Chapter 269 [Painting in a Bottle] (1)
"Luo! I have a terminal illness. The doctor said I will have half a year to live at most." The priest knew that such words could not impress Luo Lie. He shouted: "The seven-color flowers are blooming! All Alice's prophecy has come true..."
The door slowly opened, and Luo Lie, with a cold expression, appeared again in front of him: "Simon, what's the point of telling these lies now?"
Father Simon resigned with a red face: "I didn't lie, I brought it, I brought it!"
Luo Lie still took him to his office. Simon coughed very badly. He had to take out his dirty handkerchief to cover his mouth. The handkerchief was soon stained with fresh blood. He asked Luo Lie for a cup of boiling water, took out a brown medicine bottle from his pocket, poured out a handful of medicine, and then took it in one breath.
Luo Lie looked at him. He was no longer the strong and energetic priest who used to be. His straight back began to hunch his back, and his rosy cheeks became dry and yellow. He must be sick, and even his golden hair turned completely gray and white. Time will not let anyone go, no matter whether you have done good or bad things.
After Simon took the medicine, he seemed to be getting better. He sat on the sofa and showed a friendly smile to Luo Lie and said, "I have lung cancer. It was too late when I discovered it. The doctor said that the operation had no meaning and said that I had half a year left to live, which was three months ago."
Luo Lie's expression was unmoved. The other party's words did not arouse any sympathy from him. It can be inferred from Simon's words that his life was only three months left at most.
Simon said: "I know this day will come sooner or later. Instead of feeling afraid, I feel relieved. You know, Alice's death has always made me feel guilty."
Luo Lie lit a cigarette and tried his best to control his emotions. If the other party came this time just to talk about these words, pray for his own forgiveness and his own psychological comfort, then he should have been wrong. Luo Lie said: "A father can actually betray his daughter!"
Simon said: "I have no choice, I don't want to. Everyone thinks that Alice is possessed by a demon..."
"Enough!" Luo Lie angrily stopped him from continuing.
Simon nodded and said, "Whether you believe it or not, I love her deeply. I keep everything she had when I was a child. After I got sick, something strange happened. All the things Alice had told me in the past came true."
He opened his suitcase, took out a few photos from it trembled and sent it to Luo Lie. Luo Lie did not reach out to pick it up, so Simon could only put the photos on the table.
Luo Lie picked up the photo. When he saw everything in the photo, his tiger eyes were rounded and showed an extremely shocked light.
Simon said: "The oak tree in front of the church was struck by lightning on the day Alice was tortured and died of burning and dying, but suddenly it was resurrected, and in a short time it was even more lush than before."
Luo Lie moved the photo away. The photo below was a large sea of roses. He was very familiar with this place. The place where Alice was stolen was stolen since the stolen, and no vegetation grew any more.
Simon said: "I swear that the photos are all real. It looked like two months ago and suddenly it was full of roses. I also found a seven-color flower in it."
Luo Lie looked at the next photo. He remembered that Alice had longed to plant a seven-color flower since she was a child, but he believed that the seven-color flower was just in fairy tales. Although the black and white photos could not restore the color of the seven-color flower, the shape of the seven-color flower was almost exactly the same as Alice's description.
Simon said: "I saw...I really saw... On the night when the seven-color flowers bloomed, I saw Alice..." His voice was obviously trembling. When he talked about his daughter's name, tears couldn't help falling. The excitement made him start coughing again.
Luo Lie saw a father's regret in him, but he did not believe Simon's words. Although the photos brought by Simon were indeed strange, he witnessed Alice entering the sea of fire with his own eyes. Not everyone in this world has the ability to be reborn. Although he really hoped that Alice could be reborn from the fire, the reality was cruel. He buried Alice with his own hands and buried her ashes and the cross he gave to Alice forever on the hillside where flowers were blooming.
Simon said: "Although I am sick, I am not confused, and my eyes are not blind. I saw her and she even said something to me in my dream."
"say what?"
Simon took out an envelope from his pocket and recorded what his daughter said to him in his dream, because he was worried about forgetting.
Luo Lie took the envelope and took out Simon's record from it. It was nothing in it. It was more like a map, with some numbers on it. Luo Lie judged that these numbers were probably latitude and longitude based on his intuition. He couldn't help but wonder whether Simon was rational in front of him. A terminally ill patient usually had fantasies in the late stages, and Simon regretted his daughter's affairs for life. The only way he wanted to get relief was through fantasy.
However, the map was drawn very clearly. If he hadn't deliberately deceived himself, it would have been amazing to draw such a map based on his dream memory.
Simon said: "I don't understand what the numbers above mean, but Alice said you know, saying you can find her..." His eyes were full of expectations.
Luo Lie looked at Simon. Simon in front of him was no longer the stubborn, arrogant and domineering priest of the past. His life was about to end, and he was good at saying that he was about to die. He realized by intuition that he had come from thousands of miles to be deceived.
Luo Lie whispered: "Did you tell anyone other than me about this?"
Simon shook his head and said, "They all thought I was tampering with it. If I told these things out, not only would no one believe me, but everyone would regard me as a lunatic."
Luo Lie soon saw from the map that the map was not complete, and pointed to the map and said, "Can you remember that there are only these?"
Simon said, "Also, but..." He pursed his lips and said, "Can you take me there? Take me to find it together."
Luo Lie said: "What are you looking for?" He had already seen that Simon had retained a lot of it for him.
Simon said: "It's not long before I'm alive. I heard Alice's call to me. I'm going to this place, Fantasy Island..." He pointed to the map and said.
Luo Lie said: "Why should I go?"
Simon said: "You grew up with Alice, she loves you so much..."
"Stop!" Luo Lie roared angrily.
Simon's face turned pale, he covered his heart, his eyes became darker, and he murmured: "I know, I hurt her, I hurt you... But... Luo, Luo... can you give me a chance to atone for sins..."
Luo Lie shook his head and firmly said: "From the moment you killed Alice, you will never deserve to be a father again."
Simon felt like he was punched hard. He staggered back, sat down on the sofa, grabbed his silver curly hair with both hands, and buried his head in pain. After a while, he whispered: "I don't deserve it!"
Simon left, Luo Lie's attitude completely discouraged him. He knew that Luo Lie would not help him. When he left, he did not take away the photos and the incomplete map. Luo Lie stared at the photos for a long time, recalling the innocent girl who had been sleeping on the other side of the ocean...
Liu Shangwu's debt collection was going very smoothly, but he just showed the IOU to Yu Weiguo. Yu Weiguo was preparing to issue a check of 7,000 to him. Liu Shangwu got a check of 7,000 and asked him to add 3,000. Yu Weiguo was a little resistant, but when he heard that Liu Shangwu was about to be published in the newspaper, he immediately became embarrassed and took out another 3,000 yuan.
Liu Shangwu didn't expect that the money would come so easily. He helped Luo Lie to do things without bloodshed. Not only did he recover the 3,000 yuan he had compensated, but he also added 2,000 yuan of the surplus. He happily sent 5,000 yuan to Luo Lie. He was really impressed by Luo Lie now.
Luo Lie rarely goes out during this period, and even Ye Qinghong rarely goes there. Ye Qinghong called him, but said that Tang Baoer had just broken up with Yu Weiguo and had been pestering her all day long. Ye Qinghong is busy building her future museum and accompanying this good friend, so she can't even take time to come.
Luo Lie was happy to be purified. Simon's arrival made his heart turbulent. Before he knew it, the five days Bai Yunfei gave him had arrived. Early that morning, Bai Yunfei came to the church with a light car.
Although it was Sunday, the chapel was empty and there was no believer. Luo Lie's departure made people angry that the chapel, which was not very good, became deserted in front of the door. Besides, a magnificent cathedral was recently built, and most believers were attracted there.
Luo Lie was wearing a straight suit, holding the Bible in his hand, standing quietly in front of Jesus statue, and saw white clouds flying step by step from the light and shadow outside the gate.
Bai Yunfei was holding a civilization stick in his hand today and stood about two meters away from Luo Lie. The civilization stick in his hand fell to the ground without hesitation, making a slight sound, and the sound echoed in the relatively empty church for a long time.
Bai Yunfei had a gentle smile on his face: "How are Brother Luo thinking?"
Luo Liedao: "Let's listen to your conditions first."
Bai Yunfei laughed loudly, and he gave Luo Lie a thumbs up: "Brother, your bargaining ability is really first-class, it would be a pity not to do business."
Luo Lie said: "You can't be sold in a daze and count the money for others."
Chapter completed!