The first deputy chief of the underworld of poetry and song appeared very suddenly, and when the archon introduced it, it seemed to say that Ulise, a tall one-eyed man who was not very kind, and finally this new leader lived in the Garden of Eden, and occasionally wandered around the floors like a ghost, looking at the cold eyes of people, as if looking at a skeleton stripped of flesh and bones, and the horns that had always maintained maximum independence also became the jurisdiction of the deputy chief, and after getting all the files, three days later Ulise put Miss Philip, Assistant Professor Kim and Professor Shirley shouted to a temporary office and criticized them, among them, Assistant Professor Kim was the most pitiful, he was smashed in the face by a stack of materials, and was evaluated by the one-eyed dragon as a maggot waste with maggots in his head, if it was just like that, the three heads of the horns just regarded him as a strange person who was difficult to get along with, but then they each received a new experimental plan full of imagination and feasibility, and they completely admitted defeat, and Xiao Hall, who had always regarded the chief of order as a thought dragon and spiritual mentor, had to admit that the new direct boss was a king in the professional field after studying the new plan。

Ulise, who was confident to a state of conceit, did not spend more time on the horns of sheep, but stood in the tomb at the bottom without eating or drinking, studying the magic array of God's left eye, Augustine did not stop this, but felt that fate was really interesting, and this magic array would be a destination for Ulise, who only had one left eye?

On the edge of the manor appeared a persistent knight, an Imperial cavalryman who had just been awarded a medal on the Red Gogol Plain, a very low insignia, but it was not easy for a young warrior of civilian origin, he was very handsome, he had a body-building physique that had been cultivated by the flames of war, and of course, he was very persistent, and he did not rush into the Resident Poet of the Fourth Institution of the Sacrimentary Ministry, but repeated the sincere request of an honorary cavalryman: let the archon release his admirer, the daughter of Sir Goodman.

The order was ignored, and the cavalrymen who were supposed to report to the Imperial Military Headquarters stayed. For this reason, Augustine asked Fiona to inquire about the delicate porcelain doll, and the result was very uneventful, the horseman was called Nelson, from Sir Goodman's domain, the youngest son of a miller, and the young deer who fell into the dark abyss did not forget to declare that she had no friendship with Nelson. Augustine found it amusing, and did not bother with such trivialities, and did not want to drag the cavalryman who had won the battle in the red Gogol into the poem, but Ulise made a special appearance, and called the doll who was being trained by the Empress of Marceau to be the best swallow, and threw her a puzzle: "Will you see the cavalryman die in order? or, together, or either you both can be free." Before you make your choice, I remind you, I'll ask the same question to the cavalry, you have six choices together, and there will be six different outcomes. ”

Of the three options in one direction, the second is the most tragic, and most tragic love epics end here. The third is the most fairytale, while the first is undoubtedly the most realistic. The beautiful young deer finally chose the third item that was most beneficial to him, and Ulise was satisfied, and then the cavalry was almost made into a skeleton knight, and the reason for this was almost because Augustine secretly prevented Ulise's very improvised, deformed game, and the horseman, who was very good-looking and could win the good impression of the noblewoman, was able to leave the manor safely, full of hatred, in the upper observation hall of the castle of Poetry, Ulise shook his head at the archon beside him: " I have a bad feeling that this fool blinded by love has a very small chance of becoming a pawn of the soldier who has reached the eighth square. Extremely small, not equal to zero. ”

Augustine said calmly, "Are you protesting against my mercy?"

Ulise smiled, his face even uglier, and said, "Kindness, do you have it?"

Augustine patted Ulise on the shoulder, turned to leave, and returned to his study to sort through the countless manuscripts that had just been shipped from a territory where no building could be taller than five stories. One of the unfinished military treatises, which Augustine would continue to write, maintained regular correspondence with the fat man during his time as the Red Glove of the Night's Watch, discussing various military tactics, including the crazy "Maritime Supremacy and the Mobile Second Empire". With the genius of the sea's latitude and longitude spreading from Ka Myo, and the naked lure of the subcontinent's gold mines and slaves, the maritime trade flourished, but no one seems to have publicly thrown out the prescient argument of combining the sea with military and political affairs. In the dark and damp study, Augustine had just pulled out a quill pen, and for no reason remembered the White Elephant Castle adjacent to the Black Swan Lake Manor, where there was bad news, the head of Greenspan's house did not hesitate to "kidnap" his favorite little daughter to Jupiter City in order to draw a line with the bloody golden scale, but a large number of griffin knights remained in the territory, and the barbarians who were only loyal to His Majesty the Emperor wanted to monitor the order for the master of Jupiter City? Augustine laughed to himself and buried himself in writing.

After nearly an hour of writing a few hundred words and revising them repeatedly, Augustine sighed, stopped his pen, inserted a simple homemade white crystal inkwell on the corner of the table, rubbed his temples, took out a silver coin, and muttered: "If you can't rest assured that your ears hear it, then go and see it with your own eyes?"

The young giant fell into a long silence.

Unlike the order of the dwarves who grow wildly from nourishment, the Giant Night's Watch only needs to work slowly and methodically to maintain its massive majesty.

Unlike the Court of the Holy Spirit, the Imperial Night's Watch is headquartered at the junction of the provinces of Juan and Lusan, in the middle of the Empire, with two divisions in Barot County in the southwest and Elova County in the northeast, the latter of which is the location of Augustine's first entry into the Night's Watch, where Augustine completed the rapid ascent from the Elementary Red Glove to the Inquisitor, and when he broke away from the Night's Watch and set up his own portal to become the fourth Lordship of the Sacriments, I heard that the narrow rooms he lived in in the Castle of Dusk have become the default forbidden place.

The recognized center of the Imperial Night's Watch is the Angel Garden, the red-gloved Grim Reaper, but likes to live in a garden full of angel sculptures, it is really puzzling, the Angel Garden nearly 1,000 large and small statues from the hands of hundreds of artists since the founding of the Holy Empire, all of them are excellent handiwork and spirit, a vivid angel standing quietly in the lush red roses, is a beautiful epic moving picture. In the charming garden, a cute child who can't distinguish between male and female is chasing butterflies, crying when he falls, but he turns his head and doesn't see any intention of the teacher to help, quietly pouts, stands up alone, and continues to hunt down the elves who are destined to not be captured by the immature ten fingers.

Standing under a statue of an angel meaning "Watcher", the teacher is not old, on the contrary, young and beautiful, the noblewoman can see this person as a feminine male court literati, and the nobles can also think of this person as a powerful woman who can take the initiative on any battlefield, such as the Secretary of State, Queen Goschel, who has been in the Elova branch of the Night's Watch for a few years as the presiding judge of the Dealer, wears a white robe, and has a peaceful face, as beautiful as the statue behind him, and it is impossible to tell who is an angel and who is a human.

The current night watch's top ranks are in turmoil, but there is no unexpected and expected turmoil, Wilde, the second most vocal person on the throne, is imprisoned in the prison of the Confessional Church, the evil dragon Ulise, who is also expected to ascend to the dark throne, is expelled, and a strange six-year-old child of the Windsor family takes on the responsibility of the second largest institution of the Sacricodian Ministry, and even the Holy Spirit Court and the ewe are still unable to determine whether this naturally genderless child is the grandson of the Teutonic priests, or a new product of Lucifer's laboratory, for nearly fifty years, the Vat Lantican has been secretly conducting absurd and crazy experiments on the creation of gods, Lucifer's laboratory is exclusive to the night watch, the most successfulExcept for a few who died in the middle of the war and a few of them, most of them were secrets in the dark corners of survival, two of them were said to have reached semi-maturity, and one lucky monster stepped into the final forbidden area, but for this, even the highest inspectors of the Inquisition Institute could not verify it, and the great Teutonic priest gently covered all the secrets with his hands before his death.

The white-robed figure who single-handedly orchestrated the largest coup d'état in the history of the Night's Watch wears a gold-encrusted scarlet glove with dense gold thread and a round sun painted in the center of the back of his hand, like a sun entrenched in the sky. The only old man in the Sacraments who spent the rest of her life "trying to disobey the will of God" (the words of the Holy Spear Liesi Shield) and Ulise determined her sex, female, 26 years old, not surprisingly, with only four years left, and this is the price of humanity stepping into the realm of the gods. Her name was given by the old man himself, Eden Gaia, two words, the former symbolizes the "temple of purity", and the latter means "mother earth" in the Quralan, as for the surname that seems ridiculous, no one cares. She is the greatest achievement of the Vat Lantican No. 3 project, the Lucifer Laboratory, the first to enter the mature body, the first to advance [Demigod] This is a miracle, on this miracle road, she has paid countless unimaginable disasters, she has absorbed the blood of the thirteen tribes of the immortal race, and there is a golar water cup in her body, which means that she lives in the body of countless devils and is tormenting all the time, but even so, she has never cried once when she entered the night watch when she was a girl, and she has not even revealed the slightest expression of pain, her unknown faith, which is privately praised by the Teutonic priests as the greatest glory of the night watch, which is probably the capital that she can become the new night watch teacher of the empire, the biggest heresy among the heretics, and is qualified to lead the way for the small leader of the night watch, walking hand in hand through the darkness and the abyss.

Having been officially promoted from the presiding judge of the branch to the third big man of the Night's Watch, she quietly looked at the immature new leader, her eyes did not have the heat of power, let alone the kindness of the elders, but a little cold.

The child named Y-Menuhin, if she was just a naïve and ignorant child, everyone would suffer, she met this "jewel" of the Windsor family for the first time, and the child who could detect people's hearts from the birth smiled and said "I know you, it's a hell, but I like you", similarly, Wilde was once judged by Menuhin to be "a rusty blunt sword, I don't like it", so he was thrown into the church of confession, as for Ulise, he was said to be "a wounded dragon lying in the roses, I hate" and was subsequently expelled. One of the old giants who were originally ranked lower in the night watch, and now the titular second archon, Elder Maxine, rose absurdly because of a "not hateful" comment, and behind Menuhin, there were two Lucifer "darlings" second only to Eden Gaia, and there were many secret cards arranged by the Teutonic priests during his lifetime, and everything was meticulously moved forward in the old man's established arrangement.

This is the real politician, and the most successful thing is not how prominent he was during his lifetime, but the glory that he can bring to his successor after death.

The indifferent Eden Gaia remembered a last conversation with the old man, which went back to a year and a half ago, in fact, the old man Teutonic Windsor really died a year ago, not a week ago, as Ulise knew, and that conversation, she secretly came to the Angel Garden, the old man was very old, sitting alone on a stone bench in the garden, with lush roses behind him, and in front of him was a beautiful group of angel statues, his expression was peaceful, but his eyes were a little sad, and when she bowed and saluted, the tired giant, who was only a few steps away from death, smiled slightly, and said softly: "The empire is about to start a war again. ”

She nodded, this was the first time in the history of the Empire that the battlefield had been advanced into the territory of Titans.

The old man recalled: "The Red Gogol Plain is a very beautiful place, and it is there that I met my wife, and if I had been younger, or had lived a few more years, I would have stopped this war, even if it upset His Majesty the Emperor." For those who are not familiar with military affairs, war is undoubtedly very romantic. It's a pity that I'm not a knight, and my wife keeps making fun of me about this, saying that I should really find a knight husband. Ha, I'm not going to give her a chance to regret it. ”

I'm afraid that the entire Holy Empire is admiring the giant's love for his wife. The old man's wife was a Titan, a country lady with ordinary appearance and knowledge, and at that time the young heir of Windsor was already a well-known magician, known as a true genius destined to enter the Mayan temple, and had a good relationship with the old emperor, and was versatile, as if there was nothing in the world that he was not good at, and the young nobleman even made the feat of dragging a duke vampire into the sun and turning it to ashes in his early twenties, everyone believed that the heir of the Windsor family would be the pride of the empire, but he fell in love with the young lady of the enemy's war, and damn it, the other party was only an inconspicuous country girl, This is not only the shame of the ancient Windsor, but also the shame of the Holy Empire, for this reason, the young Teuton turned against his father and the family, and entered the night watch, but the marriage only lasted a few years, and the previous head of the Windsor family, who was mired in the conspiracy of political enemies, in order to revive the glory of the family, needed the comeback of his son, I don't know if it was dizziness or gambling, and secretly poisoned his daughter-in-law who had been unpleasant, it is very strange that Teuton still took over Windsor in the shaky position of the family, and walked out of the shadows with the ancient family, and did not take revenge on anyone, until now.

The old man murmured, "My wife, who died in my arms, I would have seen that ugly family collapse with my own eyes, but she said that she wanted me to forgive our father. Kind, isn't it?"

The old man continued: "So at my insistence, the Vat Atlantican began to make a god, and I hope that the life that passed like an hourglass when my wife was dying could be grasped by me again, which is stupid, and I know it, but what is the point of living to a great age without doing something." It's a pity that people who haven't experienced love, like Lao Lie Sidun and Xiao Haiji. Fortunately, these two friends never had time to hear my nagging again, and they would probably be relieved about my death, but they were still somewhat sad, I hope so. ”

Eden Gaia remained silent, not wanting to say anything, for this ordinary but heavy love, whether it was comfort or praise, outsiders would seem frivolous. As for the two sacrament ministry giants who were side by side with the old man in front of her, she didn't have the slightest favor.

Old Teuton said lightly, "I'm sorry, little Bourbon, you've suffered a lot in the Night's Watch over the years, but this is my agreement with a friend, if he is still alive, I can still bargain and intercede for you, but he walks faster than me, so there is no way." ”

Eden Gaia shook her head and said, "This is my own choice, and I will never regret it." ”

The old man sighed: "Menuhin will be handed over to you, Wilde is a natural politician, the night watchman is not suitable for him, the court is right, so you may need to restrain him at that time, and it doesn't hurt to use some force." Ulise's kid, in fact, is relatively simple, originally not to come to the night watch, and how good it would be to be a bard, for Ulise, don't be too harsh, just drive him out of Juan County and Lusan County, even if he goes to the Holy Spirit Court and the ewe, don't embarrass him, this is not a bad thing for the night watchman, Ulise is a tumor that can be benign or malignant, and the overly upright Liesdun and the little Haige who likes to be suspicious may not be able to control it well. But if he tries to leave the Holy Empire and go to the Byzantian Holy See, don't hesitate to kill him and leave the Dead Sea Papers, and maybe one day the Night's Watch will be remembered for a thousand years because of this forbidden book. ”

Eden Gaia took it to heart.

There is some sadness in my heart, is this a last word?

Old Teuton coughed a few times, beckoned to Bourbon to sit beside her, but she smiled and declined, Old Teuton was a little lonely, but a little nostalgic for the Augustine who was not big or small, that guy didn't know how to be polite at all, and he was even thicker than Ulise, who let him carry the box, alas, the reason why it is inevitable to miss the night watchman is not because there are more interesting descendants here than the Holy Spirit Court and the ewes? Augustine's generation, in addition to the descendants of the traitors who are branded as the profound saints of the godfather, as well as Chanistine from Jupiter, and Peter, who rose to prominence in the southwest, are all excellent young people with many shining points, but the most like himself is still little Augustine, but unfortunately the bad luck came too quickly, and the little guy left the night watchman too early, for which Jerome complained a lot, and sent a formal letter of condemnation with indignant wording, scolding himself for turning a young nobleman into a butcher with blood-stained hands, throwing it out when he was done using it, and refusing to take responsibility。 The old man thought of this and smiled slightly, Jerome still has this stinky temper, which is really a headache for his friend.

The old man came back to his senses and said softly, "I don't like Menuhin very much, a child who is too much like my father, but the Night's Watch needs such an heir, you can be its teacher, but don't invest too much personal feelings, that is not wise, in the future, you will have to leave the Night's Watch, as for how much dowry you can take with you, it is up to you." Don't expect to be able to control Menuhin, it simply shouldn't belong to this world, just like the female pet 'Hemer' of the Grand Duke of Rome in the Caucasus, a plane destroyer. ”

It's it, not him or her.

It shows that Old Teuton really didn't like this deformed character who couldn't even be explained by his grandson or granddaughter.

Because of his birth, the old man's only beloved son and favorite daughter-in-law died of an illness without warning, and the old priest completely lost his last affection for the Windsor family.

Exalted status, a glorious scepter, and a magnificent garment can never bring happiness that seems to be taken for granted, and old Teuton saw this better than anyone else.

"Little Bourbon, next year you will probably return to the Angel Garden in the light when the smoke of the Red Gogol Plain begins to dissipate, don't lose to Wilde and Ulise, as for who will be the second leader of the Night's Watch symbol, it depends on your mood and Menuhin's mood, this is a trivial matter. ”

The old man waved his hand to signal that Eden Gaia could leave, and said to himself, "Disaster teaches us humility, and bad luck forces us to be strong. This is what the master of Bourbon said to me back then, and that look is the most clergyman-like look I have ever seen. ”

From beginning to end, the old man always sat in the same position at all times. When the woman was completely out of sight, Old Teuton withdrew his gaze and looked at the empty stone bench beside him, his eyes gentle.

It seemed that in the eyes of the old man, his wife sat there quietly.

The old man looked at the statues and smiled: "It's really old, no matter how hard you try to remember, even your face is blurred, you won't blame me, right?"

The old man got up with difficulty, stretched out his dry hand, plucked a bright rose among the flowers, slowly walked under a statue, bent down to put the flower on the base of the statue, and said softly, "I'm here." ”

On this day of the year, together with two old friends, the Communion Congregation was made into an old man who could compete with the Byzantian Papal Chamber, and died in secret in peace.

The first sequence of giants of the Sacramental Ministry, the Divine Spear Column Shield, a golden dragon that was once only half a step away from the papal throne of the Byzantian Holy See, and the dark emperor who had not spoken for countless years, walked out of the study, looking up at the starry sky with a sad expression.

Black sheep, the mother of cynical ewes, Hai Ji, walked to the cemetery of the resting person exclusive to Black sheep, with a white rose in his hand, came to a tombstone without an epitaph, sat there in a daze, and said softly: "Isn't it romantic enough for a great man to love an ordinary woman all his life, and disobey God's will for the rest of his life? ”

At this time, the child Menuhin stood in front of the teacher who was known among the night watchmen as dangerous as Queen Goschel and the housekeeper of the House of Scavengers, and said in a milky voice: "You are sad now, who are you missing?"

Edengaia, who was squatting with a black cat at her feet, smiled and shook her head.

The child didn't pursue it, but just sighed and continued to run to catch butterflies.

Halfway through the run, the child stopped and turned around and asked, "The Order has submitted an application for the selection and allocation of resources of the Sacrament Department to our Night Watchman and the Holy Spirit Court and the Ewe respectively, and the Holy Spirit Court and the Ewe have approved it, shall we?"

She replied calmly, "The group that accepted Ulise is the enemy of the Night's Watch. ”

The child grinned, not innocent and cute, no longer entangled in this issue, just looked at the pet at the teacher's feet, tilted his head and asked, "Teacher, can this black Ashoka give it to me?"

Hearing this, the little black cat's fur stood on end, full of vigilance.

Eden Gaia still said in a flat tone, "No. ”

The new Imperial Night's Watch let out another oh, and the brief conversation ended.

In the northwest of the empire, Gayar, there is a monastery in this county province that has appeared two saints, two patriarchs, nine cardinal archbishops and three priests, that is, the Maidaiola Theological Seminary, in recent years, the prestige has surpassed the Nordic Odin, which has maintained the first monastery in the century in the empire, because of two things, the first is that the old abbot of Maideola, St. Jerome, ascended to the head of the apostles, and the second event has a more far-reaching impact, the previous abbot of Maideola, Iyeta, has become the latest saint in the Vatlanticane, and his posthumous work "Teachings" It has also become the fourth spiritual pillar of the Holy See, and even Nordic Odin has never had any doubts and objections to this, which is an honor that should belong to Maidaiola.

Unlike most of the seminaries in the empire, all 24 monasteries of Maidaiola are built on huge stones, as if hanging in the air, where all donations from believers are refused, and since its establishment, not a single copper plate has been received, all priests must be self-sufficient, and live a hard and simple life, except for daily excerpts from the scriptures, in strict accordance with the scriptures as stated in the "six praises of the Lord at a time", six times a day, this tradition, even the successive abbots are no exception, they have to get up at 3 o'clock in the morning to start the first prayer, followed by morning prayer, noon prayer, The evening prayer, the evening prayer and the final evening prayer, which alone took four hours, and it was this devout ascetic life that led Maideola out of the angelic theologian Alehan, out of St. Jerome, out of Iyeta, and in the future, certainly out of the next saint or cardinal archbishop.

A young man with a very old face walked through the snow-covered plain of red agate, with two adopted orphans, to the foot of the main monastery of Maidaiola, with the appearance of the new saint Iyeta, in the past two years there has been a round of pilgrimage fever in Maideola, the nobles came from all the counties and provinces of the empire, but after seeing the path that led to the monastery full of dangers, they were afraid to stop, because Maidaiola has never intended to widen the gap between the cliffs where only one person is allowed to walk, and in many sections, even pedestrians need to climb iron chains to bend forward, and every year believers fall off the cliffs。

The young priest was obviously unwilling to return there, and straightened out the countless shabby robes, and his expression became more and more pious, one of the orphaned boys was still dissatisfied with the young godfather's blackmailing on the plains of red agate, and it was no wonder that the child was indignant, and the poor godfather saw a hungry old woman who fell to the ground on the side of the road, and still took out all the bread on her body, but was said by the old woman's serf son to be a sinner who overthrew his mother, and was almost dragged to the petty noble lord to ask for more copper plates, and the godfather of the two children kept telling some meaningless teachings, without any real rebuttal, and received a fist from the strong serfHis cheeks were still red and swollen, and the priest listened to the nagging of his godson all the way, smiled, touched his little head, and said softly: "Little Keith, the Lord tells us that even if we are angry, we must not sin, and we must not let the sun set in the west when you are angry, and we must not leave room for the devil. You see, isn't the sunset above us beautiful, so don't be upset, the bread will be there. ”

The child is not angry with the poor godfather who gives away all the food, but after giving kindness and is slandered but does not resist, if he is stronger, he must beat the tough villain who looks very strong, but the child is still very polite, "Here you are again! Noringson, are you going to tell me again, 'Whoever is thirsty, whoever believes in the Lord, will be able to flow rivers of living water from his heart?'"

The young priest laughed, rubbed the little guy's brown hair with weight, and said, "Little Keith has improved a lot, and he can remember this sentence." ”

Beside them a thin girl orphan smiled shyly, she was a little envious of her companion Keith, although he was naughty, but he could easily remember the righteousness of the godfather's mouth, she was very difficult, this was her biggest trouble, as for hunger and cold, she did not care, several times almost died of disease she thought it would be good to be able to live.

The priest stood up straight, stunned at the beautiful sunset that would shine on the Pindous Mountains.

Little Keith tugged at the sleeve of his godfather's robe and asked in a low voice of curiosity: "Hey, Innocent, I heard that you are the godson of the young master of the great nobles of the Augs Song City, named Augustine, and now you are a very big man in the Holy See, is it true? I think it must be fake, otherwise why are you still so shabby? I have repaired the robe for you several times, and Heidi didn't dare to use any force when she cleaned it, and of course, she didn't have much strength." If you want me to wash it, you have to make a few holes. ”

The girl with chilblains on her hands and feet and cheeks blushed, and mischievous little Keith grimaced at her.

Their godfather did not answer this sensitive question.

Keith Jr. only confirmed that he came from the most ordinary serf family from a priest who did not want to call the godfather, and only heard that he had refused the priesthood granted by the Northwest Diocese a few years ago, and then he was miserable, no matter where he went to Gayar, he would be ridiculed by the high-ranking priests, "Yo, this is not the godson of Augustine, the son of the traitor, Noh Yingsen, the church robe is really torn, unfortunately." But in the bottom of his heart, the bright-minded little Keith is still very grateful to his godfather, although he is very young, he knows that his godfather is a good man worthy of respect, no matter how poor he is, he is willing to help those in need, even if he suffers a disaster, he never compromises.

The Red Onyx Plain in Tamerang, the county of Gayard, was the granary of the empire, but the rich naturally belonged to the nobles and lords, and the poor remained poor. If it weren't for Noringson, orphans Keith and Heidi would have starved to death or froze to death on the side of the road, as many children do.

The poor are always the most afraid of winter.

What is beautiful in the eyes of the rich is a white hell to the poor.

Before going up the mountain, the priest Noringsen, who was carrying a simple bag, specially advised: "Wait a minute, Keith hold on to my robe, little Keith, you hold Heidi's hand, the mountain is windy, don't leave anyone behind." ”

The priest was the first to walk into the zigzag path carved out of the crack in the stone, and he was followed by two children, who were not at ease with the two thinly dressed children in the snow below, for he was not willing to take them on the risk, for the climb to the sacred monastery was too much too much for the children.

When he was resting, Noringsen saw the inscription on the stone wall, stretched out his calloused hand, and wiped away the frost, which was a string of Gularan words: "Our faith, painting stones will last forever, and painting water will disappear quickly." ”

The priest closed his eyes and recited it silently, drawing the Vatican's standard triangular gesture on his chest.

Heidi, a trembling little girl, didn't understand, but she still made a childish gesture.

Keith Jr. rolled his eyes.

They had climbed for two hours to reach the monastery, and little Keith sat on the snow, panting, and Innocent quickly took Heidi's little hand, the only little warmth he had left.

Little Keith, who had good eyes, suddenly widened his eyes, as if someone had come out to greet them, and he looked like a strange old priest, more like a big man than a noble bishop that the child had seen from afar in Tamelang City last year, and the old man was followed by a few friendly priests with withered expressions, this kind of look, little Keith rarely saw it, could it be that poor Innocent still had friends in the first glorious place of Gayar? But is this realistic? You must know that even if there is a lowest-ranking priest who preaches out of this seminary, any bishop or even an archbishop in the Northwest Archdiocese must give way, and those old fellows don't look like ordinary priests?

Innocent didn't immediately let go of Heidi's still cold little hand, but just saluted respectfully and made a triangular gesture with one hand, while the other party also saluted.

Keith Jr.'s head was full of speculation and suspicion. Heidi tilted her head back, some instinctively afraid, and hid behind Priest Innocent.

The old man smiled and said, "Priest Noringsen, you can call me old Macbert." My student, York, and Augustine were close friends. And Maideola, priests like you are most welcome. ”

At this time, even Noringsen was shocked, because this Maidaiola adheres to many traditions, in addition to not accepting donations from anyone, and under normal circumstances, regardless of the status of believers, the monastery will not have a special priest to greet them, but the old man in front of him, who calls himself Old Macbert, is not the current abbot of the most famous monastery in the empire? After the old man became the abbot of the monastery, the only time he greeted him was the presence of His Majesty the Emperor after the death of Saint Iyeta, this honor, Noringsen is not the pride that a normal person should have, but a panic, the young priest who is not good at communication does not know how to speak, just bows, this is the respect of the younger generation to the elders, the respect for the holy lineage Deora.

Old Macbert?

Little Keith, who has a good memory, is finally scared.

It is said that even the cardinal archbishop has been reprimanded by him, and even the youngest child knows the fact that, unlike other dioceses in the Empire, the only spiritual father in the Northwest is not the cardinal closest to the priest, but the abbot of Maidaiola!

Such a character came out to greet the most down-and-out Nuo Yingsen?!

Little Keith looked up at his godfather, who was often ridiculed, with mixed feelings, wiped his tears, full of a child's cleanest pride and pride, and at this moment, all grievances disappeared.

At this time, little Keith subconsciously turned his head to look into the distance, so what kind of man is the godfather of the godfather, that Augustine, the guy who educated Noringson?

Norinsen said softly: "Dean, I sincerely hope that you can help convey to my godfather that Noryinsen is about to go to Plantagenet and go to a distant land to preach. ”

The old abbot didn't seem surprised, but sighed, "This is a narrow path, Priest Noringson, you may need to pay for your life." ”

Noringsen replied with a smile: "If a grain of wheat does not fall to the ground and die, it is still only a grain." and if it dies, it bears many grains. ”

The old dean nodded lightly with satisfaction, showing a vicissitudes of life, "Let's have a meal here, it's not delicious, but at least it can fill your stomach, these two children are hungry, right?"

Nuo Yingsen scratched his head, a little shy, and nodded, "Okay." ”

The group of three did not stay for long, after dinner went down the mountain, the dean of the Maidaiola Markbert personally saw them off the door, watching them drift away, some rare moved, after this ordinary boy became Augustine's first godson, he soon became a priest, but he was not complacent because he was a priest of the great nobles, and studied all the canons that could be accessed, after the fall of the Rotonchilde family, the boy's family suffered a catastrophe because of this, and his parents and relatives died in the assassination, if the boy did not have a secret mystical shelter, he would have died in a dirty assassination, but the boy was in the process of growing into a young man, always maintaining the original piety and humility, preaching and preaching in the Northwest Diocese, perhaps at first did not want to add to the burden of the godfathers who had only met once, and chose a more thorny solo journey.

The old astrologer Macbert stood under the tree that had been climbed countless times by the two teenagers, pondering for a long time, a little helpless: "If there are more wheat like Innocent in the Vatlantican, then where does Byzantio have the courage to call himself the spiritual father of the continent?"

When the young priest finally came down safely with the two children, little Keith, who had been silent, couldn't bear it anymore and asked, "Innocent, can you tell us something about your godfather?"

Innocent, who was walking slowly in the snow, took Heidi's little hand and said with a smile: "I don't have much to tell you, I have only met my godfather once, when I was a little older than you, and my godfather asked me, 'Innocent, what do you want to do when you grow up?' I was so timid, plus I didn't think about it at all, I almost cried." ”

Keith Jr. laughed.

Innocent squatted down, touched a child's head with one hand, and said gently: "Little Keith, Heidi, my godfather once said that the Lord will not leave us as orphans. So I guess, none of us are alone. ”

Heidi nodded, her eyes red.

Keith Jr. was a little stronger and asked, "Innocent, is Plantagenet far away?"

The priest said softly but firmly: "All the distances in the world are only two steps away, take the first step, and then it is not far. ”

Keith Jr. asked, "That's what your godfather told you too?"

Innocent laughed, "No, but I think the godfather would think so." He said that he may not be able to watch me grow, but the Lord is always watching us. I hope you can remember this sentence and keep it in your hearts, it doesn't matter if you don't understand it now, because every child will grow up. ”

In this year, Pope Innocent III, the only "King of Kings and Lord of Lords" in the future epic continent, began to travel to the Plantagenet Dynasty.

The path he had walked alone at first would become the holy path.