Chapter 50 Choir
"Oh, Enos bless you, respected priest." Kalechi took off his armor and put on beautiful clothes. He walked up to him holding a pink and jade-carved little boy in his right hand. "Kalech, why are you here if you don't protect Nurba's stability?" Paladin said with a shy smile. The aunt beside him immediately said kindly, "Let's talk, I have to go back to take care of my grandson." Then she turned around and left.
"Oh, good morning, Father!" "Hello, Father." "Father, when will you come to my shop for some barbecue?" Kalech looked at the pedestrians passing by on the road and greeted Paladin warmly. An invisible reverence and love permeated Nurbari. Kalechi touched the smooth hair of the child next to him, looked at Paladin who kept returning the greetings, and said with a smile: "You are very popular now, Father." Paladin turned around with a smile on his face, looking at the curious boy with eyes full of curiosity. The child said: "Is this your son?"
Kalechi immediately patted the back of the child's head proudly and dotingly, lowered his head and said, "Quick, this is Father Paladin." The child was only seven or eight years old, just old enough to remember. That brown hair makes the curious child even cuter. He immediately responded with his childish and pure voice: "Father, this is the first time we meet. I am User, the son of Kalech." After saying that, just as he was about to kneel down on one knee, Paladin immediately stepped forward to hold User's hand. He stood up and said in an encouraging tone: "Good boy, don't kneel down to me. You can only kneel down to your parents and the king." User raised his head half-understanding, his pink but handsome face The face appeared before Paladin's eyes.
"Paladin, how are you? My son is pretty good, isn't he?" "Well, very good, very good, not inferior to those nobles at all." Paladin looked up at Kalechi with a careless look. The latter nodded immediately and took User into the church. Paladin came in and closed the door. Kalechi looked at him with a strange expression and said slowly: "Paladin, you don't have a godson yet."
As soon as these words came out, Paladin immediately turned back to look at the serious Kalechi with an expression that said, "You're not like this." Sure enough, Kalech nodded in recognition and said: "I want to ask you to be Uther's godfather and baptize him. Can you promise me?" Paladin's face was calm, and he knew that this was Kalech's disguised way of bringing the two of them closer. Relationship. He also wanted to prove that there was no possibility of the two becoming enemies. But then I thought about it, he didn't have a godson yet, so it would be great if he could exchange it for Kalechi's trust. So, Paladin nodded happily.
User was also a smart child. When Paladin nodded, he immediately knelt on one knee and shouted respectfully: "Godfather, my godfather. Your godson, User, is willing to accept the teaching and encouragement of his godfather."
Paladin immediately helped Uther up, looked at the boy with bright eyes, and smiled sincerely: "Okay, we have mass tomorrow, wait until next week. I will baptize you next week." After that, Paladin took out He handed a candy to Youser, and said gently and kindly: "Go and play, I have something to talk to your father." Youser turned to look at Kalech, and when Kalech nodded in agreement, he immediately let out a whimper. Like a bird that flew away, I ran out of the church happily and went to find those playmates to have fun.
"What a carefree age. Kalech, were you like this when you were a child?" Paladin looked at Uther outside the window and suddenly felt strange. He couldn't help but ask. Hearing a "hmm" sound, Kalechi touched his newly shaved chin. Feeling the roughness in his hands, he said matter-of-factly: "This is childhood. A childhood that both nobles and commoners will go through. Paladin, don't you have one?" "No."
Paladin nodded without thinking, and then asked: "The first time I ate candy was when I was twelve years old. I didn't buy it or give it to others. I stole it myself. At that time, it was my entire childhood." Lieqi immediately frowned and looked at Paladin, whose eyes were lost in reminiscence, strangely, and asked, "Stealing it? Paladin, in a noble family, do you still need to steal a candy?"
This moment! Paladin immediately came to his senses. Only then did he suddenly realize that he had said the wrong thing. His cold eyes turned to stare at Kalec like a poisonous snake. The latter was so frightened that he couldn't help but take half a step back. But I heard him say: "You have too much control! Kalechi." "I'm sorry, please accept my apology."
Kalechi didn't know where he went wrong, so he immediately lowered his head and apologized. But there was no reply from Paladin in any form. Kalech gradually raised his head in confusion, only to see Paladin's expression of indifference, as if the ferocious look before did not exist at all. He looked out the window at User who was playing peek-a-boo with the civilians and said: "Kalech, help me. Announce to the whole town that I am going to form a choir. Each member of the choir will be paid twenty silver coins a month." "Choir? Paladin, what do you want to do? What good will this do to you?"
"No parish priest would have the leisure and financial resources to organize a choir. Because it is an exaggerated, impractical and useless thing." At this point, Paladin glanced at Kalechi with an indifferent gaze. Then he said: "But it is this kind of useless things that can make those in high positions like it. Is it ridiculous? Not ridiculous. Useless people like useless things. Birds of a feather flock together." Kalechi felt There was a strong sense of sarcasm in Paladin's words. Suddenly I felt that I could never be friends with him. Because friends are sincere and equal. For him, Paladin has no equality at all. Everyone just uses each other's abilities to benefit, that's all.
At noon that day, Kalechi's official document was sent out. Some families with several children and poor lives immediately began to earn an income of twenty silver coins a month. "Oh! Praise Father Paladin, he is the apostle of God! Twenty silver coins a month, my God, my man only only has fifteen silver coins a month!"
"No matter what you say, my son must join. I will fight with whoever competes with me!" "My son is strong and strong, and he can't even do farm work as well as adults. It's definitely him!" "Bah! The choir is again If you don't do farm work, you have to sing! My son has studied with a street minstrel, which is an advantage!" In front of the church, a dozen children wearing new clothes looked at the man sitting at the table with some fear. Paladin. Behind them, a large number of aunts and women were shouting insults without any image. Just for the high salary of twenty silver coins. Even their father started fighting over the income that would improve the family's life.
"Quiet, quiet!" Kalechi, who was standing nearby, shouted loudly. The adults who were about to start a fight saw Kalechi's fierce eyes and a large group of armed guards behind him. He stopped bleating immediately and didn't dare to say any more. Paladin nodded with satisfaction, looking at the dozen children in front of him, feeling a little unhappy.
A dozen or so is too few. Although the choir is more than enough, it cannot be put on the stage at this scale. After all, the number of people is too small. But at this moment, the crowd that was originally crowding the gate suddenly exclaimed. They were pushed away one by one with shouts and curses. Just when Paladin was wondering what was going on, he saw a girl wearing a big hat and wearing a large hat, carrying a bag on her back. He hurriedly ran in and shouted: "Father, count me in!"
PS: After being deserted, it’s still deserted...I’m all in a mess.