"Pastor Lowe requested?" I asked rhetorically.

The staff nodded, and the staff member, who looked to be in his forties, told us that the church was about twenty years old. This church was donated by churches elsewhere, and Pastor Lowe was sent from other churches at that time to preach.

The staff member who spoke to us was very religious and has been working here since the first day the church was officially put into use. Recalling the situation, the staff looked up a few times at the small yellow chandelier above our heads.

At first, the church was in very rudimentary condition, with only candles lit at night, but later, the condition of the church gradually improved, and Pastor Lowe finally took some of the funds from the fund to renovate the church simply. It was also from that time that the church was electrified.

Due to the problem of funding, the church used dim lights at the beginning, and no one cared, but as time passed, the church's funds became more and more sufficient, and the church building was renovated and renovated more than once, but what many people don't understand is why the church lights have always been those few lights.

Over the years, the light bulb has broken down several times, but each time Pastor Lowe bought the same model of light bulb and came back to replace it. Many people suggested that Pastor Lowe change the lights, but Pastor Lowe did not agree. Some people thought that Pastor Luo wanted to save money for the church, so he offered to pay for the lights.

But even so, Pastor Lowe refused to agree. At night, the church was so dark that many people could not exaggerate that the dim yellow lights could barely see the layout of the mission hall, and we could not even see his face clearly as the staff member stood not far from us.

More and more people suggested changing the lights, but Pastor Lowe actively avoided the topic every time, and slowly, fewer people made suggestions, and most people chose to adapt. Therefore, as long as the congregants who have been in this church for a long time have become fully accustomed to listening to the pastor's sermon in this atmosphere.

"This priest is also strange, it's all dark like this, and it looks like he'll die if he changes a few lights." Jiang Jun said half-jokingly.

"Not only the hall on the first floor, but the lights used in the whole church are like this." The staff continued to speak to us.

The staff's statement made me and Jiang Jun feel strange as to what made Pastor Luo cling to these ordinary lamps.

I put the question aside for a moment, and I asked the staff, "Who is Pastor Lowe usually close to?" ”

The staff lowered their heads and thought for a moment: "Pastor Luo is relatively close to everyone. ”

Me: "Does anyone often go to Pastor Lowe's house?" ”

The staff shook their heads: "Pastor Lowe lives in the church most of the time, and none of us have a chance to go to his house." ”

From the staff, I couldn't ask anything. After looking around the dark church, I asked for another detailed survey, and the staff agreed, offering to show us the way.

We first walked around the outside of the church, outside which was a very small wood, the books in the forest were not high or large, but the distance between the trees was unusually small, and the hanging branches and leaves were so dense that it was difficult to see what was inside.

"These trees were also planted by Pastor Luo more than ten years ago, and Pastor Luo chose a special variety, which grows very slowly, and will not grow forever and become towering trees." The staff explained to us.

I visually measured the distance between trees, and an adult could walk through, but walking in it would have been slow, because the distance between the trunks was so small.

"Don't you think it's strange?" I asked the staff.

He shook his head: "Pastor Lowe said that these trees are not for people to shade, but to make the church look more full of life." "Pastor Lowe has a high reputation, and in the church, he is whatever he says, and since he has accepted it like this, no one will find it strange.

After going around the circle, we entered the church again. On the first floor of the church, in addition to a preaching hall, there is a kitchenette and several small rooms. After a brief inspection of several small rooms for the congregants who had lived in the church for a long time, the staff took Jiang Jun and I up to the second floor of the church.

There was also a mission hall on the second floor, but the staff told us that this hall had never been used, and even if there were many people listening to the sermon, Pastor Lowe had everyone crowded into the first floor instead of opening both halls at the same time. From the first floor to the second floor, I found that as the staff said, the lights used in the whole church were small dim and dilapidated light bulbs, and the number was pitiful.

As we ascended the stairs, we could barely see the road under our feet.

The layout of the second floor is similar to that of the first floor, with several small rooms on the second floor, in addition to a large hall.

"This is also for someone else?" Jiang Jun looked at the locked rooms and asked.

The staff shook their heads: "No, everyone else lives on the first floor, and Pastor Luo lives alone after the second floor." Of these rooms, only one is Pastor Lowe's bedroom, and the others are all storage rooms for offices and some materials. ”

Me: "Do you have a key?" ”

"There should be one in Pastor Lowe's office." The staff continued, "Pastor Luo asked everyone not to come to the second floor for anything special, so we rarely came up. ”

"Do you say why?" I asked.

"No, but everyone thinks it's because some offices on the second floor store some important materials of the church, so everyone hasn't come up much." He replied.

We went into Pastor Lowe's office, and we had searched it carefully, and because the police had found sufficient evidence in this office, the police did not search the entire church for religious reasons, and they did not destroy the religious furnishings in the office except to take away the necessary evidence.

We searched for a while, and finally, we found a bunch of keys.

We took the keys and tried them one by one, and the doors were opened by us one by one. As the staff said, these small rooms are storage rooms for materials, with only a few small cabinets in them, and nothing else. The small cabinet was filled with Bibles and other materials that were very important to the church.

After scouting, we retreated, and the next room was Pastor Lowe's bedroom. The layout of the bedroom is particularly simple, with a bed, a table, a chair and an electric fan. The room was small but appeared clean.

"Pastor Lowe would come here to rest after his sermons, and he rarely went home, not a few times a week. Therefore, in order not to disturb Pastor Luo's rest, everyone was very conscious, and if there was no special matter, everyone would not come to the second floor of the church. The staff explained.

There is a small window in the bedroom, which opens to the small trees that are dense outside the conversation.

Exiting from Pastor Lowe's bedroom, I saw a small wooden door at the end of the passageway. There were few lights in the hallway, and from the place where we were standing to the room at the end, there were no more lights in the passageway. It was so dark that I almost missed the wooden door.

I walked towards the small wooden door, and the staff followed me and whispered, "That wooden door won't open, this set of keys doesn't match the lock on it." ”

As soon as the staff finished speaking, my eyes fell on the handle of the wooden door, which did not even have a lock.

When Jiang Jun saw this scene, he immediately asked the staff why they were lying.

The staff was a little nervous, and he shook his head and said he wasn't lying. Afraid of a misunderstanding by the police, the staff immediately gave the reason. It turns out that this door is sometimes locked, sometimes it is not.

He didn't come up much, but he also knew that there was a small wooden door at the end of the passage. Several times he came up, he saw that the outside of the small wooden door was locked with iron chains and iron locks, but on other occasions, there were no chains and iron locks on the small wooden door.

Once, when Pastor Lowe was out preaching in a foreign country, he came up out of kindness to check that the doors were locked. That was the first time he had noticed that the handle outside the small wooden door was not locked with chains and locks, and his curiosity drove him to walk slowly towards the small wooden door.