From the moment the dean entered the room, he began to speak, and he always used English, without a translator. Lily's answer was also in English, so the dean's mother was very excited and reached out to pull her up.

Dean said:

"Judging by your clothes, you should be a gypsy girl from the Tigris region. The rebels say you are a member of the Tripolar Company, which, as far as I know, belongs to the Republican Party and is the sworn enemy of the current rebels. Now the road is one foot high, and the devil is one foot high, miss, you have to be careful!"

The dean's mother was insightful and knowledgeable, which made Lily deeply admire. However, the identity of the members of the Sanji Company must not be easily exposed at present.

Sha Lili confessed:

"As my mother said, my ancestors were gypsies of Persian descent, but the youngest daughter, Shalili, was born in this country. I attended Kyoshi National High School, and at the time of the previous dynasty, the students at this school were inclined to republican thinking. We've all heard of a three-pole company, but unfortunately we don't have access to it. This time, the Beiyang restoration forces were unable to defeat the Republican Democratic Army, so they took the students under knife, and many of them were brutally killed. If it falls into the hands of the enemy, the consequences are unimaginable. ”

Hearing this, the dean's mother nodded again and again, and said, "So that's the case, so they don't let go of the students of the national high school." ”

Pointing to her gypsy costume again, he said:

"Miss Lily, it seems that you can't wear out this dress, at least in the current capital. Even though you are not yet a member of the Tripolar Corporation, but you are already a wanted student, my mother would like to ask you if you have ever thought about becoming a nun in this seminary for your safety?"

Although she can't leave the monastery yet, Sha Lili will not give up her plan to escape from the capital, believing that there will always be an opportunity.

However, the abbot's mother asked her if she would like to become a nun here, and as a nun in this foreign convent, it was possible to be safe for life, but she did not want to become a nun yet.

With her vast knowledge of Christianity, she has studied Catholic or Orthodox monasteries.

The monastery was divided into men and women and was an institution for the training of clergy, with monks in the men's monastery and nuns in the women's monastery. This Roman monastery was a women's college.

But to become an official nun, it is not a matter of words, it takes a rigorous process and a long wait of seven years.

Initially, you need to be baptized, enter the college, and take the initial study as a parity. It usually takes three to five years, and the dean can only apply when he is deemed qualified, and after the probation period, he will enter the junior college, and he will have to go through an interview every year and make a first wish.

After about five or six years, the eternal wish can be made. There are three contents of eternal vows, which are absolute wealth - willing to be poor, absolute color - eternal chastity, and absolute will - obey the call of the Lord. Voluntarily keep his chastity all his life, never marry again, and dedicate himself wholeheartedly to God. Become a full-fledged nun and enter a convent.

However, before becoming an official nun, that is, before making a lifelong vow, any nun can voluntarily leave the convent. At that time, there were no restrictions on marriage or life.

Faced with the sincerity of the dean's mother, Sha Lili gave a rational reply and said:

"Can I be a temporary nun?"

Mom smiled and replied:

"Of course, but you have to be baptized. ”

On this day, the sun was shining, and the monastery was sparsely wooded, and the flowers and plants were blooming, and from time to time there was an ethereal atmosphere surrounding the magnificent building of the Gothic church.

In the hall of the baptistery of the Roman monastery, several nuns stood with baskets of flowers, and the nuns looked solemn.

In the middle of the hall, there is a wide clear water pool, the pool is churning snow-white waves, it turns out that the water in this clear water pool comes from the underground fairy spring, the water quality is clear and flawless.

It was here that the new Church initiates Shalili was to be baptized by the dean.

There are two main forms of Christian baptism, one is water baptism and the other is water immersion.

Spot washing is a common type in which the practitioner dips his hand into water on the forehead of the baptized, marks a cross, and recites the scriptures at the same time.

The baptism is more complicated, and the believers who are willing to accept the baptism want to make their body and mind cleansed more thoroughly, especially the nuns who feel that their sins are more serious.

Lily thought it was fun to soak in water, so she chose this baptism, and asked with a smile:

"Isn't it like taking a shower, taking off all the clothes on your body?"

The nun who served her baptism said:

"It's not like that, you see, the baptized garments are here, please put them on. ”

It was a special linen undergarment that was soft and could be soaked in water without sticking to the flesh like ordinary cloth clothes. This is to make women look more dignified at the baptismal ceremony.

The jacket is also long-sleeved and wrist-length, and the pants are also long pants, and the clothes to be changed after the baptism are also prepared.

The dipping pool is behind the podium.

By this time, Shalily had already seen that the baptist was none other than the dean's mother, wearing a crown of hair and holding a Bible in her hand, standing on the side of the altar.

The presiding nun bowed deeply to the abbot and reported the name of the baptized:

"My Lord is above, today the saint Shalily came to be baptized......"

At the waiter's instructions, she knelt on the mat in front of the altar and heard the nuns praying for her baptism.

I heard the mother of the dean of the baptists asking:

"Saint Shalily, will you accept Jesus as your personal Savior?"

Lily replied:

"I do. ”

Then I heard the dean say:

"Now I am baptized for you in the name of the Holy Spirit......"

She stood up and walked slowly to the right side of the pool, taking off her shoes first, and slowly walking into the pool with her bare feet along the towels that had already been laid out. The mother of the dean of the baptists said in a soothing tone:

"In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, I baptize you, that you may be in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that you may live by the Lord henceforth to eternal life. ”

When Lily heard this, she snorted softly:

"Thanksgiving to Christ, Amen!"

At this time, the baptismal hall was unusually quiet, including everyone was moved by a holy and solemn atmosphere, some people let out sobs, and Lily's tears couldn't help but gush out!

Her whole body was immersed in water, and she could hear the Baptizer reciting the prescribed scriptures for her. As she repeated the scriptures, she dipped her head in the water three times. The prayer recited by Mother Dean is:

"I wash you according to the command of God. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Miss Sharily, a servant of God, was baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. ”

At the edge of the pool, a nun on the left and right supported her, and one covered her face with a towel to prevent water from getting into her nose or eyes as she prayed and soaked in the water.

After the baptism and prayer, you must come out on the left side and have a serving nun to support her or wipe her face with a towel. When we arrived at the changing hall, a change of clothes and shoes had already been prepared there......

In this way, Shalily was baptized into the convent and began a new life as a nun in the court.

Outside the monastery, the rebels were still searching everywhere, and several officers and soldiers on patrol were killed, but the mysterious killer, a beautiful woman in Persian costume believed to be the Tripolar Company, was nowhere to be found, and this tossed for more than a month and ended hastily.

Shalily has lived with other nuns, four sisters in a house, and three are from Hawaii across the Atlantic, except for her, who are gypsies. I didn't even get to the application stage, but I was very happy every day.

It is only in the dead of night, lying under the covers, that she thinks about her own problems, her extraordinary experiences in the past few years, and her vision for the future.

In the past few days, she has always dreamed of her martial arts master.

When she was eleven years old, her father sent her to the capital to attend a middle school, and he returned, leaving an elderly maid to take care of her daily life.

There is a row of garbage bins under the building they rent, and behind it is a vacant field, which I don't know which big family has placed to rebuild the house.

Every day when she went to school, she saw a white-haired beggar in ragged clothes collecting food there. She felt very sympathetic to the old beggar, so she took an extra piece of toast with her every day when she went out, and quietly stuffed it to the old man Hanako when she passed by.

The old beggar snatched the food that was given to him, and munched on it, without saying thank you.

But she doesn't care, every day is the same.

Finally, one day, I heard the old man speak to her:

"Tonight's big moon, come if you want. ”

It was an inexplicable madness, but it made her curious.

In the evening, I saw that there was no cloud outside the house, and the bright moon was slowly rising from the east.

Unable to resist her curiosity, she walked out of the house and came to the garbage bin. Suddenly I heard the sound of gusts of wind in my ears, and the sound came from the air.

Around that wide field, there were towering thousand-year-old locust trees, and the distance between the trees on one side and the other was thirty zhang away, and a figure in the air was flying in the air, flying from one side of the tree to the other tree.

She knew that the man with miraculous merits must be the old beggar.

Soon, the old man floated down from the air and landed in front of her, so light that she couldn't hear the slightest sound—what kind of kung fu was this?

She had practiced basic martial arts with her gypsy mother since she was a child, and she had also seen other people's martial arts, but she had never seen such strange exercises of the old man in front of her.

Under the shadow of the moon, seeing that the old man who was still flying in the air just now, his face was sweatless, and his qi did not grow, he smiled calmly and said to her:

"The contemptible people are exempt from the noble surname Hong, ranking seventh, they are called Hong Qigong, and the people in the rivers and lakes are called the Drill Sky Harrier. I haven't made any other progress in my life, but I have only learned this clumsy skill of 'chasing harriers and chopping'. The old man has been observing Miss for a long time, and seeing that you have a clear style and a deep spiritual root, you must be an excellent talent for learning martial arts. If the young lady doesn't give up, the old man can promise to teach you this kind of exercise. ”

When she saw that the old man was willing to take her as an apprentice, Sha Lili was happy, fell to the ground and bowed down, and praised:

"Master is above, disciple Sha Lili is willing to learn from the teacher!"

Since then, Lily has followed this Hongqi Gong to learn a stunt of chasing harriers.

However, what is strange is that there is also a Hong Qigong in folklore, who was the mentor of Huang Rong, the daughter of Huang Yaoshi in the Southern Song Dynasty, but seven or eight hundred years have passed, is the beggar gang leader who beats the dog god stick still alive in the world?