Chapter 043: Quasimodo
"Distinguished guests from afar, you have been waiting for a long time. Come with me, your Archbishop has been waiting for you for a long time. The nun bowed to me with her hands spread over her chest and spoke to me in fluent English.
Fortunately, I had studied English for a few years before, and I did not understand what the nun was saying, but she was saying that the vicar of Notre-Dame Cathedral wanted to see me. According to the storyline of "Notre Dame de Paris", the vicar is supposed to be Claude Floro. And the end is that his adopted son Quasimoro was pushed off the bell tower and fell to his death.
Could it be that it was Lord Floro who was going to see me?
I didn't speak, but quietly followed the nun through the lobby to an attic in the church. The nun motioned for me to sit and wait, saying that the vicar would be coming soon.
I didn't say much, just sat down and waited slowly.
After a while, it was not Claude Floro, but his adopted son, Quasimolo.
Quasimolo was as Hugo described, he was ugly in appearance - with an extremely ugly appearance: a geometric face, a tetrahedral nose, a horseshoe-shaped mouth, jagged teeth, one-eyed, deaf, hunchbacked...... It seems that God has brought all the misfortunes upon him.
But he has a sense of justice that many people don't have, and he always has a kind smile on his face when he sees me.
Before I could speak, Quasimolo said, "You must be strange that the vicar of Notre-Dame Cathedral is me, not my father-in-law, Claude Floro. ”
I nodded.
Quasimoro added: "Actually, your strangeness is also very normal. After all, everyone thinks that Claude Floro is the vicar of Notre-Dame. ”
"However, the ending of Monsieur Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris novel is that you push Claude Floro off the bell tower, and then you go to the execution ground and escape to the cemetery with the body of your sweetheart, Esmeralda. He didn't write about your true ending, but just said that a few years later, the remains of you and Esmeralda were found hugging each other. Didn't you die back then? ”
I asked Quasimolo.
Quasimoro was silent for a long time before shrugging his shoulders and saying, "I was indeed dead at that time, so to speak. But my soul did not go to hell, but came here with a gust of wind. He pointed to Notre Dame Cathedral.
I asked him, "Were you brought to Notre-Dame Cathedral by a gust of wind?" ”
Quasimolo suddenly laughed, and he finished laughing before he said, "Do you really think this is Notre Dame Cathedral?" ”
I nodded, where would this not be Notre Dame?
Quasimoro smiled, "You watched carefully. With a wave of his right hand, the luxurious decoration of Notre Dame Cathedral suddenly disappeared, and Quasimoro and I sat surrounded by ruins.
Looking closely at the ruins, I found that the place where he and I were sitting was the ruins of the Old Summer Palace in the western suburbs of Beijing!
"What's going on?" I asked him dumbfounded.
With a wave of his right hand, he restored the surrounding scene to the scene of Notre Dame Cathedral, and said after a long time: "Actually, the place you are in now is in a space parallel to the place you are in. This is what you humans often call heaven. ”
It turned out that Quasimoro was finally led to heaven by a gust of wind.
I didn't expect that I would come to heaven after taking the "anesthetic medicine" given to me by Li Wei.
Quasimolo said, "Are you wondering why you're here?" ”
I nodded.
Quasimolo said, "It was a girl named Yuan Yuan who asked me to do this. ”
What Quasimolo means is that I was able to come here, and he helped me. And why would he help me? The reason is that Yuan Yuan begged him! In other words, Quasimoro has seen Yuan Yuan here.
"Has Yuan Yuan been here too?" I asked him.
Quasimolo nodded and said, "She was here about seven days ago. She prayed very devoutly at my Notre Dame Cathedral, and she didn't pray for herself. Her behavior caught my attention. After talking to her for a long time, I realized that there has always been a man living in her psyche, and this man is you. ”
I didn't speak, and listened quietly to Quasimolo's words.
"She told me that she had a crush on a boy, but she had left him because she had been murdered. She didn't want the boy to be sad, so she prayed that the boy would be safe and healthy on earth. ”
I listened to Quasimoro's words and was moved to tears.
Yuan Yuan, Yuan Yuan, I didn't expect you to care so much about me all the time! I'm really not human, I didn't go back to Jiangcheng County to look for you until you passed away for ten years, and I came to Jiangcheng County to find the cause of your death and avenge you.
Casimolo noticed my discomfort and took out a bag of tissues from his pocket and handed it to me, I took one and listened to it while wiping my tears.
"I was very touched when I heard what the girl said, and in my opinion, she was just like me. It's just that she's much prettier than I am. Quasimolo smiled self-deprecatingly.
"I wanted to help her, but I found out that she was being controlled by something. Before I could communicate with her properly, she was taken away by something very strong. Before leaving, she left a message, hoping that I can help you one day. She seems to have known for a long time that you have difficulties, she really is a great girl. ”
Quasimolo's mouth was full of words of praise for Yuan Yuan.
After listening to Casimolo's words, I took a cigarette out of my pocket and was about to smoke. Quasimolo reached out and grabbed the cigarette and said, "The nicotine in the cigarette has a paralyzing effect on your nerves, and you still have a lot to do." You'll have to stop smoking. ”
I put away my cigarette and asked, "What should I do?" I don't have any Taoism now, I'm a waste person at all. ”
When Quasimolo heard me say such negative words, his face suddenly turned gloomy, and he said sharply: "How can you say that? You're a man! If you are a man, you should have responsibility and a sense of justice. Are you giving up justice because you have lost the Dao skills you should have? Could it be that you abandoned Yuan Yuan because you lost your original Dao skills? ”
Quasimolo's words pierced my heart like pins and needles.
Indeed, am I really as Quasimolo said, giving up justice and abandoning Yuan Yuan because of the loss of the Dao skills that should have been?
I'm a man, what should I not do!
I have to take responsibility! I'm going to keep looking.
"You say it's heaven?" I asked Quasimolo.
Quasimolo nodded.
"You live here?"
Quasimolo nodded.
"You mean you're a god?"
Quasimolo hesitated for a long time before saying, "So to speak. I'm just a little bit higher than humans. If you want to talk about immortals, I'm afraid I can't be regarded as a great god, I can only be regarded as a very low-level little god. ”
It's a fairy, that's right! Whether it is a big god or a small god, as long as the god who can help me solve my problems, it is my lucky god!
I asked Quasimolo to help me regain my mana, but Quasimoro refused without thinking.
For a while, it made me feel like I had turned over a five-flavor bottle, sweet and sour, bitter and salty, very unpleasant.