Chapter Twenty-Four: Harris

readx;?“ Harris!" called the priest, "What are you looking at?"

"Church relief, of course. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 "Otherwise, what can I see outside the window at this time?"

Harris stood in the window of St. Wasari's church with the best view, watching through the colorful window as the priest gave food to the poor. After a while, the porridge that was as light as water was all finished. Even before the priest even stepped into the church, someone began to search for the remaining rice grains on the pot wall, perhaps because there were really many steps in the cathedral. The three people who divided the gruel also let them do it, as long as they didn't break the pot anyway.

"Poor man, isn't it, Brother Harris. The priest said: "Tomorrow they will be more pitiful, and the day of the Holy King is a day of prayer and rest, even for good deeds." ”

"Do good?" Harris muttered quietly.

The Reich legally assigned all social welfare responsibilities to the Holy See, and the government subsidized a large part of the expenses in addition to the donations of the good men and women. It is a well-known fact that the Holy See is unable to make ends meet every year.

The priest saw Harris staring at the relief site and thinking intently, and said to him, "Don't worry, Brother Harris. You've only been here for a month, and one day the priest will get a piece of your pie. ”

"A piece of the pie?" Harris said hurriedly, "No, no." I'm not thinking about this, and I don't want this. ”

"Don't want to?" said the monk, "brother, you make me a little nervous when you say that." ”

Harris also started to get nervous, and said, "I mean...... I...... I'm not going to sue you, if you're worried about that. ”

The monk smiled: "Even if you want to sue, no one will pay attention to you." Trust me, it won't. ”

"Harris!?"

The woman's voice came from under the steps, and Eunice saw Harris's ugly face and came up and said:

"Brother Harris, are you alright?"

It wasn't the first time the Fellow had seen Eunice, but he couldn't help but want to praise her beauty.

The stunned monk said, "That's all for today's work, I'll leave the beautiful lady first." ”

After saying that, the priest left.

"What's wrong?" said Eunice.

"Eunice, I don't think I can hold on. Harris said, "My faith, my conscience can't hold up." He said, pointing his finger out the window, "Relief food, orphanages, shelters, they take the life-saving money of the poor as if they were withdrawing money from the bank." Homeless people prefer to live on the streets rather than in shelters, and it has been heard that they sometimes forget who is in the room until the corpse stinks. And the children in the orphanage only have one meal a day, and they also need to work as coolies for the orphanage. Not to mention these relief rations, which deserve bread, stews, and even chicken. All these ......," Harris leaned against the window, as if he were about to lose his footing, "and those people were not at all afraid that their wallets were too heavy to slow down their journey to heaven, and the prayers in their mouths were completely contrary to the evil thoughts in their hearts. If the Holy Spirit really had a lead ball tied to the feet of every evildoer, the sins of those people would not be able to bear even the earth. ”

"Have you seen many things like this before, and still shocked you?" asked Eunice.

Harris said slowly, "When I was in the village of the bottom of the tree, it was far away from the imperial capital, far away from the king. I thought it would be different here, after all, this is the imperial capital, isn't it? It seems that all the things in the empire are not because of luck with the royal power, but because they have completely transformed from the top down into profit-seeking machines. I doubt that a free and just society two years ago really existed, and not in the cloak of those in power. ”

Eunice looked around, no clergy had come up here, and everyone was hurrying home.

"The world is like this, maybe worse than this. Eunice said, "What do you want to see?"

"I want to see something that proves that there is something beautiful in this world. "I'm 5o years old and I haven't thought about being rich or powerful, but that desire seems more extravagant than both," Harris said. ”

Eunice smiled and said to Harris, "You're really unlucky, but I've seen it. There are some beautiful things that urge me to continue to live in this world. ”

Eunice, who was still a little girl, lost her father and lost everything. It was Harris who had been taking care of her, whenever she thanked Harris for what she had done. Harris would always bring all the praise to God, and would never leave the Code of Etalon all day long. Whenever I talk to him, it's like talking to a book.

Eunice could guess Harris's answer word for word, and she could cite the scriptures to indicate which part of the code it came from. Eunice didn't like Brother Harris very much, but she couldn't imagine how strange it would feel if he didn't speak like that.

Many people thought Harris was a fake because he was so typical, like a believer who had come out of a story. He obeys God's will in every detail, and if anyone argues with him about God's affairs, he will always be defeated by his witty words. It was as if there was really the Holy Spirit behind him, preparing all the words for him. When he meets a wise scholar, he becomes an expert in logic, and when he meets a villager who does not have much knowledge, he becomes an inspirational orator.

If you want to know what kind of person he is, just look through the books in the church. It asks for what people need, and Harris is what it is.

He is perfect, perfectly unreal. Only Eunice knows that he didn't want to be a godly person, but that he was born that way. He spoke of God's love for creation, his love for the world. He spoke of the holiness and virtue of the Holy Spirit as virtues to which he aspired with all his heart.

Now Harris says he can't make it, which makes Eunice worry about him.

Harris prayed to himself more and more every day, and for longer and longer.

The place where the two temporarily lived was a dilapidated high-rise building, and every floor was filled with residents. The foundation looked a little problematic and made the building slightly tilted. But there is an advantage here, which is that it is cheap. They live on the highest floor because it's cheapest there. Harris didn't want to spend too much money on his accommodation, in fact Harris didn't want to spend any money for himself.

"Tell me about your job?" Harris said.

Eunice laughed and said, "I'll go to the tavern to sing, and if someone happens to have a good time listening to it and their wallet doesn't have space, I'll have some spare money." ”

"Maybe you already have the money to buy this room, right?" Harris said.

The staircase was smelly and long, and the two of them were talking, and it was obvious that Harris had a lot of gasps in his voice.

Harris returned to his room, alone watching the sun. He took out the Etaron Codex from his bosom, his eyes couldn't read the little book many years ago, but he could still read the words on it from memory.

Harris put it to his chest and began to pray outside the window to the darkening city. The clouds are dense and there may be a rain at night.

"God. He said, "Be gracious to us and save us from evil." Give strength to the good people to fight against the evil in the world, and give strength to the wicked to fight against their demons. Like the rain you give us, the sunshine you give us. ”

As Harris was about to finish, he added, "Those children in the orphanage, if you could give them more, they need strength more than anyone else." May your kingdom of heaven come and take away all the evil of the world. ”

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