Because before Gus died, he still said,

Aunt Valina, the Burton family, was the most devout believer in the village, the most faithful lamb of the Lord besides him.

After Gus's death, Burton naturally took Gus's place as the authority who best understood the oracles and the will of the church.

Other than that, there doesn't seem to be much change in the village.

For as long as Gerrit can remember, the inhabitants of the village and everything seems to have never changed.

The residents of the village repeated their daily lives, facing the sun in the fields, sweating,

The harvest is barely enough to feed the next year's grain, and it is difficult to live.

For Gretel, this should have been something he would have taken for granted.

But from the time he started going to school, the teacher who came from the bigger city told him,

The owner of the land changed more than ten years ago, and it was he who asked for schools to be built in various places that gave Glitter the opportunity to go to school.

After almost a year of attending school in town, Gerrit sensed that something was going on in the town, and these changes radiated from the larger city.

But it came to an abrupt end when it reached the town, and the village remained unchanged in the slightest.

This separation is another question for Gerritt.

“…… Gerrit, come in and eat. After dinner, come with me to visit your mother and grandfather. ”

Glitter held his chin and looked at the clouds by the door of the house, thinking about the many doubts in his heart,

His father, Hoss, was in the house and had already brought out dinner.

Grandma Milia greeted him with a smile,

"It's time for dinner, little Gerritt."

"Oh."

Glitter looked at his father, a little stubborn about what had happened before,

But I answered the call anyway and ran over for dinner.

At dinner, Hoss did not speak.

Only Miria had a few words to Little Gerrit from time to time.

"Little Glitter, have you learned anything from school lately?"

"I learned the knowledge of geography, and it turns out that our kingdom, our world, is far bigger than we seem."

Little Glitter said with some interest.

Hoston paused, and looked up, listening to his child's story.

Until they finished listening, they were silent, and then lowered their heads and continued to eat dinner.

"Hurry up, Gretel, we'll go when we're done."

"Go see your grandfather and your mother."

"Oh......"

Gerritt's words came to an abrupt end, and he answered, and resumed his dinner.

Milia looked at little Gerrit and smiled, then turned her head and looked at Hoth, but said nothing.

……

"Pick these things up and let's go."

"Isn't Grandma Milia going?"

"Grandma Milia has other things going on at home."

Little Gerrit carried a basket with something,

Follow her father, Hoss, towards the village cemetery, while Milia stays at home.

Little Gerritt's mother,

He used to be a resident of the village, and later married Hoth.

But when he gave birth to Glitter, he died in childbirth and was buried in the cemetery in the village.

Gerrit never met his mother.

And his grandfather, he never saw it, but he knew that his father died when he was young,

Because he had offended the gods and the knights of the church, he died and was buried in a wasteland some distance from the village cemetery, standing alone.

Walked all the way.

Gerritt followed his father, Hoss, to his mother's grave.

The wooden shelf standing in front of the grave bears the mother's name carved into it.

“…… If you want to talk to your mother, just say it. ”

Hoss stood in front of the tombstone, looked at the grave, was silent for a moment, then turned to Gerritt and walked away.

Gerrit looked at his father, as his father always was, and when he came to visit his father and grandfather, he always spoke little.

Waiting for Hoss to walk away, Gerrit stepped forward and pointed to his mother's tombstone.

“…… Mother, I may not be able to continue my school after the end of the year...... I knew my father would work hard for me to continue my studies, but what I learned told me,

The situation of being burdened with debts on us, five silver coins a year, is in vain. ”

"Mother...... I have a lot of questions in my head, and I can't figure out a lot of things...... It's like I don't know why my grandfather Medioc died and offended the gods? Did the gods punish him? ”

"There are also teachers in the school who teach us the scriptures and stories of the church...... But there are also many things in the story that I don't understand. ”

Why women are not allowed to work outside the home, is it just God's division of labor between men and women? What if there were only women left in the house? Is it because of lack of devotion to God? ”

Glitter poured out her questions to her mother's grave,

He knew that his mother would not be able to reply to him, and even if she was still there, she might not be able to answer his questions.

Like a father, when he asked these questions, he was silent most of the time.

Maybe my father doesn't understand it either.

I've been talking for a long time,

Glitter had just finished these words,

Looking up to the side, his father, Hoss, had stepped aside.

"Have you finished talking to your mother?"

"Hmm."

"Then we'll go see your grandfather again."

Following his father, Gerrit walked to the lonely grave next to the cemetery.

In front of the grave, there are no tombstones like the others.

“…… How did my father and grandfather die? ”

"He sinned against the Lord and the angels, and was punished for his devotion to the Lord."

Facing the grave without a tombstone, his father Hoss was silent for a moment, and replied to Gerrit.

"Did the Lord send down divine punishment?"

Glitter asked.

"Perhaps."

"Father, what kind of divine punishment is it?"

Gerrit asked inquiringly, he wanted to know the answer to the question,

At least one of the doubts in his mind was solved.

If the Lord really has to send down divine punishment, then what kind of divine punishment will it be?

Under Gerritt's gaze, Hoss paused for a long time this time,

But Gerrit was unwilling to give up, still waiting for his father Hoss's answer.

"Because he sinned against the gods and the church, he was condemned by the knights of the church as a sinner who rebelled against the Lord."

"In the end, amid the constant prayers of the people around him, he slowly passed away, and even if he died, he could not return to heaven."

As he spoke, fear in his eyes seemed to hear the constant prayers and confessions that surrounded him.

But Gerrit didn't solve his doubts because of this, so he could only continue to ask,

"How did Grandfather offend the gods and the church?"

"He ran into the knights of the Church, blocked the way of the knights of the Church, and was given the harshest sentence by the angry knights."

"Grandfather was killed by a knight of the Church?"

Gerrit asked directly.

Hoss didn't reply, just looked at the grave bag with no tombstone.

And Gretel, who seems to have been answered by the question, seems to have more questions.

Some of the church laws he learned at school told him that while the knights of the church were out on duty, anyone who obstructed and ran against the knights would be severely fined and punished.

The fine is one silver coin, and the penalty is three lashes. But if the person who charged the knight is killed, there should be no additional punishment.

But their family was in debt for seven denarii, which they have not yet repaid.

Thinking of this, Gerrit had another question.

His schooling qualifications cost his father half of his life savings of ten silver coins,

But if the money is used to pay Mr. Raleigh's debt directly, then the money owed to Mr. Raleigh should be paid off.

Is it because my father is in a hurry to let me go to school?

But......

The doubts in Gerrit's heart piled up.

……

"Glitter, you know what?"

"When we have paid our debts, and paid for the sins of your grandfather Medioc, we will be able to erect another tombstone in front of his tombstone, and his soul will return to heaven again."

Hoss looked at the grave without a tombstone and spoke to Gerrit again.

Still puzzled, Gerrit raised his head,

"But, father, why can't we erect a tombstone belonging to our grandfather now, we just need to find a piece of wood thick enough to engrave Medioc's name and erect it here."

Hoss was silent and did not speak again.

"Is there anything you'd like to communicate with your grandfather? If not, we went back. ”

"Hmmm......"

Glitter followed his father Hoth back to the village,

Before leaving my grandfather's grave, I looked back.

On the way back, Gerrit was still full of questions, and his father, Hoss, did not speak.

The two of them fell silent.

Just walking on the road,

Hoss and Gerritt met someone,

"Grandma Valina?"

Gerrit shouted,

"Ah, it's our little Glitter. Did you follow your father to visit your mother? ”

Valina smiled and responded.

"Grandma Valina, where are you going?"

"Hmm...... Go visit you Uncle Walker. He was also buried in the village cemetery. ”

Valina replied.

Then he said hello to Hoss, and walked past Hoss and Gerrit with the basket.

"Father...... Uncle Walker...... Grandma Valina seems to go to the cemetery a lot. ”

"Grandma Valina and Uncle Walker have a very strong relationship. How Uncle Walker died. ”

"Sick and dead."

"Sick and dead? Did you die of illness a few years ago? How come I haven't met Uncle Walker. ”

"Walker died before you were born, and I haven't seen much of it."

"Grandma Navalina must have been very sad at the time."

Glitter turned his head and looked back at Valina as she walked towards the village cemetery.

His father, Hoss, did not speak again.

Glitter felt a little strange and looked back and forth.

“…… Grandma Miria, Miria, we're back! ”

When he returned to the house, Glitter shouted,

But I didn't see Miria,

"Father, Grandma Milia doesn't seem to be at home, I don't know where to go."

"I know she has something to do. You don't have to wait for her, you go wash and sleep, and go to school early tomorrow morning. ”

Gregory nodded and went back to sleep.

And his father, Hoss, seems to be still in the living room.

Hoss looked out into the dark sky, not knowing what to think.

……

"Hoo ......"

The ordinary writer Ochino looked at the story of the great chapter,

If the great chapter is the first half of this work, then he will probably have the same many doubts as Gerrit when he reads it.

But with the content of the ordinary chapters, let's look at the great chapters later,

Ochino only felt extraordinarily depressed, and the depression spread out of the book and haunted his heart.

In the midst of Gerritt's questions, the whole world in the book is like a cage with many constraints.

It makes people unable to straighten their waists and breathless.

Other than that

What is not fully explained in the ordinary chapter, Valina's child, Walker's death, seems to have another hidden meaning?

What happened to Hoss at the beginning was,

After Walker suddenly fell ill and was sent to the hospital, he asked Gus to see.

Gus said that Walker's ungodliness to the Lord led to evil,

In the end, he died on it.

Probably not sick and dead...... But there seems to be some hidden secrets that have not been mentioned.

"Hoo ......"

I took a long breath again,

Ochino continued to hold the book and read it carefully.

Immediately after, the sentences described by the author are easily pulled into the world of the book.

Immerse yourself.

In the text,

The plot of the story continues to evolve further.

The ordinariness of the ordinary chapter is the life and fate that Hoss cannot change in the ordinary chapter,

The greatness of the great chapter seems to be the question that little Glitter can never stop in the great chapter.

The next day,

Glitter went to the town's school full of questions,

And his father, Hoss, accompanied him.

After entering the town, the two separated,

Gerrit walked in the direction of the school, while Hoth walked in the other direction.

When Glitter arrives at school,

When the teacher who came to the bigger city asked him the biggest question in his heart,

"Teacher, why does the church say that women can't go out to work, but can only be busy at home?"

"This is God's division of labor between men and women, women are careful and can be busy with some delicate household work, and men are strong enough to be busy with more energy-intensive work."

The teacher's words did not answer Gerritt's doubts, but made Gerritt ask more questions.

"Isn't there any other meticulous work besides the family? Isn't there anything in the family that requires strength? ”

The teacher didn't give him another answer, but just told him that studying, studying more, might be able to find the answer to this question.

Glitter continued his studies at school with the doubts in his mind.

And on the other side,

But Hoss arrived at the door of Mr. Raleigh's house.

With hesitation on his swarthy and rough face, he paced back and forth at the gate of the courtyard of Mr. Raleigh's house.

He was hesitating.

Glitter had spoken to him last night, and he listened carefully.

He understood every word Gerrit said,

But he knew that Gerrit's approach would not work,

But right now, he's still standing here,

Because at least one thing, Glitter was right,

If Gerrit wants to continue his education, the cost of the next five silver coins a year is something that Hoss can't come up with.

Especially in the current situation.

After a little more hesitation, Hawes knocked on the door of Mr. Raleigh's house.

After entering,

Still, Hoss mustered up the courage to say to Mr. Raleigh what Gerrit had proposed earlier,

The Fox family no longer pays Mr. Raleigh's debts,

Let Mr. Raleigh take away the mortgaged land.

But Mr. Raleigh refused,

Just smiled and told Hoss that if the family can't come up with the money to repay the interest and principal this year, he can give another year of grace.

It's just that this year's interest has to be added to the principal of the next year.

Hawes knew that Mr. Raleigh would refuse.

Because

When there were enough silver coins before Hoth,

He wanted to pay off Mr. Raleigh's debts in one lump sum, but he was also refused.

The man who came to collect the debt told Hoss that he could not repay more than five hundred copper coins in a year, which was agreed.

……

“……”

Seeing this, Ochino was a little angry,

The emotions that had been suppressed for a long time were vented to the damned Mr. Raleigh in the book.

I can't wait to reach out and strangle that damn bastard in the book,

Somewhat angry, Ochino cursed several words,

Then it fell silent again.

So if that's the case,

What will Hoss, who wants Gerrit to continue studying, do?

What can he do?

Ochino continued to watch, then immersed in the story.

Outside the window of his study,

It was from early morning to noon, and from noon to evening.

When he got up in the morning, he was still yawning,

Then I watched "Ordinary and Great" in the study for a whole day, but I didn't feel sleepy.

Time flowed by him like flowing water, and he was still immersed in the story.

Until finally,

It was night, and before it was completely dark in the study,

Ochino finally finished reading the story of the great chapter of "The Ordinary and the Great",

I also finished reading the whole book.

After reading,

Ochino took the book that turned the last page, and sat for a long time in the darkened study.

only then did he breathe a sigh,

"It's a really good work......"