Each of them had two rice dumplings in their arms. This was not lunch, but because they were afraid that they would not be able to walk in the evening. They ate it as dinner;

Although Niutang relies on the railway and Liu Guojian built a highway to connect the county town, there are no highways from Shuibei Village to Niutang, all of them are small roads. They take the land route. Because it rains, it is difficult to walk on the road. Either struggling in the mud or climb over the hills where poisonous snakes appear, walking very slowly.

The two of them walked for two hours and finally struggled out of the mud and puddle. When they touched the Western Highway, the light rain suddenly turned into a heavy rain, and the two of them complained suddenly.

Dr. Li held the umbrella handle in one hand and held the end of the umbrella with the other hand, because if this was not the case, the broken umbrella that was created during the Qing Dynasty might have turned into pieces in a gust of wind. The surface of the umbrella was full of loopholes. Dr. Li didn't dare to look up and could only walk with his head down. There was a heavy rain outside the umbrella and heavy rain inside the umbrella, which was like taking a shower;

Zhang Bicheng was not having a good time. He pressed the medicine box with one hand and pressed his hat with the other hand to avoid being blown away by the wind. The heavy rain hit the hat that was as old as the oil umbrella in Dr. Li's hand and stirred up a bunch of white mist. Zhang Bicheng's face was covered with water flowing down, and he had to shake his head from time to time to pour out the accumulated water between the golden hair and the hat.

Seeing Dr. Li staggering, Zhang Bicheng grabbed Dr. Li's arm with one hand and pulled him away a little easier. In the heavy rain, he approached Dr. Li and yelled: "Brother Li, I'll give you my hat! Give me an umbrella!"

Knowing that this was Zhang Bicheng, he felt that it was too hard to control the broken umbrella, Dr. Li pushed Zhang Bicheng away and smiled and shouted in the rain: "I'm fine! Don't look at me as thin as you, this little storm is nothing! I've seen even bigger ones!"

I walked along the road for a while, and there was no carriage or anything else to plead or hired to shelter from the rain.

At this time, Zhang Bicheng suddenly pointed at Dr. Li's legs and feet and shouted. Dr. Li looked down and saw a stream of white rice soup flowing down his calves into the water under his feet.

"Oh! My rice ball!" Dr. Li, who was dripping with water all over his body, screamed in anger and reached into his arms to take it. When he reached out, there was no rice ball in his hand, but a sticky rice ball in his hands.

"Where is mine?" Zhang Bicheng also panickedly reached into his wet arms and took it out, but when he reached out, there was no rice ball, but his hands were very clean. He said with a bitter face: "I don't know when it fell."

Dr. Li raised his head, opened his eyes hard in the shower inside the umbrella, pointed at a dark thing that appeared in the rain on the hill far below the highway and shouted: "What kind of building is there? Let's take shelter from the rain first!"

"Okay!" Zhang Bicheng shouted.

The two supported each other and walked towards the building in a difficult rain.

Now both of them are soaked all over. Every time they take a step, their clothes make a thud, just like the sound of a ladies washing sheets in the river. When they step on their shoes, they are like stepping on a wet quilt, and water is coming out along the soles of their feet.

While pulling Dr. Li out of a mud pit, Dr. Li smiled and said, "Don't take too much care of me, I used to be a soldier." Zhang Bicheng asked, "Are you still a soldier? Haha, I really didn't see it! Have you ever fought?"

Dr. Li shouted in the roaring rain: "I am not a local. It turns out that I am in Yizhang City, the first small city captured by the Shenhuang Nan Expedition Army! My family originally opened a Chinese medicine shop, and the city was broken. My family was forced to be conscripted into the army because of their skills, so I worked as a military doctor for the Shenhuang Army!"

Zhang Bicheng shook his head, poured out a scoop of so much water from his ears, and asked, "So you are a veteran of the Sea Emperor, why do you believe in the Lord?"

Dr. Li walked in the rain with deep and shallow kicks, turning his head and smiling, "It turns out that I am very scared. It's like being surrounded by a thief, and I just want to stay in the tiger's den for a while! I hate these long-haired people wearing a headscarf! But when I was a military doctor, I wondered why they were not afraid of death? Why were they very kind to each other? Why were they called brothers?"

"So I went to listen to their pastor's sermon. At that time, I felt that everyone was created by God, and they were all brothers and sisters. It was really good not to deceive people." Dr. Li laughed: "Do you know why I specifically said that I should not deceive people?"

"Why?" Zhang Bicheng said.

"Because my family has taught me how to observe words and expressions since I was a child, and to speak ambiguously when treating patients, so as not to be caught. I feel very annoying!" Dr. Li seemed to be full of strength as he told me, and his steps were getting bigger and bigger. The rain was pumping him just now, but now he seemed to be hitting the rain.

"I think Jesus is so good. I didn't listen to my father. I followed the hair to study the Bible and prayed devoutly. God's grace came to me! I was saved and reborn! I became a real hairy!" Dr. Li clenched his fist and shook at Zhang Bicheng: "Soon, I am not only a military doctor, but also a military pastor!"

"Later, I was sent to a college run by a professor from the West to study Western medicine, and I followed my mentor to join the Presbyterian Church. I felt that the army was not suitable for me. My medical skills were just a tool for me to preach. Instead of being a doctor, it was better to be a preacher and completely devote myself to God! So I was sent to Longchuan as a governing elder, and I have been working for eight years!"

"Thank God! Hallelujah!" After hearing this, Zhang Bicheng shouted at the lightning that cut through the sky.

"Come on, let's sing hymns together, thank God for giving us so much grace!" Dr. Li shouted like a child in the rain.

As a result, the two of them held hands like children, singing and jumping and running. When they were happy, they both took off their umbrellas and hats, exposing themselves to the heavy rain that filled the world. This was also created by God.

But when they walked to the hill, they were stunned by the two of them.

The thing lying on the hill bag is indeed a stone house, but it has collapsed long ago.

Only a stone wall on the left and half of the wall behind stood pitifully. The original foundation was full of mud and water. A toad inside jumped away in horror from the two dumbfounded people.

"What is that?" Zhang Bicheng, who was stunned for a while, turned his head and pointed at the side of the remaining stone wall.

When Dr. Li saw it, he jumped up happily, and it turned out to be a pigpen.

This pigpen was originally built on this stone house, just a half-person-tall straw shed, but it can also shelter shelter shed with rain.

Dr. Li and Zhang Bicheng are now driven by the heavy rain like ants on the hot pan, and rushed to the edge of the straw shed.

But after seeing it, the two of them were stunned again: This shed has a master!

A pig actually lay inside and stared at the two of them with dissatisfaction, as if an uninvited guest came to the house.

I don’t know if the pig is wild, or if the domestic pig has run away and becomes wild, or if his owner often releases it out for wild food like this, but it is obvious that the pig also thinks that the shed is its own and definitely does not want to be wet by the heavy rain outside, so he doesn’t run away, but hums and calls at the two of them, roughly meaning: “I’ll come first, you can get by.”

"Go! Go! Go!" Dr. Li took the umbrella off his head and closed it in a hurry, driving the pig like a gun. Zhang Bicheng next to him also picked up a wooden stick, roaring and frightening.

As a result, the pig's four hooves could not match the four fists, so he had to run from under the shed with a angrily humming.

As soon as it ran away, Zhang Bicheng and Dr. Li immediately rushed in and replaced it - they were soaked in the heavy rain for a long time, and their whole body was like needles.

He took an umbrella to lift the indigenous manure out. The two of them took off their wet clothes and wrung them out. Then they didn't care whether they smelled or not, whether they were clean or not, and immediately lay on the pretty dry ground. There was no place to hang the clothes, so they put them on their chests.

As a result, in the heavy rain, a former emperor and a British quasi-noble who would inherit his father's title in the future shared this simple pig house.

After resting for a while, Zhang Bicheng sat up trembling all over, opened the medicine box and searched for something.

"What are you looking for?" Dr. Li asked tremblingly.

"There are matches! We'd better make a fire! We're all hit by the rain and will catch a cold and get sick." Zhang Bicheng shouted, holding a box of matches in his hand.

Dr. Li was stunned for a moment, looked at the roaring rain and the churning water and white mist outside, and said, "In my experience, you can't find dry firewood to make fire at present."

"Ah!" Zhang Bicheng moaned, put down the matches, sat in the pig house, and rubbed his arms back and forth with both hands, trying to keep warm.

At this time, he turned his head and saw Dr. Li lying on the ground, his eyes closed and his mouth moved. When he saw that expression, he knew that he was praying to God.

"What are you praying for?" Zhang Bicheng asked.

Dr. Lee opened his eyes and said, "I am thanking God for giving us warm food and dry clothes."

"Where are the warm food and dry clothes?" Zhang Bicheng looked around in a daze, and even looked at the road from afar, but not to mention that there were no ghosts on the mountain, there was no one on the road hundreds of meters away.

"It's almost here." Dr. Li sat up and said with a smile: "The Father knew our needs long ago. But you will be grateful only when it's time to come, and I am already grateful."

Zhang Bicheng spread his hands open, a little helpless and a little moved.

At this time, a humming sound came from outside the shed. The two of them looked up and saw that the indigenous people were back!

Not one, and reinforcements were called.

The two pigs were yelling at the two invaders in the shed in the rain outside.

"I should bring a gun. If there is dry firewood, we can eat roast pork now." Zhang Bicheng smiled bitterly while using wooden sticks to drive the aggressive pig.

But Dr. Li turned his head and looked outside and shouted, "Look, someone is here!"

Zhang Bicheng turned his head and saw that it was true that in the white rain, the three of them were climbing up along the other side of the mountain with difficulty. They were wearing huge thick straw raincoats and huge black hats. While walking, they turned around and looked around, looking slowly like three piles of black straws.
To be continued...