A crazy woman
"Kado's attitude towards Nari was seen by both the Griffins and the New Party as an arrogant provocation. This arrogance has been coming from a long time, historically and culturally, and from the belief in the Mother Goddess, and I think that all our citizens have endured these antiques for a long, long time. Even the fishermen at the bottom of Saint-Nari, even the inhabitants of the Snake Head street will be dissatisfied"
As I have repeatedly emphasized, Kado's meddling in our contradictions with Schwali is an intolerable provocation! We have had enough of their finger-pointing and their bullying of us! ”
"We're going to expel all the damned Kados!"
"Boom!"
The sky of St. Nari was overcast, and from time to time there was a faint electric light, which was one of the few points of light in the vague sky. The dreary sea breeze was like a stone lifted on the body, bringing the oppression of the mountain rain to the whole of Saint-Nari.
The whole of St. Nari, and indeed Nari, was shrouded in the clouds of war with Schwali, and even the holiest church was not spared from that uneasiness of the churches.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”
The crisp bell of the church rang, and many people were busy in a small chapel that looked particularly lively in the storm of Saint-Nari.
"Father, come and see if this side needs to be demolished?"
"Tear them all down, and the walls are all written in the original Kadu, at least they have to be translated into Nari."
At this moment, many nuns who were originally dressed in heavy and simple black veils were walking around in this small church, and they were supposed to hold the Genesis Sutra in their hands, but they were now holding all kinds of chisels and hammers in their hands, and they were hammering and hammering in this church, which was not even ranked in St. Nari, as if they were knocking out everything in the church that was related to Kado's side.
A priest with short blond hair was anxiously supervising the construction of the church, instructing the nuns who were lying on the ground and banging on the walls what to do.
"Father! Father! ”
"Hurry up, change that side too!"
"Priest!"
"And the Mother Goddess is like the Mother Goddess holding it in her hand."
Just as the priest anxiously fixed his gaze on the statue of the Mother Goddess, who was merciful, unofficial, watching everyone below, behind him, a nun who had been calling out to him finally gasped for breath in front of him. The nun opened her hands and stopped him from continuing to look at the Mother Goddess.
"Father! How can you change a lot of the original texts next to the contents of the Mother Goddess without authorization, even if it is translated in Nari, it is not accurate, I don't think it should be."
This nun looked extremely young, and she still looked so young, but the nun robe that served the mother goddess was not flawed at all, which was enough to show her piety.
The priest was slightly stunned, then looked her up and down, and said,
"You are. The new one who was assigned to us a few weeks ago"
"Ah, that's right, I was from the Avana Township Church"
"I'm sorry, I don't have time to take care of you now, you go outside first and see if there's anything that can help, Windsor, help me knock out the Kado Sect in the right hand of the Mother Goddess, either you don't want it, or you have to replace it with a cup that Nari can only use here!"
"Yes, Father!"
The young nun in front of her saw that the priest in front of her was still going to knock out all the holy and orthodox things in the church, so she blocked the priest again and again, and said to him,
"Father! What's the matter, Mother Goddess."
"Alright, do I know that the Mother Statue can't move? But what can we do? Is this something that can be explained by orthodoxy and canonical? Do you know how messy St. Nari is right now? Did you know that a lot of kids with Kadu blood were killed last week? Parents even put them in the house, and someone smashed their doors and windows, not to mention those abandoned in orphanages and on the streets! ”
The priest in front of him couldn't stand the nun in front of him anymore, he rubbed his eyebrows and said with a headache,
"Many of the Kadu people living in St. Nari even had to dye their infant black-haired children blonde with paint, and even that would not save them from the restless crowd. Young people, you see, this is not a matter of faith at all, but a matter of politics! Now that St. Nari's hatred of Kadu has completely gotten out of control, there are many extremists who are not from the Mother God Sect and even demand that all Mother God churches be expelled from Nari.
"Both the main church and the high church are guarded by knights from the Golden Palace, so that their outer walls are not spared, and they are smashed to pieces by many angry fellows. Do you want our devout believers to apologize the statue of the Mother Goddess now, or wait for the madmen to come in at night and blaspheme the statue of the Mother Goddess? ”
The young nun looked at the priest in front of her in a daze, and after a moment of silence, she looked around again, only to find that all the nuns in the small chapel were looking at her.
Maybe they don't want to do it, but the times dictate that it's a helpless move.
And she, a young believer from the countryside, finally learned her first lesson in the big city.
She pursed her lips and apologized to the priest in front of her with some sadness and sadness.
"I'm sorry, Father, but I didn't think it through."
Go outside, we don't have the energy to teach the teachings of your Mother God right now. First, use what you have learned to appease others, and if there are believers from outside, please arrange for them. ”
In fact, what kind of believers can a small church like theirs visit?
They are not actually an authentic church, but the rudiments of an unfinished church school, and few people come to visit and pray.
Of course, it is not excluded that believers will come when other churches are smashed?
But it's more likely that the priest just wants to break himself off and calm himself down.
The young nun, of course, knew this, but she nodded and left the church, which was being "transformed".
The sky outside was foggy, she walked outside from the inner hall, took a deep breath and prepared to adjust her state, but at this moment, another young fellow nun who was originally in charge of guarding the outside ran over, she looked at the nun who came out very nervously, and said to her,
"Hey, that madman from earlier is here again! Over to you! ”
"Huh? Give it to me again."
The nun pointed at herself suspiciously, but turned her head to see that the companion had already run away, as if she was quite afraid of the "madman".
Watching her companion disappear, the nun sighed helplessly, she straightened her clothes, walked to the front hall outside, and soon saw a lady with long black hair and a gentleman's dress at the end of the neatly arranged chairs.
Although she looked very well dressed, the diffuse aura that emanated from her body still seemed to be as out of place as she was here.
She relaxed her legs on the wooden chair in front of her, her hands behind her head like pillows. Obviously with such long hair, a pair of eyes that looked very terrifying instantly grabbed the nun who entered the front hall.
The woman waved her hand at the nun and smiled,
"Hey, beauty, are you married?"
"Hey"
The young nun sighed, then went directly to the side and raised the broom for cleaning, and then hit the loose woman,
"Die, die, die!"
"Oops, don't mess around, I'm wrong, I'm wrong!"
Her woman was beaten by a nun with a broom, and the nun attacked the madwoman as if she were venting her frustration these days, but the man in front of her was so nimble that she couldn't touch her at all.
After beating for a long time, the nun was tired and panting, but the crazy woman still looked as usual.
She smiled and sat down on the chair next to her with her legs crossed, looking extremely disgusting.
The nun was so tired that she couldn't straighten up, and she held on to the broom and gasped and regretted it.
Two weeks ago, on her way into Saint-Nari on a train, she ran into this madwoman. At that time, she stayed on the side of the road in a decadent manner, and she remembered the teachings of the mother goddess and went to help, and comforted her with many words, but she was relied on by this guy.
"What the hell are you doing here?"
"Me?"
The madwoman pointed to herself, then to the wall behind her with a smile, and when the nun looked up, she saw the unerased text on the wall, which read,
"Confess Your Sins"
The nun was slightly stunned, then put down the broom in her hand. Although she was a little angry at the scattered style of this guy in front of her, the belief in the mother goddess in her heart still made her put the needs of the other party first.
The Mother Goddess said that no one should be given up.
She sighed, adjusted her mentality, and then forced herself to sit next to the woman in front of her, and said,
"Well, what are your sins, please tell me. Following the teachings of Mother Goddess, I will never leak secrets or mix with selfish desires. I will guide you out of your astray path with pure kindness in the name of Mother Goddess."
The woman in front of her smiled and said,
"You don't have to be so serious, just just treat it as a normal chat. If you do that, the people who come here to confess will be very stressed. ”
"Please."
"Actually. I'm a madman. ”
"I know, and then what?"
"I'm serious"
The smile on the nun's face was a little reluctant, and she thought that the woman in front of her was joking again. But the woman in front of her was silent for a long time, and when she turned her head, the nun's expression was just a cracked smile.
Her helpless expression faded a little, and then became serious, but she heard the other party smile and continue,
"People like me are born with an endless torment destined for a tragic outcome. I used to think that I was special and detached from others, but in the end I realized that I was not. I'm just luckier than others. ”
The nun was slightly stunned, and then said,
"So, how did this disease come about? There's always a source and a reason, can you tell me? ”
The woman in front of her turned her head to look at the nun in front of her, then shook her head and said,
"This."
"Is it a little hard to export? It's okay, Mother God will forgive you, but I can still feel it, what are you worried about, can you tell me what you are worried about? ”
"Nuns, tell me a parable."
"Please."
"Do you know the Titanic?"
"What's that?"
"Ah, that's it. Forget it, I'm starting to get a little delirious. ”
The woman with long hair in front of her shook her head helplessly, I don't know if it was an illusion, the nun always felt that there was always something squirming on the woman in front of her,
"Now the situation is like this, suppose you are the passenger of a large ship, and while the ship is moving on the endless sea, the Grim Reaper suddenly appears and jokingly tells the captain and the first mate of the big ship a prophecy, but no one can read what the prophecy says, but only know one thing: the ship is destined to sink. But where and how to sink is a mystery. ”
The woman in front of her danced and performed, she vividly divided several corners, restoring everything on the ship,
"The captain said, 'Ah, since it is so dangerous, let us hurry back to the place from which we departed!' But the first mate said, 'Wait, captain, is it possible that the prophesied place where our ship will sink is where we return?' We should drive ahead and find a place to land! The second mate said, 'Ha, isn't it possible that he is in the process of finding a place to land?' The third officer said, 'We should keep going to our destination and not deviate from the course!' The helmsman said, 'Why don't we just wait for death.'"
The next second, her smile stopped abruptly, and suddenly turned into a somewhat creepy, nervous expressionless, as if that was the expression she should have at this moment.
I saw her stretch out her finger and point at the nun in front of her, and said slowly to her,
"At this very moment, you, an ordinary person on this ship, are so clever that you not only overheard the prophecy that the Grim Reaper told the captain of the ship, but also inadvertently cracked the meaning of that prophecy. But when you realize what this prophecy really means, you realize that it is so close that you feel that no matter what you do, you will not be able to change the sunken prophecy.
"But you have another option, and that's to slip away alone. Leave everything on board, what bullshit prophecy, the friends you know on board, the devout believers, throw everything away, and run away, anyway, not a single passenger on the ship knows about the prophecy except for the captain and the first mate, and they are still singing day and night in the cabin, and they are alive."
The nun frowned in some confusion, and she seriously pondered the other party's words, and then murmured,
"Well, can't you run away with more people or something? If you already have a way to escape."
"Of course not, think about it, how can a playful Grim Reaper bear to watch the prey that falls into the bag run away? Maybe there are so many passengers on the ship that he won't find out if he loses one, but he will find out if he loses two, three, or more? ”
The woman in front of her shook her head again and explained further,
"And, to be honest, most of the people on this ship aren't very nice to you either. Maybe you shouldn't be alone on the boat, you should be a dirty, everybody's shouting street rat or something. Ha, this logic is more self-consistent, so that the rat can overhear the conversation of the big guys, and it can escape from the hands of death, right? ”
The nun pondered, but did not cling to this prophecy and make a fuss about the loopholes of this prophecy.
She just looked at the woman in front of her with some concern, and then she hesitated for a moment and then suddenly opened her hands and hugged the woman in front of her in her arms.
The nun's unselfish, gentle, reverent warm embrace melted the woman's words into her mouth, and after a slight pause, her hands naturally opened and did not go back.
It wasn't until a second later that the nun in front of her gently let go of the woman in front of her, and she spoke,
"Although perhaps this prophecy does not refer to you, I can feel your confusion and pain. You're feeling guilty, you're feeling regret, and rats and wicked people don't feel that way."
The woman in front of her glanced at the nun, and then smiled,
"If it had been before, a beauty like you would have been in my arms, I would have prprprprpr a long time ago"
The nun turned her head again to get the broom, but was interrupted by the laughter of the woman behind her.
"Just kidding, you know, I'm not that kind of person. I'm a little bit more astringent, but I've reformed myself. ”
The nun sighed speechlessly, then looked at the empty-eyed woman beside her, and after hesitating for a moment, she suddenly said,
"If there's no way to avoid it, leave it."
The woman next to her turned to look at her, but the nun kept looking at the text of the Kadu canon in front of her, knowing that it would not be long before it would be chiseled out.
Combined with the current sensitive environment, this nun also thought that the black-haired woman next to her was a Kadu who was surviving in Nari, although her face didn't look very similar, but this guy's face was basically hidden in black hair, maybe she didn't observe it carefully?
Just by this guy's black hair, maybe you can see her Kado's identity, right?
"Mother God used to teach us to be gentle, to be kind, to be religious, but since I came here from my hometown, I have been disappointed in others. Not only was Nari disappointed, but so was the Holy Kaddu of many devout people. Believers, who are supposed to be far away from the world, recite the oath of the Mother Goddess while mutilating living beings, deceiving and tyrannical"
The woman next to her smiled slightly, looked at the nun who was looking at the wall in a daze and said,
"Disappointed?"
But unexpectedly, the nun shook her head, then turned her head and smiled,
"No, I'm not disappointed. Perhaps, I just didn't realize that the teachings I was practicing were only for myself. I don't want to be a crazy believer, and I don't have unrealistic fantasies about the Mother Goddess that I've never seen before. I just believe in the goodness of the Mother Goddess and hope to turn her goodness into my own; I just believe in the wisdom of Mother Goddess and want to turn her wisdom into my wisdom.
"As long as I don't feel guilty and do my best, then I won't blame myself. Friend, you are the same, no one will criticize you, you are the only one who criticizes you from beginning to end."
The woman in front of her looked at the nun in front of her like that, and after two seconds of silence, she stood up with a smile, and then stretched out her hand, and a stack of heavy banknotes and a small box suddenly appeared in her hand.
"Thank you, I feel so much better. Perhaps today is the last day of our relationship, so before I leave, I would like to leave you some gifts to express my gratitude to you. ”
The woman in front of her smiled, and then threw the stack of bills and boxes in her hand, and the two things flew into the nun's hand as if they were automatically seeking the master.
The nun was slightly stunned, and hurriedly got up to refuse,
"As a believer in Mother God, how can I?"
"Do you want to open it first and then say no?"
“.”
The nun was slightly stunned, then opened the small box, but suddenly found that there was an extremely simple book lying inside.
I don't know how many years have eroded the book, and even the text recorded on it is not Kadu, but an even older paleoanthropology. Fortunately, although the nun came from a small place, she loved to learn since she was a child and liked to study various classics, so she also dabbled in ancient anthropology.
She recognized the name of the book,
The Book of Genesis
"The Source ?!! of Creation and Creation"
The nun's hands trembled with fright, and she almost couldn't hold the box steadily, but fortunately, her belief in the Mother Goddess allowed her to hold on to this extremely precious thing.
Her little face turned pale, and she looked blankly at the "crazy woman" in front of her who was full of mysteries, and said tremblingly,
"You, you can't be the kind of thief wanted by all mankind, this source is here. Dedicated to the very bottom of the Holy Church of Kado, guarded and enshrined by countless cardinals, what would you do to the end."
The woman in front of her smiled slightly and said,
"Don't worry, they didn't lose it, and the one you took is not a fake."
"That's. Did you switch it? ”
"No, it's just that there's nothing in this world that is the only thing for me."
"Huh?"
The madwoman in front of her turned her head and was about to leave, but the nun who stood there still was still trembling like a steel nail. The weight of this thing is too heavy, once this thing is stolen, Kadu will even desperately start a war with the outside world, either to destroy the whole country or to take this thing back, which shows how important this thing is.
And now, all the holy relics of the church are lying in their own hands?
She didn't lose it, she didn't hold it, she didn't even dare to move, she just looked at the woman with a tearless look and walked towards the door with a relaxed expression,
"Hey! You and me. This. Something sacred. How to do it?"
"What else, you keep it. If you want to take it out and sell it and share it, you may be secretly captured by Kado's spies at night, and then tortured and tortured to force you to tell the truth or something."
"Huh?"
"Haha, just kidding."
At the end of the words, the madwoman who was about to walk out of the door turned her head again, she smiled slightly, and from her long black hair showed a smile and a deep eye,
"Rest assured, no one, no being, will find out about this place and you, not even your mother goddess"
"Hey, what are you talking about?"
"By the way, we've known each other for so long, and you haven't told me what your name is, Miss Nun."
"Teresa, just call me Teresa."
"Oh, my name is Qin Shi Huang, you can also call me by my nickname, Red Naka, Ultraman, Kamen Rider. Of course, don't call me a sub-girl. ”
"Huh?"
Teresa was stunned as she held the money in her hand and the quaint Book of Genesis, and watched as the mad woman's back disappeared into the door of the church.
The woman never appeared again, as she had said, and their relationship ended on that gloomy afternoon.
It was all like a dream to Teresa, and if it weren't for the fact that the Creation Sutra, which she had repeatedly confirmed to be genuine, was still lying on her desk, she might have really suspected that she hadn't woken up that afternoon.
The next few weeks were fine, sunny and no longer cloudy, and their church school was unusually lucky, with not a single mad mob noticing that there was still a fish that had slipped through the net, and all their preparations for the coming political shock had been thrown to nothing.
The priest and the other nuns were shouting, "Mother God bless," and only Teresa, who had studied the Genesis Book day and night, somehow remembered what the woman had said before leaving.
A few more days passed, and it was a sunny afternoon, and the whole school was enjoying the long-lost tranquility of a somewhat sultry afternoon, as if nothing was going on outside in bustling, commercial St. Nari.
When Teresa was tired of studying creation, she would clean up outside with a broom, and straighten the accumulated dust and the tables and chairs where the believers in the outer hall had come and sit.
On the wall, a line of pure Kadu texts that had been saved by the nuns with chisels and hammers because of "good luck" was still engraved on the wall, with the words,
"Confess Your Sins"
Teresa, the young nun holding the broom, paused for a long time in front of the text, for it was not until she had read through the entire Genesis that she suddenly realized that what Mother God had said to the children who were suffering in the mortal world was not this sentence, but what she really said,
"Face Your Heart"
Thinking of this, Teresa couldn't help but smile slightly, but just as she shook her head and was about to sweep the floor, outside the church school, a crisp baby cry cut the entire church school like thunder.
"Wow! Wow! Wow! ”
Teresa was slightly stunned, then ran to the door in an extremely anxious manner, and hurriedly opened the closed door.
I saw a small wooden basket on the steps outside, and I don't know how long it had been here.
In the wooden basket, a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes wailed like that, looking like it had only been born for a long time, perhaps just woken up, crying out of hunger, seeking its mother's feeding.
And the most important thing is that it can be seen from the hair that has just grown on his head that he was born with black hair.
This kid has Kado's bloodline!
Thinking of this, Teresa picked up the wooden basket in horror and looked around with great vigilance, lest someone else would discover the child's lineage at such a sensitive time.
But just as the luck of their church had been so good before, so did the boy miraculously get the good fortune of this church, and he had been at the door of the church for so long that no one had noticed him.
"Mother God bless! Mother God bless! Mother God bless! Mother Goddess Blessed"
Teresa almost burst into tears, and she held the wooden basket tightly in her arms, feeling the vigorous life in the wooden basket.
The child in the basket seemed to feel her presence, and as the crying gradually stopped, his little hand slowly lifted up and touched the face of the nun in front of him.
"Haga. Gollum"
The child in the basket pouted and looked curiously at the nun in front of him with his own watery eyes.
It's a boy.
Teresa smiled and touched his little hand with her fingers, and then quickly carried the baby back to school.
It wasn't until this moment that she realized that there was a note attached to the baby's swaddling clothes.
On the note, a line of wild black ink was written in Nari's words.
For some reason, the moment she saw the handwriting, Teresa's mind suddenly appeared with the image of the mad woman's wandering skeleton
It's just a delusion, right?
She looked down, and saw that it was written,
"No one knew that the mouse that left would become a nightmare of death." (End of chapter)