"Hey, Xiao Yao, you are like this-" At this moment, Yu Lihua vigorously pushed open the door of the second bedroom without warning.

……

Then, without saying a word, he went out again, and closed the door as he went.

Xiao Yao came out of Yu Luying's arms, the two of them glanced at each other, and walked out of the room in unison.

"What's wrong, Mommy?" Yu Luying walked to the dining room, leaning against the door leading to the living room, coiling her nails.

"It's okay, I originally wanted to ask Xiao Yao if there is a church here in Dongru." Yu Lihua's expression was a little embarrassed.

"What's wrong? Isn't it early for Sunday? ”

"Yes," Yu Lihua said: "It's not that I want to say, I'm here anyway, and I'll worship a holy ...... by the way."

The four famous laws of the Chinese people are "all are coming", "everyone is dead", "the New Year" and "the child is still young", it seems that the Chinese people who believe in foreign religion are not exempt from vulgarity - of course, there is also the mountain to worship the Buddha, Xiao Yao thought.

The boy scratched his head: "I grew up here, and I've never heard of any churches here?" ”

called Xu Ruiyi and Tang Jiaxin to ask, but they all said they didn't know.

Yu Luying sent a message to Tang Xuewei, who said that she knew that there was a church in Dongru, but it seemed to be a pure landscape, not a real church.

"Why don't you search the internet?" Tang Xuewei said.

"Online search? Why do you search on the Internet, I'll call and ask if your uncle is okay. Yu Lihua had an idea.

“…… Hey, Apo...... It's ...... me."

After breakfast, Yu Luying helped Xiao Yao pack a snakeskin sack of old belongings, in addition to the science fiction emperor, diaries, etc., there are also some CDs, tapes, old books and gadgets that Xiao Yao listened to in junior high school.

Xiao Yao was a little entangled, although it was true that there was nothing fun in Dongru, but in terms of his heart, he still wanted to "vacation" with Yu Luying for a few more days.

What's even worse is that Yu Luying is obviously still worried about last night's accident, if he can't get this heart knotted before returning to the magic capital, and completely ease and normalize the bilateral relationship, then, after returning to the magic capital, he is worried that he will be elbowed everywhere.

Shen Jie's disappearance made him restless, but in this current situation, even if he returned to the magic capital, he didn't know what he could do, and he didn't know where to go to find her—perhaps, he could discuss it with his daughter?

However, such a big Yu Lihua was so clubbed in front of her, and obviously she didn't give Xiao Yao any choice.

After packing his luggage, Xiao Yao accompanied Yu's mother and daughter out of the door.

I learned from Bo Ge that the closest Catholic Church to Dongru is in Fangbing Town next door, and it is not close, but it is not far, but it is more than ten kilometers.

Xiao Yao wanted to persuade her mother-in-law to give up, but Yu Luying actually looked like she wanted to go, so she had to embark on a pilgrimage together.

Fortunately, the direction of Fang Bing and the direction of the magic capital are on the same side, so they can get on the bus directly from the Fang soldiers and return to the magic capital, which is quite convenient.

Xiao Yao proposed that maybe he could ask Xu Ruiyi to drive him, Yu Lihua applauded again and again, but Yu Luying said that she would not make trouble for the surnamed Xu anymore.

After studying for a while, the final conclusion was that it was still by bus.

The three walked out of the door of the party school, and Yu Lihua turned into a supermarket convenience store to purchase some supplies.

Yu Luying turned around twice with her hands behind her back and took a pack/pair of intercolored tights.

？ Why are you buying this, Xiao Yao is puzzled.

When checking out, Yu Luying poked her head over and hooked her hand at Xiao Yao.

Xiao Yao walked over, and she took it into the shirt pocket on his chest for a long time, and then reached out to pick out his trouser pocket, and then took out the right side after the left side was finished.

"What the hell are you going to do?" Xiao Yao couldn't help but shout in a low voice.

The young man glanced at Yu Lihua, who was comparing the signs and prices in the corner, but fortunately, she was very attentive and didn't notice this.

In the end, Yu Luying took out a 20 yuan banknote and three or five steel hammers and settled the account.

"Why are you buying this?" Xiao Yao couldn't help but whisper, "You have no money on you?" ”

"Rich," Yu Luying replied expressionlessly, "This is what you paid me." ”

？

"No," Xiao Yao was unhappy: "Everyone has a share in the fire, impulsiveness is a matter of two people, not to mention that you teased me first, and I don't really have that, why are you-"

As soon as he finished saying "what are you doing", he consciously lost his words and subconsciously covered his mouth.

"Don't pretend to have amnesia?" Yu Luying looked at him, still expressionless.

"So you're mad at me right now?"

Yu Luying shook her head: "No, I'm just angry with myself." ”

Xiao Yao was about to speak again, but saw that Yu Lihua had already walked over with the things he wanted to buy, so the two of them closed their mouths tacitly and smiled at each other.

The three of them couldn't get in the rickshaw and couldn't get a taxi, so Xiao Yao proposed to go to the bus station, but in the end, he used two rickshaws to solve the problem.

Yu Lihua naturally wants to have a car with her daughter, but Xiao Yao also wants to sit with Yu Luying.

"Auntie," Xiao Yao asked stubbornly, "Why don't you share a car with Ying Ying?" ”

Yu Lihua was a little surprised - she was both surprised by the boldness of the teenager and a little surprised by his "clinginess".

"Okay," Yu Lihua was stunned for a moment, then showed a kind smile, got up and was about to get out of the car: "You come and sit." ”

didn't want to, but Yu Luying grabbed her mother: "Don't go, I'll sit with you, let him sit in a car by himself." ”

Yu Lihua was very insistent and forced her daughter to share the car with Xiao Yao.

Xiao Yao cast a grateful look at Yu Lihua.

On the rickshaw, Yu Luying was forced to sit close to him, Xiao Yao coaxed all the way with his head stuffy, but Yu Luying only avoided talking about it, and said that it was okay - but he was not allowed to hold his hands, and he was not allowed to hug him, and any physical contact would be bounced away, and he was depressed and did not take the initiative to speak to him.

The three-kilometer bicycle journey can't coax a woman who is iron-hearted to be bored with you, and before you know it, Dongru Bus Station has arrived.

Luckily, there happened to be a bus to Modu in ten minutes, which would pass through Fangbing Town.

-- Dividing line --

The bus to Fangbing Town - to be precise, not the car to Fangbing Town, but the car that will pass through Fangbing Town, is not too crowded.

In fact, at a glance, two-thirds of the seats are still vacant.

Yu Lihua sat in the first row, while Yu Luying was semi-forced to sit in the penultimate row with Xiao Yao.

Look, such a good mother-in-law, there is nowhere to find it with a lantern, Xiao Yao thought gratefully.

He had been pestering Yu Luying for a long time, but he had not seen an obvious breakthrough, so he had to focus on other things first.

"Help me call Shen Jie." Xiao Yao said to Yu Luying.

"What's wrong again?" There was a hint of impatience in Yu Luying's tone: "Why is it here again?" ”

"She's missing." Xiao Yao said succinctly.

Yu Luying took a deep breath, and was about to say something, Xiao Yao had already interrupted her: "This time it has been almost 24 hours unprecedentedly, and the last time she contacted me was around 11 o'clock in the morning yesterday." ”

As he spoke, he took out his mobile phone and showed it to Yu Luying.

Yu Luying didn't really want to see it, so she took out her mobile phone and dialed Shen Jie.

The girl frowned and put the phone to her ear and listened to it for a few seconds, then took the phone back in front of her, dialed it out again, and then put the phone to her ear and listened for a few seconds.

"Not in the service area," Yu Luying told Xiao Yao, "both times I was not in the service area." ”

“…… Why did you change the wallpaper? Xiao Yao knew that now was not the time to "ask for things", but he couldn't help it—in fact, he couldn't bear it.

"What wallpaper?" Yu Luying replied coldly.

"The wallpaper on your phone desktop, the one for the two of us."

"Oh, I'm fine, I'm going to play around every few days." Yu Luying said in an understated tone.

"Swap back." Xiao Yao said strongly.

Yu Luying sighed, her body stiffened and straight, and she didn't move.

Xiao Yao realized that now was not a good time to conduct this kind of "obedience test": "Forget it, just let me not say it." ”

Yu Luying snapped and closed the flip cover of the phone.

“we need to talk。” Xiao Yao said.

"I'm sleepy, I didn't sleep well last night." Yu Luying closed her eyes and leaned her little head back on the back of the chair.

Xiao Yao grabbed one of her arms and helped her up.

"You're hurting me." The girl warned him, and then her eyes turned around on Yu Lihua's back in front of her, and the meaning was self-evident.

"Don't you want to get by?" Xiao Yao was angry and blurted out: "You also want to break up, right?" ”

As soon as these words came out, Xiao Yao regretted it. He realized that in this case, it seemed that it was even more inappropriate for him to take the initiative to make such negative hints?

Fortunately, Yu Luying didn't say "yes, I just want to break up" or "break up when you break up", but said "whatever you want!" ”

Limited strengths?

After saying these three words, the girl continued to lean back, closing her eyes and resting.

……

Although Xiao Yao was in a hurry, he also knew that he couldn't continue to force her now.

He grabbed Yu Luying's hand and began to close his eyes to recuperate, wanting to calm down his chaotic mental state.

Fortunately, Yu Luying did not shake off his hand again this time.

Luckily, it was only a few minutes before she was talking to him.

"Xiao Yao," Yu Luying suddenly turned her head and said, "Yesterday's incident is over, and I don't plan to leave you, okay?" ”

"Okay, thanks."

"But there will be times when I need to be quiet, and there will be times when I want personal space, when I want to be alone—"

"I'll admit, I was impulsive last night, okay?" Xiao Yao said eagerly: "One is that I was drunk too much by you, and my brain is a little unconscious, the second is that I thought I was dreaming at first, and the third is that you recall, did I take the initiative to stop later?" I also thought that I was afraid of hurting you, so I took the initiative to stop, and the four ones were-"

In fact, the third point is basically taking credit blindly - if it weren't for his drunkenness and inability, maybe he would have caused some big disaster, but fortunately, Yu Luying's own memories of the details of what happened at night were also blurred, and through symbiotic perception, Xiao Yao seemed to have the idea of self-discipline and precipice restraint at that time, and he actually believed six or seven points.

"Big Rabbit Paper, thank you." Yu Luying nodded at Xiao Yao.

Xiao Yao judged that the other party's tone did not seem perfunctory or yin and yang, but also seemed to be sincere, so he kept silent.

His "four comes" originally wanted to remind the other party again that "it was your hand that moved first", if it is reasonable, this detail is indeed worth mentioning, but when it is said, it is suspected of shirking responsibility and quarreling, and it is easy to provoke the other party to be angry again, so Xiao Yao is not sure for a while, whether he should mention it again.

The broken song sings, "When you get along, you must remember to let her reverse right and wrong, and when you are reasonable, you must pretend to be an afterthought", Xiao Yao is not sure whether to believe it or not, but since Yu Luying said "thank you" very seriously, he also pressed this section not to watch.

……

"You want to repent, don't you?" Xiao Yao suddenly asked Yu Luying.

"What's that supposed to be called?" Yu Luying asked Xiao Yao rhetorically.

"Ah, I remember, confession, confession sacrament." Xiao Yao bent his index finger and knocked on his head: "Confess!"

“Right。” Yu Luying showed a somewhat reluctant smile to Xiao Yao.

"To be honest," Xiao Yao said, "doesn't it really feel strange to tell people you don't know about your private affairs and secrets?" ”

"How so, it's a sacrament - you're dozing off again in class, aren't you?"

"No, no, I understand the reason-but, if you do a confession, you can't even go back to the devil?" Xiao Yao said.

Yu Luying's smile brought a touch of urgency: "You mean, let me find you Brother Bo to do it?" ”

Xiao Yao trembled: "Then forget it." ”

"Now my uncle is basically in charge of Beihong District," Yu Luying told Xiao Yao: "If you go to the hall in other districts, it's not much closer than going to Fangbing—besides, my mother wants to go, so isn't that just right?" ”

"That's right." Xiao Yao said.

"And," Yu Luying added: "It's rare to come out once, wouldn't it be nice to be able to walk around more and go around more places with you?" ”

Xiao Yao was very impressed by these words: "That's right, I haven't been to Fangbing in my life." ”

Yu Luying's eyes drifted out of the window with some melancholy.

"Hey, if I go on the same trip, can I also do one?" Xiao Yao was speechless and found words.

"What was taught in class, do you recall it?"

Xiao Yao thought for a while: "It doesn't seem to work, you have to wait until after being baptized, right?" ”

"Well," Yu Luying nodded, "However, if you can have this kind of desire, it means that you have a heart of repentance, right?" ”

"Of course," Xiao Yao hurriedly said, "My intestines are all repentant." ”

"Didn't you just want to say that the responsibility lies with me?"

"Ah, this ......" Xiao Yao thought for a while, but he really didn't want to say such a disobedient thing as "it's all my fault", so he said: "Everyone has to find their own responsibility, don't always find fault with others." ”

"That's right." Yu Luying nodded in agreement.

Then there was another stop-and-go of cars, and silence.

……

Yu Luying took the initiative to lean on Xiao Yao's body.

"Huh?" Xiao Yao looked at her.

"Actually, I'm really not angry with you, I'm angry with myself." Yu Luying said seriously.

This sentence is not entirely true, but since she said it at the moment, it also represents a kind of overture.

"How?" Xiao Yao answered.

"I, I'm ......" Yu Luying stretched out her hands, palms up, and her eyes stared at them: "I don't know who I am anymore." ”

"Is it like the song "Who am I" sung by Valjean in the musical "Les Miserables"?" Xiao Yao asked her.

The girl's eyes lit up: "Yes, I just want to say this!" ”

Xiao Yao bowed slightly, waiting for her to continue.

"What about me," Yu Luying continued to look at her palms, the pair of pink palms shining a little in the sun: "It's always been quite contradictory, on the one hand, I feel that I am bound and want to pursue freedom; On the other hand, I have a sense of superiority over being born a 'good boy' – isn't that ridiculous? ”

"No, I totally understand." Xiao Yao said with an oath.

"It's like before I didn't know and understand Shen Jie, I always disliked her with you, thinking that she was an 'improper' woman, do you remember?" Yu Luying asked Xiao Yao.

"I remember." Xiao Yao nodded.

"You might think I'm just jealous." Yu Luying smiled.

"No, I don't think so," Xiao Yao hurriedly said, "At least, not all." ”

"Well," Yu Luying nodded: "Actually, that's also my subconscious 'superiority' at work, if I have a palace, will it actually be an arrogant spirit inside?" ”

"This ......," Xiao Yao said, "everyone will be more or less arrogant." ”

"I'm going to Dongru with you this time," Yu Luying said eloquently: "I thought about going wild." I don't really like your friends, boys and girls, but I want to prove to myself that I can do it and hang out with different people. ”

"That's ......," Xiao Yao said.

"I can drink, but I won't make a mistake; I can smoke too, but I'm not addicted; I can also be with you, with you, as close as a couple, but I won't cross the line. Yu Luying said.

"What does it mean to be like a couple, we are a couple."

"Well, you know what I mean."

"I understand."

"Last night's loss of control scared me," Yu Luying looked up at the roof of the car a little embarrassed—she was afraid that Xiao Yao would be angry again, so she made up again: "I mean, my own loss of control." ”

"Hmm...... I'm out of control too, and I'm guilty too. ”

"I thought I could play with fire without burning myself, walk by the river without getting my shoes wet, but I'm no different from those 'bad boys', and it only takes a split second to do such a bad thing."

"......" This kid is really screwed, Xiao Yao thought.

"Actually, I'm no different from them, Shen Jie, Ouyang, Zhao Xiaomei, Tang Xuewei...... I, I'm not as 'easy' as I thought, not as 'stick to the bottom line' as I thought, in fact, I slipped up a slope for a moment. ”

Hearing Yu Luying beat so many people as "bad women" in one go, Xiao Yao felt a little strange in his heart, but he didn't say anything.

"I used to sometimes can't help but think," Yu Luying said, "how could a good woman like Mom, who is pious and kind, do such a humiliating thing with Dad, and that man, so that she becomes a disgrace to the family and is kicked out." ”

"You shouldn't think of your mom like that." Xiao Yao persuaded.

"Sometimes she desperately manages me, desperately preaches, desperately asks me to do this, and tells me not to do that," Yu Luying said: "I will secretly think in my heart, what kind of good example do you do yourself, what qualifications do you have to say this about me, care about me?" ”

"......" Xiao Yao didn't speak again, just pinched the back of Yu Luying's hand.

He realized that Yu Luying didn't need to listen to him now, she just wanted to say it - and herself, as long as she played the best audience, it was enough.

"However, I won't think like that now," Yu Luying pursed her lips and smiled, "I found that my mother is actually great and amazing." ”

"That's right." Xiao Yao wholeheartedly agreed.

"Sometimes she goes a little too far, but most of the time, she's right, and I shouldn't be trying to do it against her." The girl's eyes fell on the back of her mother in the front row of the car, and her eyes were full of tenderness.

Xiao Yao felt a trace of doubt about this, so he chose to keep his mouth shut.

"St. Mary Magdalene was once a technician, and who would dare to look down on her because of this? Every saint has a past， every sinner has a future.”

"No, eldest sister," Xiao Yao whispered, "We just drank too much, we were young and impulsive, and we almost got into trouble but didn't get into trouble, are you here as for the technical girls?" ”

"Fang Bing, Fang Bing has arrived, Fang Bing has gotten off!" At this time, the driver turned his head and shouted at the top of his voice.

The three of them got out of the car, inquired along the way, and walked towards the Fangbing Catholic Church.

Xiao Yao believes that since he has basically reached an understanding with Yu Luying, he should no longer hang his mother-in-law and keep sticking together with Yu Luying.

That's too ignorant.

So, he took a few steps and took the initiative to walk side by side with Yu Lihua, chatting with her, while Yu Luying followed them from a distance of five meters.

Yu Lihua saw Xiao Yao take the initiative to come up, and was a little surprised and a little happy.

They walked along the side of the town's road, and the oncoming breeze brought a sense of comfort. The summer sky is obscured by fluffy clouds, and the sun shines softly through the clouds, casting a faint shadow over the entire Fangbing town.

Along both sides of the road, tall and lush trees are dense and impermeable, forming a green barrier. The canopy is dense and the leaves gently sway in the breeze, casting dappled shadows.

"You two had a fight last night, didn't you?" Yu Lihua said softly: "I'm still making trouble this morning, right?" ”

Xiao Yao was startled, and was about to speak, but was interrupted by Yu Lihua again.

"Don't lie to your mother," Yu Lihua smiled: "You little children's every move, in the eyes of those of us who have come over, it is very clear." ”

Oh, yes? Then why is it awkward, you can see it clearly?

"Auntie, you really have good eyesight," Xiao Yao sneered, "But it's been reconciled just now, it's okay." ”

Xiao Yao was worried that Yu Lihua was about to ask himself immediately after what he was arguing about, and he was nervously making it up in his mind, but Yu Lihua didn't mean to ask at all: "Yingying, this kid, it's actually quite easy to get it." ”

"Huh?" Xiao Yao said.

"Since she has identified you," Yu Lihua explained, "then she is the kind that is very easy to coax." ”

"Hah...... Oh. ”

"Yingying, what about this child," Yu Lihua continued to say: "Introverted, follow me." ”

Are you an introvert? Xiao Yao's mouth opened wide.

"Don't look at me like this, I was forced by society," Yu Lihua sighed: "When I was a child, I had the same sex as her. Introverted, doesn't like to talk, obedient, and has a rebellion in his bones. ”

"That's ......," Xiao Yao said.

"Actually, Ying Ying is usually very talkative, but sometimes when she gets up, she will be bored," Yu Lihua told Xiao Yao: "Don't force her at this time, you dry her, and after a while, she will be fine." ”

"Understood," Xiao Yao said, "But is it really okay for you to give outsiders ideas on how to deal with your daughter?" ”

"What outsiders?" Yu Lihua smiled: "A son-in-law and a half, didn't I tell you before?" I have long regarded you as half, you don't have a mother, and your aunt will be your mother in the future. ”

Yu Lihua really didn't say this to Xiao Yao for the first time, but when Xiao Yao heard it before, he felt weird, Alexander, kidnapped by human favor and wanted to escape, but at this time he was inexplicably moved, and even his nose was sour.

It's weird.

Whether it is Yu Lihua's expression or tone, people can't see the slightest hypocrisy.

"I'm not helping you deal with your own daughter," Yu Lihua continued to say earnestly: "You two can be good, Mrs. Pingping, that is, as elders, what we are most willing to see - who loses, who wins, Auntie doesn't care at all, you don't care, there is no right or wrong win or loss in the relationship, only win-win and lose-lose, just like your symbiosis." ”

The two of them just chatted hotly.

Yu Luying walked behind the two of them, and was surprised to find that Xiao Yao actually took her mother's arm.

Is this a bit ......?

The girl raised her right hand and held her forehead.

Xiao Yao and Yu Lihua started from the introduction of Dongru's customs and customs, and talked about the itinerary and experience of Yu Luying in Dongru in the past two days - of course, deleted some elements that he thought Yu Lihua should not know.

In the end, the conversation naturally turned to my childhood, elementary school and junior high school.

"Your grandfather's letter to you before he died?" Yu Lihua said: "Auntie, can I take a look?" - If you don't mind. ”

"Don't mind, don't mind."

Yu Lihua's kindness, Xiao Yao has almost adapted to it, but Yu Lihua's politeness and respect will make the young man feel flattered to some extent.

"Little Apple," Xiao Yao turned around and beckoned to Yu Luying, "Give me that letter." ”

"Letter? What letter? Ahh Yu Luying began to rummage through her bags.

"Little Apple?" Yu Lihua was slightly stunned.

"Ah," Xiao Yao said with some embarrassment, "The names of the two of us are calling and playing." ”

"You got it for her?" Yu Lihua asked Xiao Yao.

"Ah," Xiao Yao said, "screaming." ”

Yu Luying found the letter and handed it up from behind, Yu Lihua carefully unfolded the letter, shook it in her hand, glanced at Xiao Yao again, stopped, and read it carefully.

……

"Put it away, don't spoil it." Yu Lihua handed the letter to her daughter again.

Xiao Yao suddenly couldn't help but feel that Yu Luying looked like a maid.

Little Apple folded the letter again, put it in her bag, and instead of retreating five meters away, she walked side by side with Xiao Yao and her mother.

"Your grandfather is a scholar—a man of culture." Yu Lihua first commented: "Looking at the name, he is also a cultural person. ”

"Ah, yes, I think I taught at a private school." Xiao Yao nodded.

"His grandfather said that he was silent since he was a child, Mom, are you funny?" Yu Luying interjected.

"It's normal," Yu Lihua said, "Your mother and I were also silent when I was a child. ”

Both children laughed secretly.

"Xiao Yujing, Xiao Changsheng, good name, really good name," Yu Lihua turned her head and asked her daughter, "Little Apple, do you say it's good?" ”

"I don't like it." Yu Luying said truthfully: "What other little apples, Mom, don't scream with it." ”

"It doesn't matter if you don't like it," Yu Lihua turned her head to her daughter Dun Dun and said: "Since it is Xiao Yao's grandfather's last wish, your children will be named according to this in the future, if you have your own preferences, you can ...... when you have a second child."

"What a one-child two-child!" Yu Luying was annoyed and angry, and stomped her foot: "Mom, listen to what you are talking about, in front of Xiao Yao." ”

"Still shy? What can't be said about this? Yu Lihua said: "After the two of you get married, quack, quack, quack, ......."

Yu Luying didn't want to hear Yu Lihua imagine her married life for her there, so she stepped up and walked to the front: "I saw the cross!" ”

Xiao Yao couldn't escape directly like Yu Luying, so he had to listen to Yu Lihua always imagining the life of "waiting for you to get married".

At first, I felt a little embarrassed, but I felt warm and romantic when I listened to it, and then I unconsciously followed the reverie and sketched this beautiful blueprint, and finally my nose was sour, and I wanted to kill myself with a knife on the spot.

Fortunately, the Fangbing Catholic Church has arrived.

Nantong City Dongru County Fangbing Catholic Church, also known as Dongru Fangbing Catholic Church, is located in Dongru County Elephant Town Fuhua Road West, in fact, it is located on the side of the national highway, surrounded by a desolate.

said that it was in Fang Bing, but it was actually located next to the national highway in the middle of the town where Xiao Yao was located and Fang Bing Town, but it was closer to Fang Bing's side.

It is also because of this that when he came out of the Fangbing bus station, he walked so that people wanted to die or live.

In Xiao Yao's original imagination, the rural church of Fangbing Church should be in Chinese style, short and dilapidated, with a thatched roof, not like an ancestral hall, but he didn't expect that when the cathedral that rose from the ground suddenly came into view, it scared him a lot.

The church is really tall and large, and from a distance it looks like a Gothic style.

Xiao Yao doesn't understand architecture, but he has a sporadic impression that the building from the outer contour to the inner doors and windows is thin and tall, and the building with a sharp spire on top is called Gothic—huh? Why did you think of Yu Luying?

The brick and wood structure looks decent, but the color looks lively, with a bit of Disney castle texture at high and low.

To put it mildly, like a toy.

And this color is also very strange, although Gothic does not particularly emphasize color, but it is a dark color subject with stained glass, this church is a bit ...... Russian?

In any case, in Xiao Yao's eyes, "big" and "high" are justice.

"This looks better than Brother Bo - better than our uncle's cousin." Xiao Yao said to Yu Luying.

Yu Luying "cut", took a step back, took out her camera, half-squatted, and took pictures.

Yu Lihua heard the words "our uncle" and glanced at Xiao Yao: "The Sacred Heart Hall was originally very large, and the Sacred Heart Hall you see now is just an auxiliary building of the original Sacred Heart Hall. ”

As he spoke, a short and fat man with black pants, black leather shoes, and a blue shirt came out to open the door, and when this person approached, Xiao Yao judged by the white Roman collar around his neck that this was a priest, not a doorman.

The priest was not good-looking, about forty or fifty years old, and his countenance was ...... It's ugly, but it doesn't have any outstanding features. His medium-length black hair had turned a little gray, and the wrinkles on his face showed signs of age.

"Father Lee is Va? I'm sorry for the trouble. Yu Lihua said politely and politely.

"Father Lee." "Father Lee."

"No trouble, no trouble," said Fr. Lee, "but Fr. Yu is a good friend of mine!" ”

"We just passed through here and wanted to come and worship Holy Communion." Yu Lihua said.

"Okay, okay." Father Li nodded.

said that he was here to "worship the Holy Sacrament", but Yu Lihua was not in a hurry to enter the church at all, but followed Father Li to his office first.

The three of them sat down on the sofa, holding the hot tea that Father Li had made for them.

Yu Luying and Xiao Yao listened to Yu Lihua and Father Li talking about the bad things in the two dioceses, and the priest of the Zhang family and the nuns of the Li family were short, and they were all bored.

Smile, drink tea, let go, nod, laugh.

From time to time, I secretly glanced at my phone to see if Shen Jie had replied to the message.

When they had finally finished talking, Father Lee took out the key and led the three of them into the church.

As soon as he entered the holy hall, Xiao Yao felt ...... emmmmmmm.

How to say it, it is really still the imaginary Chinese-style local ancestral hall style.

The decoration inside can be even more waterlogged than the outside.

"Sure enough, it's still not as good as our uncle's territory." Xiao Yao whispered to Yu Luying.

Spit and spit and spit out, ugly to ugly, it's all here, then worship.

Following Yu's mother and daughter to read "Pater noster", "Ave Maria" and "Gloria Patri", Xiao Yao stood up and turned around twice with his hands behind his back to visit.

Don't say it, this confession booth is pretty good.

Father Li sat inside wearing a purple holy belt, Yu Luying knelt outside the confession pavilion, and the baffle between the two people had been lifted, leaving only a heavy screen window to separate, so that the inside and outside could not see each other's faces clearly.

Xiao Yao stood and watched from afar, and he suddenly remembered that the first time he saw such a situation "with his own eyes" was in Teacher Yao's hall.

There, together with Shen Jie, he heard Teacher Yao say something horrific to Yu Bo.

As soon as Yu Luying stood up, Yu Lihua walked over and knelt down on the other side of the pavilion.

Fr. Lee adjusted his sitting position and leaned his head on the other side.

Yu Luying walked slowly towards Xiao Yao.

"You told him everything about us?" Xiao Yao asked in a low voice.

Yu Luying ignored him.

"What if he turns around and tells your mother?" Xiao Yao said.

"Impossible," Yu Luying said, "divulging the secret of the confession is a felony of 'self-excommunication', and even if you tell the priest that you killed someone, he can't call the police." ”

"It's a bit like a tree hole - it must be painful for the priest to hear you say this every day, and not being able to say it yet." Xiao Yao said.

"So they've long since developed the ability to go in and out of the left ear." Yu Luying said.

While speaking, seeing Yu Lihua standing up, Xiao Yao also walked quickly towards the confession pavilion.

"Why are you going?" Yu Luying called him behind his back.

"I want it too." Xiao Yao said succinctly.

"Hey! Hey......"

……

"Father, I have sinned." Xiao Yao said in a deep voice.

"......" is silent here.

"Hey, hey? Can you hear me? Xiao Yao seemed to be on his mobile phone.

"You say." Father Lee finally spoke.

"I'm not a parishioner yet, and they say they can't do a confession because I haven't been baptized yet," Xiao Yao said, "but I do have some things in my heart that I regret and feel very uncomfortable, and I don't vomit or feel unhappy, can you listen to me?" ”

"You say." Father Lee repeated it again.

"Will you be as secretive as you would be to hear a true confession?" Xiao Yao asked him.

"Yes." Father Lee said.

"Last night, my girlfriend and I ...... Something happened that was unexpected, because I drank too much alcohol. Although nothing actually happened in the end, it was still ...... Gee, she must have told you about it, right? Xiao Yao said.

"......" the other party was silent.

"And then I feel like I'm not something, really." Xiao Yao said to himself: "I obviously know that I have no future with her, so I don't plan to touch her, which can be regarded as a bottom limit."

"As a result, it turned out that I almost got ...... yesterday I feel that all rationality and morality seem to be empty to me, and only desire is my master.

"I don't want to be this kind of person, I want to be a gentleman, a good person, a knight, a person who can restrain his behavior with reason and principles, and a responsible person."

Father Li spoke: "If you know that there is no future, why do you want to develop a boyfriend and girlfriend relationship?" ”

"It's a complicated question," Xiao Yao told him, "Actually, I have a fiancée, and then my girlfriend and my fiancée, they all know each other, they agree with each other—in fact, at the beginning, the two of them privately said yes, they want to be with the three of me, and then they come to talk to me." ”

“…… It's not right, it's not okay. Father Li told Xiao Yao.

"I know," Xiao Yao said, "Father, do you know, my current girlfriend's mother is very good to me, very good, saying that she treats me as her son, and always talks about how we will be after we get married, you know, as soon as I hear her say this, I feel uncomfortable." I wondered how upset she would have been if she had known the truth...... How disappointed...... I...... I don't know how to say it, I feel like I'm not human, I can't face her. I really hope that what she said, everything after marriage is true, it will happen, but I know that I am actually lying to her......

"Father, I really want to really think of her as my mother, I really want to marry my girlfriend, take her daughter as a wife, but I can't, because I can't be sorry for my fiancée."

"Hmm......" Father Li's face wrinkled in pain: "This fiancée you are talking about......"

Xiao Yao didn't listen to the priest, but just looked down and said, "And then I still feel that I am sorry for my grandfather." Before leaving, my grandfather wrote me a letter, took the child's name, and asked me to set off firecrackers on his grave when I married him, so that he could go to see my grandfather - but I got into a lot of money, what kind of face do I have to face the ancestors of the Xiao family?

"Seriously, Father, I didn't care about that kind of thing before. What to marry a wife, into a rich, isn't it all the same? For me, it's okay to have a wife, I don't care if I'm a rich person, I don't care who the child's surname is. But today, when I saw my grandfather's letter, I suddenly felt that I was too selfish, and I didn't want to get involved in it.

"If I get rich, I'm sorry for my grandfather, and if I don't, I'm sorry for my fiancée......"

(End of chapter)