Chapter 5 Skal Village
Prayer is something that both Muslims and Christians need to do.
Muslims need to pray five times a day, while Christians need to pray seven times.
The seven prayers are: rising prayer, evening prayer, bedtime prayer, midnight prayer, three o'clock prayer, six o'clock prayer, and nine o'clock prayer.
Among them, three o'clock prayer, six o'clock prayer, and nine o'clock prayer refer to the third, sixth, and ninth hours after getting up. If we really want to correspond to them in detail, they are actually nine o'clock in the morning and twelve noon. o'clock, three o'clock in the afternoon.
Praying seven times a day closely connects believers with God.
The more desperate a person is, the more he longs for salvation from God’s power, and the more pious he becomes.
Praying seven times a day is no longer enough. Those who survived and were imprisoned in churches were in desperate situations and did not know the way forward, so they could only pray to God again and again.
They yearned for a Messiah to come from heaven to earth and save them from their present despair.
Then, after an apostate and irregular prayer.
The door of the church was pushed open from the outside inward.
The western gate, which was supposed to symbolize darkness, received the blood-stained sunlight at sunset. After being pushed open, a bizarre scene was revealed to the survivors in the church.
Those Muslim Bedouins, who were originally devils and butchers, either had only corpses lying on the roadside of the village, or were trembling and squatting aside in confusion.
Even the Bedouin who pushed open the door shrank back, with a look of horror on his face, as if he had encountered something indescribable.
When the believers in the church followed the gaze of the Bedouins, they saw a young man in simple clothes.
The setting sun was behind him, and he walked towards the darkness of the church from the radiance, although no one could see his face clearly.
But it was clear that he did not hold a weapon in his hands, but his body was stained with blood. The Bedouins around him, who were originally extremely vicious, were as docile and fearful as little chickens when facing this unarmed young man.
Such a strange, wonderful, and deeply divine scene is like a stamp of thought, deeply imprinted in the hearts of every survivor.
Especially when the young man took out a cross and then drew a cross on his forehead, chest, and left and right shoulders to express his religious belief. The scene just now had religious and theological implications.
"Everyone is saved."
The voice was hoarse and full of exhaustion, but no one cared.
In the church, disheveled women wept with joy, while the surviving men murmured meaninglessly with their mouths wide open.
As for the children, they relied on the adults for help, unaware that they had avoided a future of slavery.
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"The situation can be roughly determined. Someone at Karak Castle must have betrayed our whereabouts."
After Garris was helped by Simon beside him and sat down on a bench, he spoke to John straight to the point. In front of Garris, several knights gathered together and were having a meeting.
The sun is almost completely setting now, leaving only some afterglow that can bring light to the earth. After Garris single-handedly saved the village occupied by the Bedouins, the knights, attendants and servants who were originally squatting outside drove several carriages directly into the village.
In the process, Garis simply arranged for the villagers to dispose of the bodies and interrogated the Bedouins.
From the frightened Bedouins, Gairis got several pieces of information.
First, their leader went out with a team to intercept and ambush a group of fat sheep, and he has not returned yet.
Secondly, they did not originally hang out in the territory of Transjordan, but not long ago they received an envoy from someone who did not know where they came from. In short, under the leadership of the leader, they came to Transjordan to make a fortune.
Then, when they first entered Transjordan territory four days ago, this group of Bedouin encountered border patrol guards, but the leader seemed to have shown some token at that time, so there was no fight, and they ended up getting along peacefully.
Finally, in order to have a more comfortable base that was suitable for stationing and attacking, and also because they wanted to make some extra money by catching slaves, this group of Bedouins attacked the village called Skal Village.
After getting these four pieces of information, Garris thought about it on his heels and knew exactly what was going on.
Of course, it was obviously impossible to capture the leader for a confrontation. After all, Garris could not pull up the guy who was hacked to death and resurrect him.
Listen to the information summarized by Garris.
Several knights except John felt unbelievable one after another. After all, that guy Leonard actually dared to collude with Muslims!
This is really ridiculous, considering that Leonard has always been known as a fanatic believer in the Crusade.
In the name of the Crusaders, they often led teams to rob Muslim pilgrims or caravans passing through the territory. In the past few years, they even considered a crazy plan to organize a navy to seize the Muslim holy land of Mecca from the Red Sea.
result? This is the result!
Colluded with foreign enemies, attacked the royal convoy, and allowed the Bedouins to plunder Christian villages in their territory!
"Son of a bitch! I thought that guy was a real crusader in vain!"
Some people couldn't help but speak a burst of obscene words and output them to Leonard, who was dozens of kilometers away.
As for John, he shaved his stubble and was not surprised by what Garris said.
As an old knight who has been around Jerusalem for many years, he knows that for political animals like noble lords.
The older he is, the easier it is for the lower limit to break through the normal cognition of human beings. And you must know that Leonard is already in his sixties, and he is an old man among the old men in the entire kingdom.
After thinking for a moment, John said: "It seems that Leonard is determined to side with Guy. Now there is really no way to go back to Karak Castle. Do you have any ideas?"
Garris replied directly: "First of all, everyone still needs to recover from their injuries. Secondly, since Leonard has betrayed Her Highness Isabella, we will definitely lose when we go to Jerusalem to participate in the king election."
"Then after I recovered from my injuries, I felt that I should spread the Lord's teachings in this holy land and let the believers who have gone astray get back on track."
The knights present had all witnessed the miracle of Garris' resurrection, and already equated Garris with a saint in their hearts.
When Garris mentioned his intention to preach in this area, without exception, no one refuted it, and some even made the sign of the cross and began to pray in a low voice.
Compared to those clergymen whose corpses were used to disgrace their saints, in the hearts of those who had witnessed the miracle, Garris's sacred status was a hundred times greater!
(End of chapter)