Chapter 88: Unwilling to Accept Fate

Being unable to cure the illness is indeed quite distressing! This Dharma Protector disciple understood a little.

After all, most people in this world have the disease of poverty.

"If it were merely being unable to cure the illness, that would still be alright!"

The man said heavily: "What's feared is the medical team coming and forcibly treating us! Especially now, the typhoon and flood disaster have just passed, and after this kind of flood disaster, there are usually large-scale epidemics.

There are three sick people in our family right now, which fits the characteristics of this epidemic perfectly.

What I'm most worried about now is the medical team coming and forcibly treating us; if it's just on-site treatment, we still have hope.

The bills owed might be quite a lot, but there's still hope of paying them off.

If they use ambulances to send us to places not destroyed by the typhoon and flood disaster, places where the medical system is complete.

Then just the ambulance fees alone we cannot afford; this will be a huge expense.

If nearby cities don't have a complete medical system and we need to be sent farther away, they usually use helicopters.

Then that will be a bill we might not pay off in our entire lifetime.

Carrying this bill on our backs, we ordinary America commoners will never have the possibility to turn over again.

Our houses and land will be seized and auctioned off by them, and we will wander the streets.

If luck is bad, we die in one or two months; if luck is good, we might live another three to five years.

And these children of ours will from then on live in hell!"

The Dharma Protector disciple was calculated into a shocking stupor by this bill; he could only stammer: "It shouldn't be that severe, right...

Post-disaster, rescue for the commoners, shouldn't require the commoners to spend money!

This is, after all, the Federal Government's responsibility!"

The man sneered: "Responsibility? That's vocabulary exclusive to you Eastern people!

The Federal Government has no responsibility to us!

The word responsibility, just like that Mayor of Texas said, that's the business of socialist countries, has nothing to do with America!

He said, in the face of disaster, commoners should rely on themselves for self-rescue, not depend on the America Federal Government!"

In his indignation, he continued: "You don't know, the seven hundred plus Dollar loan issued by the Federal Government, if not paid back in a year, our houses and land will also be auctioned."

These Dharma Protector disciples were originally all Fuzhou Gang people, had been in America for a very long time, some were originally Huaren Second Generation here.

Of course they knew America's laws, knew this man spoke the truth, but still feigned surprise appropriately: "A loan of 700-plus Dollars, surely wouldn't go as far as auctioning a house!"

"You Eastern people don't know, America is a paradise for the rich, but not a paradise for us poor people..."

The man spoke to the heartbreaking point, looking at the women and children in the house wiping away tears, confiding the suffering of the poor to the Priest before him.

The poor here have houses, some even own a mountain top, the trees on it are their economic source.

And those poor without mountain top forest farms mainly work as lumberjacks for others.

And whenever disaster strikes, it's when the rich seize the opportunity to consolidate at low prices the land, forests, and houses these poor rely on for survival.

And the 700-plus Dollar loan, if someone really took it and couldn't pay it back, then these houses would inevitably be auctioned.

So, every disaster creates a batch of homeless; once the poor start wandering, they basically don't live long.

Disease, and the dangers of the streets, as well as hunger and cold, and drug addiction, will possibly take these homeless people's lives in a very short time.

This is also why America was already 300 million plus 20 years ago, and now is still 300 million plus.

In these 20 years, America absorbed so many legal and even illegal immigrants, where did all these people go?

And the population growth of these 20 years? The man spoke more and more agitatedly, causing the sick women and children in the house to also cry sadly along.

The Dharma Protector disciples present could only recite the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra; as they opened their mouths to chant scriptures, a power that soothed hearts and dispelled gloom filled the entire house within the sound.

"The common people live very bitterly, but if we leave, that is also unavoidable.

How about this, you come with me to petition our Seal Mastery Celestial Master.

Perhaps he can change his mind, and stay resisting the pressure of the Medical Affairs Committee!"

Such things happened in many families, and also led the members of these families, following those Twenty-Five Cure Dharma Protector disciples who treated them, to come before Chen Yaozu, begging this Archbishop not to take the medical team away.

"Seal Mastery Celestial Master, the situation is like this, you see how to handle it?"

Zhou Jiping and the others reported the situation one by one before Chen Yaozu, performing a show of what is called adapting to circumstances for outsiders.

Immediately after, these patients or family members who followed the Daoist disciples over also clamored to put forward their own requests and pleas.

In an instant, clamor rose high.

"Heaven and earth natural, turbid qi scatter.

Cave center profound void, bright radiance Great Origin.

Eight directions awe spirits, make me natural.

Numinous Treasure talisman mandate, universally inform nine heavens.

Qian Luo Ta Na, cave firmament Great Mystery.

Slay demons bind evil..."

Chen Yaozu sat cross-legged before the ghost mirror, did not open his eyes, did not pay attention to the crowd, only suddenly opened his mouth to recite the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra.

The peaceful voice was not loud, only slowly transmitted, steadily entering the ears of every single person in the clamorous disturbance.

Including but not limited to everyone present, the sound still had to transmit outward, transmitting very far, very far. That Los Angeles Capital City Seal in his embrace emitted milky white light, and it was this great seal that helped him transmit the chanting voice a very long distance.

Along with each chanting of scriptures, all clamor on scene gradually ceased; these disturbed patients and family members slowly became calm and composed.

All Daoist disciples also straightened their bodies, following Chen Yaozu to chant scriptures.

This sound had a special magic power, making all who heard it unconsciously attracted, wanting to come over and see.

Soon, everyone in this gathering place came.

Outside this gathering place, those who had already cleared houses, rubble, barely able to move in, hearing the sound also came.

Finally, when Chen Yaozu and the disciples finished reciting the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra for the 10th time, the commoners on scene had already reached six to seven hundred people.

Even many people were already reciting along with the incomprehensible sounds in this peaceful chanting of sutras, and some were even making the sign of the cross on their chests, praying.

Chen Yaozu stopped chanting sutras, sat steadily in place, looking at the several hundred people surrounding him three layers deep inside and three layers deep outside.

He did not open his mouth to reply to the claims of these disaster victims just now, but instead began to tell a story.

"Actually, before I came to America, I often heard that Europeans and Americans have the habit of judging by bloodline.

The descendants of nobility often believe their bloodline is extremely noble because their ancestors produced nobility.

They often ask curiously, they are very curious why Eastern people do not judge by bloodline! They even despise Eastern people for having no noble bloodline, saying they are all a bunch of soil bumpkins!

At that time I had a friend who said one sentence: in our East, every single person's ancestors once had a glorious history.

That is to say, we Eastern people are all of noble bloodline.

Nobility is nothing rare where we are! So in our place only pets are judged by bloodline, while people most likely do not bother with these things, considering it beneath them!

We usually believe that nothing in this world is innate; only the achievements one makes oneself are one's own."

He finished speaking, quietly looking at the six or seven hundred disaster victims before him who had been drawn by his chanting of sutras.

Looking at these six or seven hundred people waiting silently for his continuation, he gathered his thoughts and continued:

"In Europe and America, stand-up comedy is very popular; whether male or female, or any of the 96 genders, anyone might stand on stage and perform stand-up comedy.

But in our East, it does not work!"

After he said this, he paused, scanning everyone before him, waiting until they were hooked by curiosity before continuing: "In our East, generally speaking only women do stand-up comedy; the obstacles for men doing stand-up comedy are very great.

Especially if the performance venue is a small tavern, and the audience below is all men!

Because the performer usually opens with a dirty joke.

Then talks about expensive bride price; you might not understand what bride price is, you can understand it as expensive marriage costs.

Immediately after, talks about one's recent income decrease.

And recent troubles encountered handling affairs...

Then it's midlife crisis, family discord, as well as overtime, and unemployment...

Next, a twist you would never expect might happen: he raises his arm and calls out: Comrades, I feel this world should not be like this..."

Hiss...

Such a familiar taste!

A small tavern speech?

Chen Yaozu paused for a moment, waiting for the people before him to digest his previous words and react, revealing shocked expressions, before he continued with the next topic.

"In the West, nobility is forever nobility!

Whether Europe or America, the upper structure controlling this world is entirely nobility.

America's President must have European royal bloodline to take office.

This you all know! But why is noble bloodline so common in the East, even saying every single person is descended from noble bloodline? Actually, long ago, 2000-plus years ago!

The East was also the same: nobility forever nobility, commoners forever commoners, slaves forever slaves.

That time was called Eastern Zhou Warring States; the rulers governing this country were forever rulers, the bottom forever the bottom.

Until suddenly one day, when it reached the Qin Dynasty, there was one called Chen Sheng and another called Wu Guang, who shouted a sentence facing heaven, facing earth, facing a group of people: 'Kings and generals, do they have a seed?' After that, the sky of the Eastern world changed.

From that moment, Eastern people branded unyielding, unwilling to accept fate into their blood, into their genes.

Regardless of whether our ancestors had noble bloodline or ordinary bloodline, it cannot determine what origin I am now or what kind of achievements I can make in the future.

Even becoming a king, marquis, general, or prime minister is not determined by bloodline, but fought for by oneself.

Must rely on one's own effort!

No one at birth is destined to be this or that! So, for 2000-plus years, current Eastern people's ancestors have all produced kings, generals, marquises, prime ministers, and such.

Relying on unwillingness to accept fate! So, in Eastern people's thousands of years of history, there have been hoodlums who became the greatest emperors, beggars who became the strongest emperors, poor people who became prime ministers, leaving names in history.

Also destitute prisoners, or cowherds, horse slaves, who became generals, shaking foreign nations.

In the recent hundred years, a group of farmer workers built one of the most powerful countries in this world.

It is because these people simply refuse to accept fate! So they fought for what they deserve!

But, what pains me is, in the West, in Europe, in America.

There is actually a group of self-perceived most free people, yet they never dare to resist; their self-perceived freedom struggle is actually just submission!

Yes, I am talking about you!"

(Chapter End)