Chapter 34
In autumn and winter, the lake is dry and exposed with exposed riverbeds. A few young kids in the nearby villages are digging frogs in the wetlands with their butts sticking out. This season is already too cold, and frogs find holes to get in to avoid the cold. They carry a small basket and touch the frogs out of the hole.
When there is insufficient food, children in villages like this will run around, go up the mountains and down the lake, and look for everything they can eat.
Among these children wearing ordinary coarse cloth clothes and patched gray, Xin Xiu, who was mixed in, was as conspicuous as the egrets in the pile of sparrows.
"You can't find it there. Look, you have to find a hole like this to do it!" The thin black child with bare butt and feet explained to Xin Xiu seriously.
Xin Xiu couldn't quite understand the accent here, and she vaguely figured out what he meant from his movements. She changed into a slightly dry hole. She put her finger in, and after a while, she took out a frog.
"Hahaha, I was caught!" She threw the frog into the small broken basket that the child was carrying in front of her. The child grinned, revealing a few teeth that were not in good relationship and were far away.
The children are all the same black and thin, but they are running out all year round, and they look lively and healthy. They don’t care about the little they wear in the cold wind.
"Ah, she is about to fall! She is about to fall!" The child who taught Xin Xiu's skills to touch the frog suddenly pointed to the bamboo basket on Xin Xiu's back.
Xin Xiu was not slow and pushed back one by one, skillfully pushing the little baby girl who had crawled out of the basket back into the basket. The little baby girl who bumped into the basket was buzzing and crawling unremittingly. She only stayed obediently when she was sleeping, and she tortured when she woke up.
Xin Xiu took out a big persimmon and threw it into the basket. The baby girl sat in the basket with a small quilt, holding the big persimmon falling from the sky and playing with and gnawing it. Only then did she live a stable life for the time being.
A few children caught the frogs and were about to catch them, so they were ready to peel them and wash them and roast them.
Seeing that they were skillfully looking for a few round stones by the river and preparing to make a fire, Xin Xiu sat down without seeing any other place: "My barbecue is very powerful, how about it? Do you want me to help you?"
Several children gathered together and muttered for a while, and understood what she meant. Perhaps because Xin Xiu had helped them just now, he established a good foundation of trust, and the oldest child came over and handed her the basket.
After the frogs roasted from Xinxiu started to smell, the children gathered together kept swallowing. When she took out the simple seasoning powder she made and sprinkled on the frog, the scent that had never smelled before subdued all the children. The sound of their saliva was so loud that it was impossible to ignore.
“Can’t you eat it yet?”
"You can eat it, we used to cook it casually and eat it."
"It's ready to eat, it's cooked." The children urged.
Xin Xiu remained motionless. When she finally nodded and split the roasted frogs, the children couldn't wait to stuff them into their mouths, and they didn't care about burning their mouths and swallowing them voraciously, unable to say a word.
Xin Xiu also ate a bunch of them. The little baby girl in the bamboo basket next to her grabbed the edge of the bamboo basket and shouted. Xin Xiu grabbed her big persimmon and stuffed her face. The little baby held the persimmon and started to chew. In fact, she couldn't even chew the skin.
After having a delicious meal together, Xin Xiu asked if anyone in the village could feed the child. The children became much more enthusiastic and took her to the door to find food for the little girl.
After leaving this village, Xin Xiu rode a mule and carried a basket and continued to move forward. She often did this along the way. When she met all kinds of people, there were very few people who could call her a "good person" or a "bad person". Most of them were ordinary people, living casually and hard like weeds on the roadside.
She wanted to find someone who was willing to raise her for the baby girl she picked up, but she has not found it yet. Not only has she not found it, she even picked up an abandoned baby girl.
When she picked up the baby girl, a wild dog was biting her clothes. The baby girl didn't move, her face turned blue, as if she was dead.
"Hey, puppy, stop biting, go over there." Xin Xiu walked into the field, took out the jerky meat that he had roasted at noon, waved at the skinny wild dog, and threw it away.
Wild dogs are very smart and keen creatures. Even if Xin Xiu's attitude is not fierce, it can feel that it is an object that it cannot deal with. It let go of the child and runs towards the jerky. After picking it up, it crawled into the grass nest without looking back. Xin Xiu ignored it and stepped forward and picked up the baby girl.
The mule Taoist priest who followed her was talking too casually now. When she saw her looking at the baby girl's aura, she couldn't help but sarcastic: "There is a troublesome baggage that can't be removed, so you can pick up another one. Can you care about so many abandoned babies in this world?" She looked down on her behavior very much.
Xin Xiu: "I am in a bad mood now and want to find someone to give me a meal to relieve the stress. Who is so lucky?"
The mule Taoist priest was as quiet as a chicken and did not dare to say anything. Xin Xiu said this, and she really dared to do this, and he was the only one who would be beaten here. The mule Taoist priest had no doubts. Even if he dragged the wild dog back and placed it with him, he would be the only one who would be beaten among them.
Xin Xiu shook the bottle of nectar that was almost over, and tskated her, and fed the baby girl some, then fed her some warm sugar water and hugged her in front of her chest.
There was a village nearby. Xin Xiu stood by the field and asked a farmer who was plowing and smashing soil. The man gestured and told her that the child was from a family in the village. He even gave birth to several daughters. He had not even opened his eyes when he was born. He threw it at the entrance of the village and wanted to pick it up, but no one picked it up, and he thought he had starved to death.
"I didn't see the baby, but I was still taken away by a wild dog. Don't send it back to others, don't want it." The farmer waved his hands repeatedly.
Hearing this sentence, Xin Xiu pressed the baby girl wrapped in a quilt.
Life is like floating duckweed, but it is naturally tenacious. Although the world is not good, they probably don’t want to die at will when they come to this world.
Xin Xiu put the rescued baby girl with the previous one. This one is not as strong as before. Xin Xiu thought she couldn't stand it several times, but after holding it in front of her chest, she slowly became angry again. Xin Xiu was originally the one who knew the least to use spiritual power to comb her body, but now she has learned to use spiritual power to guide the baby girl to exhale and inhale, and to comb the air in her body.
After combing for several days, the baby girl finally opened her eyes. Perhaps because her eyes were unable to open before, her eyes were lighter, but fortunately she looked no problem and could see people clearly.
Xin Xiu made a small cradle and placed it in the pocket of Panda Dingdang. She took it out when she was resting at night, put the two children in it, and then let the jingle turn into the size of a person, and sat next to her cradle and coaxed the two children to sleep.
Dingdang has a good personality and a gentle temperament. Xinxiu feels like her giant panda mother. If it is cold at night, she will collapse on Dingdang's soft and thick belly, and a child is lying on the left and right, spending many nights.
After Xin Xiu went down the mountain, she saw the first snowfall. She finally found a slightly larger city with high walls. The two soldiers guarding the city looked at the crowd entering the city. Another advantage of such a big city is that when she saw her a single woman traveling, someone would not look at her with strange eyes at any time.
Moreover, there was a hotel guesthouse in the city. She first found a place to have a big meal, then went to the guesthouse to discuss with the boss, got a lot of hot water to take a bath, and washed the two children together. When she went out, she was inevitably sloppy and took a hot bath. Xin Xiu felt that she had lived a new life.
When I watched novels and TV series before, those heroes wore white clothes and were spotless every time they appeared. It was really a fraud like instant noodles advertisement. She was a cultivator, and she couldn't keep her white clothes clean even when she went out for a while. Even if she didn't do anything, she just walked on the road and was covered in dust.
So she has learned her lesson now, she can wear dirty-resistant clothes, wear a hat to cover her hair, and switch to boots if she doesn't wear comfortable cloth shoes, etc.
Xin Xiu was actually quite strange when she raised her two children, she raised them casually, so why did the two children look so good? She changed into new clothes for the two children and clicked their foreheads one by one.
"I want to find you a home here and wait for my good news."
She kept Dingdang for her care and went out on the snow. She would find some families who looked quite small and had some money in the house to observe the owner of this house.
With the snow on the roof and courtyard walls, she stepped on the roof and courtyard walls for several days, but she couldn't meet the right one. When she accidentally heard two women talking about the temple for a child in the city, Xin Xiucai suddenly became enlightened.
Yes, she can go to the Children's Temple to see it. If anyone who wants children will go there to burn incense, she will not cast a goalless net like this.
He squatted on the beam of the temple where children were sought after for two days. Xin Xiu heard that ten women who were seeking children and nine of them were asking for boys.
There is also a man and a woman who just wants a child... Xin Xiu followed the lady and secretly returned home, squatting in her bedroom, listening to her husband talking to her husband. She actually had a passerby in this house, and there were very few people in the yard, and it was deserted.
After hearing them, Xin Xiucai discovered that the male owner of the family was actually an official, and Xin Xiu didn't understand the specific position, but he was in charge of the patrol and security of this city. People looked very decent. Most importantly, in this era when the relationship between men and women was naturally determined to be subordinate to strength and weakness, this man cared about his wife very much.
They have no children, and it seems that women are in poor health and cannot give birth to children. The men are constantly comforting their wives.
Xin Xiu: I decided, it’s you.
As for which child to give them, Xin Xiu thought about it and finally decided to have good things in pairs, and both of them were given to them.
"Although you were born in different places, you have similar destiny and today you have the fate to become sisters. I hope you can support each other and live a life." After Xin Xiu returned, she hung two golden pendants for her two children. The pendants were melted with gold and melted into the appearance of two giant pandas, which was regarded as a farewell gift to them.
Mrs. Xu, who lives in the north of the city, is in her thirties. She has been married to her husband for more than ten years and has not given birth to a child for him. The child is now a heart-wrenching problem. Even if her husband is often relieved, she will inevitably be depressed.
It snowed heavily this day, and the maid came to tell her that two pomegranate flowers bloomed in the yard. Mrs. Xu was extremely surprised. How could pomegranate flowers bloom in such a snowy day? And these two were just blooming?
The two pomegranate flowers blooming proudly were cut out and moved into the vase, and placed in the warm room.
Mrs. Xu looked at the two red pomegranate flowers in the room, and suddenly felt sleepy. In a daze, she seemed to see a goddess emitting a spirit and fairy spirit appear in front of her.
The goddess held a jade bottle in her hand, with a beautiful face, smiled slightly at her, opened her lips and said something. Mrs. Xu didn't hear clearly. When she saw the goddess raise her hand, two pomegranate flowers appeared in her hand. The pomegranate flowers turned into two babies and fell into her arms out of thin air.
Mrs. Xu was stunned and then ecstatic.
A sudden awakening from the mysterious and mysterious situation, Mrs. Xu found that she was in her arms and hurriedly looked down. The two babies girls she saw in her dream actually appeared in her arms, looking at her with her watery black eyes.
Mrs. Xu: “…”
Ah! Child! Two!
After Xin Xiu pretended to be a god and got a ghost, she squatted on the beam of the house to observe the situation. Seeing Mrs. Xu's ecstatic appearance, she hugged her two daughters and couldn't move, so she couldn't help but feel relieved.
She had transformed into Uncle Jing Chengzi, but now this time she transformed into Uncle Bai. Who said that Uncle Bai's appearance is more in line with the image and temperament of "Sending a Son to Guanyin".
Through the strange thing of hiring dreams and showing off gods, she entrusted her two children to someone she could trust. Xin Xiu was not in a hurry to leave. She stayed in the city for a few more days. Every day, she was not only wandering around the city, observing the customs and customs, and looking for something delicious, but also going to the Xu family to see the situation of the two children.
Mrs. Xu cherishes these two children very much, and her husband is also the serious middle-aged man with a tall figure. He held two soft daughters and let them grab their beards. His mouth twitched in pain, and he was not willing to let the child pull out his hands. The couple also held one child and went to see the child temple to fulfill their wishes.
Xin Xiu sat on the crossbar, with one foot hanging down, looking at the family's appearance, and chuckled softly.
"Goodbye." She waved her hand and said to herself, and went back to lead the mule Taoist out of the city and continued to go south.
There were two children missing at once, and the mule Taoist priest was still a little uncomfortable and couldn't help looking behind his back. When the two children were held in Xin Xiu's arms, they couldn't help but grab the hair on his body and pull his mule's ears.
Xin Xiuwu was light-hearted, sitting on the mule's back to write travel notes, thinking about drawing maps. She was about to draw the places she had walked in detail, and perhaps it would become a large map in the future.
Chapter completed!