176. Goldfish of the British Empire[37]
According to doctrine, a Catholic who commits suicide cannot go to heaven.
Patrick was in a church near the location of the hanged twelve-year-old boy as he listened to the boy's mother crying to a priest, Father Allen. As he did his best to comfort his mother, who had lost her son, he promised to ask the bishop, and with his compassion mixed with unquenchable resentment, Patrick lowered his eyes that Father Allen must know something.
When Father Allen saw off the anguished mother, he clenched his fists tightly and realized that there was a small believer in the church. ”
Young Patrick looked up, his curls were not as dark as they were later, just in time for the rays of the setting sun pouring down from the skylight and hitting his hair as if a circle of light had been hung on him. His blue eyes are like an endless sea, there is no immaturity in them, on the contrary, in those eyes, you will feel that you are so small in the thin sea.
In Father Allen's eyes, he saw the wings behind him, an angel.
Patrick then listened to Father Allen's plea.
The boy who ended his life, William Thomas, was a member of the church choir, he was originally a cheerful teenager, Father Allen liked him very much, and they had a good relationship, but in the past six months, William has not been as cheerful as before, Father Allen thought it was the troubles of adolescence, but he never thought that William would commit suicide, there must be something wrong with it. Until Father Edward, another priest in the church, confessed in the confessional room, and it was Father Allen who sat on the other side to listen to his confession, even though Father Edward did not say his name, but Father Allen knew that the boy he molested was William.
"I thought you could report it to law enforcement, but why are you still so tormented?"
Father Alan was excited: "I can't! The priest's duty is to listen to the confessions of the congregation, and it means that the Lord forgives them for their sins, and we cannot say what is in the confessional! But William—"
"What do you want?"
Father Allen prayed, "Will William go to heaven?" He's a good boy. ”
In normal times, no matter who of the three Sherlock Holmes brothers is asked such a question, their answer is basically 'don't be stupid, there is no heaven at all', but given that Patrick himself is now regarded as an angel by Father Allen, how should he answer, of course he did not answer positively, he just nodded on Father Allen's forehead: "If you are pious enough." ”
When Father Alan came back to his senses, he found himself kneeling under the image of the Son hanging in the church, which convinced him that he had met an angel.
Patrick didn't just listen to Father Allen, he did his own research and found that this was not the first time that such an incident had occurred in the church where Father Edward worked. Although the clergy are secretive about the filth that takes place in the confessional room, a look at the history of the confessional shows that from the moment it appeared, it almost became an unspoken rule that indecent events would occur inside. So even if he knew what Father Edward had done, as long as no one came out to the church, the bishop would just transfer him, which is really ...... What about irony.
On the third day, there was a big meeting in the church, and Father Alan did not want to see Father Edward again, he was afraid that he would not be able to resist going up and strangling him, so he bowed his head and prayed: "O merciful angel, please purify Father Edward." ”
The angel heard his prayer.
Father Edward was hanged in mid-air without any excuse for his neck, a noose that seemed to come from outside the sky.
Father Allen put his hand trembling with excitement on the Bible and looked up at the roof of the church, where the frescoes of angels came to life.
Later, the news of Father Edward's purification by the Lord in that church began to spread in the countryside, of course, it was not a good thing for the local police department, because they couldn't find out how Father Edward was killed, and most of them really acquiesced in their hearts that Father Edward was purified by God, and returned their three views!
The old Sherlock Holmes house
"Patrick Holmes, if you don't come out of your room again, believe it or not, I'll send you to elementary school!" Mommy stood at the door of the youngest son's room and shouted in, Mommy was really angry, the youngest son had been in the room for too long. In the past, the second son Xia Li was so energetic that he ran out like a wild horse every day, and Mommy felt a headache. Now that the youngest son has become the other extreme, Mommy also feels scratchy, anyway, none of the three sons are worry-free. Hey, it doesn't seem like there's anything wrong with my eldest son Mike, is Mike lying down and getting shot again?
However, Mommy's threat is useful... bar.
- Eight-year-old apple pie If he follows the steps of ordinary people to enter school, he is in the second grade at this age, but you must know that the five-year-old apple pie can help the neighbor's goldfish who is in the ninth grade to do their homework. The other two children of the Sherlock Holmes family, McCroft and Sherlock, did not go to elementary school, Sherlock went to school for a few days, and went directly to the school to refuse to be blacklisted, and Apple Pie would not want to go to second grade.
However, Apple Pie lazily replied inside: "Mommy, then you have to find another school, the elementary school where Charley went to refuse to accept children surnamed Sherlock Holmes." ”
Mommy smiled immediately: "Really? But Patrick Holmes, do you know? There are a lot of kids your age who have runny noses—" Before Mommy could finish speaking, the door to Mommy's room opened from the inside, and the white and tender apple pie gave Mommy a flattering smile.
Mommy also laughed, reaching out and pinching the round face of the apple pie: "You came out just in time, I was about to ask Daddy to take a bucket to the pond to pick up the bucket of pond water floating with green film, or the pond water with dead water, I don't know how recently, it hasn't rained for a long time." ”
Apple Pie, who has no cure for the late stage of cleanliness, refuses to imagine what Mommy is going to do when she asks Daddy to get such a bucket of water back, and Apple Pie, who knows how to adapt very well, decisively assures Mommy: "I walk in the garden with Daddy for ten or twenty minutes every day." He wanted to talk for ten minutes, but Mommy's face was so unfathomable that Apple Pie changed her mind decisively.
Mommy was satisfied, and rubbed her little son's face with a smile: "Don't bully Daddy." ”
The apple pie that was pinched the weakness solemnly assured Mommy.
Time passed quickly in the wind of apple pie every day, and in the blink of an eye, the apple pie with baby fat grew into a handsome teenager.
Patrick is thirteen years old, and it's time to go to public school!
During this period, Mommy was worried that the youngest son did not like to go out, only knew that the "closed-door car" thing did not happen, the youngest son loves the house is the love of the house, but he still knows the combination of work and rest, and every once in a while he will go out for a walk, collect style, travel or something.
This is also a good time to verify the luck value ±E, yes, every time Patrick goes out, he will inevitably encounter some accidents, such as being kidnapped, witnessing a homicide, not to mention being a train, not to mention encountering a bombardier, but also encountering robbers, and even more so being a plane can also encounter hijacking on a plane...... There are many such incidents, but in the end, it must not be Patrick who is unlucky.
Apple Pie had already greeted him several times in his heart for the system that gave him this physique, and although every accident he encountered could add color to the journey, he could meet it even when he went out to a candy store not far from home...... Waste of time.
Therefore, Apple Pie became a #otaku# and was forced to be helpless.
Far from it, and then again, Apple Pie is thirteen years old this year, and it's time to go to public school. At this time, eighteen-year-old Sherlock was still in public school, and he still had his last year to study, which meant that if Patrick went to public school, he would be able to spend a year in the same school as Sherlock, which sounds tempting, doesn't it?
"I don't want to go to public school, so why don't you let me go to college with Sherlock." Patrick told Mommy that he didn't want to go to London at all, he didn't want to go to public school was one of them, one of his realities was that he couldn't leave home now at a critical moment, and as for the third, Patrick looked at his family's more and more unruly second brother, in other words, the second brother who was still in a rebellious period, and deeply realized that according to the tradition of the Sherlock Holmes family, he should also have a rebellious period, and not going to public school should be called rebellious, right?
Sherlock came to his senses as soon as he heard this, "Patrick can go to Cambridge with me, Oxford has been polluted by Mycroft." "Yes, it's going to start applying for college this year, and Sherlock is going against McCroft as always, choosing Cambridge University instead of McCroft's alma mater, Oxford, because that's what he said, and Oxford knows it's going to cry.
Mommy glared at the second son, who was adding fuel to the fire, and looked at the younger son sternly: "Pie, do you want to go to college directly?" ”
Patrick learned from his second brother and shrugged: "If you can go next year." ”
Mommy won't be so easy to fool, she keenly grasped the timeline: "Do you want to stay home this year?" ”
"My truth," Patrick said again before Mommy could speak, "Dr. Cameron has already told you about my mental problems, Mommy?" Asperger's syndrome, I think I'd better stay in a familiar environment, you say? ”
Before Mommy could speak, Sherlock burst out laughing, "Asperger's syndrome? My dear brother, this is the funniest joke I've heard this year, and I think I could laugh all year long. ”
"It is my pleasure to be able to entertain you, my dear second brother." Patrick laughed harmlessly, "Also, I learned from your high-functioning anti-social, and I'm now high-functioning. ”
Sherlock turned into a belly and laughed, and then the two brothers who sang and harmonized were each given a pop by Mommy, and they were thrown out #Out of Sight and Out of Mind#.
In the end, Patrick didn't go to public school this year, and when Patrick was fourteen the next year, he met a netizen with the screen name "Professor" on the Internet, which was a very interesting netizen, they almost #Love at First Sight#, crossed out, and hit it off at first sight. At first sight, it was like what Cheng dù, to Patrick's Cheng dù who was reluctant to go to public school after a year of postponement.
It can be seen that this netizen called "Professor" has such a great influence on apple pie, on the other end of the network, Moriarty, who is still a young man, is also excited, there is a stack of case files stacked next to him, looking at the screen and biting a red apple, "Caught you, little cutie~"