Chapter 301: Rumors
"You know, I have an uncle. Hey, I also recently found out that he was showing the warehouse to the Holy Sect. Yesterday I was going to starve to death, and he looked at me pitifully and secretly stuffed me a little. Joey said.
"It's the Holy Sect, no wonder there is such a good thing. ”。 The other three sighed.
"Hey, my uncle told me that there are so many good things in the Holy Sect, that white rice, a warehouse the size of a room, can't fit it. Joey said in a low voice.
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Such conversations took place in the thatched huts of Shenghui City, between the rebels who were plotting the riot, among the slaves who sold themselves, and among the common people who did not have enough to eat or clothe.
Everywhere in the city of Radiance.
Of course, it also happens among the refugees who have been displaced into the Sanctuary.
"Hey, you know what? Actually, there are a lot of good things hidden in the Holy Church, but those priests are very stingy and refuse to give them to us. ”
"Really? No, I see that these nuns and priests have been having a hard time these days, and they have saved their rations and sent them to us. ”
"Who knows whether they are secretly eating something good behind their backs, let me tell you, I'm not talking nonsense, that's what someone saw with their own eyes. ”
"I have seen it with my own eyes", "my relatives are the guards guarding the warehouse", "have you seen these good things, they are all stolen from the warehouse of the Holy Religion", the rumors are getting stronger and more widespread, and under the so-called "real evidence", more and more refugees have begun to believe that the Holy Religion has secretly stored a large amount of grain and refused to distribute it to help the victims, and they have ruthlessly watched the refugees freeze to death and starve to death!
What kind of god loves the world! These clergy of the Holy Religion are even more evil and hateful than the evil spirits in hell!
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The church was full of people, and a large crowd gathered together, and there was not even a place to stand. Mother Melissa frowned as she stared at the stained idol, sighed, pulled out a rag, and stood on tiptoe to wipe the idol clean, but perhaps because she was too tired, she couldn't do it even after several attempts.
"Sit down and rest, let's do it. A few childish voices came from the side, and a few children ran over, picked up rags and basins and began to work, they were all orphans adopted by the Divine Grace Orphanage.
Mother Melissa smiled at the energetic children, and all the resentment in her chest was swept away. "O Patriarch of Lisbon, you really ought to come and see these children, and look at their innocent smiles, and you can still say that people are inherently unequal, such a thing?"
In a trance, Sister Melissa recalled her conversation with the Patriarch of Lisbon two days earlier. In that conversation, the Patriarch of Lisbon informed the Holy Church of the strict prohibition of the idea of equality of all men, and the Patriarch of Lisbon directly stated: "Human beings are unequal from birth. "That's the kind of thing you say.
The conversation ended unhappily, and the ensuing situation became difficult, with many like-minded priests and nuns locked up. Mother Melissa tried to rescue them, but found that the great people of the Holy Church had avoided her one by one, as if she were some terrible plague.
Even the rations distributed by the Holy Sect to the orphanage were less than before. Mother Melissa had to take the lead in reducing her own rations in order to save some food for the adopted orphans, and the nun herself had been hungry for a long time.
At this time, the crowd crowded in the church suddenly stirred, and suddenly a man shouted: "Don't stop me, even if I die, I will be a ghost." A middle-aged man in ragged clothes squeezed out of the crowd.
He bowed to Sister Melissa, looking quite cultivated, "Your Excellency, I have a few questions that have been blocked in my heart, don't vomit or be unhappy, please atone for your sins." ”
Sister Melissa looked at him with some surprise, not knowing what medicine this man was selling in his gourd, she nodded: "You say, we have nothing to hide under the gaze of the gods. ”
"Yes! The man shouted exaggeratedly, as if he were singing. He looked around at the crowd crowded in the church, and said loudly as if he had exhausted all his strength: "Recently, everyone has heard a news that it is said that the Holy Sect is hiding a large amount of food, but it does not save everyone to death, and watches everyone starve to death. ”
As he spoke, he stared at the nun, "I just want to ask Your Excellency the nun, is this true?
The middle-aged man's words caused another commotion in the crowd, obviously everyone had heard of this rumor, but because of Mother Melissa's usual prestige, no one dared to take the liberty, and now someone finally asked.
Mother Melissa was shocked and angry when she heard this, she did not expect that there would be such a rumor now. "How can you believe this kind of nonsense!", she looked at the man and said sincerely, "I know that everyone has been hungry lately, but please believe that God loves the world! ”
The man smiled, "Then may I ask Your Excellency Nun, as far as I know, every year the big grain merchants in Shenghui City donate a lot of food to the Holy Sect, I want to ask where all that food goes?"
Without waiting for the nun to answer, he continued to ask sharply, "I also know that the Holy Sect has a lot of land in various places, and apart from the royal family, the Holy Sect occupies the most land. Every year at harvest time, the Holy Sect collects grain from all over the world and stores it in the Holy Domain, where does all that grain go?"
"I also want to ask, a few years ago, the Holy Sect bought a lot of grain from those nobles for various reasons, and where did that grain go?", the man said quickly and urgently, as if a judge was interrogating a sinner, and asked a series of questions.
Mother Melissa was dizzy by his question, she didn't expect that the refugee-like man in front of her would know a lot of inside stories that even she didn't know, and she asked in public on this basis. And more importantly, even Mother Melissa knew very little about these things, how could she answer.
And because of her faith, it is even less likely that Mother Melissa will make up some lies to deceive these civilians. She could vaguely feel that the man in front of her would never be an ordinary refugee.
Seeing that Mother Melissa was speechless, the man declared in a loud voice, as if he had won a great victory, and finally did justice: "Why, I can't speak." In fact, the Holy Religion is not willing to save the food when it sees death, and even if it is moldy in the warehouse, it is unwilling to take it out to help us poor people. ”
"What God loves the world, I'm fake!"