I really don't want to be a novelist

Chapter 418 Little Gerrit's Words
The content of the great chapter continues to evolve.

Before progressing to little Grit after the death of Grandma Milia,
When passing by the doctor's office by chance, he was still called in by the doctor.

When I finally left the consulting room, it ended with the questions that Little Gerrit had asked the doctor.

Little Gerrit was driven back by the angry doctor,

Then he returned home with his father who had already arrived at the entrance of the town to pick him up.

"Father... I want to visit Grandma Milia."

Little Gerrit, who arrived home, did not enter the door, but raised his head to look at his father Hoss.

Hoss nodded.

"Then you go, be careful. I'll call you after dinner."

Little Greg nodded, and walked towards the cemetery in the village.

And his father Huos didn't enter the house again, but took advantage of this time to pick up the farm tools and go to the farmland.

Melia's death gave Hoss more things to do in the field.

Even today there is no time to go to work in town.

"...Hoss, are you going to the fields again?"

"Did so many weeds grow in your field this year?"

On the way to the farmland, Hoss met people in the village and asked him.

Hoss was silent, and walked past after answering.

The passers-by in the village turned their heads and looked suspiciously at Hoss who was walking away.

The Hoss family are devout believers and are under the care of the Lord.

The industrious and pious Hoth, always under the grace of God, can quickly finish his work in the fields.

It doesn't take long for Hoss to complete the farm work of removing weeds.

Now it's evening and sunset,
Has Hoss lost his grace?
……

"Grandma Milia... I seem to understand something."

"Grandma Milia, have you returned to the embrace of God?"

Little Gerrit squatted in front of Grandma Milia's tombstone, talking to Grandma Milia.

"I asked the doctor today, can pious people be healed?"

"He said yes. Then, Grandma Milia, you didn't get treatment, was it because of your impiety? Is it a blasphemy against church laws?"

"But when Grandpa Burton erected the tombstone for you, he would definitely say that you can return to the embrace of God."

"Which one of them is wrong? Or are they all wrong."

"It's like the doctor told me that those who still die after treatment are not devout enough to the Lord."

"Father Hoss and your previous actions violated the laws of the church, but Grandpa Burton has always said that you have been blessed and favored by God."

"Is the church law wrong, or Grandpa Burton is lying. If Grandpa Burton lied about this matter, can he also lie about other things?"

"But Grandpa Burton is also a devout believer in the Lord, like that doctor."

Little Gerrit said many contradictory things.

"If Grandpa Burton is wrong, can others be wrong too?"

"It's like Medioc. When he died, he was punished with ten silver coins, but the punishment written in the church law is far less than that."

"In the school, apart from me, the only one who goes to school in the village, and his father is also like Grandpa Burton. Is it because they are religious enough?"

"It's also because they can afford the tuition fee of five silver coins."

Little Gerrit confided his doubts to Grandma Milia seriously,

Although Grandma Milia has no way to answer.

"...Grit. Let's go back..."

At this moment,
Hoth's voice came from behind little Gerrit,
It was already dark, and Hoss came to pick up little Gerrit.

"...Grandma Milia, I am about to figure out these problems, and I will tell you again when I figure out these problems."

Little Gerrit looked back at his father Hoss who had already walked over,

Hoss stood beside him and didn't urge him.

After speaking to the tombstone again, little Gerrit stood up and looked at the tombstone with the words engraved on it.

The tombstone reads 'Pious Believer of the Lord - Lady Melia'.

"Father……"

Little Gerrit turned his head and looked at his father Hoss,
Then stepped aside again,
Some distance away from the cemeteries of other people in the village, on that barren and overgrown land,
It was his grandfather, Medioc's unmarked grave.

"Father, can you tell me how Medioc died?"

Little Gerrit walked to his grandfather's grave, and his father Hoss followed him.
He had just come back from the fields, and he hadn't even changed out of his clothes for doing farm work. He was covered in mud, dead leaves and weed seeds.

He looked from young Gerrit to the grave of his father Medioc.

Many years have passed, but there is still no tombstone erected in front of Medioc's grave.

For Medioc is a sinner.

"Back then, I was only your age. I played in the yard. I just had to get dinner ready before your grandfather came home. There was nothing else I needed to do."

"It happened some distance away from home. I didn't hear a single sound. Your grandma Milia came over in a hurry and told me that your grandfather, Medioc, rammed the knights of the church and became a sinner."

"When I got there, your grandfather Medioc hadn't died yet. People around me told me that the angry knights sentenced Medioc to the crime of impiety, and he couldn't return to the Lord's kingdom of heaven after death."

"Dirty blood was flowing under his body, and the people around him kept chanting prayers, but they feared that he was like a demon and dared not approach him."

"No one dared to move him, and no one could find a doctor. Under the scorching sun, Medioc died with difficulty."

"Mr. Raleigh took the initiative to come to the door and loaned me seven silver coins to repay the church's fine."

"And your grandfather, although the priest said that Medioc will return to heaven one day, but your grandfather Moss told me that it will take time."

Hoss spoke and fell silent, as if returning to the day of fear in his memory.

Even now, sometimes in dreams Hoth still returns to that day.

"...So, even now, Medioc doesn't have a tombstone?"

"It is a sign of a faithful believer in the Lord, while your grandfather Medioc was a sinner."

Hoss' gaze drooped and landed on a small area in front of Medioc's grave.

There was buried a tombstone with his name carved on a small stick, which he, a sinner, had buried.

Maybe the stick has rotted, and the name on the stick has disappeared with the rotten stick,
But Hoss knew it was there.

It's like the drop of blood on the hem of his trousers, even now, it has never been wiped clean.

"Grandpa Moss has passed away. Maybe you can give Grandpa Burton some money so that he will allow you to erect a tombstone for Grandpa Medioc."

Little Gerrit raised his head and said to Hoss seriously.

Hoss was stunned when he heard what little Gerrit said.

Little Gerrit's calm words stirred up great waves in his heart.

Medioc's guilt has bound him,
Even every once in a while, he needs to send some gifts to Burton, the successor of Moss,
Because of Burton's concealment of Milia's plowing at night and his statement of divine favor to other residents in the village.

But from the beginning to the end, Hoss never thought about spending money or some gifts, and went to Burton to agree to erect a tombstone for Medioc.

He never thought of it this way...

But now, what Little Gerrit said seemed to break such an invisible wall.

Hoss looked down at little Gerrit silently.

Little Gerrit also raised his head, but still looked at his father seriously.

(End of this chapter)