The content of the Great Chapter continues to develop.

Before progressing to little Gerritt after Grandma Milia died,

When I happened to pass by the doctor's office, I was still called in by the doctor.

When I finally left the office, I ended with little Gerritt's questions about the doctor.

Little Gerrit was expelled by the angry doctor,

Then he followed his father, who had come to the entrance of the town to pick him up, and returned home.

"Father...... I'd like to visit Grandma Miria. ”

Little Gerritt, who arrived home, did not enter the door, and looked up at his father, Hoss.

Hoss nodded,

"Go ahead, then, be careful. I'll call you back when it's time for dinner. ”

Little Glitter nodded, and walked towards the village cemetery.

And his father Hoth did not enter the house again, but took advantage of these times to pick up farm tools again and go to the farm.

Miria's death has left Hoss with more things to do in the fields.

Even today, I don't have time to go to town to work.

“…… Hoss, is it going to the fields again? ”

"Have there been so many weeds growing in your field this year?"

On his way to the farmland, Hoth met the people of the village and asked him.

Hoss was silent, and walked by in response.

The people from the village who passed by turned their heads and looked at Hoss who was walking away.

The Howth family were devout believers and were favored by the Lord.

The industrious and devout Hoss, always by divine grace, was able to finish his work in the fields very quickly.

Weeding out the weeds is a farm work that Hoss doesn't always take long to complete.

Now it's evening sunset,

Has Hoth lost his divine grace?

……

"Grandma Miria...... I seem to understand something. ”

"Grandma Miria, have you returned to the arms of God?"

Little Gerrit squatted in front of Grandma Miria's tombstone and talked to Grandma Miria.

"I ask the doctor today, can a pious person be treated?"

He said yes. Then Grandma Miria, did you not get treatment because of your ungodliness? Is there a blasphemy against the laws of the church? ”

"But when Grandpa Burton lays down your tombstone, he will say that you can return to the arms of God."

"Which of them is wrong? Or are they all wrong. ”

"It's like a doctor telling me that if you still die after treatment, you don't have enough devotion to the Lord."

"Father Hoss and you have violated the laws of the church, but Grandpa Burton has always said that you have received divine grace and divine favor."

"Is the Church law wrong, or is Grandpa Burton lying? If Grandpa Burton lied about this, wouldn't he be able to lie about other things? ”

"But Grandpa Burton is also a devout believer in the Lord, like the doctor."

Little Glitter said many contradictory things.

"If Grandpa Burton is wrong, can anyone else be wrong?"

"It's like Medioc, when he died, he was punished with ten denarii, but the punishment written in the Church Statute is far less so much."

"The only one in the school besides me was from the village who went to school, and his father was like Grandpa Burton. Is it because they are religious enough? ”

"Or because they can afford to pay enough for five silver coins in tuition."

Little Glitter poured out his questions to Grandma Milia very seriously,

Although Grandma Milia was no longer able to answer.

“…… Gerritt. Let's go back......"

At this time,

Little Gerritt heard behind him the voice of Hoss,

It was already dark, and Hoss came to pick up little Glitter and go back.

“…… Grandma Milia, I'm going to figure out these questions, and I'll tell you again when I figure them out. ”

Little Gerrit looked back at his father, Hoss, who had already walked over,

Hoss stood beside him, and did not urge him.

After saying another word to the tombstone, Little Gerrit stood up and looked at the tombstone with the words engraved.

The tombstone reads, 'Devout believers of the Lord – Lady Melia'.

"Father's ......"

Little Gerritt turned his head and looked at his father, Hoss,

And then he walked to the side,

Some distance away from the graveyards of the rest of the village, on the barren and overgrown land,

It was the grave of his grandfather, Medioc, who did not have a tombstone.

"Father, can you tell me how Medioc died?"

Little Gerrit walked to his grandfather's grave, and his father, Hoss, followed.

He had just returned from the field, and he had not yet changed into his farm clothes, but was full of sludge, dead leaves and weed seeds.

He looked at little Glitter, and then at the grave of his father, Medioc.

Many years have passed, but no tombstone has been erected in front of Medioc's grave.

Because Medioc was a sinner.

"Back then, I was only your size, I was playing in the yard, I just had to get dinner ready before your grandfather came home, and nothing else needed to be done."

"It happened some distance from home, and I didn't hear a sound, and your grandmother Milia hurriedly came from there and told me that your grandfather, Medioc, had run into the knights of the church and became a sinner."

"When I got there, your grandfather Medioc was not dead, and people around me told me that the angry knight had condemned Medioc of impiety, and that he could not return to the kingdom of the Lord after death."

"Filthy blood flowed from under him, and the people around him kept chanting prayers, but they were afraid that he was like a demon and did not dare to come near."

"No one dared to move him, no one could find a doctor, and in the scorching sun, Medioc died a difficult death."

"Mr. Raleigh came to the door and lent me seven silver coins to pay off the church's fine."

"And your grandfather, although the priest said that the Medioc would one day return to heaven, but your grandfather Moss told me that it will take time."

As he spoke, Hoss fell silent, as if returning to the day he remembered his fears.

Even now, sometimes dreams of Hoss go back to that day.

“…… So, even now, Medioc hasn't been able to have a tombstone? ”

"This is a symbol of the Lord's devout disciples, and your grandfather Medioc was a sinner."

Hoss's gaze drooped and landed on a small spot in front of Mediaok's grave.

There was a small wooden stick with his name engraved on it, and he was a sinner who had buried it.

Perhaps the stick has rotted, and the name on the stick has disappeared with the rotten stick.

But Hoss knew it was there.

It's like the drop of blood on the leg of his pants, and even now, he has never been able to wipe it clean.

"Grandpa Moss has passed away, maybe you can give Grandpa Burton some money and get him to agree to you erecting a tombstone for Grandpa Mediok."

Little Gerrit raised his head and said earnestly to Hoss.

Hoss listened to little Gerritt's words, but was suddenly stunned.

Little Gerritt's calm words stirred up a lot of waves in his heart.

The sins of Medioc have always bound him,

Even every once in a while, he needed to send some gifts to Burton, the heir of Moss,

Because of Burton's concealment of Miria's cultivation at night and his divine favor to the other inhabitants of the village.

But all the while, it never occurred to Hawes that it was just a matter of spending money or some gift to erect a tombstone for Medioc that Burton had promised.

He had never thought of it that way......

And now, little Gerritt's words are like shattering such an invisible wall.

Hoss lowered his head and looked at little Gerrit in silence.

Little Glitter also looked up, but still looked at his father earnestly.