Miss, you are my future wife

Chapter 224 The Little Scumbag's Confession
"Hey, Xiao Yao, you guys are like this—" At this moment, Yu Lihua pushed open the door of the second bedroom vigorously without warning.

……

Then, he went out again without saying a word, closing the door behind him.

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

"What's the matter, Mom?" Yu Luying walked into the dining room, leaned against the door leading to the living room, and curled her nails.

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

"What's the matter? It's not early until Sunday?"

"That's right," Yu Lihua said, "I'm not thinking about it, I'm here anyway, so I'm going to pray to you..."

The four famous laws of the Chinese people are "everyone comes", "everyone dies", "the one who is older than the Chinese New Year" and "the child is still young". It seems that the Chinese people who believe in foreign religions are not exempt from the custom - of course, there is Chaoshan Worship Buddha, Xiao Yao thought.

The boy scratched his head: "I grew up here, and I've never heard of a church here?"

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

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

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

"Search online? Why do you search online? I'll call your uncle and ask if it's okay." Yu Lihua had an idea.

"...Hey, Po...it's me..."

After breakfast, Yu Luying helped Xiao Yao pack a snakeskin sack of old things. In addition to the sci-fi emperor and diary, there were also some CDs, tapes, old books and gadgets that Xiao Yao listened to in junior high school.

Xiao Yao was a little entangled, although there really wasn't much fun in Dongru, but in terms of his original intention, he still wanted to "vacate" with Yu Luying for a few more days.

What's more terrible is that Yu Luying is obviously still concerned about last night's accident. If he can't settle this knot before returning to Shanghai, and completely ease and normalize the relationship between the two sides, then after returning to Shanghai, he will be worried. Will love everywhere.

Shen Jie's disappearance made him restless, but in the current situation, even if he returned to Shanghai, he didn't know what to do, where to find her—maybe, he could discuss it with his daughter?
However, with such a big Yu Lihua standing in front of him, it obviously didn't give Xiao Yao any right to choose.

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

I learned from Bogo that the Catholic Church closest to Dongru is in Fangbing Town next door. It is only more than ten kilometers away.

Xiao Yao originally wanted to persuade his mother-in-law to give up, but Yu Luying actually seemed to want to go, so she had no choice but to embark on a pilgrimage together.

Fortunately, Fang Bing's direction is on the same side as the direction of Shanghai Magic City, so they can get on the car directly from Fang Bing to return to Shanghai Magic City, which is quite convenient.

Xiao Yao suggested that perhaps Xu Ruiyi could be asked to drive him. Yu Lihua applauded again and again, but Yu Luying said nothing and refused to cause trouble for Xu.

After studying for a while, the final conclusion is that we still take the bus.

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

Yu Luying turned around twice with her hands behind her back, and took a pack/a pair of skin-colored pantyhose.

?Why buy this, Xiao Yao is puzzled.

When paying the bill, Yu Luying poked her head over and clapped her hands at Xiao Yao.

When Xiao Yao walked over, she rummaged in the shirt pocket on his chest for a long time, then reached out to his trouser pocket, and after the left side was finished, she went to the right side.

"What are you going to do?" Xiao Yao couldn't help shouting in a low voice.

The boy glanced at Yu Lihua who was comparing brands and prices in the corner. Fortunately, she was so focused that she didn't notice this side.

In the end, Yu Luying took out 20 yuan banknotes and three or five steel coins, and settled the bill.

"Why are you buying this?" Xiao Yao couldn't help asking in a low voice, "You don't have any money?"

"I have money," Yu Luying replied blankly, "You paid me for this."

?

"No," Xiao Yao became displeased: "Everyone has a part in wiping guns and misfires, impulsiveness is a matter between two people, let alone you teasing me first, and I don't really have anything, why are you—"

As soon as he finished saying "what are you doing", he consciously made a slip of the tongue and subconsciously covered his mouth.

"Stop pretending to have amnesia?" Yu Luying looked at him, still expressionless.

"So you're mad at me now?"

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

Just as Xiao Yao was about to speak again, he saw Yu Lihua walking over with something to buy, so the two of them silently closed their mouths and smiled at each other.

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

Yu Lihua wanted to share a car with her daughter as a matter of course, but Xiao Yao also wanted to ride with Yu Luying.

"Auntie," Xiao Yao asked bravely, "Why don't I drive with Yingying?"

Yu Lihua was a little surprised—she was surprised by the boy's boldness, but also a little surprised by his "stickiness".

"Okay." After being stunned for a moment, Yu Lihua showed a kind smile, got up and was about to get out of the car: "Come and sit."

Not wanting to, Yu Luying grabbed her mother: "Don't go, I'll sit with you, let him take a car by himself."

Yu Lihua was very persistent 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, and Xiao Yao coaxed him all the way with a sullen head, but Yu Luying just avoided talking about it, and said that it was all right—but he was not allowed to hold hands, hug him, any body Any contact will be bounced off, and he will be unhappy, and he will not take the initiative to speak.

A three-kilometer bicycle journey is not enough to coax a woman who is determined to work with you. Before you know it, Dongru bus station has arrived.

I was lucky, there happened to be a bus going to Shanghai in 10 minutes, passing through Fangbing Town.

--split line--

The bus to Fangbing Town—to be precise, not the bus going to Fangbing Town, but the bus 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 half-forced to sit in the penultimate row with Xiao Yao.

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

He has been pestering Yu Luying for a long time, but no obvious breakthrough has been seen, so he can only focus on other things first.

"Call Shen Jie for me." Xiao Yao said to Yu Luying.

"What's the matter?" Yu Luying's tone was a little impatient: "Why are you here again?"

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

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

While talking, she took out her mobile phone and showed it to Yu Luying.

Yu Luying didn't seem to want to see it very much, so she took out her mobile phone and called Shen Jie.

The girl frowned and put the phone to her ear to listen for a few seconds, then brought the phone to her face again, dialed it again, and then put the phone to her ear to listen for a few seconds.

"Not in the service area," Yu Luying told Xiao Yao: "Both times, they were not in the service area."

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

"What wallpaper?" Yu Luying replied coldly.

"The wallpaper on your phone's desktop, the one with the photo of the two of us."

"Oh, if I have nothing to do, I will play around every few days." Yu Luying said in an understatement tone.

"Change back." Xiao Yao said forcefully.

Yu Luying sighed, her body was stiff and straight, she did not move at all.

Xiao Yao realized that now is not a good time to conduct this kind of "obedience test": "Forget it, just pretend I didn't say anything."

Yu Luying closed the flip of the phone with a "snap".

"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 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 turned her eyes around Yu Lihua's back in front of her, the meaning was self-evident.

"Don't you want to get over it?" Xiao Yao was impatient, and blurted out: "You want to break up too, don't you?"

As soon as these words came out, Xiao Yao regretted it.He realized that in this case, it seemed that he should not take the initiative to carry out such negative hints?
Fortunately, Yu Luying didn't say "Yes, I just want to break up" or "Break up and break up", but said "It's up to you!"

Limited strength?

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

……

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

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

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

Fortunately, after only a few minutes, she spoke to him.

"Xiao Yao," Yu Luying suddenly turned her head and said, "What happened yesterday, it's over when it's over, and I don't intend to leave you, okay?"

"OK, thanks."

"But, there are times when I need to be quiet, when I want my own space, when I want to be by myself—"

"I admit, I was impulsive last night, okay?" Xiao Yao said eagerly: "One is that I was a little confused because you drank too much, and the other is that I thought I was dreaming at first. The third one is, if you recall, did I stop it on my own initiative? I also thought that I was afraid of hurting you, so I stopped it on my own initiative, and the fourth one is—"

In fact, the third point is basically taking credit for nothing—if he hadn’t been unable to do what he wanted because of drunkenness, he might have caused some catastrophe, but the good thing is that Yu Luying herself has already remembered the details of what happened that night It was blurred, and coupled with the perception through symbiosis, it seemed that Xiao Yao did have the elements of self-discipline and reining in the precipice at that time, and he believed it six to seven percent.

"Big rabbit paper, thank you." Yu Luying nodded to Xiao Yao.

Xiao Yao judged that the other party's tone didn't seem perfunctory or yin and yang, but it seemed sincere, so he kept silent.

His "four coming" was intended to remind the other party again that "you did it first". If it is logical, this detail is indeed worth mentioning. The other party became angry from embarrassment, so Xiao Yao was not sure for a while whether he should mention it again.

That broken song sang, "When you get along, remember to let her turn the truth upside down, and when you are right, pretend to be behind you." Xiao Yao was also not sure whether to believe it, but since Yu Luying said it seriously "Thank you", he just pressed this verse and said nothing.

……

"You want to repent, right?" Xiao Yao suddenly asked Yu Luying.

"What should that be called?" Yu Luying asked Xiao Yao back.

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

"Right." Yu Luying gave Xiao Yao a forced smile.

"To be honest," Xiao Yao said, "Don't you think it's strange to talk about your private affairs and secrets to people you don't know?"

"Why, it's a sacrament—you're dozing off again after class?"

"No, no, I understand the truth—but, if you confess, you can't even go back to the devil?" Xiao Yao said.

Yu Luying's smile brought a hint of narrowness: "You mean, let me ask you Boge to do it?"

Xiao Yao trembled: "Forget it then."

"My uncle is basically in charge of Beihong District now," Yu Luying told Xiao Yao: "If you go to a church in another district, it's not much closer than going to Fangbing—and if my mother wants to go, isn't that just right? "

"That's right." Xiao Yao said.

"Besides," Yu Luying added, "It's rare to come out once, so it would be nice to walk more with you and visit some places more, wouldn't it?"

These words made Xiao Yao very useful: "That's right, I have never been to Fangbing in my life."

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

"Hey, let's go the same way, can I do one too?" Xiao Yao was looking for something to say.

"Taught in class, do you recall it again?"

Xiao Yao thought for a while: "It doesn't seem to be possible, you have to wait until after the baptism, right?"

"Well," Yu Luying nodded and said, "However, if you have such a wish, it means that you have a heart of repentance, right?"

"Of course," Xiao Yao said quickly, "My guts are full of regret."

"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 "it's all my fault" against his will, so he said, "Everyone should find their own responsibility, don't always pick others' faults .”

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

Then, there was another stop and go of the car, 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 so at the moment, it also represents a kind of friendly attitude.

"How to say?" Xiao Yao answered.

"I, I..." Yu Luying stretched out her hands, palms up, her eyes fixed on them: "I don't know who I am anymore."

"Like "Who am I" by Jean Valjean in the musical "Les Miserables"?" Xiao Yao asked her.

The girl's eyes lit up: "Yes, that's what I wanted to say!"

Xiao Yao nodded slightly, waiting for her to continue.

"What about me?" Yu Luying continued to look at her palms, those pink and tender little palms were a little shining in the sun: "I have always been 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 of being a 'good boy' - isn't it ridiculous?"

"No, I can completely understand." Xiao Yao said confidently.

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

"Remember." Xiao Yao nodded.

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

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

"Well," Yu Luying nodded and said, "Actually, it's also the 'sense of superiority' in my subconscious that is at work. If I have a palace, could it be that there is actually a spirit of arrogance inside?"

"This..." Xiao Yao said, "everyone has arrogance to some extent."

"I'm going to East Tathagata with you this time," Yu Luying said, "I've decided to go 'wild'. I actually don't like your friends, whether they are boys or girls, but I want to Prove to myself that I can do it and play with different people."

"This way..." Xiao Yao said.

"I can also drink, but I won't get in trouble; I can also smoke, but I won't be 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, as long as you understand what I mean."

"I know."

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

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

"I thought I could play with fire without getting burned, and walk by the river without getting my shoes wet, but I'm no different from those 'bad boys'. It only takes a moment to do such bad things."

"..." This child is really twisted, Xiao Yao thought.

"Actually, I am no different from them. Shen Jie, Ouyang, Zhao Xiaomei, Tang Xuewei... I, I am not as 'handy' as I thought, and I am not as 'sticking to the bottom line' as I thought. In fact, it only takes me a moment for me to slide downhill. .”

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

"I used to sometimes couldn't help thinking," Yu Luying said: "How could my mother, such a pious, kind and good woman, do such humiliating things with my father—and that man, so that I became the head of the family?" Disgraceful, kicked out."

"You shouldn't think of your mother that way." Xiao Yao persuaded.

"Sometimes she tries her best to control me, try her best to preach, tells me to do this and not to do that," Yu Luying said, "I will secretly think in my heart, what kind of example are you doing yourself? What qualifications do you have to say that about me, don't care about me?"

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

He realized that Yu Luying actually didn't need to listen to his opinion now, she just wanted to say it - and it was enough for him to act as the best listener.

"However, I don't think so anymore now," Yu Luying said with a smile, "I found that my mother is actually great and amazing."

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

"Although sometimes she is a bit too much, but most of the time, she is right, and I shouldn't always think about confronting 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 little doubt about this, so he chose to keep silent.

"St. Mary Magdalene was once a skilled woman. Who would dare to look down on her because of this? Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future."

"No, big sister," Xiao Yao persuaded in a low voice, "We just drank too much alcohol, were young and impulsive, and almost got into trouble but didn't get into trouble. Are all the skilled girls here?"

"Fang Bing, Fang Bing is here, Fang Bing got out of the car!" At this moment, the driver turned around and shouted at the top of his voice.

The three got out of the car, inquired all the way, and walked towards Fang Bing Catholic Church.

Xiao Yao thought that since he and Yu Luying had basically reached an understanding, he shouldn't leave his mother-in-law alone and stick to Yu Luying all the time.

That's too ignorant.

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

Yu Lihua was a little surprised and a little happy when he saw Xiao Yao come up on his own initiative.

They walked along the roadside of the small town, and the oncoming breeze brought a refreshing feeling.The summer sky is covered by fluffy clouds, and the sun casts soft light through the clouds, casting a faint shadow on the entire Fangbing town.

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

"You two had a fight last night, right?" Yu Lihua said softly, "You're still fighting this morning, aren't you?"

Xiao Yao was startled, and was about to speak when Yu Lihua interrupted him.

"Don't lie to your mother," Yu Lihua said with a smile, "Every move of you children, in the eyes of those of us who have been here, we can see it clearly."

Oh, is it so?Then why are you arguing, you can see it clearly?

"Auntie, you really have good eyesight," Xiao Yao said with a sneer, "But I've reconciled just now, so I'm fine."

Xiao Yao was worried that Yu Lihua would ask himself what he was arguing about, and he was making up nervously in his head, but Yu Lihua had no intention of asking: "Young Yingying, she is actually quite easy to deal with."

"Huh?" Xiao Yao said.

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

"Ha... oh."

"Where is Yingying?" Yu Lihua continued, "Introverted, follow me."

Are you an introvert?Xiao Yao opened his mouth wide.

"Don't look at me now, I was forced by society," Yu Lihua sighed: "When I was a child, I had the same temperament as her. She was introverted, not talkative, obedient, and there was a rebellion in my bones."

"This way..." Xiao Yao said.

"Actually, Yingying is usually very talkative, but sometimes when she gets stubborn, she will get bored," Yu Lihua told Xiao Yao: "At this time, don't force her, just let her go. After a while, she will OK."

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

"What outsider?" Yu Lihua said with a smile: "A son-in-law is 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 from now on."

It is indeed not the first time Yu Lihua said this to Xiao Yao, but when Xiao Yao heard it before, he thought it was weird, Alexander, being kidnapped by favors and wanting to escape, but now he was inexplicably moved, even his nose was sore .

It's so weird.

Whether it's Yu Lihua's expression or tone, no one can see the slightest hypocrisy.

"I'm not helping you deal with your own daughter." Yu Lihua continued to speak earnestly: "You two can be good, your wife is mediocre, that's what we as elders want to see most - whoever loses, who wins, Auntie I don't care at all, and you don't care, there is no right or wrong in a relationship, there is only a win-win and a lose-lose, just like your symbiosis."

The two chatted enthusiastically.

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 touched her forehead.

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

Finally, the topic naturally turned to my own childhood, primary school and junior high school.

"The letter your grandfather wrote to you before he passed away?" Yu Lihua said, "Can Auntie read it? ——If you don't mind."

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

Xiao Yao has almost gotten used to Yu Lihua's kindness, but Yu Lihua's politeness and respect still flatters the young man to some extent.

"Little Apple," Xiao Yao turned around and waved at Yu Luying: "Give me that letter."

"A letter? What letter? Ah, oh." Yu Luying began to rummage through her bags.

"Little Apple?" Yu Lihua was slightly taken aback.

"Ah," Xiao Yao said with some embarrassment, "We call each other by Wan's name."

"Did you get it for her?" Yu Lihua asked Xiao Yao.

"Ah," Xiao Yao said, "Screaming."

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

……

"Put it away, don't let others damage it." Yu Lihua handed the letter paper to her daughter again.

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

Little Apple folded the letter paper again, put it in the bag, and instead of going back five meters away, walked side by side with Xiao Yao and his mother.

"Your grandfather is a scholar—a man of culture." Yu Lihua first commented: "You are also a man of culture just by his name."

"Ah, yes, I seem to have taught in a private school." Xiao Yao nodded.

"His grandfather said he was taciturn since he was a child, mom, is that funny?" Yu Luying interjected.

"It's normal," Yu Lihua said, "Your mother and I were also taciturn when we were young."

Both children secretly laughed.

"Xiao Yujing, Xiao Changsheng, good names, really good names," Yu Lihua turned to her daughter and said, "Little Apple, do you think it sounds good?"

"I don't like it." Yu Luying said honestly: "What little apples are there? Mom, don't keep barking."

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

"One child and two children!" Yu Luying became furious and stomped her feet: "Mom, listen to what you are talking about, in front of Xiao Yao."

"Still shy? What can't be said?" Yu Lihua scolded, "After you two get married, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp..."

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

Xiao Yao had no way to run away like Yu Luying, so he had to listen to Yu Lihua's imagination about the life "after you get married".

At first I felt a little awkward, but I felt warm and romantic when I heard it. Then I unconsciously followed the daydream and sketched out this beautiful blueprint. In the end, my nose was sore, and I wanted to kill myself on the spot.

Fortunately, Fang Bing Catholic Church has arrived.

Fangbing Catholic Church, Dongru County, Nantong City, also known as Dongru Fangbing Catholic Church, is located on the west side of Fuhua Road, Daxiang Town, Dongru County. In fact, it is located on the side of the national highway, surrounded by a desert.

It is said to be in Fangbing, but it is actually located on the side of the national road between the small town where Xiao Yao is located and Fangbing Town, but on the side closer to Fangbing.

It was also for this reason that it was so painful to walk out from the Fangbing Bus Station.

In Xiao Yao's original imagination, a rural church like Fang Bing Church should be in Chinese style, short and dilapidated, with a thatched roof, and might look like an ancestral temple. Unexpectedly, when the cathedral that rose from the ground suddenly came into view , really frightened him a lot.

This church is really tall and big, and it looks like a Gothic architectural style from a distance.

Xiao Yao doesn't know much about architecture, but only sporadic impressions. From the outer outline to the inner doors and windows, the buildings are tall and thin, and the buildings with sharp spires on them are called Gothic—huh?Why did you think of Yu Luying?

The brick and wood structure looks decent, but the color looks very lively, with a touch of Disney castle texture.

To put it bluntly, it looks like a toy.

And the color is also very strange. Although the Gothic style does not particularly emphasize the color, it is all dark-toned with stained glass. This church is a bit...Russian?
In any case, in Xiao Yao's eyes, "big" and "tall" are justice.

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

Yu Luying made a "cut", took a step back, took out the camera, squatted down, and took a picture.

When Yu Lihua heard the words "our uncle", she glanced at Xiao Yao: "The Sacred Heart Hall was originally very big, but the Sacred Heart Hall you see now is just the auxiliary building of the original Sacred Heart Hall."

While talking, a chunky man with black pants, black leather shoes, and a blue shirt came out and opened the door. After the man approached, Xiao Yao could tell from the white Roman collar on his neck that this was a priest, not a doorman.

This priest is not good-looking, about 50 to [-] years old, his face is... ugly, but there are no outstanding features.His medium-length black hair was already a little gray, and the wrinkles on his face showed signs of age.

"Father Li? I'm causing you trouble." Yu Lihua said politely.

"Father Li." "Father Li."

"No trouble, no trouble," Father Li said, "Father Yu is my good friend!"

"We just passed by here, and we wanted to come to worship the Eucharist." Yu Lihua said.

"Okay, okay." Father Li nodded.

She said she was here to "worship the Eucharist", but Yu Lihua didn't rush into 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 made by Father Li in their hands.

Yu Luying and Xiao Yao listened to Yu Lihua and Father Li chatting about the diocesan affairs, and the Zhang family's priest and the Li family's nuns being short-tempered. They were all very bored.

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

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

After they finally finished chatting, Father Li took out the key and led the three of them into the church.

As soon as he entered the church, Xiao Yao felt... emmmmmmm.
How should I put it, it really is the Chinese-style rural ancestral temple style I imagined.

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.

Tucao be Tucao, ugly be ugly, come here, so please.

After Yu's mother and daughter recited "Pater noster", "Ave Maria" and "Gloria Patri", Xiao Yao stood up, turned around twice with his hands behind his back, and took a tour.

Don't tell me, this confessional is quite beautiful.

Father Li was sitting inside wearing a purple holy girdle, and Yu Luying was kneeling outside the confession booth. The baffle between the two of them had been lifted up, leaving only the heavy screen window separating each other, making it impossible to see each other clearly from the inside and outside. Face.

Xiao Yao stood watching from a distance, and 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 shocking things to Yu Bo.

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

Father Li adjusted his sitting posture and leaned his head on the other side.

Yu Luying walked towards Xiao Yao slowly.

"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, "Leaving the confession secret is a felony of 'excommunication'. Even if you tell the priest that you killed someone, he won't be able to call the police."

"It's a bit like a tree hole—it must be very painful for the priest to listen to you talking about it every day." Xiao Yao said.

"So they have already practiced the ability to enter the left ear and exit the right ear." Yu Luying said.

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

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

"Me too." Xiao Yao said concisely.

"Hey! Hey..."

……

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

"..." There was no sound in here.

"Hello, hello? Can you hear me?" Xiao Yao seemed to be on a cell phone.

"Tell me." Father Li finally spoke.

"I'm not a church member yet, and they said that I can't confess because I haven't been baptized yet," Xiao Yao said, "But I do have some things in my heart that I regret very much, feel very uncomfortable, and I don't want to vomit, can you listen to me? "

"You say." Father Li repeated again.

"Will you keep it absolutely secret like listening to the real confession?" Xiao Yao asked him.

"Yes." Father Li said.

"Last night, my girlfriend and I... some unexpected things happened because we drank too much alcohol. Although nothing actually happened in the end, but... Oh, she should have told you, right?" Xiao Yao said.

"..." The other party was silent.

"Then I feel that I'm not a thing, really." Xiao Yao went on self-consciously: "I clearly know that I have no future with her, so I don't plan to touch her, this is also a bottom line.

"As a result, as a result, I almost fell short yesterday... I feel that rationality and morality seem to be empty here, 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 said, "Since you know there is no future, why do you want to develop a relationship between boyfriend and girlfriend?"

"This question is very complicated," Xiao Yao told him, "Actually, I still have a fiancée, and then my girlfriend and my fiancée, they both know each other, and they agree with each other—in fact In the beginning, the two of them agreed in private that they wanted to be with the three of me, and then they came to tell me."

"...This is wrong, it's not allowed." Father Li told Xiao Yao.

"I know," Xiao Yao said, "Father, do you know that the mother of my current girlfriend treats me very well, she treats me like her son, and keeps talking about how we will be when we get married?" , you know, when I heard her say this, I felt bad. I was thinking how bad she would be if she knew the truth... how disappointed... I... I don't know how to say it, I feel that I I'm not human, I can't face her. I really hope that what she said, things after marriage are true and will happen, but I know very well that I'm actually lying to her...

"Father, I really want to treat her as my mother. I really want to marry my girlfriend and her daughter as my wife, but I can't because I can't let my fiancée down."

"Hmm..." Father Li's face wrinkled into a ball in pain: "The fiancée you mentioned..."

Xiao Yao didn't listen to the priest's words, but just continued to say: "And now I still feel that I am sorry for my grandpa. Before my grandpa left, he wrote me a letter, took all the names of the children, and let me When I got married, I went to set off firecrackers on his grave so that he could meet my great-grandfather—but I got married. What face do I have to face the ancestors of the Xiao family?

"To be honest, Father, I didn't care about this kind of thing at all before. What about marrying a wife and marrying a wife, isn't it the same? For me, it's enough to have a wife. I don't care if I'm a married couple. Surname. But today, when I saw the letter from my grandfather, I suddenly felt that I was too selfish, and I didn't want to marry.

"If I marry, I will be sorry to my grandfather. If I don't marry, I will be sorry to my fiancée..."

(End of this chapter)