Chapter 44: Confrontation
"Do you know you've committed ......"
Before Paul could finish his sentence, Todd jumped out of the carriage and rushed to the priest with a lunge, where he hugged him tightly.
This move surprised everyone!
Someone even rubbed their eyes in disbelief.
Under the gaze of the congregation, Todd's face was excited, and he stretched out his trembling hands to the sky: "Praise the Father!
Turning around and coming to the church gate of the camp, the monk knelt down on his knees towards the cross at the top of the building, despite the mud beneath him: "Father, the people you shepherd have finally returned to you after hardships and hardships, overcoming worldly evils, and striving for the crown of heaven!"
"Todd!"
Paul rebuked the kneeling man with a bitter and harsh rebuke: "Put away your hypocritical face, you have stirred up a war on your own initiative!
Todd stood up and turned his head, his face full of surprise: "Selfish desires, senseless loss?!Father Paul, do you know what you're talking about?"
The priest rolled up his sleeves, raised his chin, and wrote on his gloomy face the pleasure of revenge: "You deceived the brothers of the church and let these children of the Father die senselessly for your greed......"
"Shut up!" Todd's angry roar startled the hearts of everyone present, his face turned red, his lips trembled with anger, and his voice became distorted: "Father Paul, you can insult my personality, but how can you wantonly tarnish the honor of the deceased. The loyal warriors did not flinch in the face of several times the enemy, and fought to the death! With their lives, they kept their sacred oath and upheld their pious faith!"
When Paul listened to the other man's words, his anger also rose: "What nonsense! You tricked those people into sending them to death! The enemy was only sixteen pirates, but you died twenty-seven! Incompetent! Shame!"
Hearing this, the leader of the group of believers threw the wine glass in his hand into the dirt in anger and left the square of the camp with his men. Several knights looked at each other in annoyance, and some wanted to draw the long sword at their waists, but fortunately they were stopped in time.
Looking at the reactions of the people around him, Todd quickly changed the subject: "Father, you don't understand the meaning of this battle. ”
Paul laughed angrily, "Oh, tell me, what is the point of this battle?!"
"It's a holy war. ”
"Joke!"
Ignoring the cynicism behind him, Todd walked to the carriage and called out to the doorman to come and help him.
Placing the wooden crate gently on the dirt, the monk beckoned to everyone in the plaza to gather around.
When the first wooden box was pried open, it was as if a string had suddenly broken in the minds of everyone present, and they suddenly lost the ability to think.
It's not as kitsch as gold coins, and it's not as rugged as pearls.
In the wooden box, the beauty of these glasses is not innate, it is the combination of fire and earth, and this beauty is refreshing from the inside out.
Todd picked up a glass and headed it towards the sun. It shines brightly in the sunlight and looks even more sparkling and charming.
Someone looks from one end of the glass to the other, and the person on the opposite side is clearly visible, without a trace of impurities or a single flaw.
"Priceless!"
"Perfect crystal!"
Someone looked at the cup in the light, and suddenly made a new discovery: "Look! There are words on the cup!"
When everyone heard this, they hurriedly moved closer, squinted their eyes, and carefully saw a line of small characters in Gu Tairo's writing.
"He who believes in me does not believe in me, but believes that I was sent."
Some believers who are familiar with the holy text are the first to say: "This sentence comes from the Gospel of the Saints, which means 'to believe in the Son is to believe in the Father.'"
Someone added: "The Gospel of the Saints was written in the Christian language (Latin) by the priest Edomus in the year 529 A.D., but how can it be engraved here in the ancient Taylor script?"
"Fellow Todd, where did you find these crystals?"
The monk lowered his head, and his tone was filled with three points of exclamation and seven points of recollection: "On a remote island in the north. ”
People who had heard some rumors and rumors began to turn their heads to each other, but were quickly stunned by Todd's next words.
"The Father is the exalted God, the King who transcends the gods, and in whom the earth and the abyss are in his hands, and the mountains and mountains are his works. The monk pointed to the glass in the box: "These are no exception, they all belong to the Heavenly Father!"
Someone stammered and asked in an uncertain tone, "What do you mean, ...... Todd?"
"I'm willing to give all these crystals to the church!"
Todd's face was full of reverence, and the top of his head carried the sun, as if wearing a halo.
"Heavenly Father is above!"
"Praise you for your good deeds!"
"You are the most loyal servant I have ever met, under the rule of the Holy Spirit!"
The monk stretched out his hand to stop the praise of the crowd, and then spoke, "But I want to be able to get two boxes of property on this carriage." ”
Well?
Some people wondered, didn't you just say that you would dedicate it all to the church? Why did you suddenly have to divide two boxes again?
Some shady people even secretly thought that after all, it was a priceless treasure, and it was normal for people to want to share some of it.
To everyone's surprise, Todd looked with his eyes at the priests in the crowd who had agreed to borrow troops: "Those who are merciful and determined, if they had not agreed to borrow troops, holy wars, treasures, everything, naturally would not have been able to talk about it, and they should have received the first gift." ”
Bowing deeply to the knights who had participated in the battle, Todd continued: "Those who are strategic, loyal and brave, if it were not for their honor to fight and kill the enemy, perhaps the holy war would have ended in failure, and they should have been rewarded. ”
Finally pointing to the earth, Todd said sadly: "Those who have sacrificed their lives for the Father, if it were not for their death-defying battles and their lives against the infidels, we may not be able to stand here, and their sacrifices need to be comforted. ”
People understood what he meant.
This is to divide some of the crystals among priests, knights, and those who died in battle.
What a good man!
What a humble man!
The priests were deeply moved, the knights were nostalgic for the past, and the friends and relatives of the war dead were in tears.
Only one person gritted his teeth and raised an objection.
"I don't agree!" cried out Father Paul in a frenzied and frenzied manner, "You are buying people's hearts! All the crystals must be handed over to the Church, and they are not allowed to be disposed of privately!"
Looking at the people around him, his eyes were red, and his fists were clenched.
Todd smiled.
It's time for the fire.
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Three days later.
City of the Silver Ring, Basilica of St. Cove.
The bishop's assistant priest took a document and hurriedly knocked on the door of the bishop's hermeneutic hall.
"Come in. ”
As soon as Bishop Fabian's voice sounded, the assistant priest rushed in: "Your Excellency, your Bishop! Viscount Paselit has written you a letter of condemnation from Father Paul......
The old man rubbed his forehead and pointed to the table in front of him: "Find a place to put it." ”
The assistant priest glanced at the table, but realized that he could not do it.
The huge table was filled with all kinds of papers. Take a closer look, the complaint letter, the application letter, and the report letter...... The people targeted were all Father Paul.
The bishop flipped through the letterhead in front of him to find his pen, and after a moment gave up this futile act and said to the deputies: "Immediately draw up a letter of appointment and dismissal of the visiting mission, and remove Father Paul from the post of head of the mission......