Chapter 30: What is piety?
After Li Yu left, Yin Leiya read the hymn book for a while, and then went to bed.
She didn't know how long she had been asleep, but she heard someone shouting in the misty lake, accompanied by crying.
Miss Rabbit thought she was having some nightmare, but when she opened her eyes from the bed, the screams didn't go away.
The girl came to her senses at once, put on her clothes, got up from her bed, and opened the window, and saw a figure in the night being carried by the guards to the open space in front of the stone fort.
Yin Leia could vaguely identify the figure by the moonlight, and it was Fitzwilliam, who claimed to be a shipwright in the morning.
So she probably guessed what was going on, and suddenly she was completely sleepy, and ran quickly downstairs, and came to the outside of the room where Jane was placed.
Just as he bumped into a maid coming out of it, the maid was holding an empty bowl with some medicine residue left in the bowl.
Miss Rabbit asked, "How is she?" ”
The maid walked with her head down, but she didn't expect that there would be one more person outside the house, and she was startled, and the wooden bowl in her hand almost fell to the ground, and when she saw the appearance of the person who came, she was frightened a second time.
Yin ...... Miss Yin Leia. The maid stammered, "I took good care of the child as you commanded, but she ...... She was so sick.
"As soon as I started to have abdominal pain and patches on my skin, her brother was clamoring for us to call a herbalist."
"Did you go to the herbalist?" Yin Leiya asked.
"Go, you said what they wanted, we have to try to meet them, I went to call Vic herbalist out of bed, but Vic herbalist had nothing to do but boil another bowl of the medicine prescribed to her, but Jane began to vomit after drinking it, almost all of it was vomited."
"Did you pray for her as I said?" Yin Leia said with a serious face, "Now only the goddess Picia can save that child." ”
"That's what I did, but ...... The child and her brother, who were devotees of Claudius, the god of the sea, were only willing to pray to Claudius. The maid hesitated and said.
Miss Rabbit rubbed her temples and said with a headache, "Why is there another group of heretics, Claudius, the god of the sea, uh...... Didn't you tell them that this was the West, so far away from the sea, that Claudius couldn't take care of it. ”
"I'll go tell them."
"Forget it, you better stay here and take care of the child, I'll talk to her brother."
After Yin Leia finished speaking, she walked outside the stone castle without waiting for the maid to answer.
Fitzwilliam's shouts had become very small by this time, for he was bound by the guards outside the stable, with a piece of ragged sackcloth in his mouth, and could only snort heavily.
Miss Rabbit walked up to him and said to him, "If you have something to say, don't make a big fuss, you were a nobleman before, and this truth is still understood." ”
Fitzwilliam stared at Yin Leia, a muffled whimper coming out of his mouth.
Miss Rabbit continued, "If you can promise not to shout and scream, I will have the guards remove the sackcloth from your mouth so that you can speak, and then you can tell me whatever you want, and wink if you agree." ”
The shipwright blinked.
The girl also regained Fitzwilliam's ability to speak according to their agreement, and the first thing the latter said was, "Please, save my sister!" ”
"What I did for you brothers and sisters today, you have also seen it, I have done my best to save your sister, and I also went to Black Rock City to invite the priests of the Silvermoon Church, and no one else will do this for the civilians in the territory.
Yin Leiya took a deep breath and said, "I don't lie to you, recently, many people have died in my territory, including even my relatives and guards, who have not been able to enjoy your sister...... Such a good healing condition.
"I don't expect you to be grateful to me, but don't make any more trouble, I told you to pray to the Goddess of the Silver Moon, but why don't you listen, and you still think about the Claudius that your family believes in, if it really protects you, how can you end up in my territory?"
Fitzwilliam's eyes were red, and he gasped, "Miss Yinleya, I am grateful for everything you have done for my sister, we are not stubborn people, Claudius is indeed a god that the family has believed in for thousands of years, but after that incident, we are no longer as religious as before. ”
The girl frowned, "Then why are you ......?"
"But the Goddess of the Silver Moon can't save my sister, can she?" The shipwright stared at Yin Leiya's eyes as if he wanted to see through the girl's whole person.
"That old priest of the Silvermoon Church asked to talk to you privately behind my back, did she think my sister was hopeless?"
Yin Leiya was stunned when she heard this, although she didn't answer, her silence had already explained everything.
Fitzwilliam's face was a smile that was worse than crying, "You see, it's not that I have to hold on to our god, but because I can't think of anyone else who can save my sister besides it."
"Not to mention Claudius, who once abandoned the family, even those evil gods, evil gods, as long as I can keep my sister alive, I will not hesitate to believe in it, and even sacrifice my life for it."
The boatman's words made the girl feel a little moved, and then she felt a little confused.
Shouldn't the believers' reverence for the gods be unconditional?
Piety is an important quality that has been mentioned repeatedly in any denomination.
But the girls asked themselves that if she were put in the same situation as Fitzwilliam, her choice would probably not be any different.
In fact, just as the lizardmen were about to surround Teacup Castle, Miss Rabbit herself had secretly prayed to Saturday, even though she had crossed out the figure on the tree.
Jude, on the other hand, is even more straightforward, the descendant of the Enriquez family, who directly denounces all the gods on the continent of Brattis as liars and clowns, but only fears and fears one god.
For the god possessed the magical power he had witnessed.
And those great powers and miracles Yin Leiya are also not strange at all, and even so much that she has become numb to it, so that she gradually turns a blind eye.
Yin Leiya suddenly understood why she was so impetuous and anxious during this time.
It's not because she's not religious enough to the goddess, on the contrary, it's because of her connection with Picia that she always wants to subconsciously ignore another force around her, that real and powerful force.
She feared that the force would keep her wavering and make politically unwise decisions.
But she shouldn't let her fear make choices for others, especially life-threatening choices.
After a moment of silence, the girl spoke again, "Perhaps, your sister can still be saved." ”
However, Fitzwilliam was suddenly deflated at this moment, and there was no trace of blood on his already pale face, "You don't have to lie to me, I know that the Silver Moon Goddess is the most powerful god in the West, if even she is helpless, then my sister is ......."
"Nope. Picia wasn't the most powerful god in the West. Yin Leia interrupted the boatwright.
And as soon as she said this, Fitzwilliam was stunned.
The young man of the Wertin family had never seen a believer admit in his life that the god he worshipped was not the strongest.
The girl didn't give him a chance to continue questioning, and said along with the previous words, "Your luck is good, the spokesperson of the god in the world is also in the green field now, I will send someone to invite him now, you should also hurry back to take care of your sister, you must let your sister hold out until the person rushes back." ”