A baby!?

is staring directly at Lao Chai with his clear, ancient and waveless eyes, and from time to time he shows a sweet smile.

The baby looked as if it had just been born, wrapped in a dark brown hide, lying quietly on the trunk of a tree. The innocent little expression makes people feel pity, and the immature little face seems to be able to squeeze out the water with a little force.

In this ghost place where even living creatures don't appear at all, there is a baby who has just been born?! This astonishing discovery had to make Lao Chai feel inexplicable and shocked, but more importantly, it was a trace of weirdness in his heart that could not be hidden.

Lao Chai frowned, his eyes wandering back and forth between the baby and the soul, as if he wanted to get an answer from the soul's mouth, even if it was just a few words. But the soul didn't seem to know that Lao Chai was staring at him, and didn't make the slightest response, and Lao Chai was a little used to it.

In fact, I also know that this is also in vain, so I don't have too many extravagant expectations, after all, Lao Chai has always regarded this damn soul as a dumb ghost. Lao Chai has always had the urge to scold his mother for this dumb soul in his heart, but every time the words come to his mouth, he is swallowed by himself, after all, more is better than less, in case any sentence is not right, and this unlucky thing is in a hurry, isn't it still yourself who suffers?

"Hey......" Lao Chai shook his head helplessly, and returned his gaze to the unknown baby.

This newborn baby was only wrapped in the skin of an unknown beast, and a small piece of pink skin was exposed on his chest. A purple-red rope hung around the child's neck, extending all the way to the animal's skin, because the purple-red rope was particularly eye-catching against the baby's pink skin, so Lao Chai found at a glance that the short piece of rope exposed outside, as if something was hanging around the neck.

Driven by the innate curiosity of human beings, Lao Chai plans to reach out and bring out the rope to see what is hanging on the other end of the rope, in case there is any information related to the child's life experience.

Lao Chai just wanted to move the rope, but suddenly stopped his hand in mid-air, as if he was worried about something, Lao Chai's rough big hand stopped not far from the child's small face, and under the child's immature little face, it was even more rough and heavy of Lao Chai's big hand.

Lao Chai tilted his head to look in the direction of the soul, but 'lucky' was that the soul did not react, Lao Chai breathed a sigh of relief, and then he stretched out his hand to the rope, and with a slight pull, a stone-like thing slowly slipped out from under the animal skin.

This stone is about the size of an adult's thumb, flattened, looks like a stone but has a slight sense of cloudiness and transparency, it is said to be jade, but it is not as smooth and bright as jade.

Lao Chai held the thing in the palm of his hand, looked at it carefully, and stroked it back and forth with his thumb from time to time, the stone exuded a slight chill, and he felt a cool feeling.

"Where did this kid come from...... I don't know what it's called?" Lao Chai muttered in his mouth, subconsciously looked up, looked through the gap between the branches and leaves, and a faint beam of moonlight hit Lao Chai's face, and a cloud was slowly drifting next to the full moon.

"With ......" Lao Chai said softly with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Let's call it the moon cloud."

The moment the three words of Yue Yuntian came out of Lao Chai's mouth, I saw that the baby, who had been unresponsive, suddenly showed a sweet smile,

"Huh?" Seeing the smile on the child's face, Lao Chai also smiled, as if all the precautions and vigilance had been melted by this sweet smile. It's like looking at an ordinary kid next door. An innocent child coupled with that sweet smile looks so cute, giving people a sense of harmlessness to humans and animals, at least that's what Lao Chai thought at first. The approachable smile of the past once again climbed onto Lao Chai's face that had gone through vicissitudes.

"This little guy, it seems that you like this name," Lao Chai seemed to be talking to himself, as if asking the baby. As soon as the words came out, Lao Chai smiled a little self-deprecatingly, shook his head, and said, "Hey, how could I be stupid enough to ask a newborn baby?" As he spoke, Lao Chai glanced in the direction of the soul, which was still like a strange ornament, standing there without moving, and became angry when he saw this dumb ghost.

"What do you mean, what did you want to do with such a big deal of bringing me here to meet such a baby?" Old Chai had already prepared for the worst before entering the forest, so he no longer worried about being killed for angering that soul. In addition, this dumb ghost didn't say a word along the way, and he had already exhausted the few patience that Lao Chai had. So Lao Chai said in a somewhat arrogant tone, as if his waist was straight when he said this.

Up to now, after experiencing this 'thrilling' event, Lao Chai seems to have been tempered with a more calm momentum that is not shocked. But the 'dumb' soul still ignored every word Lao Chai said as always. Lao Chai stared at the mute ghost, waiting for it to say something, even a few words, at this time Lao Chai's heart was full of questions, but it seemed that it was impossible to know the answer from the dumb ghost in front of him.

Lao Chai stared at the mute ghost for a long time, and his eyes were a little dry, but the dumb ghost still chose to remain silent without accident. This time Lao Chai can be completely annoyed, isn't there such a sentence, the soft is afraid of the horizontal, the horizontal is afraid of the hard, the hard is afraid of not dying, the current Lao Chai has already left life and death behind, he is not afraid of death, will he be afraid of a dumb ghost?

Lao Chai was panting for breath, his eyes were wide open, this was the first time in nearly 20 years that Lao Chai had been angry. "You dumb thing, Lao Tzu won't play with you anymore, you can play by yourself" Lao Chai angrily threw out such a sentence and wanted to leave. But as soon as he lifted his feet, he heard a phrase from behind, "Take him...". It's just three words, and the voice sounds so empty and depressing, gloomy and gloomy, as if it comes from the underworld, which is creepy. This sudden sentence really startled Lao Chai, this was the first sentence he heard in the old forest.

There are only two people and a mute ghost here, and the voice will not be made by the newborn baby, let alone Lao Chai himself, then there is only one possibility that the 'dumb ghost' has spoken.

This is a major 'news', Lao Chai slowly turned his head, and found that the mute ghost had shifted his gaze to himself at this time. It seems that it is right, looking at the state of the dumb ghost, the sentence just now should be what he said. It was only at this time that Lao Chai seemed to remember the content of the sentence just now, "bring him".

"Take him?who??? What's going on? I was brought here by a soul for some reason, and I found a child from nowhere, and the key was to let me take him with me! Why me? Lao Chai had countless questions in his heart, except for complaining. These are the things that are happening today. Pick out any of these things and tell them to others, and no one will believe them.

"Why...?" Before Lao Chai finished speaking, he was once again shocked by the scene in front of him, it turned out that the soul was gradually becoming blurred and sparse, looking at the soul that was close at hand and gradually disappeared, Lao Chai was dumbfounded. The spirit finally disappeared from view. Before Lao Chai came to his senses, there were only Lao Chai and the baby on the trunk left in the forest, as if the soul had never appeared, Lao Chai was completely blindsided at this time, what does this mean, is that all? Lao Chai looked at the baby and fell into deep thought......

The sun is setting in the west, and there is a touch of sunset in the sky, and the old forest presents a different scenery under the illumination of the setting sun. A man walked out of the forest with a steady step, an axe pinned to his waist, and his expression was unusually resolute .......

Lao Chai walked in the direction of the village with a peaceful face, and looked down at the baby in his arms from time to time...... The four eyes met, and whenever this happened, the baby in his arms would respond to Lao Chai with a sweet smile. Lao Chai's life was destined to change dramatically from the moment he chose to pick up the baby. The rest of life is far from what an ordinary woodcutter can bear......