Zou Dianwei
(1) Repentance
Sanka was raised by Father Remio, both of whom died at an early age. In this coastal town, Remio, in addition to guarding the church, also helps people to make spiritual confessions. The confession of the soul here refers to the fact that Remio had a confessional room in the church, divided into two rooms, the inside and outside, with a partition in the middle. On Wednesdays and Saturdays, Remio sits in the inner chamber listening, while the confessor speaks secrets or sins that have confused his soul and hopes for God's forgiveness.
Remio intends to train Sanka to be his future successor, so he sometimes sneaks Him into the confessional room of the church, where he listens and learns how to atone for his sins. Sometimes, after listening to the confessor's secret thoughts, Sanka would seriously ask Remio, "Father, will God really forgive everyone for their mistakes?" Remio replied lovingly, "Yes, as long as there is sincere repentance, a merciful God will forgive all one's deeds." ”
Remio has warned Sanca more than once that the identity of a priest is different from that of the police, and even if someone confesses his crime, he can only help the other party to redeem his soul, and he must not go to the police station to expose the whistle. To tell you the truth, Sanka thinks in this regard that he cannot be polite to those who are heinous criminals. Fortunately, the town is still relatively quiet, and in the more than half a year that Sanka has been following Father Remio to listen to people's confessions, she has often encountered trivial things such as stealing chickens and dogs.
On Wednesday evening, Remio, because he needed to go out, asked Tosanka to temporarily take his place as a priest and stay in the confessional. Sanka sat alone in the confessional, looking through the skylight at the darkening sky outside, thinking that perhaps no one would come during this time. At this time, the church door was heard quietly pushed open, and then there was the sound of footsteps. Sanka couldn't help but wonder: Who else would come to repent at this late hour?
In any case, Sanka, as a fake priest, must conscientiously perform his duties. So he imitated Remio's tone in the inner chamber of the cubicle and solemnly asked, "Have you come to confess to the merciful Lord Christ?" The other person replied uneasily: "Yes, I have done a terrible wrong thing, so I feel guilty that I am deeply sorry for my mother." ”
Since the partition was opaque, Sanka could not see each other clearly, but from the childish voice, it could be guessed that it should be a fifteen or sixteen-year-old teenager. Sanka then comforted her by following a seductive path: "Tell me what you want to repent of, and the merciful Lord Christ will forgive." ”
"I threw my sister off a cliff by the sea today." There was such a timid confession from the other side of the partition, followed by a very sad sob.
When Sanka heard this, a heart in his chest suddenly jumped wildly, and at the same time his brain was buzzing. Seeing that the other party seemed to have been sobbing and had not moved for half a day, Sanka really couldn't control his anger, and ripped open his throat and shouted loudly: "You say quickly, you threw your sister down on a cliff by the sea, now it may be too late to go to the rescue..."
After roaring angrily for a while, Sanka felt that the roots of his ears hurt, and only then did he realize that his anger was too great, it was useless to just shout like this, and what he was doing now should be to help the teenager save his sister. Sanka quickly got up and turned around the partition to see that there was no one outside the confessional room, and the teenager who had committed the heinous crime had escaped without a trace.
(2) Encountering a teenager by chance
Samka rushed out of the church and came to the beach in one breath, and when she saw the fishermen returning from fishing, she asked them if they had found a little girl who had fallen into trouble in the sea. But all the fishermen shook their heads, indicating that they had not seen any shadow of the girl who had fallen into the water. Seeing that Sanka was in a hurry, a kind fisherman reminded: "Child, if you go to the lighthouse and ask the old man who guards the tower, after all, only he stands tall and looks far every day, and may be able to find the traces of the girl who was killed." ”
Sanka patted himself on the head: Yes, that lighthouse is for the direction of passing ships at sea, and it is very high, almost overlooking the entire coast, and he usually has a good relationship with the old man who guards the tower, so the other party can definitely help this.
After Sanka made up his mind, when he ran up the high lighthouse with a cigarette, he was stopped by a strange tower keeper who suddenly appeared. Listening to Sanka's explanation, the tower keeper first blinked his eyes a few times, and then heaped a smile on his face: "I am a relative of the old man who guarded the tower, because the old man was sick, so I guarded the lighthouse in his place." Sanka hurriedly asked, "Did you see a boy leading his sister to the cliff by the sea today, and the boy pushing his sister into the sea?" ”
The tower keeper puffed up a pair of round and slippery eyes, and seemed to be very surprised: "I didn't notice, how could such a thing happen, it was simply terrible!" Seeing the tower keeper answer in this way, Sanka's heart became heavier. On the way back to the town, he felt two voices in his ears clashing fiercely. A voice said, "Sanka, you must not let go of the boy who has lost his conscience, you should immediately go to the town sheriff's office to report to Sheriff Lake." Another voice came from Father Remio: "Children, as priests, are to uphold God's will, to comfort and forgive those who take the initiative to repent, even criminals should keep it a secret." ”
Sankas thought about it, and finally chose the former: "You must report the crime, after all, this is a human life!" Despite her exhaustion, Sanka ran breathlessly into the town's sheriff's office and happened to bump into Sheriff Lake talking to a mother and son. I saw the mother crying hysterically: "Mr. Sheriff, my poor daughter is missing at the beach today, please help to find her!" Sheriff Lake seemed to wave his hand impatiently, "Madam, please don't dwell on this matter anymore, or you will drive me crazy as a useless sheriff!" ”
Seeing that Sheriff Lake was really angry, a teenager next to him took his mother's hand: "Mom, let's go back, don't continue to add trouble to Mr. Sheriff." When Sanka heard this, she almost cried out in shock. Because judging by voice, it is not bad at all, admitting in the confessional room that the murderer who murdered his sister is right in front of you!
Sanka was about to accuse, but saw the teenager staring at himself with a pair of sharp eyes, and his eyes were full of threats and hostility. When Sanka saw this, a heart beat violently again: Could it be that this cunning teenager had already sensed that it was not Remio who was in the confessional today, but his own fake priest?
When the mother and son left the sheriff's room, Sanka eagerly said to Lake, "Mr. Sheriff, don't let go of the boy just now, because the disappearance of the little girl is definitely related to him..." Unexpectedly, Sheriff Lake also impatiently interrupted Sanka's words: "Child, if you feel that a person is depressed and bored, you can volunteer in the welfare home, there is no need to follow the crazy woman just now to learn!" ”
"Dear Sir Sheriff, as the sheriff of the town, how can you be like this..." Sanka blushed and wanted to argue, but the teenager outside turned back again. Sanka did not want to see the teenager's sharp eyes that were almost fatal, so she rushed out of the security room in a hurry and plunged into the twilight.
(3) Mistakenly entering the magic cave
Sanka gasped as he walked, never imagining that Sheriff Lake, whom he had always admired, was such an irresponsible person. So what should I do next, this matter is not left alone, anyway, it has nothing to do with myself. But to do so is against one's original intentions, and it is simply one's own sin to allow the wicked to go unpunished. Just as Sanka was thinking wildly, footsteps came from behind him, and Sanka looked back and almost collapsed on the ground in fright. It was the teenager who caught up, and looked at the other party's aggressive posture, as if he wanted to ask for Sanka's life.
Sanka ran lifelessly, seeing that the sky was getting darker and darker, and only the lighthouse high above was lit up. Flustered, Sanka fled in the direction of the lighthouse, not knowing how far he had been stopped by another burly figure. Sanka asked in a trembling voice, "Who are you and why are you stopping me here?" The other party's black shadow walked closer, looked at Sanka and actually laughed: "Little brother, I am the tower keeper who guards the lighthouse, taking advantage of the fact that there are no ships passing by now, I want to come out and take a walk through the wind, I didn't expect to meet you." ”
Sanka looked back and didn't see the teenager follow up, only to stabilize his mind like a life-saving straw. The tower keeper then smiled and said, "Little brother, first follow me back to the top of the lighthouse, and then send you home when I have completed the task of guarding the tower." Sanka knew that Father Remio had not yet returned, and it was difficult for him to get rid of the terrible teenager alone, so he could only rely on the protection of the tower keeper in front of him for the time being, so he did not hesitate to follow him to the lighthouse.
No sooner had the two men reached the top of the lighthouse than a sharp-eyed Sanka noticed that there was a third man, and that this man was firmly bound and stuffed with a towel in his mouth. When Sanka saw this, she couldn't help but scream, "You... Aren't you the tower keeper? How could it be tied up? Seeing that Sanka stepped forward to help the old man untie the rope, the tower keeper pounced on him with an arrow step and grabbed Sangka's hands with force, and a face that was originally full of laughter became extremely vicious: "Little brother, be smart, who told you to discover my secret, otherwise you would not have been tricked into coming here as a hostage..."
At this time, Sanka finally woke up like a dream. It turned out that several robbers had planned to rob a cargo ship passing through here this evening, preparing to manipulate the direction of the beacon indicated by the lighthouse, so as to deliberately lead the cargo ship to the reef area. When the ships hit the reef and could not move, the robbers could rush up and loot valuables. So a young robber pretended to be a tower keeper, and after tying up the old uncle who guarded the tower, he did not expect to appear in Sanka halfway. The robber did not care at first, but when he saw Sanka running in the direction of the town's security room, he could not help but be suspicious, worried that the child had discovered his plot and intended to call the police, so he went down to the lighthouse to catch up, but he did not expect That Sanka quickly turned back. The robbers then tricked Sanka into the lighthouse, preparing to be held hostage in case something unexpected happened.
"You jackal in human skin will never escape justice!" After a series of events, Sanka's sudden sense of justice makes him forget what fear is, and instead bravely fights with the robbers. The enraged robber grabbed Sanka's neck and said, "Tell you to disobey, send you to God now!" ”
Just as Sanka was suffocating and dizzy, she suddenly heard a voice ringing in her ears: "Don't move!" Then several agile figures swooped in and subdued the robbers. At that moment, Sanka seemed to be confused and saw that among the people who came were not only Father Remiou and Sheriff Lake, but also the teenager who had been tracking him. Mixed with sorrow and joy, Sanka, who was desperately trying her best, lost consciousness in front of her eyes.
(4) Unexpected truth
When Sanka opened his eyes, he saw smiling faces around him, including Father Remio, Sheriff Lake, the Tower Keeper, and the teenager. He struggled to get up, pointed to the teenager and asked, "You... What the hell is going on with you, didn't you throw your sister into the sea? The young man smiled slightly: "No, you have been misunderstanding me, the truth of the matter is like this..."
It turned out that the teenager and his mother had been dependent on each other for their lives. In an accident, my mother saw a little girl die and her brain was stimulated so strongly that she suffered from intermittent psychosis. Every time he became ill, he mistakenly thought he had a daughter, so he noisily went to Sheriff Lake to report that her daughter was missing. In order to comfort his mother, the teenager simply made a rag doll, who knew that the mother thought of the woman after seeing the rag doll, and the disease became more and more serious. Out of helplessness, the teenager secretly threw the rag doll into the sea from his mother, but he did not expect that his mother would have another attack of the disease because the rag doll was missing, which happened when Sanka bumped into the town security room.
The boy originally wanted to confess the matter to Father Remio alone, but when he heard that the other speaker on the other side of the confessional partition was not Remio's voice, he ran out halfway. Later, after the teenager saw the unusual-looking Sanka in the town security room with his mother, he suspected that Sanka was the fake priest, so he used his eyes to prevent Sanka from talking nonsense, so as not to stimulate his mother more. After settling down his mother, the teenager hurried back alone to explain the truth, but Sanka mistook him for a murderer and ran away desperately. The teenager had no choice but to chase after him, who knew that he accidentally found the robber in the lighthouse, so he informed Sheriff Lake and the priest Remio who had just rushed back to the town as quickly as possible, and the three of them rushed over in time to rescue Sanka and the old man who guarded the tower.
Sheriff Lake contacted his superiors urgently and used the beacon beacon lights to set up an ambush to wipe out all the robbers. The town regained its tranquility, but Sanka apologized to Father Remio with a red face: "I have revealed the secret of the teenager, and I am really not qualified to be a competent successor." Remio smiled seriously, "No, dear child, I have figured it out, although you told the secret you heard in the confessional, you prevented a major robbery and caught all the bad guys." You have a heart that upholds justice and kindness and bravery, and you use practical actions to help those who come to repentance, which may be more meaningful than simple verbal teaching. It is true that a competent priest should sprinkle sunshine and love on the benevolent Christ Holy Anchor, but in the face of great right and wrong, we must not forget to promote good and suppress evil. ”
Looking at Remio's kind smile, Sanka also smiled happily. Because Sanka knew that in the future he would definitely become a qualified priest.
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