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Chapter 70 [69] Justice?
Wang Defa is also an old hermaphrodite.

Good people don't live long, but evil people last for thousands of years?
As a bystander, Wang Defa's judgment on this incident is not subjective, so the truth of the incident is obvious.

"There are not a few people who know about this, right?"

Old Wang was puzzled, why Zhou Li'an was so curious about this matter.He nodded and said, "It was a sensation at the time, but you also know that the church will not let this kind of scandal ferment."

"When force majeure occurs, spectators will choose to avoid it, because this matter has nothing to do with them, and there is no need to ask for trouble."

"Only the person involved will choose to persevere, but over time, people's understanding of the matter has gradually become blurred. In the eyes of everyone, Luke Jonah has become that lunatic who doesn't know how to advance or retreat."

"Holding signs and yelling on the street every day, people's feelings towards him changed from pity to helplessness, even disgust."

Speaking of this, Old Wang paused, and said anxiously: "Ah Zhou Sheng, you don't want to be passionate and want to uphold justice, do you?"

Zhou Li'an smiled.

"It was definitely not justice that prompted him to persist for 13 years; he should have seen clearly the nature of this world long ago. There is no justice, or in other words, power is justice, and he is not the one who holds power."

"So, his motivation for persistence is just hatred."

"As for me?" Zhou Li'an shook his head, "I'm not that free yet."

……

[System time November 1401, 1]

Zhou Li'an came to the tribe, convened the elders, and promulgated the calendar.

Take yesterday as the equilibrium year, January 1st.

The people of Balance have completed the test of our Lord, and because Xuenv woke up from the eternal sleep, it is designated as the first festival of the Kingdom of Balance, "Recovery Festival".

The division of year, month and day is copied from the Western Yuan calendar and divided into four seasons.

Early morning open space.

Zhou Li'an wrote on a whiteboard, imparting new knowledge to the tribal elders.

Each department has its own unique timekeeping method, which is similar with minor differences.

The aborigines have no concept of the week. They calculate the time by the waxing and waning of the moon, but they don't know the year.

After all, they are safari people. Because they don't need farming, they have no concept of the division of the four seasons. They only know the scorching heat and cold winter.

Zhou Li'an didn't expect them to really understand; they just need to memorize it by rote and have a basic concept of time.

Want a group of half-buried old guys to learn Chinese?
forget it.

The future of the Kingdom of God rests in the children.

After the elders learn it, it will be popularized in the tribe. Learning to recognize time will change many things.

Arranging the work and rest schedule of tribal people, instead of doing things passively, improving subjective initiative can make productivity more efficient.

Another example is that the hunting team and the knights are no longer in a state of disunity when they go out. Each team sets up a captain, distributes watches, and plans a reasonable task execution time for scout exploration and hunting team hunting, instead of waiting in a certain place for someone who has not returned. squad.

Mastering the time makes the life of the tribal people more orderly.

But if language and writing are not popularized for a day, they will always be uncivilized barbarians, unable to climb the technology tree.

Therefore, Zhou Li'an began to write textbooks.

The language enlightenment textbooks in the present world are mostly fairy tales and Tang poetry and Song poetry; but in the balanced country...

Naturally, it is the various miracles that were performed after our Lord came.

Not every tribe is lucky enough to witness miracles. For example, in the Rift of the Mad Cow, our Lord Balanced annihilated hundreds of bison with his own power, and only the four tribes of red deer and earth snake were lucky enough to see it.

Zhou Li'an, as the person involved, wrote everything he experienced after time travel into short stories, with pinyin on each word, which was the original language teaching material.

night.

The Chinese class of the Lord of Balance has started.

No longer is there only Xuenv as a student, each ministry selects and sends the brightest children to study.The class consisting of nearly [-] people, if Zhou Li'an hadn't controlled the number of people, each ministry would have wished to send more children to listen to the teachings of the true God.

After they have mastered it, they will be responsible for handing it over to more children.

A week later.

The tribal people gradually got used to the settled life after migration.

In addition to sending out knights to explore the surrounding areas, the hunting team also began to ride in horse-drawn carriages for their daily expeditions.

Because the settlement is located on the shore of a forest lake, it is not a gathering place for bison.

They need to go to the grassland valley in the east, where there are a large number of bison, and after hunting, they will transport the bison and fur back to the tribe by horse-drawn cart.

In the words of climbing a mountain: "My lord, the bison in the eastern valley is enough for us and other balanced people to eat... 1 year and 6 months."

As the patriarch, he climbed the mountain as an author, and quickly mastered the new knowledge of time and calendars.

This is due to his good son "Bull Shit", who is one of the few "cultural people" in the tribe.

Zhou Li'an knew it well.

In one and a half year's reserves, the total number of bison is at least tens of thousands, and this is just a region they explored. The number of bison in the whole of California must exceed [-], and bison migrate every year, and bison from other places will continue to be replenished. .

This way, there is no need to worry about harvesting the fur.

As for panning for gold.

Zhou Li'an was not in a hurry to start.

With the cash cow of the leather factory, there is no shortage of money for the time being.

I came here to build a country for development, not to enjoy it when I was free to make a fortune. Once a large amount of gold is taken to this world, there will definitely be a lot of trouble.

After all, that's Juarez, Sin City.

Zhou Li'an is not in the mood to fight against gang forces for the time being.

He has another matter to settle.

……

1 month 10 day.

All walks of life in the United States have ended the New Year holiday carnival, and the statutory holidays are actually only the week before Christmas to the Monday after New Year's Day.

But in fact, companies and enterprises will also give employees benefits, and only the public sector will strictly follow the statutory holiday regulations.

Wang Defa set off three days ago. The factory has been in operation for a month and a half, and he hasn't received a penny, but he has spent a lot.

He panicked.

If you lie flat, you will never make money, so you can only work hard.

In his eyes, Zhou Li'an, who is a hands-off shopkeeper, is actually not idle at all; when the factories resumed work, he ordered a variety of original manual gold panning equipment.

In fact, gauze, water basins and the like; not even metal detectors.

The tribe does not have the conditions for mechanized mining;
Teaching by hand?
Just like teaching the elderly how to use a smart phone, it is not that the elderly do not understand culture, but that they have no experience in using technology products from generation to generation, and there is a generation gap.

The natives don't even recognize the Arabic numerals, so it's impossible to operate them.

Besides, with the surface gold reserves in the Sacramento area, there is no need for machines at all.

The 1200 million ounces of gold in the seven years of the gold rush were all shaken out by the gold prospectors with water basins.

The gold panning tools were bought first, and when to use them, we had to wait and see; then ordered thousands of sets of logging axes and carpentry and construction tools.

Tribal tents are only for transition.

Abundant forest resources can be used to develop houses. California is humid, and people who sleep in tents for a long time are prone to diseases, and there are also snakes and insects.

Zhou Li'an didn't want malaria and fever to break out intensively.

Also, build boats.Regardless of large ships, start with small boats, accumulate experience, and when culture is popularized, with accurate measurement and mathematical calculations, technology will improve quickly.

Northern California is rich in water systems, and traveling by land is not as fast as taking a boat; and the Sacramento River has always been connected to the San Francisco Bay, so it is definitely beneficial to find out the waterway map as soon as possible.

Mining and iron smelting are not considered.

All ironware and nails for construction are ordered; it is a waste of time for the tribesmen to polish the nails, and it does not cost much to buy several tons of nails in this world.

Got busy with purchasing.

Zhou Li'an opened the background of the recruitment website and looked at it, and finally gave up on recruiting talents on the Internet.

More than half a year, nothing.

This kind of thing is the same as taking a taxi when there was no Internet to call a taxi.

When you don’t want to take a taxi, you won’t see an empty taxi after waiting for half an hour;

Unpredictable.

But now, Zhou Li'an has really met a talent.

He took out the leaflet and dialed the number on it, but what he got was a notification that it had stopped.

Food coupons cannot be used to top up phone bills.

That crazy pastor has led such a miserable life, it's normal that he can't pay for his mobile phone.

In a way, he has become out of touch with society.

Fortunately, there is also a mailing address on the leaflet, which is a common contact method in the United States.

Today, with the popularity of information technology, American bills are still delivered to mailboxes by letter.

Zhou Li'an came to the old town of Salem according to the address.

As the state capital, even in poor areas, there are no black guys gathering on the streets wearing crotch pants.

It's just that compared to the cleanliness of other communities, the courtyards and lawns in front of every house have been trimmed... The community where the crazy pastor lives is a mess, with weeds overgrown in front of the gates.

There are even ruins of old houses that have been half collapsed and abandoned without repair.

Outside some villas, the old man sat on a deck chair in a daze, letting flies fly around on the garbage dump not far from his seat, creating a miasma of smoke.

The garbage fee is shared equally by the residents of the community. In a community like this, it is impossible for the garbage company to collect the garbage fee. Maybe it will only be collected once a month out of obligation.

Everything around him seemed dull.

A one-story residence.

On the eaves of the porch, hangs a handwritten declaration with canvas and paint, which is a criticism of the evil deeds of a certain church figure.

The canvas is worn out and looks like it has seen better days.

On the contrary, the paint should be filled and repainted frequently, so that the handwriting is brand new.

In the words of Lao Wang...

Luke Jonah, the rising star of the branch church, and because of the evil things he encountered, made him see through the essence of faith.

This is definitely the best writer of "Equilibrium Book".

Go out onto the porch.

Zhou Li'an knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" came a hoarse voice, and then the door opened.

Dressed just like the last time we met, the faded jacket and jeans, after opening the door, there was no warmth, but a chill that was more piercing than the outdoors.

Jonah's lips and face were cracked to varying degrees.

But at least he is clean, not like a street bum.

"It's you?" He recognized Zhou Li'an.

For white people, the appearance of Asians may be difficult to distinguish, but there are very few Asians who have had contact with him, so he remembers Zhou Li'an.

Jonah then asked, "What's the matter with you?"

Obviously, he had no intention of inviting Zhou Li'an in.

Zhou Li'an got straight to the point, took out the prepared plan outline and handed it to him: "I have a job at hand, and I think you are the best candidate."

"The remuneration of 500 US dollars per thousand words is my sincerity."

Jonah froze for a moment before looking down.

To write a missionary text of the church, you can refer to the Bible, but the protagonist of the god is a god named 'Lord of Balance'.

What the hell?

What kind of dental teacher is this Asian?
Jonah frowned and refused decisively: "Sorry, I'm not interested."

Niubi.

500 for a thousand characters, 5000 for 50000 characters, and [-] for [-] characters; and the pricing unit is US dollars.

The key is that you can learn from the Bible, not to mention plagiarism, and a set of English-to-English translations of the central idea, anyway, are some self-justified theoretical routines; it doesn't take too much time at all.

It can be done in one month, and Shuishui can get 50 words, which is a huge sum of 25 US dollars.

Zhou Li'an was a little surprised, but felt it was reasonable: "I know you have psychological resistance to such things, and you no longer have faith in your heart."

"But this matter has nothing to do with Jesus, why don't you use your own skills to make some money?"

"I know that you have long lost your love for life, but in your words, this money can be your weapon and ammunition to destroy the enemy, can't it?"

Luke Jonah shook his head: "I'm still not interested."

"The reason?"

"In your opinion, that knowledge is my ability; but in my opinion, those are bone necrosis. They make me sick, sick to my stomach, and hate me."

"Use this so-called ability to make money? Then the money will only be dirty and stinking."

Zhou Li'an now agrees with Lao Wang's address to him.

mad priest.

He has gone crazy.

If you are not crazy, it is impossible for a normal person to persist for 13 years to do things that have no hope at first sight and are already doomed.

Obsession drives madness.

"Well, I don't want to discuss these philosophical issues of world outlook and life value with you. Please make a condition, how can you help me?"

"Or, I will give you this money as a subsidy, and then you are just helping out of friendship as a friend?"

Jonah still shook his head: "I understand what you mean, I am very willing to accept your funding, and I am willing to do anything for you."

"I can clean the house for you, be your driver, and be your nanny, but... I don't want to do this, do you understand?"

Zhou Li'an was speechless and was about to speak.

Jonah stuffed him with the plan, and pushed him out with some strength, and closed the door: "Sorry, you don't have to say it, I won't promise you."

Before the door was completely closed.

Zhou Li'an quickly said: "Do you think you can succeed? Can you find justice? Impossible! You are doing useless work, and at the same time you are wasting your life."

"You know very well that the world is rotten."

"The so-called justice is in the hands of others. The justice you want to pursue is nothing but procedural justice."

"Then why, don't you try factual justice?"

The door that was about to close stopped.

Jonah stared at Zhou Li'an with one eye through the crack of the door, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth: "Procedural justice? Factual justice?"

"You think I haven't tried?"

"That's good! Since you speak so high-soundingly, why don't you help me fulfill the factual justice, and I will write for you?"

"Go, kill him, kill him, kill that old bastard Spencer! Hahahaha!!"

Jonah laughed.

Zhou Li'an looked at him calmly.

however.

Neither of them noticed that behind Jonah, a figure rushed over.

The man pushed Jonah to the ground, then opened the door, and slammed into Zhou Li'an again.

Zhou Li'an dodged subconsciously, only half a second away, and planned to use the way of time travel to avoid danger.

But at this time, he saw someone coming.

A girl over [-] meters tall, with disheveled hair, wearing only thin pajamas, rushed out and jumped down the steps of the porch.

Stepping barefoot on the snow-covered ground, he ran wildly and fled.

boom.

Zhou Li'an finally sat down on the ground, with pain in his tailbone, just watched in astonishment as the figure quickly crossed the opposite street, rushed into the alley and disappeared.

Inside the door, a heart-wrenching roar sounded——

"Patricia, Patricia! Come back!!"

"Damn it, damn it!!" Jonah scrambled and rushed out, glaring at Zhou Li'an fiercely: "It's all about you, it's all about you, making my Patricia go crazy."

With an angry curse, he ran away in the direction of the figure.

(End of this chapter)