Chapter 105: Assassination (I)
"Traveler's House", a medium-class inn. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Although it is not as opulent as the Hotel Vanslino, it is still a clean and elegant place, especially for the Calian couple.
The temple was not short of money, on the contrary, they were very wealthy. Whether it's the sale of "special products" (items with special effects made by some kind of magic) or donations from honorary parishioners, it is a huge amount of income that can make the lords of each realm blush.
However, this does not justify the extravagance of the clergy.
The temple often receives donations from believers, who save money by saving money.
The money donated by these believers is not at all comparable to the annual "friendship grant" of the honorary faithful, but their purpose is very simple.
Unlike the aristocracy who only intrigues, devout believers only want to contribute to the construction of the temple as a way to show their respect for the gods.
The value of this pure identification is so heavy that every clergyman spontaneously demands that he be frugal, for their subsistence comes from the temple, and a part of the wealth of the temple comes from these lovely devotees.
Imagine what the believers who had donated would have thought if they saw the sacrifices of the temple entering and leaving the high hotels, dressed in gold and silver.
Don't forget, the clergy are not real nobles who rule a place, and they are always looking at them from above.
The gods did not care about the lavish life of the clergy, but they would not tolerate them destroying the foundations of their faith.
Another reason is that the canon of any deity has the same sentence written on the title page: "In the eyes of the gods, all believers have equal status." ”
Although the material world does not eliminate class differences and achieve equality for all beings, the clergy must lead by example, because the words written in the canon are an alternative oracle!
Therefore, no matter how the society develops, they have to put themselves in the middle level, because only in this way will the believers at the top and bottom of the society not feel that the gods are too far away from them.
It was precisely because of these and other concerns that Bishop Kalian chose the "Traveler's House" as the place for the two of them to stay. The more upscale Vaslino hotels are too extravagant, while the lower-end taverns are too smoky.
For Billy's Sacrifice, this inn was just the right place to be, at least in the middle of the night there would be no scantily clad waitresses to sell her emotional services.
Pushing the door out, Billy's face was slightly red, apparently remembering his previous embarrassing experience.
That was three years ago, but it was clear to him that it had happened yesterday.
At that time, Billy and the two male priests who were traveling with him were passing through a small town because of a mission, and there was only one tavern in that town, and the environment was very poor, but fortunately, none of them were pampered nobles, and they did not complain about the resting environment.
The embarrassment happened in the middle of the night, when a knock on the door woke Billy from his slumber.
Perhaps confident in his own strength, or perhaps his brain hadn't woken up from his slumber, Billy had done something he regretted immensely - he opened the door without asking who was outside.
The petite figure burrowed into the room from under his arm, and the dexterous movements made the silver-rank priest not even react at the first time.
By the time Mr. Priest came to his senses, a lady in cool clothes was already standing behind him.
The late-night lady wants to have a deep emotional conversation with Billy, but the shy priest refuses to do so.
In the end, the gentleman, who could not use violence, had no choice but to spend money to avoid the disaster, and sent her out respectfully under the disdainful gaze of the lady.
If this is the end of the matter, it won't be a nightmare for Billy's life.
Not only is the decoration of this humble tavern poor, but the sound insulation is almost non-existent. The two priests who were with them were awakened by the sound of an argument, and they heard one of the shouts belonging to Billy, and the young man let out two screams from time to time.
Worried about their companions, the two priests did not have time to carefully discern the words in the quarrel, and they added protective magic to themselves as quickly as possible, and then opened the door and rushed out, trying to rescue their companions.
However, as the two priests rushed out of their rooms one after the other, the scene in the hallway made them both fall into a state of stupor: a scantily clad and red-faced waitress (for the sake of the quarrel) looked at Billy with disdain, while the equally red-faced priest reluctantly paid for it.
Thinking of the sound they had just heard, the two exchanged tacit glances.
Billy, who also saw his two companions, turned even redder, and after sending the maid away, the young priestess hastened to explain to them.
The story of the incident is restored in Billy's rambling verbal description, and the two who know Billy well have no doubts, but trust and ridicule are two different things, and the simple Billy soon realizes this.
After returning to the temple, the news of "Billy communicating with the maid late at night" spread between the sacrifices at a rapid pace. There are two versions of this, one is real and one is imaginary.
The real version is the real story of what happened dictated by Billy, while the imaginary version is a false rumor made up by vague descriptions to explain people's imagination and be used for entertainment.
Although everyone knew the real version, that didn't stop them from using the imaginary version to make fun of Billy to his face.
After all, people are more willing to talk about "Billy and the waitress stay in the room for a while, screams and screams echo through the air, and after a short time, they go out with flushed faces, and Mr. Sacrifice pays under the lady's disdainful gaze." ”
Under the imagination and discussion of colleagues, the imaginary version not only becomes more and more elaborate in terms of logical construction, but also the development of the plot becomes more ups and downs.
However, in just a few minutes of quarrelling, their mouths became a biographical story with twists and turns, which not only contained reflections on human nature and reason, but also carried discussions about redemption and destruction.
After many zealous sacrifices, Mr. Billy's story and the details of the two versions filled the temple at a rate comparable to that of an oracle, making the young priest the most familiar to the clergy. He was so familiar that even the choir nuns had to smile knowingly when they saw him......