Chapter 8: The Unexpected Discovery of the Holy Spirit (I)
The interior of the ark is complex and changeable, and Dura takes George and follows the old man closely, still afraid that he will get lost.
It's like a city in its own right, it's like a shrunken world, there's everything you can imagine, and there's always something to surprise you can't imagine.
Many animals have come here and moved into their favorite little rooms.
"Look at your look of surprise," said the old man to Dura with a smile, "as if I was playing tricks on you! Hehe, they are all my sons and grandsons from all over the world, because God told me to do this: He wants me to leave one male and one female of each animal and put them in this ark, and those especially clean animals must also bring seven males and seven females, all of which are not missing! This is not an easy task, for which our whole family has paid a great price, many of my sons, The grandchildren have not returned yet, and I am worried about them every day and pray for them!"
"Why did God let you do this? We animals live well in the grasslands and forests, some of them have been tamed by humans, but we are willing to be raised by them, and everything seems to be satisfactory, isn't this what God wants?"
"Well, that's a long story! How can I tell you, dove, about the 'original sin' of mankind?" the old man sighed deeply and shook his head helplessly.
"Is that the fruit that Adam and Eve ate it?" asked George, who was hiding on Dura's back, in a loud voice, "I've eaten it too, and it tastes really good!"
"Ah, you—you've eaten that fruit!" the old man glared at the chubby little mouse, and couldn't believe his ears, "If you hadn't spoken to me, if I hadn't heard it with my own ears, I wouldn't have believed it!"
"I see you're a little skeptical now!" George looked at the old man in front of him, his beard was so long, it dragged behind him, stretched out all the time, and there seemed to be no end to it.
"Mice and cats are both very dishonest, so don't blame me for not wanting to trust you easily!"
"That garland on the head of the leopard cat was brought from the Garden of Eden, and if he and Dura hadn't eaten the leaves on it, they wouldn't have been able to speak human words, and that's proof!"
"I can testify for him. Dura said as she nodded sincerely.
"You saw him walk into the Garden of Eden?" asked Dura, "maybe he stole the branch from someone else, and rats are born thieves!"
"You can't insult people like that!" said George, and jumped up at once, "Don't think I'm stupid and bad just because I'm fat! I'm the number one man in the Roman Baths, and I can't count the number one mouse that comes to me all day long, and I don't have to go out and steal anything, and I can live as much as I want!"
"Look, aren't your rats stealing for a living? you're just their leader, the leader of the thieves, and you're the biggest and worst thief!"
"Don't call me a thief! If you do, I-I-I'll make a hole in this boat!"
George's words made the old man's face pale, and he looked at the little mouse in a daze, and was speechless for a moment.
"As I said earlier, rats are the least likely animals in the world to change," a shrill voice came from the old man's feet, and George looked down to see that it was the leopard cat talking, and he kept secretly following him while everyone was not paying attention, and he walked without making a sound at all. Moreover, as the only leopard cat in the world, he is not only cunning, but also extremely alert. George didn't know that he had also stolen the fruit of the Tree of Wisdom, and it was because of this that the leopard cat regarded this little mouse as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh, and he had to get rid of him!"
The old man obviously listened to the leopard cat's words, for George looked at him frowning, and a look of embarrassment appeared in his eyes.
"What do you mean by the apocalyptic flood?" George suddenly remembered the story in the Bible that Zeus had read to him earlier, "Is it the great flood that overwhelmed the whole world?"
"It's because man has done so much evil and God is so disappointed in his creation that a flood is going to send down a flood to wash the world!" said the leopard cat with a smile as he looked at George. But he clearly said this to the old man, "Grandpa Noah, do not forget, that it is because you are a righteous man that God has chosen you to accomplish this great mission! If you choose an animal that does all kinds of evil to come to your ark, then God will not be angry, and in the end if he is disappointed in you, he will destroy you and your family together!"
"The little mouse is by no means such an animal, and I can testify for him!" Dura hastened to defend George.
"You foolish bird, because you have accepted his favor by eating a tender leaf from him, you will intercede for him indiscriminately. We are God's creatures, and I am more faithful than you! You are like Cain's lamb who spends her days stealing wheat from Abel's field and causing her brothers to fall apart, and finally Cain kills Abel! She is as bad as this mouse, because he steals wheat when he is hungry! But I caught rats to eat, and I tended his wheat field for Cain's brother, and you colluded to come here to deceive the Norwegian grandfather, so that you are not worthy to come to this ark, and you should all be driven down early and let the flood be submerged before it is clean!"
"Y-what are you talking nonsense, when have I stolen wheat!" George had never been wronged, and he was so anxious that he jumped to his feet.
"How can you live if you don't eat the stolen things? And your mother has been eating the stolen things when she was pregnant with you, otherwise how could she have given birth to you? Norwegian grandpa, I don't believe you bend down and smell it, he is covered with the smell of dirt, and the little lamb, she stays there all day and eats nothing but wheat!"
"Not long after the lamb was born, she had eaten nothing but her mother's milk!Well, maybe her mother had grown up eating wheat, but she hadn't!" Dura was always smarter than George, and knew how to refute it.
"She eats the milk that turns into wheat, just as she eats wheat! just as a thief's child will inevitably become a thief!"
George was at a loss for a moment, he was jumping on the spot, tears falling from his eyes, but he couldn't say anything but "squeak" and scream.