Chapter 1: Abandoned Babies in the Wilderness

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Tonight's moon is very round and round, very bright and bright, the bright moonlight sprinkles a soft light, covering the originally dark mountains and forests with a touch of silver, instantly dispelling the darkness around, the insects around from time to time come to the roar, the distant mountains and forests from time to time come from a beast's cry, listening to the hearts of people have a trace of timidity.

On a night like this, it is reasonable to say that there will be no one, but on the path in the woods, there is a middle-aged woman who walks slowly step by step, and her affection is very sad, as if the sky has fallen. Because her mother died, her only relative was gone, and she was left alone in the world.

She walked slowly step by step, and the rugged and winding mountain road seemed to have no end...... The mountains and forests in the distance were like a huge beast, which could swallow people into her belly in one bite, and she couldn't help but speed up her pace, her heart suddenly jumped, and she couldn't help but feel annoyed that she had forgotten the time in front of her mother's grave because of excessive grief. Today was supposed to be the day of her mother's burial, and tomorrow morning she will go back to the provincial capital, and there are still a lot of children to take care of in the orphanage.

Suddenly, the middle-aged woman heard a baby's cry, at first she thought it was a hallucination caused by her excessive sadness, walking and crying became clearer and clearer, the middle-aged woman couldn't help but feel a tightness in her heart, her heart was beating suddenly, as if she was about to jump out of her throat.

How can there be a baby's cry in this wilderness? Although he is a materialist and an atheist, he is still startled when he suddenly hears a baby's cry in the wilderness. The middle-aged woman's steps couldn't help but speed up a little, and as she walked, she suddenly saw that there seemed to be something at the intersection in front of her, and by the hazy moonlight, she saw a baby lying at the intersection.

She was startled and couldn't help but take a few steps back, breaking out in a cold sweat, and a gust of wind blew and shivered. Listening carefully, the sound of insects around me was gone, and the sound of beasts faintly coming from not far away also stopped abruptly, and the surroundings were surprisingly quiet, and the needles could be heard.

In her early years, she heard the old people in the village say that this mountain forest is not clean, but she is a highly educated person, she learns materialism, and never believes in ghosts and gods, thinking that it is all feudal superstition, but the baby that appeared in front of her completely subverted her three views, otherwise how to explain the sudden appearance of the baby?

The more the middle-aged woman thought about it, the more scared she became, she remembered the ghost story that her grandmother told her when she was a child, what "Red Head Ghost"! "Green Zombies"! The ghost hits the wall...... When she was a child, she was very scared when she heard this, although she was scared and couldn't help but be curious, she always pestered her grandmother to tell ghost stories, and she didn't dare to get up and go to the toilet alone at night.

At that time, there were no electric lights in the countryside, and only kerosene lamps were used, and only those with good family conditions could afford to use candles. She remembered that one night, when she went to bed and drank too much water, and wanted to go to the toilet in the middle of the night, she got out of bed in black, and by the moonlight shining through the window, she picked up the match on the table and lit the kerosene lamp, and she carried the kerosene lamp and opened the door to go to the latrine at the back of the yard.

At that time, toilets in rural areas were built outside the house, unlike now, when every household has a toilet. She was about to go back after walking to the latrine, suddenly the kerosene lamp went out all of a sudden, and suddenly it was dark in front of her, by the hazy moonlight, she saw a black shadow flashing outside the latrine, she was frightened and cried all of a sudden, the cry alarmed the sleeping parents, her parents asked her what was wrong, she only said that the kerosene lamp was extinguished and she was afraid of the dark, and the rest did not say anything, since then when she was a child, she did not dare to go to the latrine alone at night!

Later, she learned a lot of knowledge after reading the book, and only then did she know that those ghosts and gods were feudal superstitions, and she was slowly not afraid of the night, but the baby that suddenly appeared at the intersection tonight evoked her memories when she was a child, did she really encounter a ghost? When I was a child, the black shadow that flashed outside the latrine kept flashing in front of my eyes. The more the middle-aged woman thinks about it, the more scared she becomes, she only blames herself for being overly sad and forgetting the time, and now she is in a dilemma, there is only one way down the mountain, and it is impossible to go back!

Are you going to die here today? Thinking that she was alone, with no long things, no children and no daughters, and that she could go to her mother even if she died, thinking of this, middle-aged women were not so afraid. But thinking of the children in the orphanage, she was unwilling to die like this, what should she do if she died those poor children? Those are poor children, they were all abandoned by their parents and relatives, she died, what about those children? Thinking of this, the middle-aged woman suddenly had the courage, she had to go back, she still had a responsibility on her shoulders, she couldn't die here without knowing it. Besides, you don't have to die!

The middle-aged woman looked around, in the wilderness, there was no village in front of her, no shop in the back, she had to hurry home, otherwise she didn't know what terrible things would happen? The middle-aged woman touched her fast-beating heart and slowly calmed down!

After about a minute, the middle-aged woman stabilized her mind and looked up at the baby in front of her, only to see that the baby was about newborn, wrinkled and had not yet grown. The bright moonlight shone on the baby through the dappled trees, the baby did not wear a single dress, and the baby's whole body was so holy and beautiful in the moonlight, like a little fairy child bathed in the moonlight, which made people unbearable to blaspheme. The baby has fingers in his mouth, eats with relish, does not know that he is afraid, and babbles in his mouth. What the hell is this, it's clearly a newborn baby!

Middle-aged women secretly blame themselves for scaring themselves, maybe someone deliberately abandoned the child, although the phenomenon of preference for sons over daughters is rare now, but there are still many such things in remote rural areas. Even in the big cities, there are babies who are abandoned, some who are physically disabled and abandoned by their parents and relatives, and some are baby girls, who are probably the ones whose families want to have sons......

The middle-aged woman stepped forward quickly, and saw a baby girl lying on the ground, she quickly took off her coat and spread it on the ground, carefully lifted the baby with both hands and gently put it on the coat, and carefully wrapped the baby, and slowly picked up the baby.

At this time, she saw that there was a ring on the baby's left thumb, which looked very simple, she picked up the baby's left hand and saw two words on the ring through the moonlight, "Linglong", plus it was seen in the moonlight, so she took the homonym "Yue" of "Yue" as a surname.

"From now on, you will be called Yue Linglong!" The middle-aged woman's voice was low, so low that it was almost inaudible, like a little person who was afraid to quarrel in her arms.

Although today is the sixteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the weather is not so hot, but the suburbs at night are still a little cold, and the woman can't help but whisper: "Whose parents are so ruthless?" I put my newborn baby in the wilderness, and I didn't even have a piece of clothing, and if I hadn't happened to pass by here, I wouldn't have been taken by a wild beast, and even if I hadn't been taken by a wild beast, I would have been frozen to death. From now on, you will follow Mother Zhang, poor child."

The road down the mountain is still very fast, plus the moon in the sky is round and bright, although the road is bumpy, these are still easy for Zhang's mother, who grew up in the mountains since she was a child, and she will arrive home in a short time!

Zhang's mother's house has only three adobe houses, and there is a big cherry tree in front of the door, and the shadow is mottled and hazy in the moonlight! There was also a earthen fence in front of the house, and Zhang's mother took out the key from her arms to open the door, and reached out to turn on the light switch in the hall. Thinking of her mother who had just passed away, Zhang's mother felt very uncomfortable, her heart was blocked, her nose was sour, and tears flowed from the corners of her eyes.

At this time, the little man in his arms suddenly cried, Zhang's mother came back to her senses all of a sudden, now is not the time to be sad, thinking that Linglong has not eaten yet, Zhang's mother quickly wiped the tears on her face. She has Linglong now, and there are many cute children in the orphanage, and she must be strong. But newborn babies can only eat breast milk, or eat milk powder, now in the countryside, where to find milk for Linglong at night?

Zhang's mother was worried for a while, and she didn't know what to do? She gently patted Linglong's back and comforted the little man, but the little man in her arms cried even more fiercely, child! He only knows that he cries when he is hungry and cries when he is uncomfortable, so he doesn't care about anything else.

Zhang's mother was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, holding the little man and gently patting Linglong's back, but the little man didn't seem to give face, and the more she cried, the louder she became, until her throat was hoarse, she stopped sobbing for a while, and she couldn't stop sobbing there, how pitiful and pitiful her little appearance was. Mother Zhang couldn't help but feel distressed when she saw it, so she could only put the little pity gently in the bedroom, and hurriedly went to the kitchen to wash rice, ready to boil some millet porridge, and boil some rice soup for the little guy to drink. Wait until tomorrow to go to the market to buy some milk powder for Linglong, buy some clothes, and I can only make do with one night today.

Soon the millet porridge was boiled, and halfway through Zhang's mother went to take a look at Linglong, she found that the little poor had fallen asleep crying. Zhang's mother hurriedly scooped out half a bowl of rice soup with a spoon, and when the temperature was about the same, she was ready to give it to Linglong to drink. Zhang's mother prepared everything, she gently picked up Xiao Linglong from the bed, and slowly fed it spoonful, Xiao Linglong was very well-behaved, and it didn't take long to finish eating, and the babies were more sleepy, and they fell asleep after eating.

Zhang's mother simply washed Xiao Linglong's face, and she simply ate a little millet porridge, and when everything was cleaned up, Zhang's mother also lay down on the bed and fell asleep, she was afraid that Xiao Linglong would wet the bed at night, and carefully put a layer of cotton cloth under Xiao Linglong's ass. In the middle of the night, Zhang's mother saw that Xiao Linglong did not wet the bed, and slept with peace of mind. And so the night passed.

The next morning, Zhang's mother got up early in the morning, she wanted to prepare millet porridge, Linglong may be hungry if she didn't eat all night, Zhang's mother just put the rice soup in the bowl, Xiao Linglong woke up, Zhang's mother fed Xiao Linglong half a bowl of rice soup like last night, and she hurriedly finished eating, packed up and prepared to go to the market to buy some clothes and supplies for Xiao Linglong, baby bottles, milk powder, diapers......

When she went out, Zhang's mother couldn't help crying, she was alone now, her parents were gone, and she didn't know when she would come back? Fortunately, there is Xiao Linglong, this little guy is her newborn. In this way, Yue Linglong stayed in Zhang's mother's orphanage.

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