Chapter 417 The mastermind behind the scenes appeared
Zhang Zhiwei and Huoyun Evil God left the factory and went to the Ministry of Industry Bureau in the Public Concession, where Isaac and his party were.
The Ministry of Industry is a castle-like building with a granite faΓ§ade, with a total of four floors, in the European medieval style, and the four corners of the building are recessed, so the whole building gives people a sense of heaviness.
On the side of the Ministry of Industry is the headquarters of the Church of God, the Holy Trinity Church.
At the door of the Ministry of Industry, Zhang Zhiwei was stunned for a moment, just now he calculated Huo Tianhong and Lu Yusheng again, and found that these two people were still in the Holy Trinity Church, thinking of the cross altar in the previous factory, and now he was even more convinced that the Caoqing Gang had an affair with the Church of God.
In this regard, he actually didn't feel very surprised, the power of the Caoqing Gang is complicated, the involvement is too wide, and it is normal to have collusion, but he doesn't know the extent of the collusion.
After dealing with the affairs of the children, we will come to the Holy Trinity Church...... Zhang Zhiwei said secretly in his heart.
Although he handed over this matter to Isaac to deal with, it didn't mean that he would ignore it, Isaac was a foreigner after all, and he didn't know much about the national conditions here, so he might do bad things with good intentions.
When Zhang Zhiwei came to the Ministry of Industry Bureau, Isaac Lu Jin and Lu Ci were already standing at the door.
Isaac is a very careful and gentle person, considering that with Zhang Zhiwei's identity, he may be subjected to some white eyes and discrimination when he comes to the Ministry of Industry, so he stayed here early.
"Oh, Zhang, it's great that you're okay!"
Isaac greeted him with a look of surprise.
Zhang Zhiwei walked over and shook Isaac's hand: "Didn't I say that I could handle it?" β
Lu Jin, Lu Ci and the others were calm, Senior Brother Zhang is fine, isn't it how it should be? Nothing surprising.
But soon, they couldn't calm down, because they saw the Fire Cloud Evil God standing behind Zhang Zhiwei.
The reason why I didn't see the Huoyun Evil God at first sight was because after Zhang Zhiwei burned the demons in his heart, the Huoyun Evil God had a lot less anger, and now he looks like an ordinary vegetable seller, standing in front of the tall and burly Zhang Zhiwei is too inconspicuous.
"This ...... This man ......"
Isaac also noticed the Fire Cloud Evil God, and quickly took out his wand and waited for it.
"Don't be nervous!"
Zhang Zhiwei waved his hand and said: "This is the ancient predecessor of the Huoyun Evil God Ancient Han Soul, before he was deceived by Yongxin's traitor, so he helped to deal with us, I persuaded people with virtue, and after solving the misunderstanding, the seniors were deeply sorry and decided to atone for their sins, so they came with me!" β
Huoyun Evil God listened to Zhang Zhiwei's words, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, he was so virtuous to convince people, he was too virtuous, he only felt that his brain was still aching.
"I see, I also think that Zhang is noble, no wonder Lu and Lu both admire you so much!"
Isaac laughed, he put away his wand, and wanted to shake hands with the Fire Cloud Evil God, but when he thought of the other party's inhuman flesh, he could instantly crush his hand to bone slag and even tear him apart, so he retracted his hand and just smiled and nodded to the Fire Cloud Evil God.
The Huoyun Evil God nodded back, and he didn't think there was a problem, shaking hands is the etiquette of the West, and the East is not interested in these, in the Inhuman World, casually looking for someone to shake hands is often regarded as a provocation, and the two sides will secretly compete with each other, winning or losing, this is called hand-holding.
Lu Jin, Lu Ci, and Lu Ren glanced at each other, and made eye contact for a while, with their understanding of Senior Brother Zhang, this virtue of convincing people with virtue is not simple.
You know, Senior Brother Zhang has always beaten first, and then expounded the Tao and reasoning after the beating, in the words of Senior Brother Zhang, this is called preaching is useless, breaking bones is the best textbook, which of the three of them has not been hit by Senior Brother Zhang's big ears? Seeing that this Fire Cloud Evil God looked like a dog when he followed behind Senior Brother Zhang, he was afraid that he would be beaten lightly.
"By the way, what about the children?" Zhang Zhiwei asked.
"It's inconvenient for people to come and go here, let's go in, drink some coffee, eat some snacks, and talk while eating!" Isaac suggested.
He is a wizard who does not cultivate his life, and he has been fighting for a long time, and he has long been hungry.
"Okay!"
A few people walked into the Ministry of Industry Bureau and came to the VIP reception room inside, where there were classical sofas, upholstered chairs and wood-colored coffee tables.
"Do you want black tea or coffee? What are the requirements for snacks or something? Isaac asked, he was a little unsure of what the people liked.
"Just do as you ask!" Lu Ren said that although he is a young man in the Lu family, he has never been abroad, and he rarely deals with foreigners, so in order to avoid going abroad, he will not express his opinion now.
"I'm the same!" Lu Ci said.
"I want coffee, remember to put more sugar, snacks, the taste is light, I like the type with cream; It's even better if you have foie gras, and if you have roast chicken, remember to crisp the skin a little bit and then ask for the ribeye steak......"
Lu Jin showed professionalism and said a lot of words.
"I'm the same!" Zhang Zhiwei said that he really didn't have much research on Western dim sum or something, he only knew that it was sweet, and considering that Lu Jin said that the taste was light, he decided to order the same as Lu Jin.
Isaac called a blonde receptionist and made a bunch of requests, and the receptionist took the notes and turned to leave.
"By the way, Zhang, we took those children to the hospital for a check-up, and found that they were all healthy except for some malnutrition!"
"However, if we want to send them all home, we need to use a lot of manpower and material resources to investigate, and we can't do it for a while, and in the meantime, we need to find a place for these children to be placed!" Isaac said.
Zhang Zhiwei nodded: "How do you plan to settle it here?" β
Isaac said: "The plan here is to temporarily transfer it to the Notre Dame Cathedral Nursery on the Xu family's side, and if you find your parents, send them back!" β
"The Annancy of the Xu Family Notre Dame?" Zhang Zhiwei said in a deep voice: "That's the God Sect, right!" β
"Yes!" Isaac said: "Zhang, I know, what happened before made you have some doubts about God's religion, but please believe that most of the clergy in the church are kind and loving, and handing over these children to the nursery is the best choice at present, they are there, there will be special people to take care of, and there will be partners to play, even if some children can't find their biological parents, they can grow up happily!" β
As he spoke, Isaac handed Zhang Zhiwei a stack of materials: "Look at it, this is what the Notre Dame Nursery has done in recent years, I believe that after reading it, you will have a different opinion of them!" β
Zhang Zhiwei took the information and looked at it expressionlessly.
There are some information about the Nursery Hall, which begins by saying that due to the prevalence of the concept of male superiority and inferiority of women in the previous dynasty, poor families could not bear the financial burden of childbirth, and some families drowned their baby girls when they were born, and some families abandoned their newborn babies.
The missionaries of their Cult of God could not bear to see this, believing that it was an unshirkable duty to baptize abandoned babies, so they established a nursery church and began the work of adopting abandoned babies.
If they die in the middle of the journey, the Foundling Hall will bury them in a coffin with private funds, and then purchase a cemetery and ask the priest to consecrate them, naming them "Holy Baptism Rebirth Baby Grave".
The surviving children are generally upheld by the consecrated women, and most of the expenses are borne by them, and these adopted children are treated equally and often more lovingly than the children of their own family.
There are also commendations from all walks of life, which reads - In the magic capital last year, more than 10,000 poor children were abandoned by their inhumane parents, but under the care of the nursery, they survived death and so on.
As for the money for these charitable undertakings, the sources are more complicated, mainly donations from the West, rewards from the government of the Republic of China, and donations from local congregations.
"How?" Isaac asked.
Zhang Zhiwei pondered for a moment, he did not deny Isaac's statement, there are good people and bad people everywhere, and the same is true for the church.
Although their original intention was to preach, in the process, they did do a lot of commendable things, such as disaster relief and soup kitchen, opening church schools, and even in times of war, using their influence to shelter a large number of innocent people, there was a one-armed priest who saved hundreds of thousands of people over the decades, which is admirable.
But as I said before, there are good people and bad people everywhere, and the Nursery Thing, to be honest, is not authentic.
Because according to Zhang Zhiwei's later generations, the survival rate of this kind of church-run nursery is only about 2 in 1,000, that is, only two children can live if they adopt a thousand children.
According to statistics, it has adopted nearly 50,000 children of all sizes in ten years, but only 197 people have survived.
In five or three years, the state even erected a "Ten Thousand Babies Monument" in this nursery.
What kind of probability is this, that is, 50,000 babies are thrown on the street, and the survival rate is more than so low when good people see and adopt, what is the difference between this and the infamous abandoned baby tower that burns abandoned babies.
And the reason for this is that the church adopts a large number of babies under the banner of "Foundling Hall", and uses this as a gimmick to obtain a large amount of donations at home and abroad.
Just like some charity organizations in later generations, they took money, but they didn't do anything, just symbolically raised a few, and all the rest were killed, even if the baby girls survived by luck, they could still work as coolies when they grew up, and even meet the perverted needs of them and some people in the West.
But Zhang Zhiwei has only seen these things in the report, seeing is believing and hearing is false, he said: "I want to go and see it myself!" β
"No problem, I'll check it out too!" "I donate a lot of money every year to charity, and I want to see how they do!" β
"That's great!"
Zhang Zhiwei nodded.
Not long after, the receptionist brought a snack, and several people ate it immediately.
Zhang Zhiwei took a bite, although he had been instructed to put less sugar, but the taste was still sweet, but he could still tolerate this level of sweetness.
It was Lu Ci and Lu Ren, who went down in one bite, and quickly poured a few sips of coffee, but although Isaac ate sweet snacks, the coffee was not sweetened, and it was bitter and astringent.
As for the Huoyun Evil God, the noodles he eats do not change color, and he can eat all the general food of pigs in the mental hospital, let alone this.
And just when Zhang Zhiwei and his party were eating snacks.
In the Holy Trinity Church not far away, in the room, Lu Yusheng stood next to the telephone with a dull face, and the microphone slipped weakly from his hand.
"Third child, what's going on?" Huo Tianhong, the eldest of the three tycoons, hurriedly asked.
"It's over, it's all over!" Lu Yusheng said dumbfoundedly: "I just received the news that the 'chemical factory' in the suburbs exploded, and all the people who stayed inside died, and the goods that cooperated with the Shasun family inside were also gone, not only that, but the brothers who arranged to go to the pigpen city were also dead!" β
"What?!" Huo Tianhong suddenly got up, and said with a look of disbelief: "What about the Huoyun Evil God, what does he eat, isn't he known as the ultimate killer king?" Can't you get rid of that stinky bull's nose in Dragon and Tiger Mountain? β
Lu Yusheng shook his head and said: "I didn't get it, not only did I not get it, but he also seemed to be backwater, because there was a little brother along the way who saw him, and he followed behind the little Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain with a dog's face and went to the Ministry of Industry Bureau!" β
"Damn, the one surnamed Dai coaxed us, he said that the Huoyun Evil God is one of the best masters in the world, and if he makes a move, it will be foolproof!" Huo Tianhong suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly asked: "By the way, what happened to the cellar where the godfather left the little ghost in the factory?" β
"It's gone!" Lu Yusheng said: "It was razed to the ground!" β
Shocked by the bad news, Huo Tianhong's legs were weak, and he sat down on the chair with a slump in his ass, looking a little frightened and said:
"That's godfather's baby bump, something happened there, we all have to walk around without food!"
"I can't eat, I can't walk around!" Lu Yusheng gritted his teeth: "The matter has come to this, I can't continue to hide it anymore, I must report to my godfather, please come out!" β
"This ......" Huo Tianhong hesitated, sighed, and said, "Well, there really is no better way!" β
With that, the two of them left the room, but instead of leaving the Holy Trinity Church, they walked towards the deepest part of the church.
White doves rose and fell on the lawn, and the two of them crossed a crimson cobblestone road to an ancient church in the innermost part.
It has a large courtyard and a complex structure, and a large chandelier with wheel-shaped candles hanging from the dome.
A tall and thin old man in a red robe stood in the starry candlelight with his hands behind his back, his expression extremely serious.
The door of the church slowly opened, and the candlelight inside poured out like a tidal wave, Huo Tianhong and Lu Yusheng relaxed their steps, they knew what kind of person was sitting here.
When the two of them walked into the hall, they saw that the old man had his back to them, and without any words, they did not dare to make a sound to disturb, but knelt down on their knees and prostrate themselves on the ground.
It's been a long time.
"You should have something to report to me!"
In the candlelight, the blood-red robe fluttered in the breeze, and the tall and thin old man turned around, turned his back to them and said:
"Sister Charlotte told me just now that the piglet I took from her not long ago was sent back again!"
(End of chapter)