Chapter 102 Mother and Son (5th update, first order please)
Under the moonlight not far away, another person with exactly the same decoration as You Ping'er actually appeared. He was dressed in red and had a full head of hair. He was sitting on a stone with his back to Jiang Chan. The paper crane he had released earlier appeared.
On her shoulder!
"How come there are two You Pinger?"
Not only had Jiang Yan never seen such a scene, but even his grandfather had never written about it in his notebooks.
In order to find out, Jiang Yan cautiously approached the second You Ping'er.
"You Ping'er?"
Jiang Chan shouted twice but received no response. When he turned over the woman in red who had her back to him, Jiang Chan was so frightened that he took a few steps back.
You Ping'er's face was completely rotten, and when she got closer, she could smell the stench all over her body.
"This is…"
"Is this You Ping'er's body?"
Jiang Yan searched all night but couldn't find it. Now that it appeared in front of him like this, how could he not be shocked? Moreover, the body kept changing its position!
What made Jiang Yan even more unbelievable was that the bones of You Ping'er's body were exposed in both hands and arms, but there was a baby in her arms!
"Where did the child come from?"
The baby breathed long, curled up and hugged You Ping'er's already bone-white hand, sleeping soundly.
It was obviously a very scary scene, but it was so heartwarming at this time.
When Jiang Yan was about to take the baby over, a big snake jumped out of the forest nearby. The snake's body rolled up You Ping'er's body, and it opened its mouth and spat out a letter, as if to warn Jiang Yan to retreat.
The strength of this big snake is already at the peak of the Mysterious Spirit Realm, and even faintly exudes the aura of the Huiyang Realm.
Seeing the big snake protecting You Ping'er, Jiang Gu also understood. No wonder he couldn't find the body no matter how hard he looked, it turned out that the big snake took him away.
"Have you been hiding from me with her body?"
The big snake nodded.
"The dead cannot be resurrected, please let me bury her."
Jiang Yan's answer was the big snake's tail, which swept over and forced him back.
"You don't want her to be laid to rest? Then who is this baby?"
The big snake lowered its head and put its head in front of Jiang Gu. After Jiang Gu put his hand on the snake's head, the scene around him changed instantly.
At this moment, Jiang Yan appeared under a dry well. In the corner was a woman in red with a sharp knife stuck in her chest, who was You Ping'er.
Jiang Yan actually came to Orochi's memory.
"Ms. sir, sir, save me..."
Unfortunately, You Ping'er's voice was weak and weak, and could not be heard outside the well.
"ah…."
You Ping'er suddenly struggled and covered her stomach with both hands. The injury on her chest triggered the fetal gas, causing this pregnant woman to give birth prematurely.
You Ping'er's painful moans could be heard intermittently from under the dry well. She fainted several times, but struggled to wake up several times.
"I can't die, I can't die yet..." You Ping'er kept telling herself in a low voice.
Seeing You Ping'er endure the severe pain and try hard to give birth to a baby, Jiang Gu was deeply touched by this tenacious woman.
Jiang Yan couldn't help but want to help, but this was just the memory of the snake. He couldn't change everything and could only be a bystander of the most tragic scene in the world.
Finally, with a cry, the child, who had been born three months prematurely, was finally born safely.
Jiang Gu felt the miracle and perseverance of life. You Ping'er was clearly on the verge of death, but she was so strong that she not only did not fall, but stood up.
Jiang Yan finally knew where the bloody scratches he saw in the dry well came from. You Ping'er was covered in blood. She was holding the child in one hand and holding on to the wall of the well with the other, trying to use her last strength to crawl out.
Here, send your children out of the dry well.
I fell down again and again and stood up again and again, just for the sleeping child in my arms.
There was no milk, so You Pinger fed her with her own blood.
Her hands were scratched by the hard gravel on the well wall, but You Ping'er didn't even notice.
At this moment, he has lost all consciousness and intuition, and there is only one obsession in his mind, which is to send this child out!
Jiang Yan touched his face, and he didn't know when two hot tears burst into his eyes. He could feel the despair of this woman.
Women are weak by nature, but mothers are strong. Even if You Ping'er died, she never forgot to love her child deeply!
Just when You Ping'er was about to collapse, the big snake appeared at the bottom of the dry well.
You Ping'er used her last consciousness to hold the newborn baby to the big snake with her hands full of blood. After that, her weak body fell down and she gave the baby the last tenderness in her eyes.
All things are psychic, and the big snake may have been moved and brought the baby out of the dry well.
But mother and child were connected, and the sleeping baby seemed to notice something. As soon as it left its mother's hand, it started crying and didn't stop for the whole day.
In desperation, the big snake took the baby back to the dry well and placed it on You Ping'er's already cold body.
Feeling the mother's embrace, the baby stopped crying and slept soundly, even though the embrace had no warmth.
For a whole year after that, the big snake would leave the dry well with its baby every day. During the day, it would catch the mother beast in the mountains to nurse, and then return again at night. Whenever it was time to sleep, if there was no You Ping'er, it would cry incessantly, even if You Ping'er's body was already gone.
Begins to rot in mid-summer.
After coming out of Orochi's memory, Jiang Yan's mood was still hard to calm down.
"I sympathize with You Ping'er and what happened to this child, but he is a human being, and human beings should live their own lives. I hope you will let me take him away."
"This child also has a grandfather in Youshan Village. It's better to give it to his grandfather."
The big snake sent You Ping'er and the child away to express his agreement to do so.
But when Jiang Yan just took the child out of the body, the child woke up immediately, opened his eyes like a snake's eyes, and bit Jiang Yan's arm.
hiss….
Jiang Yan's arm was bleeding, but all he could do was keep comforting the child. Finally, he had no choice but to take out the red paper man from his arms.
After seeing the paper man in red, the child let go of Jiang Yan's arm, his eyes turned into human pupils, and then he continued to sleep while holding the paper man.
Oddly enough, the paper figure in red had a strong evil spirit, but when the child held it, the evil spirit restrained itself, for fear of harming this fragile life.
Jiang Yan found a place to dig a grave and buried the poor woman without erecting a monument.
"You can see Youshan Village from here, and you can also see your child. I think you won't blame me for taking her away from you," Jiang Yan said to himself and then sighed.
Jiang Yan returned with the child in his arms, and the big snake followed him for a long time until they entered the village and then left.
Old Man You burst into tears after seeing the child, especially when he heard Jiang Gu say that You Ping'er was not dead when he was pushed into the dry well. He gave birth to the baby in his last obsession and fed it with blood instead of milk.
He kept kowtowing outside the gate, his old body unable to stop trembling.
"Painter Jiang, you are this child's savior, please give him a name."
Jiang Yan touched the child who was sleeping with the paper man in his arms, thinking that this child had encountered the most evil and misery in the world when he was born.
"Jing means peace. If you don't mind, let's call the child You Jing'er."
"Thank you, Painter Jiang!" Old Man You expressed his gratitude.
"Thank you for taking care of me while I'm here. I have other things to do and can't stay here for a long time," Jiang Yan said.
"Master Jiang, you are not from Youshan Village. It is reasonable to leave. However, you have to repay such a great kindness. Please wait for me first."
Old man You kept rummaging in the cabinet and finally found a bamboo slip that was almost rotting.
"I also heard from my ancestors that our earliest ancestors in Youshan Village were also enlightened scribes. This is something that has been passed down from generation to generation. I don't understand the words on it, so just take it."
"Since it is an ancestral thing, how can I want it?"
Jiang Yan wanted to refuse, but Old Man You insisted on handing the bamboo slips to him.
Jiang Yan looked through it and found that he couldn't understand the words on the bamboo slips at all, so he simply put them in the bookcase.