Our Lady of Salvation

The majestic and solemn St. Mary's Monastery Cathedral has gone through more than 200 years. It was the most magnificent and tallest building in the entire empire at the beginning. Catholicism took root in the empire. The St. Mary's Monastery Cathedral symbolizes the most splendid Catholicism. In the years, the royal family spent a lot of money, material and manpower to build the cathedral, but now it is almost forgotten.Although it is now surrounded by tall buildings in all directions, it is not so conspicuous.But at least 20 years ago, there was no taller building in the entire imperial capital.

Today, the cathedral is like an old man on the verge of death, appearing old and inconspicuous in the vibrant new buildings of the imperial capital.Like its owner, the dean's mother, she has entered her twilight years.But the dean's mother didn't feel sad at all because of this. She always smiled kindly and told the young children, don't worry, no matter how the imperial capital develops, the monastery will always exist and will always exist.As long as you have the Lord in your hearts and people have the Lord in your hearts, there will be churches everywhere you go.

For many years, the smile of the dean's mother seems to have never changed. No matter what difficulties the monastery faces or what changes it encounters, she always smiles. That gentle and kind smile is brought to the younger generations. An attitude of smiling towards life is a kind of strong, indifferent, and always bright faith in the heart.Without Mother Dean, perhaps this old and obstructive cathedral would have been razed to the ground decades ago.

Speaking of which, when did the dean's mother come to the monastery?The nuns in the monastery are not clear. In their impression, it seems that the dean’s mother has always been here, and most of the nuns of the dean’s mother’s generation have left. The convent is too difficult, and the old nuns don’t want to stay anymore. it's here.The dean's mother is 70 years old this year, and the nuns speculate that the dean's mother has stayed in the monastery for at least 50 years.

In the past 50 years, he has never left a small place, never went out to see the outside world, and does not even have a mobile phone or computer around him. In the ever-changing metropolis, such an old man has completely divorced from society.But the dean's mother didn't care, she just read the Bible every day, took morning and evening classes, went to the kindergarten to see the children, and then sat in the cloister in front of the monastery, listening to some old people nearby gathered here to complain.She has lived like this for 50 years.

"What makes you so peaceful?" Gu Yi asked quietly after a long silence with a cold face under the moonlight.

"Tranquility? No, this word is not suitable to describe me. However, it is what I pursue." The dean's mother's voice sounded calm.

"Really? I don't think so." Gu Yi's tone became sharp.

"Son," the dean's mother smiled nonchalantly, "Want to see the photo album? There may be a lot of things you want to know in it."

The dean's mother pushed the photo album she had been flipping through in front of Gu Yi. On the page she opened, there was a very old black and white photo printed on it.This photo is very large, taking up two full pages. It seems to be a group photo of the entire monastery. Most of the photos are nuns in nun costumes, and there are many dirty-looking children. From 0 Age ranges from 18 to 164.There is also a gold-plated text at the bottom, which reads: "The 1964th member of the Imperial Capital Santa Maria Monastery as a memorial."The date is September 9, exactly 50 years ago when the photo was taken.

"Have you seen it, child, can you distinguish the people among them?" the dean's mother asked with a smile.

Gu Yi shook his head, she didn't know anyone here.

"Son, look carefully. Do you know this woman?" The dean's mother pointed to a woman about 30 years old and asked. This woman was not wearing a nun's clothes, and her clothes were not dirty. A woman from a rich family.

Gu Yi frowned and looked carefully, finally shook his head, expressing that he really didn't know him.

The dean's mother didn't rush to tell her, she moved her finger to a boy who was probably there, and asked:

"Do you know this boy?"

Gu Yi shook his head again.

"So, do you know this nun?" She pointed to a young nun holding a two or three-year-old girl in her arms, and asked.

This time, after careful identification, Gu Yi breathed a sigh of relief and asked:

"is it you?"

"That's right, my son." The dean's mother said kindly.She didn't take back the photo album either, but began to narrate slowly:

"That year was the first year I arrived at the Santa Maria Monastery. After being homeless for two full years, I was taken in by the dean's mother at the time and became a nun after making a vow. At that time, Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong and Henan suffered a rare disaster in a century. In the locust disaster, countless people were displaced and fled to the imperial capital to survive. The monastery took in many homeless orphans that year. These children were all children who suffered that year.

The first woman I pointed out just now is named Liu Huiwen.Yes, that's right, she was the first female prime minister of the empire.At that time, the monastery was also quite difficult. It was impossible without financial resources to help so many orphans.At that time, it was Liu Huiwen who generously donated money to support the monastery.Liu Huiwen is ten years older than me. I was exactly 20 years old, and she was already 30 years old.She is a legendary woman, unmarried all her life, running in charity and women's rights.Becoming the prime minister is also to promote charity and women's rights.She was born in a declining aristocratic family. Although her life was not as good as those of the great aristocrats since she was a child, she has no worries about food and clothing. She has received a good education. She was strong and courageous since she was a child.She is a girl, and with her talent and ability, she goes into business and drives the whole family to prosper again.At the age of 30, she was already the number one richest woman in the entire empire, and she had more financial resources than many rich men.She should be considered my great benefactor, because even if the monastery took me in, I would starve to death without her.We are close friends, she is not only my benefactor, but also my teacher, and the person I admire the most. "When the dean's mother said this, although her tone was calm and her face was still kind, Gu Yi saw a different brilliance in her eyes. Obviously, after so many years, that woman is still deeply imprinted in her heart.

"The second one refers to a boy whose name is Dong Cheng. Oh, you may not understand this, because the name you are familiar with should be Dong Yucheng. I believe you should know that when Dong Yucheng was 9 years old, there was an incredible Experience, this experience made him a helpless orphan, so he was sent to the monastery to be raised by us. He stayed in the monastery for 9 years, and he was 18 years old when the photo was taken. In the college entrance examination, he has been admitted to Imperial National University with excellent results. When the photo was taken, he had already moved out of the monastery. This is the only photo of him and us.

Dong Yucheng's tuition was also paid by Liu Huiwen. For a long time, Liu Huiwen had been supporting Dong Yucheng, helping him grow from a little-known researcher to a great scientist.They share a common ideal, for which they have been fighting unremittingly for decades.Until one became a great scientist and the other became a female prime minister, they were only one step away from realizing their ideals, but they fell short. "The dean's mother narrated in a very peaceful tone, the past is like smoke, so why do you need to mention it again. Even if you mention it again, there is no need to sigh. Maybe this is what the dean's mother is thinking, Gu Yi guessed.

"So, you took over that unfulfilled ideal and realized it to this point?" Gu Yi asked coldly.

"No, you're wrong. It's not that I inherited their ideals, but they have very similar ideals to mine from the very beginning. Our paths overlap. Everything they do is a pioneer, for me. Seeing the road clearly, finding out the direction, and clearing up obstacles, I am able to get to this point, standing on their shoulders, for which I am very grateful. And if they know what I have done now, they will also I am very grateful. Gratitude is the brilliance of human nature, and we who believe in the Lord dare not forget it. The gift of the Lord is our glory."

"Then, is it a gift from the Lord that you instigated your daughter to take this terrible path? Is it also the brilliance of humanity?" Gu Yi pointed at the three-year-old girl held by the young dean's mother in the photo, and his voice became louder It was so cold that it almost froze the whole church.

However, the dean's mother was still smiling, and her whole body seemed to emit a warm light, which could not be corroded by the slightest bit of cold.

"I never let her go on this path. That child was extremely talented since she was a child. She can't hide anything from her. She can see through her human nature. She is precocious and precocious, and her thinking often escapes the confinement of the society of the times. She will jump out of the legal morality set by the society of the times. That child has her own set of principles in doing things. Because of this, she is special, a gift from the Lord, and the will of the Lord. That child is destined to become a superior person , even jumping out of the scope of man, to exercise the right of redemption on behalf of the Lord.”

Gu Yi stared at her in silence for a while, and finally gritted his teeth and said two words:

"madman!"

The dean's mother seemed to have no temper, she still said calmly:

"Ancient sages, who is not out of line? If they are mediocre, how can they promote the development of human society? Imprisoned by the laws formulated by the country and restricted by the morals formulated by the society, how can they change the status quo of human beings? He was regarded as a treason and was crucified by Pontius Pilate, the governor of the Roman Empire. But was Jesus wrong? Is the Lord wrong? Or is it the ignorance of the world, the mistake of the world? I don’t understand the Lord’s painstaking efforts. But it doesn’t matter, the Lord is tolerant, the Lord is universal, and the Lord will always save the world, that is the Lord’s redemption.”

Gu Yi took a deep breath, then let it out slowly, to calm down his overwhelmed emotions, and then said:

"I won't tell you these things. I came here to ask you, where did you hide the Pisces jade pendant?"

The dean's mother smiled and didn't answer.

"Wang Youqi!" Gu Yi slapped the table, stood up abruptly, and said angrily.

"Hehe, no one has called me that for a long, long time." The dean's mother suddenly laughed and said, "This reminds me of a lot of past events, many old people. They have already gone one step ahead of me, struggling and suffering in hell , and naturally I will not go to heaven, the Lord will not take in my dirty soul, I am willing to go to hell, of course, I would also like to see old friends in hell and talk about the past."

"Aren't you going to say it?" Gu Yi asked in a deep voice.

The dean's mother still said to herself:

"Not many people in this life know about the relationship between Dusser's child and me. Even the seniors in the monastery don't know. They think that I picked up the child on the way to escape. Fortunately, Liu Long can help me forge a new identity, otherwise I will not I don't know if I can stay here for so long. You must ask, who is that crazy man who calls himself God, is it Dusser, or is it me. Yes, this is a good question, without me, there is no Dusser, without Dusser Naturally, there is no God madman, so naturally, God madman is not one person, but two people. Just like the relationship between the Holy Father and the Holy Spirit, we are different persons, but the same God."

"I don't understand what you are talking about, please answer me, where did you hide the Pisces jade pendant? Let me tell you, your plan is impossible to succeed, right now you have spent more than ten years building the underground experiment center It has already been occupied by our people, so stop rambling and tell me where the Pisces jade pendant is." Gu Yi grabbed her skirt and asked forcefully.

"Son, why are you so anxious? What you said is full of loopholes, so don't use it to deceive the Holy Lord. Since the laboratory has been occupied by you, why are you so anxious to find the Pisces jade pendant? Besides, child, You came here not only to find the Pisces jade pendant, but also to find someone else."

Gu Yi was taken aback for a moment, let go of his hand, and said:

"Sure enough, Xiao Qing is with you, right?"

"It's ridiculous, kid, it's ridiculous. You still don't believe me when I say that people in the world are ignorant. The people and things you are looking for passed you by 10 minutes ago. Why are you entangled with me here without knowing it?" .”

Gu Yi was shocked, thinking back for a moment, and immediately remembered the little nun in traditional Chinese dress and carrying a handbag who passed him just now, that person was Xiao Qing!

Gu Yi stopped entanglement, and immediately rushed out of the church and ran outside the monastery. The dean's mother looked at her running back, squinted her eyes, took a step, and walked quickly towards the inside of the church.

However, what she failed to notice was that in a hidden shadow beside the church, "Gu Yi" who had just run out was standing there. She pulled off the disguise on her face and revealed Zong Wei's face. Huang's stern and pretty face.Then she took out an in-ear hidden walkie-talkie, put it in her ear, and whispered:

"Gu Yi, it's me. Just now, the cliché was successful. Wang Youqi really coaxed Xiao Qing to take the Pisces jade pendant to the 'Izumo Sword', and now they think you are rushing to the 'Izumo Sword'... Yes, I can't judge The real Pisces Jade Pendant is in Xiao Qing's hand or Wang Youqi's, but I quietly put a tracker on Wang Youqi, and I will follow her. There should be an underground shortcut to the 'Izumo Sword' in the church... OK Yes, you should also be careful."

After the conversation, Zong Weihuang threw away the cosmetic mask in his hand, walked out from the shadows, sneaked into the church again, followed the flickering tracker map in his hand, and quickly submerged into the darkness.

The author has something to say: there will be another chapter soon, and the ending is getting longer and longer.....