The more they object, the more it means I did the right thing.

Chapter 9 Father Danny’s faith is shaken
"Ansu," Lu Wen stopped smiling, "Speak clearly."

"I remember it very clearly." Ansu's smile was still bright and sunny. "I just left the gold coins with you temporarily. Could it be that you have misunderstood something?"

This kid!
He is better at pretending to be confused than himself, he is a master at pretending to be confused!
The old priest suddenly remembered what Ansu said when he came in,

'I will leave this money to you for safekeeping first' - this is what Ansu said, and indeed he did not mention a word about bribery.

No wonder he wants to do the money so openly.

"But don't you think it's strange?"

The old priest stared into Ansu's eyes and said, "Why do you want me to keep it for you? You just went in for a short while, so there is no need to leave the money to me for safekeeping."

"Isn't this what you asked for?" Ansu said in surprise.

"When did I ask for it?" Father Danny's mouth twitched slightly.

Danny vaguely realized that he seemed to have fallen into the boy's trap.

"No," Ansu stared at him with a smile. The smile was still sunny, but there was a bit of chill in the priest's eyes, "These are the exact words you said."

"'However, I just don't want the smell of money to come to the goddess's hall.'"

Ansu repeated what Father Danny said exactly, "That's why I couldn't bring the gold coins in, so I gave them to you for safekeeping, for fear of infuriating the goddess."

What I said was a metaphor!

Meant metaphorically!

It means to drive you away!

I’m not asking you to leave your money to me for safekeeping and then I’ll give it back to you when it’s done!

The old priest cursed in his heart, but soon he realized that this young man was still deliberately pretending to be confused!

At that time, he deliberately guided the atmosphere, deliberately followed the distorted meaning, seized the loopholes in his words, and deliberately fabricated the illusion to the priest that he planned to pay a bribe!
"Is it possible that you misunderstood what I meant - what were you thinking at the time?"

Miss Luojia also looked at Father Danny with suspicious eyes.

I was sweating profusely.

Father Danny was sweating profusely.

This kid successfully removed himself from the bribery relationship. If he continues to be confused like this, it will become that he, Danny, is greedy for money and misunderstood the future saint Ansu's original intention and wants to accept bribes!
"Father Danny, is what Ansu said true?" Priest Lu Wen asked him with a frown.

"I swear to the Goddess of Radiance that the above words are true and not fabricated." Before Danny could answer, Ansu swore.

Oaths are the most sacred and inviolable in the world of religion.

Breaking an oath will result in divine punishment, so as soon as Ansu swore an oath, Priest Lu Wen knew it was true.

Because all the words Ansu said above are indeed not fabricated.

Father Danny was going to admit defeat. If he continued talking, no one would be able to protect himself.

He made a look of surprise, "I remembered, Master Ansu did give me a bag. I haven't had time to check it, so I don't know."

He never thought that Ansu's next words would make him tremble with shock.

"Then, please return my one hundred and twenty gold coins to me."

Are you kidding me?

There are only one hundred and twenty coins, there are clearly only sixty!

Didn't you swear an oath? Why did you lie again? Danny's eyes widened and he suddenly remembered something.

'I swear to the Goddess of Radiance that the statements I made above are true and not fabricated. 'He finally understood the meaning of this oath.

This is a fucking dividing line!
I promise that what I said above is true, but what I said below are all fabrications!
Now how to do.
Ansu has already sworn an oath once, and Priest Lu Wen and His Majesty Luo Jia are already convinced. Are you asking him to swear another oath?

It would only appear that he was ungrateful and insulting a quasi-saint of a goddess, but the consequences would be even more serious.

Or rather, confess that there are only sixty gold coins in the purse?
It can be seen that he is only responsible for keeping the money bag. He just said it before he had time to check it, so how could he know the specific amount. After all, Father Danny has been working for so many years, but he still has some winks.

Ansu's statement was clearly a threat to himself, but at the same time, it was also a step down for himself.

'You give me sixty gold coins, and I'll pretend nothing happened. You didn't take a bribe, you just kept my coins.'

Did you also swear to confront him? Said that there were only sixty of them that he had not touched? Then Ansu would completely break up and expose the fact that he had accepted bribes - this was a threat in the first place.

"Oh, I remembered," Father Danny said with a kind smile on his face, his gums clenching, "I'll get it for you right now, I'll get it for you right now."

He returned to his studio, opened the lock on the drawer, and counted sixty gold coins - which he had saved for half a year of work. Of course, there were also a lot of bribes in it.

He took a bite, put the sixty gold coins into the purse, weighed it, smiled again, walked out, and handed the purse to Ansu.

Na Zeng thought, Ansu didn't even look at it, and handed the heavy money bag to Priest Lu Wen.

"What are you doing?" Lu Wen looked confused.

"This is my personal contribution to the church." Ansu explained modestly, "This is not for individuals, it is a tithe. If I hand it over to you personally, I will feel more at ease."

The Holy See does have tithes.

Believers donated money to the entire Holy See, which in turn was responsible for distributing the money to the poor.

To put it simply, it is charity.

"One hundred and twenty gold coins is too much, kid."

The more Lu Wen looked at him, the more he felt that this young man was pleasing to the eye, he was modest, gentle, polite, and understood the rules. He didn't look like those playboys at all.
"Exceeding the maximum amount of one person's donation."

One hundred and twenty gold coins is indeed a very large amount.

It is the total income of an average family for more than ten years.

"Then give me sixty gold coins." What Ansu said made Danny look sadder and more painful. "This is my wish."

You haven't spent any money!

Why is the money yours and the reputation also yours!
That's my money!
Those sixty coins are the stolen money you threatened!

Taking the stolen money and dedicating it to the goddess, and saying it was all from your heart, your kid’s heart is also dirty!

At a young age, thirteen or fourteen years old, my heart is richer than mine.

Everyone has stolen money, so why is this guy attracted by the goddess of glory?

He was even given a title!

Is he still a rich second generation just because he is young and handsome?

Like the high priest who had believed in the Mother Goddess of Life for thirty years, Danny, an old priest who had believed in the Goddess of Radiance for sixty years, also had doubts about his faith for the first time.

But he couldn't show pain yet, he still had to smile and clap along.

"By the way, I'll give you this gold coin." Ansu took out another gold coin from the purse and placed it in front of the priest with a pure smile. "Just consider it a tip for keeping the purse for me."

The final blow, the ultimate face-to-face taunt.

The old priest felt that his heart was going to burst with anger, but he could only hold on to a smile that was superficial but not smiling.

"I'm sorry, we. We're clergy, we can't accept any personal gifts, and we don't accept tips."

Danny's mouth twitched and he said, "Not even one gold coin."

He will never accept bribes again.

Father Danny used detection magic to look at the title above the boy's head. The bright "Newborn" was so dazzling.

Newborn.!

(End of this chapter)