With the unremitting efforts of the three little ones and Sister Livia, the pulling operation was a complete success...?
"Who else seems to have been ignored?" Squatting at the door of Tianxin Church, the pink-haired little girl took out her notebook from her pocket, opened it, looked at the names that were crossed out one by one, and finally fixed her gaze on a
The name that just appeared on the notebook: "Ah, it's sister Gloria, we haven't found her yet!"
However, when it comes to this new member of Cloud Whale Sky Island, everyone has little impression.
"It seems that I can only see her when I'm eating." The little fairy Xie Mi sat on Metien's head, holding her chin in her hands, and fell into deep thinking: "Although her room is on the same corridor as mine,
But usually I don’t hear any movement at all, and I almost never encounter her when I get up in the morning or when I go to bed at night. Don’t you think this is something weird?”
It was almost like living under the same roof with a ghost, which made Semi shudder.
In this regard, Metien said: "Isn't that because you always stay in bed in the morning and always stay up late at night? Sister Gloria gets up on time at six o'clock every morning and goes to bed on time at ten o'clock every night, so you
Of course we won’t meet."
"This is the weirdest place!"
When it was exposed that he stayed in bed and stayed up late, Xie Mi didn't feel the slightest bit ashamed. On the contrary, he said categorically: "It's super scary that a person can have such a regular schedule and insist on going to bed early and getting up early every day!"
"Then you should insist on going to bed late and getting up late every day."
"You don't understand, Metien." The goblin said with a deep face: "It is easy for human laziness to defeat reason, but the reverse is not so easy. Generally speaking, we will call that kind of person
Saint, do you think Gloria is a saint?”
When did she become a philosopher? Metien glanced at his friend in confusion, as if he had gotten to know her again, and then shook his head and said: "Of course not, but Sister Gloria is a princess, so she should put those things
The court etiquette and rules are engraved in your bones, maybe this is the so-called aristocratic cultivation?"
"Ovela is also a princess, isn't she staying up all night? Rorona is also the sea-dwelling princess of the Blue Sky Sea, and she turns out to be a stingy one. Last time I asked her to help me refine an item that can enhance the magic of fairies, she was...
She refused and said she would tell her sister, which is really annoying!" The little goblin was still angry when she mentioned this matter, because she was jointly educated by her two sisters afterwards. She privately felt that even if Rorona did not agree,
There's no need to snitch, snitches are the most annoying people, even more annoying than Leticia.
Metien was speechless: "That's not your fault. There is no opportunistic way to learn magic. Have you forgotten that the last time you used fairy magic to awaken the tree spirit, you were chased and beaten? So, Luo Le
Sister Na is doing it for your own good... No, aren't we talking about Sister Gloria? How could it get here?"
She simply ignored Semi and turned her attention to Leticia, asking her what she thought of Gloria.
Of course, I got the expected answer.
"It's nothing, my opinion." Leticia said slowly: "I rarely see her. I don't know what she is doing. Besides, grandma said, don't pry into other people's privacy."
"That's it." Medien thought thoughtfully: "Then what do you think if she is not who she is now, but who she was before? When you were still in Lunweiting City, you should meet Sister Gloria.
Have you been in contact with me many times?"
Although it was Ringer who dealt with her every time, with Little Bat's character, he might not be too lazy to deal with people outside of Cloud Whale Sky Island.
Because it was Metien's question, Leticia thought about it seriously for a moment, then tilted her head after a while: "Interesting woman?"
It fits her character well, but it's also a meaningless answer.
If Semi and Leticia can't give any useful advice, let alone Livia. She has been lying in bed recovering from her injuries for the past half month. She was about to recover a few days ago, and then she was pulled
She came here to participate in the revival of Tianxin Church. In this way, she actually had not even met Gloria once.
As for Metien’s own views…
"I occasionally see sister Gloria outside the hotel." She recalled: "Sometimes it is in the herb garden, and I see her staring at the sky in a daze; sometimes it is in the forest, when she walks alone.
At that time, I wanted to go over and say hello to her, but before I could walk over, she glanced at me, then turned around and disappeared. I thought Sister Gloria hated me at that time, but I met her again when I returned to the hotel.
She greeted me warmly and asked me if I needed any help."
She lowered her voice and asked mysteriously: "So, is it true that Sister Gloria has two personalities?"
Dual personality? It was obviously the first time for Livia to hear about this kind of thing, and she couldn't help but raise her slender eyebrows. Leticia was busy picking up pebbles on the ground and didn't answer. Only Xie Mi said: "Lin
Didn’t Ge already say that it’s because of a curse?”
"I've said it before, but it's really hard to believe it until I see it with my own eyes." Medien said with emotion: "Also, why did Sister Gloria's other personality alienate me? Did I do something to make her
Something she’s unhappy about?”
Xie Mi curled her lips and said, "Is it possible that the woman named Bai Ye is like this to everyone? I heard she is also like this to Ringer."
"Hey, how is that possible?"
"Why is it impossible?" Xie Mi looked at his friend strangely: "Don't you think Ringer won't be hated by others?"
"Because Linge is a very nice person!" Medien argued for his brother: "It's impossible for anyone to hate Linge. Sister Xiaoxia does, sister Ovela does, and sister Luolena and Yiye do.
Sister Ta must also be... everyone likes Ringer, right?"
"What about Alice?"
"Eh……"
Metien was silent.
Next to her, Leticia snorted slightly and threw the pebbles she picked up casually, hitting the bushes with a clattering sound, covering up her murmur: "I hate Ringer...
The most annoying thing.”
"..." Livia silently watched the interaction of the little girls, and suddenly felt that their world seemed to be more complicated than that of adults. It was not based on reality, the complexity of positions and interests, but on emotions. Or, in other words, it was...
It's because it's based on emotion, so it's more complicated than reality, because emotions are inherently elusive. Adults don't want to admit their ignorance, so once they become adults, they only think about talking about interests and ignore emotions, which may
Only children can be so persistent.
Livia suddenly felt a little embarrassed and didn't want to look at the three little girls in the mirror, so she quickly changed the topic, or in other words, brought it back: "Why did we suddenly talk about this? Didn't we mean to invite them?"
Will Miss Gloria attend the Seven Day Ceremony?"
"That seems to be the case, but we can't find where she is." Medien thought for a while: "Maybe Linger knows about it?"
There is no reason, it is just a hunch. It seems that Ringer should know everyone well. He is familiar with their personalities and can accurately tell where everyone likes to stay. So who wants to know anything?
You can ask him directly.
Then here comes the problem.
"Where is Ringer?" Leticia asked casually, and then picked up another pebble from the ground, but this time she did not throw it out, but held it in her hand and looked at it carefully. It was smooth and round, and could even reflect her own face.
The little bat thought to himself, take it back and give it to grandma.
Leticia's question made the remaining three people look at each other, because they realized that they really didn't know where Ringer was. Logically speaking, the young man was either staying in his room reading a book, or staying alone by a pond in the forest.
In addition, I occasionally take the initiative to chat with someone, mostly when the other person has a psychological problem, such as Olvera who always stays up late, Ieta who can't leave the windmill tower room, and so on.
But when I was pulling people around just now, it seemed that everyone I met was asking about Ringer's whereabouts. In other words, has no one seen Ringer in recent times?
It was only at this moment that Merdine discovered that his brother clearly gave people a sense of self-discipline, but his behavior was so irregular that several people guessed his position and got many different answers: Mei
Tian wanted to find Ringer in his room, but Semi insisted that he should be by the waterhole in the forest. Sister Livia thought that maybe he could ask a few more people, while Leticia curled her lips and said noncommittally that maybe he was there.
Where is the Tianxin Church behind us?
Eh?
The speaker is unintentional, but the listener is intentional. Metien's eyes lit up, thinking that although this is unlikely, but what if? Sister Alice has said that Ringer is a tsundere, what if he just verbally opposes Tianxin Church?
Restart, in fact, she has always been concerned about it? When she thought about it, she suddenly became energetic. She stood up and grabbed the church door, quietly pushed open a gap, and looked inside, trying to capture the scene of the young man appearing in front of the statue of the goddess with a duplicity.
After a few seconds, she silently closed the door and sat back on the steps.
Leticia asked: "No?"
Metien looked depressed: "No."
It's so abominable. How can Ringer be so cruel? He says he doesn't care, but he doesn't care. He doesn't even want to sneak over and take a look. Does Tianxin Church really only occupy such a small position in his mind?
?
well.
The little pink-haired girl sighed deeply, feeling that even as her younger sister, she couldn't see through him. Then she raised her head again and stared blankly at the azure sky, seeing endless white clouds coming from
His emerald eyes flashed rapidly, and he couldn't help but think in his mind: If Lin Ge was not in Tianxin Church at this moment, then where would he be?
…
But in fact, Ringer was not anywhere, he was in his room.
He didn't do anything, he was just sleeping. At the same time, he had a long, long dream about the past.
In the dream, he seemed to have returned to his boyhood, when he lived in the Tianxin Church with Mr. Yang Ke and Metien. The Baicheng sycamore in the backyard had just been planted, and the window sills and corners of the church had not yet accumulated any long-lasting moisture.
Amid the dust, only the statue of the goddess on the altar remains as holy as ever, as if it has never been worn away by time since it was first completed.
For young people, it was the warmest time in their memory. Although life was not easy because they had to run a church, they had a stable place to live and a kind of bread that they did not have to worry about tomorrow.
The life experience I have gained in recent years has become extremely precious compared to the wandering life I once had.
His adoptive father was a gentle, knowledgeable and wise man. He taught him various principles through his ears and eyes, which helped the boy wash away the hostility he developed when he was wandering. His sister is well-behaved and sensible. Although she is clumsy, she is always there.
Care for your family in your own way; the residents of the same street initially looked at these outsiders who suddenly broke into their lives with indifference and vigilance, but were soon moved by Mr. Yang Ke's sincerity and gradually regarded them as a community
She is an indispensable member of the church, and has gradually become accustomed to the existence of Tianxin Church. Even if it is not during the seven-day ceremony of distributing bread and milk, she will occasionally come to the church and offer not pious but sincere prayers to the goddess...
…
The boy who didn't know what faith was at that time grew up little by little in such an environment. He understood the preciousness of this kind of life better than anyone else, so he tried his best to treat it at all times.
Although sometimes he used too much force and went in the wrong direction. For example, he once told his adoptive father that if necessary, he could inherit his ideals and wishes in the future, but he shook his head and refused with a smile.
Don't live just to respond to the expectations of others, you should do what you want to do. At that time, he said this: the only requirement is not to hurt others, and not to hurt yourself.
The young man remembered this sentence firmly until he graduated from the church's national school and went to Linville University to study history. He decided to leave the university and return to Tianxin Church. After attending the funeral of his adoptive father, he inherited the position of resident pastor.
Duty... I have never forgotten it.
But did he really do what he remembered?
The young man slowly opened his eyes, and his slightly hollow golden eyes contained a dim ceiling. The wooden texture had long been mottled after years of rain erosion and insect infestation. Even if the owner had repaired it carefully, he could not cover up the deep roots of it.
Showing age and obsolescence.
In fact, he occasionally thinks about what his future will be like if his life at that time continues.
But thinking about these things is meaningless, so he slowly stood up and looked up at the window. There was a gray-haired girl standing quietly by the window. She was admiring the dusk of Yunjing Sky Island, and the magnificent sunset was about to
The sea of clouds was dyed orange-red, like fire clouds in midsummer. A large group of birds was flying across the distant skyline. One of them seemed to be lagging behind, flying slower and slower, so that it completely broke away from the team. But the companions in front did not
Waiting for it, it flew forward on its own, gradually disappearing at the end of the red afterglow. The abandoned bird circled in place several times, and its sad and mournful chirping sounded like a crow or a night owl.
In the end, he was forced to lower his height and landed on the empty island that happened to be passing by.
So, for those abandoned birds, is this Cloud Whale Island the choice when they are desperate? They would rather come to a strange environment and face faces they have never known before, and also want to have a place to stay.
place, because that is always the most important to a lonely soul.
The girl retracted her gaze, turned to look at the young man on the bed, and said without any fluctuation in her tone: "Congratulations on finally waking up."